International Object: August 2014

Sunday, August 31, 2014

Today In Wrestling History (August 31st)

Title Changes for August 31st

1945 – Ted Cox defeats Nature Boy Buddy Rogers to win the Texas Heavyweight Championship

1950 – Don Eagle defeated Gorgeous George to win the AWA (Ohio) World Heavyweight Championship

1951 – Art Neilson & Jack Steel defeated Farmer Jones & Al Massey to win the NWA Southern (Georgia) Tag Team Championship

1968 – Jose Lothario & Joe Scarpa defeated Professor Boris Malenko & Handsome Johnny Valentine to win the NWA Southern (Florida) Tag Team Championship

1968 – Verne Gagne defeated Dr. X (Dick Beyer) to win the AWA World Heavyweight Championship

1973 – Mr. Wrestling II defeated Cowboy Bill Watts to win the vacant NWA Georgia Heavyweight Championship

1979 – Ole Anderson &"The Russian Bear" Ivan Koloff defeat Stan "The Lariat" Hansen & "Wildfire" Tommy Rich to win the NWA Georgia Tag Team Championship

1983 – Jumbo Tsuruta defeated Bruiser Brody to win the NWA International (Japan) Heavyweight Championship

1986 – Eddie Gilbert & Sting defeated The Fantastics to win the vacant UWF World Tag Team Championship

1987 – Jerry "The King" Lawler defeated Don Bass in a Hair vs.Title Cage match to win the AWA Southern Heavyweight Championship for the 51st time

1987 – Ted Arcidi won a Battle Royal to win the vacant WCWA Texas Heavyweight Championship

1996 – Jamie Dundee defeated Wolfie D. to win the USWA Television Championship

1997 – PG-13 defeated Steven Dunn & Flash Flanagan to win the USWA World Tag Team Championship. This would be the final reign for the championship before the USWA closed in November 1997

1997 – Kensuke Sasaki defeated Shinya Hashimoto to win the NJPW IWGP Heavyweight Championship

2002 – El Dandy defeated Perro Aguayo, Jr. to win the Mexican National Light Heavyweight Championship

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US Tag Team Champions

Tom Zenk and Brian Pillman

Won the Belts Feb 12th 1990 in a tournament final over

The Fabulous Freebirds (Michael Hayes and Jimmy Garvin)

in Rainsville, AL.

Held the belts 96 days until May 19th 1990, lost to

The Midnight Express (Stan Lane and Bobby Eaton)

at the WCW PPV event Capital Combat in Washington DC.

No.	Results^[1]^[6]^[35]	Stipulations	Times
1^D	Adam Bomb defeated Kwang	Singles match	N/A
2	Irwin R. Schyster and Bam Bam Bigelow (with Ted DiBiase) defeated The Headshrinkers (Fatu and Samu) (with Afa and Lou Albano) bydisqualification	Tag team match	7:20
3	Alundra Blayze (c) defeated Bull Nakano (with Luna Vachon)	Singles match for the WWF Women's Championship	8:10
4	Razor Ramon (with Walter Payton) defeated Diesel (c) (with Shawn Michaels)	Singles match for the WWF Intercontinental Championship	15:03
5	Tatanka defeated Lex Luger	Singles match	6:02
6	Jeff Jarrett defeated Mabel (with Oscar)	Singles match	5:45
7	Bret Hart (c) defeated Owen Hart	Steel Cage match for the WWF Championship^[4]^[37]	32:22
8	The Undertaker (with Paul Bearer) defeated The Undertaker (with Ted DiBiase)	Singles match	8:57

No.

Results^[1]^[6]^[35]

Stipulations

Times

1^D

Adam Bomb defeated Kwang

Singles match

N/A

Irwin R. Schyster and Bam Bam Bigelow (with Ted DiBiase) defeated The Headshrinkers (Fatu and Samu) (with Afa and Lou Albano) bydisqualification

Tag team match