WWA Tag Team Champions (1971)

WWA Tag Team Champions

(based out of Indianapolis IN)

 Wilbur Snyder

(The World's Most Scientific Wrestler)

and 

 Paul Christy 

(The Golden Boy)

This team won the belts on June 18th 1971 in Indianapolis taking them from the Fabulous Kangaroos (Al Costello and Don Kent) who had held the belts since March of 1970.  Snyder and Christy and fantastic team of mat based wrestlers held the belts until November 6th 1971 when they dropped the titles to The Blackjacks (Lanza and Mulligan) in Detroit MI.

AWA World Tag Team Champions - 1970s

Red Bastien and The Crusher

Bastien and Cortez won the belts on May 15th 1971 in Milwaukee WI by beating The Vachon Brothers.  On July 23rd 1971 Hercules Cortez was killed in a car accident.  

In early August, Bastien chose The Crusher as his new partner. 

 They held the belts until January 20th 1972 when they lost to Bockwinkel and Stevens in Denver CO. 

Today in Wrestling History (June 3rd)

Title Changes for June 3

(courtesy This Day in Pro Wrestling History)

1962 – Alberto & Ramon Torres defeated Jan Madrid & Louie Tillet to win the NWA Southwestern Tag Team Championship

1965 – The Destroyer & Billy Red Lyons defeated Giant Baba & Toyonobori to win the JWA All-Asia Tag Team Championship

1968 – Fritz Von Erich defeated The Spoiler to win the vacant NWA American Heavyweight Championship

1968 – Danny Hodge & Lorenzo Parente defeated Jack Donovan & Ron Reed to win the NWA United States (Tri-State) Tag Team Championship

1969 – Baron Von Raschke defeated Chief Wahoo McDaniel to win the NWA Brass Knuckles (Texas) Heavyweight Championship

1971 – Crazy Luke Graham & Tarzan Tyler defeated Dick The Bruiser & The Sheik in the final of a tournament to become the first WWWF World Tag Team Champions

1980 – David Von Erich defeated Gino Hernandez to win the NWA Texas Heavyweight Championship

1991 – Stunning Steve Austin defeated Beautiful Bobby Eaton to win the WCW World Television Championship

1991 - The Fabulous Freebirds (Michael P.S. Hayes, Jimmy Jam Garvin & Brad "Badstreet" Armstrong) defeated The Junkyard Dog, Ricky Morton & Tommy Rich to win the WCW World Six-Man Tag Team Championship

2002 – Bradshaw defeated Steven Richards to win the WWE Hardcore Championship

2003 – Rey Mysterio Jr. defeated Matt Hardy to win the WWE Cruiserweight Championship

WWF Tag Team Champions

WWWF Tag Team Champions

Rene Goulet and Karl Gotch 

December 6th 1971 - February 1st 1972

WWWF Title

Today in 1971 WWWF United States Heavyweight Champion Pedro Morales pinned WWWF World Heavyweight Champion Ivan Koloff to win the title. Koloff had Morales in a waistlock, with Morales kicking off the top turnbuckle and falling on top of Koloff with both of their shoulders down.

The referee began counting, with Morales lifting a shoulder after the two-count. Bruno Sammartino, whom Koloff had defeated three weeks earlier for the title, came out and congratulated Morales after the match. As a result of his winning the World title, Morales' United States title was vacated.

Here is film of the match with the announcer and crowd noise dub in many years later.