Today in Wrestling History (June 14th)

Title Changes for June 14th

1970 – Fritz Von Erich defeated Professor Boris Malenko to win the NWA American Heavyweight Championship

1975 – "Shogun" Hiro Matsuda defeated Ken Mantell to win the NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship

1981 – The High-Flyers (Jim Brunzell & Greg Gagne) defeated The East-West Connection (Adrian Adonis & Jesse Ventura) to win the AWA World Tag Team Championship

1982 – Fritz Von Erich defeated King Kong Bundy in a Falls Count Anywhere Match to win the NWA American Heavyweight Championship. Von Erich retires immediately after the match

1993 – The Steiner Brothers defeated Money, Inc. to win the WWF World Tag Team Championship

1995 – Koji Kanemoto defeated Sabu to retain the UWA (Mexico) Welterweight Championship & win the NJPW IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship

2009 – Jun Akiyama vacates the Pro Wrestling Noah GHC Heavyweight Championship due to injury

2009 - Go Shiozaki defeated Takeshi Rikio to win the vacant Pro Wrestling Noah GHC Heavyweight Championship

2010 – The Miz defeats R-Truth, Zack Ryder & John Morrison in a Fatal 4-Way to win the WWE United States Championship

Clash of the Champions IX - New York Knockout

Clash of the Champions IX took place on November 15, 1989 at the Houston Field House in Troy, New York. There were 4,000 fans in attendance and the show drew a 4.9 rating on TBS. This show mainly dealt with fallout from Halloween Havoc PPV and set up the Iron Man / Iron Team tournaments at Starrcade 1989.^[11]

• The Freebirds (Jimmy Garvin and Michael Hayes) defeated The Road Warriors (Hawk and Animal) by disqualification (5:18)
  • The Road Warriors were disqualified when Hawk hit the referee.
  • The Freebirds had actually lost the NWA World Tag Team titles on November 1, but the match had not aired yet, so the Freebirds were introduced as the NWA World Tag Team champions.
• Doom (Ron Simmons and Butch Reed) (with Woman and Nitron) defeated Eddie Gilbert and Tommy Rich (5:15)
  • Doom #1 pins Rich after a double team Clothesline
• The Midnight Express (Bobby Eaton and Stan Lane) defeated The Dynamic Dudes (Johnny Ace and Shane Douglas) (9:22)
  • Eaton pinned Douglas after Jim Cornette hits Douglas with his tennis racket.
  • Jim Cornette was in a neutral corner at the start of the match before deciding to side with the Midnight Express
• Steve Williams defeated The Super Destroyer (1:41)
  • Williams pinned the Super Destroyer with the Oklahoma Stampede
  • This is Jack Victory's 4th “Masked Mystery Man” appearance at a Clash (“Russian Assassin #2”, “The Blackmailer” and “The Terrorist”)
• The Steiner Brothers (Rick and Scott Steiner) defeated The Skyscrapers (Dan Spivey and Sid Vicious) by disqualification (6:08)
  • The Steiner Brothers had actually won the NWA World Tag Team titles on November 1, but the match had not aired yet, so The Steiners were not announced as the champions.
  • The Skyscrapers were disqualified when Doom ran in and attacked the Steiner Brothers.
  • During the match Sid Vicious punctures a lung and is replaced by ”Mean” Mark Callous soon after.
  • Woman's bodyguard Nitron makes his debut during the post match brawl between the Steiners, the Skyscrapers, Doom and the Road Warriors.
• Lex Luger defeated Brian Pillman to retain the NWA United States Heavyweight Championship (12:38)
  • Luger pinned Pillman after hitting him with a chair while the referee was down.
  • Sting saved Pillman from further attacks by Luger.
• NWA World Heavyweight Champion Ric Flair defeated Terry Funk (with Gary Hart) in an "I Quit" match (18:33)
  • Flair forced Funk to say “I Quit” on the microphone due to the pain of the Figure Four Leglock
  • Gary Hart attacked Funk after the match and was quickly joined by The Great Muta.
  • Sting saved Flair from the attack only to be attacked by Lex Luger.
  • This match received a 5-star rating from Dave Meltzer.
  • Flair's NWA World Heavyweight Championship was not on the line, making it a non-title match.

Tag Team Maneuvers - WWE Top 10

Tag Team Match of the Night

February 6th 1990
WCW Clash of Champions 10
Corpus Christi, Texas

WCW World Tag Team Title Match

Champions
Rick and Scott Steiner
vs
Doom
(Butch Reed and Ron Simmons)

Match of the Night

Tonight we bring you a tag team match up from January 11th 1994 featuring two of the most famous brother combinations in the history of pro wrestling.


Rick and Scott Steiner

vs

Bret and Owen Hart

Halloween Havoc 1990

The 2nd annual Halloween Havoc was held on Oct 27th 1990 at the UIC Pavilion in Chicago Illinois and featured 2 brutal main event matches.


The first was for the NWA US Tag Team Titles. 
Champions, The Steiner Brothers defended against The Nasty Boys.   The Steiners invoked their inner Bruiser and Crusher as they jumped the Nasty Boys before the bell rang and never let up.  


The crowd for this entire card was over the top excited and made this one of the best PPVs in a long time.





The #1 main event for this Halloween Havoc was NWA World Champion Sting meeting Sid Vicious for the that Heavyweight Title.

King of the Ring 1993

King of the Ring 1993 was held in Dayton, Ohio at the Nutter Center on June 13th.


The night featured of course the King of The Ring Tournament that was won by Bret Hart as he pinned Bam Bam Bigelow.


Some of the other highlights included a rare 8 man tag team match with The Steiner Brothers/Smoking Gunns against The Headshrinkers/Money Inc (Ted Dibiase and IRS)


The big shock of the night was Yokozuna defeating Hulk Hogan for the WWF Title.






The King of the Ring Tournament featured a classic semifinals match with Bret Hart taking on Mr. Perfect Curt Henning

Match of the Day

From WCW Monday Nitro, its the Steiner Brothers vs The Road Warriors.

This is also a fine example of terrible color commentary with Steve "Mongo" McMichael.

Match of the Day

From Beach Blast 1992 held in Mobile Alabama

The main event, for the WCW World Tag Team Titles

Champions - The Steiner Brothers vs "Dr. Death" Steve Williams/Terry "BamBam" Gordy

2 of the greatest tag team in history face off for the first time

Match of the Day

Today's match is from the WCW PPV Event in May 1992 , Wrestle War 92.

This is was a match for the WCW World Tag Team Titles

The Champions - The Steiner Brothers vs Tatsumi Fujinami/Takayuki Iizuka

The Hellraisers

From 1996 in the Tokyo Dome its The Steiner Brothers and Scott Norton vs The Hellraisers (Road Warriors Hawk & Animal and Kensuke Sasaki). This is the kind of main event Wrestlemania should have.