AWA World Tag Team Champions - The 1980s

The East-West Connection

(Jesse Ventura and Adrian Adonis)

AWA world tag team champions for 329 days 

(July 20th 1980 - June 14th 1981)

Won the belts by defeating Verne Gagne and Mad Dog Vachon in Winnipeg, Manitoba when Verne Gagne "no showed" the event and the belts were forfeited to Ventura and Adonis.

Lost the belts to The High Flyers (Greg Gagne and Jim Brunzell) in Green Bay, WI.

1982 PWI Tag Team of the Year

The High Flyers

Greg Gagne and Jim Brunzell

AWA World Tag Team Champions

June 14th 1981 - June 26th 1983

Today in Wrestling History (June 26th)

JUNE 26th 1983

The Sheik's Army (Ken Patera and Jerry "Crusher" Blackwell) defeat the High Flyers (Greg Gagne and Jim Brunzell) to win the AWA World Tag Team Championship in Minneapolis, MN.

Patera and Blackwell would hold the title for 315 days.

They would lose the titles on May 6th 1984 Green Bay, WI to 

The Crusher and Baron Von Raschke.

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