This Day In History - July 13th
July 13th
On this day in history in ....
1936 - Yvon Robert defeats Danno O'Mahoney for the AWA (Boston-based American Wrestling Association, not to be confused with Verne Gagne's AWA) World Heavyweight Title in Montreal.
1945 - Dave Levin defeats Bobby Managoff in Houston, Texas to win the NWA Texas Heavyweight Title.
1979 - Dick Murdoch defeats Dick The Bruiser to win back the NWA Missouri Heavyweight title in St. Louis. This marked the third run as champion for Murdoch, and ended Bruiser's second reign.
1989 - Riki Choshu & Takayuki Iizuka defeat Super Strong Machine & George Takano to win the International Wrestling Grand Prix World Tag Team Title.
1982 - Mr. Fuji & Mr. Saito defeat Chief Jay & Jules Strongbow for the WWF World Tag Team Title in Allentown, Pennsylvania, starting their second tag title reign.
1991 - The Lightning Kid (Sean Waltman) defeats Jerry Lynn in Dallas, Texas to win a tournament to crown the first Global Wrestling Federation Light Heavyweight Champion.
1992 - Ricky Morton defeats Eddie Gilbert for the USWA Unified World Heavyweight Title in Memphis, Tennessee.
1995 - "Wild Pegasus" Chris Benoit defeats Shinjiro Ohtani to win the finals of New Japan's "Best Of The Super Junior" tournament. Benoit defeated Black Tiger (Eddie Guerrero) to get into the finals, while Ohtani defeated Koji Kanemoto.
1996 - Shane Douglas defeats defending champion Chris Jericho, 2 Cold Scorpio and Pitbull #2 in a four way match to win the ECW World Television Title for the second time in his career. The match, held at the ECW Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during Heatwave '96, is considered one of the all-time classics in ECW. The first elimination didn't take place until twenty seven minutes into the match, when Scorpio pinned Jericho with the Tumbleweed after a tombstone piledriver. Scorpio was eliminated by a Pitbull #2 Superbomb at the thirty-one minute mark. The finish of the match saw Francine turn on Pitbull #2, but ended up being Superbombed through a table for her efforts. Shane Douglas DDT'd Pitbull #1 (who ran in after Francine turned on Pitbull #2) on the Television Title belt, legitimately breaking his neck. Finally, after forty minutes of action, Douglas pinned Pitbull #2 with a belly to belly suplex to win the match and the title.
1997 - WCW's Bash at the Beach Pay-per-view was held at the Ocean Center in Daytona Beach, Florida. Here are the results:
- Mortis & Wrath defeated Glacier & Ernest Miller when Mortis pinned Glacier after hitting him with a chain.
- WCW Cruiserweight Champion Chris Jericho defeated Ultimo Dragon when Jericho went for a powerbomb, which Dragon reversed into a rana, which Jericho then reversed into a sunset flip for the win.
- The Steiner Brothers defeated The Great Muta & Masahiro Chono when Scott gave Muta a top rope DDT off the shoulders of Rick.
- Juventud Guerrera, Hector Garza & Lizmark Jr. defeated Villano IV, La Parka & Psychosis when Garza pinned Villano V (who had come in illegally to replace Villano IV during the match) with a moonsault.
- Chris Benoit defeated Kevin Sullivan in a retirement match with a top rope headbutt after Jacqueline turned on Sullivan and hit him with a chair.
- U.S. Champion Jeff Jarrett defeated Steve McMichael after knocking him out with a steel briefcase handed to him by Debra McMichael.
- Scott Hall & Randy Savage defeated Dallas Page & Curt Hennig when Hennig turned on Page and walked off, allowing Hall to hit the Outsider's Edge and Savage to follow up with the top rope elbow.
- Roddy Piper defeated Ric Flair with a sleeperhold.
- The Giant & Lex Luger defeated Hulk Hogan & Dennis Rodman when Hogan submitted to the Torture Rack. Kevin Nash, dressed like Sting, interfered and hit the Giant with a baseball bat near the end.
1997 - Doomsday defeats Spellbinder for the USWA Southern Heavyweight Title in Memphis, Tennessee, ending Spellbinder's second run with the title. Doomsday is now known as Kane in WWE.
1998 - Kane & Mankind defeat Billy Gunn & the Road Dog for the WWF World Tag Team Title in East Rutherford, New Jersey, ending the second reign of the New Age Outlaws.
