Daily Pro Wrestling History (04/12): The Wild Samoans win WWF tag titles
1947
Mexico City, Mexico:
- Tarzan López defeated Black Guzmán to win the Mexican National Light Heavyweight Title
1948
Mexico City, Mexico:
- Mike Kelly defeated Gory Guerrero for the NWA World Middleweight Title
1950
Des Moines, Iowa:
- Leo Nomellini beat Earl Wampler
- Verne Gagne beat K.O. Hall
- Joe Savoldi beat “Cowboy” Orville Carlson
1955
Minneapolis, Minnesota:
- Verne Gagne drew Pat O’Connor
- Paul Baillargeon beat Dick the Bruiser (as Bruiser Afflis)
- Joe Pazandak beat Red Bastien
1958
Chicago, Illinois:
- Verne Gagne defeated Dick the Bruiser to win the Chicago/Detroit NWA United States Heavyweight Title
1961
Mobile, Alabama:
- The Mysterious Medics defeated Bobby and Don Fields for the Gulf Coast NWA Southern Tag Team Titles
1963
Calgary, Alberta, Canada:
- Karl Von Schober and Ricky Waldo defeated The Masked Destroyer and Jim Wright for the Stampede International Tag Team Titles
1967
Los Angeles, California:
- Ricky Romero defeated Stan Pulaski to win the California Heavyweight Title
1968
Atlanta, Georgia:
- Mr. Wrestling defeated El Mongol to win the NWA Georgia Heavyweight Title
1969
Portland, Oregon:
- Moondog Mayne defeated Luther Lindsay for the NWA Pacific Northwest Heavyweight Title
1970
Tulsa, Oklahoma:
- Bill Watts defeated The Spoiler to win the Tri-State NWA North American Heavyweight Title
1972
Mobile, Alabama:
- Bob Kelly defeated Don Fargo for the NWA Gulf Coast Heavyweight Title
- Gorgeous George Jr. defeated Bill White for the City of Mobile Heavyweight Title
1973
Hattiesburg, Mississippi:
- The Wrestling Pro defeated Bob Kelly to win the NWA Mississippi Heavyweight Title
Kansas City, Kansas:
- Abe Jacobs fought Mike George to a draw
- L.D. Lewis defeated Jim Dalton via DQ
- Danny Little Bear defeated The Viking
- Togo the Great & Tokyo Joe defeated Argentina Zuma & Omar Atlas
- Bob Brown fought Rufus R. Jones to a draw
- Central States Heavyweight Champion Roger Kirby defeated Terry Funk
1975
St. Paul, Minnesota:
- Superstar Billy Graham & Dusty Rhodes & Andre the Giant beat Baron Von Raschke & Horst Hoffman & Boris Breznikoff 2 out of 3 falls
- Nick Bockwinkel beat Billy Robinson by DQ
- Chris Taylor beat Geoff Portz
- Greg Gagne & Jim Brunzell beat Kenny Jay & George Gadaski
- Khosrow Vaziri beat Rock Riddle
1976
Vancouver, British Columbia:
- Don Leo Jonathan and Jimmy Snuka defeated Gene Kiniski and Siegfried Steinke to win the Vancouver NWA Canadian Tag Team Titles
1977
Dallas, Texas:
- Fritz Von Erich defeated Bruiser Brody to win the NWA American Heavyweight Title
1980
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:
- The Wild Samoans (Afa and Sika) defeated Ivan Putski and Tito Santana for the WWF World Tag Team Titles
Knoxville, Tennessee:
- Bob Orton, Jr. and Tony Peters defeated Terry Gibbs and Bob Roop to win the International Championship Wrestling Southeastern Tag Team Titles
1982
Memphis, Tennessee:
- Bill Dundee and Steve Keirn won the AWA Southern Tag Team Titles from Bobby Eaton and Sweet Brown Sugar
1983
Matsuyama, Japan:
- Ron Bass and Stan Hansen defeated Giant Baba and Jumbo Tsuruta for the NWA International Tag Team Titles
1984
Wheeling, West Virginia:
- The Spoiler defeated Brad Armstrong to win the NWA National Heavyweight Title
Kansas City, Kansas:
- The Grapplers (Len Denton and Tony Anthony) defeated Jerry and Ted Oates to win the NWA Central States Tag Team Titles
1985
Mexico City, Mexico:
- Cien Caras and Sangre Chicana defeated Cachorro and Ringo Mendoza for the Mexican National Tag Team Titles
1986
Portland, Oregon:
- Billy Jack Haynes defeated Bobby Jaggers to win the NWA Pacific Northwest Heavyweight Title
1987
Atlanta, Georgia:
- Rick Steiner and Sting defeated Chris Adams and Terry Taylor to win the UWF World Tag Team Titles
1988
San Juan, Puerto Rico:
- Kendo Nagasaki and Mr. Pogo defeated Chris and Mark Youngblood for the WWC World Tag Team Titles
1990
Tampa, Florida:
- Robert Fuller and Kendall Windham defeated Brian Knobbs and Hurricane Walker (subbing for Jerry Sags) to win the NWA Florida Tag
Team Titles
Fridley, Minnesota:
- The Lightning Kid (Sean Waltman) defeated Matt Derringer to win the Pro Wrestling America Light Heavyweight Title
1991
Dallas, Texas:
- Eric Embry defeated Bill Dundee for the USWA Texas Heavyweight Title
- Jeff Jarrett defeated Tom Prichard to win the USWA Southern Heavyweight Title
Baltimore, Maryland:
- Big Van Vader defeated Johnny Ringo
- Bobby Eaton defeated El Cubano
- Big Josh & Dustin Rhodes defeated Jack Victory & Rip Morgan
- Ron Simmons defeated Butch Reed
- Sting & Brian Pillman defeated WCW World Champion Ric Flair (sub. for Barry Windham) & WCW TV Champion Arn Anderson in a steel cage match
- WCW Tag Team Champions Rick & Scott Steiner defeated Michael Hayes & Jimmy Garvin
- WCW US Champion Lex Luger fought Nikita Koloff to a double disqualification
- El Gigante defeated WCW World Champion Ric Flair via disqualification
1992
Atlanta, Georgia:
- Tom Zenk pinned WCW US Tag Team Champion Greg Valentine
- Nikita Koloff pinned Diamond Dallas Page
- Marcus Alexander Bagwell pinned Richard Morton
- Ron Simmons pinned Cactus Jack
- Barry Windham & the Junkyard Dog (sub. for Dustin Rhodes) defeated WCW TV Champion Steve Austin & Larry Zbyszko in a bunkhouse match
- WCW US Champion Rick Rude defeated Ricky Steamboat via disqualification
- Rick & Scott Steiner defeated WCW Tag Team Champions Arn Anderson & Larry Zbyszko
- WCW World Champion Sting defeated Big Van Vader via disqualification
1993
Memphis, Tennessee:
- Simply Devine (Steve Doll and Rex King) won the USWA Tag Team Titles from the Moondogs
1997
New Japan Battle Formation: Tokyo, Japan:
- Riki Choshu and Kensuke Sasaki defeated IWGP Tag Team Champions Tatsumi Fujinami and Kengo Kimura to win the titles
- Hiroyoshi Tenzan defeated Manabu Nakanishi
- El Samurai pinned Shinjiro Otani
- Chris Benoit pinned Kevin Sullivan
- Junji Hirata and Satoshi Kojima defeated Osamu Kido and Kazuo Yamazaki
- Shiro Koshinaka pinned Takashi Ishikawa
- J-Crown Champion Jushin Liger pinned The Great Sasuke to retain the titles
- Antonio Inoki defeated Tiger King
- Keiji Muto pinned Masahiro Chono
- Naoya Ogawa defeated IWGP Heavyweight Champion Shinya Hashimoto by TKO
NWA New Jersey Eddie Gilbert Memorial Brawl: Cherry Hill, New Jersey:
- The Beach Bullies (The Inferno Kid and Ray Odyssey) defeated NWA United States Tag Team Champions Downward Spiral (Adrian Hall and Twiggy Ramirez) to win the title
- Mr. Puerto Rico defeated Steve Corino
- Tommy Gilbert defeated Ian Rotten.
- King Kong Bundy defeated Don Montoya
- Lance Diamond defeats Cheetah Master and NWA North American Heavyweight Champion Reckless Youth in a triangle match to win the title
- Marty Jannetty defeated Harley Lewis
- NWA World Heavyweight Champion Dan Severn fought Dory Funk, Jr. to a double-countout to retain the title
- Doug Gilbert defeated Buddy Landell
- Flash Funk defeated Ace Darling
- Goldust defeated Derrick Domino
Memphis, Tennessee:
- The Shooting Stars (Jerry Faith and Troy Haste) defeated Flash Flanagan and Billy Travis for the USWA Tag Team Titles
- King Reginald (Reggie B. Fine) defeated Jerry Lawler
2000
Waegwan, South Korea:
- The Rock 'n' Roll Express (Robert Gibson and Ricky Morton) defeated Steven Dunn and Jackie Fulton (subbing for Reno Riggins) for the NWA World Tag Team Titles
Jeffersonville, Indiana:
- Chris Michaels defeated Sean Casey to win the OVW Light Heavyweight Title
2003
All Japan Pro Wrestling Champion's Carnival tour: Tokyo, Japan:
- Gran Hamada pinned Gran Naniwa
- Gigantes and George Hines beat Hiroshi Hase and Masayuki Kono
- Kaz Hayashi and Jimmy Yang beat Omega Griffon and NWA International Junior Heavyweight Champion Low Ki
- AJPW World Junior Heavyweight Champion Kendo Kashin defeated Carl Contini by submission to retain the title
- Shinjiro Otani and Masato Tanaka defeated Hideki Hosaka and Shigeo Okumura
- AJPW All Asia Tag Team Champion Nobutaka Araya, Nobukazu Hirai and Genichiro Tenryu defeated Tomohiko Hashimoto, Tomoaki Honma and Kazushi Miyamoto
- Keiji Muto and AJPW Unified World Tag Team Champion Satoshi Kojima defeated Masa Fuchi and Toshiaki Kawada
- AJPW Triple Crown Champion Shinya Hashimoto defeated AJPW All Asia Tag Team Champion Arashi by TKO to retain his title
