Daily Pro Wrestling History (12/04): Misawa & Kawada win AJPW Tag Team titles
1947
Kansas City, Kansas:
- In a MWA Title match: Champion Orville Brown beat Sonny Myers 2 falls to 1
- Al Lovelock beat Yukon Eric (as Eric Holmback)
- Ronnie Etchison beat Fred Blassie
1954
Cedar Rapids, Iowa:
- Argentina Rocca beat Chest Bernard
- Jim Dobie beat Mitsu Arakawa
- Great Tor Yamato beat Harry Lewis
1958
Kansas City, Kansas:
- no time limit match: Lou Thesz beat Bob Geigel
- Cowboy Bob Ellis and Ray Villmer defeated Lee Henning and Bob Orton
- Mighty Atlas beat Joe Scarpa
1965
Omaha, Nebraska:
- Texas Death Match: AWA Champion Mad Dog Vachon beat Mr. Wrestling by DQ
- Verne Gagne beat Haru Sasaki
- Mitsu Arakawa drew Reggie Parks
- Billy Red Cloud beat Gene Anderson
1970
Los Angeles, California:
- Rey Mendoza defeated John Tolos to win the NWA United National Heavyweight Title
1971
Omaha, Nebraska:
- Larry Hennig beat The Crusher
- Midwest Champion Great Kusatsu beat Bill Miller
- Ray Stevens beat Red Bastien
- Jerry Miller drew Mad Russian Stan Pulaski
- Ox Baker drew Reggie Parks
1972
Hiroshima, Japan:
- Kintaro Oki defeated Bobo Brazil to win the JWA NWA Int. title
1976
Caguas, Puerto Rico:
- Hercules Ayala & Victor Jovica defeated Higo Hamaguchi & Gordon Nelson to win the WWC North American Tag Team Title
1978
Memphis, Tennessee:
- Don Fargo beat Jackie Welch
- Koko Ware, Robert Gibson, & Lou Thesz beat Terry Sawyer, Bill Dromo, & Wayne Ferris
- Bill Dundee beat Jimmy Valiant
- The Bounty Hunters beat Mike & Pat Kelly in a loser leaves town match
- Jerry Lawler beat Tommy Gilbert to win the Southern Title
1979
Baton Rouge, Louisiana:
- Bill Watts defeated Mike George to win the Mid-South North American Heavyweight Title
1981
Denver, Colorado:
- AWA Champion Nick Bockwinkel beat Shiek Adnan
- Hulk Hogan beat Jesse Ventura
- Bobby Duncum beat Greg Gagne
- Jim Brunzell beat Adrian Adonis
- Tito Santana beat Bad Boy Brown
1988
Lubbock, Texas:
- Rick Steiner pinned Alvin Martinez
- Eddie Gilbert pinned Ted Heath
- Mike Rotunda pinned Ron Simmons
- Dennis Condrey & Randy Rose defeated Stan Lane & Bobby Eaton via disqualification
- NWA US Champion Barry Windham defeated Bam Bam Bigelow via count-out
- Sting & Lex Luger fought NWA Tag Team Champions the Road Warriors to a double count-out
1989
Memphis, Tennessee:
- Brian Lee beat Frankie Lancaster
- King Cobra beat The Grappler (Kevin Dillinger)
- Chris Champion beat Tony Anthony
- Ricky & Todd Morton beat Brian Lee & The Grappler, The New York Brawler & Mike Davis, and King Cobra & Frankie Lancaster in an
elimination tag team match to win the vacant CWA Tag Team Titles
- Jerry Lawler & Soultaker NC Dutch Mantel & The Master of Pain
1992
Tokyo, Japan:
- Mitsuharu Misawa & Toshio Kawada won the AJPW Real World tag tournament from Terry Gordy & Steve Williams, thus winning the vacant Unified Tag Team titles
Charleston, South Carolina:
- Shanghai Pierce defeated Brad Armstrong
- Van Hammer defeated Tony Atlas
- Erik Watts defeated WCW US Champion Rick Rude via referee's decision
- Dustin Rhodes fought Barry Windham to a double disqualification
- Big Van Vader defeated WCW/NWA Tag Team Champion Ricky Steamboat
- WCW World Champion Ron Simmons defeated the Barbarian
Barbourville, Kentucky:
- Chris Comet bet Paul Lee
- The Dirty White Boy drew Tracy Smothers
- Kevin Sullivan DDQ The Mongolian Stomper
- The Heavenly Bodies (Lane & Pritchard) & Jim Cornette beat The Rock-n-Roll Express & Tim Horner
1993
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:
- Kevin Sullivan & Tazmaniac defeated Tommy Dreamer & Shane Douglas (subbing for Johnny Gunn) to win the ECW Tag Team Titles
Newland, North Carolina:
- SMW U.S. Junior Heavyweight Champ Chris Candido pinned Bobby Blaze
- The Rock-n-Roll Express NC Moondogs Rex & Spot
- Ron & Don Harris beat The Heavenly Bodies (Pritchard & Del Rey)
- SMW Champ Brian Lee beat The Dirty White Boy
- Robert Gibson won a battle royal
Numazu, Japan:
- Yuji Nagata defeated Tatsuhito Takaiwa
- Masashi Aoyagi defeated Shinjiro Otani
- Osamu Kido defeated Brad Rheingans
- Mike Enos defeated El Samurai
- WCW Tag Team Champions the Nasty Boys defeated Hiroshi Hase & Satoshi Kojima
- IWGP Tag Team Champions Scott Norton & Hercules defeated Black Cat & Tatsumi Fujinami
- The Great Muta & Masahiro Chono defeated Kengo Kimura & Michiyoshi Ohara
- Tatsutoshi Goto, the Great Kabuki, & Shiro Koshinaka defeated Jushin Liger, Takayuki Iizuka, & Shinya Hashimoto
1999
Memphis, Tennessee:
- Rico Constantino defeated Steve Bradley for the Memphis Power Pro Wrestling Heavyweight Title
2007
Mexico City, Mexico:
- Mistico defeated Vangelis to win the National Light Heavyweight Title
2011
Greensboro, North Carolina:
- ROH TV champ Jay Lethal defeated Adam Cole in a Proving Ground match
- Eddie Edwards, El Generico and ROH Tag Team champions Charlie Haas and Shelton Benjamin defeated the Briscoes, Roderick Strong and Michael Elgin in an 80 minute Elimination match
Essex, England:
- Jimmy Havoc defeated Cell to win the NWA (Hammerlock) UK Junior Heavyweight title
Tokyo, Japan:
- KAI & Seiya Sanada defeated Masayuki Kono & Masakatsu Funaki to win the AJ World’s Strongest Tag League tournament
Santiago, Chile:
- Super Crazy defeated Katastrofe to win the X-Law Junior Heavyweight title
