Daily Pro Wrestling History (12/13): Starrcade 1989
1883
Boston, Massachusetts:
- H.M. Dufur defeated John McMahon for the American Collar-and-Elbow Title
1905
Des Moines, Iowa:
- "Farmer" Martin Burns beat Charles Hackenschmidt in 2 out of 3 falls
1920
New York City:
- Ed "Strangler" Lewis defeated Joe Stetcher to win the New York version of the World Heavyweight Title
1923
St. Louis, Missouri:
- World Heavyweight Champion Ed “Strangler” Lewis defeated Josef Gurkeweicz 2 falls to 0
- Stanislaus Zbyszko beat Yousif Hussane
- Jim Londos beat Hans Schmitt
1940
Akron, Ohio:
- Buddy Knox defeated The Great Mephisto to win the Midwest Wrestling Association (Ohio) Light Heavyweight Title
1944
Des Moines, Iowa:
- World Heavyweight Champion Orville Brown beat Jerry Meeker 2 falls to 0
- World Junior Heavyweight Champion Ken Fenelon beat Honey Boy Hackney 2 falls to 0
1952
Roseburg, Oregon:
- Frank Stojack defeated Roger Mackay for the Pacific Coast Junior Heavyweight Title
1960
Minneapolis, Minnesota:
- Gene Kiniski beat Wilbur Snyder by countout to win AWA US Title
- Roy McClarty beat Hard Boiled Haggerty by DQ
- Nick Roberts beat Len Montana by DQ
- Bob Geigel beat Lou Whitson'
Pensacola, Florida:
- Lee Fields defeated Pancho Villa for the NWA Gulf Coast Heavyweight Title
1961
Honolulu, Hawaii:
- The Masked Executioner defeated Lord James Blears for the NWA Hawaii Heavyweight Title
1963
St. Joseph, Missouri:
- Enrique Torres defeated Rock Hunter for the Central States version of the NWA United States Heavyweight Title
1966
Tampa, Florida:
- The Infernos (Frankie Cain and Rocky Smith) defeated Jose Lothario and Sam Steamboat to win the Florida version of the NWA World Tag Team Titles
1968
St. Joseph, Missouri:
- Dusty Rhodes defeated Tommy Martin for the NWA Central States Heavyweight Title
1969
Melbourne, Australia:
- Mario Milano & Spiros Arion defeated Skull Murphy & Brute Bernard to win the IWA tag title
- Tony Borne and Moondog Mayne defeated Beauregard and Roger Kirby for the NWA Pacific Northwest Tag Team Title
1972
Mobile, Alabama:
- Bob Kelly defeated The Spoiler to win the City of Mobile Heavyweight Title
Honolulu, Hawaii:
- Don Muraco won battle royal
- AWA Champion Verne Gagne beat King Curtis
- Dusty Rhodes drew Sam Steamboat
- AWA Tag Team Champions Nick Bockwinkel & Ray Stevens beat Don Muraco & Red Bastien
- Billy Robinson beat Jack Carson
- Ed Francis beat Sueno
- Tosh Togo drew Bull Bullinski
- Spiros Arion beat Dennis Stamp
1973
Hattiesburg, Mississippi:
- Duke Miller defeated Ken Lucas for the NWA Mississippi Heavyweight Title
Kansas City, Kansas:
- Jim Brunzell defeated Jim Ledford
- Black Angus defeated Bob Drummer
- Lord Alfred Hayes fought Mike George to a double-DQ
- Harley Race defeated Bob Orton in five falls
- Bob Brown defeated Roger Kirby in three falls
1975
New Brockton, Alabama:
- Duke Miller defeated Ken Lucas to win the NWA Alabama Heavyweight Title
1976
Vancouver, British Columbia:
- Don Leo Jonathan defeated John Quinn for the Vancouver version of the NWA Pacific Coast Heavyweight Title
1979
Tokyo, Japan:
- Dory Jr & Terry Funk defeated Giant Baba & Jumbo Tsuruta
1981
Mexico City, Mexico:
- Perro Aguayo defeated Chris Adams to win the WWF Light Heavyweight Title
1982
Kansas City, Kansas:
- Mark Romero (later known as Mark Youngblood) defeated Hercules Hernandez for the NWA Central States Television Title
1986
Memphis, Tennessee:
- The Rock 'n' Roll RPMs (Mike Davis and Tommy Lane) defeated Jeff Jarrett and Billy Travis to win the AWA Southern Tag Team Title
- Badd Company (Paul Diamond and Pat Tanaka) won the CWA International Tag Team Title from Akio Sato and Tarzan Goto
Portland, Oregon:
- Rip Oliver defeated The Assassin in a steel cage match to win the NWA Pacific Northwest Heavyweight Title
1987
San Juan, Puerto Rico:
- Miguel Perez, Jr. defeated Kareem Mohammed to win the WWC Puerto Rico Heavyweight Title
1988
AWA Super Clash 3: Chicago, Illinois:
- AWA World Champion Jerry Lawler defeated World Class Champion Kerry Von Erich to unify the titles.
- Ricky Morton & Robert Gibson ddq Robert Fuller & Jimmy Golden
- Strap Match: Wahoo McDaniel beat Manny Fernandez
- World Class tag Team Champions Samoan Swat Team beat Michael Hayes & Steve Cox
- Boot Camp Match: Sgt. Slaughter beat Colonel DeBeers by DQ
- The Terrorist won a lingerie battle royal
- Greg Gagne beat Ronnie Garvin by countout to regain the AWA TV Title
- Ricky Rice & Derrick Dukes & Wendi Richter beat Pat Tanaka & Paul Diamond & Madusa Meceli
- Texas Champion Iceman King Parsons beat Brickhouse Brown
- Jimmy Valiant beat Wayne Bloom
- Eric Embry beat Jeff Jarrett to regain the World Class Light Heavyweight Title
- Chavo Guerrero & Mando Guerrero & Hector Guerrero beat the RPMs & Cactus Jack
Tokyo, Japan:
- Stan Hansen & Terry Gordy defeated Genichiro Tenryu & Toshiaki Kawada in the finals of All Japan's Real World Tag League to win the vacant All Japan World Tag Team Titles
1989
Starrcade: Atlanta, Georgia:
- NWA Tag Team Champions Rick & Scott Steiner defeated Doom (w/ Woman & Nitron) via count-out in a non-title match
- NWA US Champion Lex Luger pinned Sting in a non-title match
- The Road Warriors (w/ Paul Ellering) defeated Doom (w/ Woman & Nitron)
- NWA World Champion Ric Flair (w/ Ole & Arn Anderson) pinned NWA TV Champion the Great Muta (w/ Gary Hart) in a non-title match
- NWA Tag Team Champions Rick & Scott Steiner defeated the Road Warriors (w/ Paul Ellering) in a non-title match
- Sting pinned NWA TV Champion the Great Muta (w/ Gary Hart) in a non-title match
- The Wild Samoans (w/ Sir Oliver Humperdink) defeated Doom (w/ Woman & Nitron)
- NWA US Champion Lex Luger fought NWA World Champion Ric Flair to a 15-minute time-limit draw in a non-title match
- The Wild Samoans (w/ Sir Oliver Humperdink) defeated NWA Tag Team Champions Rick & Scott Steiner via disqualification
- NWA US Champion Lex Luger defeated NWA TV Champion the Great Muta (w/ Gary Hart) via disqualification in a non-title
- The Road Warriors (w/ Paul Ellering) defeated the Wild Samoans (w/ Sir Oliver Humperdink)
- Sting pinned NWA World Champion Ric Flair at 14:57 in a non-title match
Huntsville, Alabama:
- The Colossal Connection (Andre the Giant and Haku) defeated Demolition (Ax and Smash) for the WWF Tag Team Title
1991
Sheffield, England:
- Steve Regal defeated Jimmy Garvin
- Johnny B. Badd defeated Terrance Taylor
- Michael Hayes defeated Steve Regal
- Rick & Scott Steiner defeated Arn Anderson & Larry Zbyzsko
- WCW World Champion Lex Luger pinned PN News
- Sting, Dustin Rhodes, & Bill Kazmaier defeated WCW US Champion Rick Rude, Mr. Hughes, & Oz
1992
Greensboro, North Carolina:
- Brad Armstrong pinned Mike Graham
- Tom Zenk & Johnny Gunn defeated Tex Slazenger & Shanghai Pierce
- Erik Watts fought Steve Austin to a draw
- Johnny B. Badd defeated Scotty Flamingo in a boxing match via KO in the 3rd round
- Brian Pillman pinned 2 Cold Scorpio
- Barry Windham fought Dustin Rhodes to a double count-out
- WCW World Champion Ron Simmons & WCW/NWA Tag Team Champion Ricky Steamboat defeated Big Van Vader & Dan Spivey
Mexico City, Mexico:
- Gran Hamada defeated Black Power II in a tournament final for the vacant UWA World Junior Light Heavyweight Title
Bremen, Germany:
- Tony St Clair defeated Jimmy Snuka to win the CWA British Commonwealth title
1993
- Alundra Blayze (Madusa) defeated Heidi Lee Morgan in the finals of a tournament to win the revived WWF World Women's Title
1994
Osaka, Japan:
- Shinjiro Ohtani defeated Norio Honaga for the UWA Welterweight Title
1995
Tokyo, Japan:
- Jushin Liger defeated Gedo to win the Super J Cup
1998
Tokyo, Japan:
- Rob Van Dam and Sabu defeated The Dudley Boyz (Bubba Ray and D-Von Dudley) to win the ECW Tag Team Title
2002
Zurich, Switzerland:
- Sting defeated champion Lex Luger and Malice in a three way bout to win the World Wrestling All-Stars World Heavyweight Title
Mexico City, Mexico:
- Ultimo Guerrero defeated Shocker to win the CMLL Light Heavyweight title
2008
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada:
- John Morrison and The Miz won the WWE Tag Team championship by defeating CM Punk and Kofi Kingston
2009
WWE Tables, Ladders & Chairs: San Antonio, Texas:
- Sheamus defeated John Cena in a tables match to win the WWE title
- Undertaker defeated Batista in a chairs match to retain the World title
- DX (Triple H and Shawn Michaels) defeated Chris Jericho and Big Show to win the Unified Tag Team Titles in a TLC match
- Drew McIntyre defeated Shelton Benjamin to win the Intercontinental title
2015
WWE Tables, Ladders & Chairs: Boston, Massachusetts:
- Sasha Banks (w/ Naomi & Tamina) defeated Becky Lynch via submission with the Banks Statement
- WWE Tag Team Champions Big E Langston & Kofi Kingston (w/ Xavier Woods) defeated Sin Cara & Kalisto and Jimmy & Jey Uso in a ladder match
- Alexander Rusev (w/ Lana) defeated Ryback
- WWE US Champion Alberto Del Rio pinned Jack Swagger in a chairs match
- Bray Wyatt, Braun Strowman, Luke Harper, & Erick Rowan defeated the Dudley Boyz, Tommy Dreamer, & Rhyno in a tables match
- Dean Ambrose pinned WWE IC Champion Kevin Owens to win the title at 9:52 with a roll up reversal out of a Pop Up Powerbomb attempt
- WWE Divas Champion Charlotte (w/ Ric Flair) pinned Paige
- WWE World Heavyweight Champion Sheamus defeated Roman Reigns in a TLC match
