Daily Pro Wrestling History (05/30): AEW Double or Nothing 2021
1925
St. Louis, Missouri:
- Joe Stecher defeated Stanislaus Zbyszko to win the World's Heavyweight Wrestling Title
1943
Mexico City, Mexico:
- Joe Silva defeated Adolfo Bonales to win the Mexico National Lightweight Title
1945
Toronto, Iowa:
- Marshall Estep defeated Ken Fenelon for the NWA World Junior Heavyweight Title
1956
Montreal, Quebec, Canada:
- Killer Kowalski defeated Yvon Robert for the Montreal World Heavyweight Title
1963
Amarillo, Texas:
- AWA Champion Verne Gagne drew with Amarillo World Champion Dory Funk Jr when the 60 minute time limit expired in the third fall
- Tokyo Tom beat Dory Funk Sr in 2 out of 3 falls
- Bob Ellis & Wahoo McDaniel & Ricky Romero beat Killer Karl Kox & Mike DiBiase & Sputnik Monroe
Kansas City; Kansas:
- In a lumberjack match, Masked Medic #1 and Masked Medic #2 beat Steve Bolus and Steve Kovacs
- Bob Geigel beat Sonny Myers
- Larry Hamilton beat Roy Collins
- Joe Scarpello beat Rock Hunter via dq
1964
Manchester, England:
- Bobby Steele defeated Chick Purvey to win the European Middleweight Title
Mexico City, Mexico:
- Benny Galant defeated El Rayo de Jalisco to win the NWA World Middleweight Title
1966
Memphis, Tennessee:
- Herb Welch and Al Costello defeated Karl and Eric von Brauner in a tournament final to win the vacant Mid-America version of the NWA World Tag Team Titles
1970
Minneapolis, Minnesota:
- AWA Champion Verne Gagne beat Dr. X on a reverse decision 3rd fall dq
- Blackjack Lanza & Lars Anderson beat Red Bastien & Pepper Gomez
- Edouard Carpentier drew Double X
- Paul Diamond beat Blackjack Daniels
- Bob Windham beat Bill Howard
- Battle Of The Losers: Kenny Jay beat Kenny Yates
Memphis, Tennessee:
- Bobby Hart defeated Johnny Valentine for the NWA Southern Junior Heavyweight Title
1973
Hamburg, Pennsylvania:
- Tony Garea & Haystacks Calhoun defeated Professor Tanaka & Mr. Fuji for the WWWF World Tag Team Titles
1974
Kansas City; Kansas:
- The Interns (w/ Dr. Ken Ramey) defeated Omar Atlas & The Viking
- Bob Geigel & Rufus R. Jones defeated Bob Brown & Lord Alfred Hayes
- Don Fargo defeated Mike George
1978
Osaka, Japan:
- Antonio Inoki defeated Andre the Giant by countout to win the first annual New Japan Pro Wrestling MSG League
1980
Denver, Colorado:
- The Crusher beat AWA Champion Nick Bockwinkel in a non-title cage match
- Adrian Adonis & Jesse Ventura beat Greg Gagne & Wahoo McDaniel
- Jerry Blackwell went to a no contest with Dino Bravo
- Steve Olsonoski beat Bill Howard
1981
San Juan, Puerto Rico:
- Jack Brisco defeated Kim Song for the WWC Caribbean Heavyweight Title
Charlotte, North Carolina
- Sweet Ebony Diamond defeated Greg Valentine to win the NWA Television Title
1983
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada:
- Little Tokyo defeated Cowboy Lang for the NWA World Midgets Title
1984
Tampa, Florida:
- Angelo Mosca defeated Mike Rotundo to win the Florida version of the NWA Southern Heavyweight Title
1986
Houston, Texas:
- Terry Gordy defeated Hacksaw Duggan in a tournament final to win the UWF title
1986
Des Moines, Iowa:
- The Shadow (Jaymie Knight) won a 13-man battle royal to win the vacant NWA Central States Heavyweight Title
Oakland, California:
- Jerry Blackwell won a battle royal
- Nick Bockwinkel beat Larry Zbyszko
- Midnight Rockers beat AWA Tag Team Champions Buddy Rose & Doug Somers in a non-title match
- Curt Hennig beat Colonel DeBeers by dq
- Scott Hall beat Boris Zhukov
- Nord The Barbarian beat Steve Pardee
1992
Baltimore, Maryland:
- Tom Zenk pinned Joey Maggs
- Van Hammer pinned JT Southern
- Dustin Rhodes fought Greg Valentine to a 20-minute time limit draw
- WCW Light Heavyweight Champion Brian Pillman pinned Scotty Flamingo
- WCW Tag Team Champions Rick & Scott Steiner defeated Cactus Jack, Bobby Eaton & Paul E. Dangerously in a handicap match
- Barry Windham pinned Terrance Taylor
- WCW World Champion Sting & Nikita Koloff defeated Arn Anderson & WCW TV Champion Steve Austin
- WCW US Champion Rick Rude pinned Ricky Steamboat in a steel cage match
1996
Caguas, Puerto Rico:
- Sean Morley (Val Venis) defeated El Bronco for the WWC Television Title
1998
- Hysteria defeated Vance Nevada to win the Canadian Wrestling Federation Junior Heavyweight Title
2000
Nampa, Idaho:
- Sean Stasiak and Chuck Palumbo defeated Kronik (Brian Adams and Brian Clark) for the WCW World Tag Team Titles
2001
Santa Ana, California:
- Evolution (Nova and Frankie Kazarian) won a tournament for the vacant UPW Tag Team Titles
2021
AEW Double or Nothing: Jacksonville, Florida:
- Serena Deeb defeated Riho to retain the NWA Women’s title
- Hangman Page defeated Brian Cage
- The Young Bucks retained the AEW Tag Team titles over Jon Moxley & Eddie Kingston
- Jungle Boy won the Casino Battle Royal to earn an AEW World title shot
- Cody Rhodes defeated Anthony Ogogo
- Miro defeated Lance Archer to retain the TNT title
- Britt Baker defeated Hikaru Shida to win the AEW Women’s title
- Sting & Darby Allin defeated Ethan Page & Scorpio Sky
- Kenny Omega retained the AEW World title in a triple threat match over PAC and Orange Cassidy
- The Inner Circle (Chris Jericho, Jake Hager, Sammy Guevara, Santana & Ortiz) defeated The Pinnacle (MJF, Wardlow, FTR & Shawn Spears) in a Stadium Stampede match
