On this day in pro wrestling history – Malenko vs. Guerrero, Kiniski vs. Terry Funk, Wahoo in WWWF tag title match

By Brian Hoops

1960 – Joe McCarthy defeated Mario Galento in Mobile, Alabama to win the
NWA Gulf Coast Heavyweight Title

1965 – WWWF U.S. Tag Team Champions Gene Kiniski & Waldo Von Erich
defeated Wahoo McDaniel & Don McClarty in Trenton, NJ.

1973 – Gene Kiniski defeated Terry Funk in St. Louis, Missouri to win
the NWA Missouri Heavyweight Title.

1992 – Kamala defeated Koko B. Ware to win the USWA Unified World
Heavyweight Title in Memphis, Tennessee while Jimmy Valiant defeated Dr.
Death (not Steve Williams) for the USWA Southern Heavyweight Title

1996 – D’Lo Brown defeated Bobby Blaze to win the Heartland Wrestling
Association Heavyweight Title in Lima, Ohio

1997 – Dean Malenko defeated Eddie Guerrero to win the WCW United States
Title in Charleston, South Carolina.

2003 – Justin Credible defeated Steve Corino in Queens, New York to win
the Premier Wrestling Federation Heavyweight Title

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