Daily pro wrestling history (02/19): Heavenly Bodies win SMW Tag Team Titles; plane crash kills Bobby Shane

1920

Newark, Ohio:
– Paul Bowser defeated Billy Schoeber for the American Middleweight Title

1942 

St. Joseph, Missouri:
– Marshall Estep defeated Steve Brody to win the Midwest Wrestling Association World Junior Heavyweight Title 

St. Louis, Missouri:
– Bill Longson defeated Sandor Szabo to win the NWA World Heavyweight Title

1943

Houston, Texas:
– Bill Longson defeated Bobby Managoff for the National Wrestling Association World Heavyweight Title 

St. Louis, Missouri:
– Ronnie Etchison beat Cowboy Luttrall 
– Orville Brown drew Babe Zaharias 
– Tom Zaharias beat Bad Boy Brown 
– Jim Coffield beat Frank Frogge

1957

Chicago, Illinois:
– Wilbur Snyder defeated Hans Schmidt to win the Chicago NWA United States Heavyweight Title 

1959

Chattanooga, Tennessee:
– Don and Luke (Bobby) Fields defeated The Corsicans (Jean and Joe) to win the Mid-America NWA World Tag Team Titles

1963

Tampa, Florida:
– Hiro Matsuda defeated Eddie Graham to win the Florida NWA Southern Heavyweight Title

Minneapolis, Minnesota:
– Boot Match: Crusher beat Moose Evans 
– Hercules Cortez beat Karol Kalmikoff
– Rocky Hamilton beat Jack Pesek
– Doug Gilbert drew Ivan Kamilkoff
– Dick Steinborn beat Gordon Nelson

1966

San Francisco, California:
– Bill Watts defeated Kinji Shibuya for the San Francisco NWA United States Heavyweight Title 

1969

Honolulu, Hawaii:
– Gene Kiniski won the Hawaii NWA North American Heavyweight Title from Toru Tanaka 

1970

Milwaukee, Wisconsin:
– Non Title: The Crusher & Edouard Carpentier beat AWA Tag Team Champions Mad Dog Vachon & Butcher Vachon 2 falls to 0
– Pepper Gomez beat Dr X
– Red Bastien beat Luke Graham
– Larry Hennig beat Bob Brunelle
– Lars Anderson drew Billy Red Lyons

1975

Miami Beach, Florida: (Colt, Shane, McCord, and Hart would be in a plane crash later that evening that would end the life of Shane)
– Dusty Rhodes defeated Dick Murdoch 
– Handicap Match: Dick Slater & Chris Taylor & “Cowboy” Bill Watts defeated Bob Roop & Jim Dillon & Mongolian Stomper & Gary Hart
– Bobby Shane & Buddy Colt defeated Tony Parisi & Dominic DeNucci 
– The Patriots defeated Mike Pappas & Pat Barrett 
– Bob Armstrong defeated “Iron” Mike McCord (Austin Idol)
– Larry Zbyszko drew Baron Scicluna 
– Johnny Weaver defeated George McCreary 

1976 

Kansas City, Kansas:
– Bob Brown & Otto Von Heller fought Ray Candy & Pat O’Connor to a draw
– Ed Wiskoski defeated Mike Pappae
– Ripper Collins fought Tank Patton to a double-DQ
– Bob Geigel & Akio Sato defeated Ron Bass & Dutch Mantel
– World Heavyweight Champion Terry Funk defeated Mike George via DQ

1978

Toronto, Ontario, Canada:
– AWA World Tag Team Champions The High Flyers (Jim Brunzell and Greg Gagne) defeated AWA World Heavyweight Champion Nick Bockwinkel and Bobby Heenan to retain the titles
– British Heavyweight Champion Billy Robinson defeated Duncan McTavish to retain the title
– WWWF Heavyweight Champion Billy Graham defeated Édouard Carpentier to retain the title
– Dusty Rhodes defeated Ken Patera
– Angelo Mosca defeated Chief Peter Miavia
– Dewey Robertson beat the Wildman
– Stan Stasiak beat the Wolfman
– Billy Red Lyons drew Chris Tolos

Memphis, Tennessee:
– Stan Frazier and Terry Sawyer defeated Dennis Condrey and Phil Hickerson to win the AWA Southern Tag Team Titles 

1979

Fort Worth, Texas:
– Mark Lewin and The Spoiler defeated David and Kevin Von Erich for the NWA American Tag Team Titles

1982

Green Bay, Wisconsin:
– Hulk Hogan & Tito Santana & Buck Zumhofe beat Nick Bockwinkel & Bobby Duncum & Bobby Heenan
– Sheik Adnan beat Jim Brunzell by countout
– Greg Gagne beat Sgt Jacques Goulet
– Brad Rheingans beat Tom Stone 

1988

Las Vegas, Nevada:
– AWA Champion Curt Hennig beat Jerry Lawler dq
– AWA Tag Team Champions Midnight Rockers beat Nasty Boys
– Wahoo McDaniel & Greg Gagne beat Bob Orton Jr & Curt Hennig dq
– Badd Company, Pat Tanaka & Paul Diamond beat Midnight Rockers
– Greg Gagne beat Steve Olsonoski
– Baron Von Raschke beat Sheik Adnan

1994 

Taylor, Michigan:
– The Heavenly Bodies (Jimmy Del Ray and Tom Prichard) defeated The Rock ‘n’ Roll Express (Robert Gibson and Ricky Morton) for the SMW Tag Team Titles

1995

Tokyo, Japan:
– Koji Kanemoto defeated Norio Honaga to win the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title 

WCW SuperBrawl: Baltimore, Maryland:
– WCW World Tag Team Champions Harlem Heat (Booker T and Stevie Ray) with Sister Sherri, defeated The Nasty Boys (Brian Knobbs and Jerry Sags) by reverse decision to retain the title
– Randy Savage and Sting defeated Avalanche and The Butcher
– WCW World Heavyweight Champion Hulk Hogan with Jimmy Hart defeated WCW US Heavyweight Champion Vader by disqualification to retain the title

1999

North Richland Hills, Texas:
– Brian Adias defeated Khris Germany to win the NWA Texas Heavyweight Title 

2000

Cornelia, Georgia:
– The Rock ‘n’ Roll Express (Robert Gibson and Ricky Morton) defeated Bad Attitude (Rick Michaels and David Young) to win the NWA Wildside Tag Team Titles

Barnegat, New Jersey:
– Chris Candido won the vacant NWA Jersey Heavyweight Title by defeating The Equalizer

Carolina, Puerto Rico:
– Ray González won the WWC Universal Heavyweight Title by defeating Carly Colón

2002 

– Billy and Chuck with Rico defeated WWF Tag Team Champions Spike Dudley and Tazz to win the titles

2003

Louisville, Kentucky:
– Nick Dinsmore defeated champion The Damaja and Doug Basham in a triple threat match to win the OVW Heavyweight Title

2004

Tokyo, Japan:
– Shiro Koshinaka and Takao Omori defeated Shinjiro Otani and Masato Tanaka to win the NWA Intercontinental Tag Team Titles 
– Low Ki and Leonardo Spanky (Brian Kendrick) defeated Ikuto Hidaka and Dick Togo to win the NWA International Lightweight Tag Team Titles

2005

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:
– A.J. Styles defeated Simon Diamond
– C.J. O’Doyle defeated Rob Eckos
– Simon Diamond and Mike Kruel defeated Damian Adams and Monsta Mack to win the vacant 3PW Tag Team Title
– Matt Striker defeated Rockin’ Rebel
– Slyck Wagner Brown defeated 3PW Heavyweight Champion Christopher Daniels to win the title

2006 

WWF No Way Out PPV: Baltimore, Maryland:
– Chris Benoit defeated Booker T to win the US Championship 
– Randy Orton defeated Rey Mysterio
– Kurt Angle defeated The Undertaker to retain the World Title

Tokyo, Japan:
– El Samurai and Ryusuke Taguchi defeated IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions Hirooki Goto and Minoru to win the title
– Tiger Mask IV defeated NWA World and IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion Black Tiger IV (Rocky Romero) to win both titles
– IWGP U-30 Champion Hiroshi Tanahashi defeated Yuji Nagata
– IWGP Heavyweight Champion Brock Lesnar and Shinsuke Nakamura defeated Akebono and Riki Choshu
– IWGP Tag Team Champions Masahiro Chono and Hiroyoshi Tenzan defeated Giant Bernard and Manabu Nakanishi to retain the titles

2007

Bakersfield, California:
– Melina pinned WWE Women’s Champion Mickie James to win the title 
– Umaga (with Armando Alejandro Estrada) pinned WWE Intercontinental Champion Jeff Hardy to win the title