Daily Pro Wrestling History (07/26): Dusty Rhodes wins NWA title in a cage
1929
St. Louis, Missouri:
– Dick Shikat beat Joe Komar
1946
Houston, Texas:
– Dave Levin defeated Kay Bell for the Texas Heavyweight Title
1968
Houston, Texas:
– Fritz Von Erich defeated Spoiler #1 for the held-up NWA American Heavyweight Title
1970
Fuchu, Japan:
– Miyoko Hoshino and Yoshiko Miyamoto defeated Masked Killer and Masked Lee to win the American Girls’ Wrestling
Association International Tag Team Titles
1972
Honolulu, Hawaii:
– Fred Blassie defeated Johnny Barend for the Hawaii NWA North American Heavyweight Title
Miami, Florida:
– Paul Jones beat Jack Brisco on a 3rd fall DQ
– Don Curtis beat Buddy Colt DQ
– Nick Bockwinkel & Ray Stevens beat Hiro Matsuda & Ron Fuller
Kasugabe, Japan:
– Miyoko Hoshino defeated Sarah Lee for the WWWA World Title
– Aiko Kyo and Jumbo Miyamoto won the WWWA World Tag Team Title from Opearl Anston and Masked Lee
1973
Kansas City, Kansas:
– Mike George & Jim Brunzell defeated Percy Pringle & Jim Dalton
– Togo the Great & Tokyo Joe defeated Hillbilly Vic & Steve Bolus
– In an Indian Strap Match; Danny Little Bear defeated Bob Brown
– Lord Alfred Hayes & Roger Kirby defeated Bobo Brazil & Rufus R. Jones in three falls
1977
Mobile, Alabama
– Ken Lucas defeated Kurt Von Hess to win the NWA Gulf Coast Heavyweight Title
1980
Charlotte, North Carolina:
– Greg Valentine defeated Ric Flair to win the NWA United States Heavyweight Title
St. Petersburg, Florida:
– Barry Windham defeated Masa Saito for the NWA Florida Television Title
1981
Toronto, Ontario, Canada:
– Angelo Mosca defeated Mr. Fuji to win the Toronto NWA Canadian Heavyweight Title
Green Bay, Wisconsin:
– Adrian Adonis & Jesse Ventura beat The Crusher & Baron Von Raschke
– Sheik Adnan ddq Tito Santana
– Jerry Blackwell beat Brad Rheingans
1983
Nagasaki, Japan:
– Tiger Jeet Singh and Umanosuke Ueda defeated Giant Baba and Jumbo Tsuruta to win the NWA International Tag Team Titles
1984
Kansas City, Kansas:
– The Grapplers (Tony Anthony and Len Denton) defeated The Uptown Boys (Marty Jannetty and Tommy Rogers) to win the NWA Central States Tag Team Titles
1985
Albany, Georgia:
– The Midnight Express; Dennis Condrey & Bobby Eaton won an 18 Man Battle Royal and split the “$10,000” purse
1986
WCW Great American Bash: Greensboro, North Carolina:
– Dusty Rhodes defeated NWA World Heavyweight Champion Ric Flair in a Steel Cage match to win the title
– Magnum T.A. defeated Nikita Koloff (with Ivan Koloff) (this made their best-of-seven series for the NWA United States Heavyweight Title 3-1 favor of Nikita)
– NWA National Heavyweight Champion Tully Blanchard (with James J. Dillon) defeated Ron Garvin in a Taped Fist match
– The Rock ‘n’ Roll Express (Robert Gibson and Ricky Morton) fought The Minnesota Wrecking Crew (Arn and Ole Anderson) to a draw
– Baby Doll and NWA World Six-Man Tag Team Champions The Road Warriors (Animal and Hawk) (with Paul Ellering) defeated Jim Cornette and NWA World Tag Team Champions The Midnight Express (Bobby Eaton and Dennis Condrey) in a Steel Cage match
1991
Matsudo, Japan:
The Can-Am Express (Doug Furnas and Dan Kroffat) defeated Billy Black and Joel Deaton to win the AJPW All Asia Tag Team Titles
1998
WWF In Your House: Fresno, California:
– WWF Champion Steve Austin and The Undertaker defeated WWF Tag Team Champions Kane and Mankind to win the titles
– WWF Intercontinental Champion The Rock fought Triple H (with Chyna) to a 30-minute time-limit draw in a best-of-three falls match to retain the title
– Owen Hart defeated Ken Shamrock in a Dungeon match
2005
Tokyo, Japan:
– Katsuhiko Nakajima and Kensuke Sasaki defeated Shuji Kondo and “brother” YASSHI for the AJPW All Asia Tag Team Titles
2009
WWE Night of Champions: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:
– Christian defeated Tommy Dreamer to win the ECW Championship
– Mickie James defeated Maryse to win the Diva’s Championship
– Jeff Hardy defeated CM Punk to win the World Championship