Daily Pro Wrestling History (11/22): Starrcade 1984 — The Million Dollar Challenge
1922
Melbourne, Australia:
– Billy Meeske defeated Joe Bailey in a tournament final to win the vacant Australian Heavyweight Title
1950
Los Angeles, California:
– Baron Michele Leone defeated Enrique Torres to become recognized World Heavyweight Champion in Los Angeles and the Pacific Northwest
1954
Los Angeles, California:
– Lord James Blears & Joe Pazanadak defeated Gene Kiniski and John Tolos for the NWA International Television Tag Team Titles
1955
Tokyo, Japan:
– Rikidozan defeated King Kong in a tournament final to become the first All Asia Heavyweight Champion
1960
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
– George Eakin won the Madison Wrestling Club Heavyweight Title from Bob Brown
1961
Honolulu, Hawaii:
– Lord James Blears & Neff Maivia won the NWA Hawaii Tag Team Title by defeating Shoulders Newman and Ted Travis
1962
Jacksonville, Florida:
– The Fabulous Kangaroos (Al Costello & Roy Heffernan) defeated Tony Baillargeon & Maurice Lapoine for the Florida version of the NWA World Tag Team Title
Minneapolis, Minnesota:
– AWA Champion Verne Gagne beat Moose Evans in 2 out of 3 falls
– Battle of the K(C)rushers, Loser no longer can use the name K(C)rusher: Crusher beat Krusher Stan Kowalski
– Farmer Pete & Nan Regen beat Pee Wee James & Mars Monroe
– Jack Lanza beat George Cannon
1963
Mobile, Alabama:
– Billy Hines defeated Mickey Sharpe to win the NWA Gulf Coast Heavyweight Title
1968
Atlanta, Georgia:
– The Assassins (Tom Renesto & Jody Hamilton) defeated Ramon & Alberto Torres for the NWA Georgia Tag Team Title
Dothan, Alabama:
– Rocket & Flash Monroe defeated Don Carson & Dick Dunn to win the NWA Gulf Coast Tag Team Title
1969
Atlanta, Georgia:
– Joe Scarpa (Chief Jay Strongbow) defeated Assassin #2 (Tom Renesto) in a tournament final to become the first NWA Georgia Television Champion
1972
Birmingham, Alabama:
– Bob Kelly won the NWA Gulf Coast Heavyweight Championship by defeating The Wrestling Pro
Mobile, Alabama:
– Rocket & Flash Monroe defeated Rip Tyler & Eddie Sullivan to win the Gulf Coast version of the NWA United States Tag Team Title
Tampa, Florida:
– Tim Woods beat Buddy Colt with Big Bad John as ref to win the Southern title
1973
St. Paul, Minnesota:
– AWA Tag Team Champions Nick Bockwinkel & Ray Stevens beat Billy Robinson & Geoff Portz 2 in out of 3 falls
– Ken Patera beat Superstar Billy Graham
– Larry Heiniemi & Buddy Wolff beat Reggie Parks & Tony Rocco
– Rene Goulet drew Billy Red Cloud
– Big K drew Ric Flair
1974
Los Angeles, California:
– Pampero Firpo defeated John Tolos for the NWA Americas Heavyweight Title
1976
West Palm Beach, Florida:
– “Superstar” Billy Graham defeated Dusty Rhodes for the NWA Florida Heavyweight Title
1978
Honolulu, Hawaii:
– Mando Guerrero defeated Larry Sharpe for the NWA Hawaii Heavyweight Title
1979
Bowling Green, Kentucky:
– Tojo Yamamoto, Bobby Eaton & Secret Weapon defeated George Gulas, Ken Lucas & Joey Rossi for the NWA World Six-Man Tag Team Title
Kansas City, Kansas:
– The Avenger defeated The Turk to win the NWA Central States Heavyweight Title
1980
Atlanta, Georgia:
– Judy Martin defeated Princess Little Heart for the NWA United States Women’s Title
1982
Memphis, Tennessee:
– Terry Taylor won an “elimination” match over Crusher Broomfield, Bobby Eaton, Bobby Fulton, Jerry Roberts, and Sweet Brown Sugar
– Dutch Mantel pinned Jesse Barr to win the Mid-America Title
– Jerry Lawler beat Jimmy Hart & Sweet Brown Sugar in a “handicap” match
– Bill Dundee beat Southern Champ Sabu via DQ
– Dream Machine & Bobby Eaton beat The Fabulous Ones (8:43) in a “no DQ” match to win the Southern Tag Team Titles
– The Sheepherders (Boyd & Williams) beat Jerry Lawler & Bill Dundee
West Palm Beach, Florida:
– Kevin Sullivan defeated Dusty Rhodes for the Florida version of the NWA Southern Heavyweight Title
1984
NWA Starrcade: Greensboro, North Carolina: Attendance was 16,000
– Denny Brown pinned NWA Jr. Heavyweight Champion Mike Davis to win the title
– Brian Adidas pinned Mr. Ito
– Florida Heavyweight Champion Jesse Barr pinned Mike Graham
– The Assassin & Buzz Tyler defeated Muhammad & Akeem in an elimination match
– Manny Fernandez defeated Mid-Atlantic Brass Knuckles Champion Black Bart to win the title
– Paul Jomes pinned Jimmy Valiant in a loser leaves town tuxedo street fight
– Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Champion Ron Bass defeated Dick Slater via disqualification
– Ivan & Nikita Koloff defeated Ole Anderson & Keith Larson
– NWA TV Champion Tully Blanchard pinned Ricky Steamboat
– Wahoo McDaniel defeated Superstar Billy Graham to retain the NWA US title
– NWA World Champion Ric Flair defeated Dusty Rhodes to retain the title
Birmingham, Alabama:
– Jimmy Golden defeated Austin Idol for the NWA Southeastern Heavyweight Title
Bayaman, Puerto Rico:
– Invaders I & III win the vacant WWC Tag Team Title by defeating Super Medico I & Black Gordman
Kansas City, Kansas: afternoon show attendance was 1,600
– Jerry Blackwell won battle royal
– Fabulous Freebirds Michael Hayes & Terry Gordy & Buddy Roberts no contest Road Warriors & Paul Ellering
– Handicap Match: Jerry Blackwell beat Tug Taylor & Mike Pagel
– Marty Jannetty beat Missing Link
– Bulldog Bob Brown & King Parsons beat King Kong Bundy & Hacksaw Higgins by DQ
– Mr. Pogo beat Dave Peterson
– Candi Devine beat Princess Jasmine
St. Paul, Minnesota: evening show attendance was 16,000
– AWA Tag Team Champions Road Warriors beat Boom Boom Bundy & Jerry Blackwell
– AWA Champion Rick Martel beat Billy Robinson
– Cage match: Greg Gagne beat Sheik Adnan by DQ
– Mr. Saito drew Curt Hennig
– Fabulous Ones beat Luke Graham & Steve Regal
– Jimmy Garvin beat Steve O
– Cowboy Lang & Little Koko beat Lord Littlebrook & Little Tokyo
Dallas, Texas:
– Mike Von Erich defeated WCCW Champion Gino Hernandez by DQ
– Chris Adams defeated Kevin Von Erich in a no DQ match
– The Fantastics, Tommy Rogers & Buddy Fulton defeated Norvell Austin and Koko Ware to retain the WCCW Tag Team Titles
1986
Cleveland, Ohio:
– Nelson Royal defeated Eddie Roberts
– Shaska Whatley defeated Allan West
– Don Kernodle defeated Bill Dundee via disqualification
– NWA US Tag Team Champions Ivan Koloff & Krusher Kruschev defeated Brad Armstrong & Tim Horner
– Wahoo McDaniel defeated the Barbarian in an Indian strap match
– NWA Tag Team Champions Ricky Morton & Robert Gibson defeated Rick Rude & Manny Fernandez
Baltimore, Maryland: (attendance was 14,000, sellout)
– Larry Winters pinned Ron Shaw
– Ricky Lee Jones pinned Rocky Kernodle
– Hector Guerrero defeated Tony Zane
– Jimmy Valiant defeated Gary Royal
– Ole & Arn Anderson defeated Dutch Mantell & Bobby Jaggers in a Texas Tornado match
– Road Warrior Animal & Paul Ellering (sub. for Road Warrior Hawk) defeated Bobby Eaton & Dennis Condrey via disqualification
– NWA TV Champion Dusty Rhodes & NWA US Champion Nikita Koloff defeated NWA World Champion Ric Flair & Tully Blanchard in a steel cage
match
1987
Memphis, Tennessee:
– The Nasty Boys beat The Hangman
– Don Bass & Carl Fergie beat Lou Winston & Jerry Bryant
– Teijo Khan beat John Paul
– Bobby Jaggers beat Billy Joe Travis
– The Midnight Rockers (Marty Janetty & Shawn Michaels) defeated The Rock ‘n’ Roll RPMs (Mike Davis & Tommy Lane) to win the AWA
Southern Tag Team Titles
– Austin Idol & Bill Dundee beat Hector Guerrero & Manny Fernandez via DQ
– Jerry Lawler & Jeff Jarrett DDQ Jimmy Jack Funk & Steve Keirn
Johnstown, Pennsylvania:
– Eddie Gilbert pinned Jimmy Jackson
– Big Bubba pinned John Gavin
– Kevin Sullivan fought Rick Steiner to a draw
– Paul Ellering pinned JJ Dillon
– NWA Tag Team Champion Arn Anderson pinned Robert Gibson
– Ricky Morton pinned NWA Tag Team Champion Tully Blanchard
– The Road Warriors defeated NWA US Tag Team Champions Bobby Eaton & Stan Lane in a non-title match
1989
Mexico City, Mexico:
– Big Van Vader defeated Canek for the Universal Wrestling Association World Heavyweight Title
1990
Atlanta, Georgia: (Thanksgiving Night)
– The Juicer pinned Barry Horowitz
– Brian Pillman & Tom Zenk defeated the Master Blasters
– The Junkyard Dog pinned Moondog Rex
– El Gigante, Tommy Rich, & Ricky Morton defeated Bobby Eaton, Michael Hayes, & Jimmy Garvin
– Lex Luger pinned the Big Cat
– NWA Tag Team Champions Doom defeated Ric Flair & Arn Anderson in an elimination match
– NWA World Champion Sting pinned Sid Vicious
– NWA US Tag Team Champions Rick & Scott Steiner defeated the Nasty Boys in a steel cage match
1991
Dallas, Texas:
– John Tatum & Rod Price defeated Steve Simpson in a handicap match to win the Global Wrestling Federation Tag Team Titles
Washington, D.C.:
– Madusa defeated Bambi
– Big Josh & Mike Graham defeated Richard Morton & Terrance Taylor
– Johnny B. Badd defeated Thomas Rich
– WCW TV Champion Steve Austin defeated WCW Light Heavyweight Champion Brian Pillman
– Big Van Vader fought PN News to a double count-out
– Van Hammer defeated Cactus Jack
– Arn Anderson & Larry Zbyzsko defeated Tom Zenk & WCW Tag Team Champion Dustin Rhodes
– Sting defeated WCW US Champion Rick Rude in a non-title match
– Rick & Scott Steiner defeated WCW World Champion Lex Luger & Mr. Hughes
1992
Tokyo, Japan:
– Hiroyoshi Yamamoto defeated Satoshi Kojima
– Chris Benoit defeated the Tazmaniac
– Super Strong Machine, Tatsutoshi Goto, Hiro Saito, & Norio Honaga defeated Osamu Kido, Takayuki Iizuka, Black Cat, & Koji Kanemoto
– Jushin Liger defeated Dean Malenko
– Shinya Hashimoto defeated TNT
– The Ultimo Dragon defeated IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Champion El Samurai to win the title
– Scott Norton & Tony Halme defeated IWGP Tag Team Champions Rick & Scott Steiner to win the titles
– IWGP Heavyweight Champion the Great Muta pinned Sting
– Tatsumi Fujinami, Riki Choshu, Hiroshi Hase, & Akira Nogami defeated Kengo Kimura, Shiro Koshinaka, Masashi Aoyagi, & Akitoshi Saito
Memphis, Tennessee:
– Jeff Jarrett won a Battle Royal to win the USWA Unified Heavyweight Title
1993
Memphis, Tennessee:
– Buddy Landell defeated Jeff Jarrett for the USWA Southern Heavyweight Title
1995
Memphis, Tennessee:
– Tex Slazenger defeated Brian Christopher for the vacant USWA Heavyweight Title
1998
Auburn Hills, Michigan:
– Billy Kidman defeated Juventud Guerrera to win the WCW Cruiserweight Title
1999
Auburn Hills, Michigan:
– Creative Control (Patrick & Gerald — The Harris Brothers) defeated The Filthy Animals (Konnan and Billy Kidman) to win the WCW World Tag Team Titles
2003
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:
– Raven defeated Justin Credible for the 3PW Heavyweight Title
2010
WWE Monday Night Raw:
– The Miz captured the WWE Championship after cashing in his Money in the Bank contract and defeating Randy Orton