• On This Day In Pro Wrestling History (April 13, 1990) – WWF/AJPW/NJPW Wrestling Summit
On this day in Pro Wrestling history on April 13, 1990, the WWF/AJPW/NJPW Wrestling Summit was broadcasted from the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan and aired live on Japanese television.
This was a co-produced show by Vince McMahon’s World Wrestling Federation, Antonio Inoki’s New Japan Pro Wrestling and Giant Baba’s All Japan Pro Wrestling.
Here are the results from the event:
– Dan Kroffat, Doug Furnas & Joe Malenko defeated Samson Fuyuki, Tatsumi Kitahara & Toshiaki Kawada
– Jushin Thunder Liger defeated Akira Nogami
– Jimmy Snuka & Tito Santana defeated Kenta Kobashi & Masanobu Fuchi
– Bret Hart wrestled Tiger Mask to a time-limit-draw
– The Great Kabuki defeated Greg Valentine
– Jake Roberts defeated The Big Boss Man
– IWGP Tag Team Title Match: Masa Saito & Shinya Hashimoto (c) defeated Masahiro Chono & Riki Choshu
– Jumbo Tsuruta & King Haku defeated Mr. Perfect & Rick Martel
– Genichiro Tenryu defeated Randy Savage
– WWF World Heavyweight Title Match: The Ultimate Warrior (c) defeated Ted DiBiase
– Non-Title match: Andre The Giant & Giant Baba defeated Demolition (c)
– Hulk Hogan defeated Stan Hansen (12:30)
• More WWE Wrestlers Injured
WWE announced the following:
Big E suffers knee injury
“Big E of The New Day has suffered a torn meniscus, according to a tweet from the Superstar posted Thursday afternoon.
Making mincemeat of my meniscus
Crossbody cooked the cartilage
Bye for a bit— Florida Man (@WWEBigE) April 11, 2019
He is not currently medically cleared for action.”
In addition to this, former RAW Women’s Champion Nia Jax tore her ACLs in both knees and will be undergoing surgery.
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— ? (@NiaJaxWWE) April 12, 2019
As we noted before, Daniel Bryan and AJ Styles also got hurt at WrestleMania 35. Ronda Rousey also broke her hand during the WrestleMania 35 main event, but she was supposed to take a break from WWE anyway.
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