Below you will find everything that happened in Professional Wrestling history on January 20th.
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• On This Day In Pro Wrestling History (January 20, 2002) – WWF Royal Rumble 2002
On this day in Pro Wrestling history on January 20, 2002, the World Wrestling Federation aired their annual ‘Royal Rumble’ event LIVE on PPV from the Philips Arena in Atlanta, Georgia.
This turned out to be the last ‘World Wrestling Federation’ version of the Royal Rumble, before the promotion was renamed World Wrestling Entertainment later that year.
The PPV results:
Tag Team Championship: Spike Dudley and Tazz (c) defeated The Dudley Boyz
Intercontinental Championship: William Regal defeated Edge (c)
Women’s Championship: Trish Stratus (c) defeated Jazz
Street Fight: Ric Flair defeated Mr. McMahon
Undisputed WWF Championship: Chris Jericho (c) defeated The Rock
Triple H won the 30-man Royal Rumble match
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• On This Day In Pro Wrestling History (January 20, 1984) – WWF House Show
On this day in Pro Wrestling history on January 20, 1984, the World Wrestling Federation held an untelevised house show at the Civic Arena in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
This live event included matches featuring the 1984 WWF Superstars.
The results can be found below:
Salvatore Bellomo defeated Ken Jugan
Eddie Gilbert defeated Bob Bradley
WWF Tag Team Champion Rocky Johnson defeated Iron Mike Sharpe
Paul Orndorff defeated Tony Garea
Jimmy Snuka defeated Sgt. Slaughter by DQ
Steel Cage: Bob Backlund defeated The Masked Superstar
WWF World Champion The Iron Sheik defeated Chief Jay Strongbow
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