Below you will find everything that happened in Professional Wrestling history on January 4th.
• On This Day In Pro Wrestling History (January 4, 1986) – WWF Saturday Night’s Main Event 4
On this day in Pro Wrestling history on January 4, 1986, the World Wrestling Federation aired ‘WWF Saturday Night’s Main Event 4’ on NBC.
The entire event was originally taped on December 19, 1985 from the USF Sun Dome in Tampa, Florida.
A young Dean Malenko worked as the referee during the Volkoff/Kirchner match.
Here are the results:
Jesse Ventura, Roddy Piper & Bob Orton Jr. defeated Hillbilly Jim, Uncle Elmer & Cousin Luke
WWF World Heavyweight Championship: Hulk Hogan (c) defeated Terry Funk
Randy Savage defeated George Steele
Peace Match: Nikolai Volkoff defeated Corporal Kirchner
Junkyard Dog & Ricky Steamboat defeated Mr. Fuji & Don Muraco
Saturday Night's Main Event 4 Skits – Part 1 pic.twitter.com/LHFG8K4saD
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Saturday Night's Main Event 4 Skits – Part 2 pic.twitter.com/cSKMjp5Oci
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• On This Day In Pro Wrestling History (January 4, 1993) – WCW/NJPW Supershow III
On this day in Pro Wrestling history on January 4, 1993, Ted Turner’s World Championship Wrestling and Antonio Inoki’s New Japan Pro-Wrestling co-promoted ‘WCW/New Japan Supershow III’ at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan.
In Japan the event was promoted under a different name, ‘Fantastic Story in Tokyo Dome’.
Months later, WCW ended up airing the event on pay-per-view in the United States at some point in March 1993.
Here are the results:
Shiro Koshinaka, The Great Kabuki, Masashi Aoyagi & Akitoshi Saito defeated Super Strong Machine, Hiro Saito, Tatsutoshi Goto & Norio Honaga
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship: Jushin Thunder Liger defeated Último Dragón (c)
Ron Simmons defeated Tony Halme (Ludvig Borga)
Masa Saito & Shinya Hashimoto defeated Scott Norton & Dustin Rhodes
Title Vs. Title – IWGP Championship Vs. NWA World Heavyweight Championship: The Great Muta (IWGP) defeated Masahiro Chono (NWA)
Takayuki Iizuka, Akira Nogami & El Samurai defeated Nobukazu Hirai, Masao Orihara & Koki Kitahara
Sting defeated Hiroshi Hase
IWGP Tag Team Championship: Hawk Warrior & Power Warrior (c) wrestled The Steiner Brothers to a double-countout
Tatsumi Fujinami defeated Takashi Ishikawa
Genichiro Tenryu defeated Riki Choshu
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• On This Day In Pro Wrestling History (January 4, 1992) – WCW/NJPW Supershow II
On this day in Pro Wrestling history on January 4, 1992, Ted Turner’s World Championship Wrestling and Antonio Inoki’s New Japan Pro-Wrestling co-promoted ‘WCW/New Japan Supershow II’ at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan.
In Japan the event was promoted under a different name, ‘Super Warriors in Tokyo Dome’.
Months later, WCW ended up airing the event on pay-per-view in the United States at some point in March 1992.
Here are the results:
Black Cat defeated Hiroyoshi Yamamoto
Osamu Kido & Kuniaki Kobayashi defeated Kengo Kimura & Kantaro Hoshino
Jushin Thunder Liger, Masashi Aoyagi & Akira Nogami defeated Hiro Saito, Super Strong Machine & Norio Honaga
The Enforcers defeated Michiyoshi Ohara & Shiro Koshinaka
Dusty Rhodes & Dustin Rhodes defeated Masa Saito & Kim Duk
Tony Halme defeated Scott Norton
Shinya Hashimoto defeated Bill Kazmaier
Big Van Vader wrestled El Gigante to a double-DQ
Antonio Inoki defeated Hiroshi Hase
WCW World Heavyweight Championship: Lex Luger (c) defeated Masahiro Chono
IWGP Heavyweight Title Vs. G18 Title: Riki Choshu (G18) defeated Tatsumi Fujinami (IWGP)
Sting & The Great Muta defeated The Steiner Brothers
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• Old School WWF Veteran Celebrates His Birthday
Old School WWF/WCW Veteran Jim Powers (Real name: James Manley) celebrates his birthday today.
Powers used to be the Tag Team Partner of Paul Roma in a team called “The Young Stallions” from 1987 till 1989, before becoming a singles wrestler, often used as a jobber to the stars, until leaving the World Wrestling Federation in 1994.
He then joined Ted Turner’s World Championship Wrestling in 1996, where he became a mid-carder again, managed by famous Old School manager Teddy Long, before he turned into an enhancement talent yet again and was let go by WCW due to a neck injury he had in 1998.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JIM POWERS!
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• Old School Wrestling Veteran Would Have Celebrated His Birthday
Today would have been the birthday of Old School WCW Veteran “Mortis” Chris Kanyon (Real name: Christopher Klucsarits).
Originally starting out as a WWF jobber in 1994, he soon became known as the evil Mortis in WCW, while being managed by James Vandenberg (Sinister Minister / Father James Mitchell) and feuded with Glacier & “The Cat” Ernest Miller.
Kanyon committed suicide on April 2, 2010.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY & REST IN PEACE
January 4, 1970 – April 2, 2010
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