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April 15th
On this day in history in ...
1983 - Roddy Piper defeated Greg Valentine to win the NWA United States Championship.
1994
- The first Super J Cup, a multi-promotional junior heavyweight tournament in
Japan, was held at Sumo Hall. The event would become one of the most
talked about events of the year, and became a huge hit amongst tape traders at
the time. Here are the results of the tournament:
First Round:
- Gedo defeated Dean Malenko.
- Super Delfin defeated Shinjiro Ohtani.
- Black Tiger (Eddie Guerrero) defeated TAKA Michinoku.
- El Samurai defeated Masayoshi Motegi.
- Ricky Fuji defeated Negro Casas.
- Jushin Liger defeated Hayabusa. This was the debut of the Hayabusa
character.
- The Great Sasuke and Wild Pegasus (Chris Benoit) were given byes into the
second round.
Second Round:
- Gedo defeated Super Delfin.
- Wild Pegasus defeated Black Tiger.
- Great Sasuke defeated El Samurai.
- Jushin Liger defeated Ricky Fuji.
Semifinals:
- Wild Pegasus defeated Gedo.
- Great Sasuke defeated Jushin Liger.
Finals:
- Wild Pegasus defeated Great Sasuke to win the Super J Cup.
2000
- WCW's last Spring Stampede PPV was held in Chicago, Illinois at the United
Center. The show was the first PPV after WCW's "restart" where
Vince Russo and Eric Bischoff had vacated all the championships and built the
company around the "New Blood vs. Millionaire's Club" storyline in
which all the veterans were positioned as babyfaces against the younger
wrestlers, who were heels. Here are the results from the show:
- Ric Flair & Lex Luger defeated Johnny The Bull, Big Vito, Ron Harris &
Don Harris to advance in the WCW Tag Title tournament.
- Radio host Mancow defeated Jimmy Hart.
- Scott Steiner defeated The Wall to advance in the U.S. Title tournament.
- Mike Awesome defeated Ernest Miller to advance in the U.S. Title tournament.
- Shane Douglas & Buff Bagwell defeated Stevie Ray & Big T to advance in
the WCW Tag Title tournament.
- Sting defeated Booker T to advance in the U.S. Title tournament.
- Vampiro defeated Billy Kidman to advance in the U.S. Title tournament.
- Terry Funk defeated Norman Smiley to win the vacant WCW Hardcore Title.
- Scott Steiner defeated Mike Awesome to advance in the U.S. Title tournament.
- Sting defeated Vampiro to advance in the U.S. Title tournament.
- Chris Candido defeated The Artist, Juventud Guerrera, Shannon Moore, Lash
Leroux and Crowbar to win the vacant WCW Cruiserweight Title.
- Shane Douglas & Buff Bagwell defeated Ric Flair & Lex Luger to win the
vacant WCW Tag Title.
- Scott Steiner defeated Sting to win the vacant U.S. Title.
- Jeff Jarrett defeated Diamond Dallas Page to win the vacant WCW World Title.
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