1989
From Pro Wrestling
This is a list of various things that took place in 1989.
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Significant events
October
- October 7 – Invader III suffers two broken ribs and punctured lungs (causing him to cough up blood) when Manny Fernandez shoots on III and delivers three stiff top-rope knee drops in their match at the WWC 16th Anniversary show in Bayamon, Puerto Rico. Fernandez claimed this incident as payback for the murder of his friend, Bruiser Brody, during a locker room dispute between Brody and III's tag team partner (and Brody's accused killer), Jose Gonzales (who competed in the WWC as Invader I), on July 17, 1988 [1]
Births
Deaths
February
- February 18 – Mildred Burke 73
March
- March 7 – Paul Boesch 76 (Natural causes)
September
- September 7 – Edouardo Perez 61
December
- December 7 – Haystacks Calhoun 55 (Diabetes)
Debuts
September
- September 19 – Yoshihiro Tajiri
December
- December 1 – Hikari Fukuoka
Events
February
- February 3 – WWF The Main Event II (Televised event)
- February 15 – NWA Clash Of The Champions #5 - "St. Valentine's Day Massacre" (Televised event)
April
- April 2 – NWA Clash Of The Champions #6 - "Ragin' Cajun" (Televised event)
June
- June 14 – NWA Clash Of The Champions #7 - "Guts And Glory" (Televised event)
- June 23 – AWA War In The Windy City
September
- September 12 – NWA Clash Of The Champions #8 - "Fall Brawl" (Televised event)
October
- October 1 – AWA World Tag Team Title Tournament (Televised event)
- October 7 – WWC Anniversary Show
- October 10 – WWF on Sky One (Televised event)
- October 14 – WWF King Of The Ring
November
- November 15 – NWA Clash Of The Champions #9 - "New York Knock Out" (Televised event)
December
- December 12 – FMW Battle Creation
Pay-Per-View events
January
- January 15 – WWF Royal Rumble
February
- February 20 – NWA Chi-Town Rumble
April
May
July
August
- August 28 – WWF SummerSlam
October
- October 28 – NWA Halloween Havoc
November
- November 23 – WWF Survivor Series
December
- December 12 – WWF No Holds Barred - The Movie / The Match
- December 13 – NWA Starrcade - "Future Shock / Night Of The Iron Men"
Title changes
January
- January 20 – The AWA World Heavyweight Championship, last held by Jerry Lawler, is vacated when Lawler's Continental Wrestling Association splits with the AWA
February
- February 7 – Larry Zbyszko wins the vacant AWA World title in a battle royal in St. Paul, Minnesota, last eliminating Tom Zenk
- February 20 – Rick Steamboat wins the NWA World Heavyweight Championship from Ric Flair at the Chi-Town Rumble PPV in Chicago, Illinois; Lex Luger wins the NWA United States Heavyweight Championship from Barry Windham at Chi-Town Rumble; Mike Rotunda wins the NWA World Television Championship from Rick Steiner at Chi-Town Rumble
March
- March 25 – The Olympians (Ken Patera and Brad Rheingans) win the AWA World Tag Team Championship from Badd Company (Paul Diamond and Pat Tanaka) in Rochester, Minnesota
- March 31 – Sting wins the NWA World TV title from Mike Rotunda in Atlanta, Georgia
May
- May 7 – Ric Flair regains the NWA World title from Rick Steamboat at the WrestleWar PPV in Nashville, Tennessee; Michael Hayes wins the NWA United States title from Lex Luger at WrestleWar; the Varsity Club (Mike Rotunda and Steve Williams) are stripped of the NWA World Tag Team Championship at WrestleWar due to misconduct during their title defence against The Road Warriors
- May 22 – Lex Luger regains the NWA United States title from Michael Hayes in Bluefield, West Virginia
June
- June 14 – The Fabulous Freebirds (Michael Hayes and Jimmy Garvin) win the vacant NWA World Tag Team title in a tournament final over the Midnight Express (Bobby Eaton and Stan Lane) at Clash of the Champions VII in Fort Bragg, North Carolina
July
- July 23 – The NWA World TV title is vacated following a controversial ending to the Sting-Great Muta title match at The Great American Bash in Baltimore, Maryland
September
- September 3 – The Great Muta wins the vacant NWA World TV title in a rematch over Sting in Atlanta
- September 18 – The AWA World Tag Team title is vacated due to Ken Patera suffering an injury
October
- The AWA International Television Championship, last held by Greg Gagne, is vacated and abandoned when Gagne retires from active competition
- October 1 – The Destruction Crew (Wayne Bloom and Mike Enos) win the vacant AWA World Tag Team title in a tournament final over Paul Diamond and Greg Gagne in Rochester
November
- November 1 – Rick and Scott Steiner win the NWA World Tag Team title from the Fabulous Freebirds in Atlanta (this was at a World Championship Wrestling taping which aired on November 18)
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