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This is a list of various things that took place in 1991.
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Significant events
- The syndicated AWA All-Star Wrestling ends production.
February
- 1 - The Main Event, the WWF's periodic Friday night prime time wrestling special on NBC, airs for the final time.
April
- 27 - The WWF's Saturday Night's Main Event airs for the final time and ends its original run on NBC after six years. It subsequently moves over to the FOX Network for a pair of specials in 1992 before being cancelled. It would return to NBC as a Saturday prime time special on March 18, 2006
May
- The American Wrestling Association holds its final event in Rochester, Minnesota
June
- 12 - Scott Steiner suffers a torn left bicep in an attack by Dick Slater and Dick Murdoch at Clash of the Champions XV in Knoxville, Tennessee
- 27 - Former WWF ringside physician Dr. George T. Zahorian is convicted of selling anabolic steroids in a trial in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and sentenced to three years in prison
July
- 16 - Vince McMahon announces a new mandatory testing policy for anabolic steroids as a part of the WWF's anti-drug program. The testing policy is subsequently criticized due to rarely being implemented by McMahon
August
- 7-11 - New Japan holds its first G1 Climax tournament, which is won by Masa Chono on August 11 in Tokyo, Japan
September
- 10 - Ric Flair makes his WWF debut in Cornwall, Ontario
October
- 23 - Ric Flair and Hulk Hogan face off for the first time in Dayton, Ohio; Flair wins by countout
December
- 6 - Dynamite Kid announces his retirement at the final card of the 1991 edition of the All-Japan World's Strongest Tag Team League in Budokan, Japan. Also, Terry Gordy and Steve Williams become the first team to win back-to-back World's Strongest Tag Team League tournaments
- 28 - Pacific Northwest Wrestling's TV program, Portland Wrestling, ends production after almost 39 continuous years as a weekly program due to the bankruptcy of its main sponsor. Portland Wrestling began airing on July 10, 1953 on Portland station KPTV, which was the show's home for most of its time on the air (except for a period from 1955 to 1967 when it aired on KOIN-TV in Portland). It aired live on Saturday nights for most of its run and was the highest-rated local TV show in Portland for many years. Subsequent to the show's demise, the syndicated WWF Superstars of Wrestling took over Portland Wrestling's former time slot [1]
Births
Deaths
June
- 30 - Duke Keomuka 70
August
- 25 - Vivian Vachon
October
- 31 - Gene Anderson (Heart attack)
November
- 10 - Dick the Bruiser 62 (ruptured blood vessel)
December
- 25 - Wilbur Snyder 62
Debuts
Unknown date
November
- 20 - Disco Inferno
Events
March
August
- 7-11 – New Japan G1 Climax
November
- 16-December 6 - All-Japan World's Strongest Tag Team League
Pay-Per-View events
January
- 19 - WWF Royal Rumble
February
- 24 - WCW WrestleWar
March
- 23 - WWF WrestleMania VII
May
- 19 - Fall Brawl 1991
July
August
- 26 - WWF SummerSlam - "A Match Made in Heaven, A Match Made in Hell"
October
November
- 27 - WWF Survivor Series
December
Title changes
January
- The NWA World Tag Team Championship, held at this point by Doom (Butch Reed and Ron Simmons), is renamed the WCW World Tag Team Championship
- 7 - Arn Anderson wins the NWA World Television Championship from Tom Zenk in Perry, Georgia. The title is renamed as the WCW World Television Championship shortly afterward
- 11 - Ric Flair defeats Sting for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship in East Rutherford, New Jersey. He is also considered the first WCW World Heavyweight Champion at this time.
- 19 - Sgt. Slaughter defeats The Ultimate Warrior for the WWF Heavyweight Championship at the Royal Rumble in Miami, Florida
February
- 18 - The Steiner Brothers (Rick and Scott Steiner) win the WCW World Tag Team Championship from the Fabulous Freebirds in Montgomery, Alabama (this was aired on tape delay on WCW Power Hour on March 9, following WrestleWar 1991)
- 24 - The Fabulous Freebirds win the WCW World Tag Team title from Doom at WrestleWar in Phoenix, Arizona. The Freebirds' title reign has the distinction of having a negative length of -6 days, as they lost the belts to the Steiners before winning them from Doom at this event (see above)
March
- 11 - Jerry Lawler wins the USWA Unified World Heavyweight Championship from Terry Funk in Memphis, Tennessee
- 21 - Tatsumi Fujinami defeats Ric Flair for the NWA World title in Tokyo, Japan (WCW does not recognize this title change until 1992)
- 24 - Hulk Hogan wins the WWF title from Sgt. Slaughter at WrestleMania VII in Los Angeles, California; The Nasty Boys (Brian Knobbs and Jerry Sags) wins the WWF Tag Team Championship from The Hart Foundation (Bret Hart and Jim Neidhart) at WrestleMania
May
- 19 - WCW World Champion Ric Flair regains the NWA World title from Tatsumi Fujinami in a title vs. title match at WCW SuperBrawl I in St. Petersburg, Florida; Bobby Eaton wins the WCW World TV title from Arn Anderson at SuperBrawl
June
- 3 - Steve Austin wins the WCW World TV title from Bobby Eaton in Birmingham, Alabama
July
- 2 - Ric Flair is stripped of the WCW World title when he is fired from WCW by then-president Jim Herd following a contract dispute
- 7 - The NWA Pacific Northwest Heavyweight Championship, last held by Steve Doll, is held up following a match against Ron Harris in Eugene, Oregon
- 14 - Lex Luger defeats Barry Windham for the vacant WCW World title at The Great American Bash 1991 in Baltimore, Maryland; Luger later vacates his WCW United States Heavyweight Championship with the World title win
- 18 - The WCW World Tag Team title is vacated after Scott Steiner suffers a bicep tear following an attack by Dick Murdoch and Dick Slater at Clash of the Champions on June 12
- July 29 - Awesome Kong (not the former TNA Knockout) wins the USWA title from Jerry Lawler in Memphis
August
- 12 - Jerry Lawler regains the USWA title from Awesome Kong in Memphis
- 17 - Billy Jack Haynes wins the vacant NWA Pacific Northwest title in a full-nelson challenge over Steve Doll in Portland, Oregon
- 25 - Sting wins the vacant WCW United States title in a tournament final over Steve Austin in Atlanta, Georgia
- 26 - Bret Hart defeats Curt Hennig to win the WWF Intercontinental Championship at SummerSlam in New York City; The Legion of Doom (Animal and Hawk) win the WWF Tag Team title from the Nasty Boys at SummerSlam; The Dragon Master wins the USWA title from Jerry Lawler in Memphis
September
- 2 - Jerry Lawler regains the USWA title from the Dragon Master in Memphis
- 5 - The Enforcers (Arn Anderson and Larry Zbyszko) win the vacant WCW World Tag Team title in a tournament final over Rick Steiner and Bill Kazmaier at Clash of the Champions XVI in Augusta, Georgia
- 8 - The NWA strips Ric Flair of the NWA World title after he signs with the World Wrestling Federation
- 14 - Steve Doll regains the NWA Pacific Northwest title from Billy Jack Haynes in Portland
- 28 - Rip Oliver wins the NWA Pacific Northwest title from Steve Doll in Portland
October
- 12 - Demolition Crush wins the NWA Pacific Northwest title from Rip Oliver in Portland. Oliver announces his retirement after the match as the result of a neck injury suffered when Crush put the full nelson on him en route to winning the title
November
- 19 - Dustin Rhodes and Rick Steamboat (subbing for an injured Barry Windham) win the WCW World Tag Team title from the Enforcers at Clash of the Champions XVII in Savannah, Georgia; Rick Rude wins the WCW United States title from Sting at Clash of the Champions
- 25 - Kamala wins the USWA title from Jerry Lawler in Memphis
- 27 - The Undertaker defeats Hulk Hogan for the WWF title at the Survivor Series in Detroit, Michigan
December
- 2 - Jerry Lawler regains the USWA title from Kamala in Memphis
- 3 - Hulk Hogan regains the WWF title from The Undertaker at This Tuesday In Texas in San Antonio, Texas
- 4 - Hulk Hogan is stripped of the WWF title due to controversy surrounding the previous two title changes. This was aired on WWF Superstars of Wrestling on the weekend of December 7
- 7 - The USWA title is declared held up following a match between champion Jerry Lawler and Kamala broadcast live on USWA Championship Wrestling on Memphis station WMC-TV
- 9 - Kamala regains the vacant USWA title by beating Jerry Lawler in Memphis
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