1942
Columbus, Ohio:
- Ed "Strangler" Lewis defeated Orville Brown to win the Ohio version of the Midwest Wrestling Association World Heavyweight Title
Toronto, Ontario, Canada:
- John Katan defeated Earl McCready for the Toronto British Empire Heavyweight Title
1943
Kansas City, Kansas:
- Swedish Angel defeated Orville Brown to win the MWA World Heavyweight Title
1952
Sydney, Australia:
- Leo Jensen defeated Bonnie Muir for the vacant Australian Heavyweight Title
1953
Kansas City, Kansas:
- Central States Heavyweight Champion Lenny Montana beat Johnny Valentine by DQ (Valentine used a piledriver, which is barred in Kansas)
- Larry Hamilton beat Bobby Lane by DQ
- Dick Hutton defeated Maurice Roberre (Hutton was accompanied by Ed “Strangler” Lewis)
1959
Amarillo, Texas:
- Dory Funk, Sr. defeated Antoine Leone to win the Amarillo version of the NWA North American Heavyweight Title
1960
San Bernadino, California:
- Stan Holek and The Preacher defeated Sandor Szabo and Edouard Carpentier for the NWA International Television Tag Team Titles
1962
Memphis, Tennessee:
- Eric Pomeroy and Ray Andrews defeated The Medics for the NWA Southern Tag Team Titles
1963
- Ciclon Negro and Masked Terror defeated Wilbur Snyder and Dick the Bruiser to win the American Wrestling Alliance World Tag Team Titles
Dallas, Texas:
- Joe Blanchard defeated Billy White Wolf for the NWA Texas Heavyweight Title
1965
Lafayette, Louisiana:
- Bobby Fields won the NWA Louisiana Heavyweight Title by defeating Danny McShain
1966
Tokyo, Japan:
- Michiaki Yoshimura and Kintaro Ohki defeated Eddie Morea and Tarzan Zorro to win the vacant All Asia Tag Team Titles
1967
Ciudad Juarez, Mexico:
- El Goliath defeated Henry Pirousso for the Mexican National Heavyweight Title
1970
Osaka, Japan:
- Gene Kiniski defeated Giant Baba for the NWA International Heavyweight Title
1971
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma:
- Dr. X (Jim Osborne) defeated Ramon Torres for the NWA World Junior Heavyweight Title
1975
Kiryu, Japan:
- The Destroyer (Dick Beyer) defeated Abdullah the Butcher to win the Pacific Wrestling Federation United States Heavyweight Title
1976
- Chavo Guerrero, Sr. defeated Dr. Hiro Ota to win the NWA America Heavyweight Title
Ozark, Alabama:
- The Wrestling Pro defeated Ken Lucas for the NWA Gulf Coast Heavyweight Title
Dothan, Alabama:
- Rip Tyler won the NWA Alabama Heavyweight Title by defeating Dick Dunn
1977
New Brocton, Alabama:
- Billy Spears defeated Johnny Eagles for the NWA Alabama Heavyweight Title
Chicago, Illinois:
- Super Destroyer & Angelo Mosca beat Dick the Bruiser & the Crusher
- Verne Gagne beat AWA Champion Nick Bockwinkel (no title change, decision later reversed)
- Greg Gagne & Jim Brunzell & Jose Lothario beat Jimmy Valiant & Johnny Valiant & Roger Kirby
- Ivan Koloff beat Wilbur Snyder by countout
- Bobby Dumcum beat Steve Regal
- Rufus R Jones beat Blackjack Lanza
- Moose Cholak beat Chris Markoff
1981
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada:
- AWA Tag Team Champions Greg Gagne & Jim Brunzell no contest Adrian Adonis & Jesse Ventura
- Jerry Blackwell beat Billy Robinson
- AWA Champion Nick Bockwinkel beat Sheik Adnan
- Ken Patera beat Buck Zumhofe
- Bobby Duncum drew Tito Santana
1982
St. Louis, Missouri:
- Dick the Bruiser and Butch Reed defeated NWA Champion Ric Flair and Crusher Blackwell
- Kerry Von Erich defeated Hercules Hernandez
- Ivan Koloff draw Ken Patera
- Bulldog Bob Brown defeated Dewey Robertson
- Cowboy Bob Orton defeated Art Crews
- Crusher Ayala and Roger Kirby defeated Manny Fernandez and Mike George
- Buzz Tyler defeated Jerry Brown via DQ
Ponce, Puerto Rico:
- Mad Dog Lafaib defeated Invader I to win the WWC North American Heavyweight Title
1983
Hampton, Virginia:
- Dick Slater defeated Rufus R. Jones to win the NWA Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Title
Dothan, Alabama:
- Bob Armstrong won a tournament for the vacant NWA Southeastern Heavyweight Title
1984
New Orleans, Louisiana:
- Ted DiBiase and Hercules Hernandez defeated The Rock 'n' Roll Express (Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson) to win the Mid-South Tag Team Titles
Memphis, Tennessee:
- Tim Ashley beat The Invader
- Jimmy Valiant beat Plowboy Frazier
- Tim Ashley & Steve Constance beat The Dirty White Boys via DQ
- Mike Sharpe pinned Tojo Yamamoto
- National Tag Champs Bill & Scott Irwin beat Randy Savage & Lanny Poffo
- The Interns beat The Fabulous Ones to win the Southern Tag Team Titles
- Rick Rude beat King Kong Bundy in a no DQ loser leaves town match (Jerry Lawler was the referee)
- Southern Champ Jerry Lawler beat Bob Roop via DQ
1985
- Fuerza Guerrera defeated El Dandy for the Mexican National Welterweight Title
1986
Raleigh, North Carolina:
- Denny Brown defeated Hector Guerrero
- Tim Horner defeated Bill Dundee
- Nelson Royal defeated Shaska Whatley
- Brad Armstrong defeated the Barbarian
- Dutch Mantell fought Ivan Koloff to a no contest
- Dusty Rhodes & NWA US Champion Nikita Koloff defeated NWA World Champion Ric Flair & NWA TV Champion Tully Blanchard in a chain and bullrope match
- Big Bubba won a Bunkhouse Stampede match
1988
Houston, Texas:
- Tug Taylor pinned Tony Torres
- Mike Rotunda pinned Ron Simmons
- Dennis Condrey & Randy Rose defeated Stan Lane & Bobby Eaton via disqualification
- Rick Steiner defeated Steve Williams via disqualification
- NWA World Champion Ric Flair & NWA US Champion Barry Windham defeated Eddie Gilbert & Bam Bam Bigelow
- Sting & Lex Luger fought NWA Tag Team Champions the Road Warriors to a double count-out
1989
Chicago, Illinois:
- Johnny Ace defeated Jack Victory
- Brian Pillman defeated Mike Rotunda
- Tom Zenk defeated Bill Irwin
- Sid Vicious defeated NWA World Tag Team Champion Scott Steiner
- WCW US Champion Lex Luger defeated Steve Williams
- Sting defeated NWA TV Champion the Great Muta via disqualification
- The Road Warriors defeated Michael Hayes & Jimmy Garvin
- NWA World Champion Ric Flair defeated Terry Funk in a steel cage match
- Sangre Chicana defeated Perry Aguayo to win the Universal Wrestling Association-promoted WWF World Light Heavyweight Title
1990
Coos Bay, Oregon:
- Steve Doll and Scotty the Body (Raven) defeated The Wrecking Crew (The Grappler and The Equalizer) for the NWA Pacific Northwest Tag Team Titles
1991
WWF This Tuesday in Texas: San Antonio, Texas:
- The Legion of Doom (Hawk and Animal) defeated The Beverly Brothers (Beau Beverly and Blake Beverly) (with The Genius) to retain the WWF Tag Team Championship
- Ric Flair defeated Roddy Piper
- Bret Hart defeated Skinner to retain the Intercontinental Title
- Randy Savage defeated Jake Roberts
- Hulk Hogan pinned The Undertaker to win the WWF World Title (title held up and decided at Royal Rumble)
Ft. Pierce, Florida:
- WCW Light Heavyweight Champion Brian Pillman defeated Mike Graham
- Todd Champion & Firebreaker Chip defeated Tracy Smothers & Steve Armstrong
- Madusa defeated Bambi
- WCW Tag Team Champion Dustin Rhodes pinned Oz
- Badstreet defeated Terry Davis
- Tom Zenk pinned John Peterson
- Michael Hayes & Jimmy Garvin defeated Big Van Vader & the Diamond Studd
- Van Hammer (sub for Sting) fought Cactus Jack to a double disqualification
1992
Fayetteville, North Carolina:
- Shanghai Pierce defeated Brad Armstrong
- Van Hammer defeated Tony Atlas
- Erik Watts defeated WCW US Champion Rick Rude via referee's decision after Rude failed to beat Watts in the 15-minute time-limit
- Dustin Rhodes fought Barry Windham to a double disqualification
- Big Van Vader defeated WCW/NWA Tag Team Champion Ricky Steamboat
- WCW World Champion Ron Simmons defeated the Barbarian
Funabashi, Japan:
- Jesse Barr and Ryuma Go won the Championship Wrestling USA International Tag Team Titles by defeating The Bruise Brothers (Ron and Don Harris)
1993
Paintsville, Kentucky:
- Killer Kyle pinned Anthony Michaels
- SMW U.S. Junior Heavyweight Champ Chris Candido pinned Bobby Blaze
- The Rock-n-Roll Express NC Moondogs Rex & Spot
- Ron & Don Harris beat The Heavenly Bodies (Pritchard & Del Rey)
- SMW Champ Brian Lee beat The Dirty White Boy via DQ
- Mitsuharu Misawa and Kenta Kobashi won the annual Real World Tag League to win the AJPW World Tag Team Championship
Tokyo, Japan:
- Shinjiro Otani & Yuji Nagata defeated Satoshi Kojima & Tatsuhito Takaiwa
- WCW Tag Team Champions the Nasty Boys defeated Akira Nogami & Takayuki Iizuka
- Mike Enos, IWGP Tag Team Champions Scott Norton & Hercules defeated the Great Muta, Masahiro Chono, & Hiroshi Hase
- Super Strong Machine & Hiromichi Fuyuki defeated Kuniaki Kobayashi & Tatsutoshi Goto
- Super Strong Machine & Hiromichi Fuyuki defeated Hiro Saito & Norio Honaga
- The Great Kabuki & Shiro Koshinaka defeated Black Cat & El Samurai
- Kengo Kimura defeated Jushin Liger
- Tatsumi Fujinami defeated Masashi Aoyagi
- Shinya Hashimoto defeated Michiyoshi Ohara
1994
Barbourville, Kentucky:
- Tracy Smothers pinned The Nightmare (Ted Allen)
- Cactus Jack & Brian Lee beat Chris Candido & Boo Bradley
- The Dirty White Boy & Ron Wright beat Bruiser Bedlam & Jim Cornette
- SMW Tag Champs The Gangstas beat The Rock-n-Roll Express in a ghetto street fight match
1995
Wilmington, Delaware:
- Ronnie Roberts defeated Boogie Woogie Brown to win the ECWA Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Title
1998
Denton, Maryland:
- King Kong Bundy defeated Romeo Valentino for the Maryland Championship Wrestling Heavyweight Title
2000
ECW Massacre on 34th Street: New York City, New York:
- Steve Corino defeated Jerry Lynn and Justin Credible to retain the ECW World Heavyweight Title
- Rhino pinned Spike Dudley to retain the ECW World Television Title
2006
ECW December to Dismember: Augusta, Georgia:
- Stevie Richards defeated René Duprée
- The Hardy Boyz (Matt and Jeff) defeated MNM (Joey Mercury and Johnny Nitro) (with Melina)
- Balls Mahoney defeated Matt Striker in a Striker's Rules match
- Elijah Burke and Sylvester Terkay defeated The F.B.I. (Little Guido and Tony Mamaluke) (with Trinity)
- Daivari (with The Great Khali) defeated Tommy Dreamer
- Ariel and Kevin Thorn defeated Kelly Kelly and Mike Knox
- Bobby Lashley won the ECW Title in an Extreme Elimination Chamber match over Big Show, Rob Van Dam, CM Punk, Test and Hardcore Holly
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