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Today in Puroresu History
2026/06/29 Mon
- 1968 - After the conflict within the Japan Women's Pro-wrestling Association, the Matsunaga Brothers start All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling with eleven female wrestlers and four midget wrestlers. Matsunaga Brothers and Jack Briton, a Detroit promoter, establish American Girls' Wrestling Association.
- 1971 - Great Kusatsu leaves for the US and vacates IWA World Tag Team Title.
- 1974 - Sandy Parker & Bettey Niccoli defeat Jumbo Miyamoto & Junko Sasaki in Isehara to win WWWA World Tag Team Title.
- 1980 - Strong Kobayashi & Haruka Eigen defeat Mighty Inoue & Isamu Teranishi in Tokyo to win the vacant IWA World Tag Team Title.
- 2000 - Gran Hamada & Ayako Hamada defeat Minoru Tanaka & Yumi Fukawa in 14-team P*MIX championship tournament. The Hamadas become the first mixed gender tag team champions in the world as well as the first parent-child tag team champions in Japan.
- 2007 - Antonio Inoki's new group, "Inoki Genome Federation", has its first card at Ryogoku Kokugikan.
- 2007 - Kurt Angle defeats Brock Lesnar for the third version of the IWGP Heavyweight Title belt on an IGF card in Tokyo without the authorization by New Japan.
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