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Today in Puroresu History
2026/10/08 Thu
- 1970 - Rusher Kimura has the first steel cage match in Japan against Dr. Death (Moose Morrowski). After this match, TBS (Tokyo Broadcasting System) bans the cage matches from television.
- 1973 - Masked Lee & Juanita de Hoyos defeat Miyoko Hoshino & Peggy Kuroda in Miyakonojo to win WWWA World Tag Team Title.
- 1981 - Former International Wrestling Enterprise wrestlers, Rusher Kimura, Animal Hamaguchi, and Isamu Teranishi, join New Japan on a card billed as New Japan vs International Wrestling Enterprise.
- 1982 - Riki Choshu, who came back from Mexico after winning the UWA World Heavyweight title, turns on Fujinami during a 6men tag match. After the match, a former jobber-to-the-star Choshu says to Fujinami, I'm not a dog that lets you bite myself(Japanese expr
- 2001 - New Japan has memorial card for 50th year of puroresu at Tokyo Dome. In main event, Yuji Nagata (New Japan) & Jun Akiyama (NOAH) defeat Mutoh (New Japan) & Hiroshi Hase (All Japan). Earlier on the card, Fujinami has his 30th anniversary match, teaming with Bob Backlund to defeat Dory Funk Jr. & Terry Funk.
- 2005 - NWA World Junior Heavyweight Champion Black Tiger (4th) defeats Tiger Mask (4th) in Tokyo to win IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title.
- 2005 - In the first 3-way match every for IWGP Heavyweight Title, Brock Lesnar wins the match against the champion Kazuyuki Fujita and Masahiro Chono by pinning Chono.
- 2007 - Hiroshi Tanahashi defeats Yuji Nagata to win the IWGP Heavyweight Title in Tokyo.
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