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Edouard Carpentier passed away on 2010/10/30 at the age of 84.

http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/201 ... 09511.html

RIP.

Shouldn't the WCW Cruiserweight Championship have a separate page to the WWE Cruiserweight Championship? I noticed when WCW was defeated at the 2001 Survivor Series and became no more, the WCW Cruiserweight Title became a WWE Title, but you just kept the title history on the same page.

I am just learning about pro wrestling history which took place before where my personal recollections kick in (the Attitude era of WWF and the Monday Night Wars). I have been studying the history of the WWE Championship, and I see that Buddy Rogers was awarded the first WWWF Heavyweight belt due to some sort of dispute over (to my understanding) Rogers dropping the NWA World Heavyweight belt to Lou Thesz on Jan. 24, 1963. ...

A nice article.
http://www.presspubs.com/articles/2010/ ... 901173.txt

Jahno.

Kinji Shibuya, one of the pioneers of the "Japanese" heels, passed away on 2010/05/10.

http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/201 ... 80381.html

RIP....

I found this info that Libnan Ayoub, a historian in Australia, sent to another great historian Steve Yohe:

I have been working on a ongoing book project about the various Titles and the belts that the wrestlers wore.

I have found new information regarding the NWA World Title switch in New Zealand and Singapore. Here are the correct details:

March 20, 1984. Wellington, NZ (NOT MARCH 21)
Harley Race def Ric Flair, WON NWA TITLE ...

Katsuji Adachi, who is probably most known for his run in Calgary as Mr. Hito, passed away on 2010/04/21 at the age of 67 at a hospital in Osaka. He had been suffering diabetes for several years.

RIP...

Former NWA & AWA world champion Gene Kiniski passed away this morning at the age of 81.

He had been battling cancer for years and was hospitalized due to heart failure earlier this year.

RIP...

How come the Million Dollar Championship is not mentioned here? If Ted Dibiase just wore the belt and claimed to be the Million Dollar CHampion and never defended it what-so-ever, I would understand no mention, but the fact that he had defended it on a few occasions, and lost it to Virgil, then regained it again suggests that not only did the Championship exist, it has a history.

Your lineage for SmackDown's Tag Team Championship ends at the unification, where in truth it has never stopped.

http://www.wwe.com/inside/titlehistory/wwetag/