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Lucha Libre legend Karloff Lagarde past away sometime around 9 AM this morning at the age of 79. Karloff began his career in 1950 and worked into the early 80’s and had a tremendous career where he was a 4-time Mexican National Welterweight Champ, 3-time NWA Welterweight Champ, Mexican National Middleweight Champ, and ½ of the Mexican National Tag Champs with his partner Rene Guarjardo where they were one of the most dominant tag teams ...

PWF & NWA United National Heavyweight Double Title Match
Stan Hansen (PWF) vs. Gen'ichiro Tenryu (UN)
1988/03/09 - Yokohama

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This match took place during a process of unifying the three heavyweight titles in All Japan: NWA International, NWA United National, and PWF.

About a year after this match, all three titles were unified, and Jumbo Tsuruta became the first unified Triple Crown Heavyweight Champion.

The web site of Super Luchas magazine has reported that Antonio Peña passed away earlier today. Early reports indicate the death was due to a massive heart attack. Early reports list his age at 53, although other sources have his age at 58.

No other details are available, although he had been ill for some time and over the past few weeks it was largely rumored he was in bad shape. The promotion itself ...

vs. Fritz Von Erich
1966/12/03 Tokyo (Nippon Budokan)

vs. Bruno Sammartino
1967/03/07 Tokyo (Kuramae Kokugikan)

vs. Gene Kiniski
1967/08/14 Osaka Baseball Stadium

vs. Crusher Lisowski
1968/01/03 Tokyo (Kuramae Kokugikan = old Sumo Hall)

vs. Dick the Bruiser
1968/02/28 Tokyo Gym

vs. Bobo Brazil
1968/06/27 Tokyo (Kuramae Kokugikan)

vs. The Destroyer
1969/03/05 Tokyo (Kuramae Kokugikan)

vs. Dick the Bruiser & Crusher Lisowski
1969/08/13 Osaka Prefectural Gym

vs. Dory Funk Jr. & Terry Funk
1970/08/04 Tokyo Gym

vs. Johnny Valentine & Gene Kiniski
1970/12/01 Tokyo Gym

vs. Mil Mascaras/Spiros Arion
1971/03/02 Tokyo (Kuramae Kokugikan = old Sumo Hall)

vs. Abdullah the Butcher & Tiger Jeet Singh
1979/08/26 Tokyo (Nippon Budokan)
* This was the only match Baba and Inoki teamed since Inoki left JWA.

short documentary (in English)

vs. Helio Gracie - 1951

Rikidozan & Masahiko Kimura vs. Ben & "Iron" Mike Sharpe - the first card of JWA - 1954/02/19

vs. Masahiko Kimura - 1954/12/22

vs. Lou Thesz (NWA World Heavyweight Title Match) - 1957

Anybody know why the UWA World Welterweight Title is being promoted in Japan as the WWA World Light Heavyweight Title?

Both are seperate titles. Any title lineages I've seen have the title currently held by Tatsuhito Takaiwa tracing back to the title first held by Villano III in 1975 (the UWA World Welterweight Title) Are the title histories wrong, or are the Japanese (I think it's Zero-One who are promoting it) wrong?

alright, all i've been able to find out about these is that they were awarded to Gran Hamada & Perro Aguayo in July of '91. Did they beat a different team, or was there a tournament, or why did they get the titles? Also, when did the WWF-UWF split happen, and did these titles just vanish or were they carried out under a different name?

thanks in advance.

Wrestling star Jackie Pallo dies

Wrestler Jackie Pallo, one of wrestling's biggest stars in the 1960s, has died at the age of 80.
Pallo, who fought before the Big Daddy/Giant Haystacks era, died at his home in Ramsgate, Kent, on Saturday after battling with cancer.

The pony-tailed wrestler, whose nemesis in the ring was Irishman Mick McManus, was known by his fans as Mr TV.

Former commentator Reg Gutteridge - Pallo's cousin - described ...