Greg "The Hammer" Valentine almost snuck into becoming the WWE Champion after this airplane spin on Bob Backlund knocked out the official.
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Backlund pinned Valentine, but "The Hammer" jumped up like he won. The official raised Valentine's hand in victory and gave him the title!
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The confusion was later cleared up and the title returned to Backlund. The champion won a rematch, asserting himself as the true champion.
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The Rock 'n' Roll Express tried to re-capture the NWA World Tag Team Titles from "Ravishing" Rick Rude and Manny Fernandez for several months.
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They regained the titles, but in a most unique fashion.
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When Rude left for WWE, the NWA aired a previous encounter between the two teams where Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson won, then introduced them as the new champions!
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Dusty Rhodes wanted to teach Ric Flair all about "hard times" at Starrcade 1985.
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After the original official was knocked out, a second came in and counted Flair's shoulders to the mat, giving Rhodes the NWA World Title.
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The decision was reversed several weeks later, and Rhodes was forced to return the championship to Flair.
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Antonio Inoki won the WWE Title from Bob Backlund after unwanted interference. Inoki, in a show of sportsmanship, refused the title.
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The Hart Foundation were set to defend their World Tag Team Titles against The Rockers in October 1990.
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However, during the second fall of a 2-out-of-3 Falls Match, the top rope broke.
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The rope was reattached before the third fall.
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The Rockers won the deciding fall and the titles, but WWE President Jack Tunney returned them to The Hart Foundation shortly after.
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Pat Patterson unified the North American and South American Championships in 1979, becoming the first Intercontinental Title.
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Little information exists about the tournament he won to become the champion.
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There are just as few details available about the tournament Buddy Rogers won to become the inaugural WWE Champion.
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We do know Rogers defeated Antonino Rocca in the final of the 1963 tournament in Rio de Janiero.
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Sick of Chris Jericho's verbal taunts, WWE Champion Triple H challenged Y2J to a match.
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Jericho agreed, as long as the title was on the line. He also hired The APA to watch his back during the bout.
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Though Triple H escaped the Walls of Jericho, he did not weather the Lionsault.
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Jericho had seemingly captured the WWE Title. However, Triple H forced the official to reverse the decision and return the title to him.
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The Glamour Girls, Leilani Kai & Judy Martin, won the WWE Women's Tag Team Titles at a Live Event in Egypt. Few records, if any, exist of the event.