Hiro Matsuda Wins the NWA Junior Heavyweight Belt

Hiro Matsuda defeated NWA Junior Heavyweight champion Danny Hodge for the title belt in Tampa, Florida. Hodge had been injured and suffered from a knee infection in the weeks prior to the match, having held the belt for almost four years. The two met in a best out of three match that turned into a brutal, bloody battle. Matsuda played the heel and continued to attack Hodge’s injured knee. Much of the audience was calling for Matsuda to be disqualified, but instead he gained a pinfall in the third fall.