On this day in 1963 Bruno Sammartino defeated The REAL Nature BoyBuddy Rogers for the WWE Championship at Madison Square Garden.
Rogers would go into retirement for 15 years before returning to wrestling as a manager and hosting his own segement.
Meanwhile Sammartino would be a major star for the next 20 years before eventually moving to the broadcast booth and then into obscurity when he couldn't face up and admit he was juiced up when wrestlers started getting busted for drugs in the 80s.