This Day in Pro Wrestling History

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

- Midnight Rockers & Ray Stevens beat Buddy Wolff (sub Buddy Rose) & Doug Somers & Kevin Kelly

Kevin Kelly, as in the dude that Rock stayed calling a hermaphrodite?

 

[Super Leather]

Kevin Kelly, as in the dude that Rock stayed calling a hermaphrodite?

No, this Kevin Kelly was nicknamed "Mr. Magnificent" in the AWA before moving on to the WWF as Nailz.

 

[BruiserBrody]

1915 - Stu Hart is born.

1980 Detroit, Michigan:
- The Sheik defeated Mighty Igor for the Detroit NWA United States Heavyweight Title

1982
West Palm Beach, Florida:
Jimmy Garvin defeated Mr. Wrestling II for the NWA Florida Heavyweight Title

1985 Denver, Colorado:
- Jerry Blackwell & The Crusher & Sgt. Slaughter beat Masked Superstar & King Tonga & Sheik Adnan in a steel cage match
- AWA Champion Rick Martel beat Jim Garvin
- Greg Gagne went to a time limit draw with Nick Bockwinkel

Houston, Texas:
- Ted DiBiase and Steve Williams defeated The Rock 'n' Roll Express (Robert Gibson and Ricky Morton) to win the Mid-South Tag Team Titles

1987 WCCW Von Erich Memorial Parade of Champions; Irving, Texas:
Matt Borne and Steve Casey defeated Black Bart and Jack Victory
Cousin Junior defeated The Grappler
Steve Doll defeated Killer Tim Brooks
Spike Huber and Red River Jack defeated Abdullah the Butcher and Eli the Eliminator
Red River Jack defeated Gary Hart by countout
Mil Máscaras defeated Al Madril
Skip Young defeated Brian Adias in a lumberjack match
WCWA World Heavyweight Champion Kevin Von Erich fought Nord the Barbarian to a double-countout to retain the title
Steve Simpson and The Fantastics (Bobby Fulton and Tommy Rogers) defeated Eric Embry and The Rock 'n' Roll RPMs (Mike
Davis and Tommy Lane) in a scaffold match
Bruiser Brody defeated Jeep Swenson
Candi Divine won a six-woman mudpit match

I'm pretty sure Brody booked this, hence his buds Huber and Killer Brooks being here.
Mike VE had killed himself only a few weeks earlier, so they added his name to the show next to David.
Classy finish as nothing says memorial like a mud match.
Nord refused to put Kevin over at a show celebrating his brother's lives.

1991 Dallas, Texas:
- Eric Embry defeated Jeff Jarrett to win the USWA Heavyweight Title

Charlottesville, Virginia:
WCW Tag Team Champion Scott Steiner defeated WCW World Champion Ric Flair via disqualification when WCW TV Champion Arn Anderson interfered
WCW Tag Team Champions Rick & Scott Steiner defeated WCW World Champion Ric Flair & WCW TV Champion Arn Anderson

1992 Chicago, Illinois:
- Nikita Koloff defeated Big Van Vader (with Harley Race) by disqualification
- Dustin Rhodes and WCW World Television Champion Barry Windham defeated Steve Austin and Larry Zbyszko
- WCW United States Heavyweight Champion Rick Rude defeated Ricky Steamboat by disqualification to retain the title
- The Steiner Brothers (Rick and Scott) defeated WCW World Tag Team Champions Arn Anderson and Bobby Eaton in a steel cage match to win the titles

- Col. Mustafa's final WWF TV match until WM 17 airs on Wrestling Challenge. The episode also features the Repo Man hanging the British Bulldog at the end of their match.

1993 Memphis, Tennessee:
Papa Shango defeated Jerry Lawler to win the USWA Unified World Heavyweight Title

NJPW Wrestling Dontaku; Fukuoka, Japan:
- Brutus Beefcake defeated Masa Saito
- Tiger Mask (Koji Kanemoto) defeated IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion Jushin Liger to win the title
- Scott Norton fought Sting to a double-disqualification
- Yoshiaki Fujiwara defeated Hiro Hase by submission
- IWGP Tag Team Champions The Hellraisers (Hawk Warrior (Road Warrior Hawk) and Power Warrior (Kensuke Sasaki)) defeated Masahiro Chono and Shinya Hashimoto to retain the title
- WWF Champion Hulk Hogan (with Jimmy Hart) defeated IWGP Heavyweight Champion The Great Muta (neither title was at stake)
- Tatsumi Fujinami and Antonio Inoki defeated Riki Choshu and Genichiro Tenryu

Interesting to see Norton and Sting here as Norton would refuse to put Sting over a few weeks later at Slamboree and killed off his first WCW run.

WWF @ Hartford, CT - Civic Center - May 3, 1993 (2,200)
Bam Bam Bigelow defeated Kamala
Crush fought Doink the Clown (Borne) to a double count-out when Crush was distracted by a second Doink (Keirn)
Bret Hart pinned Razor Ramon with a backslide
WWF Tag Team Champions Ted Dibiase & IRS defeated Rick & Scott Steiner when Dibiase pinned Scott after IRS hit him with the briefcase (the Steiners' first WWF loss)
Tatanka pinned Lex Luger by lifting his shoulder out of a back suplex and cover from Luger
Bob Backlund defeated WWF IC Champion Shawn Michaels via count-out
Yokozuna pinned Jim Duggan

Pretty decent card for 1993 WWF standards.

1995 NJPW Wrestling Dontaku: Fukuoka, Japan:
- Wild Pegasus (Chris Benoit) defeated 2 Cold Scorpio
- Sabu defeated IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion Koji Kanemoto to win the title
- The Steiner Brothers (Rick and Scott) defeated Scott Norton and Road Warrior Hawk
- Terry Funk and Shiro Koshinaka defeated Masahiro Chono and Hiromichi Fuyuki
- Ric Flair defeated IWGP Tag Team Champion Hiroshi Hase by submission
- Antonio Inoki and Koji Kitao defeated Riki Choshu and Genichiro Tenryu
- Kensuke Sasaki defeated Hiroshi Tenzan
- IWGP Tag Team Champion Keiji Mutoh defeated IWGP Heavyweight Champion Shinya Hashimoto to win the title

1996 - Ray Stevens passes away due to heart failure.

1997 NJPW Strong Style Evolution; Osaka, Japan:
- Koji Kanemoto, Hanzo Nakajima, Shinjiro Otani, Mens Teioh and Dick Togo defeated Gran Hamada, Norio Honoga, El Samurai, The Great Sasuke and Super Delfin in a best-of-three falls match, 2-0
- nWo Sting and WCW Cruiserweight Champion Syxx defeated Takashi Iizuka and Tadao Yasuda
- Vicious and Delicious (Buff Bagwell and Scott Norton) defeated The Giant and Lex Luger
- Masahiro Chono and WCW World Tag Team Champions The Outsiders (Scott Hall and Kevin Nash) defeated Keiji Mutoh and The Steiner Brothers (Rick and Scott)
- Antonio Inoki and Tiger King defeated Yoshiaki Fujiwara and J-Crown Champion Jushin Liger
- Satoshi Kojima and Manabu Nakanishi defeated IWGP Tag Team Champions Riki Choshu and Kensuke Sasaki to win the title
- IWGP Heavyweight Champion Shinya Hashimoto defeated Naoya Ogawa by submission to retain the title

I kind of want to see if Kevin Nash had his working boots on for the Japan audience.

1998 Savannah, Georgia:
- Booker T defeated Chris Benoit for the WCW World Television Title

ECW Wrestlepalooza 98: Marietta, Georgia:
- The Blue Meanie & Super Nova defeated Tracey Smothers & Little Guido
- Justin Credible defeated Mikey Whipwreck with That's Incredible (tombstone piledriver)
- ECW World Tag Team Champions Chris Candido & Lance Storm defeated Balls Mahoney & Axl Rotten
- Bam Bam Bigelow defeated New Jack
- Tommy Dreamer & The Sandman defeated D-Von & Bubba Ray Dudley
- ECW World Television Champion Rob Van Dam vs. Sabu ended in a thirty minute draw
- ECW World Champion Shane Douglas defeated Al Snow

2006 Louisville, Kentucky:
- CM Punk defeated Brent Albright in a strap match to win the OVW Heavyweight Title

Fukuoka, Japan:
- Koji Kanemoto defeated Tiger Mask for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title

2014 NJPW Dontaku; Fukuoka, Japan:
- Jyushin Thunder Liger, Hiroshi Tanahashi, Tetsuya Naito and Togi Makabe defeated Bullet Club (Bad Luck Fale, Doc Gallows, Karl Anderson and Tama Tonga)
- Gracie Ichizoku (Daniel Gracie and Rolles Gracie) defeated Kazushi Sakuraba and Shinsuke Nakamura Ishu kakutōgi
- A.J. Styles (with Karl Anderson, Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson) defeated Kazuchika Okada (with Gedo )to win the IWGP Heavyweight Championship

 

[snuffbox]

Some of these obscure house show cards, including some AWA ones, look real good.

And I've always thought Wrestlepalooza 98 is a bit underrated.

 

[BruiserBrody]

Some of these obscure house show cards, including some AWA ones, look real good.

I think until the bottom fell out in the middle of 86 that the AWA was putting on much deeper cards than the WWF where even on big house show cards you had to expect to see 3-4 low end matches, a tag match, then 1-3 "pushed" feud matches on top to draw the house. Of course WWF fans had been conditioned to be star gazers, so they were more willing to sit through trash compared to AWA and JCP wrasslin' fans.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1389218191927357445

 

[Mickey Massuco]

classic angle, and the way Jake described it like it was a life/death scenario but he did it anyway in the 2005 Jake dvd that he hated is must-see tv. still keeping that kayfabe alive.

 

[Laz]

And I've always thought Wrestlepalooza 98 is a bit underrated.

The thing about even the bad ECW PPVs is that they were still super fun to watch as a whole show. And Wrestlepalooza '98 is definitely one of the bad ones.

 

[BruiserBrody]

1934 - Mr. Fuji was born.

1974 Minneapolis, Minnesota:
AWA Tag Team Champions Nick Bockwinkel & Ray Stevens went to a no contest with Billy Robinson & Geoff Portz
Baron Von Raschke beat Ric Flair
Greg Gagne beat Larry Hennig

1980 Atlanta, Georgia:
NWA World Champion Harley Race defeated Georgia Heavyweight Champion Austin Idol
Mr. Wrestling #2 defeated NWA World Champion Harley Race in a non-title lights out match

Minneapolis, Minnesota:
- AWA Champion Nick Bockwinkel beat Mad Dog Vachon via DQ

1981 Madison Square Garden:
Pat Patterson defeated Sgt. Slaughter in an alley fight

It was made public that Andre the Giant had suffered a broken ankle at the hands of Killer Khan. Upon Andre's recovery, he and Khan would have a series of grudge matches.


1983 Akron, Ohio:
Tony Atlas defeated NWA Champion Ric Flair in a non-title match

1986- 3rd Von Erich Memorial
Parade of Champions
May 4, 1986 in Irving, TX
Texas Stadium drawing 24,121 ($193,108)

1. Sunshine pinned Missy Hyatt in a "mudpit" match.
2. The Great Kabuki pinned Mark Youngblood.
3. The Great Kabuki pinned Jerry Allen.
4. Steve Simpson pinned The Great Kabuki.
5. WCCW Texas Champ Brian Adias pinned Steve Regal (13:00).
6. Chris Adams & Brickhouse Brown beat John Tatum & The Grappler (12:00) when Adams pinned Grappler.
7. The Missing Link & Iceman King Parsons beat One Man Gang & Skandar Akbar when Parsons pinned Akbar.
8. Bruiser Brody pinned Terry Gordy in a "barbed wire" match.
9. WCCW Champ Rick Rude beat Bruiser Brody (7:30) via DQ.
10. Steve Simpson, Kerry & Lance Von Erich beat The Freebirds (Gordy, Hayes, & Roberts) in a "lumberjacks with straps elimination" match to win the WCCW Six Man Tag Title. Lance was the only survivor.

1991 Raleigh, North Carolina
Big Van Vader defeated Stan Hansen via disqualification
Sting & El Gigante defeated Barry Windham & WCW TV Champion Arn Anderson

WWF @ Worcester, MA - Memorial Auditorium - May 4, 1993 (4,000; sell out)
Tatanka defeated Doink the Clown (Borne) via disqualification when a second Doink interfered; after the bout, Tatanka was double-teamed until Crush made the save
Randy Savage defeated Giant Gonzalez (w/ Harvey Wippleman) via disqualification when Gonzalez refused to break a chokehold; Savage eventually retaliated with three double axehandles off the top (1993 Year in Review)
The Undertaker (w/ Paul Bearer) pinned Bam Bam Bigelow at 5:42 with the chokeslam after Tatanka prevented Bigelow from leaving ringside (The Undertaker: His Gravest Matches, The Undertaker 94)
Bret Hart defeated Yokozuna (w/ Mr. Fuji) via disqualification
All American Wrestling - 5/16/93: Crush defeated Blake Beverly via submission with the head vice at 2:17
WWF Mania - 5/29/93: Mr. Hughes (w/ Harvey Wippleman) pinned Owen Hart with the sidewalk slam at 4:46
KOTR Qualifying Match: Crush fought WWF IC Champion Shawn Michaels to a double count-out at 5:25 as Crush prepared to throw Michaels back inside the ring as the two were battling on the floor; moments later, Crush hit a tilt-a-whirl backbreaker inside the ring and then applied the head vice; Michaels' entrance was not shown in order to cover up for the fact he lost the title on Monday Night Raw 5 days before this match aired
Bret Hart defeated Papa Shango via submission with the Sharpshooter at around the 7-minute mark after Shango missed a legdrop
Lex Luger pinned Jason Knight by placing one foot on him after hitting the running forearm at 2:32; prior to the match, Luger posed in front of the mirror in the ring


1994 – NJPW Wrestling Dontaku was held at the Fukuoka Dome in Fukuoka, Japan. On the show Shinya Hashimoto defeated Tatsumi Fujinami to win the IWGP Heavyweight Championship and, in his last ever match Rick Rude defeated Sting to win the WCW International World Heavyweight Championship. As a result of an injury suffered in this match, Rude never wrestled again other than a small role in an ECW six-man tag team match in 1997.

1998 – Fit Finlay defeated Booker T on an episode of WCW Monday Nitro to win the WCW World Television Title, the fifth time in five days the title changed hands.

2002 WWF Insurrextion: London, England:
- Too Cool (Grand Master Sexay and Scotty 2 Hotty) defeated The Radicalz (Perry Saturn and Dean Malenko)
- Kane (with Paul Bearer) defeated Bull Buchanan
- Road Dogg (with Tori) defeated Bradshaw
- The Kat (with Mae Young) defeated Terri Runnels in an Arm Wrestling match
- Showkishi and Rikishi defeated The Dudley Boyz (Bubba Ray Dudley and D-Von Dudley)
- Kurt Angle defeated Chris Benoit
- The British Bulldog defeated Crash Holly in a Hardcore match to win the WWF Hardcore Championship
- The Hardy Boyz (Matt Hardy and Jeff Hardy) defeated Edge and Christian via disqualification for the WWF Tag Team Championship
- Eddie Guerrero (with Chyna) defeated Chris Jericho to retain the WWF European Championship
- The Rock defeated Shane McMahon (with Vince McMahon) and Triple H (with Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley) in a Triple Threat match to retain the WWF Championship
WWF Insurrextion was held at the Wembley Arena in London, England, in font of 10,500 fans. This was the last PPV held under the WWF name before re-branding as WWE. It was also following this show that the infamous ‘Plane Ride From Hell’ took place when the superstars were flying back to America, resulting in both Scott Hall and Curt Hennig being fired from the company. On the show:

2014 WWE Extreme Rules: East Rutherford, New Jersey
The Shield (Dean Ambrose, Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns) defeated Evolution (Triple H, Randy Orton and Batista)
Bray Wyatt defeated John Cena in a steel cage match. During the match Cena attempted to escape through the door but the arena lights went off. When they came back on a demonic child appeared singing “He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands”, distracting Cena. Wyatt then hit Sister Abigail on Cena and escaped through the door to win the match.

 

[King Kamala]

You forgot the most important moment of Extreme Rules 2014, @BruiserBrody

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1389672470601510914

 

[strummer]

Oh man that brief 2-3 period in early 2014 when everyone thought WWE had turned the corner and was #actuallygood

Then June-December happened

 

[King Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1389920311160807425

 

[BruiserBrody]

1905 – A bout took place in New York City between the world Greco-Roman Wrestling champion George Hackenschmidt and the American Heavyweight Champion Tom Jenkins. Hackenschmidt won the bout 2-0 to be declared the World Catch-as-Catch-Can Heavyweight champion. This is thought to be the first world wrestling championship recognized in the USA.

1939 - The smartest wrestling mind who happens to have been raised with problematic race views.....Bill Watts was born!

1961 Houston, Texas:
- Dory Dixon and Rito Romero defeated The Corsicans (Jean and Joe) to win the Texas NWA World Tag Team Titles

1967 Milwaukee, Wisconsin:
- AWA Tag Team Champions Larry Hennig & Harley Race ddq Lou Thesz & Crusher in the 3rd fall
- Johnny Valentine beat Reggie Parks
- Danny Hodge beat Bob Boyer
- Johnny Powers beat Rene Goulet

This is a very strange card. I'm not accustomed to seeing Valentine or Johnny Powers in AWA results offhand and Verne and Thesz were outright bitter at one another over their shared 1950s fame and Thesz not wanting to put the smaller Gagne over. I'm going to try and dig more into this tomorrow.

1970

Milwaukee, Wisconsin:
- AWA Tag Team Champions Mad Dog Vachon & Butcher Vachon beat Verne Gagne & the Crusher
- Blackjack Lanza ddq Wilbur Snyder
- Angelo Poffo beat Jack Pesek
- Billy Red Lyons beat Joe Scarpello
- Edouard Carpentier beat Larry Hennig
- Pepper Gomez beat Lars Anderson

1973 Chicago, Illinois:
- AWA Champion Verne Gagne beat Jimmy Valiant in 2 out of 3 falls
- Superstar Billy Graham & Ernie Ladd beat Bill Watts & Wahoo McDaniel in 2 out of 3 falls
- Bob Ellis no contest Baron Von Raschke
- Billy Robinson drew Wilbur Snyder
- Rene Goulet beat Bull Bullinski
- Ric Flair beat Kenny Dillinger

Woo! Mercy Daddy! getting that Chi-town shine! A HOSS tag match, Snyder/Robinson in grappling goodness, my favorite AWA name Bull Bullinski, wrestler by night, trucker by day, and young Ric Flair.

1976 Raleigh, North Carolina:
- Dino Bravo and Mr. Wrestling defeated Gene and Ole Andersno to win the NWA World Tag Team Titles

Davenport, Iowa:
- Verne Gagne, Greg Gagne and Jim Brunzell beat Nick Bockwinkel, Blackjack Lanza and Bobby Duncum
- Larry Hennig beat Baron Von Raschke
- Mad Dog Vachon beat Chris Taylor by DQ

I'd have to double check, but somewhere around this time was when Taylor vs Mad Dog made ABC's Wide World of Sports to capitalize off Taylor's Olympic past as he faced off with an insane person who happened to compete in the '48 Olympics. Taylor wrestled for Iowa IIRC, so this makes a lot of sense. I'd wager ABC may have taped in Chicago or something instead though.


1977 Toronto, Ontario, Canada:
- The Sheik retained the U.S. title beating Tiger Jeet Singh on a disqualification
- Ken Patera beat Gorilla Monsoon

1978 San Juan, Puerto Rico:
- Bruno Sammartino defeated Gorilla Monsoon for the WWC North American Heavyweight Title

1980 Memphis, Tennessee:
- Paul Ellering & Sonny King beat Jackie Fargo & Rocky Johnson
- Southern Tag Team Champions Dennis Condrey & David Shults beat Jimmy Valiant & Steve Regal
- AWA Champion Nick Bockwinkel beat Bill Dundee by DQ

1982 Lawton, Oklahoma:
- King Kong Bundy defeated Kerry Von Erich for the World Class American Heavyweight Title

Jackson, Mississippi:
- The Junkyard Dog and Mr. Olympia (Jerry Stubbs) defeated The Wild Samoans (Afa and Sika) to win the Mid-South Tag Team Titles

1983 Lexington, Kentucky:
- Jerry Lawler beat AWA Champion Nick Bockwinkel in a Non Title Match
- Fabulous Ones beat The Moondogs
- Rock & Roll Express beat Jim Cornette & The Galaxians
- Bill Dundee beat Dutch Mantel

1984 – Wahoo McDaniel and Mark Youngblood won the NWA World Tag Team Championship in a bout with Jerry and Jack Brisco in Greensboro, North Carolina.

1988 - In a birth that was widely covered in the Apter mags, Brooke Bollea came into this world!

1985 – The second ‘Von Erich Memorial Parade Of Champions’ took place under the World Class Championship Wrestling banner at Texas Stadium in Irving, Texas in front of 26,153 fans. In the main event, NWA World Heavyweight Champion Ric Flair and Kevin Von Erich fought to a double count-out in a bout with the title on the line. The only new champions on the night saw The Fantastics (Bobby Fulton and Tommy Rogers) defeat The Midnight Express (Dennis Condrey and Boby Eaton in a two-ring no disqualification match for the vacant WCCW American Tag Team Championship.

http://culturecrossfire.com/wrestling/wrasslin-back-in-the-day-wccw-parade-of-champions-1985/

1988 - Canek defeats Perro Aguayo for the UWA World Heavyweight Title

1990 -

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/992847464276381698

1991 - Raleigh, North Carolina:
- Big Van Vader defeated Stan Hansen via disqualification
- Sting & El Gigante defeated Barry Windham & WCW TV Champion Arn Anderson

2001 – WWE presented a UK-only PPV, Insurrextion, from Earls Court in London, England. The main event saw The Undertaker defeat ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin and Triple H in a triple threat match.

2002 – The infamous ‘Plane Ride From Hell’ occurs which sees a number of WWE superstars cause chaos mid-air during a flight back from a European tour. As a direct result of the incident, Scott Hall and Curt Hennig are both fired.

2002 – Longtime WCW and NWA official Randy Anderson passed away at his home in Rome, Georgia as a result of testicular cancer at the age of 42.

2009 – Ric Flair makes his Ring Of Honour debut as the ‘ROH Ambassador’.

 

[BruiserBrody]

I just realized I under played that Briscos '84 title change. The Briscos were doing a back door deal with Vince over the Georgia stock while still working near the top for JCP, they won the titles in Spring and while champions it came out that they had sold their GCW stock to Vince and he now owned the TBS time slot and not the NWA.
It took several months of lawsuits until "Black Saturday" could go down in July though.
So yeah, the Briscos were NWA champs for several weeks while also being on the shit list from many on the NWA side.
WWF bound soon.

Maybe Wahoo was picked to be in the match because he was buddies with the Briscos over their shared Native American pasts? I can't recall if the Briscos ever said as much in the past. IIRC Mark Youngblood was actually Hispanic (Ricky Romero's son).

 

[Epic Springs]

Hard to think the Plane Ride from Hell was almost 20 years ago. I'm wondering how we're going to feel about a number of our favorites once the Dark Side of the Ring episode on the subject airs in a few weeks.

 

[Valeyard]

If we're smart probably about the same, to be honest.

 

[King Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1390214756909293573

 

[BruiserBrody]

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1921 New York City, New York:
Stanislaus Zbyszko defeated Ed "Strangler" Lewis to win the World Heavyweight Title

1953 Montreal, Quebec, Canada:
Killer Kowalski defeated Verne Gagne to win the Montreal World Heavyweight Title

San Francisco, California:
Leo Nomellini and Enrique Torres defeated Ben and Mike Sharpe for the San Francisco NWA World Tag Team Titles

1964- Knobbs was born~!

1967 St. Paul, Minnesota:
AWA Champion Verne Gagne wrestled to a no contest with Danny Hodge
The Crusher & Lou Thesz wrestled to a no contest with AWA Tag Team Champions Larry Hennig & Harley Race

1977 St. Louis, Missouri:
Missouri State Champion Jack Brisco beat Ivan Koloff
Dick the Bruiser went to a no contest with WWWF Champion Superstar Billy Graham
AWA Tag Team Champions Blackjack Lanza & Bobby Duncum beat Pat O'Connor & Rocky Johnson
Billy Robinson beat Bulldog Bob Brown via DQ
Greg Gagne & Jim Brunzell beat Lord Alfred Hayes & Bull Bullinski

1979 Minneapolis, Minnesota:
Non Title Cage match: Verne Gagne & Mad Dog Vachon beat AWA Tag Team Champions Pat Patterson & Ray Stevens

Wrestling with my Remote: WCCW Parade of Champions ’84 – CXF | Culture Crossfire | culturecrossfire.com

1984 Atlanta, Georgia:
King Kong Bundy and The Masked Superstar defeated The Road Warriors (Animal and Hawk) to win the NWA National Tag Team Titles

Green Bay, Wisconsin:
Crusher and Baron Von Raschke defeated The Sheiks (Jerry Blackwell and Ken Patera) to win the AWA World Tag Team Titles
Nick Bockwinkel beat AWA Champion Jumbo Tsuruta by DQ
Princess Victoria & Velvet McIntyre (sub Despina Montagus) beat Wendi Richter & Donna Christentello

Wild to see Wendi Richter just working heel as an interchangeable lady only weeks before the WWF makes her a mainstream star. (Results show Watts was having her work heel at the same point Vince was preparing the media blitz a month later)
A quick look shows this AWA show is an oddball as Wendi is working the WWF before and after this event, even facing Moolah by the end of the month.

1988 Calgary, Alberta, Canada:
Makhan Singh defeated Owen Hart to win the Stampede North American Heavyweight Title

1991- WWF taped Andre the Giant being injured at the hands of Earthquake.

1993 Terre Haute, Indiana:
Robbie V defeated Rip Rogers (RVD)
Chris Benoit defeated Steve Regal (Babyface newcomer Regal!)
Maxx Payne defeated Rip Morgan (RIP MORGAN in 1993??!?!)
Sting, Ricky Steamboat, & 2 Cold Scorpio defeated Rick Rude, WCW/NWA Tag Team Champions Steve Austin & Brian Pillman in an elimination match
WCW US Champion Dustin Rhodes defeated NWA World Champion Barry Windham via disqualification

UWFI: Tokyo, Japan:
- Bad News Allen defeated Yoshihiro Takayama
- Kiyoshi Tamura defeated Naoki Sano
- WCW World Champion Big Van Vader defeated Tatsuo Nakano
- Gary Albright defeated Dennis Koslowski (Dennis made a bunch of AWA on ESPN interview appearances as Verne pushed he and his brothers NCAA careers.)
- Nobuhiko Takada defeated Dan Severn

1996 Dean Malenko battles Justin Liger on Nitro!

2000 – WWF Insurrextion was held at Earls Court in London, England. This event was a UK-only PPV broadcast. On the show, The British Bulldog defeated Crash Holly to win the WWF Hardcore Championship. In the main event, The Rock retained the WWF Championship in a triple threat match against Shane McMahon and Triple H.

 

[BruiserBrody]

1957 - Hercules is born from the loins of Zeus himself with an earthly mother.

1955 San Francisco, California:
Lord James Blears and Gene Kiniski defeated Ben and Mike Sharpe for the San Francisco NWA World Tag Team Title

1965 - Owen Hart is born.

1970 - Milwaukee, Wisconsin:
AWA Tag Team Champions Mad Dog Vachon & Butcher Vachon beat Verne Gagne & the Crusher
Blackjack Lanza ddq Wilbur Snyder
Angelo Poffo beat Jack Pesek
Billy Red Lyons beat Joe Scarpello
Edouard Carpentier beat Larry Hennig
Pepper Gomez beat Lars Anderson

1975 Nashville, Tennessee:
George Gulas and Jerry Jarrett defeated Don and Ron Wright for the NWA Tennessee Tag Team Titles

1977 - Milwaukee, Wisconsin:
AWA Champion Nick Bockwinkel beat Ray Stevens
Pedro Morales beat Lord Alfred Hayes forfeit
Greg Gagne & Jim Brunzell drew Billy Francis & Bob Backlund
Billy Robinson beat Blackjack Lanza

1984 Fort Worth, Texas:
NWA World champion Kerry Von Erich beat Terry Gordy

Montreal, Ontario, Canada:
Dino Bravo & Rick Martel beat Abdullah the Butcher & Jerry Blackwell
AWA Champion Jumbo Tsuruta beat Nick Bockwinkel via DQ

1985 - Tampa, Florida
- Kerry Von Erich defeated NWA World Champion Ric Flair via disqualification

1986 Wheeling, West Virginia:
Sam Houston defeated Al Snow
Jimmy Valiant defeated Shaska Whatley via disqualification
Ron Garvin defeated NWA National Heavyweight Champion Tully Blanchard via disqualification
Nikita Koloff defeated Magnum TA in a Russian chain match

Rhonda, North Carolina:
The Rock N' Roll Express defeated NWA World Tag Team champions The Midnight Express in a non-title match

1989 – The National Wrestling Alliance presented ‘WrestleWar ’89: Music City Showdown’ from the Nashville Municipal Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee. The highest profile match on the card saw Ric Flair win the NWA World Heavyweight Championship from Ricky Steamboat in the third and finale match in their legendary 1989 trilogy. Famously, the three matches took the top three spots in that year’s Wrestling Observer ‘Match Of The Year’ award. This particular bout finished second. After the match, Terry Funk attacked Flair and shockingly drove him through a table with a piledriver. Funk, along with Lou Thesz and Pat O’Connor had been seated at ringside as judges to determine a winner in the event the match went to a one hour time limit draw. This attack kayfabe sidelined Flair for two months and set up the historic Flair/Funk series. Also on the show, Michael Hayes defeated Lex Luger to win the NWA United States Championship.
The Great Muta (with Gary Hart) defeated Doug Gilbert (with Eddie Gilbert)
- Butch Reed defeated Ranger Ross
- Dick Murdoch defeated Bob Orton Jr. (with Gary Hart) in a Bullrope match
- Dynamic Dudes (Shane Douglas and Johnny Ace) defeated Samoan Swat Team (Samu and Fatu) (with Paul E. Dangerously)
- Sting defeated Iron Sheik (with Rip Morgan) to retain the NWA World Television Championship
- The Road Warriors (Hawk and Animal) (with Paul Ellering) defeated Varsity Club (Mike Rotunda and Steve Williams) (with Kevin Sullivan) by disqualification in a match for the NWA World Tag Team Championship with Nikita Koloff as the special guest referee
Eddie Gilbert and Rick Steiner (with Missy Hyatt) defeated Varsity Club (Kevin Sullivan and Dan Spivey)to retain the NWA United States Tag Team Championship

1992

Wichita, Kansas:
Ron Simmons pinned Cactus Jack
WCW U.S. Tag Team Champions Greg Valentine & Terry Taylor defeated Tom Zenk & Marcus Alexander Bagwell
Ricky Steamboat pinned Steve Austin
Nikita Koloff (substituting for WCW World Champion Sting) & the Great Muta defeated Big Van Vader & WCW U.S. Champion Rick Rude via disqualification
WCW World Tag Team Champions Rick & Scott Steiner defeated Arn Anderson & Bobby Eaton

2000 – WCW Slamboree took place from the Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Missouri. The main event saw WCW Champion David Arquette defend his title in a triple threat, triple cage match against Diamond Dallas Page and Jeff Jarrett. Double J won the match and the title when Arquette unexpectedly turned on his ally Page and let Jarrett defeat him. After the match, Mike Awesome threw Chris Kanyon from the triple height cage and through the stage. This stunt was considered to be in hugely bad taste, taking place in the same arena in which Owen Hart fell from the ceiling to his death, almost a year to the day from the incident.
Chris Candido (with Tammy Lynn Stych) defeated The Artist (with Paisley) to retain the WCW Cruiserweight Championship
- Terry Funk defeated Norman Smiley and Ralphus Handicap Hardcore match for the WCW Hardcore Championship
- Shawn Stasiak defeated Curt Hennig
- Scott Steiner (with Midajah and Shakira) defeated Captain Rection to retain the WCW United States Heavyweight Championship
- Mike Awesome fought Chris Kanyon to a no contest
- The Total Package defeated Buff Bagwell
- Shane Douglas defeated Ric Flair
- Sting defeated Vampiro
- Hulk Hogan (with Horace Hogan) defeated Billy Kidman (with Torrie Wilson) (Eric Bischoff as special guest referee)

2002 – Scott Hall was released from WWE after a pattern of unprofessional behaviour culminating on an incident on a flight back from the UK that was dubbed ‘The Plane Ride From Hell’ due to the misbehaviour of various members of the roster.

2005 – Ring Of Honor held its first event in New York City with ‘Manhattan Mayhem’ taking place at the New Yorker hotel. In the main event, The Rottweilers (Homicide and Low Ki) defeated Samoa Joe and Jay Lethal. Earlier on the show, Joe had defeated Lethal to win the ROH Pure Championship. Austin Aries also defeated Alex Shelley to retain the ROH World Championship.

2007 – On an episode of Raw from State College, Pennsylvania, Edge defeated Mr. Kennedy in just 10 seconds to win Kennedy’s Money In The Bank briefcase. This was done because both Kennedy and World Heavyweight Champion The Undertaker suffered muscle tears in the same week that were predicted to result in long layoffs. The decision was made to therefore have Edge take the MITB case so he could take the title from ‘Taker which he did the following night at the SmackDown tapings. As it transpired, Kennedy’s injury was much less serious than first diagnosed and he returned to action less than a month later.

 

[BruiserBrody]

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[King Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1390791595444903940

Why did WCW think any of this was a good idea?

 

[BruiserBrody]

1974 Hamburg, Pennsylvania:
- Jimmy & Johnny Valiant defeated Dean Ho & Tony Garea for the WWWF Tag Team Titles

1982 Milwaukee, Wisconsin:
- AWA Tag Team Champions Greg Gagne & Jim Brunzell beat Jerry Blackwell & Sheik Adnan by DQ
- Handicap Match: Hulk Hogan & Buck Zumhofe beat Nick Bockwinkel & Ken Patera & Bobby Heenan
- Baron Von Raschke beat Bobby Duncum

1984 Muskogee, Oklahoma:
- The Great Kabuki fought Kamala to a draw
- Kevin Von Erich defeated Terry Gordy
- NWA World Champion Kerry Von Erich defeated Ric Flair in a non-title match

Raleigh, North Carolina:
- Jimmy Valiant defeated Tully Blanchard via disqualification
- Ivan Koloff & Don Kernolde defeated NWA Tag Team Champions Wahoo McDaniel & Mark Youngblood to win the titles

Columbia, South Carolina:
- Wahoo McDaniel defeated Ernie Ladd
- Ricky Steamboat defeated Dick Slater via disqualification

1985 San Francisco, California:
- Sgt. Slaughter & Larry Hennig & Curt Hennig beat Road Warriors & Paul Ellering in a Steel Cage match
- In a Steel Cage Match, Jerry Blackwell beat Sheik Adnan El Kassey

1988 – The fifth and final ‘Von Erich Memorial Parade of Champions‘ event was held by World Class Championship Wrestling at Texas Stadium in Irving, Texas. The main event saw Kerry Von Erich defeat Iceman Parsons to win the WCWA World Heavyweight Championship

1991 Birmingham, Alabama:
- Sting & El Gigante defeated Stan Hansen & Dan Spivey via disqualification
- WCW Tag Team Champions Rick & Scott Steiner defeated WCW World Champion Ric Flair & Barry Windham

1992 St. Joseph, Missouri:
- Big Josh pinned Richard Morton
- Van Hammer pinned JT Southern
- The Junkyard Dog pinned Mr. Hughes
- Ron Simmons pinned Cactus Jack
- Nikita Koloff (subsituting for WCW World Champion Sting) & the Great Muta defeated Big Van Vader & WCW U.S. Champion Rick Rude via disqualification
- WCW US Tag Team Champions Greg Valentine & Terry Taylor defeated Tom Zenk & Marcus Alexander Bagwell
- Ricky Steamboat pinned Steve Austin
- WCW World Tag Team Champions Rick & Scott Steiner defeated Arn Anderson & Bobby Eaton
(There's no reason WCW shouldn't have been drawing with solid cards like this.)

2000 – In a match on Raw is War, refereed by Triple H, Chris Benoit defeated Chris Jericho by submission to win the WWF Intercontinental Championship.

2002 – J Sports Entertainment (Owned by Jerry and Jeff Jarrett) announce the launch of their new NWA affiliate that would be known as TNA: Total Non-Stop Action Wrestling. The press release confirms that the promotion will launch with a unique weekly PPV model on June 19th 2002.

2002 – WWE announces the release of Mr. Perfect (Curt Hennig) as a result of the incidents that took place on a recent flight back from Europe, dubbed by the media as ‘The Plane Ride From Hell’.

2007 – Edge cashed in his newly won Money In The Bank briefcase to claim the World Heavyweight Title from The Undertaker. it was Edge’s second successful cash-in of the MITB case after first doing so in January 2006. He had won this opportunity with a victory over Mr. Kennedy on Raw earlier that week. This cash-in came in the aftermath of a huge SmackDown main event in which ‘Taker went to a draw with Batista in a cage match and was then viciously attacked by Mark Henry. These actions were designed to write The Deadman off TV due to an injury that would keep him out of action for a number of months. ( I loved this angle at the time!)

 

[BruiserBrody]

1967 Little Rock, Arkansas:
- Jack Brisco and Gorgeous George, Jr. defeated The Assassins to win the Tri-State NWA United States Tag Team Title

1971 – Wrestling legend Tatsumi Fujinami makes his debut at the age of 17, wrestling for the Japanese Wrestling Association.

1973 Nashville, Tennessee:
- Jerry Lawler and Jim White defeated Jackie Fargo and Jerry Jarrett for the Mid-America NWA Southern Tag Team Title

Rockford, Illinois:
- Ric Flair went to a time limit draw with Greg Gagne

1975 Tokyo, Japan:
- PWF Heavyweight Champion Giant Baba and WWWF World Heavyweight Champion Bruno Sammartino wrestled to a no contest

Atlanta, Georgia:
- Bob Armstrong and Robert Fuller defeated NWA Georgia Tag Team Champions Assassin #2 and Toru Tanaka (with Rock Hunter) to win the title

1980 Denver, Colorado:
- AWA Champion Nick Bockwinkel beat Mad Dog Vachon
- AWA Tag Team Champions Verne Gagne & Mad Dog Vachon beat Adrian Adonis & Jesse Ventura

1983 Madison IN
WWA tag team title Spike Huber/Steve Regal (c) W/Leroy Redbone/Bobby Colt
2/3 falls Abdullah the Great W/JR Hogg
Jerry Valiant W/Bold Eagle
Steve Cooper D Zoltan the Great

1984 Miami, Florida:
- Mike Graham and Mike Rotundo defeated Chavo and Hector Guerrero in a best-of-three falls match
- Blackjack Mulligan and Barry Windham defeated NWA Florida United States Tag Team Champions and NWA Florida Southern Heavyweight Champion Ron Bass and NWA Florida Brass Knuckles Champion Black Bart
- Dusty Rhodes defeated The Purple Haze in 14 seconds in a loser leaves town match

1987 St. Petersburg, Florida:
- The Road Warriors fought NWA World Tag Team Champions Rick Rude & Manny Fernandez (w/ Paul Jones) to a double disqualification
- Dusty Rhodes defeated NWA World Champion Ric Flair via disqualification

Philly
Hulk Hogan over Harley Race

1988 Memphis, Tennessee:
- Jerry Lawler defeated AWA World Heavyweight Champion Curt Hennig to win the title

1992 WCW Worldwide:
Nintendo Top Ten Challenge Tournament, Quarter Final
Ricky Steamboat defeated Cactus Jack

1993 WWF Wrestling Challenge:

King of the Ring, Qualifying Jim Duggan defeated Papa Shango (4:39 minutes) SMW Volunteer Slam II: Knoxville, Tennessee: - Robert Gibson defeated The Tazmaniac - Killer Kyle defeated Robert Fuller by disqualification - SMW Television Champion Brian Lee defeated SMW Tag Team Champion Stan Lane - Kevin Sullivan defeated Jimmy Golden - SMW Tag Team Champion Tom Prichard defeated Ricky Morton - SMW Heavyweight Champion Tracy Smothers defeated The Dirty White Boy in a "coward waves the flag" match to retain the title - Robert Fuller, Jimmy Golden, SMW Television Champion Brian Lee and The Rock 'n' Roll Express (Robert Gibson and Ricky Morton) defeated SMW Tag Team Champions The Heavenly Bodies (Stan Lane and Tom Prichard), Killer Kyle, Kevin Sullivan and The Tazmaniac in a steel cage match

1994 WWF RAW
King of the Ring, Qualifying
Razor Ramon defeated Kwang

WWF @ Osaka, Japan - Castle Hall - May 9, 1994 (4,000; announced at 7,120)
The 1-2-3 Kid pinned WWF Tag Team Champion Fatu at 10:12
WWF World Champion Bret Hart & Randy Savage defeated Owen Hart & Adam Bomb at 13:35 when Owen submitted to Bret's Sharpshooter
The Undertaker pinned Jinsei Shinzaki at 7:22
WWF Women's Champion Alundra Blayze pinned Bull Nakano with the German suplex at 15:10
Genichiro Tenryu fought Yokozuna to a double count-out at 14:20
The Undertaker won an 18-man Royal Rumble match by eliminating Bam Bam Bigelow at 46:15; order of entry: Rick Martel (sub. for Shawn Michaels) (0:00); Bob Backlund (0:00); Jinsei Shinzaki (2:24); Adam Bomb (4:45); the 1-2-3 Kid (6:23); Masashi Aoyagi; Tatanka; Billy Gunn; Nobukazu Hirai; Bart Gunn; Owen Hart; Bigelow; Randy Savage; Samu; Taker; Fatu; Bret Hart; Doink the Clown

1999 WCW Slamboree: St. Louis, Missouri:
- Raven and Saturn defeated Chris Benoit & Dean Malenko (with Arn Anderson) and WCW World Tag Team Champions Billy Kidman & Rey Mysterio in a three-way match to win the title
- Konnan pinned Stevie Ray (with Horace Hogan and Vincent)
- Bam Bam Bigelow pinned Brian Knobbs in a hardcore match
- Rick Steiner pinned WCW World Television Champion Booker T after a diving bulldog to win the title
- Gorgeous George (with Madusa, Miss Madness and Randy Savage) pinned Charles Robinson (with Asya and Ric Flair)
- WCW United States Heavyweight Champion Scott Steiner defeated Buff Bagwell
- Roddy Piper defeated Ric Flair (with Arn Anderson and Asya) by disqualification
- Sting fought Goldberg to a no-contest
- Kevin Nash pinned WCW World Heavyweight Champion Diamond Dallas Page to win the title

 

[BruiserBrody]

Happy Birthday to William Regal (1968) Max Moon/Kato/Hard Rock/Venom/Paul Diamond (1961) and Tito Santana (1953) ARIBA~!

1946 Houston, Texas:
- Buddy Rogers defeated Lou Thesz to win the NWA Texas Heavyweight Title

1968 Atlanta, Georgia:
- The Big O (Johnny Valentine under a mask) defeated Mr. Wrestling to win the NWA Georgia Heavyweight Title

1969 Minneapolis, Minnesota:
- The Crusher & Bill Watts beat Mad Dog Vachon & Butcher Vachon
- Dr X beat Pampero Firpo

1979 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada:
- Mad Dog Vachon beat AWA Champion Nick Bockwinkel by DQ
- AWA Tag Team Champions Pat Patterson & Ray Stevens beat Greg Gagne & Jim Brunzell
- Jesse Ventura beat Billy Robinson by DQ

1980 Chicago, Illinois:
- AWA Champion Nick Bockwinkel beat Dick The Bruiser COR
- Crusher beat Bobby Heenan
- Ernie Ladd & Jerry Valiant beat Moose Cholak & Crusher
- Art Thomas beat Chris Markoff
(A TON of old guys, even by AWA standards!)

Greensboro, North Carolina:
- Rick Steamboat & Jay Youngblood defeated Ray Stevens & Greg Valentine for the NWA World Tag Team Title

1981 St. Paul, Minnesota:
- AWA World Champion Verne Gagne defeated Nick Bockwinkel (After the match, Verne Gagne announced he was retiring as AWA World Heavyweight Champion. Verne vacated the title and it would later be awarded to number one contender Bockwinkel)

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1982 Greenville, North Carolina:
- Jack Brisco defeated Roddy Piper to win the Mid Atlantic Heavyweight Title

1984 Salt Lake City, Utah:
- Greg Gagne beat AWA Champion Jumbo Tsuruta by DQ
- The Crusher beat Jerry Blackwell
- Fabulous Ones beat Jake Milliman & Jesse Ventura
- Curt Hennig drew Larry Zbyszko

1985 – The first ever episode of Saturday Night’s Main Event is taped at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, New York. The most high profile match on the card saw Hulk Hogan take a disqualification win over Bob Orton with Hogan’s WWF Championship on the line.
Barry Windham, Mike Rotundo & Ricky Steamboat defeated The Iron Sheik, Nikolai Volkoff & George "The Animal" Steele
- WWF Women's Champion Wendi Richter defeated Fabulous Moolah
- Junkyard Dog defeated Pete Dougherty

Salt Lake City, Utah
- Sgt. Slaughter & Larry Hennig & Curt Hennig beat Road Warriors & Paul Ellering
- Cage match: Jerry Blackwell beat Sheik Adnan

1991 Cincinnati, Ohio:
- WCW Tag Team Champion Scott Steiner defefated WCW World Champion Ric Flair via disqualification


1992 Atlanta, Georgia:
- WCW US Tag Team Champion Greg Valentine fought WCW Light Heavyweight Champion Brian Pillman to a 10-minute time-limit draw in a non-title match
- WCW US Champion Rick Rude pinned Ricky Steamboat at the 20-minute mark in a No DQ match
- Ron Simmons & the Junkyard Dog fought Cactus Jack & Abdullah the Butcher to a double disqualification
- Johnny B. Badd pinned Scotty Flamingo
- Nikita Koloff (w/ WCW World Champion Sting) (sub. for WCW World Champion Sting) pinned Big Van Vader
- WCW TV Champion Barry Windham, Dustin Rhodes, & the Great Muta defeated Steve Austin, Arn Anderson, & Bobby Eaton

1993 RAW
King of the Ring, Qualifying Bam Bam Bigelow defeated Typhoon (5:08 minutes)
Mr. Hughes defeated Cannonball Kid
Lumberjack Match - WWF Intercontinental Title Match Shawn Michaels (c) defeated Jim Duggan by disqualification (18 minutes)

1997 WCW Sat Night:

1999 – Monday Night Raw took place in Orlando, Florida. With an 8.1 Neilsen rating in the USA, it became the most watched episode of Raw in its home country in history. It is a record unlikely to be broken. It a star-studded main event, The Rock, ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin and Vince McMahon defeated the Corporate Ministry team of Shane McMahon, The Undertaker and Triple H. Also on the card, Debra won the Women’s Championship in curious circumstances. She was set for an Evening Gown match with champion Sable. However, the champion replaced herself in the match with Nicole Bass who quickly defeated the challenger. Commissioner Shawn Michaels then came to the ring to announce that the match was actually subject to a reversal of the usual rules for that match type and as the woman to be stripped first, Debra was the winner of the match and the new champion. This also marked Sable’s last appearance in the company until 2003.

(720pHD): WCW Thunder 05/10/00 - Miss Elizabeth vs. Rhonda Singh

Vince Russo forces Miss Elizabeth into wrestling tonight as she goes face to face with Rhonda Singh (Bertha Faye) in singles action. Lex Luger also makes his...

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[King Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1392131128740388871

@The Valeyard @Laz

 

[BruiserBrody]

1963 Omaha, Nebraska:
- Fritz & Waldo Von Erich beat Verne Gagne & Don Leo Jonathan

1968 Minneapolis, Minnesota:
- Larry Hennig & Harley Race beat Verne Gagne & Bill Watts

1974
NWA Georgia Heavyweight Title Match
Mr. Wrestling #2 defeated Bill Watts (c) - TITLE CHANGE!!!

1976 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:
The Executioners (Killer Kowalski and Big John Studd under masks) defeated Louis Cerdan and Tony Parisi for the WWWF World Tag Team Titles

1979 Omaha, Nebraska:
- Verne Gagne & Mad Dog Vachon beat Nick Bockwinkel & Bobby Duncum
- Greg Gagne beat Pat Patterson

1980 Milwaukee, Wisconsin:
Crusher beat AWA Champion Nick Bockwinkel DQ
Dino Bravo beat Jerry Blackwell

Charlotte, North Carolina:
- The Iron Sheik defeated Jim Brunzell for the NWA Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Title

1981 Fort Worth, Texas:
Ernie Ladd defeated Kerry Von Erich to win the World Class American Heavyweight Title

1984 St. Louis, Missouri:
- Harley Race & Stan Hansen (sub Jerry Blackwell) beat Wahoo McDaniel & Barry Windham
- Lumberjack match: Blackjack Lanza beat Jerry Blackwell (sub Ken Patera)
- Jimmy Garvin beat Chris Adams
- Greg Gagne & Jim Brunzell drew the Grapplers
- Dick the Bruiser no contest Baron Von Raschke
- Ted Oates & Jerry Oates & Marty Jannetty beat Roger Kirby & Scott Farris & TG Stone

Milwaukee, Wisconsin:
AWA Champion Jumbo Tsuruta beat Blackjack Mulligan by countout
The Crusher beat Sheik Adnan

1985

1986 Atlanta, Georgia:
Wahoo McDaniel defeated Jimmy Garvin via count-out
Robert Gibson fought NWA TV Champion Arn Anderson to a draw
Ron Garvin defeated NWA National Heavyweight Champion Tully Blanchard in a taped fist match
Baron Von Raschke, Ivan & Nikita Koloff defeated the Road Warriors & Paul Ellering
NWA Tag Team Champions Bobby Eaton & Dennis Condrey defeated Dusty Rhodes & Magnum TA via disqualification
Ricky Morton defeated NWA World Champion Ric Flair via disqualification

1991 Chattanooga, Tennessee:
Big Van Vader defeated Stan Hansen via disqualification
El Gigante defeated the One Man Gang via disqualification
WCW World Champion Ric Flair & Barry Windham defeated Sting & Brian Pillman in a steel cage match

1995 – In the one and only singles match between ‘Stunning’ Steve Austin and ‘Macho Man’ Randy Savage, the two fought as part of a tournament for the vacant United States Championship at a WCW Saturday Night taping in Atlanta, Georgia. Savage was victorious in the bout.

1996 – At ECW’s ‘A Matter Of Respect’ event from the ECW Arena in Philadelphia, Shane Douglas defeated 2 Cold Scorpio to win the ECW World Television Championship.
ECW World Heavyweight Champion Raven defeated Pitbull #2 and The Sandman in a three-way dance to retain the title
- Chris Jericho defeated Mikey Whipwreck
- Rob Van Dam defeated Sabu
- Tommy Dreamer and The Gangstas defeated Brian Lee and ECW World Tag Team Champions The Eliminators

1997 – WWE’s ‘In Your House: A Cold Day In Hell’ PPV took place at the Richmond Coliseum in Richmond, Virginia. In the main event, The Undertaker defeated ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin to retain the WWF Championship.
Rockabilly pinned Jesse James
Hunter Hearst Helmsley (with Chyna) pinned Flash Funk
Mankind defeated Rocky Maivia by submission
The Nation of Domination (Crush, Faarooq and Savio Vega) defeated Ahmed Johnson in a gauntlet match
Ken Shamrock defeated Vader in a no holds barred match

1998

[1998-05-11-WWF-Raw] Steve Austin & Vince McMahon vs The Rock & D-Lo Brown

Talk about it here.

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2008 TNA Sacrifice: Orlando, Florida:
- Team 3D (Brother Devon and Brother Ray) defeated James Storm (with Jackie Moore) and Sting
- Christian Cage and Rhino defeated Booker T and Robert Roode
- The Latin American Xchange (Hernandez and Homicide with Hector Guerrero) defeated Kip James and Matt Morgan
- AJ Styles and Super Eric defeated Awesome Kong (with Raisha Saeed) and B.G. James
- Kaz defeated Alex Shelley, Chris Sabin, Consequences Creed, Curry Man, Jay Lethal, Jimmy Rave, Johnny Devine, Shark Boy and Sonjay in a TerrorDome match to determine the number one contender to the TNA X Division Championship
- Team 3D (Brother Devon and Brother Ray) defeated Christian Cage and Rhino
- The Latin American Xchange (Hernandez and Homicide) (with Hector Guerrero and Salinas) defeated AJ Styles and Super Eric (Eric Young)
- Gail Kim defeated Angelina Love, Christy Hemme, Jackie Moore, ODB, Salinas, Rhaka Khan, Roxxi Laveaux, Traci Brooks and Velvet Sky 10-woman TNA Knockouts Makeover Battle Royal to determine the number one contender to the TNA Knockouts Championship
- The Latin American Xchange (Hernandez and Homicide with Hector Guerrero and Salinas) defeated Team 3D (Brother Devon and Brother Ray) to win the vacant TNA World Tag Team Championship
- Samoa Joe defeated Kaz and Scott Steiner (with Petey Williams and Rhaka Khan) to retain the TNA World Title

2013 – Japanese wrestling legend Kenta Kobashi officially retired from in-ring competition.

 

[King Kamala]

Cold Day in Hell is really the forgotten '97 WWF PPV. I think everything else has at least one memorable hook. I've watched it at least twice and can't remember a single thing except it being peak of "Rocky Sucks" chants and crowd cheering Mankind. Austin's first WWF World title shot (? I think...at least, it was first PPV one. Probably first televised) seems like it should've been a bigger deal but IIRC, main event was essentially like a RAW match.

Edit- The faux MMA match with Ken Shamrock Vs Vader was kind of ahead of its time. I always thought that happened later in the year.

 

[Epic Springs]

It has Shamrock's debut and Vader tapping out for the first (?) time in his career.

 

[King Kamala]

Now that I'm vaguely remembering a few moments, I'd say it might be slightly more memorable than In Your House: DeGeneration X (although that's kind of memorable in how crappy it was and how it was one of the last IYH explicitly advertised as IYH IIRC).

 

[Epic Springs]

I thought No Way Out '98 was the last PPV advertised under the "In Your House" banner but it looks like IYH trekked on for another year with St. Valentine's Day Massacre being the last official show with that name.

 

[King Kamala]

Yeah but the 1998-99 IYH, the In Your House was advertised in small print underneath the PPV name. I feel like you're right thought that No Way Out of Texas was the last one advertised as In Your House: insert name of IYH though.

I consider Ground Zero in September '97 to be official end of the IYH era since it was the first three hour one AND the last one to use the house entrance.

Edit- I guess Ground Zero was also the first IYH where the subtitle was announced before IYH.