This Day in Wrestling History - July 18

[Chris]

Pay-Per-Views
1993: WCW Beach Blast (Buyrate: 0.50)
1999: ECW Heat Wave (Buyrate: 0.26)
2010: WWE Money in the Bank (Buys: 164,000)

Television Shows
1987: NWA Worldwide
1992: WCW Pro
1992: WCW Saturday Night
1992: WCW Worldwide
1993: WWF All American Wrestling
1993: WWF Wrestling Challenge
1994: WWF Monday Night RAW #71
1995: ECW Hardcore TV #116
1998: WWF Shotgun Saturday Night #81
1999: ECW Hardcore TV
1999: WWF SuNDAY NiGHT HeAT #51
2000: WCW Tuesday Nitro (Rating: 2.40)
2002: WWE SmackDown #153 (Rating: 3.40)
2004: WWE Sunday Night Heat
2005: WWE RAW #634 (Rating: 3.80)
2006: ECW on Sci-Fi #6 (Rating: 2.20)
2008: WWE SmackDown #467 (Rating: 2.40)
2010: WWE Vintage Collection #111
2011: WWE RAW #947
2012: WWE NXT #126
2012: TNA Xplosion #408
2013: TNA IMPACT WRESTLING #471 (Rating: 1.16/Viewers: 1,494,000)

Title Changes
1989: The Brainbusters (Arn Anderson & Tully Blanchard) win WWF World Tag Team Championship
1993: Ric Flair wins NWA World Heavyweight Championship
1993: Ric Flair wins WCW International Championship
1999: Balls Mahoney & Spike Dudley win ECW Tag Team Championship
2000: Lance Storm wins WCW United States Heavyweight Championship
2010: Kane wins World Heavyweight Championship
2013: Manik wins TNA X-Division Championship
2013: Chris Sabin wins TNA World Heavyweight Championship

Birthdays
1963: Al Snow
1979: Joey Mercury

Deaths
2007: John Kronus​

Source: wrestlingdata.com

 

[Deezy]

Didn't Evan Karagias break his ankle from that impromptu ladder match?

 

[Keith]

Lance Storm was one of the few highlights from Russo era WCW, loved his match with Booker from England.

Rude/Rhodes was always going to fail to live up to Rude/Steamboat Iron Man. But where WCW missed the boat possibly was not booking an Iron Man every year at that event.

 

[Kiffy Lube]

I still need to see Beach Blast '93. I ordered it on DVD along with everything else from '93 but that disc didn't work. I can't complain too much, I only pay a buck a disc.

KANE's 2010 title reign was better than I expected even if was still irrelevant.

 

[Keith]

I still need to see Beach Blast '93. I ordered it on DVD along with everything else from '93 but that disc didn't work. I can't complain too much, I only pay a buck a disc.

KANE's 2010 title reign was better than I expected even if was still irrelevant.

The tag main event is the best match IMO.