This Day in Wrestling History - July 26

[Chris]

Pay-Per-Views
1998: WWF Fully Loaded: In Your House (Buyrate: 0.90)
2009: WWE Night of Champions (Buys: 380,000)

Television Shows
1971: WWWF @ Philadelphia
1986: WWF @ Philadelphia
1992: WCW The Main Event
1993: WWF Monday Night RAW #27
1997: WCW Saturday Night
1997: WWF Shotgun Saturday Night #30
1999: WCW Monday Nitro (Rating: 3.40)
1999: WWF RAW is WAR #322 (Rating: 7.10)
2000: WCW Thunder
2001: WWF SmackDown! #102 (Rating: 4.30)
2003: WWE Velocity
2004: WWE RAW #583 (Rating: 3.60)
2007: TNA iMPACT! #161 (Rating: 1.13)
2009: WWE Vintage Collection #60
2010: WWE RAW #896 (Rating: 3.50)
2012: TNA IMPACT WRESTLING #420 (Rating: 1.09/Viewers: 1,578,000)
2013: WWE SmackDown #728 (Rating: 1.92/Viewers: 2,650,000)

Title Changes
1980: Greg Valentine wins NWA United States Heavyweight Championship (Mid-Atlantic Version)
1986: Dusty Rhodes wins NWA World Heavyweight Championship
1998: Steve Austin & The Undertaker win WWF Tag Team Championships
2002: Shawn Stasiak wins WWE Hardcore Championship
2002: Raven wins WWE Hardcore Championship
2002: Bradshaw wins WWE Hardcore Championship
2002: Justin Credible wins WWE Hardcore Championship
2009: Jeff Hardy wins World Heavyweight Championship
2009: Jeri-Show (Big Show & Chris Jericho) win WWE Unified Tag Team Championships
2009: Mickie James wins WWE Divas Championship
2009: Christian wins ECW Championship
2012: Seth Rollins wins NXT Championship

Birthdays
1956: Tommy Rich
1967: Pitbull #2
1983: Roderick Strong​

Source: wrestlingdata.com

 

[Keith]

Austin and Taker have too many tag titles to their names for guys who didn't specialise in the field.

 

[Kiffy Lube]

Don't be down playin' the Hollywood Blondes.

 

[Crippler]

that pic of Owen stretching Bulldog is great

 

[Chris]

that pic of Owen stretching Bulldog is great

Bulldog was in WCW at the time of this C'MON!

 

[Crippler]

oh wait was that Owen training for his fight with ken shamrock in the lion's den match?

 

[Chris]

oh wait was that Owen training for his fight with ken shamrock in the lion's den match?

It was the Dungeon match against Shamrock. Owen's response to the Lion's Den match.

 

[Keith]

Don't be down playin' the Hollywood Blondes.

No, loved the Blondes, and that made more sense as he was still being built. Talking about his WWF run really.

 

[Deezy]

Owen/Shamrock was a vastly underrated feud that I loved back in the day.