This Day in Wrestling History - June 21

[Chris]

Pay-Per-Views
2009: TNA Slammiversary VII

Television Shows
1993: WWF Monday Night RAW #22
1997: WCW Saturday Night
1997: WCW Take Over 97
1997: WWF Shotgun Saturday Night #25
1999: WCW Monday Nitro (Rating: 3.10)
1999: WWF RAW is WAR #317 (Rating: 6.00)
2000: WCW Thunder
2001: WWF SmackDown! #97 (Rating: 3.60)
2003: WWE Velocity
2004: WWE RAW #578 (Rating: 4.20)
2007: TNA iMPACT! #156 (Rating: 1.20)
2009: WWE Vintage Collection #55
2010: WWE RAW #891 (Rating: 3.52)
2011: TNA Xplosion #352
2012: TNA IMPACT WRESTLING #415 (Rating: 0.95/Viewers: 1,237,000)
2013: WWE SmackDown #723 (Rating: 1.71/Viewers: 2,280,000)

Title Changes
1981: Dusty Rhodes wins NWA World Heavyweight Championship
1995: Bunkhouse Buck & Dick Slater win WCW World Tag Team Championship
1999: Mideon finds WWF European Championship in Shane McMahon's luggage, "wins" title.
2007: Samoa Joe wins TNA X-Division Championship
2009: Beer Money Inc. (James Storm & Robert Roode) win TNA World Tag Team Championship
2009: Kurt Angle wins TNA World Heavyweight Championship
2013: Suicide wins TNA X-Division Championship

Birthdays
1955: Jay Youngblood

Debuts
2001: Josh Matthews​

Source: wrestlingdata.com

 

[Deezy]

Josh Matthews lol

Did they count Tough Enough as his debut? Or was it that shit match with Horace Hogan in Jimmy Hart's fed XWF?

 

[Keith]

That picture of Raven and co. looks like something off a low budget SCI-FI channel production

 

[The Wrestling Rantist]

The particular episode today of WWF Smackdown back in the famous 2001 year of craziness, I actually am very fond of. This was just right around the beginning of that whole WWF Invasion thing, and tensions were high for the fans because we all know there were so many angles going on, that things were about to get crazy. Right now the main angle was Chris Benoit vs. Chris Jericho vs. Stone Cold Steve Austin for the WWF Championship, right dab in the middle of Austin's kick ass heel run.

Not many people enjoy the heel run, even Stone Cold Steve Austin himself didn't enjoy the heel run but in my personal opinion, there wasn't a more believable hero that can more believably become a believe heel, only for so many fans to believe in his talent and skills and still watch the show to enjoy him. I thought it was golden. Financially, Blue idea, but for entertainment - Gotta' tip our hats to the greatness of the Attitude Era.

 

[Chris]

Josh Matthews lol

Did they count Tough Enough as his debut? Or was it that shit match with Horace Hogan in Jimmy Hart's fed XWF?

Not sure, I don't think it was Tough Enough though. The site also counts announcing debuts as a debut (Bob Uecker had a "debut" at WrestleMania III), but that's just an extra tidbit since Matthews wasn't announcing then anyway.