This Day in Wrestling History - May 11

[Chris]

Pay-Per-Views
1997: WWF In Your House 15: A Cold Day in Hell (Buyrate: 0.57/Buys: 228,000)
2008: TNA Sacrifice

Television Shows
1985: WWF All Star Wrestling
1985: WWF Championship Wrestling
1985: WWF Saturday Night's Main Event #1 (Rating: 8.80)
1993: ECW Hardcore TV #6
1996: WWF Superstars
1997: WCW Worldwide
1998: WCW Monday Nitro #139 (Rating: 4.30)
1998: WWF RAW is WAR #259 (Rating: 4.81)
2000: WWF SmackDown! #39 (Rating: 5.00)
2002: WWF Jakked/Metal
2003: WWE Sunday Night Heat
2006: TNA iMPACT! #98 (Rating: 1.00)
2007: WWE SmackDown #405
2009: WWE RAW #833 *Rating: 3.29)
2010: WWE NXT #12 (Rating: 0.84)
2012: WWE SmackDown #665 (Rating: 1.70/Viewers: 2,530,000)
2013: WWE Saturday Morning Slam #38 (Rating: 0.70/Viewers: 974,000)

Title Changes
1976: The Executioners (Executioner #1 & #2) win WWWF World Tag Team Championship
1996: Shane Douglas wins ECW Television Championship
2008: The Latin American Xchange (Hernandez & Homicide) win TNA World Tag Team Championship
2010: Layla wins WWE Women's Championship

Birthdays
1961: Paul Diamond
1974: Billy Kidman​

Source: wrestlingdata.com

 

[Rated R Superstar]

Wait, WWF had 3 shows in one day?

 

[Chris]

Wait, WWF had 3 shows in one day?

First two were probably on locally syndicated stations, while SNME was definitely a national show and prime time as well.

 

[Rated R Superstar]

First two were probably on locally syndicated stations, while SNME was definitely a national show and prime time as well.

Makes sense. There was a lot of shit going on back in the day. Damn.

 

[Deezy]

LAX were the the shit, another thing TNA fucked up.

 

[Keith]

^ We agree on something at least, got a LAX t-shirt from a TNA show in Liverpool in 08, the TNA tag ranks were on fire back then.

Also heel Layla was pretty awesome too, sadly she now has got lost in suffl a bit.