On This Day In Wrestling History

[Ben]

Thought it would be fun to do one of these. Just looking back on a daily basis to the past for big events that happened across all the promotions past and present. Feel free to join in with your own events or comments on the ones I post. I'll get it rolling with some WCW:

THE MONDAY NIGHT WARS BEGIN WITH THE DEBUT OF WCW NITRO


9/4/95



On this date in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) history, Monday Nitro makes its debut in the Mall of America in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
While it's hard to imagine the shopping mall show and "Pastamania" would pose even a remote threat to the boys in Stamford, Nitro actually went on to beat Monday Night RAW for 84 straight weeks.
Here's a few minutes from their inaugural event:

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[Kiffy Lube]

That description talks about Pastamania instead Lex Luger showin' up?

I did enjoy that broadcast, though.

 

[Dale]

September 4, 2000. Eddie Guerrero defeats Chyna (Joanie Laurer) & Kurt Angle in a Triple Threat to win the WWF Intercontinental Championship.

[video=youtube;cYrVEpQDQoY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYrVEpQDQoY&feature=player_embedded[/video]

Good times.

 

[Kiffy Lube]

[video=youtube;s856lw9471Q]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s856lw9471Q[/video]

 

[Ben]

Nothing Major Today, just some random stuff

In 1990, NWA Clash of the Champions XII: Mountain Madness/Fall Brawl ’90 was held in Asheville, North Carolina
– Lex Luger defeats Ric Flair by DQ to retain the NWA United States Title
– Sting defeats The Black Scorpion to retain the NWA World Title
In 1991, WCW Clash of the Champions XVI: Fall Brawl was held in Augusta, Georgia
– Sting defeats Johnny B Badd to retain the WCW United States Title
– Steve Austin defeats Tom Zenk to retain the WCW Television Title
– The Enforcers (Arn Anderson & Larry Zbyszko) defeat Rick Steiner & Bill Kazmaier to win the vacant WCW World Tag Team Titles
In 2010, TNA No Surrender was held in Orlando, Florida
– The Motor City Machine Guns (Chris Sabin & Alex Shelley) defeat Generation Me (Max & Jeremy Buck) to retain the TNA Tag Team Titles
– Douglas Williams defeats Sabu to retain the TNA X-Division Title
– AJ Styles defeats Tommy Dreamer in an I Quit Match
– Kurt Angle fought Jeff Hardy to a time limit draw in the semi-final of the TNA World Title tournament. Both would advance to the final
– Mr Anderson defeats D’Angelo Dinero to progress to the final of the TNA World Title tournament. The final would be held at Bound For Glory
Title Changes
1979 – Mike George defeats Mr Wrestling II to become the first MSW North American Champion (the title was originally the North American Title, but was renamed soon after the win). Also, Mike Sharpe Jr defeats Mike George to win the MSW Louisiana Title
1982 – Kevin von Erich defeats King Kong Bundy to win the WCCW American Heavyweight Title
1988 – John Tatum & Jimmy Jack Funk defeat Steve & Shaun Simpson to win the WCCW Texas Tag Team Titles
1996 – Johnny Ace & Steve Williams defeat Jun Akiyama & Mitsuharu Misawa to win the AJPW Unified World Tag Team Titles
2007 – Paul London & Brian Kendrick defeat Lance Cade & Trevor Murdoch to win the World Tag Team Titles

 

[Kiffy Lube]

[video=youtube;-TsTDHrPbiQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TsTDHrPbiQ[/video]

Yeah.

 

[Ben]

On this date in National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) history, Clash of the Champions III: "Fall Brawl" draws 3,700 fans to the Albany Civic Center in Georgia -- along with a 5.4 rating on "The Superstation," TBS.
Headlining the event was a NWA United States Heavyweight Championship match-up featuring Barry Windham, who put his belt on the line against the one and only Sting.
Stinger won the bout (but not the belt) via disqualification (illegal chair shot) after Windham got ratted out by San Francisco 49'er John Ayers, who came to ringside to play informant.


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[Ben]

You know the story by now, everything revolved around Hulk Hogan.
Such was the case on September 11, 1995, when the Hulkster kicked the crap out of Lex Luger on Monday Nitro only to later have him join his team of "Hulkamaniacs."


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Luger was a late replacement for Vader, who was shit-canned following his locker room brawl against Paul Orndorff, and joined fellow "Hulkamaniacs" Sting and "Macho Man" Randy Savage for a four-on-four feud with the "Dungeon of Doom."
The two factions would later meet in a "WarGames" match at Fall Brawl, with the Hulkamaniacs emerging victorious.
Shocking, I know.