This Day in Wrestling History - April 16

[Chris]

Pay-Per-Views
2000: WCW Spring Stampede (Buyrate: 0.25)
2003: NWA-TNA Weekly PPV

Television Shows
1990: WWF Prime Time Wrestling
1994: WCW Saturday Night
1994: WWF Superstars
1995: WCW Worldwide
1998: WCW Thunder
2000: ECW Hardcore TV
2001: WWF RAW is WAR (Rating: 5.10)
2004: WWE Smackdown (Rating: 2.90)
2005: WWE Velocity (Rating: 0.40)
2007: WWE RAW (Rating: 3.70)
2009: TNA iMPACT (Rating: 1.28)
2009: WWE Superstars (Rating: 0.90) - DEBUT
2010: WWE Smackdown
2012: WWE RAW (Rating: 3.08/Viewers: 4,390,000)

Title Changes
1960: The Grahams (Eddie & Jerry Graham) win NWA United States Tag Team Championship (Capitol Version)
1983: Roddy Piper wins NWA United States Heavyweight Championship (Mid-Atlantic Version)
1994: Pitbull #1 wins ECW Television Championship
2000: Scott Steiner wins WCW United States Heavyweight Championship
2000: Chris Candido wins WCW Cruiserweight Championship
2000: Jeff Jarrett wins WCW World Heavyweight Championship
2000: Terry Funk wins WCW Hardcore Championship
2000: Buff Bagwell & Shane Douglas win WCW World Tag Team Championship
2001: Triple H wins WWF Intercontinental Championship
2007: Santino Marella wins WWE Intercontinental Championship

Birthdays
1937: George Steele
1968: Vickie Guerrero
1980: Paul London​

Source: wrestlingdata.com

 

[Deezy]

Candido was coked out when he won that title......just thought that tidbit puts it all in perspective.

 

[Keith]

Remember that Spring Stampede was supposed to be WCW's reboot

 

[Gimmick]

That IC title win of Triple H was when he beat Jeff Hardy, wasn't it? I remember being shocked when Hardy won it off Triple H back then, seemed like the biggest upset ever to me at the time.

Even though I really liked Triple H back then I was disappointed to see him win it back only a week later. Damn Stone Cold and his interference

 

[Deezy]

Trips was like "let's make Jeff a star"

Vince was like "wtf?!?! who put the title on him? He failed the piss test ffs".