This Day in Wrestling History - April 8

[Chris]

Television Shows
1989: World Championship Wrestling
1990: WWF Wrestling Challenge
1993: WWF @ Paris
1995: WCW Saturday Night
1995: WWF Superstars
1996: WWF Monday Night RAW (Rating: 4.70)
2000: WCW Worldwide
2002: WWF RAW (Rating: 4.80)
2004: WWE Smackdown (Rating: 3.00)
2005: TNA iMPACT (Rating: 0.19)
2006: TNA iMPACT (Rating: 1.00)
2008: WWE ECW on Sci-Fi (Rating: 1.30)
2010: WWE Superstars (Rating: 0.77)
2011: WWE Smackdown (Rating: 2.10)
2013: WWE RAW (Rating: 3.45/Viewers: 4,610,000)

Title Changes
1965: Bill Watts & Gorilla Monsoon win WWWF United States Tag Team Championship
1995: Public Enemy (Johnny Grunge & Rocco Rock) win ECW Tag Team Championship
1995: Eddie Guerrero wins ECW Television Championship
2000: Yoshihiro Tajiri wins ECW Television Championship
2013: Wade Barrett wins WWE Intercontinental Championship
2013: Dolph Ziggler wins World Heavyweight Championship

Debuts
1995: Shannon Moore
1995: Beulah McGillicutty

Hair Matches
Ian Rotten lost the hair in a match against Axl Rotten​

Source: wrestlingdata.com

 

[Deezy]

Dolph Ziggler winning that title just further proved why those titles needed to be unified, looking at old posts, there was a time I had faith this guy was going to be more than a midcarder but boy was I wrong......and you can't just blame "creative" or "agents". Most of it should go directly on him.

 

[Keith]

I respect your opinion, but personally I blame most of it on creative etc... Not saying he would have got over big time, but I don't think we will ever find out now, as they just kept starting and stopping his push which is nothing new for WWE.

On with this thread and boy that Monsoon and Watts team sounds killer.

Lol at the Impact Rating from 05 was that before the TV deal?

 

[Chris]

Lol at the Impact Rating from 05 was that before the TV deal?

It was before Spike, yes.

 

[Deezy]

I respect your opinion, but personally I blame most of it on creative etc... Not saying he would have got over big time, but I don't think we will ever find out now, as they just kept starting and stopping his push which is nothing new for WWE.

On with this thread and boy that Monsoon and Watts team sounds killer.

Lol at the Impact Rating from 05 was that before the TV deal?

Blaming creative is just a cliched cop-out these days, it's still up to the performer to make chickenshit into chicken salad. If he really wanted a genuine shot, he would gamble on his career and tell the to do something with him or release him. Don'y pussyfoot around, make snide remarks and just bitch about it, do something about it.

And those TNA ratings were from Fox Sports 1, not exactly a household name at the time (still isn't tbh).