This Day in Wrestling History - June 22

[Chris]

Television Shows
1960: Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling
1985: WWF All Star Wrestling
1985: WWF Championship Wrestling
1993: ECW Hardcore TV #12
1996: WCW Saturday Night
1998: WCW Monday Nitro #145 (Rating: 4.10)
1998: WWF RAW is WAR #265 (Rating: 4.34
2000: WWF SmackDown! #45 (Rating: 4.20)
2002: WWE Confidential #5 (Rating: 1.20)
2002: WWE Velocity (Rating: 0.90)
2003: NWA-TNA Xplosion
2003: WWE Sunday Night Heat
2006: TNA iMPACT! #104 (Rating: 1.10)
2007: WWE SmackDown #411
2008: WWE Vintage Collection #3
2009: WWE RAW #839 (Rating: 4.50)
2010: WWE NXT #18 (Rating: 0.86)
2012: WWE SmackDown #671 (Rating: 2.00/Viewers: 2,970,000)

Title Changes
1980: Jimmy Snuka & Ray Stevens win NWA World Tag Team Championship (Mid-Atlantic Version)
2002: Bradshaw wins WWE Hardcore Championship
2002: Spike Dudley wins WWE Hardcore Championship
2002: Shawn Stasiak wins WWE Hardcore Championship
2002: Raven wins WWE Hardcore Championship
2006: Senshi wins TNA X-Division Championship

Birthdays
1953: Cyndi Lauper
1963: John Tenta

Deaths
2007: Woman​

Source: wrestlingdata.com

 

[Keith]

Cyndi Lauper always makes me think of the Goonies and that WM of course.

 

[Deezy]

Cindy Lauper still doesn't get the recognition she deserves from wrestling fans and experts for the role she had in making WWF the phenom it was in the 80s.

She made Roddy Piper the biggest heel in the country by taking a piledriver on I think was MTV.