Post by 67 more on Aug 13, 2013 4:02:17 GMT -5
1870 – Oberbechingen, Germany – Michael Hitzler is born. I've never heard of him before but I completely misread his name so I felt like I should I include him.
1900 – Libertyville, Illinois – 3-time MWA Junior Heavyweight Champion and 1-time MWA Light Heavyweight Champion Billy Thom is born.
1923 – Manchester, England – 6-time NWA World Tag Champion (in the Chicago, Vancouver and San Francisco territories) and 1-time World Light Heavyweight Wrestling Champion, James Blears is born.
1924 – Los Angeles – Ed Lewis retains the World Heavyweight Wrestling title against Joe Mondt in a match that went 96 minutes.
1949 – White Bear Lake, Minnesota – 4-time world tag champion, 2-time NWA Mid-Atlantic Champion and one half of the Killer Bees, Jumping Jim Brunzell is born.
1953 – Corpus Christi, Texas – 1-time NWA Women's Champion and 1-time NWA Women's Tag Champion, Sue Green is born.
1959 – Broomall, Pennsylvania – TV and radio personality Danny Bonaduce is born. Why is he included? Because he's wrestled on a WCW and TNA PPV!
1967 – Roswell, Georgia – One half of the mighty Tekno Team 2000, Travis aka Chad Fortune is born.
1969 – JWA @ Osaka – Giant Baba and Antonio Inoki beat Dick The Bruiser & Crusher Lisowski for the NWA International Tag titles.
1970 – Providence, Rhode Island – 3-time world tag champion and 1-time WWE Cruiserweight Champion Spike Dudley is born.
1978 – EMLL @ Mexico City – Tony Salazar beats Ringo Mendoza for the NWA Middleweight title.
1988 – WWF @ Los Angeles – Randy Savage retains the WWF World title against Andre the Giant via double countout.
1994 – ECW Hardcore Heaven – Jason Knight beats Mikey Whipwreck for the ECW TV title, Public Enemy retain the ECW Tag titles against Bad Breed in a falls count anywhere affair and the main event of Cactus Jack vs Terry Funk goes to a no contest after Public Enemy interfere. This is the famous night where the fans throw their chairs into the ring at the request of Funk and Foley, much to their regret.
1998 – WCW Thunder – Chris Jericho retains the WCW TV title against Chavo Guerrero Jr via DQ and Bret Hart beats Lex Luger for the WCW U.S. Title.
1999 – ECW @ Cleveland – The Dudleys beat Spike Dudley & Balls Mahoney for the ECW Tag titles and Taz retains the ECW World title against Yoshihiro Tajiri.
2000 – NJPW G1 Climax Day 6 – Kensuke Sasaki beats Manabu Nakanishi to win the G1 Climax.
2000 – WCW New Blood Rising – KroniK successfully defend the WCW Tag titles in a 4-way match against Perfect Event, Natural Born Thrillers & MIA. They then proceed to lose the WCW Tag titles to Vampiro & The Great Muta.
Lance Storm retains the WCW U.S. Title against Mike Awesome in a Canadian Rules match with Jacques Rougeau as special referee. (if you've watched the Duchess of Queensbury match from WWF Backlash 2001, you get the gist of the shenanigans here).
Kanyon loses to Buff Bagwell in the world-renowned Judy Bagwell on a Forklift match which included shenanigans from former WCW Champion David Arquette.
Stacy Keibler beats Major Gunns in a mudpit match where no-one knows the rules and Stacy has a miscarriage after this abortion of a match. No, I'm serious, WCW actually had a woman miscarriage on pay-per-view, thanks Russo.
Kevin Nash wins a terrible #1 contender triple threat against Goldberg and Scott Steiner. Goldberg comes out late and starts “shooting”, refusing to take the jackknife powerbomb, leaving the ring telling Vince Russo to f*** off and forcing the other two competitors, to directly quote Tony Schiavone here, “improvise”. Therefore, everything that happened before in wrestling history is fake, but THIS IS REAL. f*** you, Russo. Nash pins Steiner and the commentators talk about how professional Steiner is going up for the powerbomb. Casual fans are confused, hardcore fans know it's a work. No-one wins.
Finally, Booker T ends the night retaining the WCW World title against Jeff Jarrett. f***ing horrendous PPV.
2001 – WWF Raw – WWF's Brothers of Destruction retain their WCW Tag belts against WCW's Palumbo & O'Haire in a cage match and WWF's Jeff Hardy beats ECW's Rob Van Dam for the Hardcore title.
2002 – AAA TV Taping – Psicosis beats Pimpinella Escarlata for the Mexican Middleweight title.
2003 – TNA Weekly PPV – AJ Styles retains the NWA title against Low Ki.
2003 – AJPW – Shinya Hashimoto is stripped of the AJPW title due to a dislocated shoulder.
2005 – Hamilton, Ontario, Canada – 6-time world tag champion Chris Tolos passes away to cancer.
2005 – WWE Velocity – Nunzio retains the Cruiserweight title against Jimmy Jacobs. Felt that was a pretty cool factoid.
2006 – NJPW G1 Climax Day 6 – Hiroyoshi Tenzan beats Satoshi Kojima to win the G1 Climax.
2006 – TNA Hard Justice – THE IMPACT ZONE IS ON FIRE! Literally. 30 minutes of the PPV has to take place outside the arena with very hastily put together promos after a pyro malfunction caused the fire inspector to evacuate the arena. One match is cancelled. Senshi retains the X Division title against Jay Lethal & Petey Williams in a three-way, Styles & Daniels retain the NWA Tag titles against LAX and Jeff Jarrett retains the NWA World title against Sting after Christian turned heel on Sting.
2006 – NOAH Navigation – Takashi Suguira & Yoshinobu Kanemura beat Ikuto Hidaka & Minoru Fujita for the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag titles.
2007 – Tampa, Florida – 3-time world tag champion Brian Adams is found dead in his bed at the age of 43. Steroids are thought to have played a role in his death.
2007 – CMLL Lunes Arena Puebla – La Sombra, El Sagrado & Volador Jr beat Damain 666, Halloween & Mr Aguila (Essa Rios) for the Mexican Trios title.
2010 – 3-time WWE World Tag Champion Lance Cade dies of heart failure. This is brought on by drug use, which caused heart muscle disease.
2011 – NWA Hollywood – Scorpio Sky beats Super Crazy to become the first NWA International Television Champion. The belt is renamed the CWFH International TV title after the promotion leaves the NWA.
2011 – WWE Wrestlemania 27 TV Première on NBC – Undertaker's Johnny Cash theme is replaced by Katy Perry's “E.T.”. Yup.
2011 – CZW A Tangled Web 4 – Devon Moore retains the CZW title against BLK JEEZ.
2011- JCW Legends & Icons – Terrible legends show roundly shit upon. Mick Foley does colour commentary and you can see the regret fill his face slowly throughout the night. Aside from a battle royal, no-one is any sort of condition to go over seven minutes in a match.
1900 – Libertyville, Illinois – 3-time MWA Junior Heavyweight Champion and 1-time MWA Light Heavyweight Champion Billy Thom is born.
1923 – Manchester, England – 6-time NWA World Tag Champion (in the Chicago, Vancouver and San Francisco territories) and 1-time World Light Heavyweight Wrestling Champion, James Blears is born.
1924 – Los Angeles – Ed Lewis retains the World Heavyweight Wrestling title against Joe Mondt in a match that went 96 minutes.
1949 – White Bear Lake, Minnesota – 4-time world tag champion, 2-time NWA Mid-Atlantic Champion and one half of the Killer Bees, Jumping Jim Brunzell is born.
1953 – Corpus Christi, Texas – 1-time NWA Women's Champion and 1-time NWA Women's Tag Champion, Sue Green is born.
1959 – Broomall, Pennsylvania – TV and radio personality Danny Bonaduce is born. Why is he included? Because he's wrestled on a WCW and TNA PPV!
1967 – Roswell, Georgia – One half of the mighty Tekno Team 2000, Travis aka Chad Fortune is born.
1969 – JWA @ Osaka – Giant Baba and Antonio Inoki beat Dick The Bruiser & Crusher Lisowski for the NWA International Tag titles.
1970 – Providence, Rhode Island – 3-time world tag champion and 1-time WWE Cruiserweight Champion Spike Dudley is born.
1978 – EMLL @ Mexico City – Tony Salazar beats Ringo Mendoza for the NWA Middleweight title.
1988 – WWF @ Los Angeles – Randy Savage retains the WWF World title against Andre the Giant via double countout.
1994 – ECW Hardcore Heaven – Jason Knight beats Mikey Whipwreck for the ECW TV title, Public Enemy retain the ECW Tag titles against Bad Breed in a falls count anywhere affair and the main event of Cactus Jack vs Terry Funk goes to a no contest after Public Enemy interfere. This is the famous night where the fans throw their chairs into the ring at the request of Funk and Foley, much to their regret.
1998 – WCW Thunder – Chris Jericho retains the WCW TV title against Chavo Guerrero Jr via DQ and Bret Hart beats Lex Luger for the WCW U.S. Title.
1999 – ECW @ Cleveland – The Dudleys beat Spike Dudley & Balls Mahoney for the ECW Tag titles and Taz retains the ECW World title against Yoshihiro Tajiri.
2000 – NJPW G1 Climax Day 6 – Kensuke Sasaki beats Manabu Nakanishi to win the G1 Climax.
2000 – WCW New Blood Rising – KroniK successfully defend the WCW Tag titles in a 4-way match against Perfect Event, Natural Born Thrillers & MIA. They then proceed to lose the WCW Tag titles to Vampiro & The Great Muta.
Lance Storm retains the WCW U.S. Title against Mike Awesome in a Canadian Rules match with Jacques Rougeau as special referee. (if you've watched the Duchess of Queensbury match from WWF Backlash 2001, you get the gist of the shenanigans here).
Kanyon loses to Buff Bagwell in the world-renowned Judy Bagwell on a Forklift match which included shenanigans from former WCW Champion David Arquette.
Stacy Keibler beats Major Gunns in a mudpit match where no-one knows the rules and Stacy has a miscarriage after this abortion of a match. No, I'm serious, WCW actually had a woman miscarriage on pay-per-view, thanks Russo.
Kevin Nash wins a terrible #1 contender triple threat against Goldberg and Scott Steiner. Goldberg comes out late and starts “shooting”, refusing to take the jackknife powerbomb, leaving the ring telling Vince Russo to f*** off and forcing the other two competitors, to directly quote Tony Schiavone here, “improvise”. Therefore, everything that happened before in wrestling history is fake, but THIS IS REAL. f*** you, Russo. Nash pins Steiner and the commentators talk about how professional Steiner is going up for the powerbomb. Casual fans are confused, hardcore fans know it's a work. No-one wins.
Finally, Booker T ends the night retaining the WCW World title against Jeff Jarrett. f***ing horrendous PPV.
2001 – WWF Raw – WWF's Brothers of Destruction retain their WCW Tag belts against WCW's Palumbo & O'Haire in a cage match and WWF's Jeff Hardy beats ECW's Rob Van Dam for the Hardcore title.
2002 – AAA TV Taping – Psicosis beats Pimpinella Escarlata for the Mexican Middleweight title.
2003 – TNA Weekly PPV – AJ Styles retains the NWA title against Low Ki.
2003 – AJPW – Shinya Hashimoto is stripped of the AJPW title due to a dislocated shoulder.
2005 – Hamilton, Ontario, Canada – 6-time world tag champion Chris Tolos passes away to cancer.
2005 – WWE Velocity – Nunzio retains the Cruiserweight title against Jimmy Jacobs. Felt that was a pretty cool factoid.
2006 – NJPW G1 Climax Day 6 – Hiroyoshi Tenzan beats Satoshi Kojima to win the G1 Climax.
2006 – TNA Hard Justice – THE IMPACT ZONE IS ON FIRE! Literally. 30 minutes of the PPV has to take place outside the arena with very hastily put together promos after a pyro malfunction caused the fire inspector to evacuate the arena. One match is cancelled. Senshi retains the X Division title against Jay Lethal & Petey Williams in a three-way, Styles & Daniels retain the NWA Tag titles against LAX and Jeff Jarrett retains the NWA World title against Sting after Christian turned heel on Sting.
2006 – NOAH Navigation – Takashi Suguira & Yoshinobu Kanemura beat Ikuto Hidaka & Minoru Fujita for the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag titles.
2007 – Tampa, Florida – 3-time world tag champion Brian Adams is found dead in his bed at the age of 43. Steroids are thought to have played a role in his death.
2007 – CMLL Lunes Arena Puebla – La Sombra, El Sagrado & Volador Jr beat Damain 666, Halloween & Mr Aguila (Essa Rios) for the Mexican Trios title.
2010 – 3-time WWE World Tag Champion Lance Cade dies of heart failure. This is brought on by drug use, which caused heart muscle disease.
2011 – NWA Hollywood – Scorpio Sky beats Super Crazy to become the first NWA International Television Champion. The belt is renamed the CWFH International TV title after the promotion leaves the NWA.
2011 – WWE Wrestlemania 27 TV Première on NBC – Undertaker's Johnny Cash theme is replaced by Katy Perry's “E.T.”. Yup.
2011 – CZW A Tangled Web 4 – Devon Moore retains the CZW title against BLK JEEZ.
2011- JCW Legends & Icons – Terrible legends show roundly shit upon. Mick Foley does colour commentary and you can see the regret fill his face slowly throughout the night. Aside from a battle royal, no-one is any sort of condition to go over seven minutes in a match.