AUGUST 25TH WRESTLING HISTORY

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1926 – Los Angeles – Joe Stecher retains the World Heavyweight Wrestling title against John Pesek via 2-hour time limit draw.
1930 – Montreal – 3-time NWA World Tag Champion in the Florida & Georgia territories and 18-time NWA Southern Tag Champion in the Georgia, Knoxville and Memphis territories, Don Lortie is born.
1932 – Torreon, Mexico – 1-time Mexican Tag Champion Espanto #2 is born.
1942 – Montreal – 1-time WWWF Champion, 1-time WWA World Champion and 5-time NWA World Tag Champion Ivan Koloff is born.
1945 – St Louis, Missouri – 3-time NWA U.S. Champion for the Central States territory and 1-time NWA Georgia Champion Bobby Shane is born.
1951 – Indianapolis, Indiana – 2-time world junior heavyweight champion and 1-time AWA Tag Champion, “Mr Electricity” Steve Regal is born.
1960 – Houston, Texas – 7-time NWA Pacific Northwest Champion, 1-time NWA Texas Champion and 11-time NWA Pacific Northwest Tag Champion Len Denton is born.
1961 – Calgary, Alberta – Son of 4-time world champion Gene Kiniski and 1-time TASW Tag Champion Nick Kiniski is born.
1971 – Anaheim, California – 1-time WWF Tag Champion and 22-time WWF Hardcore Champion Crash Holly is born.
1972 – Atlanta, Georgia – 3-time NWA World Tag Champion David Young is born.
1991 – St Jean, Quebec – 1-time AWA Women's Champion Vivian Vachon dies in a car accident age 40.
1991 – WCW Great American Bash Tour Day 38 – Lex Luger retains the WCW World title against Ron Simmons and Sting beats Steve Austin for the vacant WCW U.S. Title.
1995 – ECW @ Jim Thorpe – Raven & Stevie Richards retain the ECW Tag titles against the Pitbulls, Sandman retains the ECW World title against a legendary man named Austin (Chad Austin, to be precise) and 2 Cold Scorpio beats Eddie Guerrero for the ECW TV title. Guerrero would wrestle his last match for ECW the next night.
1997 – WCW Nitro – Nitro runs unopposed due to Raw being pre-empted, gaining Nitro a 5.00 rating. Steve McMichael retains the WCW U.S. Title against Eddie Guerrero and Chris Jericho retains the WCW Cruiserweight title against Yuji Nagata. The main event of Randy Savage and Lex Luger goes to a nWo bullshit finish no contest.
1999 – AJPW Summer Action Series II Day 4 – Mitsuharu Misawa & Yoshinari Ogawa beat Yoshihiro Takayama & Takao Omori for the AJPW World Tag & All Asia Tag titles. Misawa & Ogawa immediately vacate the All Asia Tag titles.
2000 – ECW @ New York City – Tajiri & Mikey Whipwreck beat the two teams of Jerry Lynn & Tommy Dreamer and Simon Diamond & Johnny Swinger to win the vacant ECW Tag titles.
2001 – XPW Damage Inc – Kid Kaos beats Konnan to win the vacant XPW TV title.
2002 – WWE Summerslam – Un-Americans retain the World Tag titles against Booker T & Goldust, Rob Van Dam beats Chris Benoit for the IC title, Shawn Michaels returns from a 4-year retirement to beat Triple H in an unsanctioned match and Brock Lesnar beats The Rock for his first WWE Championship.
2003 – WWE Raw – Christian retains the IC title against Jerry Lawler.
2008 – WWE Raw – Santino Marella retains the IC title against Kofi Kingston.
2011 – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – 1-time NWA Women's Tag Champion Donna Christianello dies of COPD aged 69.
2012 – WWE Saturday Morning Slam – The first ever episode of the show features exactly one match, Kofi Kingston beating Heath Slater.

[Bone Daddy]

2-hour draw! Whose got time for that?

[SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman]

Aug 25, 2013 3:45:59 GMT -5 67 more said:

1926 – Los Angeles – Joe Stecher retains the World Heavyweight Wrestling title against John Pesek via 2-hour time limit draw.

For crying out loud can you imagine watching a match for two bloody hours and it ending in a DRAW?!

[bob]

I think you posted this in the wrong section of the forum

[chazraps]

Aug 25, 2013 8:40:19 GMT -5 SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman said:

Aug 25, 2013 3:45:59 GMT -5 67 more said:

1926 – Los Angeles – Joe Stecher retains the World Heavyweight Wrestling title against John Pesek via 2-hour time limit draw.

For crying out loud can you imagine watching a match for two bloody hours and it ending in a DRAW?!

Workrate

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Aug 25, 2013 8:23:23 GMT -5 Bone Daddy said:

2-hour draw! Whose got time for that?

It gets even better when you realize that this was in the pre-action packed match days. These guys probably rolled around exchanging holds for 2 hours.

[SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman]

Aug 25, 2013 11:31:00 GMT -5 chazraps said:

Aug 25, 2013 8:40:19 GMT -5 SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman said:

For crying out loud can you imagine watching a match for two bloody hours and it ending in a DRAW?!

Workrate

All the best high-flying action the 1920s could offer.

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Aug 25, 2013 11:46:31 GMT -5 @akeem said:

Aug 25, 2013 8:23:23 GMT -5 Bone Daddy said:

2-hour draw! Whose got time for that?

It gets even better when you realize that this was in the pre-action packed match days. These guys probably rolled around exchanging holds for 2 hours.

Imagine an 30 minute Ortonlock. That's how most of the matches went.

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I read about one match the other day that went to a four-hour draw.