Back by Popular Demand! This Week In Wrestling History hosted by Don Tony aired back in 2018-2019 and spanned two seasons. These retro episodes return remastered and are filled with hundreds of hours of original wrestling clips & stories. Enjoy this deep dive into pro wrestling’s awesome history.
SYNOPSIS: S2 E32 (08/06 – 08/12)
- Hulk Hogan makes his pro wrestling debut
- Looking back at WWF ‘Showdown At Shea’ event in Queens NY at Shea Stadium 1980
- Junkyard Dog makes his WWF in ring debut
- Audio: Highlights of Ric Flair def Dusty Rhodes to win NWA World Heavyweight Championship 1986
- Audio: Post match Promos from Tully Blanchard, Ric Flair, and Dusty Rhodes 1986
- Iron Sheik wrestles last match for WWF (until Gimmick Battle Royal)
- Owen Hart makes his WWF debut, and Curt Hennig returns to WWF after 5 year absence
- Looking back at AWA final TV taping and the awful $1 Million Team Challenge Series 1990
- Audio: The Black Scorpion (who sounds an awful lot like The Shockmaster) makes his WCW (promo) debut and calls out Sting 1990
- Brilliant idea: Sumo Hall sells pillows to all fans attending 1991 G1 Climax. Can you guess what happens next?
- Audio: Razor Ramon makes his WWF in ring debut 1992
- Audio: Macho Man immediately calls out Razor Ramon following his WWF debut 1992
- Masahiro Chono def Rick Rude to win the vacant NWA World Heavyweight Title
- Johnny Hot Body becomes the first ever ECW TV Champion
- Audio: Ricky Steamboat vs Lord Steven Regal WCW No DQ match ends in a DQ 1993
- Looking back at AAA Night Of Champions event 1994
- Looking back at WCW Hog/Road Wild PPV 1996-1998
- Audio: Ravishing Rick Rude returns to WWF as HBK’s ‘Insurance Policy’ 1997
- Audio: Rocky Maivia joins The Nation Of Domination 1997
- Looking back at ECW Born To Be Wired 1997
- Audio: Joey Styles comments on Sabu vs Terry Funk Born To Be Wired
- Dutch Mantel def Jerry Lawler to become the last ever USWA Unified Heavyweight Champion
- Audio: Entertaining WCW Monday Nitro main event: Kevin Nash, Sid Vicious, and Rick Steiner vs Sting, Goldberg, and Hulk Hogan 1999. Arguably, the loudest Hogan chants from WCW fans ever
- Audio: Monday Night Jericho! Chris Jericho makes his WWF debut and immediately confronts The Rock 1999
- Audio: Kane tells the fans to Suck It! 1999
- Last Smackdown episode featuring The Ovaltron set before WWF debuts the ‘Fist’
- Audio: Ron ‘The Truth’ Killings def Ken Shamrock to become the first (and only) NWA Black Heavyweight Champion 2002
- Audio: Brock Lesnar vs Hulk Hogan 2002
- Looking back at WWF Global Warning event 2002
- WWE releases Sable for a 2nd time
- James Gibson def CM Punk, Samoa Joe, and Christopher Daniels to win ROH World Championship
- Miss Monday Nitro sentenced for having sexual relations with a 14 year old student
- Bryan Danielson def Nigel McGuinness to win and unify the ROH World and Pure Championships
- Looking back at TNA Hard/Hardcore Justice PPV 2007, 2008, 2011, 2012
- Pacman Jones makes his TNA debut, and Test wrestles his one and only match in TNA
- Looking back at TNA Whole F’N Show event 2010
- Audio: Tommy Dreamer’s passionate speech from TNA Impact leading into the HardCORE Justice 2010
- Kahoneys! Looking back at TNA HardCORE Justice 2010
- WWE signs Seth Rollins
- Looking back at Juggalo Championship Wrestling’s Legends And Icons iPPV 2011
- WWE releases the G.O.A.T Abraham Washington, Alberto Del Rio, Joey Styles and Ryback.
- Looking back at Ring Of Honor Boiling Point event 2012
- Looking back at AAA TripleMania XXIII event 2015
- WWE renames the ‘Submission Sorority’ to the much more creative ‘PCB’
- Billy Corgan replaces Dixie Carter as President of TNA Wrestling
- And much more!
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