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 E20 (05/14 – 05/20)
- Bruno Sammartino def Buddy Rogers to win WWWF Championship
- Andy Kaufman passes away from Lung Cancer at 35 years old
- Audio: AWA fu**ery: Playboy Buddy Rose & Doug Somers win the AWA Tag Team titles on a count out (from Scott Hall and Curt Hennig)
- Looking back: WCW Capital Combat: The Return Of Robocop 1990 and SuperBrawl 1991
- Audio: Sid Vicious vs El Gigante: Stretcher Match
- Looking back: WCW WarGames 1992
- Papa Shango places a voodoo curse on a vomiting Ultimate Warrior, and the feud begins
- AAA Promotion makes its debut 1992
- Audio: The biggest upset in Raw histoy? The Kid def Razor Ramon
- Audio: Marty Janetty makes WWF return and def Shawn Michaels for IC Championship
- A Current Affair debuts profiling the tragedies surrounding the Von Erich family
- Looking back: ECW: When Worlds Collide 1994
- Audio: Arn Anderson speaks on his one match in ECW and why it sucked
- Looking back at AAA Triplemania II-B event 1994
- Looking back: First ever WWF In Your House 1995
- Audio: Bob Backlund announces his candidacy for President and makes some comical errors at some historical events
- Infamous Cliq Curtain Call takes place at Madison Square Garden
- Audio: Triple H, Jim Cornette, Scott Hall, and Kevin Nash speak on the infamous MSG Curtain Call
- Looking back: WCW Slamboree 1996-1998
- HBK infamous ‘Sunny Days’ Promo on Bret Hart airs on Raw
- Audio: Sean Waltman reveals a ‘Sunny Day’ story involving Shawn Michaels
- Looking back when Ric Flair had led Time Magazine’s ‘Person Of The Century’ Poll
- Looking back: ECW ‘It Ain’t Seinfeld’ event 1998
- Taz debuts the FTW (F*** The World) Championship
- Audio: Eric Bischoff taunts Vince McMahon on WCW Thunder
- Audio: Chris Jericho’s introduces the participants in the Cruiserweight Battle Royal at Slamboree 1998
- Audio: The night Dean Malenko received one of the loudest pops in WCW history
- Referee Charles Robinson suffers collapsed lung after taking an elbow drop by Macho Man Randy Savage
- Looking back: WCW No Mercy UK 1999 and ECW Hardcore Heaven 1999, 2000
- Audio: Godfather’s Ho (Bobcat) wins WWF Hardcore Title from Crash Holly
- Audio: Don Tony’s favorite WWF Hardcore Title match: Gerald Brisco vs Crash Holly
- Looking back: WWE Judgement Day 2000-2004, 2007-2009
- Vince McMahon makes return appearance on HBO’s ‘On The Record with Bob Costas’
- Zach Gowan makes WWF TV debut – by having his prosthetic leg yanked off by Rowdy Roddy Piper
- Mordecai makes WWE main roster debut
- Audio: Bobby Heenan on The Dennis Miller Show
- TNA suspends Jeff Hardy
- Looking back: TNA Hard Justice 2005
- Tickets for ECW One Night Stand go on sale and immediately sells out
- Looking back: TNA Sacrifice 2006, 2010
- ‘See No Evil’ starring Kane hits movie theatres
- WWE releases Sabu, Shelly Martinez, Scotty 2 Hotty, Nick Mitchell, Carlito and Angel Williams (Angelina Love)
- Audio: Bret Hart defeats The Miz to win the WWE US Championship
- Hulk Hogan sues Fruity Pebbles Cereal
- Audio: TNA rebrands as ‘Impact Wrestling’ and ‘Wrestling Matters’
- TNA signs Brooke Hogan
- Looking back: WWE Over The Limit 2012 and Extreme Rules 2013
- Audio: Kevin Owens makes WWE main roster debut
- Looking back: NXT TakeOver: Unstoppable 2015
- Samoa Joe makes NXT debut
- Destination America announces cancellation of TNA Programming effective September 2015
- Audio: New Day ‘Time Machine’ skit poking fun at The Vaudvillains 2016
- And so much more!
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