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 E34 (08/20 – 08/26)
- Dusty Rhodes def Harley Race to win NWA Heavyweight Championship, ending Race’s run at 926 days. Rhodes’ title reign would last 5 days
- Audio: Roddy Piper returns to Georgia Championship Wrestling TV two weeks after stabbing incident 1982
- Audio: Bizzaro Land: Vince McMahon makes his memorable heel debut in USWA, Bret Hart booed in Memphis, and more 1993
- Looking back at USWA ‘A Matter Of Pride’ event 1993
- Looking back at WCW Clash Of The Champions XXVIII
- Ricky Steamboat suffers career ending back injury
- Final ECW Match: Eddie Guerrero vs Dean Malenko: Best 2 Of 3 Falls
- Audio: Cactus Jack vs Terry Funk: IWA King Of The Death Match Tournament Final 1995
- Audio: Arn Anderson announces his in ring retirement on WCW Monday Nitro 1997
- Looking back at WCW Clash Of The Champions XXXV and WWF Friday Night’s Main Event 1997
- Audio: Bart Gunn vs Bradshaw: Brawl For It All Tournament Final
- WWF tapes the first weekly episode of Smackdown
- Raven quits WCW and returns to ECW 1999
- Audio: Raw vs Nitro Main Event Battle (1999): Triple H wins his first WWF Heavyweight Title (Raw) vs KISS and the KISS Demon (Nitro)
- Lillian Garcia and Miss Kitty make their WWF debuts
- Audio: Paul Heyman appears on MSNBC hyping upcoming ECW on TNN debut 1999
- Audio: First Women’s Main Event in Raw history: Stephanie McMahon vs Lita for Womens Championship 2000
- Sara (Undertaker’s Ex-Wife) vs Diamond Dallas Page
- The Rock interviews Booker Wee – Sucka!
- Looking back at WWE SummerSlam 1991, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2005-2007, 2009, 2015-2017
- Audio: Last ever WWF Hardcore Title Match: Rob Van Dam vs Tommy Dreamer 2002
- Audio: Howard Finkel vs Lillian Garcia: Tuxedo vs Evening Gown Match 2002
- Jaime Koeppe wins 2003 WWE Divas Search
- Audio: Hulk Hogan vs Shawn Michaels SummerSlam 2005 and HBK Promo from Raw
- John Cena vs Chris Jericho: “You’re Fired’ Match
- Hulk Hogan wrestles his last ever WWE match
- WWE Headquarters ‘spray painted’ with DX Logo
- Matt Hardy and MVP play Basketball on Smackdown
- Big Show, Khali, Cody Rhodes and Ted Dibiase appear on The Tonight Show w/ Conan O’Brien
- Audio: Dashing Cody Rhodes’ Grooming Tips 2010
- Wacky incident between Balls Mahoney and The Outpatient
- Audio: NXT fans are treated to CM Punk and Seth Rollins vs Kassius Ohno and Cesaro (Kings Of Wrestling)
- Audio: AJ Lee cuts her own ‘Pipebomb’ on Total Divas 2013
- El Rey Network officially announces the launch of Lucha Underground
- Audio: Nikki Bella wishes Brie Bella died in the womb!
- Looking back at NXT Takeover: Brooklyn 2015
- Audio: The Dudleys return to WWE Raw after 10 year absence 2015
- Sting makes surprise appearance on Raw and confronts The Authority and Seth Rollins
- Audio: Braun Strowman makes WWE main roster debut
- Audio: Closing moments of first ever WWE Universal Title Match: Seth Rollins vs Finn Balor 2016
- Asuka (NXT Women’s) and Finn Balor (WWE Universal) forced to relinquish titles due to injury
- Audio: Heated exchange between Daniel Bryan and The Miz on Talking Smack
- One year after making a memorable return, WWE bids farewell to The Dudleys
- Audio: Chris Jericho discusses backstage fight with Brock Lesnar following match against Randy Orton
- AAA strips Sexy Star of Reina de Reinas Championship due to intentionally injuring Rosemary during TripleMania XXV match
- And so much more!
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