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 will be posted every Tuesday at 4PM EST. These episodes are filled with hundreds of hours of original wrestling clips & stories. Enjoy this deep dive into pro wrestling's awesome history.

 

SYNOPSIS: S2 E19 (05/07 - 05/13)

• Bruno Sammartino vs Giant Baba: First time WWWF Championship is defended in Japan
• Verne Gagne retires as AWA Heavyweight Champion
• Eddie Gilbert seriously injured in auto accident following WWF event
• Nancy Argentino, girlfriend of Jimmy Snuka, dies after head injury
• Looking back: First ever Saturday Night's Main Event 1985
• Career vs Title: Jerry Lawler vs Curt Hennig for AWA World Title
• Bonus Audio: Curt Hennig attacks owner of Toyota Dealership and destroys the CWA Studio
• Looking back: NWA WrestleWar 1989
• Audio: Memorable attack by Terry Funk on Ric Flair following his NWA Heavyweight Title defense
• Audio: Macho Man Randy Savage and Steve Austin comment on the one and only time they faced off in the ring
• Standards and Practices: WWF forced to edit Raw segment showing Goldust licking Undertaker up his leg and thigh
• Audio: Farooq accuses WWF of racism and lack of Black Champions
• Audio: RVD Monday Night Raw debut vs Jeff Hardy 97
• Audio: Dustin Runnels tears up during Raw segment while speaking about Dusty and Goldust character
• Audio: Eric Bischoff challenges Vince McMahon to a fight at WCW Slamboree 98
• Online voting gone wrong: Ric Flair voted People Magazine's #2 Most Beautiful People In The World for 1998. Who was #1?
• Steve Austin on TSN's Off The Record
• Sable leaves WWF and files $110 Million Lawsuit claiming sexual harassment
• Audio: Debra vs Sable Evening Gown Match
• Audio: Sean Waltman speaks on putting feces inside Sable's luggage
• DT looks back at highest rated Raw episode (8.1) in history and how WCW never fully recovered
• Miss Elizabeth wrestles her first 2 matches
• Audio: APA destroy Big Boss Man and Bull Buchanan in a bar fight
• Perry Saturn sent home by WWF after shooting on Mike Bell
• WWF releases Scott Hall 48 hours after 'Plane Ride From Hell'
• Batista makes WWF TV debut
• Audio: Edge-A-Mania!
• Undertaker attacks, hogties, and drags Hulk Hogan while riding a motorcycle throughout the Air Canada Center
• Launch of NWA Total Nonstop Action
• Audio: Memorable Raw segment featuring Austin, Christian, RVD/Kane and the surprise final WWE appearance of Road Warriors
• Audio: Freddie Blassie tells D-Von to Get The Tables!
• TNA and Fox Sports announce creation of non PPV weekly series, Impact
• FSN drops TNA programming
• Booker T and Batista fight during filming of Summerslam commercial
• Audio: Beth Phoenix makes her WWE TV debut
• Audio: Dr. Vince McMahon gives the Commencement Speech at Sacred Heart University (CT)
• Audio: Edge cashes in MITB Briefcase to win the World Heavyweight Championship
• NWA ends their relationship with TNA
• Fresh off the disaster of moving Impact to Mondays, Dixie Carter issues a desperate plea to wrestling fans
• Raw moment: Jerry Lawler uses Michael Cole's tie to attack Cole within Cole Mine
• Baron Corbin makes his NXT debut
• After Christy Hemme botches the ring introduction of Austin Aries and Bobby Roode, Aries climbs ring rope and puts his crotch in Hemme's face. And TNA waits almost a week to denounce the behavior
• Buck Zumhofe sentenced to 25 years in prison for sexually abusing 15 y/o daughter
• Audio: Attitude? TNA tries to get edgy by having MVP use the N word during promo on Impact
• Adam Rose arrested for alleged domestic battery and is immediately suspended by WWE
• Billy Corgan finalizes the deal to purchase NWA
• And more!

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