This Week In Wrestling History (Season 4 Episode 4: 1/22 – 1/28)
The Don Tony Show
DTD Entertainment LLC
4.0 • 782 Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2026
⏱️ 359 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Back in 2002 this week, we had one of the most famous promos in WWE history go down on Smackdown. |
| 0:10.0 | It was Vince McMahon, feuding with Rick Flair at the time. |
| 0:15.3 | And we're about to have the No Way Out pay-per-view. |
| 0:19.1 | And Vince McMahon feels with the closing of WCW, |
| 0:23.8 | with Rick Flair now infiltrated in the WWE, |
| 0:28.7 | that Vince felt that WWE was dying, |
| 0:33.1 | that he had to kill his creation, inject a poison. |
| 0:40.1 | And then obviously we would finish that promo with him in the mirror, in the background, |
| 0:46.7 | turns his chair around, and you see the letters NWO. |
| 0:55.5 | The NWO, Hogan, Hall, and Nash would come in. |
| 1:00.2 | That was Vince McMahon's idea of how he could kill the WWE legendary at the time. |
| 1:07.9 | Who would have ever thought almost 22 years to the day Vince's world would be turned upside |
| 1:14.1 | down once again. This time, not because of the nature boy, but because of Janelle Grant. Yes, |
| 1:19.9 | that lawsuit was announced this week in history as well. And as a result, Vince McMahon would |
| 1:25.3 | exit WWE and TKO. |
| 1:36.2 | And I started to think, boy, that promo in 2002 would have a whole new meeting if Vince was able to appear on SmackDown right before he exited this week in 2024. |
| 1:43.7 | But everything, |
| 1:46.6 | everything on earth has to come to an end. |
| 1:55.0 | I never thought. |
| 1:57.3 | I never thought it'd be like this. |
| 2:01.5 | I never thought that one day my world would come crashing down around me. |
| 2:06.2 | And you've got to understand. |
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