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DON TONY AND KEVIN CASTLE SHOW

This Week In Wrestling History (Week Thirty-Two) 8/5 – 8/11

DON TONY AND KEVIN CASTLE SHOW

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4 • 782 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2024

⏱️ 200 minutes

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Summary

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: Episode 32 (8/5 – 8/11)
RUNNING TIME: 3 Hours 21 Minutes

  • 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, 1997, 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 event (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 (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 PPV (2010).
  • Kahoneys! Looking back at TNA HardCORE Justice PPV (2010).
  • WWE signs Seth Rollins
  • Looking back at Juggalo Championship Wrestling's Legends And Icons iPPV event (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 so much more!

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0:00.0

You know, Tony Chavani, it amazes me that you and David Track and come out here and talk about planned action.

0:08.8

Like the horsemen sat around some big table and delegated Tully Blaser to go do this in Dusty Road.

0:14.6

You're sadly mistaken.

0:15.8

Flair and I went to Kansas City to issue a challenge and buy a close at Michaels and that's a simple fact.

0:22.9

Now if you want to say that's the reason Dusty Rhodes lost the World's Every Way Championship,

0:26.6

you say it because I know Dusty Rhodes wouldn't.

0:29.6

Dusty Rhodes is an athlete and a man and he walked the aisle in St. Louis and he was the World's

0:35.2

Everyweight Champion and he fought his butt off I watched it

0:39.0

on that day a better man

0:41.4

won Rick Flair one of the four

0:43.4

horsemen by best friends

0:45.0

you people want to take something

0:47.3

away you go right ahead

0:48.4

Dusty Rhodes was the World's Airways for the third time

0:51.1

you David Crockett wouldn't know what it was like

0:53.0

to put a jack strap on now, the fact of the matter is what happened in Kansas City is because Tully Blanchard,

1:02.0

the National Heavyweight Champion, does not like Dusty Rhodes.

1:06.0

Can't stand the man. Only Anderson cannot stand the man.

1:10.0

Arne Emerson, cannot stand the man. And Rick Flair cannot stand the man. Only Anderson cannot stand the man. Aren't Anderson, get outstay in the man.

1:12.5

And Rick Flair, cannot stand the man.

1:14.6

That is the reason why the horsemen are out here

1:18.3

and why we are what's happening in professional wrestling.

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