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DON TONY AND KEVIN CASTLE SHOW

This Week In Wrestling History (Week Twenty-Five) 6/17 – 6/23

DON TONY AND KEVIN CASTLE SHOW

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4 • 782 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2024

⏱️ 223 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 25 (6/17 – 6/23)
RUNNING TIME: 3 Hours 44 Minutes

  • National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) is formed.
  • Pat Patterson def Ted Dibiase for WWF North American Title (which would later be renamed the Intercontinental Title).
  • Ray Stevens & Jimmy Snuka def Ricky Steamboat & Jay Youngblood to win NWA World Tag Team Titles.
  • Dusty Rhodes def Harley Race for NWA Heavyweight Title.
  • Looking back at the time Jimmy Hart def Jerry 'The King' Lawler to win the AWA Southern Heavyweight Title.
  • Audio: Infamous Cyndi Lauper appearance on Pipers Pit airs nationwide.
  • Audio: Cyndi Lauper makes an interesting wrestling challenge to Lou Albano, and The Captain accepts.
  • Audio: Jimmy Snuka's wild promo vows revenge on Roddy Piper after Piper's Pit (coconut).
  • Audio: 'Yucks for Bucks' as Magnificent Muraco and Mr Fuji attempt Stand-Up comedy.
  • In the ring, a porta potty, even into the Cooper River: Terry Funk and Stan Hansen wild brawl at NJ Indy event.
  • First ever ECW (Eastern Championship Wrestling) Tag Champs.
  • Looking back at WCW Beach Blast PPV (1992).
  • Audio: Cactus Jack vs Sting (From Beach Blast '92).
  • Bastion Booger makes WWF debut.
  • Memorable Raw match between 1-2-3 Kid vs Razor Ramon which involved a faceplant on the concrete floor, theft of $10,000 and more.
  • Infamous Press Conference: Tonya Harding to manage Love Machine (Art Barr) and Eddie Guerrero in pro wrestling match.
  • Looking back at WCW Clash Of The Champions XXVII (1994).
  • Audio: 24 hours after retaining WCW Tag Team Titles at COC, Cactus Jack battles Sabu in ECW for the first ever.
  • Looking back at ECW Hostile City Showdown ’94
  • Audio: Flyboy Rocco Rock compares Dory Funk Jr to Ronald Goldman (murdered allegedly by OJ Simpson).
  • Looking back at WWF/WWE King Of The Ring PPV (1994, 1996, 2001, 2002).
  • Art Donovan: Worst WWF/WWE guest commentator of all time.
  • Audio: Funny clip from Kayfabe Commentaries poking fun at Art Donovan's commentating at KOR 1994.
  • Grand Wizard, Moolah, Ernie Ladd, Ivan Putski, Pedro Morales, George ‘The Animal’ Steele, and Antonio Rocca inducted into WWF Hall Of Fame (1995).
  • Looking back at WCW Great American Bash (1995).
  • The Giant (Big Show) appears for first time on WCW TV.
  • Looking back at ECW Hardcore Heaven 1996.
  • Austin 3:16 is born.
  • Audio: NOD becomes an all black faction and Ahmed Johnson's controversial (but epic) racial promo explaining why he joined the Nation Of Domination.
  • Disciples of Apocalypse (DOA) make WWE debut.
  • Audio: ECW vs WWF feud continues, as Sabu w/ Bill Alfonso battles Flash Funk on Monday Night Raw.
  • Edge’s not so memorable WWE in ring debut.
  • Audio: Crash Holly vs Hardcore Holly KOR Qualifying match leads to Patterson and Brisco both winning WWF Hardcore Title.
  • Audio: Diamond Dallas Page is revealed as the 'Stalker' of Undertaker's wife Sara.
  • Booker T make his WWF debut.
  • KOR 2001 Street Fight: Kurt Angle vs Shane McMahon.
  • WWF Tough Enough debuts on MTV.
  • Looking back at the weekly PPV debut of NWATNA (2002).
  • Vince Russo returns to WWE as head writer – for two days.
  • Bret Hart suffers a stroke.
  • Looking back at NWATNA's First Anniversary Show (2003).
  • Kane forced to unmasked for the first time on WWE TV.
  • Audio: Goldberg accepts Theodore Long's 5 Minute White Boy Challenge.
  • WWE Hardcore Tribute to Mick Foley at MSG Raw ends with an Orton punt and a Foley falling down a flight of stairs. 
  • Audio: Yo! Kurt Angle Raps.
  • Looking back at TNA Slammiversary PPV (2005, 2006, 2009).
  • Samoa Joe makes TNA debut.
  • Looking back at ROH first ever Survival Of The Fittest Tournament (2004).
  • Audio: After signing WWE contract, The Summer Of Punk in ROH begins at Death Before Dishonor III (2005).
  • Audio: Another WWE Wedding gone featuring Edge and Lita.
  • Audio: The Sandman battles Macho Libre on week two of ECW (WWE) on Sci-Fi.
  • Less than two weeks after debuting on Sci-Fi, WWE attempts ECW House Show at ECW Arena with questionable results.
  • DX throws Jonathan Coachman head first into a wall, and spray paint his bare ass.
  • Looking back at WWE Vengeance: Night Of Champions PPV (2007).
  • Chris Benoit double murder / suicide tragedy.
  • Looking back at the very eerie DTKC episode (Minority Report) which aired live as news of the double murder / suicide broke.
  • Ron Killings and Konnan quit TNA.
  • Jim Ross almost quits WWE after being drafted to Smackdown during 2008 WWE Draft Lottery.
  • McMahon's Million Dollar Mania comes to an abrupt halt after an 'accident' on Raw.
  • Did the three weeks of McMahon's Million Dollar Mania give WWE the ratings bump they were expecting?
  • Ultimate Warrior wrestles his last ever match (against Orlando Jordan for Nu-Wrestling Evolution in Barcelona, Spain).
  • TNA films pilot episode of Spin Cycle.
  • Audio: TNA Spin Cycle asks some Knockouts if they can make sounds with a body part.
  • WWE releases Sim Snuka, Matt Striker, and Candice Michelle.
  • Audio: Donald Trump ‘sells’ Raw back to Vince McMahon. But not before making an interesting announcement and 'firing' Santina Marella.
  • Looking back at WWE Fatal 4-Way PPV, ROH Death Before Dishonor VIII, and NJPW Dominion 6.19 PPVs (2010).
  • Audio: ‘President Barack Obama’ appears at WWE Capital Punishment PPV.
  • Just weeks before his WWE contract is set to expire, CM Punk wins #1 Contenders match to face John Cena at MITB for WWE Championship.
  • Disgruntled Chavo Guerrero Jr requests and is granted WWE release.
  • Looking back at NJPW Dominion 6.18 and AAA TripleMania XIX events (2011).
  • TNA sues Scott Steiner after making disparaging remarks against TNA, Hulk Hogan and more.
  • Cyndi Lauper and Wendi Richter appear on Raw (2012) and a WWF/WWE ring for the first time since 1985.
  • Ring Of Honor ceases live iPPV's due to repeated technical difficulties (aka due to live streaming on the cheap).
  • Looking back at ROH Best In The Word iPPV (2013, 2015, 2017).
  • Corey Graves wins his first and only NXT Championship.
  • Vickie Guerrero's WWE retirement match: vs Stephanie McMahon in Chocolate Pudding.
  • Audio: Same old sh**? 2015 Paul Heyman / Brock Lesnar promo on Seth Rollins could air today and not much would need to be changed.
  • Tyson Kidd undergoes career ending neck and spinal surgery.
  • Where's The Boom?! Jeff Jarrett returns to Impact Wrestling and attempts a Global Force Wrestling vs TNA feud.
  • Matt and Reby Hardy become proud parents of their first child, son Maxel.
  • Looking back at WWE Money In The Bank PPV (2016, 2017).
  • Remembering when Roman Reigns, Seth Rollins, and Dean Ambrose all held the WWE Championship the same night. 
  • Roman Reigns suspended 30 days for violating WWE Wellness Policy.
  • Maria Kanellis returns to WWE and brings hubby Mike with her.
  • Cody Rhodes def Christopher Daniels to become ROH World Champion.
  • And so much more!

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0:00.0

Dory Funk, you don't know what you're getting into, boy.

0:05.0

You don't know what your goofy brother is dragging you into.

0:10.0

You're getting involved in something like that poor fool

0:14.0

that was hooked up with O.J. Simpson's wife.

0:18.0

O.J. Simpson's wife, that poor fool, look what he got himself into.

0:23.3

And you're going to get right into the same thing. You're going right into the same trap as that dummy.

0:30.8

And I'm telling you right now, you're going to end up just like that dummy this Friday night at the ECW arena.

0:40.9

We did commit the crime and we will do the time.

0:47.5

Yeah, rock o' rock went there.

0:50.3

Ronald Goldman.

0:51.9

And let's also put in perspective the fact that that was said in 1994.

0:57.7

It's only what?

0:58.6

A month after O.J. Simpson was arrested and charged with murdering Ronald Goldman and

1:05.5

Nicole Brown.

1:07.1

You know, and they went there on ECW TV at the time.

1:11.3

Most of us were like, wow, wow, they went there.

1:14.7

But I'll tell you something even funnier.

1:16.9

Anybody that follows my shows for a long time, you know that I have noticed a lot of little moments that WW removes from shows,

1:26.4

Nitro, Raw, especially,

1:28.4

and not simply because it's music they can't use.

1:32.7

No, there's a lot of politically incorrect items that they have taken out.

1:38.7

I guess whoever was in charge of re-digitizing the ECW content for the network, probably

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