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 E20 (05/14 - 05/20)

• Bruno Sammartino def Buddy Rogers to win WWWF Championship
• Andy Kaufman passes away from Lung Cancer at 35 years old
• Audio: AWA fu**ery: Playboy Buddy Rose & Doug Somers win the AWA Tag Team titles on a count out (from Scott Hall and Curt Hennig)
• Looking back: WCW Capital Combat: The Return Of Robocop 1990 and SuperBrawl 1991
• Audio: Sid Vicious vs El Gigante: Stretcher Match
• Looking back: WCW WarGames 1992
• Papa Shango places a voodoo curse on a vomiting Ultimate Warrior, and the feud begins
• AAA Promotion makes its debut 1992
• Audio: The biggest upset in Raw histoy? The Kid def Razor Ramon
• Audio: Marty Janetty makes WWF return and def Shawn Michaels for IC Championship
• A Current Affair debuts profiling the tragedies surrounding the Von Erich family
• Looking back: ECW: When Worlds Collide 1994
• Audio: Arn Anderson speaks on his one match in ECW and why it sucked
• Looking back at AAA Triplemania II-B event 1994
• Looking back: First ever WWF In Your House 1995
• Audio: Bob Backlund announces his candidacy for President and makes some comical errors at some historical events
• Infamous Cliq Curtain Call takes place at Madison Square Garden
• Audio: Triple H, Jim Cornette, Scott Hall, and Kevin Nash speak on the infamous MSG Curtain Call
• Looking back: WCW Slamboree 1996-1998
• HBK infamous 'Sunny Days' Promo on Bret Hart airs on Raw
• Audio: Sean Waltman reveals a 'Sunny Day' story involving Shawn Michaels
• Looking back when Ric Flair had led Time Magazine's 'Person Of The Century' Poll
• Looking back: ECW 'It Ain't Seinfeld' event 1998
• Taz debuts the FTW (F*** The World) Championship
• Audio: Eric Bischoff taunts Vince McMahon on WCW Thunder
• Audio: Chris Jericho's introduces the participants in the Cruiserweight Battle Royal at Slamboree 1998
• Audio: The night Dean Malenko received one of the loudest pops in WCW history
• Referee Charles Robinson suffers collapsed lung after taking an elbow drop by Macho Man Randy Savage
• Looking back: WCW No Mercy UK 1999 and ECW Hardcore Heaven 1999, 2000
• Audio: Godfather's Ho (Bobcat) wins WWF Hardcore Title from Crash Holly
• Audio: Don Tony's favorite WWF Hardcore Title match: Gerald Brisco vs Crash Holly
• Looking back: WWE Judgement Day 2000-2004, 2007-2009
• Vince McMahon makes return appearance on HBO's 'On The Record with Bob Costas'
• Zach Gowan makes WWF TV debut - by having his prosthetic leg yanked off by Rowdy Roddy Piper
• Mordecai makes WWE main roster debut
• Audio: Bobby Heenan on The Dennis Miller Show
• TNA suspends Jeff Hardy
• Looking back: TNA Hard Justice 2005
• Tickets for ECW One Night Stand go on sale and immediately sells out
• Looking back: TNA Sacrifice 2006, 2010
• 'See No Evil' starring Kane hits movie theatres
• WWE releases Sabu, Shelly Martinez, Scotty 2 Hotty, Nick Mitchell, Carlito and Angel Williams (Angelina Love)
• Audio: Bret Hart defeats The Miz to win the WWE US Championship
• Hulk Hogan sues Fruity Pebbles Cereal
• Audio: TNA rebrands as 'Impact Wrestling' and 'Wrestling Matters'
• TNA signs Brooke Hogan
• Looking back: WWE Over The Limit 2012 and Extreme Rules 2013
• Audio: Kevin Owens makes WWE main roster debut
• Looking back: NXT TakeOver: Unstoppable 2015
• Samoa Joe makes NXT debut
• Destination America announces cancellation of TNA Programming effective September 2015
• Audio: New Day 'Time Machine' skit poking fun at The Vaudvillains 2016
• And so much more!

 

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