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On September 4, 1995, WCW stopped acting like the national No. 2 promotion and started behaving like a company that thought it could win. Monday Nitro debuted live from the Mall of
On September 3, 2006, Minoru Suzuki won the Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship from Taiyo Kea in Sapporo. That sentence sounds simple enough on paper. In practice, it felt like
On September 2, 2016, Dragon Lee walked into Arena Mexico for the biggest match of his young career and walked out with one of lucha libre's most meaningful prizes, another wrestle
On September 1, 2018, wrestling hit one of those rare nights that felt bigger than a single finish, a single promotion, or even a single era. All In was marketed as a self-made sup
On August 31, 2019, All Elite Wrestling reached the point every new promotion eventually has to reach. It had to decide who would carry the company first. That night at All Out, be
On August 30, 2020, WWE finally stopped fighting the version of Roman Reigns that so much of its audience had been asking to see for years. Reigns walked into Payback after months
On August 29, 1992, WWF took SummerSlam to Wembley Stadium and made the event feel enormous in a way few wrestling shows ever had. The company drew a paid house of 78,927 in London
On August 28, 1999, New Japan Pro-Wrestling put one of the boldest cards in its history into the open air at Meiji Jingu Stadium and trusted spectacle to carry the night. The resul
On August 27, 2000, WWF took a rivalry that was already wild, popular and escalating by the month, then gave it the perfect name. Edge and Christian, The Hardy Boyz and The Dudley
On August 26, 1996, Chris Jericho walked onto WCW Monday Nitro for the first time and did not get the kind of debut that usually ends up in highlight packages. He did not win. He d
On August 24, 1994, WCW put its biggest possible match on free television and watched the numbers jump into the history books. Hulk Hogan defending the WCW title against Ric Flair
On August 23, 1996, Jushin Liger went into surgery to remove a brain tumor, and for a brief moment one of wrestling's most inventive careers stopped being about titles, dream match
On August 22, 1999, Mankind won the WWF Championship at SummerSlam, and in a company full of swerves, that finish still stands out because of what it was really doing. On the surfa
On August 21, 2018, Arturo Díaz Mendoza, known to generations of wrestling fans as Villano III, died at 66 after suffering a brain hemorrhage. In one sense it was the passing of a
On August 20, 1995, Mick Foley did the kind of thing that only made sense in the wrestling world of that era. Working as Cactus Jack, he went into Kawasaki Stadium in Japan, surviv
Summary A short ROH clip shows Smart Mark Sterling taking a brutal-looking neck bump from the apron to ringside.
On August 19, 2018, WWE finally stopped waiting. Roman Reigns beat Brock Lesnar in the SummerSlam main event at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, winning the Universal Championship in a
On August 18, 2013, WWE gave Daniel Bryan the kind of moment fans had spent all summer begging for, then took it away before the confetti had even finished falling. SummerSlam at S
On August 17, 1998, WCW got exactly what it wanted from Warrior's debut on Monday Nitro. It got noise. It got curiosity. It got one of those live-crowd explosions that makes a wres
On August 16, 1997, Plum Mariko died at 29 after suffering catastrophic injuries in a match the night before. There are deaths in wrestling history that feel distant because they b