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On July 8, 1996, WCW put one of its biggest long-term ideas into focus in less than ten minutes. That night on Nitro from Disney-MGM Studios in Orlando, Rey Mysterio beat Dean Male
On July 7, 1996, World Championship Wrestling pulled off one of the few true gasps in wrestling history. Fans bought Bash at the Beach expecting to finally learn who would stand be
On July 6, 1998, WCW did something that felt almost impossible in real time. It took the hottest undefeated star in the company, put him in front of a packed Georgia Dome, and actu
On July 5, 2016, TNA aired something that barely looked like a wrestling match and somehow felt more alive than most wrestling television at the time. That night, Matt Hardy and Je
Nobody in wrestling has ever been turned into a top babyface more suddenly than Lex Luger was on July 4, 1993. That afternoon on the deck of the USS Intrepid in New York City, the
On July 3, 2019, Pedro "Perro" Aguayo died at 73, and with him went one of the most important box office forces lucha libre has ever produced. That is not empty obituary language.
On July 2, 2001, World Championship Wrestling was supposed to feel alive again. That was the promise behind Booker T defending the WCW Championship against Buff Bagwell in the main
On July 1, 2002, Jeff Hardy lost the biggest singles match of his career. That is the official result. It is also only part of the story. What happened that night on Raw in Manches
On June 30, 2008, WWE finally let CM Punk feel like more than a cult favorite. That was the real importance of the night in Oklahoma City. Yes, Punk beat Edge in eight seconds to w
June 29, 2014 was one of those WWE nights that felt huge in the moment and even more revealing in hindsight. John Cena had already been world champion so many times that another ti
On June 28, 1998, The Undertaker and Mankind took a stipulation that was still new, still mysterious, and turned it into one of the defining images in wrestling history. Hell in a
On June 27, 2011, CM Punk walked onto the Raw stage in Las Vegas, sat down cross-legged, and changed the mood of WWE in a single segment. The promo would come to be known as the pi
On June 26, 2019, Riki Choshu walked into Korakuen Hall for one last match, and Japanese wrestling got the kind of farewell that feels impossible to stage unless the man at the cen
On June 24, 2001, Edge won the King of the Ring tournament in East Rutherford, New Jersey, and the crown ended up meaning more than the costume jewelry that came with it. It was th
On June 23, 1996, Steve Austin won the King of the Ring tournament in Milwaukee and left with something much bigger than a crown. By the end of the night, he had a catchphrase, a c
On June 22, 1996, ECW staged the kind of night that only ECW could have staged. Hardcore Heaven 1996 was loud, messy, overheated, half out of control and impossible to forget. The
On June 21, 2000, Nippon TV aired its final All Japan Pro Wrestling broadcast. In pure television terms, it was just one show ending after nearly three decades. In wrestling terms,
On June 19, 1995, WCW had not yet launched Nitro, had not yet won a ratings battle and had not yet turned Monday nights into wrestling's most famous weekly fight. What it did on th
On June 18, 2018, wrestling lost one of the few monsters who never had to choose between spectacle and skill. Leon White, known around the world as Vader and Big Van Vader, died th
On June 17, 2007, TNA went back to the building where its national story started and tried to tell the audience what the next chapter was supposed to be. Slammiversary that year wa