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On August 1, 2019, Harley Race died at 76 after battling lung cancer. Wrestling loses famous names every year, but some deaths hit differently because they feel like the end of an
On July 31, 1994, Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling brought one of its signature summer cards to Yokohama Bunka Gym and packed the building with 5,625 fans. The main event was exactl
On July 30, 2015, Roddy Piper died at his Hollywood home at 61 years old. The news became public the following morning, and it landed with the particular jolt that comes when wrest
On July 29, 2001, Atsushi Onita did something that still sounds slightly unreal when you say it out loud. One of the most chaotic and influential figures in modern Japanese wrestli
On July 28, 2007, Karl Gotch died in Tampa at 82, just days before his 83rd birthday. For a lot of American fans, that news may have landed like the passing of an old legend whose
On July 27, 2003, WWE ran Vengeance in Denver and got something it badly needed out of the night. Kurt Angle, only months removed from neck surgery, walked into the first SmackDown
On July 26, 2009, Jeff Hardy beat CM Punk at Night of Champions and turned a summer-long chase into one of the last great feel-good title wins of his WWE run. That is what makes th
On July 25, 2011, WWE managed to make a single episode of Raw feel like a month of television crammed into one night. By the time the show ended in Hampton, Virginia, Rey Mysterio
On July 24, 1995, All Japan Pro Wrestling returned to Budokan Hall with the kind of main event that felt less like a routine title defense and more like a referendum on the entire
On July 23, 2002, WWE taped a SmackDown in Indianapolis that felt different from the minute it started. The show was leaner, more wrestling-heavy, and built around the idea that fr
On July 22, 2001, WWF finally found the scale fans thought the invasion angle was supposed to have all along. InVasion came to the Gund Arena in Cleveland with 17,876 fans in the b
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On July 21, 1996, WWF brought In Your House: International Incident to General Motors Place in Vancouver and landed on one of the more revealing nights of its entire pre-Attitude E
On July 20, 1998, WCW put two championship changes on one episode of Nitro and finally gave Bret Hart something tangible to hold onto. By the end of the night in Salt Lake City, Sc
On July 19, 2016, WWE did more than hold a draft. It used the first live Tuesday episode of SmackDown to redraw the company in public, with Shane McMahon and Daniel Bryan building
On July 18, 2005, Pro Wrestling NOAH went back to the Tokyo Dome with a card loaded for an important statement night. Mitsuharu Misawa was facing Toshiaki Kawada for the first time
On July 17, 2011, WWE walked into the Allstate Arena with a hot title feud and walked out with something much bigger. By the end of the night, CM Punk had beaten John Cena for the
On July 16, 2001, wrestling lost Terry "Bam Bam" Gordy, and the news carried a particular kind of sadness. Gordy was only 40, young enough that fans could still imagine one more co
On July 15, 2002, WWE did something that would have sounded absurd only a year earlier. Vince McMahon stood on the Raw stage in East Rutherford, New Jersey and introduced Eric Bisc
On July 13, 2015, WWE took a division that had been stuck in place for years and tried to jolt it forward in one loud burst. That was the night Charlotte, Becky Lynch and Sasha Ban
On July 12, 2020, New Japan Pro-Wrestling did something the whole industry was still trying to figure out how to do. It put thousands of paying fans back in a building during the p