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On August 15, 1995, Keiji Muto beat Shinya Hashimoto in the G1 Climax final at Tokyo's Sumo Hall and gave New Japan one of those tournament endings that means more in hindsight wit
On August 14, 2011, WWE had the chance to give its hottest story of the year the kind of clean, lasting ending fans almost never get. For a few minutes at SummerSlam, it looked lik
On August 13, 2018, Jim Neidhart died at 63 after suffering a seizure and a fall at his home in Florida. Wrestling lost no shortage of famous names in that era, but Neidhart's deat
On August 11, 2019, WWE closed SummerSlam with something the company had not been especially good at delivering that year: a straightforward heroic payoff that people could feel in
On August 10, 2018, a wrestling ticket sale told the industry something it had been slowly inching toward for months, but had not fully proven yet. Ring of Honor and New Japan Pro-
On August 9, 1997, ECW did not just stage another violent main event in South Philadelphia. It produced one of the matches that still gets talked about with a wince. At Born to Be
On August 8, 1993, Carlos Colón beat Terry Funk in Bayamón in what was billed as his final match ever, and the result mattered for more than the usual retirement-match sentiment. F
On August 7, 1994, Masahiro Chono beat Power Warrior in the G1 Climax final at Tokyo's Sumo Hall and gave New Japan one of those victories that matters more for what it confirmed t
On August 6, 2000, Pro Wrestling NOAH stopped feeling like a bold idea and started feeling real. The promotion had only just been born out of the chaotic All Japan split that summe
On August 5, 1996, The Great Sasuke beat Ultimo Dragon in Tokyo to become the first J-Crown champion, and in the process gave junior heavyweight wrestling one of its great visual s
On August 4, 1997, WCW reached one of those rare television nights where the building, the storyline, and the timing all lined up at once. It was the 100th episode of Monday Nitro,
On August 3, 1997, WWF arrived at SummerSlam with the kind of momentum that made every major angle feel louder than life. Bret Hart was in the middle of his bitter U.S. versus Cana
On August 2, 1992, WCW walked into Baltimore with Big Van Vader advertised to defend the world title against Sting. By the end of the night, the promotion had something much bigger
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