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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
On June 16, 2012, Hiroshi Tanahashi did more than win back the IWGP Heavyweight Championship. He restored the center of gravity in New Japan Pro-Wrestling without killing the futur
On June 15, 2015, WWE did not need a long mystery to close Raw. It just needed Brock Lesnar to walk out. That moment, saved for the final stretch of the post-Money in the Bank epis
On June 14, 1993, the Steiner Brothers beat Money Inc. at a WWF Wrestling Challenge taping in Columbus, Ohio and finally got their hands on the tag team titles. It was a title chan
On June 13, 1993, Bret Hart walked into the Nutter Center in Fairborn, Ohio with a chance to win the first King of the Ring pay-per-view and walked out having turned the whole nigh
On June 12, 2000, there was no title switch, no famous finishing sequence and no single match that can carry the whole story. What happened instead was something rarer. The wrestli
On June 11, 2006, WWE walked into the Hammerstein Ballroom with its top championship and one of its biggest stars. By the end of the night, Rob Van Dam was holding the belt, Paul H
On June 10, 1996, WCW's invasion angle stopped feeling like a weird one-man stunt and started feeling like a hostile takeover. Scott Hall had already walked into Nitro and made vie
On June 9, 2018, Kenny Omega and Kazuchika Okada met for the fourth time, and by the end of the night there was no argument left about whether their rivalry belonged in wrestling h
On June 8, 1997, Hunter Hearst Helmsley won the King of the Ring tournament in Providence, Rhode Island, and with it claimed the moment that finally pushed his WWF career back onto
On June 7, 2009, Batista got the win that had been hanging over one of WWE's hottest rivalries for months. Inside a steel cage at *Extreme Rules* in New Orleans, Batista beat Randy
- On This Day in 1993: Shawn Michaels reclaimed the Intercontinental title and the Diesel era beganNews
On June 6, 1993, Shawn Michaels beat Marty Jannetty in Albany, New York to regain the WWF Intercontinental Championship. On paper, that sounds like a routine title change. In pract
On June 5, 2019, Jon Moxley had his first match after leaving WWE, and he made sure nobody could mistake it for a fresh coat of paint on an old act. That night at New Japan's *Best
On June 4, 2004, TNA stopped being a promotion you had to go out of your way to find. That was the day the first episode of *Impact* aired on Fox Sports Net, giving the two-year-ol
On June 3, 1994, All Japan Pro Wrestling put one match in front of the house and trusted it to carry the night. That match was Mitsuharu Misawa defending the Triple Crown against T
On June 2, 2014, WWE found the fastest possible way to turn triumph into heartbreak. The night before, The Shield had just swept Evolution at Payback in Chicago, beating Triple H,
On June 1, 1996, Antonio Inoki tried to stage a wrestling version of world diplomacy in Los Angeles. That sentence sounds grand, maybe even a little ridiculous, and that is exactly
On May 31, 2015, WWE gave Kevin Owens the kind of debut most wrestlers spend an entire career chasing. He did not show up, trade a few lines, and lose a respectable first match to