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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
On May 30, 2016, WWE took a meeting fans had waited years to see and twisted it into something much better than a respectful handshake. John Cena returned to Raw that night after m
On May 29, 2016, DDT did not just crown a new champion. It told its audience that the promotion's future had arrived right on schedule. That afternoon at Korakuen Hall, Konosuke Ta
On May 28, 2002, Calgary stopped pretending that wrestling grief could be kept behind the curtain. That day became the public farewell for Davey Boy Smith, the British Bulldog, jus
On May 27, 1996, WCW took one of the biggest creative swings in modern wrestling history and landed it clean. Scott Hall walked through the crowd on Monday Nitro, stepped into the
On May 26, 1996, WWF tried to run another routine In Your House pay-per-view and wound up producing one of the weirdest nights in company history. Beware of Dog was supposed to be
On May 25, 2019, All Elite Wrestling stopped being a promise and became a promotion. That distinction mattered. For months, AEW had money, executive vice presidents, a television d
On May 24, 2015, AAA tried something that felt almost rebellious for modern wrestling. Instead of protecting borders, guarding contracts, and pretending the rest of the industry di