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On September 4, 1995, WCW stopped acting like the national No. 2 promotion and started behaving like a company that thought it could win. Monday Nitro debuted live from the Mall of
On August 30, 2020, WWE finally stopped fighting the version of Roman Reigns that so much of its audience had been asking to see for years. Reigns walked into Payback after months
On August 29, 1992, WWF took SummerSlam to Wembley Stadium and made the event feel enormous in a way few wrestling shows ever had. The company drew a paid house of 78,927 in London
On August 26, 1996, Chris Jericho walked onto WCW Monday Nitro for the first time and did not get the kind of debut that usually ends up in highlight packages. He did not win. He d
On August 24, 1994, WCW put its biggest possible match on free television and watched the numbers jump into the history books. Hulk Hogan defending the WCW title against Ric Flair
On August 22, 1999, Mankind won the WWF Championship at SummerSlam, and in a company full of swerves, that finish still stands out because of what it was really doing. On the surfa
On August 20, 1995, Mick Foley did the kind of thing that only made sense in the wrestling world of that era. Working as Cactus Jack, he went into Kawasaki Stadium in Japan, surviv
On August 19, 2018, WWE finally stopped waiting. Roman Reigns beat Brock Lesnar in the SummerSlam main event at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, winning the Universal Championship in a
On August 18, 2013, WWE gave Daniel Bryan the kind of moment fans had spent all summer begging for, then took it away before the confetti had even finished falling. SummerSlam at S
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 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 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 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 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 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