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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
- On This Day in 1996: International Incident packed Vancouver, but WWF was still searching for moreWWE
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 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 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 11, 2005, WWE took one of the ugliest real-life stories it had on its hands and pushed it straight into the middle of Raw. Matt Hardy's surprise return in East Rutherford,
On July 7, 1996, World Championship Wrestling pulled off one of the few true gasps in wrestling history. Fans bought Bash at the Beach expecting to finally learn who would stand be
On July 2, 2001, World Championship Wrestling was supposed to feel alive again. That was the promise behind Booker T defending the WCW Championship against Buff Bagwell in the main
On June 23, 1996, Steve Austin won the King of the Ring tournament in Milwaukee and left with something much bigger than a crown. By the end of the night, he had a catchphrase, a c
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 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 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 This Day in 1993: Shawn Michaels reclaimed the Intercontinental title and the Diesel era beganWWE
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 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 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 22, 2005, John Cena did more than beat JBL again. He survived him, bled with him, and finally looked like a WWE champion fans could believe in. That is what made Judgment Da
On May 20, 2011, wrestling lost one of the few stars who never needed a surname, a title belt or even a proper introduction. Randy Savage was simply the Macho Man, and by the time
On May 19, 1996, WWF ran what should have been just a hot Madison Square Garden house show. Instead, it became one of the most replayed and re-litigated nights in wrestling history