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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 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 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 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 15, 2002, WWE did something that would have sounded absurd only a year earlier. Vince McMahon stood on the Raw stage in East Rutherford, New Jersey and introduced Eric Bisc
On July 1, 2002, Jeff Hardy lost the biggest singles match of his career. That is the official result. It is also only part of the story. What happened that night on Raw in Manches
June 29, 2014 was one of those WWE nights that felt huge in the moment and even more revealing in hindsight. John Cena had already been world champion so many times that another ti
On June 27, 2011, CM Punk walked onto the Raw stage in Las Vegas, sat down cross-legged, and changed the mood of WWE in a single segment. The promo would come to be known as the pi
On June 24, 2001, Edge won the King of the Ring tournament in East Rutherford, New Jersey, and the crown ended up meaning more than the costume jewelry that came with it. It was 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 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 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 This Day in 1993: Shawn Michaels reclaimed the Intercontinental title and the Diesel era beganTopic
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 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 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 21, 2001, WWF put one of its best television main events of the era on free TV and accidentally changed the shape of its entire summer. That night on Raw in San Jose, Chris
On May 17, 1993, Monday Night Raw still felt new enough that it could surprise people in a way wrestling television rarely does now. That night at the Manhattan Center, the surpris
Summary Brock Rechsteiner has officially landed with the New Orleans Saints after taking part in the team's rookie minicamp, giving the son of Scott Steiner a shot to fight for a p
Summary Trick Williams said watching Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Rock during WWE's Attitude Era helped shape his own dream of becoming a wrestler. In a recent interview, Willia