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This Day in Wrestling History – October 15th

Liz takes a look at what occurred on October 15th in the world of professional wrestling. Highlights include Mae Young winning the first NWA’s Florida Women’s Championship and Hulk Hogan being reinstated into the Hall of Fame.

Published

5 years ago

October 15, 2019

Liz Pugliese

Liz takes a look at what occurred on October 15th in the world of professional wrestling. Highlights include Mae Young winning the first NWA’s Florida Women’s Championship and Hulk Hogan being reinstated into the Hall of Fame.

Born On This Date

1955 – Alfred Dobalo (Al Green)
1971 – Jason Arhndt (Joey Abs)
1973 – Peter Joseph Polaco (Justin Credible)
1978 – Takeshi Morishima
1982 – Alipate Fifita (Tama Tonga)
1990 – Titán

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On This Date in Wrestling History

1951 – Mae Young defeats Cora Combs to become the first NWA Florida Women’s Champion in Tampa, Florida.

1963 – Bobo Brazil defeats Tim Anderson in Tampa, Florida, reportedly the first professional wrestling match to take place in Tampa involving African-American wrestlers.

1967 – El Nazi defeats Mil Mascaras to win the Mexican Light-Heavyweight Title in Mexico City, Mexico.

1970 – Akio Kyo defeats Marie Vagnone for the WWWA World Title in Tokyo, Japan.

1979 – Jerry Lawler defeats Bill Dundee in Memphis, Tennessee to win his fifth Southern Heavyweight Title.

1981 – The Junkyard Dog & Mike George defeat The Samoans (Afa & Sika) to win the Mid-South Wrestling Tag Team Title in Jackson, Mississippi, ending the second reign for the Samoans.

1988 – Michael Hayes & Steve Cox defeat The Samoan Swat Team (Fatu & Samu) for the World Class Tag Team Title in Dallas, Texas, ending the SST’s second reign and beginning their own second run with the belts. On the same show, Jeff Jarrett defeats Eric Embry for the World Class Light Heavyweight Title, ending the second of Embry’s five reigns with the belt.

1988 – Hurricane Castillo, Jr. & Miguelito Perez defeat Bobby Jaggers & Dan Kroffat in Bayamon, Puerto Rico for the WWC Caribbean Tag Team Title, ending the second reign of Jaggers & Kroffat.

1998 – X-Pac defeated D’Lo Brown for the WWF European Heavyweight Title. This marked the beginning of the second reign with the belt for X-Pac, as well as the end of Brown’s second reign.

2005 – WWE issued a press release touting that Wrestlemania 22 in Rosemont, IL sold out in “two minutes.”

2005 – Chavo Guerrero defeated Rey Mysterio in an I Quit match. The bout would be Mysterio’s last until Summerslam the following August.

2006 – Kurt Angle defeated Sting to win the TNA World Heavyweight Championship just one day after Sting defeated Angle to retain the title at Bound for Glory

2010 – The third Viva La Lucha PPV “Retribution” debuted on PPV.

2010 – TruTV debuted the second season of Jesse Ventura’s Conspiracy Theory.

2010 –Ring Roast 3, honoring Jim Cornette, was held in Monroe, NJ, featuring Dennis Condrey, Bobby Eaton, Nick Dinsmore, Missy Hyatt and many others.

2011 – Ghostface from the “Scream” movie series attacks John Cena during and after a match on RAW. It was revealed to be Ron Killings/R-Truth.

2012 – It was announced by WWE that they had reinstated Hulk Hogan into the Hall of Fame.

2018 – TNA Impact presented the 14th Bound for Glory. Johnny Impact defeated Austin Aries for the World Championship.

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Died On This Date

2006 – Joseph Magliano (Joey Maggs)

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Mitchell’s AEW Continental Classic Update! (11/27/23)

What a start to the tournament!

Published

5 months ago

November 27, 2023

Steven Mitchell

Did your picks win points?

The AEW Continental Classic is underway, with almost everyone competing. Check in here if you haven’t seen the winners and losers of week 1!

Here are your Gold League standings!

Jon Moxley: 1-0, 3 points
Swerve Strickland: 1-0, 3 points
Jay White: 1-0, 3 points
Rush: 0-1, 0 points
Mark Briscoe: 0-1, 0 points.
Jay Lethal: 0-1, 0 points

Here are your Blue League standings!

Brody King: 1-0, 3 points
Claudio Castagnoli: 1-0, 3 points
Daniel Garcia: 0-1, 0 points
Eddie Kingston: 0-1, 0 points
Bryan Danielson: Yet to Compete
Andrade El Idolo: Yet to Compete

My Thoughts:

Nothing too crazy, nothing too wild, this tournament only just got started. The only disappointing point is that they could not get Bryan “cleared to compete” Saturday night. Not sure how much of that is shoot given the bad eye, but this was kinda the problem of wanting him in the tournament over tons of other choices. Bryan wants to face Okada for WrestleKingdom 18, how is Bryan supposed to do that at his best if he’s also gonna be in a round robin, doing five top level matches in about as many weeks? And it takes away from Andrade being able to do something. Also a little surprised we didn’t even hear from Andrade on Saturday.

Now as we heard on Saturday, round two’s matches are set. Gold League will see Mark Briscoe VS Rush, White VS Swerve, and of course, Moxley VS Lethal. Nice variety there, a couple 0-1 guys facing off, as well as two 1-0 guys, and then 1-0 VS 0-1. No offense to Lethal, but he feels like an 0-2 going up against Moxley. Hard to call the other ones but that’s the fun of it. Meanwhile, Blue League sees Brody VS Claudio in a showdown to be 2-0, then Bryan and Andrade finally jump in, Bryan against Eddie and Andrade against Garcia. Sadly, feels like Eddie and Garcia are going 0-2, no way Tony Khan is booking Bryan and Andrade to lose their first shots.

In fact, that could be half the reason they did wait on those two, that’s almost too good for just a first round opener. But I still would’ve done it, same as NJPW does stuff like that for round robins, which this is all modeled after anyway.

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AEW Coverage

AEW announces Continental Classic entrants

The C2 is set!

Published

5 months ago

November 22, 2023

Steven Mitchell

Tony Khan Reveals the Blue and Gold “Leagues!”

Originally livestreamed, Tony Khan and Tony Schiavone officially announced the twelve total entrants and divided them into the two round robin blocks known as the “Blue League” and “Gold League.” If you don’t feel like sifting through the almost 30 minute video, the groups are:

Blue League

Bryan Danielson
Andrade El Idolo
Brody King
Claudio Castagnoli
Daniel Garcia
Eddie Kingston

Gold League

Jon Moxley
Swerve Strickland
Rush
Mark Briscoe
Jay Lethal
Jay White

Tony Khan also explains the rules for the Continental Classic:

Every match has a 20 minute time limit
The winner of each match earns 3 points, losers earn 0, 1 point for a draw
EVERYONE ELSE is banned from ringside for true 1v1 action

Eddie Kingston also joined the selection special as his “life’s work” is on the line in this tournament, both the ROH World Championship and NJPW Strong Openweight Championship on the line as part of the modern day North American Triple Crown Eddie, Tony Khan, AEW, ROH and NJPW are looking to create together. Gold League competes tonight on Dynamite while Blue League will have their start this Saturday on Collision. Look for more articles like this one to keep up with the Continental Classic standings over the next six weeks of tournament action!

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