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This Week in Wrestling History (September 22-September 29)

This new weekly feature will highlight your standard “Day in History” of birth and date dates, as well as highlights of various promotions.

Published

5 years ago

September 23, 2019

Liz Pugliese

Road Warrior Hawk

Every day of the year is rich with wrestling history. This new weekly feature will highlight your standard “Day in History” of birth and date dates, as well as highlights of various promotions.

Birthdays This Week

9/23/72- Matt Hardy
9/23/88-Kairi Sane
9/24/76- Stephanie McMahon
9/24/85- Shane Thorne
9/24/93- Sonya Deville
9/26/81- Asuka
9/26/88- Buddy Mruphy
9/28/63 – Steve Blackman
9/28/88 – Jason Jordan
9/29/70 – Stacy “Kat” Carter
9/29/70 – Yoshihiro Tajiri
9/29/85 – Candice LeRae

This Week in History (by date)

September 23:

1985: WWF performed at Madison Square Garden. The Junkyward Dog defeated Terry Funk in the main event. The British Bulldogs defeated the The Hart Foundation in 18:31, Ricky Steamboat defeated Don Muraco via DQ, while Andre The Giant met King Kong Bundy in a battle of the giants, which saw Andre winning.

1994: The Herb Abram promotion, UWF, held Blackjack Brawl at The MGM Grand. Only 600 were in attendance. The show featured a wild brawl between Cactus Jack and Jimmy Snuka. Sid Vicious lost to Steve Williams in the main event.

2001: Just weeks after 9/11, WWE presented Unforgiven PPV in New York. One could say that they capitalized on the patriotism at the time having Kurt Angle defeat Steve Austin, but this PPV is most remembered for the horrible match between The Brothers of Destruction and KroniK.

2002: NOAH’s Great Voyage 2002 took place at Budokan Hall. In the main event Mitsuharu Misawa defeated Yoshirhiro Takayama to win the GHC Heavyweight Title.

2012: NJPW Destruction showcased Hiroshi Tanahashi retaining the IWGP Heavyweight Title.

2013: The SHIELD lost an 11 on 3 24 minute elimination handicap match in the main event of Monday Night Raw.

2015: Kenny Omega won the IWGP Junior Heavyweight title from KUSHIDA at NJPW Destruction in Okayama.

September 24th:

2000: Unforgiven showcased The Rock winning a four way against The Undertaker, Chris Benoit, and Kane to retain the WWF title.

2005: Roderick Strong bested Austin Aries, Colt Cabana, Jay Lethal, Christopher Daniels and Samoa Joe in a survival of the fittest six way match at ROH’s Survival of the Fittest.

2012: CM Punk held a sit in on RAW, which also featured JR returning to fill in for the recovering Jerry Lawler.

2017: Juice Robinson lost to Kenny Omega (who retained his title) at NJPW Destruction in Kobe.

September 25th:

2000: As WCW continued it’s downward spiral, Vince Russo “accidentally” defeated Booker T to become the champion on an episode of Nitro.

2006: With one hand tied behind his back John Cena defeated Lita (yes you read that right) in a no holds barred match.

2016: PROGRESS continued to, uh, progress as they held their largest show of the room. Tongue in cheek title Chapter 36: We’re gonna need a bigger room…again.

2016: The last of the best of seven matches between Cesaro and Sheamus ended in a no contest at Clash of Champions. This led to Mick Foley creating The Bar. (this author thanks Foley from the bottom of her fan girl heart)

September 26th:

1993: Hulk Hogan pinned The Great Muta on NJPW Osaka show.

1999: Another Unforgiven brought us the last time anyone probably agreed with David Meltzer. He gave the horrible Kennel from Hell match between the Big Bossman and Al Snow a NEGATIVE three stars.

2016: RAW did one of it’s worst ratings ever going against a Presidential debate and Monday Night Football.

2017: Neville wrestled his last televised match with the WWE. He defeated Ariya Daivari on 205 Live!

September 27th:

1960: Bruno Sammartino’s WWWF Championship belt was stolen from a locked car while he ate dinner inside a restaurant. The belt was never recovered.

1993: Shawn Michaels was stripped of the IC title after walking out of the company.

1994: A one night tournament to fill the vacated IWGP Juinor Heavyweight Championship had Norio Honaga defeat Wild Pegasus in the finals.

2005 : Cowboy Bob Orton wrestled his first match in 18 years, losing to The Undertaker.

2010 : The new RAW Tag Team Championship belts were debuted. Fondly known as the “penny belts”, they were used to replace the two sets of tag team belts being used on RAW and Smackdown.

2012 : Samoa Joe defeated Mr. Anderson to become the TNA Television Champion.

September 28th:

1985: AWA Presented “SuperClash ’85: Night of Champions” in Illinois. This show featured NWA, WCCW and All Japan wrestlers.

1992: Tatanka lost his first televised match since debuting in February.

1996: Atushi Onita defeated Wing Kanemura in a no ropes, barbed wire, exploding landmine cage match. (I can’t make this stuff up)

1997: In the only televised match between the two Hulk Hogan and Bret Hart fought to no contest on Nitro.

2010: On the greatest of all Rusev Days, Miroslav Barnyashev signed his contract with the WWE.

September 29th:

1984: The Road Warriors 400 day tag team championship run in the AWA comes to end when they were defeated by Jim Garvin and Steve Regal.

1992: The Rock ‘n Roll Express make their WWF debut with a loss to The Heavenly Bodies.

1997: Two of the most replayed moments of RAW aired for the first time. Mick Foley introducing Mr. Socko and Steve Austin attacking Vince McMahon with a deadpan.

2002: Jim Ross defeated Jonathon Coachman in a Country Whoopin Match, allowing Jim Ross and Jerry Lawler to announce on RAW again.

In Memoriam.

We take a moment to remember those who entertained us…

9/22/63 – Charro Aguayo (Franciso Aguayo Escobosa)
9/22/06 – Big Boss Man (Raymond Walter Taylor, Jr)
9/22/10 – Giant Gonzalez (Jorge Gonzalez)
9/22/12 – Mr. Exclusive Danny B (Daniel Bilski)
9/22/15 – The Drunken Irishman (James Prentice)
9/23/67 – Stanislaus Zbyszko (Stanislaw Jan Cyganiewicz)
9/23/90 – Stanley Wycoff (Has Kronert)
9/23/09 – Steamin’ Jimmy Freeman (James Freeman)
9/23/14 – Don “The Brusier” Manoukian (Donald J. Manoukian)
9/23/15 – Fat Frank/Lightning Lou Diamond (Frank Iadevia)
9/23/15 – Percival A. Friend (Albion Joseph Friend)
9/23/16 – Dream Warrior (Mel McGehee)
9/24/75 – Willi Muller (Wilhelm Muller)
9/24/81 – George (Billy) Torontos (George Torontos)
9/24/87 – Joe Corbett (Joseph Steven Katelmach)
9/24/92 – Roy Herrnan (Lawrence Roy Heffernan)
9/24/07 – Dave Diamond (David McCombs)
9/24/07 – Dean Ross (Ross David Bentley)
9/24/17 – Dallas James/Dallas Divine (Don Parker)
9/25/48 – Joe Lynam (Joe Lynam)
9/25/77 – Frank Brown (Frank Evan Brown)
9/25/03 – Pitbull#2 (Anthony Durante)
9/25/09 – Karl Affis (Karl Affis)
9/26/73 – Joe Kopecky (Joe Kopecky)
9/26/91 – Lance Idol (Steve Schuman)
9/26/11 – Tiger Hamilton – (Billy Hamilton)
9/27/77 – Roy Welch (Roy Edward Welch)
9/28/66 – Jack/Bull Allen (Jack Altinger)
9/28/02 – Jay “Big Bottie” Caldwell (Jay Norman Caldwell)
9/28/15 – Axel Dieter Sr. (Axel Dieter Barthel)
9/28/15 – Robbie Rage (Robbie Jerline Tate)
9/29/02 – Alaskan Mike York (Michael O’Leary)
9/29/12 – Eric Pomeroy, Stan Pulaski (Eric Ronald Pomeroy)
9/29/13 -Cousin Luke (Gene Petit)

Let us know what you think on social media @ChairshotMedia and always remember to use the hashtag #UseYourHead!

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Chairshot News Report: TNA Impact Results, AEW Speculation For Ricochet & Shane McMahon, Vince McMahon, More!

Your Wrestling News for July 5, 2024, including TNA Impact, Ricochet, Shane McMahon, his daddy Vince, and more!

Published

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Chairshot

Your Wrestling News for July 5, 2024, including TNA Impact, Ricochet, Shane McMahon, his daddy Vince, and more!

Welcome to your daily dose of pro wrestling news–and analysis you can trust! We take all wrestling news with a grain of salt here at The Chairshot, and we hope to steer you in the right direction.

Results: TNA Impact (July 4, 2024)

Here are your results from Thursday night’s edition of TNA Impact (originally taped on June 28 at the 2300 Arena in Philly):

Trey Miguel vs. Leon Slater ends in a no-contest after WWE NXT star Charlie Dempsey attacks everyone.
Dani Luna battled Jody Threat to a time limit draw in the 10-Minute Challenge. They were granted the customary “5 more minutes” but were attacked by Alisha Edwards & Masha Slamovich. During the match it was revealed that Nic Nemeth had been attacked backstage.
Frankie Kazarian defeated Mike Santana by countout to advance to the TNA World Championship Match at Slammiversary.
Matt Hardy & Reby Hardy beat Eddie Edwards & Alisha Edwards.
Joe Hendry pinned Jake Something to advance to the TNA World Championship Match at Slammiversary.

No surprise that Joe Hendry advanced to the world title match, but Santana-Kazarian could have gone either way. A promo video to end the show implied that Kazarian was the one who took out Nic Nemeth backstage, seemingly creating a story for them within the Slammiversary title match. No shocker that The Hardys won the tag team match, but a great surprise with Charlie Dempsey getting involved in the opener. That TNA/NXT collaboration continues to be a lot of fun.

You can catch Andrew’s Review of the event here.

Ricochet Expected To Sign With AEW

Many outlets are reporting that Ricochet’s expected landing spot remains AEW, with additional reports surfacing that his agent has been working out the details on his behalf.

Personally, I’d rather see him back in WWE. Even after an initial push in AEW, he will be a novelty act much like PAC, so I don’t see the difference. But if he’s going to AEW, here’s hoping that agent does a great job and secures quite the bag for ol’ Ric.

Vince Russo Suggests Shane McMahon As A Front Man For Vince McMahon to Purchase AEW

”We saw this with WCW, it happened before. It (purchasing AEW) could be under the guise of Shane, that’s what I’m saying. Shane is as clean as whistle. Vince could be behind it without anybody knowing it, bro.”

Those are the words of Vince Russo, who on the surface seems to be spouting nonsense. Time will tell if there is something to it all, but I wouldn’t place any wagers on this one. Shane McMahon to AEW would be an entertaining shocker, but that–like many things in AEW–would quickly wear off.

Shawn Michaels Discusses NXT Releases, Referencing Drew Gulak

During the NXT Heatwave media call, Shawn Michaels was asked about the release of Gable Steveson, but also lumped Drew Gulak in his response about main roster viability:

“From my understanding, nothing on anyone’s part other than contracts being up. Certainly, in the place of Drew Gulak. From a company standpoint, there not being anything from a main roster standpoint that they were going to be using him in. In NXT, over the last year and a half to two years, we’ve been trying to get into the process of keeping it fluid. It’s all about getting to the main roster when everything is said and done. In two or three years, if that doesn’t happen, we bring other people in or see if we’re ready to move on.”

If anything, it’s a stark reminder that NXT still exists to, above all else, populate the main roster. It’s quite the delicate balance between booking your own television show and preparing for the future, one that HBK has arguably done better than Triple H himself.

Other Odds & Ends:

According to reports, the mini-stroke referenced by Britt Baker (DMD) on AEW Dynamite is legitimate. If so, both she and Adam Cole have been through a ton over the past 24 months.
Mason Madden (Mace) and Mansoor, now known as the MxM Collection, showed up in ROH when featured in a vignette on this week’s broadcast. They might not have made it in WWE, but it’s good to see them getting work, and a second chance to make this gimmick their own. YEAH!
Cody Rhodes continues to be the ultimate good dude, this time helping a fan who won tickets to Money In The Bank actually attend the event. The fan who won the tickets is in a wheelchair, and there were no more accessible seats left. That was, of course, until Cody got involved. Now the fan can be there and enjoy the show as intended when he won the contest. Cody wins again!

Let us know what you think on social media @ChairshotMedia and always remember to use the hashtag #UseYourHead!

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

What a start to the tournament!

Published

8 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.

Let us know what you think on social media @ChairshotMedia and always remember to use the hashtag #UseYourHead!