Today in Wrestling History – October 1st

Liz takes a look back at wrestling history for the first day of October, including the cable TV debut of TNA with AJ Styles vs Roderick Strong in 2005!

Celebrating Birthday’s Today

• 1954 – Hector Guerrero
• 1961 – Rico Constantino
• 1972– Chip Fairway
• 1977 – Hack Meyers, Jr.
• 1978 – Luna Magica
• 1981 – Tony Morales
• 1983 – Robert Strauss (Robbie E.)
• 1987 – Leah Von Dutch

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Today in History

1989 – The Destruction Crew (Mike Enos & Wayne Bloom) defeated Greg Gagne and Paul Diamond in a tournament final to win the vacated AWA World Tag Team Championship.

1992 – Kerry Adkisson (Kerry Von Erich) was convicted on six counts of prescription forgery. He was fined $6,000, sentenced to 10 years probation and had his license suspended for 10 years. Four months later, he would violate his probation and be indicted on cocaine possession. In Feb 1993, he committed suicide as he was facing certain jail time.

1993 – Paul Heyman booked the Eastern Championship Wrestling show NWA Bloodfest: Part I.  Terry Funk defeated Jimmy Snuka to retain the ECW Television Championship. Also on the show, Sabu and Tazmaniac debut against each other, with Sabu winning.

2000 – The last ECW PPV  held during the TV deal was broadcast. Anarchy Rulz showcased:

• Danny Doring and Amish Roadkill defeated Christian York and Joey Matthews.
• Kid Kash defeated EZ Money.
• Joel Gertner defeated Cyrus.
• Da Baldies (Angel and Tony DeVito) defeated Balls Mahoney and Chilly Willy.
• Steve Corino defeated C.W. Anderson.
• The F.B.I. (Little Guido and Tony Mamaluke) defeated Yoshihiro Tajiri and Mikey Whipwreck to retain the ECW World Tag Team Championship.
• Rhino defeated Rob Van Dam to retain the ECW World Television Championship.
• Jerry Lynn defeated Justin Credible to win the ECW World Heavyweight Championship.

2005 – TNA debuts on TV, after two years of being a PPV only company.The show featured the TNA debuts of the Dudley Boyz (known as Team 3D) and the return of Kevin Nash.

• AJ Styles defeated Roderick Strong.
• Monty Brown defeated Lex Lovett.
• Chris Sabin defeated Alex Shelley and Petey Williams.
• Jeff Hardy and Rhino went to a no contest

2010 – Smackdown debuts on SYFY. The show even included a one hour countdown. The main event featured John Cena and Kane fighting to a no contest in a lumberjack match.

2011 – SHIMMER Volume 41 featured Ayumi Kuhirhara & Hamada defeating Daizee Haze & Tomoka Nakagawa to win the SHIMMER Tag Team Championship.

2018 – RAW held it’s go home show to the much anticipated Super Show Down in Melbourne, Australia. The show ended with the Brothers of Destruction taking out Shawn Michaels and Triple H in further set up of the match for the PPV.

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Died on This Date

1954 – Henry Irslinger

1992 – Roy Shire (Roy P. Shropshire)