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Updated For 2025! This Week In Wrestling History (Season 3 Week 23) covering the period of 6/4 thru 6/10. Running Time: 5 Hours 24 Minutes. This Week In Wrestling History hosted by Don Tony first aired in 2018 and spanned two seasons. After much demand, these retro episodes return REMASTERED and UPDATED FOR 2025. Wrestling history up to and including 2024 has been added! Hundreds of hours of original wrestling clips & stories. Enjoy this deep dive into pro wrestling's awesome history. RUNNING TIME: 5 Hours 24 MinutesHosted by Don Tony SYNOPSIS: S3 E23 (06/04 - 06/10) Looking back at the 2nd 'Star Wars '81' event featuring Bruiser Brody, Kerry Von Erich, Gary Hart and others Vince McMahon purchases Capitol Wrestling Corporation from his father Vince Sr Looking back at the Fritz Von Erich Retirement Show (1982) Harley Race ends Ric Flair's 631-day reign as NWA World Heavyweight Champion Memorable Philadelphia Spectrum match, featuring Big John Studd front face lock to Andre The Giant for 8+ minutes. And yes, there is footage of this online Infamous Pipers Pit with Roddy Piper cracking a coconut over Jimmy Snuka's head finally airs nationwide. Audio: Fascinating YouShoot clip of Roddy Piper speaking on the Pipers Pit with Jimmy Snuka Despite Nick Bockwinkel, Mean Gene Okerlund, Verne Gagne, and Arnold Skaaland called as character witnesses, Ken Patera and Masa Saito are found guilty of battery, criminal damage, and obstruction of justice (from the 1984 McDonalds incident) Kerry Von Erich involved in a serious Motorcycle accident with a Police Car resulting in a shattered ankle, dislocated hip, and deep lacerations Looking back at NWA Clash Of The Champions II: Miami Mayhem 1988 Looking back at UWF Beach Brawl 1991 Kevin Nash makes WWF debut as the Bodyguard of Shawn Michaels Undertaker makes a rare appearance at USWA event 1993 WWF holds their first ever Hall Of Fame Ceremony (1994) inducting Freddie Blassie, Buddy Rogers, Bobo Brazil, Arnold Skaaland, Gorilla Monsoon, Chief Jay Strongbow, and James Dudley Roddy Piper impersonator kills it on the mic during Jerry Lawler's 'Kings Court' segment NBC cancels WrestleMania XI special, thanks to Shaq and 'Earth 2' After meeting with Eric Bischoff, Ted Turner agrees to add WCW show on Monday Nights to directly compete with WWF. And that wasn't the only competition Turner created this week Chris Benoit wrestles tryout dark matches for WWF (against Owen Hart, Adam Bomb, and Bob Holly. Kevin Nash makes his WCW Monday Nitro debut and joins Scott Hall to form The Outsiders Audio: Funny Kevin Nash YouShoot appearances: Nash plays 'The Ho Bag', 'What A Dic*, and talks Rats and NWhOes Brian Pillman signs with World Wrestling Federation Looking back at ECW Wrestlepalooza '97 Looking back at WWF King Of The Ring 1997 and the KOR Winner: Hunter Hearst Helmsley Three Faces of Foley Raw segments conclude with Mankind giving the mandible claw to Jim Ross TV Program 'American Edge' airs segment on WCW Power Plant including interviews with Eric Bischoff, DDP, and others Audio: Roddy Piper and Kevin Nash speak on a backstage incident following an episode of Monday Nitro Shawn Michaels and Bret Hart have a backstage incident over various issues including 'Sunny Days' Dennis Rodman fined by Chicago Bulls and NBA after skipping NBA Finals practice and media to attend WCW Monday Nitro event Audio: Vince McMahon revealed as the 'Higher Power' and Steve Austin becomes the CEO (for a day) of WWF. Coincidentally, this was Episode 316 of Raw Audio: Terry Funk defends the WCW Hardcore Title against Eric Bischoff Goldberg returns to action after 6+ month absence due to serious arm injury Intoxicated Sandman exposes himself several times during ECW match KOR qualifying match on Raw featuring Brock Lesnar vs Steve Austin cancelled as Austin walks out of WWE due to creative differences and more NWATNA makes it debut on Pay Per View with first ever $9.99 episode of Impact Looking back at WWE Insurrextion 2003 Kurt Angle returns to WWE action from neck surgery nine months earlier than expected Randy Orton debuts RKO finisher on Raw JBL fired from CNBC due to 'Goosestep' incident in Munich, Germany WWE issues then withdraw their apology for JBL 'Goosestep' incident Audio: JBL's epic Promo on CNBC, fans, and lots more (from Smackdown) Kenzo Suzuki makes his shi**y WWE debut John Cena (Raw) and Chris Benoit (Smackdown) are #1 picks for 2005 WWE Draft Lottery Audio: Looking back at the John Cena / Christian confrontation and Christian's WWE exit three months later Audio: Paul Heyman and ECW stars appear on Raw to hype up first ever ECW One Night Stand PPV Joey Styles signs deal with WWE to commentate ECW ONS PPV Terry Funk declines WWE offer to appear at ECW ONS PPV Looking back at Hardcore Homecoming event from ECW Arena 2005 Looking back at WWE vs ECW: Head To Head event 2006 WWE signs D-Lo Brown 2008 and Chris Masters 2009 Looking back at TNA Slammiversary PPV 2008, 2012 Looking back at WWE Extreme Rules PPV 2009, 2017 Audio: Jeff Hardy def Edge to win WWE World Heavyweight Championship Audio: CM Punk cashes in MITB Briefcase to def Jeff Hardy for WWE World Heavyweight Championship. Audio: Edge wants a divorce from Vickie Guerrero WWE writes Batista off TV as WWE Champion due to injury. Nexus destroys John Cena, Justin Roberts, WWE Staff, and the ring to close out memorable 'Viewers Choice' of Raw 2010 Mick Foley requests and is granted his release from TNA Audio: Eric Bischoff and Hulk Hogan announce the 'firing' of Mick Foley on Impact. Andy Leavine wins WWE Tough Enough Hulk Hogan quietly announces his retirement from the ring, and the internet and fan reaction is just as quiet Barbie Blank (aka Kelly Kelly) leaves WWE Audio: John Cena and AJ Styles hype up their upcoming battle at MITB PPV 2016 Looking back at the heavily criticized WWE Super Showdown event from 2019 Audio: Undertaker and Bill Goldberg comment on their very underwhelming match at WWE Super Showdown Drake Maverick gets a second chance and is resigned to NXT Looking back at NXT TakeOver: In Your House 2020, 2022 WWE releases Aleister Black, Braun Strowman, Lana, Buddy Murphy, Ruby Riott and Santana Garrett Audio: Vickie Guerrero introduces her latest 'signing' Andrade El Idolo (making his AEW debut) on Dynamite Impact Wrestling announces the return of live fans in attendance since the beginning of the pandemic for Slammiversary 2021 Audio: Memorable promo exchange between Scott D'Amore, Don Callis and Tony Khan during an episode of Impact Wrestling Audio: Kamille def Serena Deeb for NWA Women's World Championship and begins her 813-day reign as Champion Audio: Billy Corgan and Mickie James announce their first ever all Women's PPV event: NWA EmPowerrr for August 2021 Audio: Dave Meltzer is left speechless after questioning Triple H about NXT creative during NXT TakeOver: In Your House 2021 Conference Call AEW announces an interim World Champion will be crowned while CM Punk was inactive due to injury Audio: MVP drops a diss track on Bobby Lashley (Fall Mighty) Looking back at WWE Hell In a Cell 2022 Audio: Cody Rhodes battles thru an excruciating injury (Torn Pec) against Seth Rollins inside Hell In A Cell Audio: The Judgement Day adds a new member and destroy Edge . Audio: AEW announces the creation of the All-Atlantic Championship Audio: Olive branch? Tony Khan has a totally different take on Eric Bischoff (and his comments about CM Punk) just one week after his meltdown at Double Or Nothing Media Scrum Audio: Tony Khan is caught off guard during a live interview when asked about the status of Miro in AEW Sgt Slaughter is irate at Lacey Evans' new character and the use of his finisher 'without his permission' AEW reveals the main event for the first ever episode of AEW Collision Gunther reaches one year as WWE Intercontinental Champion NBC does a 180 and decides not to renew Young Rock and cancels Season Four Looking back at NXT Battleground 2024 (hosted by Sexyy Red) Audio: Sexyy Red arrested for assault at NJ Airport just one day before NXT Battleground Kamille celebrates the anniversary of her NWA World Championship win on Twitter while expressing frustration about her current status in AEW Audio: Did Sabu predicted his death at 60 years old after having a final barbed wire match in GCW? 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Today we jump back to another early episode of the PWTorch Livecast from 15 Years Ago (1-20-2010). Wade Keller was joined by PWTorch columnist Pat McNeill. They talked with live callers for an hour on a wide variety of topics including the Royal Rumble, Shawn Michaels-Undertaker, five-star matches, who's better between Shawn Michaels and Ric Flair overall, TNA referring to fans at TV tapings as "cast members," and more. In the previously VIP-exclusive Aftershow, more talk about TNA's Sunday PPV and TNA's general creative direction, thoughts on Jon Heder and the idea of wrestling managers making a comeback, and more.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/wade-keller-pro-wrestling-podcast--3076978/support.
PWTorch editor Wade Keller was joined by cohost Matt Koon from “Why It Ended” to discuss Monday Night Raw including the Shawn Michaels-Undertaker segment, Bobby Lashley's future, Kevin Owens' return after one week, the latest on Ronda Rousey, The Shield being arrested and returning, and more with live callers, emails, and an on-site correspondent.This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/3275545/advertisement
ONE GOTTA GO: ROCK, SHAWN MICHAELS, UNDERTAKER, STONE COLD STEVE AUSTIN8-25-22
8-25-22
Hello and welcome! Join Chris and Peter as we discuss the last episode, the barrier to entry on long running franchises, Chris' ill-advised cheesy greasy food coma that kicks his ass, and Peter's deep dive into the Shawn Michaels/Undertaker feud. Enjoy!
In this flashback episode of the Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast, we jump back to the Jan. 9, 2017 episode of the WWE Raw post-show. PWTorch editor Wade Keller talked about Monday Night Raw and its effects on the Royal Rumble and WrestleMania with callers – many first-time callers on this episode, too. Topics include Shawn Michaels, Undertaker, Roman Reigns, the women's division, Neville, the “Third Hour of Raw” debate, and much more.
In the inaugural episode of Regular Wresting Review, We bring you what was a highly anticipated match between The Undertaker and Shawn Michaels from WrestleMania 25. As Andrew Vendelis & Taylor Yates take you through this journey back in time, we hope that you enjoy the new projects and content that ECCW is going to continue to bring up until and there after we are able to put on Live Shows and footage. Please leave your feedback in the comments below and let us know what you think, what matches you would also like to see reviewed.Also follow us on twitter:https://www.twitter.com/xelitecombaton facebook:https://www.facebook.com/xxeccwxxcheck out Andrew Vendelis on twitter:https://www.twitter.com/vendelistweetsand Taylor Yates on Twitter:https://www.twitter.com/eccwgm --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/regularwrestlingreview/support
Crown Jewel is in the rear-view mirror. The whole thing was...WEIRD...but was it a good show? We discussed that in Segment 1 of this week's show, breaking down DX/Brothers of Destruction in particular. Are we done now? Is there any other story that needs to be told? Will it be Shawn Michaels/Undertaker at WrestleMania? Would Taker do something else? Also is it a problem that Shane McMahon won the World Cup? It sure as hell shouldn't be. So where do they go from there? And how far should WWE and UFC go with the Daniel Cormier/Brock Lesnar stuff? (The show was taped before reports that Lesnar agreed to a new WWE deal.) In Segment 2 (36:19), we continued to discuss the fallout from the week (we need to decide who had the best match on RAW of course). Are we still in line for Miz/Daniel Bryan at Mania? Will it be for the title? Did they handle the Authors of Pain title win the right way? Was WWE right to spoil their own title change? What's the RAW plan for the WrestleMania main event now? And in Segment 3 (1:05:54), we tell you about a big weekend coming up locally for MCW and AJ updates us on his own wrestling path. Then (because we had a guest fall through this week), we decided instead to bring back The Top Five! You guys might not know that there's a very particular WWE anniversary this week. You also might not know that there was more to the story. So our Top Five this week-the Top Five times there was more to a story that WWE never told us.
SOUND OFF 563 is THREE HOURS talking the death of Burt Reynolds, his appearance at Wrestlemania X and how I ended up on "Good Morning Britain" talking about his death... Jim Ross shooting on "selfish" and "unprofessional" wrestlers going long on the All In show, resulting in the main event being cut for time... revealing the possible new programs coming to the WWE Network, including house shows and a Hardy Family sitcom... FULL REVIEW of episode one of the Mae Young Classic... thoughts on the Shawn Michaels/Undertaker segment from Raw and if it means HBK is coming out of retirement... The Shield ARRAINGED BEFORE A JUDGE ON LABOR DAY then commandeers a police van... Kevin Owens returns to Raw after "quitting" and HELPS Braun Strowman... Velveteen Dream and Johnny Gargano steal the show on NXT... MOURNING THE DEATH OF CATRINA ON LUCHA UNDERGROUND... ranking my own TOP TEN LIST of the greatest factions in wrestling history (hint: The Shield isn't #1)... Vince McMahon granting full access for a book about him and the history of WWE... was All In really as revolutionary as people are making it out to be?... and BUY OR SELL on the bigger mainstream star at their peak, Hulk Hogan or John Cena? SIGN UP WITH MYBOOKIE USING PROMO CODE "SOLOMONSTER" and they will match your first deposit 100% up to $1,000! USE THIS LINK AND ENTER THE CODE TO CLAIM YOUR BONUS: http://bit.ly/SolomonsterMB
The Ringer's David Shoemaker and "The King of Sad Style" Dan St. Germain recap a historic weekend of wrestling including Dan's experience at the Starrcast fan convention before going through 'All In' (21:00), a confusing night on 'Raw' (33:00), and the return of the Shawn Michaels–Undertaker feud (42:30).
PWTorch editor Wade Keller is joined by cohost Matt Koon from "Why It Ended" to discuss Monday Night Raw including the Shawn Michaels-Undertaker segment, Bobby Lashley's future, Kevin Owens' return after one week, the latest on Ronda Rousey, The Shield being arrested and returning, and more with live callers, emails, and an on-site correspondent.
***WHAT DID YOU THINK OF WRESTLEMANIA? LET US KNOW BY CALLING US UP AT (646)915-9116 OR E-MAIL US AT ATOMICDROP@MYWAY.COM.*** Wrestlemania 26 has come and gone, and Kyle and Justin are suffering from a little hangover, with four straight hours of wrestling after a HUGE weekend in the industry! The chaser? Talking to all you guys about it! A complete Mania wrap-up is on tap, and there is a lot to talk about for sure. We want to hear your responses and your thoughts on Wrestlemania. That's right, Wrestlemania 26 is history, with four hours of high-energy action on the industry's grandest stage. We saw what quite have been the match of the decade in Shawn Michaels-Undertaker, two world title matches, the ultimate grudge match between two rivals 12 years in the making and more... WHAT DID YOU THINK ABOUT IT ALL?!?!?! For the first time ever, The Atomic Drop Show is giving you the opportunity to sound off on the biggest pay-per-view of the year immediately after the four-hour mega event. This...is the Atomic Drop Show's Wrestlemania 26 Hangover. Call us up and chat about what you thought of the show as Justin Tyme and Kyle Cruise will break down all of the pay-per-view and taking your calls live on the air! It all starts at 11 p.m. EST, 8 p.m. PST here LIVE on Blog Talk Radio! And don't forget, this TUESDAY night, we'll be talking to Ring of Honor online PPV play-by-play man Kevin Kevin as we count down the days to ROH's "Big Bang" show this Saturday! It's a crazy week for us here, and you can hop along for the ride... -The Atomic Drop Show-
Alex previews this year's Royal Rumble in the "finisher" segment, and throws a couple of scenarios at the listener. Alex states why he has changed his opinion, and feels that Randy Orton will not win the WWE Championship, and what that means for the Rumble and Shawn Michaels. Alex speaks about the general direction towards this year's Wrestlemania, and how with the strong headline programs (Bret Hart/Vince and Shawn Michaels/Undertaker), the WWE Championship match may not be all that vital a part of the card. Alex also comments on this week's RAW and Smackdown, as well as TNA. The "piledrivin' post of the week" is handed out too (www.thesportspodcasters.com/boards). Listen to the "Alex Reimer Show" every Saturday from 4-6 PM EST on 1120 AM WBNW Boston, www.moneymattersradio.net, and www.livestream.com/wbnw1120.