28 years ago today in Los Angeles, Wahoo McDaniel defeated Tully Blanchard to win the NWA National Heavyweight Champion. He would be the organization's final National champion, losing to Nikita Koloff, at the time the NWA United States Champion, in a unification match a month later.
25 years ago today, WWF held Summerslam (WWE Network link) from the Meadowlands Arena in East Rutherford, New Jersey. About 20,000 were in attendance, with 625,000 homes watching on PPV, the most for the event until 1998.
- The Brain Busters (Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard) defeated The Hart Foundation (Bret Hart and Jim Neidhart).
- Dusty Rhodes defeated The Honky Tonk Man.
- Mr. Perfect defeated The Red Rooster.
- Rick Martel and The Fabulous Rougeaus (Jacques and Raymond) defeated Tito Santana and The Rockers (Shawn Michaels and Marty Jannetty).
- The Ultimate Warrior defeated Rick Rude to win the WWF Intercontinental Championship.
- Jim Duggan and Demolition (Smash and Ax) defeated André the Giant and The Twin Towers (The Big Boss Man and Akeem).
- Greg Valentine defeated Hercules.
- Ted DiBiase defeated Jimmy Snuka via countout.
- Hulk Hogan and Brutus Beefcake defeated Randy Savage and Zeus.
20 years ago today in Indianapolis, Indiana, Shawn Michaels and Diesel defeated The Headshrinkers to win the WWF Tag Team Championship. The Headshrinkers were scheduled to defend the titles against IRS and Bam Bam Bigelow at Summerslam the next night.
14 years ago today in Las Cruces, New Mexico on Nitro, Kevin Nash defeated Booker T to win the WCW World Heavyweight Championship for the fifth time.
11 years ago today in Osaka, Japan, Yoshihito Takayama defeated Masahiro Chono by knockout to win the IWGP Heavyweight Championship. The match took place in a steel cage, the first in the 30-year history of New Japan Pro Wrestling.
7 years ago today in Albany, New York at a Smackdown taping, Matt Hardy and MVP defeated Deuce and Domino to win the WWE Tag Team Championship.
4 years ago today, a TV taping for Lucha Libre USA in Charlotte, North Carolina is cancelled with MTV2 dropping the promotion from the network after just seven episodes. The event does go on as planned and featured the debuts of David and Reid Flair and Petey Williams. The promotion would return to the network a year later, but would again be dropped in 2012. Lucha Libre USA continued to run events as late as last October.