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35 years ago today, Roddy Poper and Tony Atlas both made their WWF television debuts during a TV taping for Championship Wrestling TV from Agricultural Hall in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
26 years ago today, WWF presented Wrestlefest from the Milwaukee County Stadium in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 25,866 fans were in attendance for the event, which would eventually be released on Coliseum Home Video.
- Big Boss Man defeated Scott Casey.
- Brutus Beefcake defeated Hercules Hernandez.
- Jacques & Raymond Rougeau defeated The Killer Bees (B. Brian Blair and Jim Brunzell).
- Bad News Brown defeated Bret Hart.
- Hacksaw Jim Duggan defeated The Honky Tonk Man via disqualification in a WWF Intercontinental Championship match (Honky Tonk man retained the title).
- The Powers of Pain (Warlord and Barbarian) defeated The Bolsheviks (Nikolai Volkoff and Boris Zuhkov).
- Jim Neidhart defeated Lanny Poffo.
- Macho Man Randy Savage defeated Ted DiBiase to retain the WWF Championship.
- Curt Hennig defeated Terry Taylor.
- Jake Roberts vs. Rick Rude ended in a double countout.
- Haku defeated Sam Houston.
- Ultimate Warrior defeated Bobby Heenan. As a result of Heenan's loss, he was forced to wear a weasel suit.
- Demolition (Ax & Smash) defeated The British Bulldogs (Dynamite Kid & Davey Boy Smith) to retain the WWF Tag Team Championship.
- Dino Bravo defeated Ken Patera.
- Hulk Hogan defeated Andre the Giant in a steel cage match.
14 years ago today on an episode of Nitro from the FirstStar Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, Lance Storm defeated Chavo Guerrero via submission to win the WCW Cruiserweight Championship. The win made Storm a triple champion, as he also held the United States and hardcore titles. The above video is the complete episode.
4 years ago today, Adam Pearce defeated Chance Prophet, Jimmy Rave, and Shaun Tempers in a four-way match to win the NWA World Heavyweight Championship. It was Pearce's fourth time as champion.
Today's the 45th birthday of David Cash, aka Kid Kash. Here's the move that put him on the map nationally, EZ Money's powerbomb countered into a hurancarana-in mid-air.
Happy 52nd birthday to the world's most famous nonsensical, douchebag, glad-handing yes man, the man behind People Power and the cutter maneuver, John Lauriniaitis. Here's Johnny Ace getting owned by CM Punk from 2012.