This Week In Wrestling History (Season 3 Week 30: 7/23 – 7/29)

This Week In Wrestling History (Season 3 Week 30) covering the period of 7/23 thru 7/29. Running Time: 4 Hours 51 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.

SYNOPSIS: S3 E30 (07/23 - 07/29)

• Epic battle between Bob Backlund and Antonio Inoki (for WWWF Championship) ends in a 60-minute draw
• Looking back at WWF 'Brawl To End It All' MTV special event
• First ever WWF Championship Title change in a Cage Match as Tito Santana def Greg Valentine for IC Title
• Dusty Rhodes' last reign as NWA Heavyweight Champion begins, defeating Ric Flair in a steel cage (1986)
• Looking back at the original NWA Great American Bash Tour
• Audio: Sherri Martel def 64 y/o Fabulous Moolah for WWF Women's Championship
• Audio: Wendi Richter def Monster Ripper (Bertha Faye) to win WWC Women's Championship (1987)
• Looking back at WCW Great American Bash PPV (1989)
• Audio: Jim Cornette debuts for WWF on Monday Night Raw
• Audio: Bob Backlund snaps and turns heel after losing to Bret Hart for WWF Championship (1994)
• Looking back at WWF In Your House 2: The Lumberjacks (1995)
• Audio: Dean Douglas makes his WWF TV debut (1995)
• Scott Steiner makes his ECW debut
• Audio: NWO airs its first ever 'Paid Announcement'
• Audio: Infamous NWO attack on Nitro, including Kevin Nash throwing Rey Mysterio into a production truck like a lawn dart
• Audio: Bret Hart's infamous enema remark towards USA and Pittsburgh on RAW
• Audio: WWF's attempt at Light Heavyweight Division to combat Nitro: Devon Storm vs Ace Darling
• Audio: Dr Death Steve Williams vs Bart Gunn WWF Brawl For It All Match
• Looking back at WWF In Your House 23: Fully Loaded
• Edge wins his first ever WWE Championship, winning the IC Title at a house show. His reign would last one day
• Looking back at WWF Fully Loaded PPV 1999, 2000
• Triple H shows Trish Stratus some 'wrestling moves' and Stephanie is none too pleased
• US Champion Lance Storm becomes 'Lance Two Belts', def Big Vito for WCW Hardcore Title
• Kurt Angle and Booker T trade WCW Heavyweight Championship Title wins
• Looking back to the future: OVW event featuring John Cena, Randy Orton, Batista, Brock Lesnar and many others from 2001
• Audio: The Rock vs Ric Flair. The one and only time they faced off in a singles match (2002)
• Ring Of Honor crowns their first ever ROH Heavyweight Champion
• Looking back at WWE Vengeance 2003
• Looking back at Pro Wrestling Guerrilla's first ever event (2003)
• Audio: AJ Styles (c) vs Frankie Kazarian vs Michael Shane: Ultimate X Match for X Division Title (2004)
• Audio: Jeff Hardy vs Monty Brown: Memorable #1 contenders match for TNA Heavyweight Title (2004)
• Looking back at the night WWE Raw (two hour episode) only had two matches (2004)
• Audio: Teddy Long begins his nine year reign as Smackdown GM (2004)
• Looking back at WWE Great American Bash 2005, 2006
• Audio: Muhammad Hassan wrestles his last ever match in WWE
• Audio: WWE Battle Of The Bands: John Cena vs Chris Jericho and Fozzy (2005)
• WWE signs Ted Dibiase Jr to a developmental deal
• TNA signs Adam 'Pacman' Jones
• Audio: Same night WWE officially becomes PG Programming, Mike Adamle is announced as Raw GM
• Diamond Dallas Page settles his lawsuit against Jay-Z over use of Diamond Cutter symbol
• Looking back at WWE Night Of Champions 2009
• Audio: Chris Jericho is not happy Shaq is hosting Raw (2009)
• WWE Champion CM Punk returns to WWE and confronts newly crowned WWE Champion John Cena
• WWF/WWE Raw reaches 1000th Episode milestone (2012)
• Stephanie McMahon 'arrested' for slapping Brie Bella. Ever wonder why WWE never pushed the angle further with a 'mugshot'?
• Seth Rollins inadvertently knees John Cena in the nose causing several fractures and emergency surgery
• Audio: attempts damage control after video of his racist tirade surfaces and is fired by WWE. (2015)
• Layla El announces her WWE retirement
• Looking back at WWE Battleground 2016, 2017
• Nia Jax and Finn Balor make their WWE main roster debuts (2016)
• Audio: Braun Strowman vs WWE newcomer, James Ellsworth (2016)
• Brian Christopher tragically dies in Tennessee Jail from suicide by hanging. Jerry Lawler would sue Tennessee from wrongful death one year to the day of Brian Christopher's death
• Audio: THREE DAYS after John Cena mocked The Usos DUI arrests at RAW Reunion, Jimmy Uso is arrested AGAIN for DUI
• Audio: Stephanie McMahon announces the first ever all women's PPV event, 'Evolution'
• Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson acquires a state and becomes a partner of VOSS Water. The very same brand water bottles he notoriously urinates in during photo shoots!
• Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson launches his own tequila brand, 'Teremana Tequila'
• Audio: Adam Cole's infamous confrontation with Pat McAfee on The Pat McAfee Show
• AJ Styles during a twitch stream reveals he believes Dixie Carter hurt and ruined TNA / Impact Wrestling
• Audio: Sasha Banks makes history and becomes a Double Champion the same time with Bayley (holding RAW, SmackDown and Tag Team Championships)
• Audio: Post match promo by Eddie Kingston following a match vs Cody Rhodes for TNT Title which sparked IWC push to be signed by AEW
• Audio: AEW reveals the location for Rampage 'The First Dance' and the CM Punk chants (and ticket prices) explode
• Audio: Matt Cardona vs Nick Gage (c) Death Match for GCW World Championship. Note this match occurred only days before infamous 'Dominos / Pizza Cutter incident' on AEW Dynamite involving Nick Gage vs Chris Jericho
• Vince McMahon' phone connection suddenly turns to mush during WWE earnings call when asked if AEW is competition to WWE
• Following Vince McMahon's retirement, Stephanie McMahon and Nick Khan are named Co-CEOs of WWE with Triple H becoming head of WWE Creative
• Audio: Triple H discusses how WWE product will be different with him now that Vince McMahon retired
• AEW announces the creation of World Trios Championships
• Jonathan Gresham gets into heated profanity laced confrontation with Tony Khan and quits Ring Of Honor
• Audio: CM Punk spray paints AEW World Championship and declares himself the real AEW World Champion
• Looking back at AEW Blood And Guts 2024
• Audio: Kamille signs with AEW and makes her debut at Blood And Guts
• Drew McIntyre trolls CM Punk by posing in a photo with Jack Perry
• Audio: Hell Freezes Over; Jesse Ventura meets with Triple H and agrees to return to WWE
• Photo of Tony Khan and Shane McMahon together goes viral; and the wild wacky speculation of Shane in AEW begins
• Audio: Rikishi is pissed at WWE creative for teasing Jey Uso having a crush on Rhea Ripley. He would later delete comments insinuating WWE could harm Jey Uso's marriage. (No worries, we have the audio!)
• And so much more!

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