This Week In Wrestling History (Season 4 Episode 2: 1/8 – 1/14)

This Week In Wrestling History is back for an all-new season for 2026 with history covered up to and including 2025!

Enjoy this episode (Season 4 Episode 2) covering the week of 1/8 thru 1/14. Running Time: 4 Hours 49 Minutes.

This Week In Wrestling History (TWIWH) hosted by Don Tony debuted in 2018 for two seasons. Due to demand for new episodes, it returned in 2025 and is now in its Fourth Season for 2026!

Hundreds of hours of original wrestling clips & stories. Enjoy this deep dive into pro wrestling's awesome history. You won't find history shows like this anywhere but here!

SYNOPSIS: SEASON 4 EPISODE 2 (1/8 - 1/14)
RUNNING TIME: 4 HOURS 49 MINUTES

• Audio: Andy Kaufman returns to Memphis and helps Nick Bockwinkel defeat Jerry Lawler to win the vacant AWA World Heavyweight Title
• Ric Flair def Sting to become the first ever WCW World Heavyweight Champion
• Bret Hart def Ric Flair in first ever Ironman Match (60 Min) to retain WWF Championship
• Audio: The Rockers officially split as Shawn Michaels superkicks and throws Marty Jannetty thru the 'Barbershop' window
• First ever episode of Monday Night Raw airs on USA Network
• Looking back at WCW Clash Of The Champions XXII
• Audio: 'The Ringmaster' Steve Austin makes his WWF Monday Night Raw debut - Man!
• WWF and Mike Tyson reach a deal for an appearance at Wrestlemania XIV. DT looks back at how bad the NY press reacted to this deal
• Bonus audio: Don King on Monday Night Raw discussing negotiations between WWF and Mike Tyson
• Looking back at ECW House Party 1997, 1998
• First ever episode of WCW Thunder airs on TBS
• Audio: Ric Flair vs Chris Jericho wrestle for the first time ever in singles match (From E1 WCW Thunder)
• Audio: Mark Henry joins the Nation Of Domination
• Audio: Highlights of infamous ECW Stairway To Hell Match between Sabu and The Sandman
• Audio: The streak begins; Gillberg makes WWF debut
• Audio: Chyna last eliminates Vince McMahon to win the WWF Corporate Rumble
• Mick Foley's first week as WWF Champion
• Looking back at ECW Guilty As Charged 1999, 2000
• Bret Hart wrestles last ever WCW match before abruptly retiring due to his concussion injury
• Audio: WCW Commissioner Terry Funk forces Jeff Jarrett to wrestle three times on Nitro (against George 'The Animal' Steele, Tito Santana, and Superfly Jimmy Snuka)
• Mankind is 'reinstated' after the roster (led by The Rock) threatens to strike
• ECW holds its last ever event before filing for bankruptcy
• Audio: Ted Turner agrees to sell WCW to Fusient Media Ventures
• Goldberg wrestles last ever WCW match, Sid Vicious breaks his leg, and more: Looking back at WCW Sin PPV from 2001
• WWE airs Raw 10th Anniversary Show complete with Awards and Top 10 Raw Moments as voted by fans
• Looking back at WWE New Year's Revolution 2005, 2006
• Audio: Kurt Angle says he's not a fan of black people?
• Batista vacates WWE World Heavyweight Championship due to injury
• Edge celebrates his first WWE Championship - by having 'live sex' with Lita on Raw
• Bonus Audio: Lita speaks on the infamous Raw 'Live Sex Celebration'
• Looking back at TNA Final Resolution 2007
• Audio: 'Donald Trump' wrestles 'Rosie O'Donnell' on Raw.
• Audio: Impact Main Event features a memorable match between Awesome Kong vs Gail Kim for the TNA Knockouts Championship
• WWE cuts 10% of their office staff, issues releases for D-Lo Brown, Val Venis, Hardcore Holly, Ron Simmons, Victoria, Kevin Thorne, Matt Cappotelli, Sgt Slaughter and others
• Victoria wrestlers her final WWE singles match
• Looking back at TNA Genesis 2010-2012, 2016
• Brodus Clay (Tyrus) makes WWE Raw debut
• WWE officially announces the creation of WWE Network
• Audio: Memorable verbal confrontation between The Rock and CM Punk on Raw 
• Superstar Billy Graham goes on a tirade against CM Punk's Raw promo and a classic response from Chris Jericho
• WWE makes significant changes to Raw and Smackdown announce teams
• Highlights from TNA Lockdown 2014
• Daniel Bryan leaves The Wyatt Family
• WWE officially announces The Ultimate Warrior for 2014 Hall Of Fame
• Audio: Roman Reigns' infamous 'Sufferin Succotash' promo on Seth Rollins. And DT has some surprising comments on the promo
• Social media flips out after Chris Jericho calls The Usos 'The Back Of The Bus Brothers' during Raw segment
• Audio: Becky Lynch battles Brie Bella
• TNA reduces total annual PPVs down to four annual events
• Official announcement for first ever All-In event (2018)
• All Elite Wrestling holds rally in Jacksonville FL announcing talents signed and their debut event: Double Or Nothing 
• Audio: Chris Jericho signs his first ever contract with AEW
• Looking back at an amazing weekend of events for Impact Wrestling held in Mexico City, Mexico
• WWE holds its first ever NXT UK Takeover event from 2019
• Tessa Blanchard makes history, becoming the first ever female Impact Wrestling Heavyweight Champion (Hard To Kill PPV Results)
• Audio: Tessa Blanchard post-match speech as Impact World Champion is met with quite the mixed reaction from the live crowd
• MJF announces his departure from Major League Wrestling (MLW)
• Eric Angle (Brother of Kurt Angle) pleads guilty to illegal steroid distribution
• Audio: Alexa Bliss greets Randy Orton with a fireball on RAW
• Adam Pearce vs Roman Reigns for the Universal Championship at the Royal Rumble?
• WWE Royal Rumble 2021 results from WWE Thunderdome
• Audio: Top 10 highlights from 2021 WWE Royal Rumble
• Samoa Joe is released for the second time within a year from WWE
• Tammy 'Sunny' Sytch arrested and charged with making terroristic threats and weapons possession
• NXT New Years Evil 2023 results
• Stephanie McMahon announces her resignation from WWE
• Vince McMahon reaches a deal with the Securities and Exchange Commission for failure to disclose $10.5 Million in hush money payments to two women
• Kurt Angle inducted into the International Professional Wrestling Hall Of Fame
• Audio: Lyra Valkyria battles Dakota Kai to crown the first ever WWE Women's Intercontinental Champion
• Ross and Marshall Von Erich officially sign with AEW
• Audio: Penta El Zero Miedo makes his WWE in-ring debut vs Chad Gable (includes post-match speech)
• A promo exchange between Adam Copeland and Brody King on AEW TV is the final nail in the coffin of Malakai Black's future with AEW
• Audio: Jim Ross reveals Tammy Sytch offered to move in with him, 'service' him and be his girlfriend
• And so much more!

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