43 years ago today Tommy Wildfire Rich shocked the world when he beat Harley Race to win the NWA World title!
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Amazingly Rich, now a father and grandfather, still occasionally wrestles today at the age of 67!
#NWA#prowrestling#TommyRich
32 years ago today Barry Windham beat Steve Austin in a 2 out of 3 falls match to become the new WCW World Television champ!
A great match between two of the best to ever step in the ring!
This match occurred at a TV taping and would air in May.
#StoneCold#prowrestling#WCW
6 years ago today in Saudi Arabia "The Greatest Royal Rumble!"
The most memorable moment from this show was Titus O'Neil's entrance into the Rumble. He sprinted to the ring, tripped and slid completely under the ring!
The winner of the Rumble was Braun Strowman!
#wwe
40 years ago this weekend three months into his first reign as WWF Champion, Hulk Hogan began a run with Greg "The Hammer" Valentine!
He had been defending against David Schultz, Paul Orndorff and former champ The Iron Sheik.
Hogan would win by DQ
#hulkhogan#prowrestling#WWE
36 years ago today "The Fantastics" Bobby Fulton & Tommy Rogers beat "The Midnight Express" Bobby Eaton & Stan Lane to win the NWA US Tag Team Titles.
The match would air in May.
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30 years ago today Captain Lou Albano led his final team to the WWF Tag Titles as "The Headshrinkers" Fatu & Samu beat "The Quebeccers" Jacques Rougeau & Pierre Carl Oulette.
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This was the 15th team that Albano managed to the titles.
#WWE#Bloodline
29 years ago tonight at a at a TV taping in Moline, Illinois Hunter Hearst Helmsley made his WWF debut!
29 years later he is the chief content officer and head of creative for WWE and leading the company through a resurgence!
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25 years ago on Nitro Sting beat Diamond Dallas Page to win the WCW World Title!
Less than two hours later on the same show he would lose it back to Page in a fatal four way match.
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40 years ago today in 1984 Stan Hansen & Bruiser Brody defeated Dory Funk Jr & Shoei Baba to win the Pacific Wrestling Federation Tag Title!
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24 years ago tonight a big episode of Smackdown!
It was Steve Austin's first time on WWF TV since undergoing surgery the previous November. He used a crane to drop a steel beam on the DX Express bus, crushing the bus in the parking lot! It also then somehow exploded!
#WWE
On this day 24 years ago one of the strangest decisions in wrestling history as actor David Arquette wrestled a tag team match and finished the match as WCW World Champion!
#WCW#prowrestling#DavidArquette
35 years ago Zeus made his debut in the WWF!
He appeared at a taping of Saturday Night’s Main Event. Hulk Hogan had just defeated the Big Bossman in a cage when Lister came out to attack him.
#WWE#prowrestling#hulkhogan
32 years ago today "Superfly" Jimmy Snuka defeated Sal Bellomo to become the first ECW heavyweight champion!
It was known as Eastern Championship Wrestling at the time.
#prowrestling
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