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The 100 Greatest WWE Matches of the Decade: 2003
- WWE Champion Kurt Angle vs. Chris Benoit – (Royal Rumble 2003)
Matt: Up to this point, this match was exactly how a match between Angle and Benoit should go: with the top prize on the line. Nobody was better. Read the rest of this entry
Kyle’s Turning Point 2009 Recap
Live from: Orlando, Florida
November 15, 2009
Your Host: Mike Tenay and Taz
- The show opens up with a well put together video package of the build up over the month. It is mostly clips of the feuds and matches; and also Hulk Hogan’s signing. There is some “epic” music playing in the background blended in Dixie Carter’s shoot motivation speech for the wrestlers on Impact. Read the rest of this entry
Monday Nitro (10.07.96)
WCW Monday Nitro
October 7, 1996
Savannah, GA
Civic Center
The current WCW champs were as follows:
WCW World Champion: Hollywood Hogan (8/10/1996)
WCW U.S. Champion: Ric Flair (7/7/1996)
WCW World Tag Team Champions: Harlem Heat (10/5/1996)
WCW World Television Champion: Lord Steven Regal (8/20/1996)
WCW World Cruiserweight Champion: Rey Mysterio (7/8/1996)
HOUR NUMBER ONE! Your hosts are Tony Schiavone & Larry Zbyszko. Read the rest of this entry
Monday Nitro (06.17.96)
WCW Monday Nitro
June 17, 1996
Richmond, VA
Richmond Coliseum
The current WCW champs were as follows:
WCW World Champion: The Giant (4/29/1996)
WCW U.S. Champion: Konnan (1/29/1996)
WCW World Tag Team Champions: Sting & Lex Luger (1/22/1996)
WCW World Television Champion: Lex Luger (3/6/1996)
WCW World Cruiserweight Champion: Dean Malenko (5/18/1996)
HOUR NUMBER ONE!
Your hosts are Tony Schiavone & Larry Zbyszko.
They open the show with still shots of last night’s PPV. The meeting between Bischoff and the “interruption” airs, but they cut us off right before the powerbomb off the stage because they’re going to show that to us later. Oh Bischoff and your ratings-grabbing tricks. Read the rest of this entry
Monday Nitro (06.10.96)
WCW Monday Nitro
June 10, 1996
Wheeling, WV
Civic Center
The current WCW champs were as follows:
WCW World Champion: The Giant (4/29/1996)
WCW U.S. Champion: Konnan (1/29/1996)
WCW World Tag Team Champions: Sting & Lex Luger (1/22/1996)
WCW World Television Champion: Lex Luger (3/6/1996)
WCW World Cruiserweight Champion: Dean Malenko (5/18/1996)
HOUR NUMBER ONE!
Your hosts are Tony Schiavone & Larry Zbyszko.
Recap of last week where Sting slapped the “interruption”. Read the rest of this entry
Monday Nitro (05.27.96)
WCW Monday Nitro
May 27, 1996
Macon, GA
Macon Coliseum
The current WCW champs were as follows:
WCW World Champion: The Giant (4/29/1996)
WCW U.S. Champion: Konnan (1/29/1996)
WCW World Tag Team Champions: Sting & Lex Luger (1/22/1996)
WCW World Television Champion: Lex Luger (3/6/1996)
WCW World Cruiserweight Champion: Dean Malenko (5/18/1996)
I meant to post this earlier today, but college got in the way. And no, I’m not taking a poetry class. I’m not a fairy.
It’s the THIRTEENTH ANNIVERSARY of the Scott Hall Invasion!
Your hosts for the first hour are Tony Schiavone and Larry Zbyszko! Read the rest of this entry
TNA World Tag Team Titles History
| Champion | Won From | Date | City/Event |
|---|---|---|---|
| Team 3D | – | 5/13/2007 | Sacrifice[1] |
| Samoa Joe | Team 3D | 7/15/2007 | Victory Road[2] |
| Kurt Angle & Sting | Samoa Joe | 8/12/2007 | Hard Justice[3] |
| “Pacman” Jones & Ron Killings |
– | 9/9/2007 | No Surrender |
| AJ Styles & Tomko | Ron Killings & Consequences Creed |
10/14/2007 | Bound for Glory[4] |
| The LAX | Team 3D | 5/11/2008 | Sacrifice[5] |
| Beer Money Inc. | The LAX | 8/10/2008 | Hard Justice |
| Jay Lethal & Consequences Creed |
Beer Money Inc. | 1/8/2009 | iMPACT! |
| Beer Money Inc. (2) | Abyss & Matt Morgan |
1/11/2009 | Genesis[6] |
| Team 3D (2) | Beer Money Inc. | 4/19/2009 | Lockdown[7] |
| Beer Money Inc. (3) | Team 3D | 6/21/2009 | Slammiversary |
| Booker T & Scott Steiner |
Beer Money Inc. | 7/19/2009 | Victory Road |
| The British Invasion | – | 10/18/2009 | Bound For Glory[8] |
Footnotes:
[1]: After being stripped of the belts prior to Sacrifice, Team 3D are awarded the belts right back.
[2]: Angle and Joe defeated Team 3D for the belts. Since they can’t get along and Joe scored the pinfall, he won both straps.
[3]: Initially, Kurt Angle beat Joe for the TNA tag belts by himself and added Sting as his tag team partner when he won a four-way dance by defeating Samoa Joe, Christian Cage and AJ Styles on the 8/30/07 edition of iMPACT!.
[4]: Consequences Creed subbed for Adam “Pacman” Jones who no-showed. On the 4/17/08 edition of iMPACT!, Kaz and Super Eric defeated Tomko and Styles for the belts in a three-way dance also including the LAX, but were stripped of the titles when Super Eric would not reveal to the world that he was in fact Eric Young.
[5]: This was the “Deuces Wild” tournament final to crown new champions.
[6]: This was a three-way dance including the ex-champs Jay Lethal and Consequences Creed, but it was Roode who pinned Morgan to win the tag titles.
[7]: The IWGP tag team titles were also on the line, held by Team 3D. However, the titles are not considered unified.
[8]: In a Full Metal Mayhem match where both the TNA world tag team titles and the IWGP tag team titles (which were then held by the British Invasion and lost during the match to Team 3D) were on the line, World Elite’s muscle Big Rob helped Doug Williams retrieve and win the TNA world tag belts for the British Invasion. This match also included the former TNA world tag team champs Booker T & Scott Steiner and Beer Money Inc.
Credit goes to: PWI Almanac, wrestling-titles.com, and ProWrestlingHistory.com
WCW U.S. Heavyweight Title History
| Champion | Won From | Date | City/Event |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lex Luger | – | 1/1/1991 | –[1] |
| Sting | Steve Austin | 8/25/1991 | Atlanta, GA[2] |
| Rick Rude | Sting | 11/19/1991 | Clash 17[3] |
| Dustin Rhodes | Ricky Steamboat | 1/16/1993 | Saturday Night[4] |
| Dustin Rhodes (2) | Rick Rude | 8/30/1993 | Atlanta, GA[5] |
| Steve Austin | Dustin Rhodes | 12/27/1993 | Starrcade |
| Ricky Steamboat | Steve Austin | 8/24/1994 | Clash 28 |
| Steve Austin (2) | Ricky Steamboat | 9/18/1994 | Fall Brawl[6] |
| Jim Duggan | Steve Austin | 9/18/1994 | Fall Brawl |
| Vader | Jim Duggan | 12/27/1994 | Starrcade |
| Sting (2) | Meng | 6/18/1995 | Great American Bash[7] |
| Kensuke Sasaki | Sting | 11/13/1995 | Japan |
| One Man Gang | Kensuke Sasaki | 12/27/1995 | Starrcade |
| Konnan | One Man Gang | 1/29/1996 | Monday Nitro |
| Ric Flair | Konnan | 7/7/1996 | Bash at the Beach[8] |
| Eddie Guerrero | Diamond Dallas Page | 12/29/1996 | Starrcade[9] |
| Dean Malenko | Eddie Guerrero | 3/16/1997 | UnCeNSoReD |
| Jeff Jarrett | Dean Malenko | 6/9/1997 | Monday Nitro |
| Steve McMichael | Jeff Jarrett | 8/21/1997 | Clash 35 |
| Curt Hennig | Steve McMichael | 9/15/1997 | Monday Nitro |
| Diamond Dallas Page | Curt Hennig | 12/28/1997 | Starrcade |
| Raven | Diamond Dallas Page | 4/19/1998 | Spring Stampede |
| Bill Goldberg | Raven | 4/20/1998 | Monday Nitro |
| Bret Hart | Diamond Dallas Page | 7/20/1998 | Monday Nitro[10] |
| Lex Luger (2) | Bret Hart | 8/10/1998 | Monday Nitro |
| Bret Hart (2) | Lex Luger | 8/13/1998 | Thunder |
| Diamond Dallas Page (2) | Bret Hart | 10/26/1998 | Monday Nitro |
| Bret Hart (3) | Diamond Dallas Page | 11/30/1998 | Monday Nitro |
| Roddy Piper | Bret Hart | 2/8/1999 | Monday Nitro |
| Scott Hall | Roddy Piper | 2/21/1999 | Superbrawl IX[11] |
| Scott Steiner | Booker T | 4/11/1999 | Spring Stampede[12] |
| David Flair | – | 7/5/1999 | Monday Nitro[13] |
| Chris Benoit | David Flair | 8/9/1999 | Monday Nitro |
| Sid Vicious | Chris Benoit | 9/12/1999 | Fall Brawl |
| Bill Goldberg (2) | Sid Vicious | 10/24/1999 | Halloween Havoc |
| Bret Hart (4) | Bill Goldberg | 10/25/1999 | Monday Nitro |
| Scott Hall (2) | Bret Hart | 11/8/1999 | Monday Nitro[14] |
| Chris Benoit (2) | Jeff Jarrett | 12/19/1999 | Starrcade |
| Jeff Jarrett (2) | Chris Benoit | 12/20/1999 | Monday Nitro[15] |
| Scott Steiner (2) | Sting | 4/16/2000 | Spring Stampede[16] |
| Lance Storm | Mike Awesome | 7/18/2000 | Monday Nitro[17] |
| Terry Funk | Lance Storm | 9/22/2000 | Amarillo, TX |
| Lance Storm (2) | Terry Funk | 9/23/2000 | Lubbock, TX |
| General Rection | Lance Storm | 10/29/2000 | Halloween Havoc[18] |
| Lance Storm (3) | General Rection | 11/13/2000 | Monday Nitro |
| General Rection (2) | Lance Storm | 11/26/2000 | Mayhem |
| Shane Douglas | General Rection | 1/14/2001 | Sin |
| Rick Steiner | Shane Douglas | 2/5/2001 | Monday Nitro |
| Booker T | Rick Steiner | 3/18/2001 | Greed |
| WWE buys out WCW and the title becomes defended on WWE programming. | |||
| Kanyon | – | 7/26/2001 | Smackdown![19] |
| Tajiri | Kanyon | 9/10/2001 | Raw is War |
| Rhyno | Tajiri | 9/23/2001 | Unforgiven |
| Kurt Angle | Rhyno | 10/22/2001 | Raw |
| Edge | Kurt Angle | 11/12/2001 | Raw[20] |
Footnotes:
[1]: When WCW withdrew from the NWA in January 1991, Lex Luger’s NWA U.S. title reign carried over to become the first ever WCW U.S. title reign. After winning the WCW world title, Lex Luger had to vacate the U.S. title.
[2]: This was a tournament final.
[3]: In December 1992, Rude had to vacate the title due to injury.
[4]: This was a tournament final. During a controversial finish in May 1993, the U.S. title became vacant.
[5]: Rhodes regained the U.S. title in a rematch on 8/30/1993.
[6]: Austin was awarded the title after Steamboat was forced to vacate the title due to injury.
[7]: Vader was stripped of the title by WCW Commissioner Nick Bockwinkel in April 1995. This was a tournament final.
[8]: Ric Flair had to vacate the title due to a shoulder injury in November 1996.
[9]: This was a tournament final.
[10]: Goldberg vacated the U.S. title once he won the WCW world title on 7/5/1998. Bret Hart and DDP were considered as the top two contendors to the U.S. title.
[11]: Scott Hall vacated the U.S. title after suffering an injury.
[12]: This was a tournament final.
[13]: WCW President Ric Flair stripped Scott Steiner of the title when he failed to defend it and awarded it to his son David.
[14]: This was a four-way ladder match which also included Sid Vicious and Goldberg. He would be stripped of the title due to an injury at Starrcade, setting up a ladder match between Benoit and Jarrett for the vacant title.
[15]: Once the Russo/Bischoff era started on 4/10/2000, all the titles were made vacant as they reset the company.
[16]: This was a tournament final. Steiner would be stripped of the title when he used the Steiner Recliner on Mike Awesome at Bash at the Beach which was a submission hold that had been banned from WCW.
[17]: This was a tournament final. During the Lance Storm title reigns, the U.S. title becomes unofficially known as the WCW Canadian Heavyweight title.
[18]: General Rection won the title in a handicap match by defeating both Lance Storm and Jim Duggan.
[19]: As the WCW world champion, Booker T awards the secondary WCW U.S. title to Kanyon.
[20]: At the Survivor Series PPV the following weekend, Edge defeated WWE Intercontinental champion Test to win the title and as the WCW U.S. champion, the WCW and WWE titles become unified for the first time ever.
Credit goes to: PWI Almanac, wrestling-titles.com, and ProWrestlingHistory.com
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