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Bigelow’s Raw Report 12/8/08

2008 Slammy Awards

Monday Night Raw 12/8/08

2008 Slammy Awards

Wachovia Center

Philadelphia, PA

Announcers: Michael Cole & Jerry Lawler
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WrestleMania XI

WWF WrestleMania XI
April 2, 1995
Hartford, CT
Hartford Civic Center

The current WWF Champs were as follows:
World Champion: Diesel (11/26/1994)
Intercontinental Champion: Jeff Jarrett (1/22/1995)
World Tag Team Champions: The Smokin’ Gunns (1/23/1995)
Women’s Champion: Bull Nakano (11/20/1994)

Special Olympian Kathy Huey handles “America the Beautiful”.

Your hosts are Vince McMahon and Jerry Lawler. Read the rest of this entry

WWE: The History of the Intercontinental Championship: Disc Two

WWE: The History of the Intercontinental Championship – Disc Two
Released: 11/25/2008
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Royal Rumble 1995

WWF Royal Rumble
January 22, 1995
Tampa, FL
The Sundome

The current WWF Champs were as follows:
World Champion: Diesel (11/26/1994)
Intercontinental Champion: Razor Ramon (8/29/1994)
World Tag Team Champions: vacant (11/23/1994)
Women’s Champion: Bull Nakano (11/20/1994)

Your hosts are Vince McMahon and Jerry Lawler. Read the rest of this entry

Monday Night Raw (01.16.95)

WWF Monday Night Raw
January 16, 1995
Houston, TX
The Summit
(taped on 1/9/1995)

The current WWF Champs were as follows:
World Champion: Diesel (11/26/1994)
Intercontinental Champion: Razor Ramon (8/29/1994)
World Tag Team Champions: vacant (11/23/1994)
Women’s Champion: Bull Nakano (11/20/1994)

Your hosts are Vince McMahon and Shawn Michaels! Heck yeah. Read the rest of this entry

The Hart Foundation YouTube/DailyMotion MixTape

Arguably one of the greatest tag teams of the ’80s. Bret Hart, Jim Neidhart and Jimmy Hart started from the bottom up and captured two WWF tag team championships in three years. Their battles with the Killer Bees, the Rougeau Brothers, the British Bulldogs and the Rockers are examples of tag team wrestling excellence. In 1997, the Hart Foundation became a stable and other members of the Hart family joined to compete against the best the WWF had to offer at the time as an anti-American group. By the end of 1997, Bret Hart was screwed out of the WWF title, Davey Boy Smith and Jim Neidhart left the WWF, Brian Pillman passed away, and Owen Hart hung around in the mid-card – ending another successful run of the Hart Foundation. Read the rest of this entry

Survivor Series 1994

WWF Survivor Series 1994
November 23, 1994
San Antonio, TX
Freeman Coliseum

The current WWF Champs were as follows:
World Champion: Bret Hart (3/20/1994)
Intercontinental Champion: Razor Ramon (8/29/1994)
World Tag Team Champions: Diesel & Shawn Michaels (8/28/1994)
Women’s Champion: Bull Nakano (11/20/1994)

Your hosts are Vince McMahon and Gorilla Monsoon in their one and only PPV together. Read the rest of this entry

SummerSlam 1994

WWF SummerSlam 1994
August 29, 1994
Chicago, IL
United Center

The current WWF Champs were as follows:
World Champion: Bret Hart (3/20/1994)
Intercontinental Champion: Diesel (4/13/1994)
World Tag Team Champions: Shawn Michaels & Diesel (8/28/1994)
Women’s Champion: Alundra Blayze (12/13/1993)

Your hosts are Vince McMahon and Jerry Lawler. Read the rest of this entry

WWE European Title History

Champion Won From Date City/Event
Davey Boy Smith Owen Hart 2/26/1997 Monday Night
Raw[1]
Shawn Michaels Davey Boy Smith 9/20/1997 One Night Only
Hunter Hearst
Helmsley
Shawn Michaels 12/22/1997 Raw is War
Owen Hart Goldust 1/20/1998 Raw is War[2]
Hunter Hearst
Helmsley (2)
Owen Hart 3/16/1998 Raw is War
D’Lo Brown Hunter Hearst
Helmsley
7/20/1998 Raw is War
X-Pac D’Lo Brown 9/21/1998 Raw is War
D’Lo Brown (2) X-Pac 10/5/1998 Raw is War
X-Pac (2) D’Lo Brown 10/18/1998 Judgment Day
Shane McMahon X-Pac 2/15/1999 Raw is War[3]
Mideon 6/21/1999 Raw is War[4]
D’Lo Brown (3) Mideon 7/25/1999 Fully Loaded
Jeff Jarrett D’Lo Brown 8/22/1999 SummerSlam
Mark Henry 8/23/1999 Raw is War[5]
D’Lo Brown (4) Mark Henry 9/26/1999 Unforgiven
Davey Boy Smith
(2)
D’Lo Brown 10/28/1999 Smackdown!
Val Venis Davey Boy Smith 12/12/1999 Armageddon[6]
Kurt Angle Val Venis 2/10/2000 Smackdown!
Chris Jericho Kurt Angle 4/2/2000 WrestleMania
2000[7]
Eddie Guerrero Chris Jericho 4/3/2000 Raw is War
Perry Saturn Eddie Guerrero 7/23/2000 Fully Loaded
Al Snow Perry Saturn 8/31/2000 Smackdown!
William Regal Al Snow 10/16/2000 Raw is War
Crash Holly William Regal 12/2/2000 Rebellion
William Regal (2) Crash Holly 12/4/2000 Raw is War
Test William Regal 1/22/2001 Raw is War
Eddie Guerrero (2) Test 4/1/2001 WrestleMania X-7
Matt Hardy Eddie Guerrero 4/26/2001 Smackdown!
The Hurricane Matt Hardy 8/27/2001 Raw is War
Bradshaw The Hurricane 10/22/2001 Raw
Christian Bradshaw 11/1/2001 Smackdown!
DDP Christian 1/31/2002 Smackdown!
William Regal (3) DDP 3/21/2002 Smackdown![8]
Spike Dudley William Regal 4/8/2002 Raw
William Regal (4) Spike Dudley 5/6/2002 Raw
Jeff Hardy William Regal 7/8/2002 Raw
Rob Van Dam Jeff Hardy 7/22/2002 Raw[9]

Footnotes:
[1]: This was a tournament final.
[2]: Goldust impersonated champion Hunter Hearst Helmsley for this match, but WWF Commissioner Sgt. Slaughter allowed the title change to stand.
[3]: During a tag team match with Shane McMahon & Kane took on champion X-Pac & Triple H where the European title was on the line, McMahon won the belt by pinning X-Pac. McMahon would retire the belt shortly after beating X-Pac at WrestleMania XV.
[4]: McMahon reactivated the title and awarded it to Mideon several months later.
[5]: Jarrett gave the title to Henry as a reward for helping him beat Brown for both the European and Intercontinental championships the previous night.
[6]: This was a triple-threat match which also included D’Lo Brown.
[7]: This was a triple-threa match which also included Chris Benoit.
[8]: The European title becomes exclusive to Raw when Regal gets drafted to Raw on March 26, 2002.
[9]: As Intercontinental champion, Rob Van Dam was able to unify the belts.

Credit goes to: PWI Almanac, wrestling-titles.com, and ProWrestlingHistory.com

WWE Tag Team Titles History (SD!)

Champion Won From Date City/Event
Kurt Angle & Chris Benoit Rey Mysterio & Edge 10/20/2002 No Mercy[1]
Edge & Rey Mysterio Kurt Angle & Chris Benoit 11/7/2002 Smackdown!
Los Guerreros Edge & Rey Mysterio 11/17/2002 Survivor Series[2]
Benjamin & Haas Los Guerreros 2/6/2003 Smackdown!
Eddie Guerrero & Tajiri Benjamin & Haas 5/18/2003 Judgment Day[3]
Benjamin & Haas (2) Eddie Guerrero & Tajiri 7/3/2003 Smackdown!
Los Guerreros (2) Benjamin & Haas 9/18/2003 Smackdown!
Basham Brothers Los Guerreros 10/23/2003 Smackdown!
Rikishi & Scotty 2 Hotty Basham Brothers 2/5/2004 Smackdown!
Charlie Haas & Rico Rikishi & Scotty 2 Hotty 4/22/2004 Smackdown!
The Dudley Boyz Charlie Haas & Rico 6/17/2004 Smackdown!
Billy Kidman & Paul London The Dudley Boyz 7/8/2004 Smackdown!
Kenzo Suzuki & Rene Dupree Billy Kidman & Paul London 9/9/2004 Smackdown!
Rob Van Dam & Rey Mysterio Kenzo Suzuki & Rene Dupree 12/9/2004 Smackdown!
Basham Brothers (2) Rob Van Dam & Rey Mysterio 1/13/2005 Smackdown![4]
Rey Mysterio & Eddie Guerrero Basham Brothers 2/20/2005 Smackdown!
MNM Rey Mysterio & Eddie Guerrero 4/21/2005 Smackdown!
Animal & Heidenreich MNM 7/25/2005 Great American Bash
MNM (2) Animal & Heidenreich 10/28/2005 Smackdown![5]
Batista & Rey Mysterio MNM 12/16/2005 Smackdown!
MNM (3) Batista & Rey Mysterio 12/30/2005 Smackdown!
Brian Kendrick & Paul London MNM 5/21/2006 Judgment Day
Deuce & Domino Brian Kendrick & Paul London 4/20/2007 Smackdown!
MVP & Matt Hardy Deuce & Domino 8/31/2007 Smackdown!
The Miz & John Morrison MVP & Matt Hardy 11/16/2007 Smackdown![6]
Curt Hawkins & Zach Ryder The Miz & John Morrison 7/20/2008 Great American Bash[7]
Carlito & Primo Colon Curt Hawkins & Zach Ryder 9/26/2008 Smackdown![8]

Footnotes:
[1]: To give the Smackdown show tag titles exclusive to their brand, a tournament was started and this was the finals.
[2]: This was a triple-threat tag team match which also included Chris Benoit & Kurt Angle.
[3]: Tajiri was a replacement for Eddie’s injured partner Chavo Guerrero.
[4]: This was a four-team elimination match which also included the teams of Mark Jindrak & Luther Reigns and Booker T & Eddie Guerrero.
[5]: This was a four-way match which also featured the Mexicools and Paul Burchill & William Regal.
[6]: With Morrison a part of ECW and Miz a part of Smackdown, the tag belts were shared on both shows.
[7]: This was a fatal-four way tag match which also included Jesse & Festus and Finlay & Hornswaggle. Since both Hawkins & Ryder are a part of Smackdown, the belts returned to being exclusively defended on Smackdown.
[8]: At WrestleMania XXV on April 5, 2009, Carlito & Primo Colon defeated The Miz and John Morrison to unify Smackdown’s WWE tag team championship with Raw’s World tag team championship.

Credit goes to: PWI Almanac, wrestling-titles.com, and ProWrestlingHistory.com