Wrestling History

February 14th – On This Day In Wrestling History

February 14th - On This Day In Wrestling History

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1999 – WWF ‘St Valentine’s Day Massacre: In Your House’ took place at The Pyramid in Memphis, Tennessee and saw Paul Wight (The Giant from WCW) make his WWF debut by interfering in the main event Steel Cage match between ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin and Mr McMahon. Austin’s WrestleMania XV WWF Title opportunity was up for grabs, and he would win the match when Wight inadvertently threw him into a gimmicked side of the cage, breaking it open and allowing Austin to drop to the floor and win the match.

Also on the card, Val Venis defeated Ken Shamrock for the Intercontinental Title, Bob Holly won the WWF Hardcore Title from Al Snow, and The Rock and Mankind fought to a no-contest for the WWF Title in a Last Man Standing match.

2004 – In the main event of the ROH Second Anniversary Show in Braintree, Massachusetts, AJ Styles defeated CM Punk in a tournament final to be crowned the first ever ROH Pure Wrestling Champion. Also, Samoa Joe defeated B.J. Whitmer, Dan Maff and Low Ki to retain the ROH World Heavyweight Title in a four-corners match.

2010 – AJ Styles retained the TNA World Heavyweight Title against Samoa Joe at TNA ‘Against All Odds’ PPV in Orlando, with Eric Bischoff as the Special Guest Referee for the title match. In something of a hardcore dream match, Abyss defeated Mick Foley.

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2011 – The Rock appeared as a surprise guest on Monday Night Raw to announce that he would serve as the guest host of WrestleMania 29.

2015 – NJPW presented ‘New Beginnings In Sendai’ from the Sun Plaza in Sendai, Japan. On the show, Tomohiro Ishii beat Tomoaki Honma to win the vacant NEVER Openweight Championship. Another title change on the night saw Hiroyoshi Tenzan defeat Rob Conway for the NWA Heavyweight Championship. The main event saw Shinsuke Nakamura retain the IWGP Intercontinental Championship by defeating Yuji Nagata.

2017 – On WWE SmackDown Live in Anaheim, California, Bray Wyatt retained his newly won WWE World Championship against AJ Styles and John Cena in the main event.

2020 – Will Ospreay defeated Zack Sabre Jr. for the RevPro British Heavyweight Title in the main event of RevPro High Stakes at York Hall in London. Also Michael Oku beat El Phantasmo for the RevPro British Cruiserweight Title and Gisele Shaw won the RevPro British Women’s Title from Zoe Lucas in the show opener.

2021 – NXT TakeOver: Vengeance Day took place in Orlando, Florida. MSK won the final of the Men’s Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic, whilst Dakota Kai and Raquel Gonzalez were victorious in the inaugural women’s version of the tournament. In the main event, Finn Balor retained the NXT Championship against Pete Dunne.

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