Wrestling History

November 1st – On This Day In Wrestling History

November 1st - On This Day In Wrestling History

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1990 – Jushin ‘Thunder’ Liger defeated Chris Benoit (Under his masked Pegasus Kid gimmick he used in Japan at that time) to win his third IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship.

1997 – Following the spiral of events that led to his WWF departure, Bret ‘Hitman’ Hart officially signed his WCW contract. The contract was worth $2.5 million per year and was supposed to be kept confidential until after the Survivor Series PPV on November 9th. As we all know, the news was leaked in the days leading up to that PPV and led to the infamous ‘Montreal Screwjob’.

1998 – ECW November To Remember took place at the Lakefront Arena in New Orleans, Louisiana. One title changed hands on the night when Balls Mahoney and Masato Tanaka defeated Buh Buh Ray and D-Von Dudley to win the ECW Tag Team Titles. In the main event, Rob Van Dam, Sabu and Taz beat The Triple Threat (Bam Bam Bigelow, Chris Candido and Shane Douglas)

1998 – WWE taped the debut of ‘Super Astros’, their Lucha Libre-focused show made for the Hispanic market. In the main event, El Hijo Del Santo defeated Super Loco.

2004 – On an episode of Raw, La Resistance (Rob Conway and Sylvain Grenier) defeated Edge and Chris Benoit to win the World Tag Team Championship.

2005 – WWE presented the second (And to date, final) Taboo Tuesday PPV at the iPayOne Center in San Diego, California. In the first of the featured bouts, Ric Flair successfully defended his Intercontinental Championship against Triple H in a fantastic old-school-style cage match. Fans voted for the cage stipulation with the other options being a regular match or submission match. In the main event, John Cena won a triple-threat match for the WWE Championship against Kurt Angle and the winner of the fan’s vote, Shawn Michaels. The two other choices for the main event, Big Show and Kane, combined to defeat Lance Cade and Trevor Murdoch for the World Tag Team Championship.

2012 – Brad Armstrong was found dead in his home in Georgia home at the age of 51.

2016 – TNA Impact Wrestling taped their unique ‘Total Non-Stop Deletion’ event at the Hardy Compound in Cameron, North Carolina. During the event, Matt Hardy’s eldest son ‘King Maxel’ beat Rockstar Spud in a 47-second No Disqualification match and The Hardy Boyz won a ‘Tag Team Apocalypto Match’ for the TNA World Tag Team Titles. Other teams in the match included The Rock And Roll Express, Rockstar Spud and Swoggle, Abyss and Crazzy Steve and Andrew Everett and Gregory Shane Helms.

2019 – In the run-up to NXT taking part in Survivor Series, NXT ‘invaded’ SmackDown and took on blue brand superstars in various bouts. Tommaso Ciampa defeated the Miz, Rhea Ripley and Tegan Nox beat Mandy Rose and Sonya Deville and Adam Cole beat Daniel Bryan in a 20+ minute NXT Championship match in the main event.

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