Wrestling History

October 24th – On This Day In Wrestling History

October 24th - On This Day In Wrestling History

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1988 – The WWF’s weekly Madison Square Garden Show took place in New York. Demolition (Ax and Smash) retained their tag team belts against the Rockers (Shawn Michaels and Marty Jannetty) by pinfall and elsewhere on the card the Blue Blazer (Owen Hart) defeated the ‘Brooklyn Brawler’ Steve Lombardi. The WWF World Heavyweight Title was kept by Randy Savage after Andre The Giant lost the match via disqualification.

1993 – WCW Halloween Havoc took place in New Orleans, Louisiana. The main event saw Vader defeat Cactus Jack in a Texas Deathmatch. The only title change on the card saw The Nasty Boys defeat Marcus Bagwell and 2 Cold Scorpio to win the WCW Tag Team Titles.

1998 – In Cleveland, Ohio, The Dudley Boys (Buh Buh Ray and D-Von) took the ECW Tag Team Titles from Rob Van Dam and Sabu, making them champions for the fourth time.

1999 – WCW PPV Halloween Havoc was held in the MGM Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas.

  • Harlem Heat (Booker T and Stevie Ray) won the tag team belts for the third WCW PPV in a row to become 10-time Tag Team Champions.
  • Later on, Sting retained his WCW World Heavyweight Title against Hulk Hogan in just three seconds (the time it takes to pin someone) after Hogan laid down in the ring.
  • In possibly the best match of his WCW career, Sid Vicious lost his WCW United States Championship to Goldberg after the referee stopped the match.
  • For the main event, Sting issued an open challenge which the announcers said was non-title, and the challenge was answered by new United States champion, Goldberg. A few minutes later following a Spear and a Jackhammer, Goldberg pinned Sting and was given the belt then announced as the new WCW Champion. An irate Sting then hit the referee with his Scorpion Death Drop. The following night on Nitro it would be announced that the match had been non-title but due to Sting attacking the referee, the belt would be declared vacant.

2010 – WWE Bragging Rights was held in Minneapolis, Minnesota. United States Champion Daniel Bryan defeated Intercontinental Champion Dolph Ziggler by submission. Neither belt was on the line. Wrestling as The Nexus, David Otunga and John Cena defeated The Dashing Ones (Cody Rhodes & Drew McIntyre) to win the WWE Tag Team Championship belts. Later on in the night, Kane retained his WWE World Heavyweight Championship against the Undertaker in a Buried Alive Match due to a lot of outside interference from The Nexus.

2015 – NXT was at the Aftershock Rock Festival in Sacramento, California. Bayley retained her NXT Women’s Championship against Alexa Bliss and in the main event, Finn Balor beat Tyler Breeze to keep hold of the NXT Championship. The highlight of the show came during Baron Corbin vs. Samoa Joe when Corey Taylor from Slipknot slapped Corbin allowing Samoa Joe to get the win.

2020 – IMPACT Wrestling presented Bound For Glory, where Ken Shamrock was inducted into the company’s Hall Of Fame by Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson. In three title changes, The North won the Tag Team Championships, Su Yung returned as the mystery opponent and claimed Deonna Purrazzo’s Knockouts Title and Rich Swann got the better of Eric Young for the IMPACT World Championship.

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