Episode Details

This Week In Wrestling History is back for an all-new season for 2026 with history covered up to and including 2025! Enjoy this episode (Season 4 Episode 1) covering the week of 1/1 thru 1/7. Running Time: 5 Hours 16 Minutes. This Week In Wrestling History (TWIWH) hosted by Don Tony debuted in 2018 for two seasons. Due to demand for new episodes, it returned in 2025 and is now in its Fourth Season for 2026! Hundreds of hours of original wrestling clips & stories. Enjoy this deep dive into pro wrestling's awesome history. You won't find history shows like this anywhere but here! SYNOPSIS: SEASON 4 EPISODE 1 (1/1 - 1/7)
RUNNING TIME: 5 HOURS 16 MINUTES
- Stan Hansen makes his pro wrestling debut
- Looking back at the Sam Muchnick Retirement Show featuring Dusty Rhodes, Ric Flair, Harley Race, Greg Valentine and many others
- Prime Time Wrestling debuts on USA Network
- Looking back at WCW/NJPW Supershow II (1992) and Supershow III (1993).
- In between his WWF exit and WCW debut, Hulk Hogan competes in Japan
- Macho Man Randy Savage makes WCW in ring debut
- Looking back at ECW House Party '96 featuring: Public Enemy leave ECW for WCW.. Sandman vs Konnan.. Dean Douglas is dead.. Stevie Richards' breakout match.. Rey Mysterio plays 'chicken'.. Beulah pregnant (audio).. Rob Van Dam' ECW debut match and more
- Riki Choshu wrestles five retirement matches in one night!
- Audio: Thirty minutes of soap opera saga that led up to the infamous WCW 'Finger poke Of Doom'.
- Audio: Tony Schiavone spoils Mick Foley's WWF Championship win during WCW Monday Nitro
- Audio: Looking back at the night Mankind def The Rock to win the WWF Championship
- Audio: Road Dogg vs Al Snow battle for the Hardcore Title in the snow
- In between his WCW exit and WWF debut, Chris Benoit wrestled in Japan as Wild Pegasus
- Looking back at Wrestling World 2000, 2004, 2005
- Audio: Stephanie McMahon declares Chris Jericho and Chyna co-IC Champions. A three-week title reign WWE does not recognize.
- D-Generation X mocks Mankind with 'Have A Bad Day'.
- 'The Triple H Show' in full force. Triple H appears on Raw ten different times in the same night.
- Looking back at the final ECW televised event: Guilty As Charged '01.
- One of the loudest crowd 'pops' in WWF/WWE history: Triple H returns to RAW at Madison Square Garden after career-threatening quadriceps injury
- Audio: Al Wilson and Dawn Marie get married on Smackdown in their underwear
- Audio: Kenzo Suzuki challenges John Cena to a Battle Rap
- Looking back at the night Brock Lesnar fought Shinsuke Nakamura in Japan
- Audio: Mike Tenay announces TNA signing of STING and his debut would happen at TNA Final Resolution PPV
- WWE releases Juventud Guerrera
- Looking back at TNA Final Resolution 2007
- Looking back at WWE New Year's Revolution 2007
- Audio: John Cena battles Kevin Federline in a No-Disqualification Match on WWE RAW with an outcome no one asked for
- WWE signs Natalya Neidhart
- Looking back at Wrestle Kingdom 2007-2025 events
- Looking back at the night TNA Impact Live and WWE Monday Night RAW went head to head (January 4, 2010)
- Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, and others make TNA Impact debuts
- Awful timing: Jeff Hardy indicted on drug trafficking charges the same day he makes his TNA return
- Bret Hart returns to WWE RAW after a twelve-year absence
- Audio: Chris Jericho returns to WWE RAW after a 16-month absence and trolls the fans in grand style
- Audio: Warrior slams Nash. Nash challenges Warrior to MMA fight. Warrior responds
- John Cena replaces Fred Flinstone on boxes of Fruity Pebbles breakfast cereal
- WWE releases Kaitlyn
- Audio: WWE special 'Old School Raw' episode highlighted by the return of Jake The Snake Roberts
- Audio: Interesting look back at a 2014