Episode Details

Enjoy this episode (Season 4 Episode 27) of This Week In Wrestling History covering the week of 7/2 thru 7/8. Running Time: 5 Hours 33 Minutes! Hundreds of hours of wrestling memories, all featuring the ORIGINAL moments as they aired including ORIGINAL theme music! Enjoy this deep dive into pro wrestling's awesome history. You won't find history documented like this anywhere but here! SYNOPSIS: SEASON 4 EPISODE 27 (7/2 - 7/8)
RUNNING TIME: 5 HOURS 33 MINUTES

• Forbidden Door: NWA Heavyweight Champion Ric Flair battles WWF Champion Bob Backlund to determine who is the true World Champion (from 1982)
• Audio: Gordon Solie interviews Ric Flair and Bob Backlund prior to their rare interpromotional match
• Looking back at WCCW Independence Day Star Wars 1983-1986
• Magnificent Muraco becomes the first-ever WWF King of the Ring
• Looking back at The Great American Bash 1985, 1987, 1990
• NWA features the first-ever WarGames match
• The curse of July 4th: The deaths of Adrian Adonis, Joey Marella, Pat Kelly, and Dave McKigney; the Brutus Beefcake parasailing accident; and Vince McMahon's motorcycle accident
• Vader makes his WCW debut
• Who remembers the Dudes with Attitudes?
• Audio: 20-year-old Rob Van Dam battles 26-year-old Sabu in the USWA
• Audio: Lex Luger bodyslams Yokozuna aboard the USS Intrepid and the Lex Express begins
• Audio: The Gangstas (New Jack and Mustafa Saed) make their Smoky Mountain Wrestling debut (Note: Fixed the tag team name spelling and capitalization)
• Audio: The challenge before his memorable heel turn: Bob Backlund challenges Bret Hart for WWF Championship
• Vader begins his infamous Roadkill Tour
• Audio: Ultimate Warrior battles Owen Hart in his last-ever match with the WWF/WWE
• Looking back at the odd way the WWF handled the Ultimate Warrior's suspension on Monday Night RAW
• Looking back at WCW Bash at the Beach 1996
• Audio: Hulk Hogan betrays WCW, and the New World Order (nWo) is created
• Looking back at WWF In Your House 16: Canadian Stampede
• Audio: Bill Goldberg battles Hollywood Hulk Hogan for the WCW Heavyweight Championship in the Georgia Dome on Monday Nitro (1998)
• Audio: Degeneration X mocks The Nation of Domination
• WWF Footbrawl: Looking back at the loaded WWF house show at Foxboro Stadium that never took place
• Jerry Lawler announces his candidacy for mayor of Memphis, TN
• Steve Austin takes batting practice with the Phillies and throws out the first pitch for the Mets
• Parents Television Council and L. Brent Bozell, III agree to pay WWF $3.5 million after being sued by WWF for defamation, libel and slander
• More on TNN dropping ECW programming after the first year of a three-year TV deal
• Audio: Johnny the Bull literally tears his ass during a Hardcore match against Terry Funk on WCW Monday Nitro
• Discovery Channel airs a memorable wrestling special featuring the very beginning of John Cena's wrestling career
• The WWF completes the deal to sign NCAA Champion Brock Lesnar (2000)
• Bam Bam Bigelow suffers burns to over 40% of his body after rescuing children from a house fire
• Looking back at the disaster that changed the WCW Invasion angle and its future in the WWF: Buff Bagwell vs. Booker T for the WCW Heavyweight Title on Monday Night RAW
• An XPW deathmatch between Kaos and Supreme goes horribly wrong
• The Jackie Gayda match
• Kevin Nash tears his quad during a main event on Monday Night Raw
• Audio: Billy and Chuck defend the WWE Tag Team championships against Edge and Hulk Hogan
• Ric Flair's autobiography, To Be the Man, debuts at #5 on The New York Times Best Seller list
• Audio: Chavo Guerrero denounces his Hispanic heritage and the Guerrero name to become Kerwin White
• Audio: Shawn Michaels tu