Episode Details

Enjoy this episode (Season 4 Episode 33) of This Week In Wrestling History covering the week of 8/13 thru 8/19. Running Time: 5 Hours 9 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 33 (8/13 - 8/19)
RUNNING TIME: 5 HOURS 9 MINUTES

• Bobo Brazil defeats Buddy Rogers to win the NWA World Heavyweight Championship but refuses the title (Think Bruno/Rogers 1962).
• Looking back at the World Class Championship Wrestling Star Wars event (1982).
• Looking back at the WWF SummerSlam Fever event: nine matches with fewer than 30 total minutes of wrestling (1990).
• Audio: Bobby "The Brain" Heenan, with the NWA/WCW World Heavyweight Championship in hand, proclaims that the "Real World Heavyweight Champion" Ric Flair is coming to WWF (1991).
• Audio: Never trust a snake: Jake "The Snake" Roberts turns on the Ultimate Warrior.
• Audio: DT satirizes the Jake Roberts turn on the Ultimate Warrior.
• The Grudge Match TV show with Jesse Ventura makes its syndicated debut.
• Looking back at WCW Clash of the Champions XXIV.
• Audio: The Shockmaster makes his memorable WCW debut.
• Audio: Dusty Rhodes looks back at The Shockmaster's debut.
• Audio: The Shockmaster suddenly transforms into an electrician.
• Audio: Leslie Nielsen investigates the mystery of The Undertaker (1994).
• Looking back at ECW Hardcore Heaven 1994.
• The infamous chair-throwing incident by ECW fans during the Terry Funk vs. Cactus Jack match.
• Eddie Guerrero, Dean Malenko, and Sabu sign deals to wrestle for WCW.
• Audio: Goldust's first-ever vignette airs on Raw (1995).
• A WCW press conference in NYC announces the imminent debut of Monday Nitro on TNT.
• Looking back at the WWF/WWE SummerSlam PPVs: 1996, 2001, 2004, 2008, and 2010–2014.
• Looking back at WCW Clash of the Champions XXXIII.
• Audio: "Die Rocky Die": Rocky Maivia cuts his first promo as part of the Nation of Domination (1997).
• Looking back at the ECW Hardcore Heaven 1997 PPV.
• The Undertaker is "busted open" for the first time ever (in WWF) during a match on WWF Raw.
• Audio: Eddie Guerrero's WCW Nitro promo rips Eric Bischoff and threatens to quit WCW.
• Audio: The Ultimate Warrior makes his memorable WCW debut (1998).
• Looking back at the WCW Road Wild 1999 PPV.
• Lenny Lane wins his first and only WCW Cruiserweight Championship before being stripped due to controversy surrounding his character.
• Looking back at the WCW New Blood Rising PPV.
• Audio: Lance Storm vs. Mike Awesome for the US Title in a "Canadian Rules" match.
• Audio: Lance Storm gives away two of his three WCW Championships.
• Linda McMahon appears at the 2000 Democratic National Convention, and The Rock appears at the 2000 Republican National Convention.
• Looking back at WWF's first live episode of SmackDown, featuring a new theme ("Beautiful People") and a new "Fist" set (2001).
• Audio: Steve Austin introduces "What?!" (2001).
• The beginning of the end for the WWF Hardcore Championship.
• Audio: Chris Jericho vs. Kevin Nash: Hair vs. Hair Match from 2003
• Audio: Looking back at the infamous Diva Dodgeball Match (from SummerSlam 2004)
• Randy Orton makes WWE history by winning the World Heavyweight Championship at 24 years old.
• Thumbs Down: One night after winning the World Heavyweight Championship, Evolution turns on Randy Orton.
• Audio: Prior to his SummerSlam match against Hulk Hogan, HBK receives nuclear heat from Canadian fans on Raw (2005).
• Looking back at TNA Sacrifice 2005.
• Audio: Hulk Hogan wrestles his las