CSTC #6: 28th August - 3rd September

28th August - 3rd September Wrestling History!

28th August

1994:
Two Dudes With Attitude’, Shawn Michaels and Diesel, won the Tag Team titles. They would then vacate the belts in November the same year when the duo split at Survivor Series.

29th August

1988:
WWF debuted it’s brand new PPV event: SummerSlam, which was held at Madison Square Garden. After an injury to his original opponent Brutus ‘The Barber’ Beefcake (Caused by an injury sustained after an attack by Ron Bass), Intercontinental Champion The Honky Tonk Man demanded someone to wrestle and didn’t care who. The call was answered by the Ultimate Warrior who dispatched Honky Tonk in 31 seconds to win his first ever title in company and end Honky’s record setting reign as the longest IC champion of all time.

30th August

2010:
The 900th episode of Monday Night RAW is broadcast and opens with Bret Hart talking about himself and the Undertaker being the only two people in WWE that were on both this episode of Raw and the first episode in 1993. A match is made by the anonymous General Manager between Bret Hart and the Undertaker later in the show, but the match doesn’t get underway. Instead, the Undertaker is taken out by Kane and then The Nexus.

31st August

1998:
Miami, Florida sets the stage for WCW Monday Nitro and the build up to their PPV, WarGames. The weekly show has wins for Goldberg and Chris Jericho (in seperate matches) whereas Eddie Guerrero lays down in his match against Brian Adams for Adams to get an easy win. The main event features the team of Holywood Hogan and Bret Hart (heels) going against Sting and Lex Luger. The match ends in a countout loss for Hogan/Hart due to them arguing in the aisle after Bret took Hogan’s belt away from him that he was using to whip Sting. Afterwards, the Warrior appears in a cloud of smoke in the ring which takes out the NWO.

1st September

1979:
Pat Patterson ‘wins’ a tournament in Rio de Janiero to become the first Intercontinental Champion. As most now know, and WWE cheekily acknowledge, no such tournament ever took place and Patterson was simply given the new championship.

2nd September

On RAW Brock Lesnar declared that he would only defend the WWE Undisputed Championship on SmackDown from that date forward, thus leaving Raw effectively without a world champion. Raw General Manager Eric Bischoff would remedy this the next week by reviving WCW’s ‘Big Gold Belt’ and presenting it to Triple H as Raw and WWE’s first World Heavyweight Champion.

3rd September

2017:
House Strong Style (now known as Moustache Mountain and consisting of Pete Dunne, Tyler Bate and Trent Seven) won the CHIKARA King Of Trios tournament by defeating House Sendai Girls (Cassandra Miyagi, Dash Chisako and Meiko Satomura) in the tournament final in Wolverhampton, England.