This Week In Wrestling History (Season 4 Episode 36: 9/3 – 9/9)

Enjoy this episode (Season 4 Episode 36) of This Week In Wrestling History covering the week of 9/3 thru 9/9. Running Time: 5 Hours 45 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 36 (9/3 - 9/9)
RUNNING TIME: 5 HOURS 45 MINUTES

• Giant Baba def. Harley Race for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship—only to lose it back to Race a few days later
• The Wild Samoans win the vacant WWWF Tag Team Championship (vacated by Backlund & Morales)
• Looking back at WCCW Labor Day Star Wars (1983, 1984, 1987)
• Georgia Championship Wrestling regains WTBS Studios
• Looking back at the 1987 and 1991 King of the Ring events
• Looking back at WCW Clash of the Champions XII: Fall Brawl '90
• Sting defeats The Black Scorpion... or does he?
• The NWA strips Ric Flair of the World Heavyweight Championship
• AUDIO: Ric Flair makes his memorable WWF debut — highlights include his Prime Time Wrestling promo, his debut match, and the incident with Roddy Piper. Plus, Vince McMahon gets physically involved in a segment for the first time ever
• AUDIO: Sgt. Slaughter wants his country back
• AUDIO: Tito Santana becomes El Matador
• WCW airs the first-ever episode of Monday Nitro on TNT
• AUDIO: Lex Luger makes a surprise appearance on the first episode of WCW Monday Nitro and confronts Hulk Hogan
• AUDIO: Eric Bischoff discusses rehiring Lex Luger and the historic significance of his appearance on Nitro Episode 1
• WWF airs a special Friday night episode of Raw
• Shawn Michaels appears in Playgirl magazine
• AUDIO: Jim Ross announces the imminent return of Razor Ramon and Diesel to the WWF
• AUDIO: nWo shirts officially go on sale
• AUDIO: Scott Hall proclaims he is nWo "4 Life"
• Looking back at the WWF In Your House 17: Ground Zero PPV
• Steven Dunn def. Doomsday (Kane) to become the final USWA Southern Heavyweight Champion
• AUDIO: Women's history is made on Raw: Tori vs. Ivory in the first-ever Women's Hardcore Match for the WWF Women's Championship
• AUDIO: Val Venis and Big Show urinate on GTV: "And they call you The Big Show?!"
• AUDIO: Howard Finkel vs. Tony Chimel in a Tuxedo Match
• AUDIO: The Rock & Mankind vs. The Big Show & The Undertaker in a Buried Alive match with heavy interference from Austin, Kane, Triple H, and more
• Vincent (Virgil) joins The West Texas Rednecks
• AUDIO: WCW hosts a convoluted Battle Royal on Nitro with a "Can't Blame It on Russo" finish
• Eddie Guerrero def. Chyna and Kurt Angle to win the Intercontinental Championship
• Rhino def. Kid Kash to become the final ECW World Television Champion
• AUDIO: Kurt Angle kidnaps Stone Cold Steve Austin and throws him into a pool
• AUDIO: Christian turns on Edge
• AUDIO: Steven Richards vs. The Undertaker leads to the WWF debut of KroniK
• Looking back at the NWA-TNA "One Penny" PPV from 2003
• AUDIO: Brock Lesnar cuts the promo of his career while brutalizing Zach Gowen and throwing him down a long flight of stairs
• ROH "Beating the Odds," featuring Raven vs. CM Punk in a Clockwork Orange House of Fun Match
• TNA signs Gail Kim and Junior Fatu (Rikishi)
• WWE tapes the first episode of Friday Night SmackDown to dismal ratings
• TNA releases Andrew "Test" Martin after one match due to substance abuse issues
• Looking back at TNA No Surrender (2007, 2010, 2012)
• AUDIO: Adam "Pacman" Jones' infamous TNA Tag Team Championship reign begins
• AUDIO: Hornswoggle is revealed as Vince McMahon's illegitimate son
• Looking back at the 2008 WWE Unforgiven PPV and the Championship Scramble concept
• The Wrestler wins the 2008 Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival
• Bryan Danielson and Nigel McGuinness leave ROH for WWE: one signs with WWE, while the other fails a physical and lands in TNA
• AUDIO: Bob Barker hosts "The Price Is Raw"
• AUDIO: CM Punk impersonates Jeff Hardy and delivers a memorable straight-edge promo
• Memphis Championship Wrestling closes its doors
• Bret Hart makes his return to WWE Raw after nearly 15 years
• AUDIO: Jerry Lawler suffers a cardiac arrest during Raw — includes live clips from Raw, commentary from Michael Cole, and a controversial interview between Steve Austin and Jerry Lawler
• Looking back at the TNA One Night Only PPV: Knockouts Knockdown (2013)
• Looking back at the TNA One Night Only PPV: World Cup of Wrestling (2014)
• Lucha Underground tapes its first-ever episode (2014)
• WWE signs Asuka
• Sting destroys Seth Rollins' statue inside a garbage truck
• AUDIO: Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson introduce "The Old Day"
• Nia Jax walks the runway at the Curvy Con Fashion Show in New York City
• JBL steps down from the SmackDown commentary team and is replaced by Corey Graves
• Jonathan Coachman steps down from the Raw commentary team and is replaced by Renee Young
• AUDIO: NBA star Enes Kanter wins the WWE 24/7 Championship from R-Truth
• Anthem acquires a majority stake in HDNet LLC, paving the way for Impact Wrestling to start airing on AXS TV
• AUDIO: Triple H addresses AEW Dynamite's upcoming debut on TNT head-to-head against NXT (2019)
• #FreeKillerKross trends across social media amid the public fallout between Killer Kross and Impact Wrestling
• Seth Rollins and Becky Lynch grace the cover of Muscle & Fitness magazine
• The hilarious story behind Chris Jericho's AEW World Championship belt going missing and be