1986 – Rick Rude emerges in the NWA with Paul Jones as his manager and immediately lets everyone know that he will be forming a team with Manny Fernandez.
After being inactive since the early Fall, the AWA World Heavyweight title is officially retired when the reigning champion, Larry Zbyszko, leaves for WCW
Fresh out of high school, a teenage Jeff Jarrett explains in this video why he has chosen to follow in his father’s footsteps and pursue a career in the squared circle
At a RAW is WAR taping, Triple H defeated Shawn Michaels to win the WWF European Championship, when his fellow D-Generation X member lays down for him
The Rowdy Scot is looking for a partner crazy enough to join forces with… and he’s found one in the Boogie Woogie Man
Terry Funk defeats Jack Brisco in Tampa, Florida, to win the NWA World Heavyweight Championship
The Nature Boy cuts an insane, bloody promo on Wahoo McDaniel, telling him the US title is ‘second best’ to the Ten Pounds of Gold
At Vengeance, Chris Jericho defeats The Rock and then Steve Austin to unify the WCW & WWF titles and become the first Undisputed Champion
After manager Jim Cornette is injured from his fall in the famed Scaffold match, Baby Doll steps in to manage The Midnight Express against the Road Warriors
Harlem Heat wins the first of 10 WCW World tag team titles by defeating Marcus Alexander Bagwell and The Patriot (Stars & Stripes) in Atlanta
The Nature Boy is town with the Ten Pounds of Gold, and asks the announcer if she knows the three words he’s NEVER heard from a woman in Florida
Watch Stone Cold and The People’s Champion have their first pay-per-view singles encounter, an Intercontinental title match at “In Your House: D-Generation X”
Jerry Jarrett (as The Hawaiian Flash) says he’ll give up his tag team contract to gain a singles match with Bill Dundee for the Southern Heavyweight title
1998 – WWF play-by-play announcer Jim Ross suffers a Bells Palsy attack while calling the Capital Carnage event in the United Kingdom
A World Class video tribute to the former tag team champions, set to their theme song, George Thorogood’s “Bad to the Bone”