18th - 24th September Wrestling History! September 18th 2005 – WWE Unforgiven saw two title changes. In the opening match, Ric Flair defeated Carlito to win his first WWE Intercontinental Championship. Lance Cade and Trevor Murdoch also beat The Hurricane and Rosey to win the World Tag Team Championships. September 19th 1993 – WCW presented Fall Brawl. After his infamous introduction weeks earlier, this event saw the in-ring debut of The Shockmaster as part of Sting’s War Games team alongside Davey Boy Smith and Dustin Rhodes. They faced Sid Vicious, Vader and Harlem Heat (Then known as Kane and Kole). The babyface team was victorious. The event also saw two title changes. ‘Ravishing’ Rick Rude beat Ric Flair to win the short-lived WCW International World Heavyweight Championship in the first of those. In the second, the recently debuted Nasty Boys defeated Arn Anderson and Paul Roma for the WCW Tag Team Championships. September 20th 2015 – WWE Night Of Champions. In the main event, Seth Rollins retained the WWE Championship with a win over Sting. An injury sustained during the match led directly to Sting’s retirement, therefore marking this match as the last of his legendary career. Elsewhere on the card, Charlotte Flair defeated Nikki Bella to win the WWE Women’s Championship. September 21st 1999 – The Rock N’ Sock Connection (The Rock and Mankind) won the WWF Tag Team Championships by defeating The New Age Outlaws. On the same show, Vince McMahon forced Triple H to wrestle against all five of his upcoming six-pack challenge opponents in their own special gimmick matches. He lost to Big Show in a ‘Chokeslam Challenge’ and also lost a casket match against Mideon and Viscera (substituting for The Undertaker). He defeated Kane in an Inferno Match, Mankind in a Boiler Room Brawl and then secured the title match spot by beating The Rock in a ‘Brahma Bullrope Match’ September 22nd 1997 – RAW is held in Madison Square Garden for the first time in it’s history and is notable for two things. Firstly, it was the debut of one of Mick Foley’s alter egos, Cactus Jack, who beat Triple H in a street fight. Secondly it was the first time that Steve Austin hit Vince McMahon with his famous Stunner and kicked off what would become the historic Austin-McMahon feud. September 23rd 2001 – Three titles changed hands during the event, with Christian pinning Edge for the Intercontinental title, Rhyno taking the WCW United States Title from Tajiri (also by pinfall) and Kurt Angle forcing Steve Austin to tap to his ankle lock to win the WWF Championship. The event itself is remembered also for having one of the worst PPV matches to ever air between the Brothers of Destruction (Kane and the Undertaker) going against former WCW tag champs KroniK. September 24th 1996 – The main event was a winners take all match featuring Diesel (WWF Champion) and Shawn Michaels (Intercontinental Champion) against the Tag Team champions of Owen Hart and Yokozuna. Due to Hart going ‘missing’ it was decided that the British Bulldog would take his place. However, Owen Hart made an appearance before the end of the match and ended up being the one pinned for Diesel/Michaels to become the ones to hold all the gold. (The next night on Raw it would be decided that Owen wasn’t legal in the match, the results were voided and the tag belts returned to Hart Support the showContact Touchgrass Wrestling Youtube @touchgrasswrestling Instagram @touchgrasswrestling Email us at [email protected] Go outside and "Touch Some Grass"