This Week In Wrestling History (Season 3 Week 22: 5/28 – 6/3) Updated For 2025

Updated For 2025! This Week In Wrestling History (Season 3 Week 22) covering the period of 5/28 thru 6/3. Running Time: 5 Hours.

This Week In Wrestling History hosted by Don Tony first aired in 2018 and spanned two seasons. After much demand, these retro episodes return REMASTERED and UPDATED FOR 2025. Wrestling history up to and including 2024 has been added!

Hundreds of hours of original wrestling clips & stories. Enjoy this deep dive into pro wrestling's awesome history.

RUNNING TIME: 5 Hours
Hosted by Don Tony

SYNOPSIS: S3 E22 (05/28 - 06/3)

• Harley Race def Dory Funk Jr for NWA World Heavyweight Title and ends Funk's 1,563 reign as Champion.
• Ric Flair def Kerry Von Erich 2 falls to 1 to regain NWA World Heavyweight Championship.
• The story behind Midnight Rockers (Shawn Michaels and Marty Jannetty) being hired then immediately fired by WWF.
• Honky Tonk Man def Ricky Steamboat to win WWF IC Championship.
• Audio: Honky Tonk Man (and Iron Shiek) speak on Ricky Steamboat throwing shade at IC Title match against HTM.
• Brother Love makes his WWF TV debut.
• No Holds Barred movie released in movie theatres.
• After being fired a year earlier, The Rockers return and make their WWF TV debut.
• 'Common Man' Dusty Rhodes makes his 1991 WWF debut.
• Celebrity Sleuth Magazine features photos of Madusa, Sherri Martel, Missy Hyatt, and several other women wrestlers.
• Cactus Jack 'Lost In Cleveland' vignettes begin to air on WCW TV.
• Ranger Ross sues WCW for Racial Discrimination.
• Matt Hardy makes WWF debut.
• Audio: The Rock (as Flex Kavana) makes his pro wrestling and promo debut.
• WWF sends a Cease and Desist letter to Scott Hall after his controversial WCW Monday Nitro debut.
• Audio: Brian Pillman's controversial ECW return promo after serious Humvee accident.
• Looking back at World Wrestling Peace Festival (1996).
• Audio: ECW vs USWA war begins.
• Booker T appears in 1-800-Collect Commercial as a boxer.
• Looking back at WWF In Your House 22: Over The Edge (1998).
• Darren Drosdov debuts LOD 'Puke' character.
• NBC airs the awful documentary on Jessie 'The Body' Ventura.
• The trial of Jerome Young (New Jack) for assault against 17 year old Erich Kulas beings and ends with not guilty verdict.
• Audio: Original news reports of 'Mass Transit' incident.
• Audio: New Jack speaks on the assault trial and its outcome.
• One of the first cases of massive fake news and 'being first over being right' reporting by wrestling sites: Tammy Sytch removed from WCW TV after Kimberly Page finding drug paraphernalia allegedly belonging to Sytch.
• Audio: DT's favorite WCW Hardcore Match of all time: Terry Funk (c) defends against Chris Candido on a barn and the infamous 'horse kick' incident.
• Audio: Nothing is finer than having a sixty niner with Scott Steiner.
• Brian Lawler fired after drug arrest at Canadian Border prior to WWF Raw event.
• Brian Ong dies while training with Dalip Singh (Great Khali) at a California wrestling school.
• WWE sends Eddie Guerrero home and into drug rehab after showing up for Raw event in no condition to perform.
• Audio: Steve Blackman and Trish Stratus' 'Three's Company' skit.
• Audio: The WCW/ECW invasion angle official begins with Lance Storm interfering during 'WWF' match on Raw.
• Identity of The Stalker's 'voice' is revealed.
• Audio: Undertaker vs Tommy Dreamer a