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March 25th
On this day in history in....
1963 - WWWF ran at Madison Square Garden in New York City with the following results:
- Tim Woods vs. Pat Barrett ended in a draw.
- The Great Scot defeated Karl Steif.
- Dory Dixon defeated Magnificent Maurice.
- The Fabulous Kangaroos defeated Jerry & Bobby Colt.
- John & Chris Tolos vs. Pedro Morales & Argentina Apollo ended in a draw.
- Hans Mortier defeated Sailor Art Thomas.
- Bruno Sammartino & Bobo Brazil defeated Skull Murphy & Brute Bernard.
- WWWF World Champion Buddy Rogers defeated Johnny Barend.
1979 - A rare event took place at the Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto, Ontario, as WWWF World Champion Bob Backlund wrestled AWA World Champion Nick Bockwinkel, with the match ending in a double-countout as both men fought on the floor. Also on the show, NWA World Tag Team Champions Jimmy Snuka & Paul Orndorff defeated Ken Patera & Big John Studd, Greg Valentine defeated Canadian Champion Dino Bravo via DQ, and in the main event, NWA United States Champion Ricky Steamboat defeated Ric Flair.
1989 - Ken Patera & Brad Rheingans defeat Paul Diamond & Pat Tanaka for the AWA World Tag Team Title in Rochester, Minnesota.
1990 - Fans at a WWF house show at the Sports Arena in Los Angeles, California were given a surprise as Roddy Piper & Jesse Ventura appeared and teamed together to defeat the Orient Express. The match was actually taped to be used as part of a pilot episode for a TV series called Tag Team, in which Piper & Ventura would play wrestlers-turned-detectives. The series was never picked up.
1996 - The Cyberpunks (PG-13 under masks) defeat Doug Gilbert & Tommy Rich for the USWA Tag Team Title in Memphis, Tennessee, ending Rich & Gilbert's fourth reign. This starts the 12th reign for JC Ice and Wolfie D.
1997 - During an edition of Raw from Peoria, Illinois (which would broadcast on March 31st) Bret Hart interrupts a match between WWF European Champion Davey Boy Smith and Owen Hart, who were also the reigning tag team champions. Hart convinces them to stop the match, and that they shouldn't fight each other just because the fans want them to. Hart then re-formed the Hart Foundation, a unit that would ultimately include Bret, Owen, Davey Boy, Jim Neidhart and Brian Pillman. This also marked the reunion (in a storyline sense) of Bret and Owen, who had been at odds since the 1994 Royal Rumble.
2001 - One day away from the final edition of WCW Nitro, word came out that Shane McMahon, Bruce Pritchard and Gerald Brisco would attend the show in Panama City Beach, Florida, and that the event would be rewritten, as WWF planned a satellite linkup between Raw and Nitro that night, to announce to the world (or anyone who didn't already know) that WWF had purchased WCW. This would be the final WCW broadcast on a Turner network, and Vince McMahon would have control of it. The original plan of it being a "Night Of Champions" was kept intact, but Eric Bischoff, who had said the previous week that he would be there, would not be in attendance. Bischoff had been attempting to work out a purchase of WCW from AOL-Time Warner, but when the television programming was canceled from TNT and TBS, the deal couldn't be completed.
2002 - During an edition of Raw from State College, Pennsylvania, WWF World Champion Triple H defeats Chris Jericho & Stephanie McMahon when he pins Stephanie with a spinebuster. As a result, Stephanie was forced to leave the company and was physically dragged away from ringside. She would return a few months later. Also on the show, the NWO (Kevin Nash, Scott Hall, X-Pac) defeated Hulk Hogan & The Rock via DQ in a handicap match when Kane interfered and attacked the NWO.
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