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May 29th
On this day in history in ....
1995 - Brian Christopher defeats Doug Gilbert for the USWA Southern
Heavyweight Title in Memphis, Tennessee, ending Gilbert's fifth title reign, and
starting Christopher's 17th run with the belt.
2000 - Too Cool defeats Edge & Christian for the WWF World Tag Team
Title in Vancouver, British Columbia.
2000 - The WCW World Heavyweight Title, which was still recovering from
the David Arquette title reign a month earlier, followed by Vince Russo's
stripping Ric Flair of the belt for no reason, took another blow in Salt Lake
City, Utah. Kevin Nash, who defeated Jeff Jarrett for the belt six days earlier,
announced he was just going to give the belt to Ric Flair, saying that Flair
should never have been stripped of the belt to begin with. Flair accepted the
title, then lost it to Jeff Jarrett that same night. So Flair's eighth reign
with the WCW Title was started with Nash handing him the title, and ended less
than two hours later with his loss to Jarrett. This would be Ric Flair's
shortest title reign of record.
2006 - During an edition of Raw, Paul Heyman announces that he has been
allowed to select two wrestlers, one from Raw and one from Smackdown, for the
revived ECW brand. Heyman selects Rob Van Dam from Raw, and Kurt Angle
from Smackdown.
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