Below you will find everything that happened in Professional Wrestling history on June 2nd.
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• On This Day In Pro Wrestling History (June 2, 1990) – WWF Boston Garden House Show
On this day in Pro Wrestling history on June 2, 1990, the World Wrestling Federation held an untelevised house show at the Boston Garden in Boston, Massachusetts.
The live event featured matches on the road to the ‘WWF SummerSlam 1990’ PPV.
The results can be found below:
Koko B. Ware defeated the Genius
Dino Bravo defeated Jose Luis Rivera
The Big Bossman defeated Ted DiBiase
Haku defeated Brady Boone
Shawn Michaels & Marty Jannetty defeated the Orient Express by count-out
The Warlord defeated Tito Santana
The Brooklyn Brawler defeated Jim Brunzell
WWF World Champion The Ultimate Warrior defeated Rick Rude
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• On This Day In Pro Wrestling History (June 2, 1981) – WWF House Show
On this day in Pro Wrestling history on June 2, 1981, the World Wrestling Federation held an untelevised house show at the Civic Center in Portland, Maine.
This live event included matches featuring the 1981 WWF Superstars.
The results can be found below:
Johnny Rodz defeated Fred Marzino
Pete Doherty wrestled Steve King to a draw
Johnny Rodz defeated Angelo Gomez
Best-of-2-out-of-3-falls: Rick McGraw, Rick Martel & Tony Garea defeated Capt. Lou Albano & WWF Tag Team Champions The Moondogs
WWF IC Champion Pedro Morales defeated Angelo Mosca by DQ
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• Old School WCW Veteran Celebrates His Birthday
Old School WCW/TNA Veteran AJ Styles (Real name: Allen Jones) celebrates his birthday today.
AJ Styles joined Ted Turner’s World Championship Wrestling in early 2001, where he was put in a Tag Team with Air Paris, but when the company was sold to Vince McMahon in March neither one of them had their contracts picked up by the World Wrestling Federation.
Styles did have quite a few try-out matches, dark matches and even a minor televised match (on Jakked/Metal) for the WWF in 2001 & 2002, but eventually ended up signing with Jeff Jarrett’s new NWA-TNA promotion, where he made a name for himself by winning the X-Division Championship, as well as the NWA World Heavyweight Championship, among other titles.
He stayed with Total Nonstop Action! for almost 12 years until early 2014, before he left to wrestle on the indies and eventually ended up with the WWE in January 2016.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY AJ STYLES!
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• Old School WWF Legend Celebrates His Birthday
Old School WWF/WCW Legend Lex Luger (Real name: Lawrence Pfohl) celebrates his birthday today.
After some time in the Florida territory CWF, Lex Luger joined Jim Crockett Promotions in 1987 and became a member of the Four Horsemen, alongside “The Nature Boy” Ric Flair, Tully Blanchard & Arn Anderson.
Luger stayed with the promotion after it was sold to Ted Turner and renamed “World Championship Wrestling”, but eventually left in February 1992 to join Vince McMahon’s World Bodybuilding Federation.
After the WBF disbanded, Lex returned to professional wrestling and had his World Wrestling Federation debut as “The Narcissist” at the 1993 Royal Rumble PPV, before turning babyface a few months later, when he became known as “Made in the USA” Lex Luger.
In September 1995 Luger appeared as a surprise on the first ever WCW Monday NITRO, thus returning to WCW as “The Total Package” Lex Luger.
He then wrestled for Turner’s company until Vince bought it in March 2001.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY LEX LUGER!
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• On This Day In Pro Wrestling History (June 2, 1996) – Old School WWF Celebrity Passed Away
On this day in 1996, we lost Old School WWF Celebrity Ray Combs at the age of 40.
Ray Combs was well known as the host of the famous TV game show “Family Feud” from 1988 until 1994, which included an episode that featured ‘The World Wrestling Federation vs. The World Bodybuilding Federation’.
In 1992 he served as a guest ring announcer at WrestleMania VIII and later also became a guest commentator for the ‘Hart Family vs. Shawn Michaels & The 3 Knights’ match at the Survivor Series 1993 PPV.
REST IN PEACE RAY COMBS!
April 3, 1956 – June 2, 1996
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• On This Day In Pro Wrestling History (June 2, 2003) – Old School WWF Manager Passed Away
On this day in 2003, we lost legendary Old School WWF Manager “Classy” Freddie Blassie at the age of 85.
After wrestling during the 40s, 50s, 60s & early 70s, Fred Blassie became an on-screen manager in 1974 for Vince McMahon Sr.’s World Wide Wrestling Federation.
Among his clients were famous WWF Superstars like Hulk Hogan, The Iron Sheik, Nikolai Volkoff, Hercules Hernandez and many others.
In the summer of 1986 he gave his remaining clients to the young up and coming manager Slick and slowly retired from the on screen role of his TV character.
REST IN PEACE FREDDIE BLASSIE!
February 8, 1918 – June 2, 2003
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