Below you will find everything that happened in Professional Wrestling history on January 13th.
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• OLD SCHOOL VIDEO HISTORY (January 13, 2001) – The Final ECW Event
On this day in 2001, Paul Heyman’s Extreme Championship Wrestling promotion hosted its last event ever, before it closing its doors and was sold to Vince McMahon.
While a lot of big names had already left ECW for WWF or WCW at that point in time, they still had a few ECW Veterans on the card that night, like The Sandman & Tommy Dreamer.
Here’s the card:
Prodigy Tom Marquez vs. Nova
Christian York & Joey Matthews vs. Hot Commodity
Jack Victory vs. C.W. Anderson
Yoshihiro Tajiri vs. Super Crazy
ECW World Title: Rhino vs. Spike Dudley
Danny Doring & Tommy Dreamer vs. FBI
Justin Credible vs. The Sandman
Impromptu rematch: Justin Credible vs. The Sandman
All the wrestlers say goodbye in the ring
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• On This Day In Pro Wrestling History (January 13, 1993) – WCW Clash Of The Champions 22
On this day in Pro Wrestling history on January 13, 1993, Ted Turner’s World Championship Wrestling aired ‘WCW Clash Of The Champions 22’ LIVE on TBS from the Milwaukee Theatre in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
This was the last ‘Clash of the Champions’ event for famous announcer “J.R.” Jim Ross, before he signed with the World Wrestling Federation.
The results:
Cactus Jack defeated Johnny B. Badd
2 Cold Scorpio defeated Scotty Flamingo
Chris Benoit defeated Brad Armstrong
Arm Wrestling: Vinnie Vegas defeated Tony Atlas
The Wrecking Crew defeated Johnny Gunn & Tom Zenk
NWA & WCW World Tag Team Championships: Shane Douglas & Ricky Steamboat (c) defeated Brian Pillman & Steve Austin
Thundercage: Dustin Rhodes, Sting & Cactus Jack defeated Big Van Vader, Barry Windham & Paul Orndorff
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• ON THIS DAY IN WWF HISTORY (January 13, 1989) – WWF Boston House Show
On this day in Pro Wrestling history on January 13, 1989, the World Wrestling Federation held a televised house show at the Boston Garden in Boston, Massachusetts.
The live event was televised on the local NESN Network with Rod Trongard, Superstar Billy Graham & Lord Alfred Hayes on commentary.
The card can be found here:
Steve Lombardi defeated Lanny Poffo
The Bushwhackers defeated Nikolai Volkoff & Boris Zhukov
Akeem defeated The Blue Blazer
Ron Garvin wrestled Greg Valentine to a double count-out
Arn Anderson & Tully Blanchard defeated Shawn Michaels & Marty Jannetty
Flag match: Jim Duggan defeated Dino Bravo
Hercules defeated Virgil
The Big Boss Man defeated Hulk Hogan by DQ
1/13/89: Final two minutes of a typically awesome Brainbusters vs Rockers match from the Boston Garden. pic.twitter.com/VOAMnhkZJ3
— OVP – Retro Wrestling Podcast (@ovppodcast) January 13, 2021
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