Below you will find everything that happened in Professional Wrestling history on January 18th.
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• On This Day In Pro Wrestling History (January 18, 1998) – WWF Royal Rumble 1998
On this day in Pro Wrestling history on January 18, 1998, the World Wrestling Federation aired their annual ‘Royal Rumble’ event LIVE on PPV from the the San Jose Arena in San Jose, California.
This was the first Attitude Era Royal Rumble and the second of 3 Royal Rumble matches that were won by “Stone Cold” Steve Austin.
Here are the results:
Vader defeated The Artist Formerly Known as Goldust
Max Mini, Mosaic and Nova defeated Battalion, El Torito and Tarantula
WWF Intercontinental Championship: The Rock (c) defeated Ken Shamrock by DQ
WWF Tag Team Championship: The Legion of Doom defeated The New Age Outlaws (c) by DQ
Stone Cold Steve Austin won the 30-man Royal Rumble match
Casket match – WWF World Heavyweight Championship: Shawn Michaels (c) defeated The Undertaker
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• On This Day In Pro Wrestling History (January 18, 1991) – WWF House Show
On this day in Pro Wrestling history on January 18, 1991, the World Wrestling Federation held an untelevised house show at the Lakeland Civic Center in Lakeland, Florida.
This live event included matches on the road to the ‘WWF Royal Rumble 1991’ PPV.
The results can be found below:
Koko B. Ware pinned Haku
Greg Valentine defeated Saba Simba
Demolition Smash defeated Marty Jannetty
WWF IC Champion Mr. Perfect defeated The Big Boss Man
The Legion of Doom defeated The Orient Express & Mr. Fuji
The Barbarian defeated Jimmy Snuka
Ted Dibiase defeated Kerry Von Erich by count-out
Hulk Hogan defeated Earthquake
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• On This Day In Pro Wrestling History (January 18, 1982) – WWF MSG House Show
On this day in Pro Wrestling history in 1982, the World Wrestling Federation held a televised house show at the Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York.
This live event aired on the MSG Network & USA Network, and featured Vince McMahon on commentary.
The results can be found below:
Davey O’Hannon defeated Manuel Soto
Larry Sharpe defeated Jose Estrada
Charlie Fulton defeated Johnny Rodz
Greg Valentine defeated WWF IC Champion Pedro Morales by DQ
Jesse Ventura defeated Dominic DeNucci
Adrian Adonis defeated WWF World Champion Bob Backlund (the referee stopped the match due to excessive blood loss)
Rick Martel & Tony Garea defeated WWF Tag Team Champions Mr. Fuji & Mr. Saito by DQ
Tony Atlas defeated The Executioner (Hans Schroeder)
Ivan Putski defeated Killer Khan by referee’s decision
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• On This Day In Pro Wrestling History (January 18, 1971) – WWWF MSG House Show
On this day in Pro Wrestling history in 1971, the World Wide Wrestling Federation held a televised house show at the Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York.
This live event included one of the most shocking title changes in professional wrestling history, when Ivan Koloff surprisingly ended Bruno Sammartino’s 7 year run as the WWWF World Champion.
According to reports from people who were there in the arena that night, you could almost hear a needle drop after the pinfall victory, because nobody expected Ivan to win the title (similar to how the fans reacted when The Undertaker’s streak was broken).
The show also made a new wrestling attendance record, with 21,666 fans in the crowd.
The results can be found below:
Jean DuBois defeated Joe Turco
Vincente Pometti defeated The Black Demon
Manuel Soto defeated Mike Conrad
Blackjack Mulligan defeated Jose Rivera
Bulldog Brower defeated Tony Marino
Pedro Morales defeated the Wolfman
Best-of-2-out-of-3-falls: Chief Jay Strongbow & Gorilla Monsoon wrestled WWWF International Tag Team Champions The Mongols to a draw
WWWF World Championship: Ivan Koloff defeated Bruno Sammartino (c)
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