Below you will find everything that happened in Professional Wrestling history on May 11th.
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• On This Day In Pro Wrestling History (May 11, 1997) – WWF In Your House 15
On this day in Pro Wrestling history on May 11, 1997, the World Wrestling Federation aired ‘WWF In Your House 15: A Cold Day in Hell’ LIVE on PPV from the Richmond Coliseum in Richmond, Virginia.
It was the 15th edition of the In Your House pay-per-views that aired between 1995 and 1999.
This event was highlighted by “Stone Cold” Steve Austin challenging WWF World Heavyweight Champion The Undertaker for the belt in the main event of the evening.
The results were:
Free For All: Rockabilly defeated Jesse James
Hunter Hearst Helmsley defeated Flash Funk
Mankind defeated Rocky Maivia
Gauntlet: The Nation of Domination defeated Ahmed Johnson
No Holds Barred: Ken Shamrock defeated Vader
WWF World Heavyweight Championship: The Undertaker (c) defeated Stone Cold Steve Austin
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• On This Day In Pro Wrestling History (May 11, 1996) – WWF Kuwait House Show
On this day in Pro Wrestling history on May 11, 1996, the World Wrestling Federation held an overseas house show at the Al Arabi Stadium in Kuwait City, Kuwait.
This live event included matches on the road to the ‘WWF In Your House 8: Beware of Dog’ PPV.
The results can be found below:
Duke Drose pinned Aldo Montoya
Yokozuna pinned Isaac Yankem DDS
The Bushwhackers defeated Bob Backlund & Leif Cassidy
Caribbean Strap: Savio Vega defeated Steve Austin
Bret Hart pinned Davey Boy Smith
Kuwait Cup Semi-Finals: Ahmed Johnson pinned Owen Hart (shown on the international version of 9/2/96 RAW)
Kuwait Cup Semi-Finals: Hunter Hearst Helmsley defeated the Undertaker by DQ (shown on the international version of 9/2/96 RAW)
WWF World Champion Shawn Michaels pinned Marty Jannetty (shown on the international version of 8/26/96 RAW)
Here’s one:
WWF Champion Shawn Michaels VS Marty Jannetty, from Kuwait, 5/11/96
Announcers: Gorilla Monsoon and Jim Ross.
Matches from this Kuwait tour were packaged as RAW episodes on 8/26/96 and 9/2/96 in the UK while the US Open was preempting RAW in the US pic.twitter.com/k3ELSIkUzo
— OVP – Retro Wrestling Podcast (@ovppodcast) May 12, 2023
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