September 29 in Wrestling History: Bedpan McMahon
- Eddie Mac
- Sep 29, 2017
- 5 min read
Though it wouldn't air for another week, Stone Cold Steve Austin launched one of wrestling's greatest surprise attacks 19 years ago today.
2009: WWE presented Decade of Smackdown from the TD BankNorth Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. The show was a celebration of 10 years of Smackdown and featured wrestlers from all three WWE brands (RAW, Smackdown, ECW).
It also featured a cameo appearance by The Rock, the first time he appeared on WWE programming in any capacity since the WWE Hall of Fame Ceremony a year prior, and his first appearance on Smackdown since 2003.
In a preshow dark match, Mike Knox defeated Jimmy Wang Yang.
Batista defeated Kane.
Dolph Ziggler and The Miz defeated John Morrison and Kofi Kingston.
Michelle McCool defeated Melina in a lumberjill match to retain the WWE Women's Championship.
Eve Torres, Maria, Beth Phoenix, Alicia Fox, Rosa Mendes, Katie Lea, Jillian Hall, Layla, Natalya, Savannah, The Bella Twins (Brie & Nikki), and Kelly Kelly were the lumberjills.
Undertaker, John Cena, Shawn Michaels, and Triple H defeated Randy Orton, Cody Rhodes, Ted DiBiase, and CM Punk.
2007: The Game Plan, starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, finishes the weekend as the top grossing movie in the country, taking in just under $23 million, or about the budget of the movie.
The film, starring Johnson as a pro football quarterback who finds out he has a biological daughter, gets negative reviews (just a 29% rating from Rotten Tomatoes), but makes nearly $200 million in combined ticket and DVD sales.
2006: Justin Credible was officially released from WWE.
Credible, real name Peter Polaco, walked out on the company after no showing an ECW taping and not talking with management afterwards. The former ECW champion said in a later interview he walked out after he saw the writing on the wall on his career and the ECW brand as a whole.
2004: WWE announces via press release that the following April's Wrestlemania 21 PPV had sold out in less than a minute. The press release:
WrestleMania 21 Tickets Sell Out In Less Than One Minute; Fastest Sales in World Wrestling Entertainment and STAPLES Center History
STAMFORD, Conn.--Sept. 27, 2004--
Fans From Around The World Will Attend World Wrestling Entertainment(R)'s Premier Event To See WrestleMania(R) Go Hollywood
All available seats for WrestleMania 21 were sold in less than one minute on Saturday, Sept. 25, setting records for the fastest ticket sell-out in STAPLES Center and World Wrestling Entertainment history.
A capacity crowd comprised of fans from more than 14 countries and 34 states is now set to attend WrestleMania 21 on Sunday, April 3, 2005. The WWE(R)'s premier annual event also will be seen on pay-per-view, cable, and satellite television by millions of fans from more than 90 countries.
The 15,000 available tickets, ranging in price from $40.00 to $750.00 (where you can sit ringside and keep your commemorative WrestleMania 21 ringside chair), were sold in less than one minute between Internet orders and the line gathered to buy tickets at the STAPLES Center box office. More than a thousand WWE fans gathered at the STAPLES Center, starting as early as Wednesday, Sept. 22, in hopes of purchasing tickets to WWE's annual extravaganza.
"The speed in which this event sold out further reinforces WrestleMania's position as a beloved icon in pop culture," said Kurt Schneider, WWE's Executive Vice President, Marketing. "The event is more than six months away, and still our great fans rushed to purchase tickets simply on the basis that this is WrestleMania, and that this will be a Hollywood experience like no other. After WrestleMania 21, 'Tinsel Town' may never be the same."
Schneider added that once staging requirements for WrestleMania 21 are completed closer to the event, additional tickets may be made available for sale.
"Every one of WWE's 10 previous appearances at STAPLES Center has sold out, but to sell out in less than a minute is unprecedented in the five-year history of our arena," said Brenda Tinnen, Senior Vice President Event & Guest Services, STAPLES Center. "There is no doubt that the STAPLES Center continues to lead the nation in hosting the most popular events and WrestleMania 21 is another example of that. Thanks to Vince McMahon for bringing WWE's crown jewel to Los Angeles and STAPLES Center, and we look forward to presenting this event to the millions of fans worldwide on April 3."
An arena record 20,193 would be in attendance for the event, representing 48 states and 14 countries. More than $2.1 million in ticket sales were made at the event, the most for any WWE event at the Staples Center, and until Wrestlemania 31, the most for any Wrestlemania in California.
2003: On RAW from Chicago, Illinois, Rob Van Dam defeated Christian in a ladder match to win the WWE Intercontinental Championship.
On the same show, Jim Ross defeated Jonathan Coachman in a Country Whippin' match; with the win, Jim Ross and Jerry Lawler were free to call RAW again, replacing Coachman and Al Snow.
1998: at a RAW is WAR taping in East Lansing, Michigan, D-Lo Brown defeated X-Pac to win the WWF European Championship.
Dating back to December 11, 1997, this is the sixth time (and seventh out of eight since the title was born on February 26, 1997) that the title changed hands on a tape delayed show.
The show, airing six days later, is most noted for two more of RAW's most replayed moments. Mankind, in a feeble attempt to cheer up Mr. McMahon introduced a sock puppet, Mr. Socko. McMahon's utter disdain for the puppet had the opposite effect: fans warmed up to the sweatsock, and Mick Foley would incorporate it into his finisher, the Mandible Claw. Mr. Socko would go on to become one of the most popular props in wrestling history.
Later in the show, a disguised Stone Cold Steve Austin assaulted McMahon in his hospital room, even giving the boss an impromptu rectal exam. The moment is known in wrestling lore as "Bedpan McMahon".
1993: At a WWF TV taping in Portland, Maine, the Rock ‘n Roll Express (Ricky Morton & Robert Gibson) make WWF debut with a loss to Well Dunn (Timothy Well & Steven Dunn) after interference from Jim Cornette and the Heavenly Bodies.
1988: In Misenheinmer, North Carolina, Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard defeat The Rock ‘n Roll Express (Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson) via submission to win the NWA World Tag Team Championship.
Before the match, the Midnight Express (Bobby Eaton and Stan Lane) jumped the champions and injured Morton. Ricky would return with his arm bandaged, but would get caught in an armbar, forcing Robert to throw in the towel.
1985: In Atlanta, Georgia, Ric Flair defeated Nikita Koloff to retain the NWA World Heavyweight Championship.
Post-match, Ivan Koloff rushed the ring and Krusher Kruschev closed the cage door as the Koloffs assaulted Flair until NWA World Television Champion Dusty Rhodes made the save. Moments later, Ole and Arn Anderson rushed in, locked the cage door, and the Andersons and Flair assault Rhodes (tl;dr: it's a trap). Flair kneedropped Rhodes' ankle and applied the figure four leglock until the cage door was finally opened.
The assault sets up Dusty Rhodes’ famous “Hard Times” promo when he returns a month later and Flair versus Rhodes at Starrcade ‘85.
1985: In St. Paul, Minnesota, Jim Garvin and Steve Regal defeated The Road Warriors (Animal & Hawk) to win the AWA World Tag Team Championship.
The Road Warriors' tag title run ends at exactly 400 days, the longest of their career. In a side note, no team would go on to hold the title for such a length for the remainder of AWA's existence.
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