SNME Fight Cards - Episode 6

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EPISODE 6

Show Fight Card (with links): 3/29

• Rob Gronkowski wins the 24/7 Championship at WrestleMania 36

SHOW OUTLINE

• Copyright tally for last week: 0!

• This Week in Wrestling History (music?) 

• April 5, 1956: Diamond Dallas Page Born

• April 5, 1982: Jerry “The King” Lawler piledrives actor and comedian Andy Kaufman, which became an iconic moment in wrestling-celebrity history.

• April 5, 1986: Charlotte Flair born.

• April 5, 1992: WrestleMania VIII (covered in detail last week)

• Hulk Hogan vs. Sid Justice

• The Natural Disasters (Earthquake and Typhoon vs. Money Inc. (“The Million Dollar Man” Ted DiBiase and Irwin I. Schyster)

• Tatanka vs. “The Model” Rick Martel

• “Macho Man” Randy Savage vs. Ric Flair for the WWF Championship

• Bret Hart vs. “Rowdy” Roddy Piper for the Intercontinental Championship

• Undertaker vs. Jake “The Snake” Roberts

• April 5, 1997: Dominik Mysterio born.

• April 5, 2009: WrestleMania XXV

• Money in the Bank Ladder Match featuring:

• CM Punk, Christian, Finlay (with Honswoggle), Kane, Kofi Kingston, Mark Henry (with only Atlas), MVP, and Shelton Benjamin

• Santina Marella (Santino in drag) enters the Miss WrestleMania Battle Royal and chaos ensues!

• Rey Mysterio vs. John Bradshaw Layfield for the IC Championship.

• Don’t blink: match lasted 21 seconds!

• Matt Hardy vs. Jeff Hardy in an Extreme Rules match.

• Chris Jericho vs. Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka, Ricky “The Dragon” Steamboat, and “Rowdy” Roddy Piper (with Ric Flair) in a Handicap Elimination match.

• Shawn Michaels vs. Undertaker Rematch (If HBK loses, he must retire)

• My favorite match of all time from build up video through the end.

• John Cena vs. Big Show vs Edge (c) in a triple threat match for World Heavyweight Championship

• Triple H vs. Randy Orton for the WWE Championship

• Under 2 hours total wrestling time, including the pre-show tag-team championship consolidation lumberjack match, which feels incredibly short.

• April 5, 2020: WrestleMania 36

• Aired in an empty arena due to the Covid-19 pandemic. 

• First two night WrestleMania, changing the landscape of the biggest event of the year in history and spreading to other tentpole PLE’s.

• Wrestlers deserve a TON of credit for pulling this off, but this PLE wasn’t all that great due to the limitations of the pandemic.

• Night one:

• John Morison vs. Jimmy Uso vs. Kodi Kingston in triple threat ladder match for the WWE Smackdown Tag Titles.

• Kevin Owens vs. Seth Rollins in no DQ match

• Braun Strowman vs. Goldberg for the WWE Universal Championship

• Undertaker vs. AJ Styles in a Boneyard match (Taker’s last match)

• Night two:

• Rob Gronkowski wins the 24/7 Championship after jumping off a small balcony onto a half a dozen wrestlers fighting for the title.

• Edge vs. Randy Orton in Last Man Standing match

• The Fiend Bray Wyatt vs John Cena in a Firefly FUn House match

• Drew McIntyre vs. Brock Lesnar for WWE Championship

• SOCIAL MEDIA CLIP OF THE WEEK

• We found out who Randy Orton was on the phone with and it wasn’t Vince McMahon; McAfee comes back and WWE Universe isn’t happy - are you?

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• AUCTION - 

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