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This Fortnight in Wrestling History
September 29 , 1997 - Ric Flair officially disbands the Four Horsemen .
October 1 , 2000 - Jerry Lynn defeated Justin Credible for the ECW Heavyweight title .
October 2 , 2000 - Vince Russo vacated the WCW World Heavyweight Championship and Booker T defeated Jeff Jarrett to win it.
October 3 , 1999 - Vince Russo and Ed Ferrara leave the WWF for WCW
October 5 , 1997 - Brian Pillman died of arteriosclerotic heart disease aged 35.
October 6 , 1999 - Gorilla Monsoon died following a heart attack, aged 62.
October 7 , 1957 - Lou Thesz wrestled Rikidōzan to a one hour time limit draw in first ever NWA World Title match held in Japan.
October 7 , 2000 - Juventud Guerrera arrested following a drug induced rage in Australia and is fired by WCW
October 8 , 2001 - Steve Austin defeated Kurt Angle for the WWF Heavyweight Championship .
October 9 , 2002 - Syxx-Pac won a seven-man ladder match for the vacant NWA-TNA X Divsion Championship .
October 12 , 1992 - Bret Hart defeated Ric Flair for the WWF Heavyweight Championship .Professional Wrestling Article Stats
We have now reached our goal of getting the number of Stub-Class articles below 600. The current count is 588 . It still would be greatly appreciated if anyone could help expand and/or source an article or two. A list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve.
Professional wrestling articles
Importance
Top
High
Mid
Low
Total
Quality
FA
3
5
8
FL
1
12
10
23
GA
6
27
60
93
B
1
16
64
203
284
C
1
15
86
102
Start
2
50
213
1774
2039
Stub
1
20
566
587
List
2
22
581
605
Future
2
15
17
Assessed
3
77
378
3300
3758
Total
3
77
378
3300
3758
Member Updates
Recent Wrestling News
Collaboration
The Collaboration has recently been revamped, and we will now have 6 collaborations at a time. The current collaborations will stand until they reach a certain goal , e.g. Good article status .
Recent Deletion Debates
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Antonio Pugliese , Hard Justice (2008) , Hardy Boyz , Hornswoggle , King of the Ring (1993) , Lisa Moretti , Mike Lockwood , No Mercy (2003) , No Mercy (2007) , Rhonda Sing , Royal Rumble (1995) , WrestleMania XI , and WrestleMania XXIV are currently Good article nominees .
This Fortnight in Wrestling History
October 15 , 2003 - Mark Magnus (Mark Copani ) defeated Johnny Jeter to win the OVW Heavyweight Championship .
October 16 , 1997 - Bam Bam Bigelow (Scott Bigelow ) defeated Shane Douglas (Troy Martin ) for the ECW Heavyweight title .
October 16 , 2003 - Stu Hart died of pneumonia at the age of 88.
October 19 , 2003 - Road Warrior Hawk (Michael Hegstrand ) died of a heart attack at the age of 46.
October 20 , 1964 - Mad Dog Vachon (Maurice Vachon ) defeated Verne Gagne for the AWA World Heavyweight Championship .
October 20 , 2000 - World Championship Wrestling , in storyline , fired Bret Hart due to his incapacitating injury and his announced retirement.
October 20 , 2002 - Triple H (Paul Levesque ) defeated Kane (Glen Jacobs ) to unify the WWE and Intercontinental titles .
October 21 , 2001 - Chris Jericho defeated The Rock (Dwayne Johnson ) to win the WCW World Heavyweight Championship .
October 22 , 2000 - Kurt Angle defeated The Rock to win the WWF Championship.
October 23 , 2000 - Yokozuna (Rodney Anoa'i ) died of a heart attack at the age of 34.Professional Wrestling Article Stats
We have now reached our goal of getting the number of Stub-Class articles below 600. The current count is 591 . It still would be greatly appreciated if anyone could help expand and/or source an article or two. A list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve.
Professional wrestling articles
Importance
Top
High
Mid
Low
Total
Quality
FA
3
5
8
FL
1
12
10
23
GA
6
27
60
93
B
1
16
64
207
288
C
1
14
96
111
Start
2
50
219
1759
2030
Stub
1
20
565
586
List
2
21
580
603
Future
2
16
18
Assessed
3
77
382
3297
3760
Total
3
77
382
3297
3760
Member Updates
Recent Wrestling News
Collaboration
The Collaboration has recently been revamped, and we will now have 6 collaborations at a time. The current collaborations will stand until they reach a certain goal , e.g. Good article status .
Recent Deletion Debates
Contributors to this Issue