On this day in professional wrestling history...

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10 years ago.

Plan B



All their careers have been huge ever since the shield broke up, but this moment and the group as a whole will always be part of their legacy.

Even for Reigns, while Tribal Chief Reigns is him at his peak, this moment has followed him ever since.

From him snapping for really the first time since becoming the head of the Table when Rollins brought up turning on Reigns to him getting turned on with a chair shot by Sami, and then finally when he lost the title at WM thanks to all those interferences, but also him getting caught up on revenge for this specific moment which cost him everything.

The biggest Butterfly effect in Pro Wrestling in the last 10 years... probably in history? I mean, as you said everything that happened after this basically revolved around these three men. A Faction breaking up has never had a more lasting impact than what the one chair shot from Seth Rollins did. To see it basically come to a conclusion at Wrestlemania XL where Roman finally got his revenge which ultimately was what did him in and cost him the championship. Then Moxley went on to become the face of AEW when that promotion launched just by showing up after Jericho beat Omega.

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The biggest Butterfly effect in Pro Wrestling in the last 10 years... probably in history? I mean, as you said everything that happened after this basically revolved around these three men. A Faction breaking up has never had a more lasting impact than what the one chair shot from Seth Rollins did. To see it basically come to a conclusion at Wrestlemania XL where Roman finally got his revenge which ultimately was what did him in and cost him the championship. Then Moxley went on to become the face of AEW when that promotion launched just by showing up after Jericho beat Omega.

And even when you think of all time factions in history, how many had major breakups?

NWO was all over the place and it seemingly didn't die, just add, remove, readd members.

DX never really broke up, it died down more or less (we had the one "break up" around 99, but they ended up reforming).

Evolution though we did have the breakup with Orton getting kicked out and eventually Batista turning on them.


The Shields breakup came out of nowhere, the day after they WON a big match. They teased a split earlier in that year (which many forget about even to this day) but this was still surprising.

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20 years ago, first ever episode of Impact aired.



First impact card featured the likes of Bobby Roode, Eric Young, Petey Williams, Abyss, AJ Styles and so many more.

The dark main event was won by Ron Killings.

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20 years ago, first ever episode of Impact aired.



First impact card featured the likes of Bobby Roode, Eric Young, Petey Williams, Abyss, AJ Styles and so many more.

The dark main event was won by Ron Killings.

A lot of the shows from the first few years of Impact are on YouTube, and they are worth a watch. The Impact Zone was an inherent limitation for the promotion, but those crowds were often way livelier and reacted more than crowds do know. But maybe that's just that era in general.

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A lot of the shows from the first few years of Impact are on YouTube, and they are worth a watch. The Impact Zone was an inherent limitation for the promotion, but those crowds were often way livelier and reacted more than crowds do know. But maybe that's just that era in general.

In hindsight, Impact Zone crowds are basically what we got from NXT at full sail.

Good crowds and all, but the crowds at the same time might have set people on a path thinking what they're doing is great because it connected with that crowd, but whether it connected with crowds elsewhere is a diff story.

[UFCMPunk]

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20 years ago, first ever episode of Impact aired.



First impact card featured the likes of Bobby Roode, Eric Young, Petey Williams, Abyss, AJ Styles and so many more.

The dark main event was won by Ron Killings.

Saw this on Reddit, someone suggested R-Truth show up at Slammiversary and challenge TNA Legend Ron Killings lol.

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A different kind of anniversary

https://x.com/DMcIntyreWWE/status/1800926667889909853

Why did JTG finally answer his phone!?

But also, makes you realize how much things like that stick with people. Drew remembering the anniversary of the day he got the call he was being released is crazy.

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A different kind of anniversary

https://x.com/DMcIntyreWWE/status/1800926667889909853

Why did JTG finally answer his phone!?

But also, makes you realize how much things like that stick with people. Drew remembering the anniversary of the day he got the call he was being released is crazy.

Wait until we get to May 22nd, 2026 with the 10 year anniversary of Cody's release. Crazy how much has changed over 10 years.

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Wait until we get to May 22nd, 2026 with the 10 year anniversary of Cody's release. Crazy how much has changed over 10 years.

I was looking back on the off topic thread from 2014 for fun and what Drew said was true though.

He wasn't even a headline name in a list of releases. In the OT thread here nobody even talked about his release other than grouping him in the list of released talent.

The talk at the time was "JTG is gone! Now what are we gonna joke about?" And "How do Otunga and Khali still have jobs?".

Nobody once was like "WWE ruined Drew. Drew deserved better."


As for the Cody release
https://r.tapatalk.com/shareLink/top...ink_source=app

Interesting to look back on now.
Comments like WWE wasted Cody. Cody should've been WHC. And the most fitting of all, the last post in the thread from 2016 is the rumors of Cody wanting to start his own promotion.

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In honour of last night, the last time we had someone die on Raw happened to be 17 years ago TODAY


This set off the craziest timeline in WWE where this happened and literally the next week they had to scrap it because of the Benoit stuff.

We've heard stories on what the supposed plan was, but I wonder week by week what the plan was supposed to be.

Raw was supposed to be a tribute to Vince. Would that have just been old stars coming back and saying bad things about him? Going Scrooge mode where everyone's celebrating his death and dancing on his grave?

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In honour of last night, the last time we had someone die on Raw happened to be 17 years ago TODAY


This set off the craziest timeline in WWE where this happened and literally the next week they had to scrap it because of the Benoit stuff.

We've heard stories on what the supposed plan was, but I wonder week by week what the plan was supposed to be.

Raw was supposed to be a tribute to Vince. Would that have just been old stars coming back and saying bad things about him? Going Scrooge mode where everyone's celebrating his death and dancing on his grave?

From what I've heard he just wanted to be written off TV indefinitely. He legit didn't want to be on screen anymore. Might not have been much of an angle beyond his funeral. Another one of those big moments for the sake of having a big moment, without a huge amount of thought or story to it. WWE felt very dry by that point, and the Benoit thing ushered in the PG SuperCena era in full.

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From what I've heard he just wanted to be written off TV indefinitely. He legit didn't want to be on screen anymore. Might not have been much of an angle beyond his funeral. Another one of those big moments for the sake of having a big moment, without a huge amount of thought or story to it. WWE felt very dry by that point, and the Benoit thing ushered in the PG SuperCena era in full.

I know the illegitimate child stuff was supposed to be Mr.Kennedy, but forgot who this was supposed to be. Shane/Steph/HHH killing him off for his inheritance?

I know the Bret feud was really supposed to be the end of the Mr.McMahon character too since the screw job was the start.

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25 years ago...... Curt Hennig and the West Texas Rednecks premiered the music video for 'Rap Is Crap'. They were so over as faces but with a southern crowd tried to present them as heels against face rappers lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-riL5A4eiWQ

[Majingir]

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July 9 2001

The Invasion gets extreme!




Imo THIS should've been the 2001 Invasion.

ECW vs WWF

You could still have had guys like Jericho or Austin defect since they were part of WCW at one point too.

That could've been a story to last a few months and then once Flair comes in after Survivor Series that's how the WCW Invasion begins.

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It's been 10 years since this moment



At the time everyone was like "It's Nation 2.0!" and all that. We'd later see them debut at the new day a few months later, people didn't think Kofi as a heel would work, and this "power of positivity" group got hated by the crowd.

Obviously everyone says the Hardys, Dudleys and so on are the greatest teams, but New Day and Usos are easily in that discussion too, especially when you realize Dudleys like many talent from that era were only there a short time, and the more I rewatched everything from that era the more I realized how few feuds teams like those actually had. Everyone remembers specific matches and moments, but compare New Day to those groups and they've had way more stories, feuds, crowd engagement and all that.

Funny how much the Philly rumble crowd in 2015 set the tone in a way for the future of WWE. That crowd is what really changed things for New Day, and in a way changed things for Reigns too as this crowd stuck out as fans not accepting Reigns as "the guy". Too bad it took them another 5 years before they went full heel with Reigns, but things eventually came full circle with the heel tribal chief coming to an end also in Philly at WM.