This Day In Wrestling History

Wayne "Big" Munn wins the linear (Gotch-Hackenschmidt) World championship from Ed Strangler Lewis in Kansas City, MO. This is the beginning of a promotional war with Lewis claiming to have been fouled when thrown over the top rope by Munn. The whole war was a booking angle to reunify the two titles in a big money match scheduled for May. However a shoot double cross by Stanislaus Zbyszko and promoter Tony Stecher (brother of Joe Stecher) messes things up on Apri 15. The two World titles end up being reunified anyway in 1928.
January 8, 1925

WCW debuts its second weekly show called "Thunder" on TBS.
January 8, 1998

The Monday Night War continued in its final months. WWF RAW is WAR's 4.8 rating more than doubled WCW Monday Nitro's 2.1 rating, its second-lowest in nine months (1.8 on April 3 and December 11, 2000).
January 8, 2001