Throughout the history of professional wrestling, we’ve seen champions come and go, and This Day in Wrestling History celebrates the win of one of our personal favorite, Ron Simmons.
We mainly remember Simmons best as Farooq in the WWE as the head of the Nation of Domination and then as Bradshaw’s partner in APA (Acolytes Protection Agency), but we were lucky enough to see him in WCW prior to that.
Making a memory
On August 2, 1992, Simmons faced Vader for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship and it’s quickly became a night to remember.
Special thanks to @awrestlighistorian for the quote.
“There’s not a day since that happened to be honest with you that I don’t re-live it. It’s something that you never forget, that you always relive, and I’ve done that ever since that happened. It’s something that you never get over and you are not only proud of yourself, but also it gives you special meaning when people come up to you and say ‘Thank you for giving me that inspiration from when you won that title that night. Not just because of it being the title, but because of it giving me inspiration to go on to do other things with my life.’ Now you can’t ask for a better compliment than that.
“That night there, they saw a real moment in professional wrestling which is very rare that they see that kind of thing happen because there was no knowledge of that happening. It wasn’t even knowledge for me that that was going to take place that night. And I think that’s one of the biggest reasons for that reaction of the fans. Not only that, but they can see from the enthusiasm from me and all of the other guys that this was something that was not scripted of any kind. That wasn’t supposed to take place that night.
“And I would be lying if I said that because I had no idea of the impact that it was not only going to have on them, but on me and on the world of professional wrestling. When I go back and look at that, just the crowd, just the look on their faces and the reaction of when that happened. Listen, you’re not human if you don’t get chills when you look at that. Every time I see it…it just makes my flesh crawl and it almost brings me to tears.” – Ron Simmons, Jobbing Out interview August 24, 2017.
Ron Simmons was an awesome performer we never got tired of, but sadly, it’s been reported he wasn’t in line for more world titles due to injuries.
Still, his one win was monumental for a lot of people and it cemented his place on This Day in Wrestling History.
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