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Jun 2024
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Wrestling Nostalgia: The First Edition o...

The (Unofficial) WWE Podcast
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*Originally Aired July 29th, 2020*

In this edition of Wrestling Nostalgia we look back at the very first edition of SmackDown on UPN that took place in August of 1999 - headlined by The Rock vs HHH for the WWF Championship ...with HBK as the special guest referee.

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