Hey, look, it's This Week in Wrestling History! Hey, I'm your party host Andy and I am finally back. Sorry about the lack of this column for two weeks. Last week, I was unexpectedly away from my computer, and the week before I was engulfed in final exams. Anyway, here's your history! Hurray! Lots of it! As usual (well, as like time), this goes from latest to oldest. Since I am a day early this time, you get an extra day of history! Hurray!

12.21 - It's The Patriot's birthday! INTENSITY! INTEGRITY! INTELLIGENCE! Oh wait...

12.23 - It's Juvent... um, The Juice's birthday. May The Rock turneth a piece of birthday cake sideways and shine it up really nice for him. It's also Keiji "The Great Muta" Muto's birthday.

12.27 - Hey, it's Greenberg's birthday. Let us all celebrate.

12.28 - It's Lanny Poffo's birthday. Hopefully on Nitro this coming Monday to celebrate, we can flash back to an old Royal Rumble and let Lanny go one on one with Jamison.

12.28.98 - Ric Flair won "control" of WCW by defeating Eric Bischoff on the world's hottest three hours of sports entertaintainment. Also on that show, Konnan (THANKFULLY) lost the TV Title to "White Thunder" Scott Steiner. Meanwhile on the other network, Vince McMahon fired Shawn Michaels as commissioner and recieved a little sweet chin music afterwards.

12.27.98 - WCW's big bash of Starrcade was live from Washington D.C. and the Michael Jordan MCI Center. Of course, Greenberg's winning streak and world title reign came to an end as he lost to the magical Mountie taser. The tragedies continued as Eric Bischoff pinned Ric Flair and Konnan beat Chris Jericho by submission (see also: JOB).

12.28.97 - It's anudder Starrcade. This year, Sting got a world title shot in his first match in a year and a half and won. But who cares... Larry Zbyszko defeated Eric Bischoff.

12.27.95 - Another Starrcade! This year was the big WCW vs New Japan thing, which featured Jushin Liger beating Chris Benoit, Koji Kanemoto defeating Alex Wright, Lex Luger defeating Masa Chono, Marc Johnny B. Badd defeating Masa Saito, and Shinjiro Otani defeating Eddy Guerrero, Randy Savage beating Hiroyoshi Tenzan, and Sting defeating Kensuke Sasaki. We also had Ric Flair winning the world title from Macho.

12.27.94 - That's right... Starrcade. What a great triple main event we had... Hulk Hogan successfully defending his world title against The Butcher/The Barber/The Zodiac/The Man With No Name/The Booty Man/The Disciple, Vader winning the U.S. title against Hacksaw Jim Duggan, and Mr. T (no, not this site's Mr. T) defeating Kevin Sullivan. We also had HHH's only WCW PPV match, as he lost to Alex Wright (back when HHH went by his real name).

12.27.93 - Is Starrcade ALWAYS on the 27th??? This year's main event was Ric Flair winning ANOTHER world title, this time by defeating Vader. Who cares though... the Shockmaster pinned Awesome Kong! Woohoo!

12.26.93 - Terry Funk won his first ECW heavyweight belt by defeating the insane Sabu.

12.28.92 - You know the deal, it's WCW's version of WrestleMania. We had a condensed version of The Lethal Lottery, with no really shocking pairings. The Great Muta won the Battlebowl battle royal though and got himself a DDP ring. Sting also won the King of Cable tournament by defeating Vader.

12.26.90 - Lou Thesz, at age 74, wrestled but was defeated by his former student Masa Chono (27) on a New Japan card.

12.26.88 - Starrcade! Woohoo! Ric Flair successfully defended his world title against Lex Luger, plus Rick Steiner won his first TV title (boo, hiss).

12.21.81 - Andre the Giant was the subject of a profile in Sports Illustrated. Up to that time, it was the longest profile ever published by SI. The article later found its way in the June '82 Reader's Digest.

12.25.76 - On Christmas Day, "Nature Boy" Ric Flair won his first world title as he teamed with Greg Valentine against NWA world tag champions Gene and Ole Anderson.

12.28.63 - Chris & John Tolos defeated Killer Kowalski and the late, great Gorilla Monsoon to win the WWF tag belts. Why this matters, I don't know.

That's your history lesson for this week. I welcome all e-mail at the usual address that you can find below. Have a great Christmas!