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What happened on January 17th in Wrestling History?

Title changes (Selection of important championships)
1986NWA Mid-Atlantic Brass Knuckles Title: Won by Ron Bass
1991IWGP Heavyweight Title: Won by Big Van Vader
1992WWF Intercontinental Title: Won by The Mountie
1994WWF Tag Team Titles: Won by Quebecer Jacques & Quebecer Pierre
1997AJPW World Tag Team Titles: Won by Akira Taue & Toshiaki Kawada
2000WCW World Heavyweight Title: Championship vacant
2000WWF Hardcore Title: Won by Test
2000WCW United States Heavyweight Title: Won by Jeff Jarrett
2010GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Titles: Championship vacant
2010TNAW Knockouts Title: Won by Tara
2010TNAW World Tag Team Titles: Won by Hernandez & Matt Morgan
2020WWE 24/7 Title: Won by Mojo Rawley
2020WWE 24/7 Title: Won by R-Truth
All in all, there are 201 title changes in our championships database which happened on a January 17th.

Tournament Finals
1997
SuperBrawl 3 Tournament
1998
IWW 1 Night Tournament 1998
2004
NEO Stage 2004
2009
ICW Italian Tag Team Titles Tournament
2010
Open the Dream Gate Title Tounament
2010
BattlARTS B-Rules Tournament 2010
2013
IWRG El Protector 2013
2014
EWF Inland Title Tournament 2014
2015
NJPW Fantastica Mania Tag Tournament
2015
NWF Norgesmestere i Tag-team 2015
2015
NPW Kings of the Castle Tournament 2015

Pay-Per-Views (or similar)
1999
WCW/nWo Souled Out 1999 (Buyrate: 0.75)
2008
Hustle House Vol. 32
2009
UFC 93: Franklin vs. Henderson (Buyrate: 350000)
2010
TNAW Genesis 2010 (Buyrate: 15000)

Free TV Shows
1959
Live Pittsburgh Studio Wrestling
1962
MACW TV-Taping @ Charlotte
1963
TV-Taping @ Washington, D.C.
1970
Detroit TV
1970
GCW Live Atlanta Wrestling
1986
NJPW New Year Dash 1986 - Day 12
1987
JCP World Championship Wrestling
1991
NJPW New Year Dash 1991 - Day 11
1993
WCW The Main Event
1993
WWF All American Wrestling
1993
WWF Wrestling Challenge
1994
WWF Monday Night RAW #48 (Rating: 3.60)
1995
ECW Hardcore TV #91
1997
AJPW New Year Giant Series 1997 - Day 11
1998
WCW Saturday Night
1998
WWF Shotgun Saturday Night #55
1999
ECW Hardcore TV #299
1999
AJPW on Nippon TV
1999
GAEA Side Winder 1999 - Day 3
1999
WWF Súper Astros #9
1999
WWF SuNDAY NiGHT HeAT #25
2000
WCW Monday Nitro #226 (Rating: 3.00)
2000
WWF RAW is WAR #347 (Rating: 6.00)
2001
WCW Thunder #147 (Rating: 2.20)
2002
WWF SmackDown #126 (Rating: 4.00)
2004
AWWL Big Time Wrestling
2004
NWA-TNA Xplosion
2004
NWA Wildside TV Show #224
2004
WWE Velocity #86 (Rating: 0.70)
2005
WWE RAW #608 (Rating: 3.80)
2006
BJW Death Match Wars #59
2007
RQW TV #7
2008
TNAW iMPACT! #186 - A Fish Out of Water (Rating: 1.22)
2008
TNAW Global iMPACT! (Rating: 0.80)
2009
NWA Anarchy TV Show #156
2009
OVW TV Show #493
2009
FCW TV Show #16
2010
FCW TV Show #68
2010
WWE Vintage Collection #85
2011
ROH on HDNet #91
2011
WWE RAW #921 (Rating: 3.27)
2013
TNAW IMPACT WRESTLING #445 (Rating: 1.15/1600000)
2013
Bellator 85 (Rating: 938000)
2014
NJPW presents CMLL Fantastica Mania 2014 - Day 3
2014
WWE SmackDown #752 (Rating: 2.11/2916000)
2015
WSOF 17: Shields vs. Foster
2015
KOTC Fighting Spirit
2015
WCWC on PDX-TV #035
2015
ROH on SBG #174
2015
NJPW presents CMLL Fantastica Mania 2015 - Day 4
2015
OVW TV Show #804
2016
STARDOM 5th Anniversary Show
2016
UFC Fight Night: Dillashaw vs. Cruz
2016
NJPW presents CMLL Fantastica Mania 2016 - Day 1
2020
WWE Friday Night SmackDown #1065 (Rating: 2580000)
2020
NJPW presents CMLL Fantastica Mania 2020 - Day 6
2021
STARDOM 10th Anniversary Show
2022
WWE RAW #1495 (Rating: 1613000)
2023
WWE NXT #620 (Rating: 600000)

The ten oldest shows in our database
1900
Show @ Hastings
1900
Show @ Mankato
1901
Show @ Hamburg
1902
Show @ Davenport
1905
Show @ Hamburg
1905
Show @ Lyon
1905
Show @ Wien
1906
Show @ Bremen
1907
Show @ Braunschweig
1908
Show @ Brooklyn
All in all, there are 201 shows in our events database which happened on a January 17th.

Birthdays
1876
Fred Beell
1886
Chris Jordan
1904
Little Beaver
1915
Tarzan Gwinn
1920
Francois Miquet
1927
Jack Crawford
1930
Eddy Koparanian
1942
Muhammad Ali
1949
Andy Kaufman
1951
Rick Bolton
1956
Carlos Gracie Jr.
1956
Lasser
1966
Gary Goodridge
1970
Masaaki Mochizuki
1976
Bastiaan Rejen
1977
Spartan
1977
Hirokazu Konno
1977
Kevin Thorn
1979
Chase Stevens
1980
Ryan McGivern
1980
Johannes Luckas
1981
Cole Province
1982
Adam Windsor
1983
Aya Sakurai
1983
Farmer Joe
1983
Cerebro Maligno
1984
Nathan Beast
1984
Dexter Lumis
1985
Sage Beckett
1986
Tyler Stinson
1988
Brian Grinnell
1989
Alexander Sarnavskiy
1989
Will Davison
1989
El Pitufo
1991
Alexander Hammerstone
1991
Franklin Patterson
1994
Arnold Allen
1995
Demonio Imperial
???
Big Dogg
???
Shawney Bo Wynn
???
Xena

Deaths
1933
August Brylla
1957
Al Taylor
1995
Lucky Simunovich
2001
Rito Romero
2008
Ernie Holmes
2012
Donald Brackens
2012
Savannah Jack
2013
Billy the Kid
2019
Rex Bacchus
2020
Bobby Kay
2021
Mixteco Jr.
2023
Jay Briscoe
2023
Jordie Ludwig

Debuts
1950
Nick Albert
1990
Drake Morimatsu
1990
Flying Kid Ichihara
1990
Masaomi Morishige
1997
Ray Cooper
1998
Dokonjonosuke*Mishima
2004
Evil Uno
2008
Scott Lighty
2009
Rick Hawn
2015
Ryan Rapid
2016
Patrick Fitzpatrick
2017
Yuya Aoki
???
Eclipse

Mask Matches
1949Mr. X lost the mask at an event against Bert Rubi.
2009Marakami lost the mask at an event against El Conquistador, Forcado Mazatleco and Serpiente Marina.
2009Marakami #2 lost the mask at an event against El Conquistador, Forcado Mazatleco and Serpiente Marina.

Hair Matches
2009El Brujo Mayor lost the hair at an event against El Conquistador, Forcado Mazatleco and Serpiente Marina.
2010Voltaje Negro lost the hair at an event against Furor.
2020Thunder Blonde lost the hair at an event against Anna Jayy.




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