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What happened on December 28th in Wrestling History?

Title changes (Selection of important championships)
1963WWWF United States Tag Team Titles: Won by Chris Tolos & John Tolos
1984WWF Junior Heavyweight Title: Won by Cobra
1984NWA World Television Title: Won by Ron Garvin
1997WCW United States Heavyweight Title: Won by Diamond Dallas Page
1997WCW World Heavyweight Title: Won by Sting
1998WCW World Television Title: Won by Scott Steiner
1999WWF Intercontinental Title: Championship vacant
2002ROH #1-Contender Trophy: Championship vacant
2012Occidente Light Heavyweight Title: Won by Ráfaga
2019WWE 24/7 Title: Won by R-Truth
2019WWE 24/7 Title: Won by Samir Singh
2021AJPW Unified Triple Crown Heavyweight Title: Championship vacant
2022AAA World Mixed Tag Team Titles: Won by Abismo Negro Jr. & Lady Flamer
2022AAA World Tag Team Titles: Won by Dragón Lee & Dralístico
2022AAA World Mixed Tag Team Titles: Championship vacant
2022AAA World Tag Team Titles: Championship vacant
All in all, there are 174 title changes in our championships database which happened on a December 28th.

Tournament Finals
1987
Lord of the Ring Tournament
1992
WCW BattleBowl/The Lethal Lottery 1992
1992
King of Cable Tournament 1992
1996
JWP 1 Night Tag Team Tournament 1996
2001
CMLL La Copa Arena México 2001
2003
IWF Tournament of Champions 2003
2006
GCW King of the Kings Tournament
2006
Premier Ken Joyce Trophy 2006
2007
GCW National Title Tournament
2009
GCW Gold Rush Tournament
2010
Premier Ken Joyce Trophy 2010
2011
Premier Ken Joyce Trophy 2011
2013
CWF Mid-Atlantic Rising Generation League Torunament 2013
2017
BASARA Shinjuku Strongest Ground Budokai 2017
2017
FSW Legacy Tournament
2018
REVOLVER Title Tournament
2018
MKE Tag Team Titles Tournament
2019
DDT D-King Grand Prix 2020
2019
FSW Men's Legacy Tournament

Pay-Per-Views (or similar)
1992
WCW Starrcade 1992: BattleBowl/The Lethal Lottery (Buyrate: 0.50)
1997
WCW Starrcade 1997 (Buyrate: 1.90)
2008
Dragon Gate The Final Gate 2008
2013
UFC 168: Weidman vs. Silva 2 (Buyrate: 1025000)
2014
Dragon Gate The Final Gate 2014
2017
NOVA Such Great Heights
2019
AAW Windy City Classic XV

Free TV Shows
1968
CWF Championship Wrestling from Florida
1968
GCW Live Atlanta Wrestling
1968
GCW Live Wrestling from Columbus
1992
WWF Prime Time Wrestling
1993
ECW Hardcore TV #38
1996
WCW Saturday Night - Year in Review
1998
WCW Monday Nitro #172
1998
WWF RAW is WAR #292 (Rating: 4.92)
2000
WWF SmackDown! #71 (Rating: 3.80)
2001
CMLL Súper Viernes
2002
NWA Wildside TV Show #169
2002
WWE Velocity #32 (Rating: 0.90)
2006
TNAW iMPACT! #131 (Rating: 0.94)
2007
WWE SmackDown #436 - Best of 2007 (Rating: 2.50)
2008
WEC Best of 2008
2008
Strikeforce on NBC #21
2008
PWO TV #30
2008
WWE Vintage Collection #30
2009
ROH on HDNet #40 - Best of 2009
2009
WWE RAW #866 (Rating: 3.60)
2011
TNAW Xplosion #379
2012
Osaka Pro Happy Weekday
2012
WWE SmackDown #697 (Rating: 1.86/2660000)
2013
ROH on SBG #119 - Year in Review 2013
2013
WWE Tribute to the Troops 2013 (Rating: 0.60/2091000)
2013
OVW TV Show #749
2013
UFC 168: Weidman vs. Silva 2 Prelims (Rating: 1554000)
2015
WWE RAW #1179 (Rating: 2.47/3536000)
2017
IW IMPACT #702 - Best Of 2017, Part 2 (Rating: 285000)
2018
MLW Fusion #37
2018
Riki Choshu Produce: Power Hall 2018 ~ Year End Special
2019
MLW Fusion #90 - Best of 2019
2019
ROH on SBG #432 - Best of 2019 ~ Part 2
2020
WWE RAW #1440 (Rating: 1769000)
2021
WWE NXT 2.0 #16 (Rating: 662000)
2022
AEW Dynamite #169 - New Year's Smash (Rating: 876000)

The ten oldest shows in our database
1875
Show @ New York City
1898
Show @ Paris
1907
Show @ London
1910
Show @ Montréal
1914
Show @ Salt Lake City
1915
Show @ New York City
1916
Show @ Washington, D.C.
1918
Show @ Battle Creek
1919
Show @ Berlin
1920
Show @ Des Moines
All in all, there are 174 shows in our events database which happened on a December 28th.

Birthdays
1884
Emil Sporrey
1891
Joe Cossu
1899
Reginald Siki
1901
Firpo Wilcox
1902
Casey Kazanjian
1904
Bill Middlekauff
1904
Tommy Tassos
1905
Seelie Samara
1910
Al Tafrof
1917
Gedeon Gida
1922
Fuji Nozawa
1923
Dennis Clary
1926
Harry Bennett
1928
Dominic Pye
1932
Brian Burke
1942
Dinah Beamon
1953
Tatsumi Fujinami
1954
Lanny Poffo
1956
Baby Killer
1960
Mr. Tattoo
1972
La Hechicera
1973
MIKAMI
1975
Ares
1976
La Medusa
1976
El Hijo del Calavera
1977
Xavier
1979
Aiden Frost
1979
B-Tight
1980
Casanova
1981
Kamakazi Kid
1982
KTF
1982
Mariah Moreno
1983
The Slam
1983
Richard Knepp
1984
Naoki Setoguchi
1984
Ariel
1984
Courtney Taylor
1985
Taryn Terrell
1986
Bruno Dias
1987
Marcus Kool
1988
Ozzy Dugulubgov
1988
Katlyn Chookagian
1990
Satara
1990
Cory Galloway
1990
Lolita
1992
Rachael Ellering
1992
Bobby Gunns
1993
Zertico
1998
Sofia Castillo
1998
Hibiki
1998
Haruna Neko
2006
Rina
2006
Hina
???
J-Rocc
???
Voltaje Negro

Deaths
1959
John Osoling
1964
Homer Goodling
1965
Walter Bonecki
1970
Otto Suter
1983
Bill Brooks
1989
Earl Freeman
1995
Andy Tremaine
1999
Chico Salazar
1999
Harry Monty
2012
Bill Dromo

Debuts
1960
Angelo Mosca
1972
Jim Brunzell
2002
Ross Ebañez
2002
Slikk Steev
2002
Eric Cooper
2003
Lloyd Marshbanks
2003
Shigeru Saeki
2008
Ryosuke Komori
2008
Allysin Kay
2009
KC Andrews
2014
Skylar Slice
2017
Boom Harden

Mask Matches
1974Mr. Pro lost the mask at an event against Blue Scorpion L.
1992Christmas Creature lost the mask at an event against Jerry Lawler.
2014Spawn lost the mask at an event against Estrella de Plata Jr..
2014Dr. Boris lost the mask at an event against Sacristán del Diablo.

Hair Matches
2003Mike Segura lost the hair at an event against Fantasy.
2014Zafiro lost the hair at an event against .
2014La Dama de Hierro lost the hair at an event against Shira.
2014Zafiro lost the hair at an event against Mr. Coyote.
2015Policeman lost the hair at an event against Estigma.

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