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What happened on April 17th in Wrestling History?

Title changes (Selection of important championships)
1938Mexican National Lightweight Title: Won by Dientes Hernández
1980NWA World Middleweight Title: Won by Cachorro Mendoza
1981NWF Heavyweight Title (NJPW-Version): Championship vacant
1983NWA International Tag Team Titles: Won by Giant Baba & Jumbo Tsuruta
1984WWF World Tag Team Titles: Won by Adrian Adonis & Dick Murdoch
1984WWF World Light Heavyweight Title: Won by Gran Hamada
1994WCW World Heavyweight Title: Championship vacant
1994WCW International Title: Won by Sting
1999ECW Tag Team Titles: Won by Bubba Ray Dudley & D-Von Dudley
2000WWF World Light Heavyweight Title: Won by Scotty 2 Hotty
2001WWF Hardcore Title: Won by Rhyno
2001Mexican National Welterweight Title: Won by Tigre Blanco
2001WWF Tag Team Titles: Won by Kane & The Undertaker
2005NWA World Light Heavyweight Title: Won by Dr. Wagner Jr.
2005NWA World Light Heavyweight Title: Championship vacant
2008TNAW World Tag Team Titles: Championship vacant
2008TNAW X-Division Title: Won by Petey Williams
2008TNAW World Tag Team Titles: Won by Kaz & Super Eric
2011TNAW Knockouts Title: Won by Mickie James
2015Occidente Middleweight Title: Won by Virgo
2020WWE SmackDown Tag Team Titles: Won by Big E & Kofi Kingston & Xavier Woods
All in all, there are 219 title changes in our championships database which happened on a April 17th.

Tournament Finals
1998
KSW King of the Ring 1998
1999
MAW Hardcore Cup 1999
2010
DEEP Light Heavyweight Title Tournament
2011
CHIKARA King of Trios 2011
2011
CHIKARA Rey de Voladores 2011
2015
Smoky Mountain Cup 2015
2015
HOPE Kings of Flight 2015
2017
IPW:UK 1 Night Tag Team Tournament 2017
2018
PWF Hungry Like The Wolf Tournament
2018
CMLL La Copa "Nueva Valores"
2018
Maji Manji Tournament
2021
DMDU Tag Team Titles Tournament
2021
PSW Trinity Cup 2021

Pay-Per-Views (or similar)
1958
Show @ Amarillo
1972
Show @ Vancouver
1994
WCW Spring Stampede 1994 (Buyrate: 0.53)
2009
ROH Caged Collision
2011
TNAW Lockdown 2011 (Buyrate: 23000)
2015
NWA Smoky Mountain Collision Course
2015
EVOLVE 41

Free TV Shows
1964
CWF Championship Wrestling from Florida
1965
GCW Live Wrestling from Columbus
1970
GCW @ Atlanta
1971
GCW Live Wrestling from Columbus
1971
GCW Live Atlanta Wrestling
1973
GCW @ Atlanta
1988
JCP The Main Event #3
1992
AJPW Champion Carnival 1992 - Day 22
1993
WWF Superstars
1993
WWF Mania
1993
WCW Saturday Night
1993
WCW Power Hour
1993
SMW TV-Show #64
1994
WWF Wrestling Challenge
1994
WCW The Main Event
1995
WWF Monday Night RAW #106 (Rating: 3.40)
1999
WWF Shotgun Saturday Night #120
1999
WCW Worldwide
1999
NJPW on TV Asahi
2000
WWF RAW is WAR #360 (Rating: 6.70)
2000
WCW Monday Nitro #239 (Rating: 2.50)
2003
WWE SmackDown #191
2004
WWE Velocity #99 (Rating: 0.80)
2004
NWA Wildside TV Show #237
2004
NWA-TNA Xplosion
2004
GAEA Limit Break 2004 - Day 4
2005
WWE Sunday Night Heat (Rating: 0.80)
2005
NOAH Encountering Navigation - Day 11
2006
WWE RAW #673 (Rating: 4.30)
2006
BJW Death Match Wars #72
2007
WWE ECW on Sci Fi #45 (Rating: 1.50)
2007
LDN Capital TV #30
2007
BJW Death Match Wars #120
2008
TNAW iMPACT! #199 - The Revenge of Lockdown (Rating: 1.00)
2009
WWE SmackDown #504 (Rating: 2.00)
2009
Dragon Gate Infinity #127
2010
Strikeforce Nashville (Rating: 1.76/2860000)
2010
OVW TV Show #558
2010
NWA Anarchy TV Show #221
2011
WWE Vintage Collection #150
2011
K-DOJO 9th Anniversary Show - Club-K Super Evolution 9
2011
FCW TV Show #133
2012
TNAW Xplosion #395
2013
WWE NXT #165
2013
WWE Main Event #29 (Rating: 1220000)
2013
TNAW Xplosion #447
2014
TNAW IMPACT WRESTLING #510 (Rating: 0.83/1012000)
2014
Dragon Gate Infinity #333
2015
TNAW IMPACT WRESTLING #561 (Rating: 401000)
2015
NJPW Road to Wrestling Dontaku 2015 - Day 1
2017
WWE RAW #1247 (Rating: 3346000)
2018
WWE SmackDown Live #974 - Superstar Shake-up (Rating: 1.99/2796000)
2019
NOAH Global Tag League 2019 - Day 5
2020
WWE Friday Night SmackDown #1078 (Rating: 2192000)
2021
TJP Still Incomplete
2022
STARDOM Cinderella Tournament 2022 - Day 3
2023
WWE RAW #1560 (Rating: 1815000)

The ten oldest shows in our database
1880
Show @ New York City
1902
Show @ London
1905
Show @ København
1906
Show @ Praha
1906
Show @ Montréal
1907
Show @ Nashville
1907
Grand Prix of Baden 1907 - Day 2
1908
Show @ Heber City
1909
Show @ Oldenburg
1909
Show @ Nürnberg - Tournament Day 17
All in all, there are 219 shows in our events database which happened on a April 17th.

Birthdays
1935
Jack Curtis Jr.
1938
Chuck Conley
1954
Roddy Piper
1958
Nailz
1959
Maravilla López
1966
Asya
1968
Fang Suzuki
1974
Fierro
1975
Big E Sleaze
1976
Ryuki Ueyama
1976
Damián el Terrible
1979
Earl of Arrogance
1980
Ricky Cruzz
1980
Hartley Jackson
1982
Martin Kampmann
1984
Sasa Keel
1984
Siyar Bahadurzada
1985
Yoshiyuki Nakanishi
1986
Jumabieke Tuerxun
1987
László Árpád
1988
Dasha Kuret
1991
Jun Masaoka
1992
Spark
1993
Daryl Lokuku
1995
El Bandido
1995
Felix Weber
1995
Darius
1997
Shota Umino
1998
Usman Nurmagomedov
2001
Kohaku
???
Jamie Holley
???
Christian Skyfire

Deaths
1900
Felix Bernard
1988
Paul Jones
1989
Villano II
1997
Mitsu Arakawa
2005
Alphonse Bisignano
2011
Black Widow
2012
Ron Karabatsos
2013
Ella Waldek
2016
Chyna
2017
Matt Anoa'i
2020
Kevin Clayton

Debuts
1931
Bill Longson
1950
Max Marek
1988
Chaz Taylor
1994
Yukari Ishikura
1999
Nate Marquardt
1999
Joey Villaseñor
2004
Zander Bathory
2004
Kyacey Uscola
2004
Roy Nelson
2004
Tim Lutz
2004
Rani Yahya
2005
Masashi Takeda
2009
Edson Barboza
2009
Alejandro
2009
Will Martinez Jr.
2009
Patrick Cenoble
2009
Andy Main
2009
Louis Gaudinot
2010
Nick Madrid
2010
Fern Owens
2010
Christos Piliafas
2011
Patrick Bork
2011
Cody Maltais
2011
Sareee
2013
La Abogada
2014
Ashley Roberts
2015
Kiera Hogan
2016
Luke Kyro
2016
Kanako Murata
2016
Bryce Donovan
2019
Mother Endless
2022
Miran

Mask Matches
1958Zorro lost the mask at an event against Cyclone Anaya.
1965Masked Marvel lost the mask at an event against Bruno Sammartino.
2007Mr. Infierno lost the mask at an event against El Alebrije.
2010Asturiano lost the mask at an event against Kahoz Jr..
2010Mr. Stop #3 lost the mask at an event against Rock Star.
2011Bestia Roja lost the mask at an event against Sombra Escarlata.
2012Batman del Futuro lost the mask at an event against Chicano.
2016Astro lost the mask at an event against Dr. Cerebro.

Hair Matches
1945Ivan Rasputin lost the hair at an event against Nanjo Singh.
2007Shark Man lost the hair at an event against Camaleón de Oro, Corazón de Barrio and Estrella Dorada Jr..
2007Máscara Sagrada lost the hair at an event against El Sagrado.
2008Black Terry lost the hair at an event against Multifacético.
2010Dark Strip lost the hair at an event against The Rocket.
2022Black Terry lost the hair at an event against Puma de Oro.

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