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What happened on August 12th in Wrestling History?

Title changes (Selection of important championships)
1954Mexican National Heavyweight Title: Won by Joaquín Murrieta
1979NWA United States Heavyweight Title (Mid-Atlantic-Version): Championship vacant
1983WWF Junior Heavyweight Title: Championship vacant
1983Mexican National Middleweight Title: Won by Ultramán
1988NWA World Middleweight Title: Won by Emilio Charles Jr.
1991NWA/WCW United States Tag Team Titles: Won by Firebreaker Chip & Todd Champion
1992ECW Television Title: Won by Johnny Hotbody
1992NWA World Heavyweight Title: Won by Masahiro Chono
1996WWF Intercontinental Title: Championship vacant
1997WCW Cruiserweight Title: Won by Chris Jericho
2005ROH World Title: Won by James Gibson
2006ROH Pure Title: Championship defunct
2006ROH Pure Title: Won by Bryan Danielson
2007TNAW X-Division Title: Won by Kurt Angle
2007TNAW World Tag Team Titles: Won by Kurt Angle & Sting
2011CMLL World Heavyweight Title: Won by Héctor Garza
2012TNAW Knockouts Title: Won by Madison Rayne
2012AJPW World Junior Heavyweight Title: Won by Hiroshi Yamato
2016TNAW X-Division Title: Championship vacant
2016TNAW Knockouts Title: Won by Allie
2016TNAW King of the Mountain Title: Championship defunct
2018NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Titles: Won by Taiji Ishimori & Tama Tonga & Tanga Loa
2018IW Knockouts Title: Won by Tessa Blanchard
2019WWE 24/7 Title: Won by Elias
2019WWE 24/7 Title: Won by Dash Wilder & Scott Dawson
2019WWE 24/7 Title: Won by R-Truth
2022IW Knockouts World Tag Team Titles: Won by Chelsea Green & Deonna Purrazzo
2023AAA Reina de Reinas Title: Won by Lady Flamer
2023AAA Latin America Title: Won by QT Marshall
All in all, there are 220 title changes in our championships database which happened on a August 12th.

Tournament Finals
1992
NJPW G1 Climax 1992
2001
NJPW G1 Climax 2001
2005
CMLL Mexican G1 Junior Climax
2006
OZ Academy $3,000 Round Robin Tournament 2006
2006
APW Universal Heavyweight Title Tournament
2007
wXw Deliver or Piss off 2007
2007
Strongest-K 2007
2007
NJPW G1 Climax 2007
2012
NJPW G1 Climax 2012
2012
Robbie Ellis Tribute Super Junior Heavyweight Tournament
2017
IPW Vault Title Tournament
2017
NECW Tag Team Classic 2017
2017
HRW Mayhem Title Tournament
2017
IWA Mid-South So you wanna be a Death Match Star?
2018
Gan*Pro Ganbare*Climax 2018
2018
NJPW G1 Climax 28
2019
NJPW G1 Climax 29
2023
wXw Shortcut to the Top 2023

Pay-Per-Views (or similar)
1992
NJPW G1 Climax 1992 - Day 5
1995
NJPW G1 Climax - Day 2
2000
NJPW G1 Climax - Day 5
2001
NJPW G1 Climax - Day 7
2007
NJPW 35th Anniversary Tour - G1 Climax 2007 - Winner Take All - Day 6
2007
TNAW Hard Justice 2007 (Buyrate: 25000)
2012
NJPW 40th Anniversary Tour G1 Climax 22 - The One & Only - Day 9
2012
JCW Bloodymania 6
2012
TNAW Hardcore Justice 2012 (Buyrate: 8000)
2016
FIP Heatstroke 2016
2017
EVOLVE 91
2017
MCW Final Hour
2017
NJPW G1 Climax 27 - Day 18
2017
KDW Continuing The Tradition 2017
2018
EVOLVE 111
2018
NJPW G1 Climax 28 - Day 19
2023
AAA TripleManía XXXI - C

Free TV Shows
1950
Wrestling from Ringside
1961
CWF Championship Wrestling from Florida
1967
GCW Live Atlanta Wrestling
1967
GCW Live Wrestling from Columbus
1972
GCW Georgia Championship Wrestling
1990
WWF Wrestling Challenge
1995
WCW Saturday Night
1995
SMW TV-Show #185
1995
WWF Superstars
1996
WCW Monday Nitro #48 (Rating: 3.30)
1996
WWF Monday Night RAW #171 (Rating: 2.00)
1999
WCW Thunder #75
2000
XPW TV #19
2000
NWA Wildside TV Show #48
2000
WCW Worldwide
2002
WWE RAW #481 (Rating: 3.90)
2003
ZERO-ONE on Samurai! TV
2004
WWE SmackDown #260 (Rating: 2.60)
2005
ZERO1 on Samurai TV
2006
OZ Academy 10th Anniversary ~ Just Oz
2006
NJPW G1 Climax - Day 5
2006
OVW TV Show
2007
NOAH on Nippon TV
2007
Toryumon México on Samurai TV
2008
BJW Death Match Wars #184
2008
WWE ECW on Sci Fi #114 (Rating: 1.22)
2010
Bellator XXIV
2010
WWE Superstars #70 (Rating: 0.65)
2010
TNAW Thursday Night iMPACT! #319 - The Whole F'n Show (Rating: 1.15)
2011
Strikeforce Challengers: Gurgel vs. Duarte (Rating: 0.60/181000)
2011
WWE SmackDown #625 (Rating: 1.83)
2012
WWE Vintage Collection #219
2013
WWE RAW #1055 (Rating: 2.95/4111000)
2014
TNAW Xplosion #516
2015
TNAW IMPACT WRESTLING #578 (Rating: 270000)
2017
ROH on SBG #308
2018
BJW Midsummer Korakuen 2 Battles - Day 1
2018
STARDOM x STARDOM 2018 in Tokyo ~ Kagetsu 10th Anniversary Show
2019
NJPW G1 Climax 29 - Day 19
2019
WWE RAW #1368 (Rating: 2729000)
2020
AEW Dynamite #45 (Rating: 792000)
2020
WWE NXT #547 (Rating: 619000)
2020
Dragon Gate The Gate of Adventure 2020 - Day 4
2021
IW Before the IMPACT #26
2021
OVW TV #1148
2021
IW IMPACT #891 (Rating: 122000)
2022
WWE Friday Night SmackDown #1199 (Rating: 1927000)
2022
AEW Rampage #53 - Quake by the Lake (Rating: 528000)
2023
AEW Collision #9 (Rating: 476000)
2023
NJPW G1 Climax 33 - Day 18

The ten oldest shows in our database
1892
Show @ Budapest
1904
Show @ Düsseldorf
1905
Show @ St. Petersburg
1906
Show @ St. Petersburg - Day 37
1907
Show @ Bristol
1907
Show @ Wien
1909
Show @ Berlin
1909
Show @ Berlin
1909
Show @ Berlin - Tournament Day 12
1909
Show @ Bromberg
All in all, there are 220 shows in our events database which happened on a August 12th.

Birthdays
1901
Vic Muhl
1905
Alex Topka
1912
Karol Kalmikoff
1912
Eddie Virág
1920
Dave Ruhl
1938
Karl Lauer
1939
Dale Mann
1940
El Invasor
1955
Terry Taylor
1963
Koji Kitao
1965
Dr. Wagner Jr.
1969
Al Farat
1969
Amy Lee
1973
Jonathan Coachman
1975
Shark Boy
1975
Brian Mailhot
1975
Mizuho Ishikawa
1976
Kid Vicious
1977
El Tigre de Oro
1977
Tyson Dean
1980
Clinton Steele
1980
Frankie Saenz
1981
Black Rain
1981
Dustin Tarr
1981
Maverick
1982
Príncipe Odín Jr.
1983
Justin Graves
1984
Kris Wolf
1984
Hirotoshi Saito
1985
Fallah Bahh
1986
Pearl González
1986
Jessica Wetmore
1987
Norma Rueda Center
1988
Tyson Fury
1989
Leo
1990
Alan Extreme
1990
Dragón Dorado
1991
Maverick Cage
1992
Caso Uno
1993
El Soberano Jr.
1994
Dante Leon
1995
Tony
1996
Kenichi
2000
Billy Haze
2000
Yu Owada
???
Alexis Vixen
???
Cast-Iron Cothern
???
Miracle Man
???
Bailey Mannix

Deaths
1975
Ronnie Paul
1981
Buddy Austin
1990
Eddie Newman
1993
Sonny Boy Deigan
2001
Horace Strickland
2009
Gladys Gillem
2009
Karl Von Hess
2021
Dominic DeNucci

Debuts
1935
Gino Vagnone
1974
Espectro Jr.
1996
Sakura Hirota
1996
El Colombiano
1997
YOSHIYA
2006
James Terry
2006
Elaina Maxwell
2006
Rod Montoya
2006
Cast-Iron Cothern
2007
Pacman Jones
2007
Crystal
2017
Kara
2018
Utami Hayashishita
2018
Sayuri Amemiya
2019
Joshua Wavra
2022
Rensan
2022
Asako Mia
2022
Koara Fujimoto
2022
HIMAWARI
2022
Chika Goto

Mask Matches
2000Blue Adonis lost the mask at an event against Crazy Sexy Mike.

Hair Matches
1991Miss Texas lost the hair at an event against Dirty White Girl and Jeff Jarrett.
2011Cerebro Negro lost the hair at an event against Zumbi.
2012Malefico lost the hair at an event against El Gallo.
2014Disturbio lost the hair at an event against Omar Brunetti.
2023Sam Adonis lost the hair at an event against Psycho Clown.

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