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What happened on August 31st in Wrestling History?

Title changes (Selection of important championships)
1985NWA International Junior Heavyweight Title: Won by Tiger Mask #2
1997IWGP Heavyweight Title: Won by Kensuke Sasaki
2002Mexican National Light Heavyweight Title: Won by El Dandy
2007WWE Tag Team Titles: Won by Matt Hardy & Montel Vontavious Porter
2008Occidente Light Heavyweight Title: Won by Misterioso #2
2015NWA Historic Middleweight Title: Won by Último Guerrero
2015AAA Latin America Title: Won by Psycho Clown
2019NXT UK Women’s Title: Won by Kay Lee Ray
2019NEVER Openweight Title: Won by KENTA
2019NXT UK Tag Team Titles: Won by Mark Andrews & Morgan Webster
2020WWE 24/7 Title: Won by R-Truth
All in all, there are 170 title changes in our championships database which happened on a August 31st.

Tournament Finals
1993
W*ING Junior League 1993
1996
HOOKnSHOOT 1 Tournament
1998
ARSION ZION Tournament 1998
2002
CZW Tournament of Death 1
2002
PCW Russ Haas Memorial Cup
2003
K-Metal League 2003
2003
OZ Academy Summer Jumbo Tag Tournament 2003
2004
IWA Japan World Heavyweight Title Tournament
2009
TNAW No Surrender Main Event Qualifying Tournament 2009
2012
3XW King of Des Moines 2012
2012
CMLL Universal Tournament 2012
2013
PWG Battle of Los Angeles 2013
2013
BTPW Stormont Fair Title Tournament
2014
PWG Battle of Los Angeles 2014
2018
SHWA Tag Team Twister Tournament
2018
BWR Tag Team Titles Tournament
2019
EWP CATCH nhow SpreeCup 2019
2019
Young Wolves 2 Tournament 2019
2019
H20 King of the No Ring
2019
666 1 Day Tag Team Tournament 2019

Pay-Per-Views (or similar)
1983
AJPW Super Power Series 1983 - Day 11
1985
AJPW Sumo Hall Show #21
1987
AJPW Budokan Show #10
1997
NJPW Final Power Hall In Yokohama
2002
AJPW Budokan Show #99 - Royal Road 30 Giant Battle 3rd
2003
Pancrase 10th Anniversary Show
2003
AAA Verano de Escándalo 2003
2008
AJPW Puroresu Love in Ryogoku Vol. 5
2013
UFC 164: Henderson vs. Pettis (Buyrate: 270000)
2018
AAW Defining Moment 2018
2018
Expo Lucha Main Event
2018
DWW/IW One Night Only: Bad Intentions
2018
GRPW The Price of Gold
2019
AEW All Out 2019 (Buyrate: 88000)
2019
NJPW Royal Quest

Free TV Shows
1957
All Star Wrestling - Live Wrestling from Roanoke
1968
CWF Championship Wrestling from Florida
1968
GCW Live Atlanta Wrestling
1968
GCW Live Wrestling from Columbus
1982
WCCW TV-Taping @ Dallas
1985
WWF All Star Wrestling
1985
WWF Championship Wrestling
1989
NJPW Bloody Fight Series 1989 - Day 5
1990
WCW Power Hour
1990
AJPW Summer Action Series II 1990 - Day 11
1991
WCW Worldwide
1993
ECW Hardcore TV #21
1993
AJPW Summer Action Series II 1993
1996
WCW Saturday Night
1996
WCW The Main Event
1998
WCW Monday Nitro #155 (Rating: 6.00)
2000
Toryumon Japan Vamonos Amigos #5
2000
WWF SmackDown! #54 (Rating: 4.30)
2002
NWA-TNA Saturday Morning
2002
NWA Wildside TV Show #152
2002
WWE Velocity #15 (Rating: 0.90)
2003
WWE Sunday Night Heat
2003
OZ Academy TV Show
2006
TNAW iMPACT! #114 (Rating: 0.80)
2007
K-DOJO TV
2007
LLPW 15th Anniversary Show
2007
WWE SmackDown #419 (Rating: 2.30)
2008
WWE Vintage Collection #13
2009
ROH on HDNet #23
2009
WWE RAW #849 (Rating: 3.64)
2010
WWE NXT #28 (Rating: 1.02)
2011
TNAW Xplosion #362
2012
ONE FC 5: Pride of a Nation
2012
WWE SmackDown #680 (Rating: 1.89/2660000)
2013
Dragon Gate Infinity #306
2013
ROH on SBG #102
2013
Diamond Ring Summer Dream 2013 in Korakuen
2013
OVW TV Show #732
2013
UFC 164: Henderson vs. Pettis Prelims (Rating: 809000)
2014
WRESTLE-1 2014 Tour Flashing Summer - Day 8
2014
BJW Death Mania 2014
2014
DDT Memories of Summer Vacation 2014
2014
Ice Ribbon Wonderland Ice 2014
2015
WWE RAW #1162 (Rating: 2.73/3828000)
2017
GFW IMPACT #685 (Rating: 268000)
2018
MLW Fusion #20
2019
MLW Fusion #73
2019
ROH on SBG #415
2020
FREEDOMS Jun Kasai Produce: Tokyo Death Match Carnival 2020 Vol. 2
2020
WWE RAW #1423 (Rating: 1896000)
2021
WWE NXT #601 (Rating: 717000)
2022
AEW Dynamite #152 (Rating: 1020000)
2023
MLW Fusion #180
2023
IW IMPACT #998

The ten oldest shows in our database
1898
Show @ Budapest
1900
Show @ Hamburg
1904
Show @ Trenton
1905
Show @ Des Moines
1905
Show @ St. Petersburg
1906
Show @ St. Petersburg - Day 56
1907
Show @ Chicago
1907
Show @ Graz
1907
Show @ Hannover
1909
Gold Trophy of Innsbruck 1909 - Day 9
All in all, there are 170 shows in our events database which happened on a August 31st.

Birthdays
1897
Karl Sarpolis
1905
Sayed Nosseir
1907
Mike Demitre
1913
Jack Doyle
1935
Andy Robin
1935
Bearcat Brown
1938
Franz Van Buyten
1940
General Von Kessler
1944
Jos LeDuc
1947
Babe Face
1947
Animal Hamaguchi
1953
Royce Carney
1954
Águila Solitaria
1954
Buster Fowler
1960
Dewey Forte
1972
Fat Frank Iadevaia
1975
El Zangano
1975
SUWA
1977
Wotan
1977
Herbert Goodman
1977
Jeff Hardy
1977
Baby Pérez
1978
Tank Toland
1979
Mickie James
1981
Randy Terrez
1982
King Jeter
1982
Daniel Omielanczuk
1982
Victor Jones
1982
Damien Darling
1983
Yeyo
1983
Virtual X
1984
Jimmy Blade
1985
Tatsuhiko Yoshino
1987
La Hormiga
1987
Pat Curran
1988
Antrax
1988
Athena
1989
Gustav EXE
1989
Nick Primo
1990
Alexis Dufresne
1994
Mark de la Rosa
1994
Black Fury
1997
Gravity
1998
Callum Newman
2000
Jack Griffin
2005
Anakin Rosa
???
Blade Boudreaux
???
Brad Michaels
???
Justin Adams
???
Brittany Brown
???
Aaron Anders
???
Vicious Impact Power

Deaths
1945
Joe Cox
1950
Farmer Bailey
1956
Heze Clark
1968
Billy Raborn
1990
Bert Assirati
1997
Dale Lewis
1997
Danny O’Shocker
2007
Karloff Lagarde
2019
Mike Porter

Debuts
1978
Terry Daniels
1994
SAYA
1997
Danny Daniels
2000
Ciaran Morrison
2001
Tim Kennedy
2001
Pat Brink
2001
Nick Díaz
2002
Greg Loughran
2002
Kurt Pellegrino
2003
Munenori Sawa
2003
Crosley Gracie
2008
Freedom
2012
Mitch Mitchell
2013
Kyohei Wada
2013
Ayame Yabe
2013
David Swanson
2013
Brad Riddell
2014
Hiromasa Koyama
2014
HANA
2017
Ina Hazuki
2018
Amber
2019
Teal Piper

Mask Matches
1939The Skull lost the mask at an event against Red Shadow.
1952Red Scorpion lost the mask at an event against Lou Thesz.
1986El Espanto Jr. lost the mask at an event against El Hijo del Santo.
2014Pantera lost the mask at an event against Mistic.

Hair Matches
1987Don Bass lost the hair at an event against Jerry Lawler.
2003El Brazo lost the hair at an event against Heavy Metal.
2008Texas Ranger #1 lost the hair at an event against Hator.
2008Súper Caló lost the hair at an event against El Intocable.
2008Electroshock lost the hair at an event against Chessman.
2014Brole Extreme lost the hair at an event against Black Fénix.
2014Golden Boy lost the hair at an event against Símbolo Dos Mil.

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