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Title changes (Selection of important championships)
1960	NWA United States Tag Team Titles (Capitol-Version): Won by Lou Bastien & Red Bastien
1979	NWA World Tag Team Titles (Mid-Atlantic-Version): Won by Blackjack Mulligan & Ric Flair
1981	NWA United States Heavyweight Title (Mid-Atlantic-Version): Won by Wahoo McDaniel
1989	Mexican National Women's Title: Won by La Marquesa
1993	ECW Tag Team Titles: Won by The Dark Patriot & Eddie Gilbert
1993	ECW Heavyweight Title: Won by Tito Santana
1998	IWGP Heavyweight Title: Won by Masahiro Chono
1998	WCW Cruiserweight Title: Won by Juventud Guerrera
1998	IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Titles: Won by Shinjiro Otani & Tatsuhito Takaiwa
2003	Mexican National Atomicos Titles: Won by Alan & Billy Boy & Decnis & Óscar Sevilla
2014	CMLL/REINA International Junior Title: Won by Maki Narumiya
All in all, there are 181 title changes in our championships database which happened on a August 8th.

Tournament Finals
1993	ECW Tag Team Titles Tournament
1993	WWC Universal Heavyweight Title Tournament
2003	CMLL Leyenda de Azul 2003
2004	OZ Academy Iron Woman Singles Tournament
2004	OZ Academy Iron Woman Tag Tournament
2008	GCW-NS Heavyweight Title Tournament
2008	AAA Alas de Oro 2008
2009	IwW 2nd Dan O'Mahoney Memorial Tournament
2009	Pancrase Neo-Blood Lightweight Tournament 2009
2009	Pancrase Neo-Blood Featherweight Tournament 2009
2009	Pancrase Neo-Blood Flyweight Tournament 2009
2009	ZERO1 Fire Festival 2009
2009	Pancrase Neo-Blood Bantamweight Tournament 2009
2010	Pancrase Neo-Blood Lightweight Tournament 2010
2010	Pancrase Neo-Blood Featherweight Tournament 2010
2010	Pancrase Neo-Blood Bantamweight Tournament 2010
2010	Pancrase Neo-Blood Flyweight Tournament 2010
2010	AJPW Junior Heavyweight League 2010
2012	IPW:UK Selsey Cup 2012
2015	EWE/SCI Scenic City Invitational 2015
2015	MCW Intercommonwealth Title Tournament
2015	TJP Tokyo Princess Cup 2015
2018	ACW Proving Ground Tournament 12 2018
2019	wXw Ambition 11
2019	Fist'd Four Tournament 2019
2020	BELIEVE Florida J-Cup 2020

Pay-Per-Views (or similar)
1956	Show @ Montreal
1960	Show @ Washington, D.C.
1993	NJPW G1 Climax - Day 7
1998	WCW Road Wild 1998 (Buyrate: 1.30)
1998	NJPW Rising the Next Generations in Osaka Dome
2004	NJPW G1 Climax - Day 2
2006	Hustle House Vol. 18 - Summer Vacation Special Hustle Legend
2009	UFC 101: Declaration (Buyrate: 850000)
2010	TNAW HardCORE Justice 2010 (Buyrate: 20000)
2014	Rockstar Pro We Are Rockstar 2014
2014	EVOLVE 31: Hero vs. Galloway
2015	CZW Retribution

Free TV Shows
1959	Columbus TV
1963	WWWF TV-Taping @ Washington, D.C.
1964	GCW Live Wrestling from Columbus
1970	GCW Live Wrestling from Columbus
1970	GCW Live Atlanta Wrestling
1988	NJPW Super Monday Night in Yokohama
1989	NJPW Battle Satellite Series Part II - Day 9
1992	WCW Worldwide
1992	WCW Saturday Night
1992	SMW TV-Show #28
1993	WWF Wrestling Challenge
1993	WWF All American Wrestling
1994	WWF Monday Night RAW #74
1995	ECW Hardcore TV #120
1998	WWF Shotgun Saturday Night #84
1999	WWF SuNDAY NiGHT HeAT #54
1999	ECW Hardcore TV #328
2002	ZERO-ONE on Samurai! TV
2002	WWE SmackDown #155 (Rating: 2.70)
2004	ZERO-ONE on Samurai! TV
2004	WWE Sunday Night Heat (Rating: 0.90)
2004	OZ Academy @ Yokohama
2005	WWE RAW #637 (Rating: 3.70)
2006	WWE ECW on Sci Fi #9 (Rating: 2.20)
2006	BJW Death Match Wars #87
2007	RQW TV #36
2007	Apache Pro on Samurai TV
2008	WWE SmackDown #468 (Rating: 2.00)
2008	Dragon Gate Infinity #96
2009	ROH on HDNet #20
2009	NWA Anarchy TV Show #185
2010	WWE Vintage Collection #114
2010	FCW TV Show #97
2011	WWE RAW #950 (Rating: 3.09)
2012	WWE NXT #129
2012	TNAW Xplosion #411
2012	NJPW 40th Anniversary Tour G1 Climax 22 - The One & Only - Day 6
2013	TNAW IMPACT WRESTLING #474 (Rating: 0.96/1179000)
2013	NJPW G1 Climax 23 - Day 7
2014	WWE SmackDown #781 (Rating: 1.89/2642000)
2014	NJPW G1 Climax 24 - Day 11
2015	UFC Fight Night: Teixeira vs. Saint Preux
2015	ROH on SBG #203 (Rating: 148000)
2015	PPW Paragon Pro TV #6
2015	OVW TV Show #833
2016	WWE RAW #1211 (Rating: 2.05/2911000)
2016	DDT Beer Garden Fight 2016 ~ DDT Day
2017	WWE SmackDown Live #938 (Rating: 2584000)
2017	Dragon Gate Scandal Gate 2017 ~ 5 Unit Survival Race - Day 4
2019	PFL 6: 2019 Regular Season
2020	SPWNZ Southern Rumble 2020 - Tag 2
2020	ROH on SBG #464 - Best of Shane Taylor
2022	WWE RAW #1524 (Rating: 1956000)
2023	WWE NXT #649 (Rating: 776000)

The ten oldest shows in our database
1892	Show @ Budapest
1897	Show @ Basel
1901	Show @ Atlantic City
1904	Show @ Düsseldorf
1906	Show @ St. Petersburg - Day 33
1907	Show @ Wien
1908	Scottish Field Day
1909	Show @ Bromberg
1909	Show @ Berlin
1910	Show @ Rochester
All in all, there are 181 shows in our events database which happened on a August 8th.

Birthdays
1873	Jim Parr
1905	Al Pereira
1907	Pat O'Shocker
1908	Lloyd Burdick
1912	Jack Dale
1915	Tom Zaharias
1925	Larry Wright
1926	Clink McGeary
1927	George Hubert
1928	Charley Garza
1928	Lord Alfred Hayes
1929	Frank Fuller
1931	Porfirio Longoria
1942	Tony Condello
1956	Taras Bulba
1967	Sable
1967	Eric Angle
1968	Azhor
1970	Miwa Sato
1972	Último Dragoncito
1972	Black Cougar Jr.
1974	Mike Budnik
1974	Scott D'Amore
1975	Iceman
1980	Benny Madrid
1980	Shayna Baszler
1981	Katsunori Tsuda
1981	La Plaga
1982	Chapulín Negro
1982	Doug Frey
1982	Johnny Dynamo
1983	Rampage Brown
1983	Akiyo Nishiura
1984	Alberto Emiliano Pereira
1985	Guerrero Maya Jr.
1986	La Pantera
1986	Danny Mitchell
1986	Gary Cassidy
1986	Damir Hadzovic
1987	Joe Gacy
1988	Garrett Gross
1988	Mairbek Taisumov
1988	Veer
1988	Damon Jackson
1989	Armando Villareal
1989	Luiz Rocha
1990	Rip Fowler
1992	Shoya Sato
1992	Guerrero Nazi
1993	Goskart
1995	Brad O'Brien
1996	X-Peria
2001	Joey Light
???	Johnny Z
???	Marion McGee
???	Zakk Sinizter
???	Troy Buchanan
???	JADE
???	Rage Logan
???	JD Amazing
???	Marc Verow
???	Scott Wright
???	Bob Murdoch

Deaths
1949	Ivan Poddubny
1959	Harald Christensen
1966	Ed Lewis
1972	Ken Fenelon
1975	Rudi Saturski
1979	Bulldog Jackson
1987	Louie Miller
1990	Milo Oechi
1995	Roman Waniek
2003	Giant Ochiai
2011	Serge Saumon
2021	Bob Adessky
2022	Mike Masters

Debuts
1934	Jerry Adam
1957	Adrian Street
1974	Riki Choshu
1975	Gran Apache
1980	Chigusa Nagayo
1986	Megumi Kudo
1986	KAORU
1996	HC Loc
1998	Jay Leno
2002	Hip Hop Man
2004	Nick Jackson
2004	Araña Jr.
2004	Matt Jackson
2006	Jelena
2009	Kamil Manuszewski
2009	Klarys
2009	Jack Gamble
2009	Miss Daisy
2009	Mike Wilkinson
2009	Michael Chandler
2010	Mercedes Moné
2010	Soo Chul Kim
2015	Giganto
2015	D. J. Abram
2015	Steven Cruze
2015	Brother Zay
2015	Urn Stokes
2016	Spike Trivet
2018	Kingsley
2018	Kohaku
2020	Billy Tipton
2021	Kenichi

Mask Matches
1938	Yellow Dragon lost the mask at an event against Whitey Wahlberg.
1958	The Skull lost the mask at an event against Ray Gunkel.
1970	Dr. X lost the mask at an event against Blackjack Lanza.
2008	El Profeta Jr. lost the mask at an event against Jaguar de Oro.
2010	Black Metal lost the mask at an event against Príncipe Guerrero #1.

Hair Matches
1993	El Scorpio lost the hair at an event against El Texano.
2002	Brazo de Oro lost the hair at an event against Villano III.
2015	Rik Luxury lost the hair at an event against Billy Blade.
2015	Roman Zachary lost the hair at an event against Kevin Knight.

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