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What happened on April 8th in Wrestling History?

Title changes (Selection of important championships)
1944	Mexican National Middleweight Title: Championship vacant
1965	WWWF United States Tag Team Titles: Won by Bill Watts & Gorilla Monsoon
1979	Mexican National Light Heavyweight Title: Won by Astro Rey
1979	Mexican National Lightweight Title: Won by Rodolfo Ruíz
1995	ECW Tag Team Titles: Won by Johnny Grunge & Rocco Rock
1995	ECW World Television Title: Won by Eddie Guerrero
2000	ECW World Television Title: Won by Yoshihiro Tajiri
2002	GHC Junior Heavyweight Title: Championship vacant
2012	NWA World Heavyweight Title: Won by Colt Cabana
2013	WWE Intercontinental Title: Won by Wade Barrett
2013	WWE World Heavyweight Title: Won by Dolph Ziggler
2016	CMLL World Light Heavyweight Title: Won by La Máscara
2018	WWE RAW Tag Team Titles: Won by Braun Stowman & Nicholas
2018	WWE SmackDown Tag Team Titles: Won by Harper & Rowan
2018	WWE Intercontinental Title: Won by Seth Rollins
2018	WWE RAW Women’s Title: Won by Nia Jax
2018	WWE United States Title: Won by Jinder Mahal
2018	WWE Cruiserweight Title: Won by Cedric Alexander
2020	IW X-Division Title: Won by Willie Mack
2021	NXT Title: Won by Karrion Kross
2021	NXT Cruiserweight Title: Won by Santos Escobar
2021	NXT Interim Cruiserweight Title: Championship defunct
2022	NXT Tag Team Titles: Championship vacant
2023	IWGP Tag Team Titles: Won by Kyle Fletcher & Mark Davis
2023	IWGP World Heavyweight Title: Won by SANADA
All in all, there are 267 title changes in our championships database which happened on a April 8th.

Tournament Finals
1996	Pancrase Ranking Tournament
2003	NOAH One Night Junior 6 Man Tag Team Tournament
2006	ECWA Super 8 Tournament 2006
2006	ICW Final Four Cup
2007	XCW Battle Box 8
2011	CMLL La Gran Alternativa 2011
2011	NJPW Road to the Super Junior Tournament 2011
2012	New Japan Cup 2012
2012	JWP Tag League The Best 2012
2016	RISE Title Tournament
2017	HOPE Kings of Flight 2017
2017	ROH Top Prospect Tournament 2017
2017	WOW Women's Title Tournament
2017	Smoky Mountain Cup 2017
2017	BJW Ikkitousen Death Match Survivor 2017
2017	IPW Heritage Title Tournament
2018	WWE Cruiserweight Title Tournament

Pay-Per-Views (or similar)
2005	Dragon Gate Glorious Gate - Day 3
2007	PRIDE 34: Kamikaze
2011	TRP The Anniversary
2012	NJPW 40th Anniversary Tour New Japan Cup 2012 - Day 5
2017	UFC 210: Cormier vs. Johnson 2
2017	CZW Decisions
2018	WWE WrestleMania 34
2023	NJPW Sakura Genesis 2023

Free TV Shows
1961	CWF Championship Wrestling from Florida
1967	GCW Live Atlanta Wrestling
1967	Live Pittsburgh Studio Wrestling
1967	GCW Live Wrestling from Columbus
1972	GCW Live Wrestling from Columbus
1989	WCW World Championship Wrestling
1990	WWF Wrestling Challenge
1995	WCW Saturday Night
1995	SMW TV-Show #167
1995	WWF Superstars
1996	WWF Monday Night RAW #153 (Rating: 4.70)
2000	XPW TV #1
2000	NWA Wildside TV Show #30
2000	Toryumon Japan Vamonos Amigos #1
2000	WCW Worldwide
2001	GAEA Limit Break 2001 - Day 1
2002	WWF RAW #463 (Rating: 4.80)
2004	WWE SmackDown #242 (Rating: 3.00)
2004	FA This is Fuyuki Army
2005	ZERO1 on Samurai TV
2005	TNAW iMPACT! #45 (Rating: 0.19)
2006	Dragon Gate Infinity #40
2006	TNAW iMPACT! #93 (Rating: 1.00)
2006	OVW TV Show
2007	SGPW War Tournament - Day 2
2008	LDN Capital TV #81
2008	BJW Death Match Wars #167
2008	WWE ECW on Sci Fi #96 (Rating: 1.30)
2010	Bellator XIII
2010	WWE Superstars #52 (Rating: 0.77)
2011	MFC 29: Conquer
2011	WWE SmackDown #607 (Rating: 2.10)
2012	K-DOJO Club-K Super Evolution10 ~ KAIENTAI DOJO 10th Anniversary
2012	FCW TV Show #184
2012	RKK TV Show #22
2013	WWE RAW #1037 (Rating: 3.45/4610000)
2015	Lucha Underground TV Show #22 - Mask vs. Mask
2016	SGPW @ Tokyo
2017	Bellator 176: Carvalho vs. Manhoef 2
2017	BJW Ikkitousen Death Match Survivor 2017 - Day 13
2017	ROH on SBG #290
2019	WWE RAW #1350 (Rating: 2924000)
2020	AEW Dynamite #27 (Rating: 692000)
2020	WWE NXT #529 (Rating: 693000)
2021	IW Before the IMPACT #8
2021	IW IMPACT #873 (Rating: 168000)
2022	WWE Friday Night SmackDown #1181 (Rating: 2230000)
2022	AEW Rampage #35 (Rating: 600000)
2023	AJPW Champion Carnival 2023 - Day 1

The ten oldest shows in our database
1900	Show @ East St. Louis
1901	Show @ St. Louis
1901	Show @ Wien
1902	Show @ London
1903	Show @ Perth
1904	Show @ Brighton and Hove
1905	Show @ København
1905	Show @ Layton
1906	Show @ Praha
1906	Show @ Praha
All in all, there are 267 shows in our events database which happened on a April 8th.

Birthdays
1879	Jimmy Potts
1923	Texas Tiger Romo
1929	Sammy Berg
1929	Lana Lamar
1932	Dino Galento
1944	Takeshi Oiso
1966	Bobby Ologun
1970	Junji Ikoma
1970	Silver Cat
1973	Keiko Aono
1974	Jong Wang Kim
1976	Ryuji Ito
1976	Kestutis Smirnovas
1977	Ken Oka
1978	Isaac Vallie-Flagg
1983	Ovince St. Preux
1985	Zachary Shane
1986	Danny Downes
1986	Andrew Quildan
1987	Rocky Lee
1987	Dow Jones
1988	Guerrero Espartaco
1988	TJ Marconi
1988	Andrew Sánchez
1989	Milana Dudieva
1989	Manny Lozoya
1992	Taylor Lapilus
1993	Aleja
1997	T.N.Revolución
???	Taryn Shay
???	Steve Somerset

Deaths
1941	Hjalmar Lundin
1953	Paul Lortie
1978	Tom Dennebaum
1996	Wally Thompson
2014	Ultimate Warrior
2017	Fishman
2017	Joaquín Roldan
2021	John Da Silva
2021	Full Contact
2023	Joe Black

Debuts
1974	Antonio Peña
1988	Koki Kitahara
1995	JD Thunder
1995	Shannon Moore
1995	Beulah McGillicutty
1996	Luna Mágica
2001	Teruko Kagawa
2001	Takeshi Yamazaki
2001	Akitoshi Tamura
2006	Masami Morohashi
2006	Isaiah Hill
2006	Nate Loughran
2006	Chuck O'Neil
2007	Kohei Tokeshi
2011	Anthony Facchini
2011	Tom English
2012	Ayumu Honda
2012	SAGAT
2017	Colt Killbane
2017	Adam Bravo
2018	Momo Tani
2018	Mii

Mask Matches
1938	Black Secret lost the mask at an event against Red Devil.
1984	Assassin #2 lost the mask at an event against Jimmy Valiant.
2012	El Mercurio Jr. lost the mask at an event against Reggae Boy.

Hair Matches
1995	Ian Rotten lost the hair at an event against Axl Rotten.
2012	Hades lost the hair at an event against Histeria.

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