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Wrestling History: What happened on February 23rd?	2023/02/23 6:00	2023/02/23 0:00
Wrestling History: What happened on February 22nd?	2023/02/22 6:00	2023/02/22 0:00
Wrestling History: What happened on February 21st?	2023/02/21 6:00	2023/02/21 0:00
Wrestling History: What happened on February 20th?	2023/02/20 6:00	2023/02/20 0:00
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What happened on February 23rd in Wrestling History?

Title changes (Selection of important championships)
1946	Mexican National Welterweight Title: Championship vacant
1946	NWA World Middleweight Title: Won by Gori Guerrero
1946	Mexican National Middleweight Title: Championship vacant
1980	NWA United National Heavyweight Title: Won by Dick Murdoch
1983	All Asia Tag Team Titles: Won by Ashura Hara & Mighty Inoue
1984	NWA United National Heavyweight Title: Won by Gen'ichiro Tenryu
1986	Mexican National Trios Titles: Won by El Brazo & Brazo de Oro & Brazo de Plata
1991	Mexican National Women's Title: Championship vacant
1997	WCW World Tag Team Titles: Won by The Giant & Lex Luger
1997	WCW Cruiserweight Title: Won by Syxx
2002	AAA Reina de Reinas Title: Won by Esther Moreno
2002	AAA Reina de Reinas Title: Championship vacant
2003	AAA Reina de Reinas Title: Won by Martha Villalobos
2003	AJPW Unified Triple Crown Heavyweight Title: Won by Shin'ya Hashimoto
2003	WWE Cruiserweight Title: Won by Matt Hardy
2003	AAA Reina de Reinas Title: Championship vacant
2004	WWE Women's Title: Won by Victoria
2010	WWE Women's Title: Won by Michelle McCool
2011	AAA Second/Mascota Tag Team Titles: Won by El Pulpito & El Pulpo
2013	AJPW World Junior Heavyweight Title: Won by Yoshinobu Kanemaru
2013	PWR Women’s Title: Won by Cheerleader Melissa
2014	TNAW World Tag Team Titles: Won by Davey Richards & Eddie Edwards
2019	IWGP Tag Team Titles: Won by Tama Tonga & Tanga Loa
2021	TNA World Heavyweight Title: Won by Moose
2022	AJPW World Junior Heavyweight Title: Won by Hikaru Sato
2022	GHC Heavyweight Title: Won by Kazuyuki Fujita
2022	GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Titles: Won by Atsushi Kotoge & YO-HEY
All in all, there are 202 title changes in our championships database which happened on a February 23rd.

Tournament Finals
1992	LPWA Japanese Title Tournament
1996	WAR International Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Titles Tournament
2002	AAA Reina de Reinas 2002
2007	AWA Washington Grapple Cup
2008	FCW Florida Tag Team Titles Tournament
2008	RDW King of the Castle 2008
2013	VPW King of New York 2013
2018	CMLL Torneo Nacional de Parejas Increíbles 2018
2020	ICW Hardcore Death Match Challenge 2
2021	#1-Contenders Tournament (Open the Triangle Gate Titles)
2023	Osaka Pro Tag Festival 2023

Pay-Per-Views (or similar)
1931	Show @ New York City
1984	AJPW Excite Series - Day 12
1992	LPWA Super Ladies Showdown
1997	WCW SuperBrawl VII (Buyrate: 0.74)
2001	UFC 30: Battle on the Boardwalk
2003	AJPW Budokan Show #102 - Excite Series - Day 10
2003	WWE No Way Out 2003 (Buyrate: 0.95/450000)
2005	Dragon Gate Truth Gate - Day 10
2013	PWX Rise of a Champion VIII
2013	UFC 157: Rousey vs. Carmouche (Buyrate: 450000)
2014	DGUSA Way of the Ronin 2014
2014	WWE Elimination Chamber 2014 (Buyrate: 183000)
2017	IWA Mid-South A Tale of two Kings
2018	ONE Championship: Quest for Gold

Free TV Shows
1953	Show @ Eureka
1963	Live Pittsburgh Studio Wrestling
1973	GCW @ Atlanta
1980	GCW Columbus Championship Wrestling
1980	Southeastern Championship Wrestling
1985	JCP Worldwide
1985	WWF All Star Wrestling
1985	WWF Championship Wrestling
1989	AJPW Excite Series 1989 - Day 1
1990	WCW Power Hour
1990	WWF The Main Event III (Rating: 12.80)
1991	AJPW Excite Series 1991 - Day 1
1992	WWF Prime Time Wrestling
1997	GAEA Victory Road
1997	WCW WorldWide
1997	WWF Superstars #540
1998	WCW Monday Nitro #128 (Rating: 4.60)
1998	WWF RAW is WAR #248 (Rating: 3.22)
2000	WCW Thunder #101
2002	NWA Wildside TV Show #125
2002	WWF Jakked/Metal
2003	WWE Sunday Night Heat (International Version)
2004	NEO Monday Night NEO
2004	WWE RAW #561 (Rating: 3.90)
2005	BJW Death Match Wars #20
2005	K-1 World MAX 2005 Japan Tournament
2006	Dragon Gate Infinity #37
2007	WWE SmackDown #394 (Rating: 3.30)
2007	IFL Condors vs. Tiger Sharks
2008	Strikeforce At the Dome
2008	NWA Anarchy TV Show #109
2008	OVW TV Show #446
2009	WWE RAW #822 (Rating: 4.10)
2010	WWE NXT #1 (Rating: 1.35)
2011	The Best of PRIDE #18
2012	The Best of PRIDE Fighting Championship #32
2012	TNAW IMPACT WRESTLING #398 (Rating: 1.19/1580000)
2013	AJPW 2013 Excite Series - Day 10
2013	ROH on SBG #75
2013	WWE Saturday Morning Slam #27
2013	NOAH The Second Navigation 2013 - Day 4
2013	OVW TV Show #705
2013	UFC 157: Rousey vs. Carmouche Prelims (Rating: 1267000)
2014	DDT Into the Fight 2014
2014	AJPW Okinawa Impact 2014 Vol. 1
2015	WWE RAW #1135 (Rating: 2.97/4122000)
2016	TNAW IMPACT WRESTLING #606 - Lockdown 2016 (Rating: 210000)
2017	STARDOM STARDOM of Champions 2017
2019	Bellator 217: Gallagher vs. Graham
2019	MLW Fusion #46
2019	NJPW/ROH Honor Rising: Japan 2019 - Day 2
2019	ROH on SBG #388
2020	AJPW Excite Series 2020 - Day 9
2020	DDT Into the Fight 2020
2021	IW Before the IMPACT #2
2021	AJPW Excite Series 2021 - Day 4
2021	OVW TV #1124
2021	IW IMPACT #864 (Rating: 170000)
2022	STARDOM Cinderella Journey 2022 in Nagaoka
2022	AEW Dynamite #125 (Rating: 1010000)
2022	AJPW Excite Series 2022 - Day 5
2023	IW IMPACT #968 (Rating: 87000)

The ten oldest shows in our database
1880	Show @ New York City
1901	Show @ Berlin
1901	Show @ Chicago
1902	THE Show @ Praha
1905	Show @ Atlanta
1905	Show @ Berlin
1905	Show @ Chemnitz
1906	Show @ Toledo
1907	Show @ New York City
1907	Show @ Warszawa
All in all, there are 202 shows in our events database which happened on a February 23rd.

Birthdays
1907	Dr. Louis Pessolano
1937	Horace Strickland
1942	John Tzinas
1946	El Cid
1947	Bobby Bass
1958	El Enfermero Jr.
1968	Wallid Ismail
1970	Ron Niemi
1972	John Sutton
1972	Tomoko Watanabe
1976	Mohammed Yone
1978	Ruan Potts
1981	Super Dave
1981	Súper Comando
1981	Gina Begley
1982	Damien Stelly
1982	Alavutdin Gadjiev
1983	Mike Estus
1983	DK Murphy
1983	Mr. California
1983	Dan Kobrick
1984	Mike Sydal
1984	Bobby Dempsey
1984	Serpentico
1984	Stryker
1985	Ryu Kamiya
1987	James Wallace
1987	James Vick
1987	American Balloon
1989	Olivier Aubin-Mercier
1990	Amazona
1995	Cormac Hamilton
1997	Kaligua
???	Garrett Graves
???	Michael Snap
???	La Bestia

Deaths
1941	Leonard Hasse
1958	Dean Detton
1980	Conrad Fey
1984	Stanley Pinto
1999	The Renegade
2002	Nick Roberts
2011	Barón Siniestro
2012	Judo Al Marquette
2012	Pierre Bernaert
2013	Bob Clark
2019	Lily Thomas
2021	Art Michalik
2023	Jason Silver

Debuts
1985	Astro de Oro
2002	Trauma #1
2002	Nick Ring
2003	Akihiko Mori
2003	Bobby Sharp
2003	Mammoth Handa
2006	DK Murphy
2007	Steve López
2008	Michael Chase
2008	Pat Curran
2008	Ryan Quinn
2008	Brennan Ward
2008	Taryn Terrell
2008	Tyson Steele
2008	Jacob DeVree
2008	LaPatka
2011	Meari Naito
2011	Neko Nitta
2013	Shaunymo
2013	Alexander Torres
2013	Devyn Nicole
2013	Darren Till
2014	Natalia Denisova
2019	Issei Onizuka
2019	Anthony Ogogo
2019	Mahiro Kiryu

Mask Matches
1940	Black Panther lost the mask at an event against Chris Zaharias.
1961	Mr. X lost the mask at an event against Danny Hodge.
2014	Spawn lost the mask at an event against El Tácua.

Hair Matches
2014	Centinela lost the hair at an event against Hérmes Jr..

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