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Wrestling History: What happened on May 17th?	2023/05/17 6:00	2023/05/17 0:00
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What happened on May 17th in Wrestling History?

Title changes (Selection of important championships)
1958	Mexican National Lightweight Title: Won by Juanito Díaz
1963	WWWF World Heavyweight Title: Won by Bruno Sammartino
1990	All Asia Tag Team Titles: Championship vacant
1992	NWA/WCW United States Tag Team Titles: Won by Jimmy Garvin & Michael Hayes
1993	WWF Intercontinental Title: Won by Marty Jannetty
1998	WCW Cruiserweight Title: Won by Dean Malenko
1998	WCW World Tag Team Titles: Won by The Giant & Sting
2007	TNAW World Heavyweight Title: Championship vacant
2010	WWE United States Title: Won by Bret Hart
2014	ROH World Tag Team Titles: Won by Bobby Fish & Kyle O'Reilly
2014	GAORA Television Title: Won by Kotaro Suzuki
2015	REINA/CMLL International Title: Won by Maki Narumiya
2021	WWE 24/7 Title: Won by Akira Tozawa
2023	Mexican National Middleweight Title: Championship vacant
All in all, there are 222 title changes in our championships database which happened on a May 17th.

Tournament Finals
1996	AAA Torneo de Parejas
2003	Osaka Pro Tag Festival 2003
2003	Jeff Peterson Memorial Cup 2003
2007	IWRG La Copa Higher Power 2007
2008	NBWA Alberta Murray Memorial Tournament 2008
2008	PWAQ Rise of the Warriors 2008
2008	DCW Honor Cup 2008
2008	SWA Battlezone IV
2008	CZW Tournament of Death 7
2008	IWA Extreme Cruiserweight Title Tournament
2009	AWFUL Heavyweight Title Tournament
2009	AWS Women's Title Tournament
2012	IWRG La Copa Higher Power Internacional
2013	APW Lucky 7 Tournament 2013
2014	Impact Player of the Year Tournament 2014
2015	SMASH Gold Tournament
2020	wXw Shotgun Title Tournament

Pay-Per-Views (or similar)
1974	GCW @ Atlanta
1992	WCW WrestleWar 1992: War Games (Buyrate: 0.61)
1996	UFC 9: Motor City Madness (Buyrate: 141000)
1998	WCW Slamboree 1998 (Buyrate: 0.73)
2007	IWRG @ Naucalpan - La Copa Higher Power 2007
2009	WWE Judgment Day 2009 (Buyrate: 228000)
2014	NJPW/ROH War of the Worlds
2015	WWE Payback 2015 (Buyrate: 57000)
2019	FW Battle Royale

Free TV Shows
1958	All Star Wrestling - Live Wrestling from Roanoke
1968	CWF @ Winter Haven
1969	CWF Championship Wrestling from Florida
1969	GCW Live Atlanta Wrestling
1969	GCW Live Wrestling from Columbus
1980	Southeastern Championship Wrestling
1992	NJPW Crush The Super Heavy III - Day 1 ~ Over Heat Night
1993	WWF Monday Night RAW #17
1994	ECW Hardcore TV #57
1996	AJPW Super Power Series 1996 - Day 1
1997	NJPW on TV Asahi
1997	WCW Saturday Night
1997	WWF Shotgun Saturday Night #20
1998	GAEA G-Territory 1998 - Day 1
1999	WCW Monday Nitro #191 (Rating: 3.30)
1999	WWF RAW is WAR #312 (Rating: 6.40)
2000	WCW Thunder #112
2001	WWF SmackDown! #92 (Rating: 4.00)
2003	NWA Wildside TV Show #189
2003	WWE Velocity #52
2004	WWE RAW #573 (Rating: 4.00)
2005	BJW Death Match Wars #31
2005	NOAH Navigation With Breeze - Day 4
2007	DDT Dramatic Fantasia #125
2007	NOAH Northern Navigation - Day 1
2007	TNAW iMPACT! #151 (Rating: 1.04)
2008	NWA Anarchy TV Show #121
2008	OVW TV Show #458
2009	PWO TV #41
2009	FCW TV Show #33
2009	WWE Vintage Collection #50
2010	ROH on HDNet #58
2010	WWE RAW #886 (Rating: 3.44)
2011	TNAW Xplosion #347
2012	The Best of PRIDE Fighting Championship #37
2012	TNAW IMPACT WRESTLING #410 (Rating: 1.08/1476000)
2013	NOAH Northern Navigation 2013 - Day 1
2013	WWE SmackDown #718 (Rating: 1.78/2435000)
2014	KSW 27: Cage Time
2014	NOAH Navigation with Breeze 2014 - Day 1
2014	ROH on SBG #139
2014	OVW TV Show #769
2015	DDT Friendship, Effort, Victory in Nagoya 2015
2015	STARDOM Gold May 2015 - Day 1
2015	OZ Academy Reincarnation #2
2016	TNAW IMPACT WRESTLING #618 (Rating: 311000)
2018	IW IMPACT #722 (Rating: 326000)
2019	IW IMPACT #774
2021	WWE RAW #1460 (Rating: 1.35/1823000)
2022	WWE NXT 2.0 #36 (Rating: 601000)
2023	AEW Dynamite #189 (Rating: 814000)

The ten oldest shows in our database
1876	Show @ Williamsville
1895	Show @ Los Angeles
1902	Show @ Perth
1903	Show @ København
1905	Show @ Budapest
1905	Show @ Hannover
1906	Show @ Hannover
1908	Show @ Graz
1908	Show @ Hannover
1908	Show @ Graz
All in all, there are 222 shows in our events database which happened on a May 17th.

Birthdays
1886	Paul Westergaard-Schmidt
1891	Gus Kallio
1905	Archie Rauta
1906	George Cazana
1909	Jimmy Parker
1911	Bobby Roberts
1929	Bill Vohaska
1932	Billy Red Lyons
1939	Sid Askin
1941	Mike Pappas
1942	Ushinosuke Hayashi
1949	Dave Hebner
1949	Earl Hebner
1949	Clarence Minnenhall
1951	El Conde Negro
1964	Woman
1966	Diamantina
1967	Mika Komatsu
1967	Lori Fullington
1968	Fobia
1970	Matt Lindland
1972	Masakazu Fukuda
1973	Mark Pain
1974	Wage
1975	Cheick Kongo
1975	Alex Wright
1977	David Gardner
1977	Hawaii Allen
1978	Toshizo
1980	Alistair Overeem
1981	Sione Finau
1982	Buck Meredith
1982	Dan Hardy
1982	Levi Avera
1983	Matthew Annis
1983	Paco
1984	Jason Blade
1984	Amien Rios
1985	Emil Sitoci
1985	Richard Hale
1985	Taylor Solomon
1985	Slim J
1987	Cash Wheeler
1988	El Hijo del Enrique Vera
1988	Peligro
1988	Nolan Ticman
1989	Alas de Acero
1989	Zach Daniels
1990	Ángel Extremo
1991	Sera Feeny
1994	Odyssey Jones
1995	Gillian Robertson
1998	An Chamu
2001	Marika Kobashi
2004	Victoria Lee
???	La Gárgola
???	JB Payne
???	Misa Matsui
???	Dan Maestro

Deaths
1941	Jack McGrath
1966	Randolph Turpin
1974	Tom Zaharias
1991	Jack Kiser
2000	Wendell O’Dell
2010	Jim McCrombie
2012	Lumberjack #1
2020	Jack Ostermiller
2021	Mike Starbuck
2021	Don Kernodle
2022	Juventud Rebelde
2023	Billy Graham

Debuts
1993	Ramstein
1996	Steve Nelmark
1996	George Youngblood
1997	Seiya Morohashi
1998	John Alessio
2003	Ronnie Mann
2006	Doug Evans
2008	John Cofer
2008	Sternau
2008	Ilir Latifi
2008	Estrella Fugaz
2008	Carlos Eduardo Rocha
2008	Alexander Treviño
2008	El Castigador
2013	No Way
2015	Fuminori Abe
2017	Lexus Montez
2019	Taylor Rising
2019	Miranda Gordy
2019	The Mountain

Mask Matches
1939	Black Secret lost the mask at an event against Jim Londos.
1955	A-Bomber lost the mask at an event against Dick Raines and Ronnie Etchison.
1955	Diablo #1 lost the mask at an event against Bobby Managoff and Clyde Steeves.
1999	Fobia lost the mask at an event against Súper Astro.

Hair Matches
2009	El Gemelo Fantastico #2 lost the hair at an event against El Gemelo Fantastico #1.
2009	Pierre Abernathy lost the hair at an event against Super Electro.
2017	Tahir James lost the hair at an event against Anthony Bennett.

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