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What happened on May 6th in Wrestling History?

Title changes (Selection of important championships)
1963All Asia Tag Team Titles: Won by Rikidozan & Toyonobori
1982WWF Junior Heavyweight Title: Won by Black Tiger
1984NWA World Heavyweight Title: Won by Kerry Von Erich
2000WWF Hardcore Title: Won by The British Bulldog
2002WWE European Title: Won by William Regal
2002WWE Hardcore Title: Won by Trish Stratus
2002WWE Hardcore Title: Won by Justin Credible
2002WWE Hardcore Title: Won by Bubba Ray Dudley
2002WWE Hardcore Title: Won by Steven Richards
2002WWE Hardcore Title: Won by Crash Holly
2002WWE Hardcore Title: Won by Raven
2009IWGP Heavyweight Title: Won by Manabu Nakanishi
2015AJPW World Tag Team Titles: Won by Go Shiozaki & Kento Miyahara
All in all, there are 260 title changes in our championships database which happened on a May 6th.

Tournament Finals
1966
NWA Southern Tag Team Titles (Georgia-Version) Tournament
2000
APW Tag Team Titles Tournament
2002
BJW Hayabusa Cup 2002
2003
ASW World Mid-Heavyweight Title Tournament
2006
ECPW 16-Man Tournament
2006
UWE Tag Team Titles Tournament
2007
NWPW Heavyweight Title Tournament
2007
wXw 16 Carat Gold Tournament 2007
2007
K-Metal League 2007
2007
Differ Cup 2007
2008
K-Metal League 2008
2008
WWE Champions Chase Tournament 2008
2009
K-Metal League 2009
2009
PZW Heavyweight Title Tournament
2009
NOAH Global Tag League 2009
2011
WW King of the Castle
2012
IWRG Intercontinental Middleweight Title Tournament
2012
Guerra de Empresas VI
2012
K-Metal League 2012
2013
K-Metal League 2013
2015
K-Metal League 2015
2015
Goddesses of STARDOM Titles Tournament
2016
VOW Queen of the Ring 2016
2016
OPW Title Tournament
2017
OPW Survival of the Sickest 2
2017
SWE Speed King 2017
2017
One Shot At Glory Tournament
2017
PWM Donald Casamento Memorial Cup 3
2018
K-DOJO K-Metal League 2018
2019
PROGRESS Super Strong Style 16 2019

Pay-Per-Views (or similar)
1984
WCCW David Von Erich Memorial Parade of Champions
1989
AJW Wrestlemarinepiad I ~ The Day the Music Died
2000
WWF Insurrextion 2000
2012
Dragon Gate DEAD or ALIVE 2012
2015
TNAW One Night Only: X-Division Xtravaganza 2015
2016
VOW Queen of the Ring 2016
2016
ONE Championship: Ascent to Power
2016
EVOLVE 60
2018
WWE Backlash 2018
2018
Dragon Gate DEAD or ALIVE 2018
2019
Dragon Gate DEAD or ALIVE 2019
2023
WWE Backlash 2023

Free TV Shows
1967
GCW Live Wrestling from Columbus
1967
GCW Live Atlanta Wrestling
1972
GCW Georgia Championship Wrestling
1978
GCW Columbus Championship Wrestling
1981
CWF Championship Wrestling from Florida
1989
WCW The Main Event
1990
WWF Wrestling Challenge
1995
WWF Superstars
1995
WCW Worldwide
1995
WCW Saturday Night
1995
SMW TV-Show #171
1996
WWF Monday Night RAW #157 (Rating: 4.10)
1996
WCW Monday Nitro #34 (Rating: 1.90)
1999
WCW Thunder #62
2000
XPW TV #5
2000
WCW Worldwide
2000
NJPW on TV Asahi
2002
WWE RAW #467 (Rating: 4.60)
2002
NOAH Navigation With Breeze - Day 1
2002
GAEA Junction 2002 - Day 1
2004
WWE SmackDown #246 (Rating: 2.80)
2005
ZERO1 on Samurai TV
2005
TNAW iMPACT! #49 (Rating: 0.18)
2005
Dragon Gate Infinity #18
2006
OVW TV Show
2006
IBUKI #7
2007
SGPW War Tournament - Day 3
2007
NOAH on Nippon TV
2008
WWE ECW on Sci Fi #100 (Rating: 1.08)
2008
LDN Capital TV #85
2008
BJW Death Match Wars #170
2010
WWE Superstars #56 (Rating: 0.28)
2010
Bellator XVII
2011
WWE SmackDown #611 (Rating: 1.73)
2012
WWE Vintage Collection #205
2012
NJPW 40th Anniversary Tour New Japan Live - Day 3
2012
FCW TV Show #188
2013
WWE RAW #1041 (Rating: 2.89/3917000)
2014
ZERO1 Destiny
2015
Lucha Underground TV Show #26 - Best in the Business
2015
AJPW Super Power Series 2015 - Day 1
2016
ZERO1 @ Tokyo
2016
WOW S2 Episode 11 - Rule the Roost
2017
ROH on SBG #294
2018
WRESTLE-1 2018 Tour Triumph - Day 2
2019
WWE RAW #1354 (Rating: 2224000)
2020
WWE NXT #533 (Rating: 663000)
2020
AEW Dynamite #31 (Rating: 732000)
2021
PFL 3: 2021 Regular Season (Rating: 324000)
2021
OVW TV #1134
2021
IW IMPACT #877 (Rating: 123000)
2021
IW Before the IMPACT #12
2022
WWE Friday Night SmackDown #1185 (Rating: 1998000)
2022
PFL 3: 2022 Regular Season
2022
AEW Rampage #39 (Rating: 292000)

The ten oldest shows in our database
1880
Show @ New York City
1890
Show @ Buffalo
1901
Show @ Hannover
1902
Show @ Cleveland
1903
World Championship 1903 Day 6
1905
Show @ Hannover
1905
Show @ Buffalo
1905
Show @ Budapest
1906
Show @ Hannover
1908
Show @ Hannover
All in all, there are 260 shows in our events database which happened on a May 6th.

Birthdays
1901
The Iron Duke
1907
Elmer Needham
1908
Pat O’Dowdy
1912
Vic Christy
1920
Ronnie Etchison
1922
Paul Martin
1925
Osamu Abe
1935
Ted Lewin
1952
El Cobarde #2
1957
Chief Dave Foxx
1964
Brian Knobbs
1966
Naoito Shimitsu
1966
Naoito Shimitsu
1969
King Rocker
1970
Haystacks Ross
1975
Apollo
1977
Shamu Jr.
1978
Kunze
1978
Akihiro Yamazaki
1980
Colt Cabana
1982
Gary Player
1982
Luiz Jorge Dutra Jr.
1983
Jeff King
1984
Brandon Visher
1984
Pinkie Sánchez
1985
Dark Saint
1985
Daniel Edler
1986
Akop Stepanyan
1986
Sam Alvey
1988
Tyler Hylyght
1988
Dakota Kai
1989
Jeremy Myers
1989
Ramey Asuka
1989
Beneil Dariush
1997
Lash Legend
???
Sean Bane
???
Timmy Danger
???
Jay Bly
???
Gabriel o Gabriela

Deaths
1975
Jim Fenwick
1975
King Kong Clayton
1993
Wee Willie Wilson
2000
Stu Allen
2004
Pepper Gómez
2016
Billy Wicks
2020
Supreme
2020
Jamie Jackson

Debuts
1982
Kazuo Yamazaki
2001
Monty Brown
2002
Asako Saioka
2002
Tomomi Sunaba
2002
Masakazu Imanari
2006
Karl Amoussou
2006
Viscardi Andrade
2006
Elina Nilsson
2006
Magno Almeida
2007
Beastman
2007
Halcón Suriano Jr.
2007
Koichiro Matsumoto
2011
Alex Pérez
2012
Anthony Greene
2016
Einar the Strange
2017
Evil Jared
2017
Johannes Luckas

Mask Matches
1940Great Mephisto lost the mask at an event against The Hooded (?).
2005Evil Shark Boy lost the mask at an event against Shark Boy.
2005The Ninja lost the mask at an event against Shark Boy.

Hair Matches
2001Dakota lost the hair at an event against Makabre.
2006El Brazo lost the hair at an event against Ángel Mensajero.
2012El Demonio Azul lost the hair at an event against Demonio Baltazar and El Forastero.
2012X-Boy lost the hair at an event against Demonio Baltazar and El Forastero.
2018Ryo Saito lost the hair at an event against Shingo Takagi.




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