1969 in professional wrestling explained

1969 in professional wrestling describes the year's events in the world of professional wrestling.

List of notable promotions

Only one promotion held notable shows in 1969.

Calendar of notable shows

width=5%	Date	width=5%	Promotion(s)	Event	Location	Main Event
Notes
April	EMLL	13. Aniversario de Arena México	Mexico City, Mexico
August 15		EMLL 36th Anniversary Show		El Solitario defeated Rayo de Jalisco (c) in a best two-out-of-three falls match for the NWA World Middleweight Championship^[1]
(c) – denotes defending champion(s)

Championship changes

EMLL

width=14%	Date	width=26%	Winner	width=14%	Event/Show	width=40%	Note(s)
December 19	Coloso Colosetti	EMLL show

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April 18	Rayo de Jalisco	EMLL show
August 15	El Solitario	EMLL 36th Anniversary Show

No title changes

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March 30	Goliath	EMLL show

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November 20	René Guajardo	EMLL show

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September 20	Rodolfo Ruiz	EMLL show

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April 11	Raul Mata	EMLL show

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June 14	Huracán Ramírez	EMLL show
September 9	Karloff Lagarde	EMLL show

No title changes

No title changes

NWA

width=14%	Date	width=26%	Winner	width=14%	Event/Show	width=40%	Note(s)
February 11	Dory Funk Jr.	NWA show	^[2]

Debuts

Debut Date

Date Unknown

Births

• • • January 2 Jimmy Cicero January 4 Reno January 7 Black Warrior (died in 2023)
  • January 12 R. D. Reynolds January 13 John Kronus (died in 2007)
• January 18 Dave Bautista
• January 24 Pentagón Black^[3]
  • January 30 Takaku Fuke February 5 Doug Gilbert
• February 9 Kaoru
• February 16 Gangrel^[4]
• February 20:
  • Esther Moreno
  • Gedo^[4]
• March 13 Masakatsu Funaki^[3]
• March 13 Kazuo Takahashi
• March 14 Beulah McGillicutty
• March 15 Piratita Morgan^[3] (died in 2018)
• April 3 Lance Storm^[3]
• April 7 Droz(died in 2023)
• April 11 Dustin Rhodes
• April 18 Pimpinela Escarlata^[3]
  • • April 22 Kyoko Inoue April 24 Hermie Sadler May 8 Akebono Tarō^[5] (died in 2024)
• May 20 Road Dogg^[6]
• May 28 Etsuko Mita
• May 30 Lexie Fyfe
  • • June 5 Ric Savage June 9 Chip Minton June 10 Morphosis^[3]
• June 12 Héctor Garza^[4] (died in 2013)
• June 13 Headbanger Thrasher^[6]
• June 16:
  • Masao Orihara^[3]
  • Yuji Yasuraoka^[6]
  • June 23 Svetlana Goundarenko June 24 Mad Man Pondo^[3]
• June 27 Mije^[3]
• July 7 The Great Sasuke^[4]
  • July 14 Kazushi Sakuraba July 20 Mike Sanders^[3]
• July 27 Triple H^[6]
• July 28 Brian Johnston^[5]
• July 29 Mike Segura^[3]
• July 31 Kid Kash^[4]
• August 17 Dick Togo^[5]
  • August 21 Nathan Jones August 26 Angel Orsini
• September 2 Joe E. Legend^[4]
• September 3 Marianna Komlos^[3] (died in 2004) http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/information/obituaries/
• September 17 Paul Varelans (died in 2021)
• September 20 Megumi Kudo^[3]
• September 24 Chilly Willy
• September 30 Chris Von Erich^[5] (died in 1991)
• October 7 Malia Hosaka^[3]
• October 9 Jun Akiyama^[4]
• October 16 Takao Omori^[6]
• October 19 Hido^[5] (died in 2021)
• October 22 Cutie Suzuki^[5]
• October 26 Kurrgan^[4]
• October 30 Alex Porteau^[5]
• November 7 Takako Inoue^[6]
• November 18 Koichiro Kimura (died in 2014)
  • November 30 Conan Stevens December 4 Dynamite Kansai^[5]
• December 13 Emory Hale (died in 2006)
  • December 17 Kiyoshi Tamura December 21 Mauro Ranallo^[3]
• December 24 Brad Anderson^[5]
• December 26 Tom Howard^[6]
• December 27 Chyna^[7] (died in 2016)
• December 30 Nobukazu Hirai^[3]

Deaths

• January 9 Ed McLemore^[8] 63
• January 13 Jim Hady, 38
• January 25 Frank Scarpa^[8] 53
• April 29 John Foti 41
• July 2 Iron Mike DiBiase,^[8] 45
• August 24 Fred Kohler,^[8] 66
• August 31 Rocky Marciano, 45
• November 3 Tonina Jackson, 52

Notes and References

1. Web site: CMLL: 79 historias, 79 Aniversario, las 79 luchas estelares. Alex. Ruiz Glez. September 7, 2010. February 2, 2020 . Súper Luchas. Spanish . CMLL: 79 stories, 79 anniversaries, the 70 main events.
2. Book: Royal . Duncan . Gary . Will . Wrestling title histories: professional wrestling champions around the world from the 19th century to the present . 2000 . Archeus Communications . Waterloo, ON . 0-9698161-5-4 . "United States: 19th century & widely defended titles – NWA, WWF, AWA, IWA, ECW, NWA: NWA World Heavyweight Title" . 15.
3. Web site: Wrestlers born in 1969: 101 - 150 of 186 . February 1, 2020 . Wrestling Data.
4. Web site: Wrestlers born in 1969: 51 - 100 of 186 . February 1, 2020 . Wrestling Data.
5. Web site: Wrestlers born in 1969: 1 - 50 of 186 . February 1, 2020 . Wrestling Data.
6. Web site: Wrestlers born in 1969: 151 - 186 of 186 . February 1, 2020 . Wrestling Data.
7. Web site: Chan. Sewell. Chyna, Pro Wrestler Turned Reality TV Star, Is Dead at 46. The New York Times. April 21, 2016. April 20, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170104051121/http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/22/arts/television/chyna-wrestler-dead.html. January 4, 2017. live.
8. Web site: Wrestlers deceased in 1969: 1 - 33 of 33 . February 1, 2020 . Wrestling Data.