1993 in professional wrestling explained
1993 in professional wrestling describes the year's events in the world of professional wrestling.
List of notable promotions
These promotions held notable events in 1993.
Calendar of notable shows
January
February
April
| Date | Promotion(s) | Event | Location | Main Event |
|---|
| Notes |
| April 2 | AJW | All-Star Dreamslam | Yokohama, Japan | AJW's Manami Toyota and Toshiyo Yamada defeat FMW's Megumi Kudo and Combat Toyoda |
| CMLL | 37. Aniversario de Arena México | Mexico City, Mexico | Dr. Wagner Jr. defeated Pierroth Jr. (c) in a Best two-out-of-three falls match for the CMLL World Light Heavyweight Championship[2] |
| April 2 | NJPW / WAR | WAR vs. NJPW | Tokyo, Japan | Riki Choshu & Shinya Hashimoto defeated Genichiro Tenryu & Takashi Ishikawa |
| April 2 | WWF | WrestleMania IX | Paradise, Nevada, United States | Hulk Hogan defeated Yokozuna (c) (with Mr. Fuji) in a Singles match for the WWF Championship |
| April 11 | AJW | All-Star Dreamslam 2 | Osaka, Japan | JWP's Mayumi Ozaki and Dynamite Kansai defeat AJW's Manami Toyota and Toshiyo Yamada for the WWWA World Tag Team Championship |
| April 11 | WWF | UK Rampage | Sheffield, England, United Kingdom | Lex Luger defeated Jim Duggan by disqualification in a Singles match |
| April 30 | AAA | Triplemanía I | Mexico City, D.F., Mexico | Cien Caras defeated Konnan in a Best two-out-of-three falls retirement match[3] [4] |
| (c) – denotes defending champion(s) | |
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May
June
July
August
September
October
November
| Date | Promotion(s) | Event | Location | Main Event |
|---|
| Notes |
| November 12 | ECW | Terror at Tabor | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States | Tommy Dreamer defeated Johnny Grunge in a Singles match |
| November 13 | ECW | November to Remember | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States | Sabu (c - World Heavyweight) and Road Warrior Hawk defeated Terry Funk (c - World Television) and King Kong Bundy in a Winner Takes All match for the ECW Heavyweight Championship and the ECW Television Championship |
| November 20 | WCW | Battlebowl | Pensacola, Florida, United States | Vader won the 16-man battle royal by lastly eliminating Sting |
| November 24 | WWF | Survivor Series | Boston, Massachusetts, United States | The All-Americans (Lex Luger, The Steiner Brothers (Rick Steiner and Scott Steiner) and The Undertaker) (with Paul Bearer) defeated The Foreign Fanatics (Crush, Quebecer Jacques, Ludvig Borga and Yokozuna) (with Jim Cornette, Johnny Polo and Mr. Fuji) in a 4-on-4 Survivor Series elimination match |
| November 28 | AJW | Wrestling Queendom | Osaka, Japan | AJW's Yumiko Hotta and Takako Inoue defeat LLPW's Shinobu Kandori and Miki Handa |
| (c) – denotes defending champion(s) | |
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December
| Date | Promotion(s) | Event | Location | Main Event |
|---|
| Notes |
| December 6 | AJW | St. Battle Final 1993 | Tokyo, Japan | LLPW's Shinobu Kandori defeats AJW's Akira Hokuto |
| December 8 | FMW | Year End Spectacular | Tokyo, Japan | Atsushi Onita (c) defeated Mitsuhiro Matsunaga in a No Ropes Exploding Barbed Wire Deathmatch for the FMW Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship |
| December 18 | CWA | Euro Catch Festival | Bremen, Germany | Rambo (c) defeated The Barbarian in Round 6 in a Singles match for the CWA World Heavyweight Championship |
| December 26 | FMW | FMW/MPW | Tokyo, Japan | Atsushi Onita, Tarzan Goto and The Great Sasuke vs. Mr. Pogo, Jinsei Shinzaki and Masaru Toi in a Six-man tag team match |
| December 26 | ECW | Holiday Hell | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States | Tommy Dreamer won a battle royal |
| December 27 | WCW | Starrcade | Charlotte, North Carolina, United States | Ric Flair defeated Vader (c) (with Harley Race) in a Title vs. Career match for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship[8] |
| (c) – denotes defending champion(s) | |
|---|
Accomplishments and tournaments
AJW
AJPW
ECW
WCW
| Accomplishment | Winner | Date won | Notes |
|---|
| WCW United States Championship Tournament | Dustin Rhodes | January 11 | |
| WCW World Television Championship Tournament | Paul Orndorff | March 2 | | |
WCW Hall of Fame
See main article: WCW Hall of Fame.
WWF
WWF Hall of Fame
See main article: WWF Hall of Fame.
Awards and honors
Pro Wrestling Illustrated
See main article: List of Pro Wrestling Illustrated awards.
Wrestling Observer Newsletter
See main article: List of Wrestling Observer Newsletter awards.
Notable events
- January 9 - WWF Mania aired its first episode on the USA Network with host Todd Pettengill who's making his WWF TV Debut.
- January 11 - WWF Monday Night Raw premiered on the USA Network, its first episode was from the Manhattan Center in New York City
- February 10 - Bill Watts resigned as Executive Vice President of Wrestling Operations for WCW.
- February 12 – Eric Bischoff becomes Executive Producer of all World Championship Wrestling television and Ole Anderson was announced as new Vice President of Wrestling Operations for WCW.
- February 21 – Ric Flair makes his WCW return and Davey Boy Smith makes his WCW debut at WCW SuperBrawl III in Asheville, North Carolina
- February 22 – Hulk Hogan makes his WWF return live on Monday Night Raw.
- February 25 - Jim Ross resigned from WCW.
- April 2 - All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling holds their All-Star Dreamslam event. The event featured multiple inter-promotional matches between AJW, FMW, Ladies Legend Pro-Wrestling and JWP Joshi Puroresu.
- April 4 – Jim Ross makes his WWF TV debut at WrestleMania IX
- April 6 - ECW Hardcore TV debuts on SportsChannel Philadelphia.
- April 11 - All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling holds their All-Star Dreamslam 2 event. The event featured multiple inter-promotional matches between AJW, FMW, Ladies Legend Pro-Wrestling and JWP Joshi Puroresu and the return of Chigusa Nagayo from retirement.
- April 13 - WCW makes its New York City debut running an live event at the Paramount Theater in New York, NY headlined with Vader defending the WCW World Heavyweight title vs Sting in the main event drawing 3,000.
- July 7 – WCW Worldwide begins taping at Disney/MGM Studios from Orlando, Florida. This taping schedule ran from July 7–10 taping matches and footage for airing starting the weekend of August 28–29, 1993 which included Ric Flair and Rick Rude wearing the NWA World title, Ricky Steamboat and Lord Steven Regal wearing the WCW TV title and an interview with Paul Roma & Arn Anderson wearing the NWA & WCW world tag team titles and The Nasty Boys managed by Missy Hyatt carrying the NWA World Tag Team titles in the ring.
- September 1 – WCW leaves the National Wrestling Alliance
- September 3 - The NWA Convention was held in Las Vegas, NV, also that same day the ECW joined the NWA becoming NWA Eastern Championship Wrestling.
- October 6 - Mean Gene Okerlund made his WCW debut at a WCW Saturday Night taping in Atlanta, GA (air date November 5)
- October 27 - Both Sid Vicious and Arn Anderson was both hospitalized following a hotel room brawl which saw both wrestlers stabbing each other with a pair of Scissors after an argument at a hotel bar on WCW's tour of Europe.
- November 24 – For the first time ever a non - WWF title changed hands at a WWF pay-per-view when The Heavenly Bodies defeating SMW Tag Team Champions The Rock 'n' Roll Express in a title match at the Survivor Series in Boston, Massachusetts.
- November 30 - The Boss returns to WCW on a WCW Saturday Night taping in Atlanta, GA.
- December 4 – Bobby Heenan was given an on-air farewell on WWF Monday Night Raw when Gorilla Monsoon picked him up and threw him and his belongings out of the arena and onto the street.
Title changes
ECW
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| October 16 | J.T. Smith | N/A | Won a battle royal. | |
NJPW
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| Incoming champions – The Hell Raisers |
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| August 5 | The Jurassic Powers
| G1 Climax 1993 | | |
FMW
WCW
WWF
Births
Debuts
Debut date
Uncertain debut date
Retirements
Deaths
- January 27 - André the Giant, French wrestler (b. 1946)
- January 31 - Joe McHugh, WWWF announcer (b. 1904)
- February 18 - Kerry Von Erich, American wrestler (b. 1960)
- March 10 - Dino Bravo, Canadian wrestler (b. 1948)
- March 25 - Wally Karbo, American wrestling promoter (b. 1915)
- April 18 - Masahiko Kimura, Japanese wrestler (b. 1917)
- April 22 - Chief Big Heart, American wrestler (b. 1927)
- May 25 - D.J. Peterson, American wrestler (b. 1959)
- June 7 - Don Kent, American wrestler (b. 1933)
- July 19 - Bruno Elrington, British wrestler (b. 1929)
- October 13 - Espectro, Mexican luchador (b. 1934)
- October 26 - Oro, Mexican luchador (b. 1971)
- November 1 - Pinkie George (b. 1905)
- November 13 - Rufus R. Jones, American wrestler (b. 1933)
- December 8 - Frank Hickey, American wrestler (b. 1915)
- December 13 - Larry Cameron, American wrestler (b. 1952)
See also
Notes and References
- Web site: Pro Wrestling History. Royal Rumble Event Results. November 3, 2008.
- News: Lucha 2000 Staff . Arena México: 50 anos de Lucha Libre . Lucha 2000 . Especial 28 . April 2006 . es.
- Web site: Asistencia Asesoría y Administración TripleManía . February 9, 2010 . ProWrestlingHistory.com.
- Web site: Triplemanía I: Konnan y Cien Caras, por todo . July 11, 2015 . . es . https://web.archive.org/web/20150715223633/http://www.luchalibreaaa.com/eventos-magnos/triplemania/item/86-tripleman%C3%ADa-i-konnan-y-cien-caras-por-todo.html . 2015-07-15 . dead .
- Book: Cawthon, Graham. the History of Professional Wrestling Vol 4: World Championship Wrestling 1989-1994. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. 2014. 1499656343.
- Web site: 60th Anniversary Show . October 1, 1993 . February 19, 2010 . ProWrestlingHistory.
- Book: Loverro, Thom. The Rise & Fall of ECW: Extreme Championship Wrestling. 22 May 2007. Simon and Schuster. 978-1-4165-6156-9. 43–44.
- Web site: Going Old School: Starrcade '93. Adamson. Matt. 2008-03-30. 411mania. 2008-06-01.
- Web site: Noam Dar. Internet Wrestling Database.
- Web site: Crazy Mary Dobson: Profile & Match Listing. profightdb.com.
- Web site: Turned 23 years old today! Biggest week of my career. Glasgow - London for @WhatCulturePW tonight and then @RevProUK #GlobalWars thurs & fri.
