Welcome to eWrestlingNews.com’s newest series. In this series, eWN intends to take a look back at the exciting matches, moments, and landmark events to take place on this date in history. In this edition, we remember the moments to take place on April 6th in professional wrestling history.
Wrestling Birthdays:
- 1909: Johnny Doyle (Unknown Location)
- 1915: Boris Kalmikoff (Ontario, Canada)
- 1929: Huroki Sito (Unknown Location)
- 1930: Pampero Firpo (Buenos Aires)
- 1934: Anton Geesink (Unknown Location)
- 1937: Peter Maivia (Unknown Location)
- 1971: Tony Jones (San Francisco, CA, United States)
- 1974: Flash Flanagan (Indianapolis, IN, United States)
- 1980: Shane Marx (Unknown Location)
- 1985: Brute Barreto (Los Angeles, CA, United States)
- 1989: Arisa Nakajima (Chichibu, Saitama, Japan)
- 1990: Hektor Invictus (Nuremberg, Bayern, Germany)
- 1994: Maligna (Unknown Location)
- 1996: Danny Santiago (Unknown Location)
- 1998: Nolan Edward (United States)
- 2000: SB Kento (Nagoya, Aichi, Japan)
Wrestling Deaths:
- February 2, 1942 – April 6, 2021: Jack Veneno (Cause of Death: Unknown)
- ?? – April 6, 2004: Stephen DeLeon (Cause of Death: Unknown)
Notable Events:
1993: WWF Superstars of Wrestling tapings occurred live at the Tuscan Convention Center in Tuscan, Arizona. These tapings featured the WWF Superstars of Wrestling commentary debut of Jim Ross. Ross replaced Gorilla Monsoon.
1997: WCW Spring Stampede ’97 emanated live from the Tupelo Coliseum in Tupelo, Mississippi. With a reported attendance of 8,356 individuals. This event featured matches such as Akira Hokuto (c.) vs. Madusa for the WCW Women’s Championship; Kevin Nash defending the WCW Tag Team Championships against Rick Steiner in a singles match; a Four Corners Match to determine the #1 contender for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship which saw Lex Luger defeat The Giant, Booker T, and Stevie Ray; and a main event featuring Diamond Dallas Page defeating Randy Savage in a No Disqualification match. The event also features the infamous promo where Booker T utilized the n-word against Hulk Hogan, and is notable for Scott Hall no-showing the event.
2014: NJPW Invasion Attack 2014 emanated live from the New Sumo Hall in Tokyo, Japan. This event had a reported attendance of 8,500 individuals. This 9-match card featured five championships defended, including the NWA World Tag Team Championships, as Tencozy (Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima) knocked off The IronGodz (Jax Dane & Rob Conway) to become the new champions. The card also featured an IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship match as The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson & Nick Jackson) defended the championships against Shinsei Tag (El Desperado & Kota Ibushi). Most notably, this event featured a main event IWGP Intercontinental Championship match where Shinsuke Nakamura defeated Hiroshi Tanahashi to win the IWGP Intercontinental Championship in 26:49. The day after this event, NJPW would announce Prince Devitt’s exit from the company.
2014: WWE WrestleMania XXX emanated live from the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana. A grand total of 75,167 individuals paid witness to legendary match-ups such as John Cena vs. Bray Wyatt, Brock Lesnar defeating The Undertaker to end The Undertaker’s legendary WrestleMania streak, and the crowning of Daniel Bryan as WWE World Heavyweight Champion after defeating Triple H in the opening contest, as well as Batista and Randy Orton in the main event.
2019: ROH/NJPW G1 Supercard emanated live from Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York with a 16,534 attendance. This 11 match card had many fantastic matches. At this event, Jeff Cobb defeated Will Ospreay to retain the ROH World Television Championship and gain the NEVER Openweight Championship. Kelly Klein defeated the Women of Honor World Champion Mayu Iwatani to gain the title. The IWGP Intercontinental Championship was on the line as Kota Ibushi defeated Tetsuya Naito to win the championship. A three-way ladder match for the ROH World Championship semi-main-evented the night, with Matt Taven knocking off champion Jay Lethal and secondary challenger Marty Scurll to win the championship. Finally, in a 30+ minute main event, Kazuchika Okada defeated Jay White to win the IWGP Heavyweight Championship. The event was heavily praised for the NJPW competition, and often criticized for the ROH portions of the event.
2022: AEW Dynamite emanated live from the Agganis Arena in Boston, Massachusetts with an attendance of 5,600. This night featured the long-awaited match where the ROH World Tag Team Championships and AAA World Tag Team Championships were on the line, as FTR (Cash Wheeler & Dax Harwood) defeated The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson & Nick Jackson) to retain the championships in a 20+ minute match.
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