1968

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This is a list of various things that took place in 1968.

Significant events

Unknown date

• The Madison Wrestling Club ceases operations when owner Al Tomko (who is also the Winnipeg promoter for the American Wrestling Association at this point) folds the promotion into the AWA

January

• 29 - The WWWF's final card at the old Madison Square Garden in New York City is held. In the main event, Bruno Sammartino defeated Prof. Toru Tanaka by pinfall. The WWWF (and its predecessors) had been running shows in the venue since 1926.

February

• 19 - The first WWWF card at the new Madison Square Garden is held. Until 1973, cards are not televised live, and with few exceptions, little to no film or video footage from these cards is known to remain in existence. The main event saw Bruno Sammartino successfully defend the WWWF Heavyweight Championship by defeating Bull Ramos by submission with the backbreaker

July

• 5 - Nick Bockwinkel appears as a contestant on the NBC game show "The Hollywood Squares." He is the night's champion, winning a Pontiac Firebird convertible and Hotpoint kitchen appliances, along with $1,300 cash.

October

• The Los Angeles-based Worldwide Wrestling Associates (originally founded as the North American Wrestling Alliance in 1958 after Los Angeles promoters Cal Eaton and Jules Strongbow withdrew from the National Wrestling Alliance) rejoins the NWA and is renamed NWA Hollywood Wrestling

Births

January

• 8 - Bull Nakano
• 9 - Silver King

February

• 14 – Nelson Frazier, Jr. (Memphis, Tennessee, USA)

March

• 7 - Nobutaka Araya

April

• 12 - Rico Casanova
• 24 - El Espantito
• 24 – Yuji Nagata (Togane, Chiba)
• 29 - Coquito Amarillo (II)

May

• 10 – Darren Matthews (Codsall Wood, Staffordshire, England)

June

• 3 - El Gallego
• 7 - Minoru Suzuki

July

• 3 - Sombrita
• 18 - Pequeño Violencia
• 21 - Flecha India

August

• 5 - Kendo Ka Shin
• 8 - Azhor
• 11 - Head Hunter A
• 11 - Head Hunter B
• 16 - Super Boy
• 24 - Funaki

September

• 16 - Pancho Tequila
• 28 - Apolo Dantés
• 28 - Jado
• 29 - Coco Blanco
• 31 - Pegaso III

October

• 28 – Mayumi Ozaki (Japan)

November

• 12 - Disco Inferno
• 29 - El Sanguinario
• 29 - Hayabusa

December

• 4 - Cripta
• 8 – Michael Cole (Amenia, New York, USA)
• 9 – Kurt Angle (Moon Township, Pennsylvania, USA)
• 9 - Virus
• 10 - Mephisto
• 10 - Violencia
• 26 – Dennis Knight (Biggers, Arkansas, USA)

Deaths

January

• 15 - Firpo Segura

May

• 30 - Espanto I

July

• 14 - Apolo Curiel

August

• 11 – The Oklahoma Kid 29 (Heart attack)

Debuts

February

• 24 - Enrique Vera

April

• 14 - Ringo Mendoza

May

• 3 - Scorpio

August

• 30 - Yamato (Toguchi)

Events

Title changes

March

• 10 - Yukiko Tomoe wins the NWA World Women's Championship from The Fabulous Moolah in Osaka, Japan (WWE, which claims this title's history for its original WWE Women's Championship, does not recognize this title change)

April

• 2 - The Fabulous Moolah regains the NWA World Women's title from Yukiko Tomoe in Hamamatsu, Japan (WWE does not recognize this title change)

May

• 29 – Dara Singh defeats Lou Thesz in Bombay, India to win the Indian version of the World Heavyweight Championship[1]

August

• 17 - Dr. X wins the AWA World Heavyweight Championship from Verne Gagne in Bloomington, Minnesota
• 31 - Verne Gagne regains the AWA World title from Dr. X in Minneapolis, Minnesota

See also