Wrestling Matches the Day I was Born

My buddy Brandon was born on November 24, 1983 which is the same day as the inaugural Starrcade event.  I've known about this for a long time and I've wonder from time to time what wrestling shows, if any, were happening the day I was born, I mean there's no way it was as good as Starrcade 1983, but I was born on a Sunday and there had to be a show or two going on that day.

So I took to Cagematch and searched June 24, 1979 and found 7 shows across the US, 1 in Canada and 1 in Japan, let's take a look.

IWE Big Summer Series 1979, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan

Main event saw Alexis Smirnoff & Ox Baker defeat Great Kusatsu & Isamu Teranishi

Maple Leaf Wrestling, Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario Canada

7 match card with a huge double main event, other matches featured Ernie Ladd, Ricky Steamboat, Paul Orndorff, Jim Brunzell, Jay Youngblood and more

NWA Canadian Heavyweight Champion: Dino Bravo defeat NWA United States Champion: "Nature Boy" Ric Flair by disqualification WWF Champion Bob Backlund defeated Greg "The Hammer" Valentine.  

AWA: American Wrestling AssociationTelevision Taping, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Matches featuring Jesse Ventura, Billy Robinson, The Blonde Bombers: Pat Patterson & Ray Stevens in tag team action, and Greg Gagne defeated AWA World Heavyweight Champion: Nick Bockwinkel

AWA: American Wrestling Association, Minneapolis Auditorium, Minnesota

select matches from the card that night include

Pat Patterson defeats Doug Gilbert

Jesse Ventura vs. Paul Elering - Draw

Greg Gagne defeats Ray Stevens by DQ

Billy Robinson & Verne Gagne defeat Bobby Duncum & AWA World Heavyweight Champion: Nick Bockwinkel

NWA Western States, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Dick Murdoch & Giant Baba defeat Blackjack Mulligan & James J. Dillon

NWA Big Time Wrestling, Sportatorium, Dallas, Texas

main event: Andre The Giant & Bruiser Brody defeated Gary Hart, Mark Lewin & The Spoiler

GCW: Georgia Championship Wrestling, Cobb County Civic Center, Marietta, Georgia

Genichiro Tenryu wrestled on the show and other matches included:

Wahoo McDaniel defeating The Masked Superstar

Ivan Koloff & Ole Anderson vs. Stan Hansen & Tommy Rich wrestled to a no contest

WWF: World Wrestling Federation, Civic Center, Wheeling, West Virginia

matches included 

Ted DiBiase defeated Baron Mikel Scicluna by DQ

WWF Tag Team Champions: The Valiant Brothers: Jerry Valiant & Johnny Valiant defeated Haystacks Calhoun & Ivan Putski by Count Out

Mid Atlantic Championship Wrestling: Roanoke Civic Center, Roanoke, Virginia

this Jim Crockett Promotions card featured matches with Pedro Morales, Johnny Weaver, Len Denton, and title matches

Mid Atlantic Heavyweight Champion: Ken Patera defeated Rufus R. Jones

NWA World Tag Team Champions: Baron von Raschke & Paul Jones defeat Jimmy Snuka & Tony Atlas

Of all the shows that happened on my birthday that I found on my birthdate the Maple Leaf Gardens card is the show I would want to see the most.  We got both a Ric Flair match as well as Bob Backlund defending the WWF Championship and it was at the historic Maple Leaf Gardens. 

I remember when my daughter was born I was watching WWECW on Sci-Fi when her mother alerted my that her water had broken, however Addison was born the next day.  I looked up my 3 kids and the number of shows on one of them was shocking

Canaan January 18, 2006: 6 shows

Addison May 13, 2009: 6 shows

Wesley March 21, 2015:122 shows...122!!

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