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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
== May
== June
== July
== August
== September
== October
== November
== December
=Accomplishments and tournaments
= AJW
== AJPW
== ECW
== JWP
== WCW
=WCW Hall of Fame
= WWF
=WWF Hall of Fame
Awards and honors
= Pro Wrestling Illustrated
== Wrestling Observer Newsletter
=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
== NJPW
== FMW
== WCW
== WWF
=Births
January 7 - Darby Allin
February 17 – Magnus, Mexican luchador
March 4:
James Drake
Teoman
March 5 - Josh Briggs
March 29 - Stephanie Vaquer
May 7- Will Ospreay
May 20 – Akam, Canadian wrestler
May 20 - Vanessa Borne
June 14 – Esfinge, Mexican luchador
July 2 - Kamille Brickhouse
July 28:
Noam Dar, Israeli wrestler
Sammy Guevara
August 4 – Henare, New Zealand wrestler
August 12 – El Soberano, Mexican luchador
September 8 - Yota Tsuji, Japanese wrestler
September 9 – Sarah Logan, American female wrestler
September 23 – U-T Japanese wrestler
September 24 – Sonya Deville, American female wrestler
September 30 - Trevor Lee, American wrestler
October 10 - Ilja Dragunov
October 23 – 1 Called Manders
November 6 – Bárbaro Cavernario, Mexican luchador
November 9 - Pete Dunne
November 11 Will Ospreay
December 11 - Sonny Kiss
Unknown
Gran Guerrero, Mexican luchador
David Benoit, Canadian-American wrestler and son of Chris Benoit
Debuts
= Debut date
=January 20 - Tsubo Genjin and Magnitude Kishiwada
February 13 - Hayato Nanjo
March 18 - Tetsuhiro Kuroda
May 2 - Azteca
October - Doug Williams
October 2 - El Zorro
October 28 - Kamikaze and Super Rider
October 29 - Katsumi Usuda
November 12 - Yumi Fukawa
November 27 - Toscano
December 2 - C. W. Anderson
December 5 - Daisuke Ikeda and Funaki
December 8 - Joe Líder
December 13 – Tsubasa
= Uncertain debut date
=Jeff Bradley
Tom Howard
Nelson Frazier, Jr.
Joey Styles
Doug Basham
Tammy Sytch
Sgt. Craig Pittman
Johnny Swinger
Carl Malenko
The Spellbinder
Retirements
Al Madril (1970–1993)
Aníbal (November 1963 – 1993)
Shirley Crabtree (1952–1993)
Big John Studd (1972-1993)
Bill Watts (1962–1993)
Bobo Brazil (1951–1993)
Debbie Malenko (1990-1993) (wrestled matches in 2001 and 2017, returned full time in 2021)
Dick Beyer (December 29, 1954 – July 29, 1993)
Frank Hickey (1935-May 15, 1993)
Oliver Humperdink (1965–1993)
Omar Atlas (1958–1993)
Fred Peloquin (1971–1993)
Rita Chatterton (1984–1993)
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 10 - Hurcan Castillo, Puerto Rican wrestler (b. unknown)
December 13 - Larry Cameron, American wrestler (b. 1952)
See also
List of WCW pay-per-view events
List of WWF pay-per-view events
List of ECW supercards and pay-per-view events
List of FMW supercards and pay-per-view events