1970 in professional wrestling

1970 in professional wrestling describes the year's events in the world of professional wrestling.

List of notable promotions

Only one promotion held notable shows in 1970.

Promotion Name	Abbreviation
Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre	EMLL

Calendar of notable shows

Date	Promotion(s)	Event	Location	Main Event
April 24	EMLL	14. Aniversario de Arena México	Mexico City, Mexico	Ray Mendoza defeated Coloso Colosetti (c) in a Best two-out-of-three falls match for the NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship [1]
September		EMLL 37th Anniversary Show		Raúl Mata defeated Shibata in a Best two-out-of-three falls Lucha de Apuesta hair vs. hair match [2] [3] [4]
December 11		Juicio Final		Coloso Colosetti and René Guajardo defeated Ángel Blanco and El Solitario in a tag team tournament final [5]
(c) – denotes defending champion(s)

Championship changes

EMLL

NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship
incoming champion – Coloso Colosetti [6]
Date	Winner	Event/Show	Note(s)
March 20	Ray Mendoza	EMLL show	[6]
November 27	El Solitario	EMLL show	[6]

NWA World Middleweight Championship
Incoming champion – El Solitario
Date	Winner	Event/Show	Note(s)
June 28	Mashio Koma	EMLL show
December 6	Aníbal	EMLL show

NWA World Welterweight Championship

Incoming champion – Karloff Lagarde

No title changes

Mexican National Heavyweight Championship
Incoming champion - Goliath
Date	Winner	Event/Show	Note(s)
February 2	Raul Reyes	EMLL show

Mexican National Middleweight Championship
Incoming champion - Rene Guajardo
Date	Winner	Event/Show	Note(s)
May 13	Humberto Garza	EMLL show

Mexican National Lightweight Championship

Incoming champion – Rodolfo Ruiz [7]

No title changes [7]

Mexican National Light Heavyweight Championship

Incoming champion – Raul Mata

No title changes

Mexican National Welterweight Championship
Incoming champion – Karloff Lagarde
Date	Winner	Event/Show	Note(s)
August 4	Huracan Ramirez	EMLL show

Mexican National Women's Championship

Incoming champion – Uncertain

No title changes

NWA

NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship

Incoming champion – Dory Funk, Jr.

No title changes

Tournaments

IWE

Accomplishment	Winner	Date won	Notes
IWA World Series	Billy Robinson	May 14

Births

Chris Jericho

• Date Unknown
  • Robbie Rage
• January 1 – Kimberly Page
• January 4 – Chris Kanyon (d. 2010) ^[8]
• January 5 – Pamela Paulshock
• January 10 – Buff Bagwell ^[9]
• January 14 – Gene Snitsky
• January 15 – Shane McMahon ^[10]
• January 16 – Rick Bognar (d. 2019)
• January 25 – Carl Malenko
• February 1 – Mark Frear (d. 2014)
• February 15 – Mariko Yoshida
• February 19 – Shark Tsuchiya
• February 27 - Toshiyo Yamada
• March 6 –
  • Masao Inoue
  • Tsuyoshi Kosaka
• March 17 – Katsumi Usuda
• March 21 – Frank Parker
• March 23 – Midajah
• March 24 – Christopher Daniels
• April 7 – Rosey (d. 2017)
• April 8 – Silver Cat (d. 2024)
• April 9 – Super Shisa
• April 13 – Monty Brown
• April 22 – Electroshock
• April 21 – Soulman Alex G
• April 25 – Chubby Dudley
• April 26 – Ron Reis
• May 1 – Jack Bull
• May 6 – Corey Maclin (d. 2013)
• May 20 – Cassandro
• May 21 – The Hungarian Barbarian
• May 29 – Pete Gas
• May 30 – Supreme (died in 2020)
• May 31 – Takashi Sugiura
• June 1 – Ian Rotten ^[11]
• June 18 – Kenny Kaos
• June 21 – Snot Dudley
• June 26 – Lady Apache
• July 2 – Amy Weber
• July 3 – Doc Dean (d. 2018)
• July 4 – Rico Suave ^[12] (d.2025)
• July 6 – Don Fujii
• July 7 – Navajo Warrior
• July 21 – Shawn Stasiak
• July 23 – Cinthia Moreno
• August 9:
  • Wing Kanemura
  • Evil Dead
• August 13 – Spike Dudley ^[13]
• August 22 – Barry Houston
• September 8 – Lodi
• September 14 – Satoshi Kojima
• September 19 – Carbell Ito
• September 25 – Aja Kong ^[14]
• September 27 - Oscar
• September 29:
  • Yoshihiro Tajiri
  • The Kat
• October 4 – Heavy Metal
• October 5 – Hiromitsu Kanehara
• October 12 – Rodney Mack
• October 16 :
  • Lenny Lane
  • Kazuyuki Fujita
• October 20 :
  • Chavo Guerrero Jr.
  • Tiger Mask IV
• October 21 – Karloff Lagarde Jr. (died in 2024)
• October 22 – D'Lo Brown
• October 23 – Tony Kozina
• November 2 – Sharmell
• November 3 – Dawn Marie Psaltis
• November 6 – Bryant Anderson
• November 9 – Chris Jericho
• November 12 – Elektra
• November 22 – Joe Son
• December 4 – Sylvester Terkay
• December 7 – Veneno
• December 9 – Cathy Dingman
• December 15 – Bruno Sassi
• December 18 – Rob Van Dam
• December 23 – Mima Shimoda

Debuts

Debut Date

• January 6 - Dos Caras ^[15]
• January 29 - Villano III ^[16]
• April - Greg Valentine ^[17]
• May 10 - Perro Aguayo
• October - Kevin Sullivan
• October 13 - Akio Sato

Date Unknown

• Dino Bravo ^[18]
• Superstar Billy Graham
• Jerry Lawler ^[19]
• Ken Mantell
• Don Muraco ^[20]
• Alexis Smirnoff
• Pak Song
• Jerry Stubbs ^[21]
• Hercules Ayala
• Mariko Akagi (All Japan Women)

Retirements

• Bette Boucher (1962 – 1970)

Deaths

• March 23 – Skull Murphy, 39
• April 6 – Sam Sheppard, 46
• May 16 – Emile Czaja, 60
• June 4 - Charley Retzlaff, 65
• August 20 – Jerry London, 40

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