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Ultimate History of Pro Wrestling - A Timeline of Every Major Event in Pro Wrestling History - INDEX

By: Karl Stern AKA: DragonKingKarl

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This Ultimate History of Pro Wrestling - A Time Line of Every Major Event in Pro Wrestling History, is the culmination of research by many of the greatest historians in pro wrestling.  I make mention of several of these by name because, without their research and work, much of the history of wrestling would not be known. 

They are:  In the overall Ultimate History of Pro Wrestling Time Line project I have used or referenced the research of the following people. They are (in no particular order):  Steve Yohe, Mark Hewitt, J. Michael Kenyon, Norman Kietzer, James Melby, Royal Duncan, Gary Will, Jason Campbell, John Arezzi, Bill Apter, George Napolitano, Libnan Ayoub, Gherardo Bonini, Mike Chapman, Hisaharu Tanabe, Don Luce, Dave Meltzer, Bryan Alvarez, Bruce Mitchell, Seth Hanson, Joseph Svinth, Tom Burke, Dan Cerquitella, Vance Nevada, Robert Rothhaas, Greg Oliver, Evan Ginzburg, Tim Hornbaker, Matt Farmer, David Williamson, Beau James, Chris Charlton, Mike Sempervive, John Perlin, Mark James, Graham Cawthon, Richard Land, Joseph Shedlock, Eddie Gilbert, William Schutte, Kris Zellner, David Bix, Scott Bowden, Jim Cornette, Brian Last, Juan Nunez, D.A. White, Ron Fuller (Welch), Ken Timbs, Scott Teal, Paul Sosnowski, Keith Shewchuck, Ken Zimmerman, Jr., Dick Bourne, Dave Millican, Jimmy Wheeler, Fumi Saito, Jim Valley, Randy Hales, Dale Pierce, Norman Dooley, Tom Burke, John Clark, Don Laible, Chris Jericho, Georgiann Makropoulos, Mike Rodgers, Rich Tate, Burt Ray, James Zordani, Warren Styles, Andy Cohen, Ron Schineller, Eric Darsie, Von Davis, Dan Madigan, George Lentz, Aaron Gartlan, Rock Rims, Jim Burgett, Andrew Calvert, Al Getz, James Guttman, Ethan Tyler, Farid Azam, Phil Lions, Pat Laprade, Sean Dulaney, John Ellul, Jack Lord, Brian Soloman, Ultimoaden, Jonathan Johnson, Jim Phillips, and many others.

This is a work in progress. New information is continuously being added to the timeline. Please support our DragonKingKarl’s Pro Wrestling Omnibus book series at Amazon which supports this project and website.

• In the beginning...

• 776 BC

• 648 BC

• 500 BC

• 23 BC

• 267

• 642

• 734

• 1192

• 1727

• 1730

• 1764

• 1780

• 1798

• 1809

• 1811

• 1831

• 1832

• 1833

• 1834

• 1835 (no entries yet)

• 1836

• 1837

• 1838

• 1839

• 1840

• 1841

• 1844

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• 1846

• 1854

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• 1859

• 1860

• 1861

• 1863

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• 1865

• 1866

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• 1868

• 1870

• 1871

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• 1876

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• 1886

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DragonKingKarl (Karl Stern) is a long time pro wrestling historian who has been published in books, newsletters, and podcasts since the mid-1990s.

The Ultimate History of Pro Wrestling Zone is Karl Stern's attempt to chronicle the entire history of pro wrestling and is a work in progress with hundreds of pages of text added each month.

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