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This is a list of various things that took place in 1975.

Significant events[]

Unknown date

  • Boston-based Big Time Wrestling ceases operations
  • Montreal-based All-Star Wrestling/Les As de la Lutte ceases operations
  • Montreal-based Grand Prix Wrestling ceases operations

January

February

  • 20 - A private jet plane carrying wrestlers Buddy Colt, Mike McCord and Bobby Shane, along with manager Gary Hart, crashes into the water near Tampa Bay, Florida after running into weather trouble. Shane dies in the crash when he drowns while trapped in the submerged plane, while Colt, McCord and Hart all escape with injuries. Of the survivors, Colt is forced to retire from the ring following the crash after suffering a badly-broken right ankle

May

  • George Cannon, most recently a booker for Eddie Einhorn's International Wrestling Association, launches his own promotion, Superstars of Wrestling, with a tour of Newfoundland headlined by Sailor White, Hartford Love, Kurt Von Hess and other stars. Cannon follows on the success of the tour by launching a TV program also called Superstars of Wrestling, where he serves as host and color commentator alongside Milt Avruskin as play-by-play announcer and utilizes talent from The Sheik's Big Time Wrestling promotion in Detroit and Maple Leaf Wrestling in Toronto; Superstarts of Wrestling, which uses The Who's instrumental song "The Ox" as its theme, is taped initially at the Toronto studios of the Global Television Network (then a regional network operating only in southern Ontario) and is syndicated across Canada. In later years due to changes in the wrestling scene in Canada (with the closure of Big Time Wrestling and Maple Leaf Wrestling partnering with Jim Crockett Promotions), Superstars of Wrestling became the English-language syndicated program for Montreal promotion Lutte Internationale as Cannon began a partnership with the latter promotion

June

  • 4 - During an WWF All-Star Wrestling television taping at Hamburg, Pennsylvania, several out-of-control fans begin behaving violently in the arena at the end of a match between WWWF Tag Team Champions Dominic DeNucci and Victor Rivera and challengers The Blackjacks (Blackjack Mulligan and Blackjack Lanza), when Captain Lou Albano appears at ringside and becomes involved on the Blackjacks' behalf. The show abruptly ends shortly before things escalated into a near riot, and police are forced to use tear gas to get the crowd under control. Although footage is said to exist, it has never been aired, although the episode itself has been uploaded to various video sharing sites.

October

  • 4 - Ric Flair, Johnny Valentine, Tim Woods, Bob Bruggers and David Crockett are all injured in a plane crash in Wilmington, North Carolina when the plane runs out of fuel. The plane's pilot dies two months later of injuries suffered in the crash, while Valentine and Bruggers are both forced to retire from the sport due to suffering broken backs (with Valentine also suffering paralysis due to a bone fragment wedging into his spinal column), Crockett suffers a dislocated shoulder and head trauma, and Woods suffers cracked and bruised ribs, a concussion and a back injury. Flair also suffers a broken back in the crash and is initially told by his doctors that his career is over, but he would defy the odds and return to the ring about four months later after going through rigorous physical therapy

Births[]

Unknown

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

October

November

December

Deaths[]

February

July

  • 27 - Frank Hester (Car accident)
  • 27 - Sam Bass 41 (Car accident)
  • 27 - Pepe Lopez (Car accident)

August

Debuts[]

Events[]

December

  • December 6-December 18 – AJPW Open Championship League (Televised event)

Title changes[]

January

February

March

April

  • 21 - Don Leo Jonathan wins the NWA Pacific Coast title from Guy Mitchell in Vancouver

May

June

  • 11 - The Minnesota Wrecking Crew regain the NWA Mid-Atlantic World Tag Team title from Wahoo McDaniel and Paul Jones in Raleigh, North Carolina
  • 29 - Wahoo McDaniel wins the NWA Mid-Atlantic title from Johnny Valentine in Asheville, North Carolina

July

  • 3 - Johnny Valentine wins the NWA Mid-Atlantic United States title from Harley Race in Greensboro
  • 4 - Mr. Wrestling II wins the NWA Georgia title from Abdullah the Butcher in Atlanta (approximate date)
  • 11 - Abdullah the Butcher regains the NWA Georgia title from Mr. Wrestling II in Atlanta
  • 19 - Dominic DeNucci chooses Pat Barrett as his new WWWF Tag Team Championship partner after Victor Rivera leaves the WWWF

August

September

October

  • 3 - Mr. Wrestling II wins the NWA Georgia title from Nikolai Volkoff in Atlanta
  • 4 - The NWA Mid-Atlantic United States title, last held by Johnny Valentine, is vacated when Valentine suffers a career-ending injury in a plane crash (see above)

November

December

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