2009
From Pro Wrestling
This is a list of various things that took place in the current year of 2009.
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Significant events
January
- January 26 – Verne Gagne, the founder and longtime owner of the American Wrestling Association and a 10-time AWA World Champion, is alleged to have been involved in a fight on this date with a fellow resident at the memory loss unit of the Friendship Lodge seniors' assisted living facility in Bloomington, Minnesota. A February 2009 article from online news site MinnPost.com reported that Gagne, 82, who has Alzheimer's-related dementia, got into a fight with 97-year-old Helmut Guttman, a former cancer research doctor also suffering from Alzheimer's-related dementia, and Guttman suffered a broken leg and a head injury in the altercation. Guttman was hospitalized and later released, but was readmitted to hospital due to complications and died there on February 14. A police investigation is underway regarding the death, but it is unlikely, according to news sources, that Gagne will face charges due to his age and deteriorating mental condition [1][2]
October
- October 28 – TNA announces that it has signed Hulk Hogan to a contract [3]
Births
Deaths
January
- 12: Lanny Kean (heart attack)
March
- 13: Andrew Martin (wrestled as Test)
April
- 28: Buddy Rose 56 (natural causes)
May
- 28: John Tolos 78 (natural causes)
June
- 12: Mitsuharu Misawa 46 (head/neck injury in the ring)
August
- 5: Al Tomko 77 (pancreatic cancer)
October
- 14: Lou Albano 76 (natural causes)
Debuts
Events
January
- January 11 – IWS Season's Beatings
February
- February 4 – IWA East Coast A Need To Bleed
- February 21 – IWS Violent Valentine
March
- March 15 – IGF Genome 8 (Japan)
April
- April 11 – IWS Know Your Enemies
May
- May 30 – IWS "X"
Pay-Per-View events
January
- 4 – NJPW Wrestle Kingdom III
- 11 – Genesis 2009
- 25 – Royal Rumble 2009
February
- 8 – Against All Odds 2009
- 15 – No Way Out 2009
March
- 15 – Destination X 2009
April
- 5 – WWE WrestleMania XXV
- 19 – Lockdown 2009
- 26 – Backlash 2009
May
- 17 – Judgment Day 2009
June
- 7 – Extreme Rules 2009
- 28 – The Bash 2009
July
August
- 23 – SummerSlam 2009
September
- 13 – Breaking Point
October
- 4 – Hell in a Cell (PPV)
- 25 – WWE Bragging Rights
November
- 22 – Survivor Series 2009
December
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