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.

Births

 * Date Unknown
 * Robbie Rage
 * January 1 – Kimberly Page
 * January 4 – Chris Kanyon (d. 2010)
 * January 5 - Pamela Paulshock
 * January 10 – Buff Bagwell
 * January 14 – Gene Snitsky
 * January 15 – Shane McMahon
 * 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
 * March 6 - 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
 * 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
 * July 7 - Navajo Warrior
 * July 21 - Shawn Stasiak
 * July 23 – Cinthia Moreno
 * August 9:
 * Wing Kanemura
 * Evil Dead
 * August 13 – Spike Dudley
 * August 22 - Barry Houston
 * September 8 – Lodi
 * September 14 - Satoshi Kojima
 * September 25 – Aja Kong
 * September 29:
 * Yoshihiro Tajiri
 * The Kat
 * October 4 – Heavy Metal
 * October 5 - Hiromitsu Kanehara
 * October 12 – Rodney Mack
 * October 16 – Lenny Lane
 * October 16 - Kazuyuki Fujita
 * October 20 :
 * Chavo Guerrero Jr.
 * Tiger Mask IV
 * 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 15 - Bruno Sassi
 * December 18 – Rob Van Dam
 * December 23 - Mima Shimoda

Debut Date
• January 6 - Dos Caras

• January 29 - Villano III

• April - Greg Valentine

• May 10 - Perro Aguayo

• October - Kevin Sullivan

• October 13 - Akio Sato

Date Unknown
• Dino Bravo

• Jerry Lawler

• Ken Mantell

• Don Muraco

• Alexis Smirnoff

• Pak Song

• Jerry Stubbs

• 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