1948 in professional wrestling

Only one promotion held notable shows in 1948.

• July 18 – professional wrestling promotors Pinkie George, Orville Brown, Al Haft, Harry Light, Sam Muchnick, Don Owen, and Tony Stecher form the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), a governing body who would be the primary influence on professional wrestling in North America until the mid-1980s.[3]
• September – Alejandro Muñoz Moreno debuts the Blue Demon wrestling persona in Mexico City. He would go on to become one of the most famous professional wrestlers in lucha libre as well as act in 26 lucha films.[4]
• Stu Hart and Al Oeming created Klondike Wrestling (later known as Stampede Wrestling).

• Luchador of the Year
  • Tarzán López (Mexico)

• Angelo Poffo's world record for most consecutive sit-ups (6,033) is featured on the March 3 edition of Ripley's Believe It or Not! comic strip.[9]

• March 31 – Blue Demon[10]
• November 24 – Tiny Mills[11]
• Date uncertain

• Bronco Lubich[11]
• The Fabulous Moolah[11]
• George Scott[11]
• Johnny Barend[11]
• Lord Athol Layton[11]
• Nelson Royal[11]
• Ray Gunkel[11]

• January 8 – Bobby Jaggers, American professional wrestler (d. 2012)
• January 11 – Wajima Hiroshi, Japanese professional wrestler (d. 2018)
• January 30 – Black Bart[12]
• February 7 – Kim Duk, Japanese professional wrestler
• February 19 – Big John Studd,[13][14] American professional wrestler (d. 1995)
• May 15 – Coloso Colosetti, Argentinian professional wrestler
• July 27 – Greg Gagne, American professional wrestler
• July 28 – Bobby Bold Eagle, American wrestler
• June 2 – Cynthia Peretti, American professional wrestler (d. 2009)
• June 23 – Earl Oliver, American wrestling columnist and historian
• June 29 – Leo Burke, Canadian professional wrestler
• July 18 – Carlos Colón Sr., Puerto Rican professional wrestler and wrestling promoter
• August 6 – Dino Bravo, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 1993)
• August 27 – Sgt. Slaughter,[15] American professional wrestler
• September 8 – Great Kabuki, Japanese professional wrestler
• September 21 – Mitsuo Momota, Japanese professional wrestler
• September 26 – Kazuo Sakurada, Japanese professional wrestler (d. 2020)
• September 29 – Jaque Mate, Mexican luchador
• October 4 – Linda McMahon, wrestling executive[16]
• November 28 – Smith Hart, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 2017)
• December 21 – Ron Bass, American professional wrestler (d. 2017)
• Unknown – Eduardo Miguel Perez, Mexican professional wrestler

General

• Stern, Karl, ed. (2005). "The Time Line of Wrestling Part II" (PDF). DragonKing Wrestling. No. 83. Haleyville, Alabama: DragonKing Press. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 26, 2017.

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