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6 unusual facts about professional wrestling


Buck Quartermain

Jason Seguine (born July 24, 1967) is an American professional wrestler and former football player, known by his ringname Buck Quartermain, who competes in Southeastern regional promotions including Independent Pro Wrestling and the National Wrestling Alliance-affiliated NWA Florida.

Drake Younger

Drake Wuertz (born September 10, 1984) is an American professional wrestler known by his ring name Drake Younger.

James Laurinaitis

James' father Joe is a semi-retired World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) professional wrestler better known by his ring name Road Warrior Animal, one half of legendary wrestling tag-team The Road Warriors, while his uncles Marcus and John Laurinaitis are also former professional wrestlers.

Orig Williams

Orig Williams (20 March 1931 – 12 November 2009) was a Welsh professional wrestler and wrestling promoter.

Robert Allen Mukes

Sometimes credited as Robert "Bonecrusher" Mukes, got his start later in life after a failed shot at pro-wrestling (his time in that career field was cut short due to injuries).

UK Wrestling Mayhem

The Wakefield based promotion is currently the only British based Professional wrestling company to have national television coverage in the UK.


2004 TNA America's X Cup Tournament

America's X Cup Tournament consisted of four Teams: Team USA (representing the National Wrestling Alliance/Total Nonstop Action Wrestling), Team Canada, Team Mexico (representing Asistencia Asesoría y Administración), and Team Britain.

Américo Rocca

Javier Hernández Padilla (born September 22, 1952) is a semi-retired Mexican Luchador, or professional wrestler best known under the ring name Américo Rocca.

Andy Douglas

He then moved on to USA Championship Wrestling, where he formed a heel tag team with Chase Stevens, turning on Santel.

Arnold Skaaland

Skaaland managed Bruno Sammartino and Bob Backlund, with both men winning the WWF World Heavyweight Championship under his tutelage.

Bucksnort, Tennessee

Wrestlers Bunkhouse Buck and " Dirty White Boy" Tony Anthony (aka T.L. Hopper) call Bucksnort home, and professional wrestler "Dirty" Dutch Mantel often was billed as being from the town.

Denny Brown

He held the title three times over the following thirteen months, feuding with Nelson Royal, Gary Royal, Steve Regal and Lazer Tron.

Drew Hankinson

In April 2005, despite failing to make it as one of the final ten contestants on the $1,000,000 Tough Enough, he was signed to a contract by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and was assigned to the Deep South Wrestling (DSW) developmental territory where he formed a partnership with Palmer Cannon.

Elix Skipper

Seven months later, Skipper began wrestling on Thunder and Nitro under the ring name Skip Over, facing members of the cruiserweight division and fellow Power Plant graduates.

Emi Tojo

Her last film Wild Flowers that had a professional wrestling theme was released in April 2004 and featured Tojo with other JDStar wrestlers such as Mizuho Ishikawa and Cutie Suzuki.

Ernest Roeber

Ernest Roeber (1861 - April 30, 1944) was a German-American professional wrestler who held the European Greco-Roman Heavyweight Championship in 1894 to 1900 and again in 1900 to 1901.

Fort Wayne Fury

Former members of the team include former Indiana University standout Damon Bailey, NBA guard/forward Stephen Jackson, former multiple-time World Heavyweight Championship (professional wrestling) wrestler Kevin Nash, Mikki Moore, Lloyd Daniels and Percy Miller, better known as the rapper, "Master P".

Franco Columbo

Javier Descalza Coronado (born August 11, 1953) is a Mexican retired Luchador, or professional wrestler, currently working as a match maker for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL).

Gary Royal

In the early part of his career, he was a member of the Convertible Blonds, a heel stable with Rip Rogers and Pistol Pez Whatley.

Ground Zero: In Your House

Legion of Doom were the first to be eliminated after being disqualified for attacking The Godwinns with their own slop bucket.

Hunico

Shortly after Arias signed a developmental deal with WWE following his try out match and started in WWE's Farm League Florida Championship Wrestling.

Judgment Day: In Your House

Also The Oddities (Giant Silva, Kurrgan and Golga) defeated Los Boricuas (Jose Estrada, Miguel Pérez, Jr. and Jesus Castillo) by pinfall after Golga struck Castillo with the Avalanche Splash.

Karloff Lagarde, Jr.

César Baltazar de Lucio Valencia (born October 21, 1970) is a semi-retired Mexican Luchador, or professional wrestler best known under the ring name Karloff Lagarde, Jr.

Kendo Nagasaki

Kendo Nagasaki is a professional wrestling stage name, used as a gimmick of that of a Japanese Samurai warrior with a mysterious past and even supernatural powers of hypnosis.

Kevin Henry

Henry, whose first name is pronounced "Kee-VIN" as opposed to the more commonly pronounced "KEV-in", is cousins with longtime WWE wrestler and former WWF European Champion, ECW Champion and World Champion "The World's Strongest Man" Mark Henry.

Los Arlequíns

Los Arlequíns (Spanish for "The Harlequins") was a Mexican professional wrestling group, called a stable, who worked as a rudo (term used for wrestlers who portray the "Bad guys") faction.

Magnum Tokyo

The program came to a head when his interference backfired in a tag team match between The Dancing Fools and The Public Enemy at the 1998 "Road Wild" pay-per-view.

Mestarit salilla

Mestarit salilla is the first and only album by the late former boxer, professional wrestler and Finnish parliament member, Tony Halme.

Mike Lockwood Memorial Tournament

The Mike Lockwood Memorial Tournament was a professional wrestling memorial event produced by the New Breed Wrestling Association (NBWA) promotion, which took place on March 18, 2005 at ZB Falcons in South Bend, Indiana.

Mocho Cota

Manuel Cota Soto (born June 5, 1954) is a semi-retired Mexican luchador, or professional wrestler best known under the ring name Mocho Cota.

Mosco de la Merced

Mosco de la Merced (Juan Valdez Valentino) is a Mexican Luchador or professional wrestler, best known for his time in Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) where he was a part of Los Vipers for many years.

NWA Mid-America Heavyweight Championship

The NWA Mid-America Heavyweight Championship is a professional wrestling title defended in the US states of Tennessee and Alabama.

NWA Mississippi Heavyweight Championship

The NWA Mississippi Heavyweight Championship is the heavyweight title of Mississippi sanctioned by the National Wrestling Alliance.

Panda Energy International

In October 2002, Panda Energy purchased a controlling interest (72%) of the Nashville, Tennessee-based professional wrestling promotion Total Nonstop Action Wrestling from founder and CEO Jerry Jarrett.

Phil Heath

On October 20, 2013, during the Countdown to Bound for Glory pre-show "Mr. Olympia" Phil Heath made his TNA debut, accompanying The BroMans (Jessie Godderz and Robbie E) to the ring for their tag team gauntlet match, which they won and later on in the night, accompanied them to their TNA World Tag Team Championship match against Gunner and James Storm.

Profiles in Pain

Profiles in Pain was a professional wrestling internet pay-per-view (iPPV) event held by World Championship Wrestling (WCW) that took place on May 2, 1998 from the North Charleston Coliseum in North Charleston, SC.

Raúl Mata

Raúl Mata (date of birth unknown) is a retired Mexican luchador, or professional wrestler who was mostly active from the 1960s to the 1980s.

River of Darkness

The film features professional wrestling stars Kurt Angle, Kevin Nash, and Sid Eudy (credited as "Psycho Sid Vicious" on the cover art) as well as Ray Lloyd in a minor role.

Sal Rinauro

In October 2009, Rinauro wrestled on two shows for Chikara, being defeated by Mike Quackenbush and Claudio Castagnoli.

Sayuri Kokushō

From November 2008 onwards, Kokushō has made sporadic appearances for professional wrestling promotion Oz Academy, working as the manager of the villainous Ozaki-gun alliance.

Sensational Sherri Memorial Cup Tournament

The show was held in honor of American female professional wrestler and manager "Sensational" Sherri Martel who died of an accidental drug overdose at the home of her mother in McCalla, Alabama four months earlier.

Stephen Petitpas

Stephen Petitpas (born November 14, 1957 in Soest, Germany), is a Canadian professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, "Big" Stephen Petitpas.

Stipulation

The term can also refer to a special rule in a professional wrestling match, which can force the loser to do something (e.g., retire), or any other edit to the basic rules of the match type.

Super Dragon

Beginning his career in 1997, he has worked for companies such as All Pro Wrestling (APW), Chikara, Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW), Revolution Pro, Ring of Honor (ROH), World Championship Wrestling (WCW), and Xtreme Pro Wrestling (XPW).

Teddy Reade

After the soldiers broke up 4x4 changed his name to Cassius by joining a heel stable called Harlem Heat 2000 and acted as a bodyguard, the group consist of the leader Stevie Ray, Big T and manager J. Biggs then began feuding with Booker T. although the feud didn't last long and Harlem Heat 2000 began to split up.

The BroMans

On the Countdown to Bound for Glory Pre-show The BroMans (Jessie Godderz and Robbie E) with "Mr. Olympia" Phil Heath defeated Chavo Guerrero and Hernandez, Bad Influence (Christopher Daniels and Kazarian) and Eric Young and Joseph Park to earn a TNA World Tag Team Championship match on the Pay-per view, The Bro Mans defeated Storm and Gunner to win the TNA World Tag Team Championships.

The S.A.T.

The brothers, under the name S.A.T., have also made a few appearances in WWE Velocity shows, competing as jobbers in matches against the Basham Brothers and The Big Show.

Top Quality Wrestling

Top Quality Wrestling is a New England independent professional wrestling promotion based in Waterville, Maine.

Tyrel Ventura

He is the son of former Minnesota governor and professional wrestler Jesse Ventura and was an investigator alongside his father on the truTV series Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura.

Vachon family

The Vachon family is a French-Canadian family long associated with professional wrestling in Canada and the United States, headed by Maurice "Mad Dog" Vachon, his brother Paul "Butcher" Vachon - both longtime NWA and AWA veterans - and their sister Vivian.

Wataru Inoue

On May 3, 2010, at Wrestling Dontaku 2010 Inoue and Yuji Nagata defeated No Limit (Yujiro Takahashi and Tetsuya Naito) and Bad Intentions (Giant Bernard and Karl Anderson) in a three-way match to win the IWGP Tag Team Championship.

WWE World Title

WWE World Title may refer to one of two World Heavyweight championships contested in the professional wrestling promotion WWE.

You're Gonna Get Your Fucking Head Kicked In

The chant also started being used in 2007 by professional wrestling fans in insulting the opponents before the matches of former Ring of Honor and current WWE American wrestler, Daniel Bryan.


see also

Behind the Paint

In the midst of their popularity, Insane Clown Posse perform at Woodstock 1999, create the professional wrestling organization Juggalo Championship Wrestling, and release a full length feature film, Big Money Hustlas.

Best in the World

ROH Best in the World, an annual professional wrestling event held by Ring of Honor

Billy Reil

As a teenager, he began hanging out at the ECW Arena attempting to make contacts in the professional wrestling business and eventually met Angel, who then introduced Reil to Reckless Youth.

Black Terry

Mares made his professional wrestling debut in February, 1973 using the ring name Black Terry but later adopt a masked ring character called "La Gacela", Spanish for "The Gazelle".

Blood Stain Child

The first song was used as the theme song for professional wrestler, Kensuke Sasaki and the second song was used as the theme song for the 30th anniversary of New Japan Pro Wrestling, a professional wrestling group.

Brauner

The Von Brauners, a professional wrestling tag team/stable consisting of several members with the character surname Von Brauner

Chikayo Nagashima

Instead of continuing her amateur wrestling career in a university, Nagashima took part in an audition held by professional wrestling promotion, Gaea Japan, which she passed with flying colors.

Christian Coalition

Christian's Coalition, a now defunct professional wrestling stable in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling

Crete Civic Center

More recently, the Crete has hosted several professional wrestling events that have been put on by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling.

Dana Carpenter

Carpenter received his professional wrestling training from Killer Kowalski.

DiPietro

Rebecca DiPietro (born 1979), American model and former professional wrestling personality

Dynamic duo

The Dynamic Duo, a common name for a series of professional wrestling tag teams during the 1980s and 1990s

Ed Orgeron

While he was with the Hurricanes, the program won two national championships (in 1989 and 1991), and he recruited a young Dwayne Johnson (later known as "The Rock" in his professional wrestling and film careers) as a defensive lineman.

El Signo

He was born on September 4, 1954 in Ocotlán de Morelos, Oaxaca, Mexico and trained for his professional wrestling career under Billy Robinson, Chamaco Azteca and El Carnicero.

Fred 2: Night of the Living Fred

The music played during the scene when Mr. Devlin and Kevin go in the ring when Fred is dreaming is Blood used by the former professional wrestling tag team The Brood.

Gertner

Joel Gertner (born 1975), American professional wrestling announcer and manager

Hebner

Dave Hebner (born 1949), American professional wrestling authority figure, promoter, road agent and referee

Hikari Minami

Minami was trained by Gatokunyan wrestler Emi Sakura and made her professional wrestling debut at the age of eleven on February 12, 2006, working under the ring name Hikari and facing Sakura, Aika Ando, Hinata and Kinoko in a five-way match at an event in Itabashi, Tokyo.

Hog Wild

Road Wild, a professional wrestling pay-per-view from World Championship Wrestling, previously called Hog Wild

IWW

Irish Whip Wrestling, an Irish-owned independent professional wrestling promotion established in 2002

Jamie Kellner

Due to what is considered the decline of the WWE product, many wrestling fans have denounced Kellner's actions in regards to WCW, blaming him for the fact that WWE owner Vince McMahon has a virtual monopoly on the professional wrestling market, although others have defended Kellner, calling it unfair to blame him for WCW's demise when it was due to a series of internal mistakes that the company was already massively in debt.

Jasmin St. Claire

She has made appearances in the world of professional wrestling and such motion pictures as Communication Breakdown and Lionsgate's National Lampoon's Dorm Daze 2.

Jessie Belle Smothers

Jessie made her professional wrestling debut at a Firestorm event on January 8, 2010, where she lost to Sassy Stephie.

Milano Collection A.T.

On January 18, 2010, Sawafuji announced his retirement from the professional wrestling because of inferior oblique muscle palsy, brought on by an excessively strong thrust kick to the eye by Gedo.

Nasko Sirakov

Born in Stara Zagora, the son of professional wrestler Petko Sirakov, Sirakov started playing as a striker, playing three games for PFC Levski Sofia's first team in 1980, having joined the club's youth system at the age of 13.

NBA on USA

Manhattan Cable (subsequently referred to as the MSG Network) debuted in the spring of 1969 and did all home events from the Madison Square Garden: New York Knicks basketball, New York Rangers hockey, college basketball, horse shows, Golden Gloves boxing, tennis, the Westminster Dog Show, ice capades, professional wrestling, etc.

Night and the City

He plans to take control of the professional wrestling game from promoter and underworld boss Kristo (Herbert Lom) by manipulating him through his father, the retired wrestling superstar Gregorius (Stanislaus Zbyszko).

NWA Hollywood

NWA Championship Wrestling from Hollywood, a professional wrestling promotion commonly referred to as "NWA Hollywood".

Princesa Blanca

Rodríguez trained for her professional wrestling career under a number of different wrestling coaches including José Feliciano and Rudo Valentino.

PWG

Pro Wrestling Guerrilla, an American professional wrestling promotion based in Southern California

Resistance Pro

Resistance Pro is a professional wrestling promotion company created by The Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan and brothers Jacques and Gabe Baron.

Rich Landrum

JCP promoted wrestling throughout the mid-Atlantic states and produced two syndicated professional wrestling TV shows (Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling and World Wide Wrestling).

Rock 'n' Wrestling

1980s professional wrestling boom, a surge in popularity of American professional wrestling

Rosedale, Maryland

Stacy Keibler, former Baltimore Ravens cheerleader, professional wrestling diva and wrestler for the WWE (2001–2006), and actress

Saturday Night's Main Event

It coincided with and contributed to the apogee of the "second golden age" of professional wrestling in the United States.

Spider-Man: With Great Power

Other characters and themes will include mobsters involved with Spider-Man's professional wrestling career, a Mrs. Robinson figure in Peter's life, giant monsters, and childhood love.

Steiner

The Steiner Brothers, the professional wrestling "tag team" of real-life brothers Rick and Scott Steiner

Steve Veidor

Between the months of February and March 1975, Veidor toured New Japan Pro Wrestling, taking on such Japanese professional wrestling legends Antonio Inoki, Seiji Sakaguchi and Strong Kobayashi.

Taylor Matheny

Growing up in Maple Valley, Washington, she became interested in professional wrestling during the late 1990s and, seeing a commercial for WWE Tough Enough during Monday Night Raw, auditioned for the reality television series.

The Motor City Machine Guns

In 2008, the team appeared in an episode of the MTV series Made, teaching a school boy the basics of professional wrestling.

Thumb Wrestling Federation

Thumb Wrestling Federation: TWF is based on large Professional Wrestling promotions such as the World Wrestling Entertainment (formerly World Wrestling Federation).

Tom Packs

By the early 1930s, the professional wrestling industry was in transition following the break-up of the Gold Dust Trio and amidst the economic vacuum left by the Great Depression.

Toryumon

Dragon Gate, formerly Toryumon Japan, a Japanese professional wrestling promotion

Triple X Wrestling

They subsequently moved from the Tam O'Shanter Burns Club to Jumpin Jaks in Coventry, next to SkyDome Arena, a venue that's been home to many professional wrestling events itself.

Turnbuckle

The turnbuckles come into particular play in professional wrestling where they are often put to use by participants as part of their offensive repertoire.

UK Championships

IPW:UK Championship, a professional wrestling championship owned by International Pro Wrestling: United Kingdom

WMXX

WrestleMania XX, the 20th professional wrestling WrestleMania pay-per-view by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE)

WWL

World Wrestling Legends, a professional wrestling promotion based in the United States

Zero1

Pro Wrestling Zero1, a Japanese professional wrestling promotion founded in 2001