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Dawn-Euphemia
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Dawn-Euphemia is a township in southwestern Ontario, Canada, in Lambton County. The township municipal office is located in Rutherford, major transportation routes include Cairo Road and Oil Heritage Road directed North-South and Bentpath Line and Lambton Line running East-West. One elementary school serves the area, Dawn-Euphemia School, students attend secondary school in nearby Petrolia and Dresden, both of which serve as local service centres for residents. Historic populations, Population in 2001,2369 Population total in 1996,2577 Dawn,1595 Euphemia,982 Population in 1991, Dawn,1687 Euphemia,1017 List of townships in Ontario
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Canada
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Canada is a country in the northern half of North America. Canadas border with the United States is the worlds longest binational land border, the majority of the country has a cold or severely cold winter climate, but southerly areas are warm in summer. Canada is sparsely populated, the majority of its territory being dominated by forest and tundra. It is highly urbanized with 82 per cent of the 35.15 million people concentrated in large and medium-sized cities, One third of the population lives in the three largest cities, Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver. Its capital is Ottawa, and other urban areas include Calgary, Edmonton, Quebec City, Winnipeg. Various aboriginal peoples had inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years prior to European colonization. Pursuant to the British North America Act, on July 1,1867, the colonies of Canada, New Brunswick and this began an accretion of provinces and territories to the mostly self-governing Dominion to the present ten provinces and three territories forming modern Canada. With the Constitution Act 1982, Canada took over authority, removing the last remaining ties of legal dependence on the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy, with Queen Elizabeth II being the head of state. The country is officially bilingual at the federal level and it is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many other countries. Its advanced economy is the eleventh largest in the world, relying chiefly upon its abundant natural resources, Canadas long and complex relationship with the United States has had a significant impact on its economy and culture. Canada is a country and has the tenth highest nominal per capita income globally as well as the ninth highest ranking in the Human Development Index. It ranks among the highest in international measurements of government transparency, civil liberties, quality of life, economic freedom, Canada is an influential nation in the world, primarily due to its inclusive values, years of prosperity and stability, stable economy, and efficient military. While a variety of theories have been postulated for the origins of Canada. In 1535, indigenous inhabitants of the present-day Quebec City region used the word to direct French explorer Jacques Cartier to the village of Stadacona, from the 16th to the early 18th century Canada referred to the part of New France that lay along the St. Lawrence River. In 1791, the area became two British colonies called Upper Canada and Lower Canada collectively named The Canadas, until their union as the British Province of Canada in 1841. Upon Confederation in 1867, Canada was adopted as the name for the new country at the London Conference. The transition away from the use of Dominion was formally reflected in 1982 with the passage of the Canada Act, later that year, the name of national holiday was changed from Dominion Day to Canada Day
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Nashville, Tennessee
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Nashville is the capital of the U. S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in the central part of the state. The city is a center for the music, healthcare, publishing, banking and transportation industries and it is known as a center of the country music industry, earning it the nickname Music City, U. S. A. Since 1963, Nashville has had a consolidated city-county government which includes six municipalities in a two-tier system. Nashville is governed by a mayor, vice-mayor, and 40-member Metropolitan Council, thirty-five of the members are elected from single-member districts, five are elected at-large. Reflecting the citys position in government, Nashville is home to the Tennessee Supreme Courts courthouse for Middle Tennessee. According to 2015 estimates from the U. S. Census Bureau, the balance population, which excludes semi-independent municipalities within Nashville, was 654,610. The 2015 population of the entire 13-county Nashville metropolitan area was 1,830,345, the 2015 population of the Nashville-Davidson–Murfreesboro–Columbia combined statistical area, a larger trade area, was 1,951,644. The town of Nashville was founded by James Robertson, John Donelson, and it was named for Francis Nash, the American Revolutionary War hero. Nashville quickly grew because of its location, accessibility as a port on the Cumberland River, a tributary of the Ohio River. By 1800, the city had 345 residents, including 136 African American slaves and 14 free blacks, in 1806, Nashville was incorporated as a city and became the county seat of Davidson County, Tennessee. In 1843, the city was named the permanent capital of the state of Tennessee, by 1860, when the first rumblings of secession began to be heard across the South, antebellum Nashville was a prosperous city. The citys significance as a port made it a desirable prize as a means of controlling important river. In February 1862, Nashville became the first state capital to fall to Union troops, the state was occupied by Union troops for the duration of the war. Within a few years after the Civil War, the Nashville chapter of the Ku Klux Klan was founded by Confederate veteran John W. Morton, meanwhile, the city had reclaimed its important shipping and trading position and developed a solid manufacturing base. The post–Civil War years of the late 19th century brought new prosperity to Nashville and these healthy economic times left the city with a legacy of grand classical-style buildings, which can still be seen around the downtown area. Circa 1950 the state approved a new city charter that provided for the election of city council members from single-member districts. This change was supported because at-large voting diluted the minority populations political power in the city and they could seldom gain a majority of the population to support a candidate of their choice
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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci
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Professional wrestling
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Professional wrestling is a dramatized athletic performance that portrays a combat sport. Various forms of weaponry are sometimes used, the content – including match outcomes – is scripted and choreographed, and the combative actions and reactions are performed to appear violent without injuring the wrestlers. Before the 1980s, these facts were considered trade secrets, in the mid-90s, the presentation of scripted events as legitimate is known as kayfabe. Although the combative content is staged and communicated between the wrestlers, there are physical hazards involved - including permanent injury and death. While it has declined in Europe, in North America it has experienced several different periods of prominent cultural popularity during its century. The advent of television gave professional wrestling a new outlet, unlike in Europe, show wrestling has become especially prominent in Japan and in North America. In Brazil, there was a popular wrestling television program from the 1960s to the early 1980s called Telecatch. High-profile figures in the sport have become celebrities or cultural icons in their native or adopted home countries, although professional wrestling started out as petty acts in sideshows, traveling circuses and carnivals, today it is a billion-dollar industry. Revenue is drawn from live event ticket sales, network television broadcasts, pay-per-view broadcasts, personal appearances by performers, branded merchandise, pro wrestling was also instrumental in making pay-per-view a viable method of content delivery. Annual shows such as WrestleMania, SummerSlam, Royal Rumble, and formerly Bash at the Beach, Halloween Havoc, home video sales dominate the Billboard charts Recreational Sports DVD sales, with wrestling holding anywhere from 3 to 9 of the top 10 spots every week. Due to its persistent cultural presence and to its novelty within the performing arts, there have also been many fictional depictions of wrestling, the 2008 film The Wrestler received several Oscar nominations and began a career revival for star Mickey Rourke. Because actual events are often co-opted by writers for incorporation into storylines for the performers, special care must be taken when talking about people who perform under their own name. The actions of the character should be considered fictional events, wholly separate from the life of the performer and this is similar to other entertainers who perform with a persona that shares their own name. Some wrestlers will incorporate elements of their real-life personalities into their characters, even if they and those who participated felt that it was necessary that spectators should be kept in a constant and complete illusion of a real competition to keep audience interest. For decades, up until the mid-1980s, wrestlers lived their lives as though they were their characters. Wrestlers, bookers and promoters all rigorously enforced the illusion and very few were allowed into the society of professional wrestling to maintain suspension of disbelief. The practice of keeping the illusion, and the methods used to do so, came to be known as kayfabe within wrestling circles. An entire lexicon of slang jargon and euphemism developed to allow performers to communicate without outsiders knowledge of what was being said, occasionally a performer will deviate from the intended sequence of events
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Glossary of professional wrestling terms
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Professional wrestling has accrued a considerable nomenclature throughout its existence. Much of it stems from the origins in the days of carnivals and circuses. In the past, professional wrestlers used such terms in the presence of fans so as not to reveal the nature of the business. In recent years, widespread discussion on the Internet has popularized these terms, many of the terms refer to the financial aspects of professional wrestling in addition to performance-related terms. A-show A wrestling event where a companys biggest draws wrestle, a-team A group of a wrestling promotions top stars who compete at an A-show. Abort To discontinue a feud, angle, or gimmick suddenly, usually without explanation or due to a lack of fan interest, ace A term typically only used in Japanese puroresu for a wrestler designated as the face of the promotion. Not necessarily the same as the top champion, examples of modern aces include Hiroshi Tanahashi in New Japan Pro Wrestling and Suwama in All Japan Pro Wrestling. Agent A management employee, often a former wrestler, who helps set up matches, plans storylines. Often acts as a liaison between wrestlers and higher-level management, referred to as producers by WWE and sometimes by other companies. Sometimes they help train and teach younger active wrestlers and give criticism, Alliance A cooperative relationship developed between two or more wrestlers, whether wrestling as a tag team or in individual matches. Alliances are often formed for the purpose of retaining titles between the members of the alliance, or to counter a specific foe or group of foes. The formation of an alliance can be a storyline of its own, an angle usually begins when one wrestler attacks another, which results in revenge. An angle may be as small as a match or a vendetta that lasts for years. It is not uncommon to see an angle become retconned due to it not getting over with the fans, Apter mag An old-style professional wrestling magazine that sticks to kayfabe articles. The term refers to the magazines at one time connected to journalist Bill Apter, B-show A wrestling event featuring the middle and lower-level talent of a wrestling promotion. Sometimes includes well-known wrestlers making a return or finishing up their career, b-team The group of wrestlers on a B-show. Babyface A wrestler positioned as a hero, who the crowd are typically cheering for in a match, often simply known as a face. Beat down A situation in which a wrestler or other performer is the recipient of a one-sided beating, blading A wrestler intentionally cutting themself to provoke bleeding
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Vancouver
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Vancouver is a coastal seaport city in Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the most populous city in the province, the 2016 census recorded 631,486 people in the city, the Greater Vancouver area had a population of 2,463,431 in 2016, making it the third largest metropolitan area in Canada. Vancouver has the highest population density in Canada with over 5,400 people per square kilometre. With over 250,000 residents, Vancouver municipality is the fourth most densely populated city in North America behind New York City, San Francisco, and Mexico City according to the 2011 census. In that census, Vancouver was one of the most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities in Canada, Vancouver is classed as a Beta global city. In 2014, following thirty years in California, the annual TED conference made Vancouver its indefinite home, several matches of the 2015 FIFA Womens World Cup were played in Vancouver, including the final at BC Place Stadium. From that first enterprise, other stores and some hotels quickly appeared along the waterfront to the west, Gastown became formally laid out as a registered townsite dubbed Granville, B. I. As of 2014, Port Metro Vancouver is the third largest port by tonnage in the Americas, 27th in the world, the busiest and largest in Canada, and the most diversified port in North America. While forestry remains its largest industry, Vancouver is well known as an urban centre surrounded by nature, archaeological records indicate the presence of Aboriginal people in the Vancouver area from 8,000 to 10,000 years ago. The city is located in the territories of the Squamish, Musqueam. They had villages in various parts of present-day Vancouver, such as Stanley Park, False Creek, Kitsilano, Point Grey, the city takes its name from George Vancouver, who explored the inner harbour of Burrard Inlet in 1792 and gave various places British names. The explorer and North West Company trader Simon Fraser and his became the first known Europeans to set foot on the site of the present-day city. In 1808, they travelled from the east down the Fraser River, perhaps as far as Point Grey. The Fraser Gold Rush of 1858 brought over 25,000 men, mainly from California, to nearby New Westminster on the Fraser River, on their way to the Fraser Canyon, a sawmill established at Moodyville in 1863, began the citys long relationship with logging. It was quickly followed by mills owned by Captain Edward Stamp on the shore of the inlet. This mill, known as the Hastings Mill, became the nucleus around which Vancouver formed, the mills central role in the city waned after the arrival of the Canadian Pacific Railway in the 1880s. It nevertheless remained important to the economy until it closed in the 1920s. The settlement which came to be called Gastown grew up quickly around the original makeshift tavern established by Gassy Jack Deighton in 1867 on the edge of the Hastings Mill property
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British Columbia
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British Columbia is the westernmost province of Canada, with a population of more than four million people located between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains. British Columbia is also a component of the Pacific Northwest and the Cascadia bioregion, along with the U. S. states of Idaho, Oregon, Washington and Alaska. The first British settlement in the area was Fort Victoria, established in 1843, subsequently, on the mainland, the Colony of British Columbia was founded by Richard Clement Moody and the Royal Engineers, Columbia Detachment, in response to the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush. Port Moody is named after him, in 1866, Vancouver Island became part of the colony of British Columbia, and Victoria became the united colonys capital. In 1871, British Columbia became the province of Canada. Its Latin motto is Splendor sine occasu, the capital of British Columbia remains Victoria, the fifteenth-largest metropolitan region in Canada, named for the Queen who created the original European colonies. The largest city is Vancouver, the third-largest metropolitan area in Canada, the largest in Western Canada, in October 2013, British Columbia had an estimated population of 4,606,371. British Columbia evolved from British possessions that were established in what is now British Columbia by 1871, First Nations, the original inhabitants of the land, have a history of at least 10,000 years in the area. Today there are few treaties and the question of Aboriginal Title, notably, the Tsilhqotin Nation has established Aboriginal title to a portion of their territory, as a result of the recent Supreme Court of Canada decision. BCs economy is diverse, with service producing industries accounting for the largest portion of the provinces GDP and it is the endpoint of transcontinental railways, and the site of major Pacific ports that enable international trade. Though less than 5% of its vast 944,735 km2 land is arable and its climate encourages outdoor recreation and tourism, though its economic mainstay has long been resource extraction, principally logging, farming, and mining. Vancouver, the provinces largest city and metropolitan area, also serves as the headquarters of many western-based natural resource companies and it also benefits from a strong housing market and a per capita income well above the national average. The Northern Interior region has a climate with very cold winters. The climate of Vancouver is by far the mildest winter climate of the major Canadian cities, the provinces name was chosen by Queen Victoria, when the Colony of British Columbia, i. e. the Mainland, became a British colony in 1858. The current southern border of British Columbia was established by the 1846 Oregon Treaty, British Columbias land area is 944,735 square kilometres. British Columbias rugged coastline stretches for more than 27,000 kilometres and it is the only province in Canada that borders the Pacific Ocean. British Columbias capital is Victoria, located at the tip of Vancouver Island. Only a narrow strip of the Island, from Campbell River to Victoria, is significantly populated, much of the western part of Vancouver Island and the rest of the coast is covered by thick, tall and sometimes impenetrable temperate rainforest
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Metropolis (Superman)
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Metropolis is a fictional city appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, best known as the home of Superman. First appearing by name in Action Comics #16, Metropolis is depicted as a prosperous and massive city in the Northeastern United States, within close proximity to Gotham City. The co-creator and original artist of Superman, Joe Shuster, modeled the Metropolis skyline after Toronto, since then, however, the look and feel of Metropolis has been greatly influenced by New York City. Within the DC Universe, Metropolis is depicted as being one of the largest and wealthiest cities in the world, Superman co-creator Joe Shuster moved to Cleveland at age ten, where he met co-creator and Ohio native Jerry Siegel. Action Comics #2, however, mistakenly portrays Clark Kent as a reporter for the Cleveland Evening News, in Superman #2, Metropolis was actually placed in the US state of New York, making it the earliest specific reference to the location of Metropolis. In that issue, Clark Kent sends a telegram to George Taylor, in the 1940s Superman cartoons, produced by Paramount Pictures and Fleischer Studios, Superman is said to live on the island of Manhattan. In the seventh cartoon of the series, Electric Earthquake, a Native American mad scientist claims that his people are the owners of Manhattan. Metropolis is even seen spelled out twice on the Metropolis Munition Works and that same column stated that Green Arrows home, Star City, was in Connecticut, Flashs Central City was in Ohio, and Hawkmans Midway City was in Michigan. An earlier issue of DCs fanzine Amazing World of DC Comics, however, stated that Metropolis was located in Delaware, the 1990 Atlas of the DC Universe role playing game supplement, published by Mayfair Games, states that Metropolis is in Delaware. The most blatant of these might be the statement he cites from Action Comics #143, the Statue of Liberty, in fact, stands in New York Harbor. In the pre-Crisis on Infinite Earths comics, Smallville was often shown as being within driving distance of Metropolis, John Byrnes 1986 revamp of Superman cited the city as being in Kansas. The beam from that machine is depicted originating from the area of the mid-western United States where Kansas is located, in the second part of the episode Last Son of Krypton when Lois is introduced to Clark Kent, she is told he is from Smallville, she replies Smallville. Never heard of it, prompting Clark Kent to ask her if she had ever been to Kansas, Lois replies God No. while turning her head in a sign of visible disgust. Frank Miller has said that Metropolis is New York in the daytime, Gotham City is home to Batman, whose activities are more often nocturnal, while Metropolis is home to Superman, who usually operates during the day. New York City has been recently used as a locale in the DC Universe, like the Marvel Universe, in which it exists as a separate city from Metropolis. The Justice Society of America, for example, is based in New York, Metropolis is frequently depicted as being within driving distance of Gotham City, home of Batman. This happens, for example, in the three-issue 1990 mini-series of Worlds Finest Comics by Dave Gibbons, Steve Rude, in Bronze Age stories that depicted Metropolis and Gotham City as twin cities, the Metro-Narrows Bridge was said to be the main route connecting Metropolis to Gotham City. A similar map appeared in The New Adventures of Superboy #22, 1990s The Atlas of the DC Universe also places Metropolis in Delaware and Gotham City in New Jersey
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Orient
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The Orient is the East, traditionally comprising anything that belongs to the Eastern world, in relation to Europe. In English, it is largely a metonym for, and coterminous with, the term Orient derives from the Latin word oriens meaning east. Also, many ancient temples, including temples and the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem, were built with their main entrances facing the East. This tradition was carried on in Christian churches, to situate them in such a manner was to orient them in the proper direction. When something was facing the direction, it was said to be in the proper orientation. Another explanation of the stems from Rome during the Roman Empire, specifically the Eastern Roman Empire, or the Roman Orient. Although the original East-West line was the Italian Peninsulas East Coast, the opposite term Occident derives from the Latin word occidens, meaning west. This term meant the west but has fallen into disuse in English, over time, the common understanding of the Orient has continually shifted eastwards, as European people traveled farther into Asia. It finally reached the Pacific Ocean, in what Westerners came to call the Far East and these shifts in time and identification sometimes confuse the scope of Oriental Studies. Yet there remain contexts where the Orient and Oriental have kept their older meanings, travelers may again take the Orient Express train from Paris to its terminus in the European part of Istanbul, a route established in the early 20th century. In European historiography, the meaning of the Orient changed in several times. Originally, the referred to Egypt, the Levant. During the 1800s, India, and to a lesser extent China, by the mid-20th century, Western scholars generally considered the Orient as just East Asia, Southeast Asia, and eastern Central Asia. As recently as the early 20th century, the term Orient often continued to be used in ways that included North Africa, today, the term primarily evokes images of China, Korea, Japan, Vietnam, and peninsular Southeast Asia. Throughout the history of the sense of the term, the Orient was never equivalent to Asia as a whole. The Orient being largely a term, large parts of Asia—Siberia most notably—were excluded from the scholarly notion of the Orient. Equally valid terms for the Orient still exist in the English language in such collocations as Oriental studies, the adjectival term Oriental has been used by the West to mean cultures, peoples, countries, Asian rugs, and goods from the Orient. It is a designation for anything belonging to the Orient or East
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Waldo Von Erich
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Walter Paul Sieber was a Canadian professional wrestler under the ring name Waldo Von Erich. He was billed as the brother of Fritz Von Erich, but was not related to Fritz or the rest of the Von Erich family. Walter Paul Sieber was born in Toronto on October 2,1933 and he also was into bodybuilding, swimming, and weight training. Sieber became a wrestler at the age of 17. He began his career in Calgary, wrestling for Stu Harts Stampede Wrestling and he later met Jack Adkisson, and they held the NWA American Tag Team Championship in 1967. As a von Erich, Siebers gimmick was that of a German heel, the height of his success was in the 1960s and 1970s. Sieber, now using the ringname Waldo Von Erich, also had success as a singles wrestler and he worked in singles matches for the World Wide Wrestling Federation. As a part of the WWWF, he wrestled Bruno Sammartino for the WWWF Championship in both the 1960s and the 1970s and he was also co-holder of the U. S. Tag Team Championship with Gene Kiniski, after his WWWF run, he continued to have success as a singles and tag team wrestler, holding championships in various promotions. He also had a feud with Tony Atlas in Georgia in the late 1970s. His last sitnt in WWWF was from 1974 to 1975, after attempting a retirement in 1973, Sieber retired in 1979. After his retirement from in-ring action, Sieber became the president of the Ontario-based promotion, ICW, two of his star pupils included Tyson Dux and Brian Cannon, who became known as the masked wrestler Kijimuna in Okinawa Pro and New Japan. He toured Australia in 1966,1969,1973 and 1974, Sieber was the only child of Paul Sieber Sr. an immigrant from Germany, and his wife, the former Romanian Anna Yost. He was married for 29 years before divorcing, he has three daughters from that marriage, Sieber died on July 5,2009, aged 75, in hospital in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada after falling earlier that day. Wrestling Canadian Hall of Fame, Waldo Von Erich Canadian Pro Wrestling Page Of Fame, Waldo Von Erich
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Scott D'Amore
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Scott Francis DAmore is a Canadian professional wrestler, manager, promoter, booker and entrepreneur. He currently is the Vice President Of International Relations with Impact Wrestling where he worked from 2003-2010 as a member of the creative team. He was also the head of the creative team. He also owns and books Border City Wrestling and Prime Time Wrestling, DAmore began training with Doug Chevalier in 1991 at the age of sixteen. He debuted on June 14,1992, defeating Otis Apollo in Amherstburg, in 1993 he underwent further training under Irish Mickey Doyle, Denny Kass and Al Snow. He went on to work for World Championship Wrestling and the World Wrestling Federation as an enhancement talent from June 1993 to early 1996, while working for WCW, he frequently trained at the WCW Power Plant. DAmore worked for a range of independent promotions, in 1995 DAmore toured Germany with the World Cup of Wrestling. In 1996 he toured Japan with Wrestle Association R and England with the English Wrestling Federation, later that year he formed a tag team with Dave Clark as Scott Hunter known as Gross Misconduct, with the duo depicting ice hockey players. In 1996 he briefly traded his hockey stick for a club and became Chip Birdy. DAmore began working as a booker and producer for promotions throughout Canada, DAmore founded Border City Wrestling in 1993 along with Doug Chevalier and Chuck Fader. He began booking in 1994 when Chevalier left the area, and took over the promotion of the company when Fader resigned in 2000, in February 2000, DAmore formed a stable known as The Syndicate when he allied himself with Rhino to defeat DLo Brown. The Syndicate eventually expanded to include Arrogant Otis Apollo, Johnny Swinger, Fantasy, BCW ceased operations for several months in late 2000, before coming back in 2001. The first show of 2001 was held on March 7, and featured former Extreme Championship Wrestling talent including Tommy Dreamer, Johnny Swinger, Mikey Whipwreck, Sabu, Don Cyrus Callis, all the aforementioned held titles in BCW. In addition to promoting and wrestling, DAmore operates the Can-Am Wrestling School and he later turned face and began a heated feud with one of his students, A-1, in January 2005 after A-1 interrupted a Hall of Fame ceremony. After being mostly inactive from 2004–2007, DAmore started running events again regularly under the Border City Wrestling banner in 2008, DAmore began working with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, TNA as a road agent in 2003, and brought in Chris Sabin, one of his former pupils. In 2004, DAmore took a role as the coach of Team Canada. The propensity of the TNA character of Coach DAmore to interfere on Team Canadas behalf led to commentator Mike Tenay often referring to him as a big fat load, DAmore led Team Canada to numerous victories, feuding with Jerry Lynn, Dusty Rhodes and Dustin Rhodes. He also began working backstage as a team member and trainer
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Chris Kanyon
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Christopher Morgan Chris Klucsarits was an American professional wrestler. After college, he began training under Pete McKay Gonzalez, Ismael Gerena, Kanyon worked as a physical therapist for the next three years, wrestling on weekends and in the evenings, before finally deciding to become a full-time professional wrestler in 1995. Early in his career, Kanyon formed a tag team with Billy Kidman which saw both men wrestle in hockey uniforms. In late 1994, he made appearances with the World Wrestling Federation as a jobber, facing wrestlers such as Shawn Michaels, Diesel, Tatanka. His friend and future manager James Mitchell saw potential in him and sent him for training with The Fabulous Moolah in South Carolina, Kanyon debuted in World Championship Wrestling as a jobber. After several months he was placed with Mark Starr in a tag team called Men at Work, Kanyon was replaced with Mike Winner before the team disbanded altogether. In 1997, Kanyon donned a mask and was repackaged as Mortis, managed by James Vandenberg, Kanyon feuded with Glacier. Kanyon faced Glacier at Uncensored on March 16 in his pay-per-view debut, following the match, Wrath debuted, siding with Kanyon and assaulting Glacier. Glacier defeated Kanyon in a match at Slamboree on May 18. After the match, Wrath and Mortis once again attacked Glacier, however, Glacier was spared a post-match beating when Ernest Miller ran to the ring to defend him. The four men fought one another over the weeks, culminating in a match at Bash at the Beach on July 13 which was won by Kanyon. Kanyon and Wrath continued to team together until the angle was dropped in late 1997. Kanyon failed to defeat Page for the title on the February 12 episode of Thunder, the Triad feuded with Saturn and Chris Benoit over the Tag Team Championship, defeating them for the title on June 13 in the Baltimore Arena at The Great American Bash. During their reign, they were given dispensation by WCW President Ric Flair to defend the title as a three-man unit. However, the ruling was overturned by Flairs replacement Sting, and Kanyon, Kanyon returned to WCW in late 1999 as Chris Champagne Kanyon, abbreviated to C. C. K. Accompanied by J. Biggs, his agent, and two former Nitro Girls, Baby and Chameleon and he claimed that he had become acclimatised to the glamor of Hollywood and thus began indulging in luxuries such as champagne, women, and expensive cars. He feuded briefly with Bigelow and Page before being removed from WCW by interim booker Kevin Sullivan, Kanyon returned to WCW once more on April 10,2000, when Vince Russo replaced Sullivan. Kanyon saved Page, but Awesome turned his attention to Kanyon, throwing him off the cage onto the ramp below
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WWE
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Capitol Wrestling Corporation Ltd. was an American professional wrestling promotion and the sanctioning body for the World Wide Wrestling Federation and later World Wrestling Federation. Founded by Jess McMahon and Toots Mondt in 1953, Capitol Wrestling Corporation is the precursor to todays WWE, run by Jess grandson, Jess McMahon was a successful boxing promoter who began working with Tex Rickard in 1926. With the help of Rickard, he began promoting boxing at the third Madison Square Garden, a few years prior, professional wrestler Toots Mondt had created a new challenge of professional wrestling that he called “Slam Bang Western Style Wrestling”. He convinced wrestler Ed Lewis and his manager Billy Sandow to implement this new solution, after much success, a disagreement over power caused the trio to dissolve and, with it, their promotion. Mondt later formed partnerships with other promoters, including Jack Curley in New York City. Mondt eventually took over the New York wrestling scene, due to the fact Curley was dying, with the aid of several bookers, together, McMahon and Mondt created the Capitol Wrestling Corporation Ltd. which later joined the National Wrestling Alliance in 1953. In November 1954, Jess McMahon died and Ray Fabiani, one of Mondts associates, both men left the company in protest following the incident and formed the WWWF in the process, awarding Rogers the new WWWF World Heavyweight Championship in April of that year. He lost the championship to Bruno Sammartino a month later on May 17,1963, after gaining a television program deal and turning preliminary wrestler Lou Albano as a manager for Sammartinos heel opponents, the WWWF was doing sell out business by 1970. Mondt left the company in the late 1960s and although the WWWF had withdrawn from the NWA, Vince McMahon, at the annual meeting of the NWA in 1983, the McMahons and WWF employee Jim Barnett all withdrew from the organization. By March 1979, for marketing purposes, the World Wide Wrestling Federation was renamed the World Wrestling Federation and that same year, Vincent J. McMahons son, Vincent K. McMahon, founded Titan Sports, Inc. incorporated on February 21,1980, originally in Massachusetts. In 1982, Titan Sports Inc. acquired Capitols operations, effectively relocating its headquarters to Greenwich, in an attempt to make the WWF the premier wrestling promotion in the world, McMahon began an expansion that fundamentally changed the industry. In the end, the elder McMahon would never live to see his company grow from a promotion to what is now a worldwide organization. He died from cancer at 69 years old on May 24,1984. By 1985, Titan moved to Stamford, Connecticut then establishing a new entity in 1987 in Delaware which later merged with the old company in 1988. Titan later changed its name to World Wrestling Federation Entertainment, Inc. before finally becoming World Wrestling Entertainment, list of independent wrestling promotions in the United States
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SmackDown (WWE brand)
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WWE SmackDown, also currently referred to as SmackDown Live or simply SmackDown, is a professional wrestling television program that debuted on August 26,1999. The shows name is used to refer to the SmackDown brand, in which WWE employees are assigned to work and perform on that program, currently the other brands are Raw. SmackDown is currently broadcast live on Tuesday nights on the USA Network, debuted in the United States on the UPN television network on April 29,1999, but after the merger of UPN and the WB, SmackDown. Began airing on The CW in September 2006, the show was moved to MyNetworkTV in October 2008, to Syfy on October 1,2010 and to USA Network on January 7,2016. It complements Raw as the second of WWEs two main weekly programs, for international broadcast listings, see below. The show celebrated its 15th anniversary on October 10,2014, the early set included an oval-shaped TitanTron entrance and stage which made it stand out from the Raw set with its rectangular Titantrons. Later productions gained the ability to move the Ovaltron either to the left or to the right of the stage, throughout the shows early existence, The Rock routinely called SmackDown. His show, in reference to the fact that the name was derived from one of his catchphrases, in August 2001, as part of celebrating SmackDown. s second anniversary, the show received a new logo and set. As a result of that incident, a new set debuted the week and it consisted of a fist centered above the entrance. In March 2002, WWE underwent the brand extension, a process in which WWE divided itself into two branches with separate rosters, storylines and authority figures, the two divisions, hosted by and named after Raw and SmackDown. The split resulted from WWE purchasing its two biggest competitors, World Championship Wrestling and Extreme Championship Wrestling, and the subsequent doubling of its roster, Michael Cole was joined in commentary by Tazz on April 4,2002 until June 9,2006. Cole and Tazz also appeared as the commentators on February 22,2001 through June 28,2001, wrestlers began to wrestle exclusively for their specific show. At the time, this excluded the WWE Undisputed Championship and Womens Championship, in August 2002, then WWE Undisputed Champion, Brock Lesnar, refused to defend the title on Raw, in effect causing his title to become exclusive to SmackDown. Following this, the Womens Championship soon became a Raw exclusive as well, as a result of the brand extension, an annual draft was instituted to exchange members of each roster and generally refresh the lineups. SmackDown was the brand for many top WWE stars including Eddie Guerrero, The Undertaker, Kurt Angle, Big Show. Guerrero would go on to become the WWE Champion as part of the show, thus becoming the feature of SmackDown throughout 2004. The biggest star of the decade, John Cena, started his WWE career on this show. He won his first WWE Championship during his tenure on the brand, on June 6,2005, then WWE Champion John Cena switched brands from SmackDown. to Raw as part of the month-long draft lottery
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NXT Tag Team Championship
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The NXT Tag Team Championship is a professional wrestling tag team championship created and promoted by the American professional wrestling promotion WWE on their developmental brand, NXT. Introduced on January 23,2013, the champions were the British Ambition. The current champions are The Authors of Pain, who are in their first reign, the championship was introduced on the January 23,2013, episode of NXT where it was announced by special guest Shawn Michaels that there would be a tournament to crown the inaugural champions. On January 31,2013, the British Ambition defeated The Wyatt Family to become the inaugural champions. However, in the first defense of the title, Neville and Bo Dallas defended the NXT Tag Team title against the Wyatt Family due to Grey being injured, Dallas was not recognized as champion. On June 20, Neville and Corey Graves defeated The Wyatt Family for the titles, on June 8,2016, The Revival became the first team to hold the championship on more than one occasion when they defeated American Alpha at NXT TakeOver, The End. On April 1,2017, at WrestleMania Axxess, NXT General Manager William Regal announced that all of the NXT titles would be redesigned, the new titles were unveiled at NXT TakeOver, Orlando that same night and given to the winners of their respective matches. The NXT Tag Team Championships that were introduced at TakeOver, Orlando were designed by WWE, as of April 6,2017, there have been 11 different championship teams, and 21 individual champions with the team of The Revival holding the most reigns at two. Individually, Adrian Neville, Dawson, and Wilder have the most reigns, the inaugural champions were the British Ambition. The team with the longest reign is The Ascension at 364 days, rezar holds the record as the youngest champion at 22, while the oldest is Luke Harper at 33. The Authors of Pain are the current champions in their first reign and they defeated #DIY at NXT TakeOver, San Antonio in San Antonio, TX on January 28,2017. NXT Championship NXT Womens Championship WWE Raw Tag Team Championship WWE SmackDown Tag Team Championship List of current champions in WWE Official NXT Tag Team Championship Title History
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Impact Wrestling
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Impact Wrestling is a privately held American professional wrestling promotion based in Nashville, Tennessee and founded by Jeff and Jerry Jarrett in 2002. The promotion was known as NWA, Total Nonstop Action and was associated with the National Wrestling Alliance. After the agreement ended in 2007, the company created its own TNA World Heavyweight and it is the only major American promotion to predominantly make use of a six-sided wrestling ring. The concept of TNA originated shortly after World Championship Wrestling ended in 2001, bob Ryder, Jeff Jarrett and Jerry Jarrett went on a fishing trip and contemplated their futures in the professional wrestling business. Only one wrestling product remained on United States national television, the World Wrestling Federation, the Jarretts found the financial backing they needed and the company put on its first show on June 19,2002. That night, however, in a match just before they went on the air. The estimated repair time was 30–60 minutes, which they did not have because the schedule called for them to go live in a few minutes, whether the ring was ready or not. Backstage, the producers shuffled the schedule so that some non-wrestling segments went first to give the crew some more time. The ring crew fixed the rope with the help of Ron and Don Harris, initially, TNAs weekly pay-per-view show operated as the companys main source of revenue, in place of monthly pay-per-view events used by other promotions. These shows took place mostly at the Tennessee State Fairground Sports Arena in Nashville, Tennessee, after 27 months and 111 pay-per-view events, TNA began holding a weekly television show and monthly three-hour pay-per-views. The last weekly pay-per-view took place on September 8,2004, Xplosion launched on November 27,2002 as TNAs first regular cable show and featured exclusive matches from the TNA Asylum as well as exclusive interviews with TNA wrestlers. On November 18,2004, the became a recap show of the previous weeks Impact. in light of alterations in the taping schedule. Xplosion resumed airing exclusive matches once more on October 7,2005 in addition to recapping Impact, the Xplosion Xclusives also aired on the now-ceased TNA Global Impact. Airing of Xplosion in the United States ceased at the end of 2006, in May 2004, TNA introduced a television program, Impact. produced at Soundstage 21 at Universal Studios Florida and broadcast on Fox Sports. In November 2004, TNA held the first of these pay-per-views, Victory Road, the television contract with Fox Sports expired in May 2005 and was not renegotiated, leaving TNA without television exposure. This prompted TNA to air Impact, via webcasts – originally made available via BitTorrent and eventually via RealPlayer – and on Urban America Television replacing Xplosion. During this time, TNA continued pursuing a television deal for regular broadcasting, would later secured a deal with Spike TV. In October 2006, TNA began holding select pay-per-views outside of its filming location
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Impact Global Championship
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Global Force Wrestling is an American professional wrestling promotion founded in 2014 by Jeff Jarrett, the co-founder and former President of Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. With Jeff Jarrett out as minority investor of TNA Wrestling, he debuted the branding of Global Force Wrestling in April 2014, since that time, he has been promoting the brand and establishing international partnerships with wrestling promotions across the world. The organization has a partnership with 25/7 Productions and David Broome. Broome has stated that the plans to create new on-air content 52 weeks per year. The Wrestle Kingdom 9 event reportedly drew 12,000 to 15,000 buys in North America, in that shows main event, Bullet Club members Karl Anderson and Doc Gallows defeated the New Heavenly Bodies. The inaugural television tapings took place at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas, the first three events were taped on July 24,2015, August 21,2015, and October 23,2015. On May 6,2015, Jarrett announced talent for their upcoming TV tapings, which include Bullet Club members Karl Anderson and Doc Gallows, the Killer Elite Squad, on May 11,2015, GFW announced the rest of their roster. The next day, GFW announced that four champions would be crowned at the July 24 tapings in Las Vegas, after returning to TNA in early 2017 as the promotions chief creative officer, Jarrett stated that GFW and the newly renamed Impact Wrestling were becoming one day-by-day. On July 9,2015, Jeff Jarrett announced that the name of the GFWs television program was Amped, the inaugural television tapings took place at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. The first three events occurred on July 24,2015, August 21,2015 and October 23,2015, throughout May 2015, GFW announced their roster for the first TV tapings. In a December 2015 interview, Jeff Jarrett said that they had sixteen one-hour shows filmed at the Las Vegas tapings and that it hoped to have the shows air globally on television in the future. GFW announced that they had signed an international TV distribution deal with Boulder Creek TV in the UK on September 14,2015, list of independent wrestling promotions in the United States Official website
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Impact X Division Championship
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The Impact Wrestling X Division Championship, formerly TNA X Division Championship, is a professional wrestling championship owned by the Impact Wrestling promotion. It debuted on June 19,2002 at the taping of then-TNAs second weekly pay-per-view event, like most professional wrestling championships, the title is won as a result of a scripted match. There have been 68 reigns among 30 wrestlers, the title has previously been known as the TNA X Division Championship, the NWA X Championship, the NWA–TNA X Championship, and the NWA–TNA X Division Championship. J. Styles, Jerry Lynn, and Low Ki, later that day at the taping of the next weekly PPV event, TNA introduced the X Division Championship—then known as the X Championship—to showcase the division more prominently. The division was until 2011 promoted under the motto It is not about weight limits, in October 2012, the weight limit was officially repealed when 237 lb Rob Van Dam challenged for, and eventually won, the title at Bound for Glory. In March 2013, the X Division was given a new set of rules, which meant all matches were wrestled in Triple Threat format, and this proved to be extremely unpopular with fans, and the rules and weight limit were repealed once again in August of that year. The Total Nonstop Action X Division has multiple styles of match types used to showcase the talent within the division, three of the matches used in TNA are the Ultimate X match, The Steel Asylum, and the Xscape match. The Ultimate X match was introduced in 2003 and it involves multiple competitors racing to retrieve the X Division Championship or a giant red letter X, which is suspended above the ring by two cables. The cables are attached to posts that stand behind the turnbuckles of the ring and these cables intertwine to form an X over the center of the ring. This match has become successful in TNA, it was featured in the 2008 DVD TNA, Ultimate Matches, the Steel Asylum made its debut in May 2008 at TNAs Sacrifice PPV event, under the name The TerrorDome. It was used again in October 2008 at their Bound for Glory IV PPV event, under the new. As of April 2017, this match has only used to determine the number one contender to the TNA X Division Championship. The layout of the match involves the ring being surrounded by a giant red steel barred cage with a domed ceiling, the only way to achieve victory is to escape the cage through a hole in the center of the ceiling. The Xscape match is the third specialty match primarily used in TNA and it is held annually at TNAs Lockdown PPV event in April—an all–steel cage format PPV event. The first two Xscape matches were held to determine the number one contender to the TNA X Division Championship, while, since 2007, the contest involves four to six participants. To win this match, two or more participants—depending on how many are involved in the encounter—must be eliminated by pinfall or submission leaving only two participants and these two men then race to see who escapes the cage first to claim victory. The championship was created and debuted before the event at the taping of TNAs second weekly PPV event on June 19,2002. Afterwards, the title was renamed the NWA–TNA X Division Championship and this is the oldest title in TNA
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TNA Television Championship
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The TNA Television Championship was a professional wrestling championship owned by the Total Nonstop Action Wrestling professional wrestling promotion. It was introduced on the October 23,2008 episode of TNAs television program TNA Impact. as the TNA Legends Championship and it was later known as the TNA Global Championship and the TNA King of the Mountain Championship. The title appeared in Global Force Wrestling, during a talent exchange partnership, as a professional wrestling championship, it was won via a scripted ending to a match or awarded to a wrestler because of a storyline. All title changes occurred at TNA-promoted events, reigns that occurred on TNA Impact. or its later title Impact Wrestling, usually aired on tape delay. The first champion was Booker T, the final champion was Lashley, as the title was retired on August 12,2016. There were a total of 25 reigns among 19 wrestlers, the title was introduced during a storyline that pitted young talent within the company against veterans of professional wrestling. In the weeks leading up to the unveiling of the physical belt, on the October 23,2008, episode of Impact. Booker T introduced the belt by removing it from the briefcase, announcing its name as the TNA Legends Championship, and declaring himself the first champion. He went on to state that the championship was his and that he would defend it when he saw fit, on March 15,2009, at TNAs Destination X pay-per-view event, A. J. Styles defeated Booker T to win the championship, afterwards on the March 19,2009, episode of Impact. Styles was credited as becoming the first-ever TNA Grand Slam Champion, by winning the World Heavyweight, the World Tag Team, the TNA X Division Championship, on the October 29,2009, episode of Impact. Then-champion Eric Young renamed the title the TNA Global Championship and he went on to declare that he was not going to defend it against any American wrestlers nor on American soil. However, Youngs first defense was on the December 10,2009, episode of Impact. in Orlando, on the July 22,2010, episode of Impact. Terry lost the Global Championship to A. J, styles then renamed the title the TNA Television Championship on the July 29,2010, episode of Impact. On the April 19,2012, episode of the newly titled Impact Wrestling, the weekly title defenses lasted until the June 21,2012, episode of Impact Wrestling. On July 3,2014, TNA Executive Director Kurt Angle declared the championship inactive, the title was reactivated on June 25,2015, by TNA under the new name the TNA King of the Mountain Championship. TNA announced that a new champion would be determined in a King of the Mountain match at their Slammiversary PPV event on June 28, jeff Jarrett defeated Matt Hardy, Eric Young, Drew Galloway, and Bobby Roode to win the newly titled championship at the event. Due to Jarrett having founded and currently running GFW, it was suspected in the storyline that Jarrett may defend the championship in that promotion, the title ended up appearing in GFW at a July 9 live event where Young attacked Jarrett and stole the championship belt
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NWA World Tag Team Championship
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The NWA World Tag Team Championship is the main professional wrestling world tag team championship of the National Wrestling Alliance. The first of these NWA World Tag Team Championships was created in 1950 in the San Francisco territory, in 1982 Big Time Wrestling, based in Los Angeles, California, closed and abandoned their version of the championship. This meant that only the Jim Crockett Promotions NWA World Tag Team Championship was active, in 1991 that championship was renamed the World Championship Wrestling Tag Team Championship. Initially the NWA worked with WCW, but in 1993 the two severed their collaboration and the NWA took the tag team championship from WCW, the NWA would briefly allow the World Wrestling Federation to control the championship in in 1998 but by 1999 that collaboration ended. In 2002 the NWA gave full control of the NWA World Tag Team Championship to the newly formed NWA Total Non-Stop Action promotion, tNAs control of the championship ended in 2007, with TNA creating the TNA World Tag Team Championship as a result. In subsequent years the championship has been defended on various continents including a period of time where it was held by teams working for New Japan Pro Wrestling. The current champions are the team of Kazushi Miyamoto and Rob Terry, Miyamoto and Terry are the 83th officially recognized champions due to the NWA not recognizing the five reigns in WCW. The Skullcrushers held the championship for 777 days, making them the longest reigning champions in the history of the NWA board recognized championship, three different team has held the championship for just one day, David Flair and Dan Factor, Glacier and Jason Sugarman and The Heatseekers. Those two championships were controlled by the board, who would meet to vote on who should be given the championship next and this meant that each territory was free to create their own World Tag Team Championship as they saw fit and use it within their territory without board approval. History records do not indicate that Blears and Laytham had actually won the championship elsewhere, from mid-1953 the championship became the main tag team championship of the Illinois/Wisconsin territory. In 1954 the Montreal, Québéc, Canada based Canadian Athletic Promotion used the NWA World Tag Team Championship name as well, but by the end of the year they had abandoned the championship. The promoters billed Joe Tangaroa and Guy Brunetti as the champions, recognizing the championship of the Chicago version up until September 1955. 1955 was also the year that the first of two Texas based NWA World Tag Team Championships as the Amarillo, Texas based Big Time Wrestling, owned by Doc Sarpolis and Dory Funk. They followed in the footsteps of other NWA territories by having the Chicago champions travel to their territory to lose a version of the championship to start the local version, in this case Neilsen worked regularly in the territory, while Lisowski left after only a brief stay. The promoters chose to have Rip Rogers replace Lisowski for the Amarillo version of the champions, another version was introduced around 1955/1956 in the Idaho / Utah territory based out of Salt Lake City. Three additional versions of the championship were introduced in 1957, the first of which was in Minneapolis, the second new championship was also the second Texas based championship as the eastern Texas based Houston/Dallas territory introduced Verne Gagne and Wilbur Snyder as their local champions. The third championship introduced in 1957 was used by Nick Gulas NWA Mid-America promotion when Gulas introduced The Corsicans as champions when they made their debut for NWA Mid-America. In 1959/1960 the unity of the NWA was strained as several promotions broke away from the NWA, while the NWA lost some territories with the exodus to the AWA others were added and additional NWA World Tag Team Championships were still being introduced
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Bobby Roode
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Robert Bobby Roode Jr. is a Canadian professional wrestler currently signed to WWE performing in its developmental territory, NXT, where he is the current NXT Champion in his first reign. He is best known for his 12-year tenure working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling from 2004 to 2016, Roode debuted as part of Team Canada in 2004, becoming a NWA World Tag Team Champion with Eric Young. After exploring a run after the teams breakup, he formed a successful pairing with James Storm as Beer Money. Together with Storm, he is a six-time TNA World Tag Team Champion and he subsequently defeated Storm to become TNA World Heavyweight Champion and became the longest reigning champion in the companys history, at 256 days. Roode was trained in his hometown of Peterborough, Ontario by fellow Ontarians Sean Morley and he completed his training after a year and wrestled his debut match in June 1998 as Total Lee Awesome against Pete Rock. He then went on to work for various Canadian independent promotions, as well as making appearances for the Puerto Rican promotion and he also went on to work a series of dark matches for World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment between 1998 and 2004 before he was signed by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. He later rejoined them as a part of their Wrestling Reality show to be aired on The Fight Network, however, while in TNA, Roode also wrestled for BSE Pro in Ontario, Border City Wrestling in Windsor, Ontario and at NWA Shockwave in New Jersey. He is the former BCW Can-Am Heavyweight Champion, on March 18,2006, he won the NWA Shockwave Internet Championship from Josh Daniels at an NWAS/New York Wrestling Connection cross-promotional event. Eight days later, on March 26, Roode won the vacant NWA Shockwave Heavyweight Championship at Disturbing the Peace 2006 in a four-way match, Roode held both titles until May 21, when he dropped the Internet title and successfully defended the Heavyweight title against Slyck Wagner Brown. Due to the restarting of the company, all of the NWA Cyberspace championships were vacated, Roode performed for the World Wrestling Federation numerous times between 2001 and 2004. On the February 3,2001 episode of Jakked/Metal he competed under the ring name Rudy Rude where he lost to Perry Saturn, on March 18,2002 he teamed with Kingman to face Billy Kidman and Tommy Dreamer in a dark match loss. On the November 3,2002 episode of Sunday Night Heat he teamed with Mark Maraculi to face 3-Minute Warning in another loss and he appeared on the March 2,2003 episode of Heat facing Al Snow in a losing effort. On the July 12,2003 episode of Velocity he faced Sean OHaire in a loss, on the July 13,2003 episode of Heat he teamed with Tyson Dux in a losing effort against La Résistance. On the August 23,2003 episode of Velocity he teamed with Eric Young in a loss against The Full Blooded Italians, on the October 11,2003 episode of Velocity he lost to Billy Kidman. On the October 26,2003 episode of Heat he teamed with Arch Kincaid to face The Hurricane, on November 3,2003, he was in a dark match before Raw, where he lost to Eric Young. In another dark match on November 6 before SmackDown, in May 2004, Roode was brought into Total Nonstop Action Wrestling by Scott DAmore, the owner of Border City Wrestling, a Canadian independent promotion for which Roode had worked on occasion. Roode debuted in TNA as part of the Team Canada stable, and took part in the World X-Cup, Team Canada went on to feud with 3Live Kru and Americas Most Wanted. As the biggest and most powerful member of Team Canada at the time, Roode acted as the enforcer of the group, a role popularised by Arn Anderson
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Impact World Tag Team Championship
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Global Force Wrestling is an American professional wrestling promotion founded in 2014 by Jeff Jarrett, the co-founder and former President of Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. With Jeff Jarrett out as minority investor of TNA Wrestling, he debuted the branding of Global Force Wrestling in April 2014, since that time, he has been promoting the brand and establishing international partnerships with wrestling promotions across the world. The organization has a partnership with 25/7 Productions and David Broome. Broome has stated that the plans to create new on-air content 52 weeks per year. The Wrestle Kingdom 9 event reportedly drew 12,000 to 15,000 buys in North America, in that shows main event, Bullet Club members Karl Anderson and Doc Gallows defeated the New Heavenly Bodies. The inaugural television tapings took place at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas, the first three events were taped on July 24,2015, August 21,2015, and October 23,2015. On May 6,2015, Jarrett announced talent for their upcoming TV tapings, which include Bullet Club members Karl Anderson and Doc Gallows, the Killer Elite Squad, on May 11,2015, GFW announced the rest of their roster. The next day, GFW announced that four champions would be crowned at the July 24 tapings in Las Vegas, after returning to TNA in early 2017 as the promotions chief creative officer, Jarrett stated that GFW and the newly renamed Impact Wrestling were becoming one day-by-day. On July 9,2015, Jeff Jarrett announced that the name of the GFWs television program was Amped, the inaugural television tapings took place at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. The first three events occurred on July 24,2015, August 21,2015 and October 23,2015, throughout May 2015, GFW announced their roster for the first TV tapings. In a December 2015 interview, Jeff Jarrett said that they had sixteen one-hour shows filmed at the Las Vegas tapings and that it hoped to have the shows air globally on television in the future. GFW announced that they had signed an international TV distribution deal with Boulder Creek TV in the UK on September 14,2015, list of independent wrestling promotions in the United States Official website
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Frankie Kazarian
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Frank Benedict Frankie Gerdelman is an American professional wrestler. He is signed with Ring of Honor under the ring name Frankie Kazarian and is a two-time ROH World Tag Team Champion with Christopher Daniels. He is best known for his work with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, under the ring names Kazarian and Kaz, he also wrestled under the gimmick of Suicide. Kazarian also wrestled in the independent promotion Pro Wrestling Guerrilla, where he is a two time world champion, having won the PWG World Championship in 2003 and 2004. Also, he is the inaugural PWG World Champion when he won the Bad Ass Mother tournament, Kazarian is also a five-time TNA X Division Champion and a three-time TNA World Tag Team Champion. Kazarian began training with Killer Kowalski in Malden, Massachusetts in 1998 and that fan was none other than Kazarian himself. In 2000, Kazarian joined Ultimate Pro Wrestling, and in March 2001 he formed a tag team with Nova known as Evolution. On March 10,2001, he became the first Millennium Pro Wrestling World Champion by defeating Christopher Daniels, on May 30,2001, Evolution won the vacant Ultimate Pro Wrestling Tag Team title. He travelled to Japan as part of the Ultimate Pro Wrestling roster in 2002, where he faced Steve Corino and he used to freestyle rap along with his close friends John Cena and Samoa Joe while the three of them were on the road in UPW. Kazarian also worked for Pro Wrestling Guerrilla, and won a tournament to become the first ever PWG Champion on August 30,2003 and he held the title until February 22,2004 when he was defeated by Adam Pearce. On July 10,2004, he became their first 2-time champion, however and he would hold the title until November 13, when he was defeated by Super Dragon. Kazarian knew TNA President Jeff Jarrett and Scott DAmore during a World Wrestling Association tour, Kazarian joined Total Nonstop Action Wrestling in the summer of 2003, and quickly began pursuing the TNA X Division Championship. He was part of the first ever Ultimate X match, on August 20,2003 along with Michael Shane and Chris Sabin, Kazarian did not appear with TNA between October 2003 and March 2004. In June 2004 he and Shane formed a tag team managed by Traci Brooks and they claimed to resent the fact that A. J. Styles had held the TNA X Division Championship, then the NWA World Heavyweight Championship, on July 28,2004, he and Shane faced Styles in an Ultimate X match. Kazarian and Shane were declared co-champions when both took possession of the belt at the same time. On August 11 they defended the title in a twenty two man Gauntlet for the Gold match, Kazarian started at number one and was one of the final three participants, but was eliminated by The Amazing Red, who in turn was eliminated by Petey Williams. Kazarian was put in the situation at Novembers Victory Road where he entered number one in a 20-man X Division Gauntlet and was the last man eliminated
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The Band (professional wrestling)
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The Band was a professional wrestling stable in the Total Nonstop Action Wrestling promotion. The Band debuted in 2010 when, weeks prior to the debut of Hulk Hogan in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, on the January 4,2010, live Impact. Monday night three-hour special, Sean Waltman and Scott Hall made their returns to TNA and with Nash had sought to rehash, to some extent, their invasive alliance and this was the first time in over eight years the members had been seen together at a wrestling event. Hogan conceded the others were his brothers 4 life, however, he would decline the offer, Eric Bischoff then came down and clarified that in partnering with Hogan to run the talent department, everyone would have to earn their spots in the company. The following week, The Band attacked Beer Money, Inc, on the following episode of Impact. Hogan told Nash, Hall and Syxx-Pac that their attitude towards their pay-per-view return was disrespectful and he added that since Hall and Syxx-Pac did not have TNA contracts, they were ordered to leave the company. Despite this, Hall and Syxx-Pac kept on returning to the Impact, zone for random attacks and on the February 4 episode of Impact. Hall and Syxx-Pac turned on Nash and beat him down, in the end, Nash turned on Young and gave Hall and Syxx-Pac the victory. Beginning in late March, the group began using their old moniker of the Wolfpac. TNA was able to do this since the Wolfpac intellectual property was not acquired by the WWF upon its purchase of WCW in 2001, on the March 29 episode of Impact. Nash offered Young a spot in the Wolfpac, Young refused the offer and in the main event of the evening, teamed up with Rob Van Dam and Jeff Hardy to defeat the Wolfpac in a six-man tag team steel cage match. During the episode, Bubba also debuted as the personal interviewer. At Lockdown, Nash defeated Young in a cage match. Later in the night, Nash replaced Syxx-Pac, who no-showed the event, and teamed up with Hall in a St. Louis Street Fight, where they were defeated by Team 3D. It was later reported that Waltman had let TNA know days in advance that he was not cleared to wrestle by the Missouri State Commission and was not going to be able to attend the event, on the April 26 episode of Impact. Waltman was found lying backstage in a pool of his own blood, the following week, Eric Young turned on Team 3D and revealed himself as the surprise third member of the Wolfpac, replacing Syxx-Pac. On May 4, at the tapings of the May 13 episode of Impact. After TNA World Tag Team Champion Matt Morgan had been attacked by Samoa Joe, Nash cashed in his Feast or Fired contract, teaming with Hall, at the event, Nash and Hall defeated Ink Inc
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Kevin Nash
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Kevin Scott Nash is an American professional wrestler, actor, and retired basketball player, currently signed to WWE under their Legends program. Nash has wrestled under several ring names, but is best known for his work under his name in World Championship Wrestling. Nash also found success in the World Wrestling Federation, where he was billed as Diesel. In 1994, Nash won all three titles comprising the WWF Triple Crown, and at that years Slammy Awards won the MVP and Best Tag Team awards. Between WWE, WCW, and TNA, Nash has won a total of 21 championships, including being a world champion. Although he held the WWF World Heavyweight Championship only once, Nashs 358-day reign is the longest of the 1990s, during his time in WCW, Nash became the first wrestler to defeat Goldberg and in the process ended his undefeated streak of 173–0 at Starrcade in 1998. Nash was a member of The Kliq, a backstage group that included Shawn Michaels, Triple H, Scott Hall. He is also one of the three founding members of the New World Order, along with Hulk Hogan and Scott Hall, Nash was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2015. Nash was born on July 9,1959, to a devout Christian family, in southwest Detroit, Nashs father, Robert, died of a heart attack on April 4,1968, aged 36, when Nash was eight years old. On December 27,1994, Nashs mother, Wanda, died after a struggle against breast cancer. He attended Aquinas High School, followed by the University of Tennessee, at the University of Tennessee, Nash was a center for the Tennessee Volunteers basketball team. He remained on the team from 1977 to 1980, during which time the team made it to the NCAA Sweet 16, Nash reconsidered his options and instead moved to Europe, where he played basketball professionally for various teams. His career ended in 1981 in Germany when he tore his cruciate ligament. After working on a line at Ford Motor Company and as the floor manager of a strip club in Atlanta, Georgia. Nash debuted in World Championship Wrestling as the orange-mohawked Steel, one half of the tag team known as the Master Blasters. He was initially partnered Master Blaster Iron, with whom he made his debut at the Clash of the Champions on September 5,1990, defeating Brad Armstrong, at the following Worldwide taping on September 7, the Masters Blasters began a feud with Tim Horner and Mike Rotundo. They would defeat Horner and Rotundo on several house shows, on September 22, Nashs partner Master Blaster Iron was replaced by Blade. The reconstituted Master Blasters continued their streak in October
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Scott Hall
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In addition, Hall is a two-time world champion, having won the WWC Universal Heavyweight Championship and the USWA Unified World Heavyweight Championship. He is also notable for being a member of the New World Order. On April 5,2014, Hall was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame, Hall grew up as an army brat and moved once every year before he was fifteen. Hall began his career in 1984 in the National Wrestling Alliances Florida territory Championship Wrestling from Florida and he and Dan Spivey trained together in Florida. When it was time for the two to debut as a tag team, Rhodes sent them to work in Jim Crocketts Charlotte and they debuted as American Starship, Hall under the ring name Starship Coyote and Spivey under the ring name Starship Eagle. At first, American Starship were booked to wrestle infrequently, so much so that the two were given ground crew jobs for the Charlotte Orioles, when they did get in the ring, it was with little success. The highlight of their stay in Crockets Mid Atlantic Championship Wrestling was a challenge to Arn. After leaving Crockett, the duo joined Bob Geigels NWA Central States territory in 1985 and they received a shot at NWA Central States Tag Team Champions Marty Jannetty and Bulldog Bob Brown, but lost the match. Dan Spivey’s stay in the Central States territory was brief and he returned to the Carolinas and Crockett, jobbing in the freshly rebranded Jim Crockett Promotions as American Starship Eagle. Hall, meanwhile, stayed in Central States, receiving a solid push, Hall joined the American Wrestling Association in 1985, where he wrestled as Magnum Scott Hall and, later, Big Scott Hall. He wrestled as a babyface wrestler, verne Gagne, the owner and promoter of the AWA, had wanted to push Hall to the same heights as he had Hulk Hogan, following Hogans departure for Vince McMahons World Wrestling Federation. Gagne had Hall use mannerisms and moves similar to Hogan, Hall formed a tag team with his more experienced friend Curt Hennig, whom he later would credit for cultivating his early professional wrestling career. The team defeated Jimmy Garvin and Steve Regal for the AWA World Tag Team Championship on January 18,1986, in a 58-minute match in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The champions defended against such challengers as Buddy Rose and Doug Somers, Nord the Barbarian and Boris Zhukov and they lost the belts to Rose and Somers by countout on May 17, after interference by Colonel DeBeers. After losing the title, Hall and Hennig soon parted ways, Hall then received shots at the AWA World Heavyweight Championship, against Stan Hansen and Rick Martel. Although Gagne wanted to put the belt on Hall, Hall hated the cold weather in the territory, recognized the AWA as a sinking ship, the AWA folded the following year. Hall was brought into the NWAs World Championship Wrestling territory by Jim Ross in 1989, as part of the NWAs initiative to develop new, young stars. His first and only appearance during this time was at The Great American Bash, The Glory Days
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TNA Knockouts Tag Team Championship
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The TNA Knockouts Tag Team Championship was a womens professional wrestling tag team championship owned by the Total Nonstop Action Wrestling promotion. It was contested for mainly by teams consisting of two wrestlers in TNA, known as the TNA Knockouts, in TNAs womens division, however. The creation of the championship was announced on August 20,2009 during a segment on TNAs primary television program TNA Impact. Like most professional wrestling championships, the title is won via the result of a scripted match, Sarita and Taylor Wilde were the inaugural champions. They won a tournament to crown the first champions. The final champions were ODB and Eric Young, who held the titles for a record 478 days and this ultimately resulted in the titles being deactivated, as its no longer listed among TNAs active championships. TNAs first womens accomplishment was announced at TNAs first weekly pay-per-view event on June 19,2002 and it was called the Miss TNA crown. The holder of the crown was determined in a battle royal on June 19,2002. The participants in the match were Alexis Laree, Elektra, Erin Bray, Francine, Miss Joni, Sasha, Shannon, Taylor Vaughn, Vaughn last eliminated Elektra to win the crown. The TNA Knockout of the Year is another award in TNA given to the knockout who achieved the most or had the best run that year, the most recent Knockout of the Year was Gail Kim in 2007, no award was given out in 2008. Ms. Brooks, Christy Hemme, Awesome Kong, Roxxi Laveaux, Talia Madison, Shelly Martinez, Jackie Moore, ODB, two DVDs on the topic of the TNA Knockouts have been released by TNA. The first was named Knockouts, The Ladies of TNA Wrestling Vol.1 and was released on August 29,2006, knocked Out, The Women of TNA Wrestling was the second, being released on October 7,2008. On the August 20,2009 episode of Impact. with Kong and Raisha Saeed facing Brooks, Kong and Saeed wound up winning the match, and moving to the next round of the tournament. On the September 3 episode of Impact, the team of Hemme and Tara defeated the team of Hamada and Sojournor Bolt to move onto round two of the tournament. The team of Sarita and Taylor Wilde defeated Alissa Flash and Daffney to also advance to round two, later in that same episode, Angelina Love and Velvet Sky defeated the team of Madison Rayne and Roxxi. Round two began on the September 17 episode of Impact. with the encounters of Kong and Saeed versus Sarita and Wilde and The Beautiful People versus Hemme, the first bout pitted Hemme and Tara against The Beautiful People, with the latter being victorious. Sarita and Wilde won the second encounter over Kong and Saeed, the finals for the tournament were then set for TNAs No Surrender PPV event, with The Beautiful People versus Sarita and Wilde. Tournament Bracket The actual physical title belts were first shown at No Surrender, the belts introduced have a red strap with two small gold plates and one large gold plate
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ODB (wrestler)
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Jessica Nora Kresa is an American professional wrestler, referee, bartender and actress better known as ODB, currently signed to Impact Wrestling. She is a four-time TNA Womens Knockout Champion, and a TNA Knockouts Tag Team Champion, Kresa has an athletic background in ice hockey, which her father encouraged her to pursue. She was the captain of the first girls team at her high school and she began watching professional wrestling as a child, and watching wrestlers such as The Killer Bees. She originally desired to be on the show American Gladiators and she hired a personal trainer in anticipation of her wrestling training. Kresa tried out for the first season of the World Wrestling Federation s reality show and she made the top 25, but missed the final cut for the show. Back home in Minnesota, she began training and was wrestling in independent wrestling promotions in the Midwest, facing male wrestlers such as Ken Anderson. Kresa received her first national exposure in early 2003 as ODB and she returned to TNA in early 2004 as Poison, and was placed in a brief feud with Trinity. She appeared again in TNA during October 2004 and defeated Tracy Brooks, on June 5,2006, Kresa debuted in Ohio Valley Wrestling as a villain under the ring name ODB, losing to Daisy Mae. Three days later, she lost to Mae in a rematch, after losing to Mae in a tag team match on June 9, ODB finally defeated her in a tag team match on June 16. She then defeated her in a match on June 28 to culminate their feud. On July 12,2006, ODB began declaring herself as the Womens Champion and she repeatedly cut promos saying that she was the new Womens Champion, and OVW owner Danny Davis conceded and recognized the Womens Championship as an official title. ODB lost her title to Serena Deeb in a match on September 13,2006. In the spring of 2007, ODB won the first ever Miss OVW crown with help from Victoria Crawford. After Deeb dropped the title to Katie Lea, ODB engaged in a feud with her which a led to a match between the two on June 1,2007, where ODB regained her title and ended Leas reign. ODB lost her title for the time when she dropped it to Milena Roucka in a six-way match on September 19,2007. Kresa was contacted by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling to appear at their annual pay-per-view Bound for Glory and she made her in-ring re-debut at the event, participating in a 10-Knockout gauntlet match to crown the first-ever Knockout Champion. She was eliminated by Roxxi Laveaux, and the match was won by Gail Kim. She was originally booked as a villain in the womens division, on the January 3,2008 episode of Impact
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Grand Slam (professional wrestling)
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The Grand Slam is an accomplishment in professional wrestling. It is a given to a professional wrestler who has won four specific championships within a promotion throughout the course of their career. National promotions that recognize this include WWE and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, notable independent promotions include Florida Championship Wrestling. The four titles typically feature three levels of singles championships and a tag team championship and these singles championships include a primary, secondary, and tertiary championship. In WWE, the term Grand Slam was originally used by Shawn Michaels to describe himself upon winning the European Championship on September 20,1997, Michaels previously held the WWF Championship, Intercontinental Championship, and the Tag Team Championship with Diesel. In May 2001, WWF. com indicated that the Hardcore Championship was a substitute for the European Championship in the Grand Slam. In April 2006, Kurt Angle was noted as being a former Grand Slam winner on WWE, in August 2007, WWE. com published an article listing Shawn Michaels championship reigns that completed the Grand Slam. They included the WWE, World Heavyweight, World Tag Team, Intercontinental, the inclusion of the World Heavyweight Championship indicated that WWE considered the title to be an acceptable substitute for the WWE Championship in completing the Grand Slam. Booker T became the second star acquired by the purchase to complete the Grand Slam when he defeated Rey Mysterio for the World Heavyweight Championship at The Great American Bash in July 2006, Booker has held the World Tag Team, Intercontinental, and Hardcore titles. Seven wrestlers have been recognized as Grand Slam winners under these new parameters, as of April 6,2017,15 wrestlers have been recognized as WWE Grand Slam winners under its various incarnations. In Florida Championship Wrestling, WWEs former developmental territory, a Grand Slam winner was a wrestler who had won every championship that was available in FCW, all FCW titles were retired when FCW changed its name to NXT. The first Total Nonstop Action Wrestling Grand Slam winner was crowned on March 15,2009 at TNAs Destination X pay-per-view event, at said event, then three-time TNA Triple Crown champion A. J. Styles defeated Booker T for the TNA Legends Championship, on the March 19 episode of TNAs primary television program, TNA Impact. Announcer Mike Tenay stated that Styles had become the first TNA Grand Slam winner by capturing the World Heavyweight, World Tag Team, TNA X Division, the following is a list of TNA Grand Slam winners with dates indicating when the wrestler first won the respective championship. Under TNAs definition of the Grand Slam, wrestlers are eligible to be a multiple Grand Slam winner each time they complete a new circuit. Styles has won the Grand Slam on more than one occasion, on August 15,2016, the TNA King of the Mountain Championship was once again retired when Lashley unified the title into his TNA World Heavyweight Championship. As a result of which, once again, the number of potential Grand Slam Champions in TNA is limited to former Legends/Global/Television/King of the Mountain Champions and it is unknown at this time if the Impact Grand Championship is considered as an acceptable tertiary championship for the Grand Slam
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The TNA Front Line
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The TNA Front Line was a heroic alliance in the professional wrestling promotion Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. They were also known as The TNA Originals and they feuded with The Main Event Mafia. The next week, Scott Steiner joined the Mafia, the following week Samoa Joe and A. J. Styles asked the younger talent in TNA to join them against the Main Event Mafia, at this point, they were called the TNA Originals. Later in the event, after his match with Abyss, Kurt Angle attacked Abyss, Booker T and Kevin Nash then came to help Angle, and A. J. Styles, Samoa Joe and the members of the Front Line came out to help Morgan. Initially gaining the upper hand, they were attacked by Scott Steiner who was revealed to be the member of the Main Event Mafia. At Turning Point, Styles was defeated by Sting in the main event, another match at the event was Christian Cage against Booker T. The stipulation was that if Cage lost than he would have to join the Main Event Mafia, Cage lost, but he was attacked by the Main Event Mafia who said it was because he was planning to leave TNA. Because of the attack, Cage’s real life friend Rhino joined the talent, becoming leader. Rhino had not been with the Front Line for when he began training Jesse Neal to become a pro wrestler, Angle and the Main Event Mafia then attempted to recruit Team 3D. Team 3D appeared to join the Main Event Mafia but turned face by double crossing the Mafia and jumping them along with TNA Front Line leaders Samoa Joe and they also attempted to put former ally Kurt Angle through a table. The Front Line then formed alliances with other wrestlers, primarily Mick Foley, Jeff Jarrett, petey Williams, however, was released from TNA, thus removing him from the alliance. ODB was with the Front Line when it first formed and she joined to feud with Sharmell of the Main Event Mafia. She has not been a Front Line member since she paired up with Cody Deaner, while the groups stand remained active in TNA, their status was in question. Only Mick Foley, Jeff Jarrett, and A. J, Styles were still involved in feuds with the Main Event Mafia. All the other members had become involved in different storylines. The Frontline name was rarely if ever mentioned for a period of months
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Secondary school
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A secondary school is both an organization that delivers level 2 junior secondary education or level 3 secondary education phases of the ISCED scale, and the building where this takes place. Level 2 junior secondary education is considered to be the second, Secondary schools typically follow on from primary schools and lead into vocational and tertiary education. Attendance is compulsory in most countries for students between the ages 11 and 16, the systems and terminology remain unique to each country. School building design does not happen in isolation, schools need to accommodate students, staff, storage, mechanical and electrical systems, storage, support staff, ancillary staff and administration. The number of rooms required can be determined from the roll of the school. A general classroom for 30 students needs to be 55m2, or more generously 62m2, a general art room for 30 students needs to be 83m2, but 104 m2 for 3D textile work. A drama studio or a specialist science laboratory for 30 needs to be 90 m2, examples are given on how this can be configured for a 1,200 place secondary. The building providing the education has to fulfil the needs of, The students, the teachers, the support staff, the adminstrators. It has to should meet health requirements, minimal functional requirements- such as classrooms, toilets and showers, electricity, textbooks, Government accountants having read the advice then publish minimum guidelines on schools. These enable environmental modelling and establish building costs. Future plans are audited to ensure that standards are not exceeded. The UK government published this downwardly revised space formula in 2014 and it said the floor area should be 1050m² +6. 3m²/pupil place for 11- to 16-year-olds + 7m²/pupil place for post-16s. The external finishes were to be downgraded to meet a build cost of £1113/m², a secondary school, locally may be called high school, junior high school, senior high school. Sweden, gymnasium Switzerland, gymnasium, secondary school, collège or lycée Taiwan, Junior High School, Senior High School, Vocational High School, Military School, in Nigeria, secondary school starts from JSS1 until SSS3. Most students start at the age of 10 or 11 and finish at 16 or 17, Students are required to sit for the West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination. To progress to university students must obtain at least a credit in Maths, English, in Somalia, secondary school starts from 9th grade until 12th. Students start it when they are around 14 to 15 years of age, Students are required to study Somali and Arabic, with the option of either English or Italian depending on the type of school. Religion, chemistry, physics, biology, physical education, textile, art, design, when secondary school has been completed, students are sent to national training camp before going to either college, or military training. In South Africa, high school begins at grade 8, Students study for five years, at the end of which they write a Matriculation examination
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Cambridge, Ontario
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Cambridge is a city located in Southern Ontario at the confluence of the Grand and Speed rivers in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. It was formed in 1973 by tan amalgamation of the Galt, Preston, Hespeler, the settlement of Blair, the first mayor of Cambridge was Claudette Millar. The former Galt covers the largest portion of Cambridge, making up the half of the city. The former Preston and Blair are located on the side of the city. Even today, though many residents refer to their area of Cambridge as being Galt or Preston or Hespeler, each unique centre has its own history that is well documented in the Cambridge City Archives. As Cambridge has developed and the spaces between the original municipalities have been filled in, a fourth commercial core, entirely modern in its construction, has emerged. The Macdonald-Cartier Freeway Highway 401 runs through its midst, in the late 1700s, developers began to buy land around the Grand River from the Six Nations Indians who were led by Joseph Brant. One speculator, William Dickson, an immigrant from Scotland, bought 90,000 acres of land along the Grand River in 1816, this was later to become Galt. Dickson divided the land and sold lots, particularly to Scottish settlers. The centre of the community was at the junction of Mill Creek. Dickson decided to name the Post Office Galt, in honour of John Galt of the Canada Company which was developing this entire area, primarily agricultural in early years, Galt had attracted industry by 1840 and became the largest town in the Grand River area until the early 1900s. The town continued to grow however, based on an industrial base. The largest of the schools in the community, the Galt Grammar School. The school gained recognition and attracted students from across North America. By 1872, it had recognized as a Collegiate Institute. Galt was incorporated as a town on January 1,1857, by 1858, a Town Hall and Market House had been built with an Italianate, particularly Tuscan, influence. In later years, the became the City Hall and was extensively modified. Galt was incorporated as a town in 1857, throughout that entire period, it continued to grow based on a large industrial base
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Benton Harbor, Michigan
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Benton Harbor is a city in Berrien County in the U. S. state of Michigan which is located west of Kalamazoo, and northwest of South Bend, Indiana. In 2010, the population was 10,038 according to the census and it is the smaller, by population, of the two principal cities in the Niles–Benton Harbor Metropolitan Statistical Area, an area with 156,813 people. Benton Harbor and the city of St. Joseph are separated by the St. Joseph River and are known locally as the Twin Cities, fairplain and Benton Heights are unincorporated areas adjacent to Benton Harbor. Benton Harbor was founded by Henry C, Morton, Sterne Brunson and Charles Hull, who all now have or have had schools named after them. Benton Harbor was mainly swampland bordered by the Paw Paw River, through which a canal was built, in 1860, the village was laid out by Brunson, Morton, Hull and others, and given the name of Brunson Harbor. Brunson, Morton, and Hull also donated land and solicited subscriptions for construction of the canal and it had long been recognized that a canal would be crucial to the towns development, both to drain the marsh and to provide a berthing area for ships. The canal, originally 25 feet in width but expanded to 50 feet in 1868, in 1865, the name of the settlement was changed to Benton Harbor in honor of Thomas Hart Benton, a Missouri Senator who helped Michigan achieve statehood. In 1869, Benton Harbor was organized as a village and in 1891 was incorporated as a city, two major riots occurred in 1966 and 2003. Several other riots have occurred in the intervening period. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 4.68 square miles. Benton Harbor has a continental climate that has very warm summers for the type. Due to lake-effect snow there is very high relative to precipitation in winter. Summer high temperatures range from 77 to 83 °F from June to August, the demographics of Benton Harbor contrast sharply with those across the river in St. Joseph. As of the census of 2010, there were 10,038 people,3,548 households, the population density was 2,265.9 inhabitants per square mile. There were 4,329 housing units at a density of 977.2 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 7. 0% White,89. 2% African American,0. 3% Native American,0. 1% Asian,0. 8% from other races, hispanic or Latino of any race were 2. 2% of the population. 28. 6% of all households were made up of individuals and 6. 9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.77 and the average family size was 3.41. The median age in the city was 28.3 years
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Pizza
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Pizza is a yeasted flatbread generally topped with tomato sauce and cheese and baked in an oven. It is commonly topped with a selection of meats, vegetables, the term was first recorded in the 10th century, in a Latin manuscript from Gaeta in Central Italy. The modern pizza was invented in Naples, Italy, and the dish and its variants have become popular. In 2009, upon Italys request, Neapolitan pizza was safeguarded in the European Union as a Traditional Speciality Guaranteed dish, the Associazione Verace Pizza Napoletana is a non-profit organization founded in 1984 with headquarters in Naples. It promotes and protects the true Neapolitan pizza, Pizza is sold fresh or frozen, either whole or in portions, and is a common fast food item in Europe and North America. Various types of ovens are used to them and many varieties exist. Several similar dishes are prepared from ingredients used in pizza preparation, such as calzone. Suggested etymologies include, Byzantine Greek and Late Latin pitta > pizza, modern Greek pitta bread and the Apulia and Calabrian pitta, a round flat bread baked in the oven at high temperature sometimes with toppings. The word pitta can in turn be traced to either Ancient Greek πικτή, fermented pastry, the Lombardic word bizzo or pizzo meaning mouthful, which was brought to Italy in the middle of the 6th century AD by the invading Lombards. Foods similar to pizza have been made since the neolithic age, Records of people adding other ingredients to bread to make it more flavorful can be found throughout ancient history. An early reference to a pizza-like food occurs in the Aeneid, in Book VII, Aeneas and his men are served a meal that includes round cakes topped with cooked vegetables. When they eat the bread, they realize that these are the tables prophesied by Celaeno, modern pizza evolved from similar flatbread dishes in Naples, Italy in the 18th or early 19th century. Prior to that time, flatbread was often topped with ingredients such as garlic, salt, lard, cheese and it is uncertain when tomatoes were first added and there are many conflicting claims. Until about 1830, pizza was sold from open-air stands and out of pizza bakeries, of the three different pizzas he created, the Queen strongly preferred a pizza swathed in the colors of the Italian flag, red, green, and white. Supposedly, this kind of pizza was named after the Queen. Pizza was brought to the United States with Italian immigrants in the nineteenth century. The countrys first pizzeria, Lombardis, opened in 1905, following World War II, veterans returning from the Italian Campaign after being introduced to Italys native cuisine proved a ready market for pizza in particular. Since then pizza consumption has exploded in the U. S, Pizza chains such as Dominos, Pizza Hut, and Papa Johns, pizzas from take and bake pizzerias, and chilled or frozen pizzas from supermarkets make pizza readily available nationwide
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Horse tack
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Tack is a piece of equipment or accessory equipped on horses in the course of their use as domesticated animals. Saddles, stirrups, bridles, halters, reins, bits, harnesses, martingales, equipping a horse is often referred to as tacking up. A room to store equipment, usually near or in a stable, is a tack room. Some western saddles will also have a second strap known as a flank or back cinch that fastens at the rear of the saddle, there are many types of saddle, each specially designed for its given task. Saddles are usually divided into two categories, English saddles and Western saddles according to the riding discipline they are used in. Other types of saddles, such as racing saddles, Australian saddles, sidesaddles and they provide greater stability for the rider but can have safety concerns due to the potential for a riders feet to get stuck in them. If a rider is thrown from a horse but has a foot caught in the stirrup, to minimize this risk, a number of safety precautions are taken. First, most riders wear riding boots with a heel and a smooth sole, next, some saddles, particularly English saddles, have safety bars that allow a stirrup leather to fall off the saddle if pulled backwards by a falling rider. Other precautions are done with stirrup design itself, Western saddles have wide stirrup treads that make it more difficult for the foot to become trapped. A number of saddle styles incorporate a tapedero, which is covering over the front of the stirrup that keeps the foot from sliding all the way through the stirrup. The English stirrup has several variations which are either shaped to allow the riders foot to slip out easily or are closed with a very heavy rubber band. The invention of stirrups was of historic significance in mounted combat. Bridles, hackamores, halters or headcollars, and similar equipment consist of arrangements of straps around the horses head. A halter or headcollar consists of a noseband and headstall that buckles around the horses head and allows the horse to be led or tied. The lead rope is separate, and it may be short for everyday leading and tying, or much longer for tasks such as for leading packhorses or for picketing a horse out to graze. Some horses, particularly stallions, may have an attached to the lead rope. Most of the time, horses are not ridden with a halter, as it offers insufficient precision and control. In Australian and British English, a halter is a rope with a running loop around the nose and another over the poll
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Sand casting
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Sand casting, also known as sand molded casting, is a metal casting process characterized by using sand as the mold material. The term sand casting can also refer to an object produced via the casting process. Sand castings are produced in specialized factories called foundries, over 70% of all metal castings are produced via sand casting process. Molds made of sand are relatively cheap, and sufficiently refractory even for steel foundry use, in addition to the sand, a suitable bonding agent is mixed or occurs with the sand. The mixture is moistened, typically water, but sometimes with other substances, to develop the strength and plasticity of the clay. The sand is typically contained in a system of frames or mold boxes known as a flask, the mold cavities and gate system are created by compacting the sand around models, or patterns, or carved directly into the sand. There are six steps in this process, Place a pattern in sand to create a mold, incorporate the pattern and sand in a gating system. Fill the mold cavity with molten metal, break away the sand mold and remove the casting. From the design, provided by an engineer or designer, a pattern maker builds a pattern of the object to be produced, using wood, metal. Sand can be ground, swept or strickled into shape, the metal to be cast will contract during solidification, and this may be non-uniform due to uneven cooling. Therefore, the pattern must be larger than the finished product. Pattern-makers are able to produce suitable patterns using according to the percentage of extra length needed), different scaled rules are used for different metals, because each metal and alloy contracts by an amount distinct from all others. Patterns also have core prints that create registers within the molds into which are placed sand cores, gas and steam generated during casting exit through the permeable sand or via risers, which are added either in the pattern itself, or as separate pieces. In addition to patterns, the sand molder could also use tools to create the holes, a multi-part molding box is prepared to receive the pattern. Molding boxes are made in segments that may be latched to each other, for a simple object—flat on one side—the lower portion of the box, closed at the bottom, will be filled with a molding sand. The sand is packed in through a process called ramming. The surface of the sand may then be stabilized with a sizing compound, the pattern is placed on the sand and another molding box segment is added. Additional sand is rammed over and around the pattern, finally a cover is placed on the box and it is turned and unlatched, so that the halves of the mold may be parted and the pattern with its sprue and vent patterns removed
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Ontario
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Ontario, one of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada, is located in east-central Canada. It is Canadas most populous province by a margin, accounting for nearly 40 percent of all Canadians. Ontario is fourth-largest in total area when the territories of the Northwest Territories and it is home to the nations capital city, Ottawa, and the nations most populous city, Toronto. There is only about 1 km of land made up of portages including Height of Land Portage on the Minnesota border. Ontario is sometimes divided into two regions, Northern Ontario and Southern Ontario. The great majority of Ontarios population and arable land is located in the south, in contrast, the larger, northern part of Ontario is sparsely populated with cold winters and is heavily forested. The province is named after Lake Ontario, a thought to be derived from Ontarí, io, a Huron word meaning great lake, or possibly skanadario. Ontario has about 250,000 freshwater lakes, the province consists of three main geographical regions, The thinly populated Canadian Shield in the northwestern and central portions, which comprises over half the land area of Ontario. Although this area mostly does not support agriculture, it is rich in minerals and in part covered by the Central and Midwestern Canadian Shield forests, studded with lakes, Northern Ontario is subdivided into two sub-regions, Northwestern Ontario and Northeastern Ontario. The virtually unpopulated Hudson Bay Lowlands in the north and northeast, mainly swampy. Southern Ontario which is further sub-divided into four regions, Central Ontario, Eastern Ontario, Golden Horseshoe, the highest point is Ishpatina Ridge at 693 metres above sea level located in Temagami, Northeastern Ontario. In the south, elevations of over 500 m are surpassed near Collingwood, above the Blue Mountains in the Dundalk Highlands, the Carolinian forest zone covers most of the southwestern region of the province. A well-known geographic feature is Niagara Falls, part of the Niagara Escarpment, the Saint Lawrence Seaway allows navigation to and from the Atlantic Ocean as far inland as Thunder Bay in Northwestern Ontario. Northern Ontario occupies roughly 87 percent of the area of the province. Point Pelee is a peninsula of Lake Erie in southwestern Ontario that is the southernmost extent of Canadas mainland, Pelee Island and Middle Island in Lake Erie extend slightly farther. All are south of 42°N – slightly farther south than the border of California. The climate of Ontario varies by season and location, the effects of these major air masses on temperature and precipitation depend mainly on latitude, proximity to major bodies of water and to a small extent, terrain relief. In general, most of Ontarios climate is classified as humid continental, Ontario has three main climatic regions
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Crazzy Steve
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Scott competed in the independent circuit, including Great Canadian Wrestling where he is a one time GCW Tag Team Champion with Gutter. He also won the Maximum Pro Wrestlings Georgian Bay Heavyweight Championship defeating El Tornado on September 10,2011, on November 26,2013 Scott faced Gabriel Saint for the ESW Interstate Championship but failed to win the title. In April 2014, Scott made his TNA debut under his Crazzy Steve persona and became a part of Knuxs The Menagerie stable, on the May 8 episode of Impact Wrestling, The Menagerie made their televised debut with Knux defeating Kazarian in Knuxs return match. The following week, Steve fought Kazarian to a no contest after Steve pantsd the referee in his in-ring debut, on June 15,2014, at Slammiversary XII, Crazzy Steve took part in a 6-way Ladder match for the TNA X Division Championship which was won by Sanada. On the July 17 episode of Impact Wrestling, Steve took part in a Gauntlet Match for the X Division Title which was won by Austin Aries. On the January 23,2015 episode of Impact Wrestling, Steve competed in the Feast or Fired match, the group disbanded after Knux left TNA on May 19,2015. At TNA One Night Only, Live, Steve turned heel after he attacked Tigre Uno after he was eliminated in a match for the X Division Championship. On January 26, 2016s episode of Impact Wrestling, Steve, Abyss and Rosemary attacked TNA World Tag Team Champions The Wolves and stole their titles, thus forming a new stable called Decay. On March 19,2016, Decay defeated Beer Money to win the TNA World Tag Team Championship, on the May 3,2016 episode of Impact Wrestling, Rosemary spit green mist into his face before Abysss match with James Storm. On the May 10 episode of Impact Wrestling, The Decay defeated James Storm, at Slammiversary, The Decay retained the titles against The BroMans. At Bound for Glory, The Decay lost the titles to The Hardys
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Tye Dillinger
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Ronald William Ronnie Arneill is a Canadian professional wrestler, currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown brand, under the ring name Tye Dillinger. Previously, Arneill worked in the independent circuit as Shawn Spears and he also worked with WWE between 2006 and 2008 as Gavin Spears. Born and raised in St. Catharines, Ontario, Arneill attended Laura Secord Secondary School and he played hockey for over ten years until he decided to leave the sport and enter professional wrestling. During his childhood, he was a fan of Rick Rude, Rick Martel, Arneill is a supporter of English football team Chelsea F. C. In February 2005, Arneill made an appearance on an edition of WWE Heat in a tag match against Rosey. After sending a tape to World Wrestling Entertainment officials, Arneill was called for a try-out in Buffalo and he was signed to a developmental contract by WWE following the tryout, on January 21,2006. After signing his WWE contract, Arneill was assigned to the developmental territory. He made his OVW television debut as The Canadian Sensation Shawn Spears, after his victory, Dean attacked Spears until Spears was saved by Al Snow, who fended off Dean with a chair. After his debut, Spears quickly made an impact in OVW with an undefeated streak that was soon ended by Aaron The Idol Stevens when Stevens made Spears submit. After this, Spears formed a tag team with Cody Runnels, on December 15,2006, Spears and Runnels won the title from The Throwbacks. On March 17,2007, Spears won the Television Championship from Boris Alexiev, soon after winning the title, he became more focused on championships and even began trying to steal Runnels Heavyweight Championship opportunity. During Runnels Heavyweight Title match, Spears interfered and performed a piledriver to Runnels, preventing him from winning the Heavyweight Championship, Spears then began feuding with Runnels and eventually lost the Television Championship to him on July 6,2007 before winning it back one week later. He once again lost the title on September 19 to the debuting Ted Manbeast McNailer, Spears later regained the Television Title, only to lose it to Colt Cabana. Spears then began feuding with Cabana and the pair would go on to win the vacant Tag Team Title with on November 7 after defeating Paul Burchill and Stu Sanders. On December 19, Cabana and Spears feud culminated in a match in which the winner would claim the Tag Team titles for themselves. Spears lost to Cabana, who then chose Charles The Hammer Evans as his new tag team partner, nearly a month later, Nemeth and Spears lost the title to Joe Hennig and Heath Miller on September 11. On the August 19 episode of ECW, Spears made his WWE television debut as a heel under the name Gavin Spears as part of Theodore Longs New Superstar Initiative in an effort to Ricky Ortiz. After his ECW debut, Spears began splitting time between ECW and FCW, on the September 2 edition of ECW, Spears was defeated by Super Crazy
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NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship
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The NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship is a professional wrestling championship sanctioned by the National Wrestling Alliance and currently promoted by NWA Mexico. For the majority of its existence was promoted by Mexican promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre and it began as an official National Wrestling Alliance title and was given to the NWAs Mexican affiliate, Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre, to control. The title was promoted in NWA Hollywood Wrestling until its closure in 1982. The title remained under the control of EMLL even after EMLL pulled out of the Alliance, due to its history, it was considered the most important title in EMLL/CMLL. As it is a wrestling championship, it is not won legitimately. The official definition of the heavyweight weight class in Mexico is between 92 kg and 97 kg, but is not always strictly enforced. The first champion was Gypsy Joe, who won the title on November 6,1952, after Stojack was stripped of the title, the NWA Executive board decided to give Salvador Lutteroth and Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre control of the championship in 1958. The first champion under Lutteroths authority was Dory Dixon, who had worked for EMLL for many years. During the late 1970s and early 1980s the title was defended in the Los Angeles area until that promotion closed in the early 1980s. In March 2010, Blue Demon, Jr. the president of NWA Mexico, sent letters to CMLL, NWA Mexico had previously tried to reclaim the three NWA-branded championships promoted by CMLL, but was ignored by CMLL. The promotion did not directly respond to the latest claim either, finally, on August 12,2010, CMLL debuted the new NWA World Historic Light Heavyweight Championship and returned the old title to NWA. There have been a total of 64 reigns shared between 39 wrestlers, ray Mendoza has held the Championship the highest number of times with six title reigns, Gory Guerreros two reigns combined come to 1,963 days, the highest total of any champion. Roddy Piper is the champion with the shortest reign,2 days, Key Key List of National Wrestling Alliance championships Official website NWA Title Histories
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WWE Velocity
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WWE Velocity was a professional wrestling television program produced by World Wrestling Entertainment. It replaced two syndicated WWE shows, Jakked/Metal, once a weekly Saturday night show on Spike TV and on Sky Sports 2 in the UK on Sunday mornings, Velocity became a webcast from 2005 to 2006. The newest episode would be uploaded to WWE. com on Saturdays, older webcast episodes were also archived. It was the show to WWE SmackDown and WWE Raw and was recorded before the television taping of SmackDown. WWE Velocity was primarily used to summarize major occurrences on the latest episode of SmackDown, which aired Thursday and later Friday nights on UPN. Due to the WWE Brand Extension, Velocity aired matches and content from the SmackDown brand, the format was set to mirror that of WWE Heat and its relation to the Raw brand. com. Internationally, Velocity and Heat continued to be broadcast on their respective television networks due to WWEs international programming commitments, the last episode of Velocity aired internationally on June 10,2006. It was also the last episode to be streamed on WWE. com
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Chuck Palumbo
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Charles Chuck Palumbo is an American mechanic, reality television personality and former professional wrestler. He is the host of the Discovery Channel series Lords of the Car Hoards, Chuck Palumbo grew up in Providence, Rhode Island. He attended West Warwick High School, where he earned honors in basketball. He joined the US Navy soon after and spent time in the Persian Gulf and he was initially assigned to an F-18 Hornet squadron VAQ-34 at Lemoore, California before transferring to NAS Miramar in San Diego where he worked on the E-2C Hawkeye. Chuck finished up his stint in the Navy and enrolled at the Community College of Rhode Island earning All-American honors in basketball, while attending Central Missouri, he saw a sign at a WCW event to call a phone number if you wish to become a pro wrestler. He called the number, and after graduating with a Criminal Justice degree, decided to accept their invite to travel to Atlanta, Palumbo began his career in 1998 on the independent circuit, using a surfer gimmick and the ring name The Dude. He made his appearance on World Championship Wrestling s Nitro on October 19,1998 as a fan who accepted the challenge of Ernest The Cat Miller. Six months later, he was offered a contract by WCW in April 1999. Just prior to the hiring of Vince Russo and Ed Ferrera as bookers for WCW, many of the WCW Power Plant wrestlers debuted on Saturday Night, Palumbos initial WCW run was under the name Jungle Jim, his gimmick being a man of the jungle. Palumbo was undefeated in matches on the programs, which were mostly against other Power Plant graduates. In 2000, Palumbo made his debut on the March 22,2000 edition of Thunder under his real name, after this match, Palumbo was chosen by Bischoff and Russo to be the New Bloods version of Lex Luger in May 2000. He was given the nickname The Main Event, Palumbo feuded with Luger until late May 2000 when Palumbo formed a team called The Perfect Event with Shawn Stasiak and the pair won the WCW World Tag Team Championship. Their main feud was against KroniK, in August, Stasiak and Palumbo helped form The Natural Born Thrillers with Mike Sanders, Sean OHaire, Mark Jindrak, and Reno. They were briefly coached by Kevin Nash, after the conclusion of the match Mike Sanders declared both teams victorious and that any combination of the four would face The Insiders. Palumbo and OHaire were the two members of the Natural Born Thrillers who would face and defeat Page and Nash for the tag titles at Sin on January 14,2001. Following the title victory, the Natural Born Thrillers broke up when the team of Jindrak and Stasiak became jealous of Palumbo, the teams faced each other at SuperBrawl Revenge on February 18,2001 for the tag team title, which Palumbo and OHaire retained. The duo also retained the title against Totally Buffed at Greed in March, on the final episode of Nitro, Palumbo and OHaire defeated Team Canadas Mike Awesome and Lance Storm in the final WCW World Tag Team Championship title defense on the program. Palumbo and OHaire made their WWF debuts on the June 28,2001, episode of SmackDown. as part of The Alliance, attacking the Hardy Boyz
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Sean O'Haire
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Sean Christopher Haire was an American professional wrestler, mixed martial artist and kickboxer, better known by his ring name, Sean OHaire. A three time WCW World Tag Team Champion, OHaire was named Rookie of the Year by the Wrestling Observer in 2000, upon retiring from professional wrestling in 2006, OHaire competed in mixed martial arts and kickboxing before becoming a hair stylist. Haire was born in Atlanta, Georgia, but spent most of his childhood in Hilton Head, prior to becoming a wrestler, Haire participated in multiple Toughman competitions. He also owned a fitness center prior to becoming a wrestler, on the July 3 episode of Nitro, OHaire and Jindrak faced the Misfits in Action to determine the number one contenders for the World Tag Team Championship, but were defeated. Despite this, OHaire and Jindrak faced then-World Tag Team Champions KroniK and Vampiro and The Great Muta in a match for the championship. In August, OHaire and Jindrak helped form The Natural Born Thrillers with Mike Sanders, Shawn Stasiak, Chuck Palumbo, Johnny The Bull Stamboli and they were briefly mentored by Kevin Nash. In September, OHaire and Jindrak won the World Tag Team Championship for the first time, OHaire and Jindrak won the title once more before splitting when OHaire and Jindrak participated in a tag team battle royal with the Natural Born Thrillers teammates Stasiak and Palumbo. After the conclusion of the match, Sanders declared both teams victorious and said that the teams should trade partners, as a result, OHaire formed a new tag team with Palumbo, while the second team consisted of Jindrak and Stasiak. Palumbo and OHaire defeated The Insiders in January 2001, a short time later, The Natural Born Thrillers broke up when Stasiak and Jindrak became jealous of Palumbo and OHaires success. The teams met at SuperBrawl Revenge on February 18 for the tag team gold, Palumbo and OHaire retained their titles. OHaire and Palumbo next feuded with Totally Buffed and defeated them at Greed on March 18 to retain the Tag Team Title, over the following two weeks, OHaire and Palumbo feuded with Team Canada, defeating them on the final episode of Nitro on March 26. WCW was purchased by the WWF, and both OHaire and Palumbos contracts were picked up, OHaire and Palumbo made their WWF debuts on the June 28,2001, episode of SmackDown. as part of The Alliance, attacking the Hardy Boyz. OHaire and Palumbo started feuding with the Acolytes Protection Agency in the following weeks, subsequently, OHaire and Palumbo defeated the Hardy Boyz on the August 2,2001 edition of SmackDown. OHaire and Palumbos last televised match together was on the August 26 edition of Heat defeating The Holly Cousins, Palumbo was thrown out of The Alliance in late October and joined the WWF in November. Also in September, OHaire was sent to Ohio Valley Wrestling for seasoning where he joined Kenny Bolins Bolin Services, OHaire returned to WWE on the June 30,2002 edition of Heat, defeating Justin Credible. In January 2003 vignettes started to appear on WWE programming showing OHaire in his new gimmick — a Devils advocate character and he urged people to commit adultery, break the law, not pay taxes, and not go to church, among other things. He ended each vignette with the line Im not telling you anything you dont already know, in 2003, OHaire returned to the main SmackDown. Roster, telling various superstars to perform indecent acts which included persuading Spanky to streak through the arena, on the inside of his left forearm was a blue spider and on the inside of his right forearm was a red spider
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WWE Heat
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WWE Heat was a professional wrestling television program produced by World Wrestling Entertainment. Heat was most recently streamed on WWE. com on Friday afternoons for North American viewers, the final episode was uploaded to WWE. com. The show was replaced internationally with WWE Vintage Collection, a program featuring classic matches, the show was originally introduced on the USA Network on August 2,1998 in the United States. The one-hour show would be broadcast on Sunday nights, it would be live most weeks and it was the second primary program of the WWFs weekly television show line-up, serving as a supplement to the Monday Night Raw program. On scheduled WWF pay-per-view event nights, Heat would also serve as a show to the events. The show was signed for only 6 episodes but was very popular and was continued. With the premiere of SmackDown. in August 1999, coverage of Heat was significantly reduced in favor of the newer show, also led to Heat being taped before SmackDown. With matches for WWF syndication programs like Jakked/Metal being taped before Raw broadcasts, premiered, also Heat briefly became a complete weekly summary show, featuring occasional interviews and music videos. After only a few weeks following the change, Heat began airing exclusive matches again. Occasionally, special editions of the show aired heavily promoted, for Super Bowl XXXIII in 1999, Heat aired as Halftime Heat on the USA Network during halftime of the Super Bowl. These specials ended following the move to MTV in 2000. When the show started airing on MTV in late 2000, it was broadcast live from WWF New York, WWF personalities and performers would appear at the restaurant as special guests while Michael Cole and Tazz provided commentary to matches. The United Kingdoms coverage of Heat began in January 2000, when Channel 4 started broadcasting the show at 4pm on Sundays and these one-hour shows were a magazine-type show, usually featuring three or four brief matches as well as highlights from Raw and SmackDown. Were aired on this version of the show, a separate commentary team was used on airings in the United Kingdom, with references aimed more at that specific audience. The two-person announce team was a mix of individuals including Kevin Kelly, Michael Cole, Michael Hayes, during the middle of 2000, Heat started to get moved around the Channel 4 schedule, usually between the afternoon and midnight. Towards the end of 2000, the show was moved to being broadcast in the early-hours of Monday mornings. The show stayed in the time-slot until December 2001 when Channel 4s deal with the World Wrestling Federation expired in the United Kingdom, in April 2002, the show returned to its original filming schedule, again before Raw. Eventually, the live from WWF New York format was retired, ratings were still moderate for Heat, although the show lost some popularity once SmackDown
