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Tag team
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Tag team wrestling is a type of professional wrestling in which matches are contested between teams of multiple wrestlers. A tag team may be made up of wrestlers who normally wrestle in singles competition, in most team matches, only one competitor per team is allowed in the ring at a time. This status as the active or legal wrestler may be transferred by physical contact, the team-based match has been a mainstay of professional wrestling since the mid twentieth century, and most promotions have sanctioned a championship division for tag teams. g. A couple tag-teaming in an argument with another person, in 1901 the first tag team match was held in the United States, in San Francisco. San Francisco promoters introduced tag team wrestling as a way of improving the sport’s entertainment value, while tag team wrestling is now almost traditional in American professional wrestling, the innovation didnt become especially popular outside San Francisco until the 1930s. The first World tag team championship was also crowned in San Francisco in the early 1950s, typically, a tag team championship is awarded to and defended by team of two. In kayfabe, this made it difficult for challengers to prepare for their title fights. This was a gimmick, and is still utilized by other wrestling companies. The stipulation has become known as the freebird rule. A common storyline is former tag team partners turning on each other and this can be used when one member is being called on to develop a new gimmick. The basic tag team match has two teams of two facing off against each other. All standard rules for singles wrestling apply to a team match, however, only one wrestler from each team, called the legal man is allowed in the ring at a time. All other members of the team wait outside the ropes in the teams specified corner, only an active/legal wrestler is allowed to score a fall or have a fall scored against him/her. But any wrestler, legal or outside, may face disqualification for himself or his team for violating rules, once a tag is made, the wrestler tagging out has a grace period to leave the ring before risking disqualification. The wrestler outside the ring must be touching the tag rope tied in the corner, tags are legal as long as the two team members touch. The referee has to see and/or hear the contact between the two wrestlers in order for the tag to be legal. As the ultimate authority over the match, a referee may overlook any of these at his discretion, in some multi-man tag matches in lucha libre, a wrestler can make himself the teams legal man simply by setting foot in the ring, and his partner then leaves. This allows for action to become nearly continuous, two referees, one stationed inside the ring and one on the floor, are employed to maintain order for this type of match
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El Texano
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Juan Conrado Aguilar Jáuregui, better known by his ring name El Texano, was a Mexican Luchador, or professional wrestler. His son Juan Aguilar Leos wrestles under the name El Texano, during his professional wrestling career Aguilar helped populate the concept of the Trios match in Lucha Libre, as a part of Los Misioneros de la Muerte. Juan Aguilar was born and raised in Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico but would move to Guadalajara. He is the uncle of professional wrestlers Jonathan de Jesus Navarro Jímenez, Juan Miguel Escalante Grande and he is the cousin of professional wrestler Roberto Gutiérrez Frías, better known as El Dandy. Aguilar began training for a career in Lucha Libre at an early age after receiving his parents consent to do so. He made his debut on February 1,1972 at the age of 13. In Mexico becoming a wrestler at such an age is rare. He made his debut as a using the ring name Billy the Kid. During one show in Arena Coliseo, EMLLs secondary venue, a lucha libre magazine writer suggested he should work as El Texano. While working for EMLL he also began training with Guadalajara, Jalisco based wrestling trainer Cuauhtémoc Diablo Velasco, the team was dubbed Los Misioneros de la Muerte. Early on in the storyline Brazo de Oro defeated El Texano in a Luchas de Apuestas, or bet match, the storyline expanded and saw the unmasked Misionaros clash with the masked Mosqueteros on UWA promoted cards all over Mexico. In 1981 the Los Misioneros de la Muerte name became a name after a match in El Toreo de Quatro Caminos. During the main event Los Misioneros faced off against then 64-year-old El Santo, teaming with Huracán Ramírez, in that match El Santo collapsed in the middle of the ring, suffering a heart attack during the match. His life was saved due to the quick witted actions of Ramírez. Following Santos retirement Los Misioneros feuded with the top such as Los Tres Caballero (Aníbal, El Solitario. At one point Villano III defeated El Texano in a Luchas de Apuestas match, during the storyline El Solitario turned on his two partners, when he attacked El Signo with a bottle and costing Los Tres Caballeros an important match. The attack made the smaller Los Misioneros more sympathetic to the crowd, in 1984 Los Misioneros won the UWA World Trios Championship for the first time, although it is not documented for exactly how long. Los Misionerios regained the UWA World Trios Championship in 1987 defeating Los Villanos, during a UWA World Trios Championship match against Los Villanos El Texano threw in the towel to save his partner El Signo any more punishment
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El Texano Jr.
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Juan Aguilar Leos is a Mexican luchador, or professional wrestler, best known under the ring name El Texano Jr. While in CMLL member of groups Los Hijos del Averno and Los Perros del Mal, in November 2011, Aguilar left CMLL to join Perros del Mal Producciones and Asistencia Asesoría y Administración, where he is a two-time AAA Mega Champion. Juan Aguilar Leos was born on July 31,1984 in Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico, son of Juan Conrado Aguilar Jáuregui, two years later his parents had another son who would later be known under the ring name Súper Nova and in 2016 as Bengala. Juan Aguilar grew up in a family of luchadors as several uncles were in the business as well including El Dandy, Negro Navarro, Apolo Navarro, over time several of his cousins also became professional wrestlers such as Mictlán, Trauma I, Trauma II, Pólvora and Inquisidor. Aguilar was trained by his father prior to his wrestling debut. In 1999 he began working as the enmascarado character Kempo Kid, between 1999 and 2002 or 2003 the Kempo Kid would win several Lucha de Apuestas, or bet matches where he forced his opponents to unmask as a result. His mask victories included Extasis, Avispón Jr. and Apolo Negro, in late 2002, or early 2003 Kempo Kid lost a Lucha de Apuestas match to Stuka Jr. and was forced to unmask. As part of the wrestlers are supposed to announced their real name. He subsequently took the ring name El Texano Jr. adopting the same cowboy style character that his father used including carrying a lariat with him to the ring. Not long after adopting the new ring name he began working for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre, the worlds oldest and Mexicos largest wrestling promotion. On October 7,2005 Texano Jr. won his first professional wrestling championship when he teamed up with El Sagrado, over the next 569 days Texano Jr. On April 29,2007 the team lost the Mexican National Trios Title to the Los Perros del Mal faction of Mr. Águila, Damián 666 and Halloween. The title change came about as El Texano Jr. turned on his partners mid-match, not long after turning Rudo Texano Jr. joined Los Perros del Mal and began teaming with El Terrible on a regular basis. On June 13,2008 Texano Jr. participated in the event of CMLLs annual Infierno en el Ring show. The match ended up with Texano Jr. and Heavy Metal being the last two in the ring, with Texano pinning Heavy Metal to force Heavy Metal to be shaved bald after the match. On August 26,2008 Texano Jr. and El Terrible defeated Sagrado and Rayman to win the Occidente Tag Team Championship, a regional tag team title defended mainly in the Mexican stated of Guadalajara. In late 2008 Perros del Mal leader Perro Aguayo Jr. decided to leave CMLL taking with him most of the Perros del Mal group, when Averno and Mephisto formed the group Los Hijos del Averno both Texano Jr. and El Terrible joined the group. On March 8,2009 Texano Jr. won his second big Luchas de Apuestas match, defeating former team mate Máximo, Texano Jr. continued to be successful as he won his first singles championship, the NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship from Atlantis on April 5,2009
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Universal Wrestling Association
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The Universal Wrestling Association was a Mexican Lucha Libre or professional wrestling promotion based in Naucalpan, Mexico State that operated from 1975 until 1995. In 1974 Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre founder and owner Salvador Lutteroth brought his son into the promotion, grooming him to take over when the aging Lutteroth, to break away from EMLL to form their own company and challenge EMLLs dominance in Mexico. To some the promotion was simply Lucha Libre from El Toreo de Naucalpan, after the home base. El Toreo became UWAs main venue, used for title matches, their anniversary shows. UWAs more relaxed approach to wrestling, combined with their willingness to promote younger wrestlers made the promotion a quick success as they drew repeated sell-out crowds at El Toreo. The promotion was the first to elevate wrestlers such as El Canek, Dos Caras, Fishman, Perro Aguayo, the UWA even began working with EMLL in the 1980s, co-promoting shows and allowing EMLL to book UWA wrestlers on their shows. By the early 1990s UWA began to struggle financially as several of their top wrestlers left the company to work for EMLL who could offer more money. In 1992 Antonio Peña broke away from EMLL, much like the UWA had 18 years earlier, when the Peso lost its value in the mid-1990s the UWA was forced to close its doors in 1995. The UWA is remembered as the place where a lot of main event wrestlers of the 1980s and 1990s got their start, including El Canek, now considered a legend in lucha libre. Santo,63 years old at the time, suffered a heart attack during the match. The three were then re-cast as fallen angels sent to Earth to take out Santo, and were programmed against trios of other tecnicos, in some cases the UWA championship belts are bought and sold by the champions. At times both Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre and AAA have acknowledged and promoted UWA championships as recent as 2008, list of professional wrestling promotions in Mexico
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Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide
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Asistencia Asesoría y Administración LLC is a lucha libre professional wrestling promotion based in Mexico. This left CMLL with a roster and a seemingly bleak future. AAA also looked for talent from other markets, as found and signed Tijuana natives Rey Mysterio, Jr. The promotion flourished with top talent like El Hijo del Santo, Octagón, Blue Panther, the Casas brothers and possessed top draws in Los Gringos Locos, Cien Caras, Konnan, and Perro Aguayo. The rising popularity of AAA soon caused rival Universal Wrestling Association to go out of business, AAAs golden years peaked with the When Worlds Collide pay-per-view, promoted in conjunction with World Championship Wrestling and broadcast in the United States in 1994. Weeks after the show, Art Barr died while visiting his family, as a result, AAA vacated the AAA Tag Team Championships, and this led to the departure of fellow stable-mates Eddie Guerrero and Madonnas Boyfriend. El Hijo del Santo also departed as a result of creative problems, many wrestlers, including Rey Misterio, Jr. Psicosis, La Parka, and Juventud Guerrera, would also depart to WCW in 1996, as well as Konnans short-lived Promo Azteca promotion. In early 1997, AAA established an agreement with WWE. AAA broadcasts shows regularly on Gala TV in Mexico and Univision TDN in Mexico, on October 6,2006, founder Antonio Peña died of a heart attack. Following Peñas death his sister Marisela manages AAA financially, while Peñas brother-in-law Joaquín Roldán and his son, in 2008 Lucha Libre USA presented AAAs second U. S. pay-per-view, Legendary Battles of Triplemania. In 2009 AAA announced the release of a video game originally entitled AAA El Videojuego. The game was later retitled Lucha Libre AAA, Héroes del Ring by the publisher of the game, AAA developed a working relationship with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling in 2004. Team Mexico dominated the Americas X-Cup Tournament, defeating Team USA in the first round before retaining the Cup against both Team Canada and Team Britain. They eventually lost at the World X-Cup, which saw Team USA defeat Team Canada, for multiple reasons TNA and AAA broke off their working relationship late in 2004. After Konnan left TNA in June 2007 any chance of a working relationship disappeared especially given that Konnan has filed a discrimination lawsuit against TNA. Afterwards TNA started a relationship with AAAs rival CMLL. However, in February 2010 the companies once again began a working relationship, in April 2014, after Jeff Jarrett, the man behind the AAA-TNA relationship, had left TNA, he announced that his new Global Force Wrestling was now working with the Mexican promotion. On January 12,2014, it was announced that, with the backing of Mark Burnett, the one-hour weekly program would be accompanied by monthly and quarterly specials as well as live pay-per-views
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Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre
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Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre co. ltd is a lucha libre professional wrestling promotion based in Mexico City. The promotion is also referred to by its previous name Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre, founded in 1933, it is the oldest professional wrestling promotion still in existence. CMLL has been nicknamed The serious and the stable, referencing their very conservative booking style, outside of live television broadcasts CMLL, has not shown matches where one of the competitors bleed. CMLL has on occasion fired wrestlers for excessive violence, like the use of chairs, CMLL currently recognizes and promotes twelve World Championships for various weight divisions and classifications, six national level and six regional level championships. The CMLL Anniversary Show series is the longest running annual major show, starting in 1934, CMLL also regularly promotes major events under the names Homenaje a Dos Leyendas, Sin Piedad, Sin Salida, Infierno en el Ring during the year. CMLL has promoted their regular weekly Super Viernes on a basis since the 1930s. Founder Salvador Lutteroth funded the building of Arena Coliseo in 1943, in 1929, Salvador Lutteroth, who at the time was a property inspector for the Mexican Tax department, moved to Ciudad Juárez near the Mexico/U. S. During a trip to El Paso, Texas Lutteroth witnessed a professional wrestling show and was intrigued by the show, four years later Lutteroth, along with his financial backer Francisco Ahumada chartered Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre, the first Mexican owned wrestling promotion in the country. EMLL held their first shown on September 21,1933, considered the birth of Lucha libre, the concept of Lucha Libre quickly became very popular, so much so that the EMLL 1st Anniversary Show drew a sell out crowd of 5,000 paying fans. In 1934, an American wrestler debuted in Mexico under a black, leather mask, through the use of the masks and ring characters EMLL helped create the sacred position of the mask in Lucha libre, making it the ultimate status symbol for luchadors. In the early days of EMLL most of the top names were Americans, each booking office was independent of each other but the main office in Mexico City had the final say if there were disputes over who would be able to book certain wrestlers. In 1942, a masked wrestler clad is silver, simply known as El Santo, the arena, nicknamed the Lagunilla Funnel due to its interior shape would hold over 8,800 spectators when configured for Lucha libre or boxing. Arena Coliseo began hosting EMLLs annual Anniversary shows starting with the 10th Anniversary show, in 1953, Salvador Lutteroth joined the US based National Wrestling Alliance, becoming the official NWA territory for all of Mexico, known as NWA-EMLL outside of Mexico. By joining the NWA, Lutteroth and EMLL gained control of the NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship, as it turns out luck was on Lutteroth and EMLLs side as Lutteroth and the personnel at Arena Coliseo bought a lottery ticket worth 5 million Pesos. Lutteroth used his portion of the winnings to finance the construction of Arena México, Arena México enabled EMLL to broadcast their weekly wrestling shows across Mexico, yielding a popularity explosion for the sport. Starting in 1956, with the EMLL 23rd Anniversary Show all anniversary shows were held in Arena México, over time the arena became known as The Cathedral of Lucha Libre. The two took a number of EMLLs younger wrestlers with them to form Lucha Libre Internacional, S. C, with the creation of the UWA EMLL faced a rival national promotion for the first time. In the mid-1980s, Chavo Lutteroth retired, allowing his nephew Paco Alonso, grandson of Salvador Lutteroth, in the late 1980s EMLL decided to leave the NWA, seeking to distance themselves from the political infighting in the National Wrestling Alliance
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New Japan Pro-Wrestling
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In 2005, Inoki sold the promotion to Yukes, who later sold it to Bushiroad in 2012. Naoki Sugabayashi has served as the Chairman of the promotion since September 2013, owing to its TV program aired on TV Asahi, NJPW is the largest professional wrestling promotion in Japan and the second largest promotion in the world. It was affiliated with the National Wrestling Alliance at various points, NJPWs biggest event is the January 4 Tokyo Dome Show, held each year since 1992 and currently promoted under the Wrestle Kingdom banner. The promotion was founded by Antonio Inoki in 1972, after his departure from the Japan Pro Wrestling Alliance promotion, the first NJPW event took place on March 6,1972, in Tokyo. Inoki would serve as the president of the promotion until 1989, the promotion was a member of the National Wrestling Alliance from 1975 to 1985 and once more from 1992 to 1993. NJPW briefly reaffiliated with the NWA in the early 2010s as well, also known as Shin Nihon Puroresu, NJPW is considered the top wrestling promotion in Japan and is comparable to WWE in the United States in terms of popularity in the country. In the past NJPW has worked with WWE, World Championship Wrestling, occasionally, NJPW will also host cross-promotional matches with other Japanese promotions, such as All Japan Pro Wrestling and Pro Wrestling Noah. The promotion also has its own governing body, the International Wrestling Grand Prix and they also hold several tournaments each year, including the G1 Climax, World Tag League, New Japan Cup and Best of the Super Juniors. The final NEVER event was held in November 2012, on January 4,2011, New Japan officially announced the NJPW Invasion Tour 2011, Attack on East Coast, the promotions first tour of the United States to be held in May 2011. The tour featured shows in Rahway, New Jersey on May 13, New York City on May 14 and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on May 15, as part of the tour, NJPW introduced a new title, the IWGP Intercontinental Championship. On January 31,2012, Yukes announced that it had sold all shares of New Japan Pro Wrestling to card game company Bushiroad for ¥500 million, New Japan aired its first internet pay-per-view, the fourth day of the 2012 G1 Climax, on August 5,2012. The October 8,2012, King of Pro-Wrestling pay-per-view marked the first time viewers outside Japan were able to order a pay-per-view by the promotion through Ustream. On October 5,2012, New Japan announced the creation of the NEVER Openweight Championship, a two-day tournament to determine the inaugural champion was held between November 15 and 19,2012. During the tour, New Japan wrestlers also took part in an event held by Canadian promotion Border City Wrestling. A year later, NJPW and ROH announced another tour together to four more supershows, War of the Worlds 15 on May 12 and 13 in Philadelphia. In June 2014, New Japan announced a partnership with the new American GFW organization helmed by Jeff Jarrett, in November 2014, GFW announced that it would be broadcasting NJPWs Wrestle Kingdom 9 in Tokyo Dome on pay-per-view in the United States as a four-hour event. Also in November 2014, the American AXS TV network announced it had acquired rights to rebroadcast a series of thirteen episodes of NJPW matches from TV Asahi, the series premiered on January 16,2015, airing weekly on Fridays. Averaging 200,000 viewers per episode, the show was considered a success, in June 2016, the show was also acquired by the Canadian Fight Network
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Universal Wrestling Federation (Japan)
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The original Japanese-based Universal Wrestling Federation was a Japanese professional wrestling promotion from 1984 to 1986, formed by wrestlers who had left New Japan Pro Wrestling. It was a pioneer in the shoot-style of pro-wrestling, which emphasized realistic moves and it was revived as the Newborn UWF in 1988. It was revived again in 1991 as Union of Wrestling Forces International, the original roster included Rusher Kimura, Akira Maeda, Ryuma Go, Mach Hayato, and Gran Hamada. Kimura, Go, and Hamada, unable to cope with the new style, decided to leave, in early 1984, UWF President Hisashi Shinma brokered a deal with the World Wrestling Federation which resulted in a UWF/WWF working relationship. Thought this working relationship, one of UWFs top stars Akira Maeda toured the United States with the WWF, the relationship ended on July 23,1984 after President Shinma jumped from UWF to All Japan Pro Wrestling. In 1984 another former New Japan wrestler, Osamu Kido, who had trained under Karl Gotch, but just as the promotion fledged, Maeda and Sayama, the top two stars, began bickering with each other over the shoot-styles essence. Maeda wanted to focus the matches on submissions, while Sayama and this came to a head in September 1985, when the two allegedly stopped pulling their punches and kicks, in a match that fans in Japan refer to as going cement. A second, brutal match of this took place in September of that year. The match ended when Maeda did not pull a kick and instead kicked Sayama hard in the groin, as a result, Maeda was suspended and later fired by the UWF. Sayama, embittered with wrestling after this match, left the UWF and was not heard again in the wrestling world for 11 years. The promotion dissolved and much of the returned to New Japan. Newborn UWF actually started in March, with a card that set the standard for shoot-style wrestling to follow. That year also saw the debut of Kiyoshi Tamura, who is recognized as one of the eminent shoot-style pro-wrestlers in Japan. 1990 saw many ups and downs in the story of Newborn UWF. This, and the general Japanese economic downturn of the era, prompted Newborn UWF to close its doors with a card on December 1,1990, in Matsumoto. The UWF wrestlers thus went their separate ways, most of the roster founded UWF International, while Fujiwara, Funaki, Suzuki and Fuke founded Fujiwara Gumi, which made Jins co-promoting idea into reality. Although its roots were Antonio Inokis wrestling style, UWF made wrestling realistic, in fact, All Japan starting in 1989 abandoned countout and disqualification finishes, which enabled its Triple Crown championship to arise. Other natives who turned to martial arts fighting such as Tadao Yasuda, Kazuyuki Fujita, above all, however, UWF made it possible for mixed-martial arts circuits to exist and be viable
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Spanish language
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Spanish —also called Castilian —is a Romance language that originated in the Castile region of Spain, with hundreds of millions of native speakers around the world. It is usually considered the worlds second-most spoken native language after Mandarin Chinese and it is one of the few languages to use inverted question and exclamation marks. Spanish is a part of the Ibero-Romance group of languages, which evolved from several dialects of Vulgar Latin in Iberia after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century. Beginning in the early 16th century, Spanish was taken to the colonies of the Spanish Empire, most notably to the Americas, as well as territories in Africa, Oceania, around 75% of modern Spanish is derived from Latin. Greek has also contributed substantially to Spanish vocabulary, especially through Latin, Spanish vocabulary has been in contact from an early date with Arabic, having developed during the Al-Andalus era in the Iberian Peninsula. With around 8% of its vocabulary being Arabic in origin, this language is the second most important influence after Latin and it has also been influenced by Basque as well as by neighboring Ibero-Romance languages. It also adopted words from languages such as Gothic language from the Visigoths in which many Spanish names and surnames have a Visigothic origin. Spanish is one of the six languages of the United Nations. It is the language in the world by the number of people who speak it as a mother tongue, after Mandarin Chinese. It is estimated more than 437 million people speak Spanish as a native language. Spanish is the official or national language in Spain, Equatorial Guinea, speakers in the Americas total some 418 million. In the European Union, Spanish is the tongue of 8% of the population. Spanish is the most popular second language learned in the United States, in 2011 it was estimated by the American Community Survey that of the 55 million Hispanic United States residents who are five years of age and over,38 million speak Spanish at home. The Spanish Constitution of 1978 uses the term castellano to define the language of the whole Spanish State in contrast to las demás lenguas españolas. Article III reads as follows, El castellano es la lengua española oficial del Estado, las demás lenguas españolas serán también oficiales en las respectivas Comunidades Autónomas. Castilian is the official Spanish language of the State, the other Spanish languages as well shall be official in their respective Autonomous Communities. The Spanish Royal Academy, on the hand, currently uses the term español in its publications. Two etymologies for español have been suggested, the Spanish Royal Academy Dictionary derives the term from the Provençal word espaignol, and that in turn from the Medieval Latin word Hispaniolus, from—or pertaining to—Hispania
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Lucha libre
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Lucha libre is a term used in Mexico for a form of professional wrestling developed in the country. Professional wrestling is a form of entertainment based on a portrayal of a combat sport. Mexican wrestling is characterized by colorful masks, rapid sequences of holds and maneuvers, as well as high-flying maneuvers, Tag team wrestling is especially prevalent in lucha libre, particularly matches with three-member teams, called trios. Lucha libre wrestlers are known as luchadores and they usually come from extended wrestling families who form their own stables. One such line integrated to the United States professional wrestling scene is Los Guerreros, Lucha libre has also transcended the language barrier to some extent as evidenced by works such as Los Luchadores, ¡Mucha Lucha. and Nacho Libre. Lucha libre also appears in pop culture such as mainstream advertising, in Canada. The rules of lucha libre are similar to American singles matches, matches can be won by pinning the opponent to the mat for the count of three, making him submit, knocking him out of the ring for a predetermined count or by disqualification. Using the ropes for leverage is illegal, and once a luchador is on the ropes, his opponent must release any holds, most matches are two out of three falls, which had been abandoned for title bouts in North America and Japan in the 1970s. As the legal wrestler can step to the floor willingly, there is no need for an actual tag to a teammate to bring him into a match. This often allows for much more action to take place in the ring than would otherwise be possible under standard tag rules. The promotion company flourished and quickly became the premier spot for wrestlers, moreover, it was the emergence of television that allowed Lutteroth to promote lucha libre’s first breakout superstar into a national pop-culture phenomenon. In 1942, lucha libre would be changed when a silver-masked wrestler, known simply as El Santo. He made his debut in Mexico City by winning an 8-man battle royal, the public became enamored by the mystique and secrecy of Santos personality, and he quickly became the most popular luchador in Mexico. He achieved international fame as one of the first high-flyers, something he was not considered in Mexico, Luchadores are traditionally more agile and perform more aerial maneuvers than professional wrestlers in the United States, who more often rely on power and hard strikes to subdue their opponents. For this same reason, aerial maneuvers are almost always performed to opponents outside the ring, allowing the luchador to break his fall with an acrobatic tumble. Lucha libre has several different weight classes, many catered to smaller agile fighters and this system enables dynamic high-flying luchadores such as Rey Mysterio, Jr. Juventud Guerrera, Super Crazy and Místico, to develop years of experience by their mid-twenties. A number of prominent Japanese wrestlers also started their careers training in Mexican lucha libre before becoming stars in Japan and these include Gran Hamada, Satoru Sayama, Jushin Thunder Liger, and Último Dragón. Lucha libre is also known for its tag team wrestling matches, the teams are often made up of three members, instead of two as is common in the United States
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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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Professional wrestling match types
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Many types of wrestling matches, sometimes called concept or gimmick matches in the jargon of the business, are performed in professional wrestling. Some of them occur relatively frequently, while others are developed so as to advance an angle, because of professional wrestlings long history over decades, many things have been recycled. These match types can be organized into several loose groups, the singles match is the most basic of all professional wrestling matches, which involves only two competitors competing for one fall. Victory is obtained by pinfall, submission, knockout, countout or disqualification, commentators and bookers generally explain it as saying the challenger must beat the champion. Playing into this, some storylines have heel champions protect their titles by losing in such ways. Time Limit matches were invented during the days of professional wrestling as a way to stop matches that went on for too long. A Battle of Respect is often held in tribute to another wrestler, on most occasions, one member of the team competes in the ring with one or more of his/her teammate standing behind the ropes. Wrestlers switch positions by tagging one another, usually similar to a five and, as a result. This can create tension during the match as a wrestler in the middle of the ring attempts to reach his/her teammate. In typical tag team matches, standard wrestling rules apply with an ending by pinfall, submission, countout. Promotions usually have established tag teams that most often compete in team matches rather than singles matches, though teams will often break up to pursue a singles career, teams often consist of real-life friends or relatives. On other occasions, teams are booked together by promoters based on their face or heel alignment in order to increase the amount of wrestlers on the card or to advance multiple storylines at once. Though common in Mexican lucha libre, at one point, World Championship Wrestling had a championship for teams of three, matches in which the entire team competes at once is often referred to as a tornado tag match, specifically in WWE. Matches can be held under standard rules or as a specialty match, such as a cage match or a ladder match. One famous example of this match is the Survivor Series match held in WWE at their annual Survivor Series pay-per-view, teams of four or five, though on some occasions as many as seven, compete under elimination rules. All other standard rules apply, and team members may tag in, while some teams are already established stables, others may need to recruit members for their team. In lucha libre promotions, a torneo cibernetico is a type of match between teams of up to eight wrestlers who enter in a predetermined order. A Winner Takes All match is a match where both wrestlers are champions going into the match, and the winner receives the championship of the loser and this is not the same as a championship unification match
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Brazo de Plata
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José Alvarado Nieves is a Mexican Luchador best known under the ring name Brazo de Plata, he has used since his debut in 1977 and also for his appearances in WWE as Super Porky. Los Brazos, as they were billed, wrestled all over Mexico, while working for NWA Hollywood, Plata and Oro won the NWA Americas Tag Team Championship from Chino Chou and the Kiss on November 7,1981. The brothers were also last holders of the Los Angeles version of the NWA World Tag Team Championship in 1982. Over the years Brazo de Plata and his brothers competed in a number of Luchas de Apuestas where they put their masks or hair on the line against their opponents. The match was the culmination of a feud between the two families and saw all six wrestlers bleed profusely during the bout. In the end Los Villanos won the match, forcing all three Brazos to unmask and reveal their names as is tradition in these types of matches. Los Brazos lost the titles to Dr. Wagner, Jr. Gran Markus, Jr. and El Hijo del Gladiador. 1993 also saw Brazo de Plata get the biggest singles win of his career as he defeated Black Magic for the CMLL World Heavyweight Championship, a title he would hold over a year. As the years wore on and Brazo de Platas waistline expanded he found working a more comedic style. During this time period he was nicknamed Super Porky in reference to his weight gain, Plata was hired by World Wrestling Entertainment in 2005 as part of the SmackDown. Plata was billed as Super Porky and paired up with the minis of the Junior division, at Verano de Escándalo, Brazo de Plata, Intocable, El Oriental and El Zorro lost to the team of Alan Stone, Hator, Scorpio, Jr. and Zumbido. At the following featured show, Guerrera de Titanes 2006, Brazo de Plata had his hair shaved off as he lost a Dog collar chain match to Alan Stone, the storyline with Los Guapos VIP continued throughout 2007 and into 2008 where it saw a surprising turn. Brazo de Platas brother El Brazo jumped to AAA and attacked his own brother, the storyline fight of the two brothers came to a crescendo at Guerrera de Titanes 2008, where they faced off in a steel cage match where the loser would have his hair shaved off. El Brazo lost and had his hair shaved to put at least a temporary end to the storyline, after leaving AAA, Plata began working independent dates throughout the country as well as regularly for International Wrestling Revolution Group and Perros del Mal Producciones. The Alvarado wrestling family spans three generations starting with Shadito Cruz followed by his 6 sons and a generation who have begun wrestling in recent years. José Alvarado has 5 children who have all followed in his footsteps, his sons José, Psycho Clown and Magia Jr. and his two daughters Danah and Gloria Alvarado Nava, who wrestles as Goya Kong
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El Brazo
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Juan Alvarado Nieves was a Mexican Luchador. He was best known under the ring name El Brazo, which he used since his debut in 1980, Alvarado was part of the Alvarado wrestling family, which includes his father Shadito Cruz, five brothers who used the Brazo name at some point and several third generation wrestlers. Alvarado made his debut as El Brazo, an Enmascarado who worked mainly in Tag team action with his brothers who worked as Brazo de Oro, Los Brazos, as they were billed, wrestled all over Mexico and made appearances for the Los Angeles based NWA Hollywood Wrestling. Over the years Brazo de Plata and his brothers competed in a number of Luchas de Apuestas where they put their masks or hair on the line against their opponents. The match was the culmination of a feud between the two families and saw all six wrestlers bleed profusely during the bout. In the end Los Villanos won the match forcing all three Brazos to unmask and reveal their names as its tradition in these types of matches. Los Brazos lost the titles to Dr. Wagner, Jr. Gran Markus, Jr. Los Brazos began teaming less and less with Brazo de Oro working more backstage in CMLL. In 2008 El Brazo signed with Asistencia, Asesoría y Administración, initially it looked like El Brazo was siding with his brother, only to turn on him and join Los Guapos VIP, taking the control of the Los Guapos VIP group. The storyline fight of the two came to a crescendo at Guerrera de Titanes 2008, where they faced off in a steel cage match where the loser would have his hair shaved off. El Brazo lost and had his hair shaved to put at least a temporary end to the storyline, El Brazo has appeared in the video game Lucha Libre AAA, Héroes del Ring Alvarado died on October 15,2013 due to complications from diabetes. Alvarado was inducted into the AAA Hall of Fame on August 17,2014, all second generation Alvarados use wrestling names with the term Brazo in it, El Brazo, Brazo de Oro, Brazo de Plata, Brazo de Platino, Super Brazo and Brazo Cibernetico
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Santo
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Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta, more widely known as El Santo, was a Mexican Luchador enmascarado, film actor, and folk icon. El Santo, along with Blue Demon and Mil Máscaras, is one of the most famous and iconic of all Mexican luchadores, and has been referred to as one of the greatest legends in Mexican sports. His wrestling career spanned five decades, during which he became a folk hero. He is said to have popularized professional wrestling in Mexico just as Rikidozan did in Japan, guzmáns son followed him into wrestling as El Hijo del Santo, or Son of the Saint. He practiced baseball and American football, and then interested in wrestling. He first learned Ju-Jitsu, then classical wrestling, Rodolfo has a brother who entered the wrestling business as well, Miguel, who is known as Black Guzmán. In 1942, Rodolfos manager, Don Jesús Lomelí, was putting together a new team of wrestlers, all dressed in silver and he suggested three names, El Santo, El Diablo, or El Angel, and Rodolfo chose the first one. On 26 June, aged 24, he wrestled at the Arena Mexico for the first time as El Santo, under this new name he quickly found his style. One of Santos greatest matches was in 1952, when he fought a tag-team known as Los Hermanos Shadow, although they appeared together in a number of action/adventure films, their rivalry never really ended in later years since Santo always remembered his defeat at Blue Demons hands. El Santo was known to never remove his mask, even in private company, when traveling on flights, he made sure to take a different flight from his crew to avoid having them see his face when he was required to remove his mask to get through customs. Since his regular mask did not allow him to eat, he had a special mealtime variation made with the cut away. By the early 1980s El Santo slowed down his in ring activities leading up to his inevitable retirement and his farewell tour was announced for August and September 1982. The first of three took place on August 22,1982 at the Palacio de los Deportes in Mexico City. On that night El Santo teamed up with El Solitario to take on Villano III, after the match Villano and Rokambole lifted El Santo up on their shoulders as he received the adulation of the sold out arena. In his last match ever El Santo teamed up with Gory Guerrero who came out of retirement to reform La Pareja Atómica as they teamed up with Huracán Ramirez and El Solitario. Their opponents included one of El Santos biggest rivals in Perro Aguayo as well as El Signo, Negro Navarro, true to the legend of El Santo he won his last match and retired as the hero he always portrayed in the ring and on the screen. His retirement tour was used to introduce Santos son Jorge as the next generation El Santo as he was ringside at each show wearing the silver mask. It is the documented case of Santo ever removing his mask in public
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Gory Guerrero
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He wrestled primarily in Empresa Mexicana de la Lucha Libre between the 1940s and 1960s. He was also the patriarch of the Guerrero wrestling family, in Mexico, Guerrero joined a gym with the intention to learn to box, but instead learned lucha libre from Diablo Velasco and El Indio Mejía. He wrestled his first professional wrestling match on September 14,1937 and he began his career in Mexico working under the ring name Joe Morgan, but later changed his name to Gory Guerrero—a reference to his bloody matches. He made his debut for the Mexico City promotion Empresa Mexicana de la Lucha Libre in 1943 and was named Rookie of the Year later that year, in 1945, he briefly held the Mexican National Welterweight Championship. Several months later, he won the Mexican National Middleweight Championship, Guerrero and his brothers also feuded with Cavernario Galindo and his brothers. In the late 1940s, Guerrero began tag teaming with El Santo as the undefeated La Pareja Atómica, Guerrero also appeared in some of El Santos films. He also feuded with Enrique Llanes and his tag team partner Tarzán López and he defeated Lopez for the NWA Middleweight title. In 1954, he wrestled a match against NWA World Heavyweight Champion Lou Thesz. Guerrero broke away from EMLL in 1966 after refusing to drop the NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship to Ray Mendoza and he worked as an independent in the mid-1960s. He also began to branch out into booking and training with Dory Funk, in addition, he helped run shows in NWA Hollywood Wrestling for two years, and later he booked shows for World Class Championship Wrestling. With age his in-ring performing decreased until his retirement in the 1980s. Guerrero is credited with the invention of La de a Caballo and the Gory Special and he also invented the back to back stretch hold which has been modified into a facebuster move, a piledriver, a powerbomb, a reverse STO or a neckbreaker/backbreaker. Guerrero was born in Ray, Arizona to a family of migrant workers and he attended school in the United States until the age of nine when his mother died. His family moved to Mexico, and Guerreros father used his English language skills to work as an interpreter in Guadalajara, Guerreros wife Herlinda was the sister of wrestler Enrique Llanes. They had six children, four sons Chavo, Mando, Hector, Eddie, after retiring from active wrestling, Guerrero sold auto insurance. Guerrero would also open his home to aspiring wrestlers, training them in the backyard in an old ring, two weeks before his death, Guerreros liver failed and he developed cirrhosis due to hepatitis. The NWA World Middleweight Championship is also currently not sanctioned or recognized by the NWA as a world title, cheating Death, Stealing Life, The Eddie Guerrero Story. Wrestling With God by Chad Bonham,2001, ISBN 1-58919-935-9, pp. 125–138
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El Solitario
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Roberto González Cruz was a Mexican professional wrestler who wrestled under the name El Solitario. During his career he held both the NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship and the NWA World Middleweight Championship, gonzalez Cruz came from a working-class family and was the youngest of seven children. At the age of twelve, his older brother Jesús, who was also a professional wrestler and he began training under the tutelage of Joe el Hermoso and made his wrestling debut in 1960 at the age of fourteen. Gonzalez Cruz was initially billed as being the son of the legendary wrestler El Santo, gonzalez Cruz moved to Tijuana to pursue his career as a luchador but had a difficult time finding regular work as he was young and still small at the time. He continued working local arenas until he began making a name for himself as he grew physically, Cruz realized that in order to take his career to the next level, he would have to select a more crowd pleasing name and character. He chose the name El Solitario, derived from the comic book character El Llanero Solitario. He also adopted his now trademark gold and black colored costume, after the change, promoters and fans took notice of the new dynamic wrestler. On November 16,1965, El Solitario faced Panchito Ramirez in Arena Coliseo located in Guadalajara and he would make his debut in Arena Coliseo Mexico City on September 6,1966, when he defeated Tony Reyna. In 1966, El Solitario defeated and unmasked Águila Tapatía, that was followed by a win over Mano Blanca and he won his first world title when he defeated Occident Welterweight champion Luís González. El Solitario was now working for EMLL, Mexicos largest promotion company and he was catapulted into stardom within the lucha libre world when he defeated veteran Rey Mendoza in a mask vs hair match on December 13,1968. A few weeks later, he defeated another legend, Rene Guajardo, El Solitario formed a wrestling trio alongside Dr. Wagner and Angel Blanco, the group was known as La Ola Blanca. He was wrestling as a rudo at this time but when his partners Dr. Wagner and Angel Blanco turned on him and it also started a legendary rivalry between himself, Wagner and Blanco. He continued wrestling as an individual during this time, and in 1969, in 1970, El Solitario won the NWA Light Heavyweight title by defeating Ray Mendoza. In 1972, he unmasked his rival, Angel Blanco, in the ring, El Solitario was one of the first stars to leave EMLL to join the Universal Wrestling Association promotion, which was run by Francisco Flores and Ray Mendoza. He won the UWAs first Junior Heavyweight title in 1982 and he was unable to fully exhibit his wrestling skills during his tours, as the juniors division formula in Japan consisted of popular Japanese wrestlers facing off against foreign heels. However, he gained a following outside of Mexico as a result of those tours, while in Mexico, he remained one of the most popular headlining stars throughout the country. In the early 1980s, he formed a short lived team with Anibal and Villano III. He won the NWA Junior Light Heavyweight title in 1980 and 1981, in 1982, he won the NWA Light Heavyweight title
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Face (professional wrestling)
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In professional wrestling, a face is a heroic or a good guy wrestler, booked by the promotion with the aim of being cheered by fans. Faces, traditionally, wrestle within the rules and avoid cheating while behaving positively towards the referee, such characters are also referred to as blue-eyes in British wrestling, and técnicos in lucha libre. The face character is portrayed as a relative to the heel wrestlers. Not everything a face wrestler does must be heroic, faces need only to be cheered by the audience to be effective characters, the vast majority of wrestling storylines involving faces place a face against a heel, although more elaborate set-ups often happen as well. While many modern faces still fit this model, other versions of the character are now also common. A good example would be Stone Cold Steve Austin who despite playing an early on in his career would start to be seen more of an anti-hero because of his popularity with the fans. While clearly not championing rule following, nor submission to authority, during this time, wrestlers like Stone Cold Steve Austin and Sting used tactics traditionally associated with heels, but remained popular with the fans. Conversely, Kurt Angle was introduced to the then-WWF with an American hero gimmick based on his medal win at the 1996 Summer Olympics. He presented himself as a model, and stressed the need to work hard to realize ones dreams. Angles character served as a meta-reference to how wrestling had changed, unusually, Angle did not use any of these heroic mannerisms when playing a face character, instead acting as somewhat of an antihero with a few elements of the lovable loser character archetype. Fans sometimes dislike face wrestlers, despite the way they are promoted, some reasons for this include repetitive in-ring antics, a limited moveset, a lengthy title reign, lack of selling his or her opponents moves, or an uninteresting character. This often results in wrestlers who are supposed to be cheered receiving a negative or no reaction from the fans. Some face wrestlers would often give high fives or give out merchandise to fans entering the ring before their match, such as T-shirts, sunglasses, hats. Bret Hart was one of the first superstars to make this popular, rey Mysterio, who has been a face in WWE since his debut, would go to any fan wearing a replica of his mask, and touch their head with his head for good luck before wrestling. Alberto Del Rio, after turning face, would give his scarf to a fan before entering the ring. Big Show would give his hat to a fan when he was a face, the majority of the time, faces who are low-carders, or lesser known, are used as jobbers. These wrestlers usually lose matches against established wrestlers, some faces, such as Ricky Steamboat and Hulk Hogan, promoted an image as a family man and supported their persona by appearing with their family members before and after matches. These actions often relate to wrestlers promoting charity work or other actions outside of the ring, blurring the lines between scripted wrestling and their personal lives, glossary of professional wrestling terms Heel Foley, Mick
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Japan
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Japan is a sovereign island nation in Eastern Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies off the eastern coast of the Asia Mainland and stretches from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea, the kanji that make up Japans name mean sun origin. 日 can be read as ni and means sun while 本 can be read as hon, or pon, Japan is often referred to by the famous epithet Land of the Rising Sun in reference to its Japanese name. Japan is an archipelago consisting of about 6,852 islands. The four largest are Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu and Shikoku, the country is divided into 47 prefectures in eight regions. Hokkaido being the northernmost prefecture and Okinawa being the southernmost one, the population of 127 million is the worlds tenth largest. Japanese people make up 98. 5% of Japans total population, approximately 9.1 million people live in the city of Tokyo, the capital of Japan. Archaeological research indicates that Japan was inhabited as early as the Upper Paleolithic period, the first written mention of Japan is in Chinese history texts from the 1st century AD. Influence from other regions, mainly China, followed by periods of isolation, from the 12th century until 1868, Japan was ruled by successive feudal military shoguns who ruled in the name of the Emperor. Japan entered into a period of isolation in the early 17th century. The Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937 expanded into part of World War II in 1941, which came to an end in 1945 following the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japan is a member of the UN, the OECD, the G7, the G8, the country has the worlds third-largest economy by nominal GDP and the worlds fourth-largest economy by purchasing power parity. It is also the worlds fourth-largest exporter and fourth-largest importer, although Japan has officially renounced its right to declare war, it maintains a modern military with the worlds eighth-largest military budget, used for self-defense and peacekeeping roles. Japan is a country with a very high standard of living. Its population enjoys the highest life expectancy and the third lowest infant mortality rate in the world, in ancient China, Japan was called Wo 倭. It was mentioned in the third century Chinese historical text Records of the Three Kingdoms in the section for the Wei kingdom, Wa became disliked because it has the connotation of the character 矮, meaning dwarf. The 倭 kanji has been replaced with the homophone Wa, meaning harmony, the Japanese word for Japan is 日本, which is pronounced Nippon or Nihon and literally means the origin of the sun. The earliest record of the name Nihon appears in the Chinese historical records of the Tang dynasty, at the start of the seventh century, a delegation from Japan introduced their country as Nihon
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Mitsuharu Misawa
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Mitsuharu Misawa was a Japanese professional wrestler. He made his debut on August 21,1981 for All Japan Pro Wrestling. From 1984 until 1990, Misawa wrestled as the second generation Tiger Mask, following the death of AJPW head booker Giant Baba in 1999, Misawa inherited the position of AJPW president. After being removed as president by a board of executives, Misawa left AJPW in May 2000 to form Pro Wrestling Noah, Misawa is also one of only four wrestlers to have the distinction of being awarded a 6-Star rating for a match with Toshiaki Kawada in 1994. Misawa is regarded as one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time, Misawa was born in Yūbari, Hokkaidō, but soon moved with his family to Koshigaya, Saitama. He was a fan of wrestling, especially the All Japan product, from an early age. However, during an encounter with Jumbo Tsuruta, the latter convinced Misawa to complete at least his high school education and he attended Ashikaga-kodai High School in Tochigi, with future rival Toshiaki Kawada, who was only a year below him. Apart from this, very little is known of Misawas personal life and he was said to be private about his home life to the point that wrestlers who had known him for decades had no idea he had children. He left behind at least one brother, his wife, Mayumi, whom he married on May 10,1988. He was said to have been a video game fan. Misawa was an amateur wrestler. Competing in the age group, he placed fifth at the 1980 freestyle World Championships. Misawa was trained in wrestling by Dick The Destroyer Beyer, Shohei Baba. He made his debut on August 21,1981 for All Japan Pro Wrestling, wrestling against Shiro Koshinaka. He then traveled to Mexico where he wrestled for EMLL while improving his skills under the guidance of La Fiera. In 1986, Misawa graduated to the class after five years as a junior heavyweight. Between 1988 and 1989, he competed in matches for the AWA and NWA World Heavyweight Championships before a knee injury in March 1989 sidelined him until January 2,1990. Upon his return, he wrestled Bret Hart to a draw on April 13 at the WWF/NJPW/AJPW Supershow in the Tokyo Dome
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UWA World Trios Championship
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The UWA World Trios Championship is a tag team professional wrestling championship created by the Mexican Universal Wrestling Association and defended there until the UWA closed in 1995. After the UWAs closing, the title was inactive for years before being recycled as trios belts for the Toryumon Japan promotion. After leaving Toryumon Japan, the titles ended up in the hands of its descendant promotion El Dorado, neither group promoted shows on a regular basis, which produced two unsuccessful attempts to relaunch the championship. In 2007, El Dorado revived the title again, in 2008 El Dorado Wrestling folded and the title moved to DDT Pro-Wrestling, where it was active until 2012, the final champions were Harashima, Toru Owashi and Yukihiro Abe. On August 30,2015, it was announced that the title would be revived by the Wrestle-1 promotion on October 9
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EMLL 53rd Anniversary Show
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The EMLL 53rd Anniversary Show was a professional wrestling major show event produced by Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre that took place on September 19,1986 in Arena México, Mexico City, Mexico. The event commemorated the 53rd anniversary of CMLL, which would become the oldest professional wrestling promotion in the world, the Anniversary show is EMLLs biggest show of the year, their Super Bowl event. The show also had Los Brazos defend the Mexican National Trios Championship against Rayo de Jalisco Jr. Atlantis, EMLL was rebranded early in 1992 to become Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre signal their departure from the National Wrestling Alliance. With the sales of the Jim Crockett Promotions to Ted Turner in 1988 EMLL became the oldest, traditionally EMLL/CMLL holds their major events on Friday Nights, replacing their regularly scheduled Super Viernes show. The event featured at least three professional wrestling matches with different wrestlers involved in pre-existing scripted feuds, plots and storylines, wrestlers were portrayed as either heels or faces as they followed a series of tension-building events, which culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches. Due to the nature of keeping mainly paper records of wrestling at the time no documentation has been found for the rest of the show, the 53rd Anniversary Show featured a number of inter-promotional matches between wrestlers from Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre and from Universal Wrestling Association. The UWA started out as a break off from EMLL in the 1970s, in this case Los Misioneros del Muerte faced off against the tecnico team of Américo Rocca, Tony Salazar and Ringo Mendoza. Los Misioneros were credited with popularizing the Trios match concept in Mexico to the point where in EMLL/CMLL today it is the most used match format. Since neither team was masked all six men bet their hair on the outcome of the match, the storyline between the two teams that lead to the Luchas de Apuestas match played off the rivalry between professional wrestling promotions EMLL and UWA where Los Misioneros first became famous. The match ended with Team EMLL defeating Los Misioneros and thus all three rudos had to be shaved bald while still in the ring. Los Brazos was only the team to hold the championship. The experienced rudo team successfully defended their championship, winning the two falls to one by cheating their way to victory
