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Evolution (professional wrestling)
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Evolution was a villainous professional wrestling stable in WWE which was a part of WWEs Raw brand between 2003 and 2005. At the height of its existence, the group consisted of Triple H, Ric Flair, Batista. Evolution slowly began dissolving in 2004 and lost their titles against Orton, Batista and Booker T/Rob Van Dam then Chris Benoit. Evolution turned on Orton the night following SummerSlam, when he won the World Heavyweight Championship, after winning the Royal Rumble in 2005 and teasing that he would chase the WWE Championship, Batista turned on Triple H and decided to pursue the World Heavyweight Championship himself. Although Batistas departure was largely the end for the group, the break up came when Triple H turned on. Evolution later reformed on April 14,2014 after Batista joined forces with Triple H, Flair did not participate in the reunion, as he had retired from full participation in wrestling in 2012. Each member of Evolution represented the best in, the past, the present, at Unforgiven in 2002, Triple H defended the World Heavyweight Championship against Rob Van Dam. During the match Ric Flair came down to the ring and grabbed the sledgehammer from Triple H and teased hitting him before hitting Van Dam, from that point on, Flair accompanied Triple H to the ring as his manager. Shortly after, Batista moved from SmackDown. to Raw and Flair also began accompanying him to the ring while continuing to second Triple H, on January 20,2003, Randy Orton joined Triple H, Flair, and Batista in attacking Scott Steiner to complete the group. In 2003, at Bad Blood, Flair was able to defeat Shawn Michaels after Orton struck Michaels with a chair, later that night, Triple H retained his World Heavyweight Championship in a Hell in a Cell match against Kevin Nash. At Unforgiven, Orton defeated Michaels to prove that he was indeed a Legend Killer, later that night, Triple H defended the World Heavyweight Championship against Goldberg, to whom he lost the title. On the September 29 episode of Raw, Triple H issued a $100,000 bounty to anybody who could take out Goldberg, at Survivor Series, Orton participated in a Team Bischoff versus Team Austin elimination tag team match in which Orton was the sole survivor. Later that night, Goldberg faced Triple H in a rematch from Unforgiven for the World Heavyweight Championship which Goldberg won despite repeated interference from Flair, Orton, at the height of Evolutions power, the group controlled all of the male-based championships of Raw after Armageddon. In June 2003, Evolution decided to try and recruit Kane, after unsuccessful attempts, Triple H would face Kane in a match with a Title vs. Mask stipulation. After defeating Kane he would finally be unmasked completely for the audience to see, Flair and Batista exchanged the World Tag Team Championships with Booker T and Rob Van Dam. At WrestleMania XX, Evolution defeated the Rock n Sock Connection in a 3-on-2 handicap match, later that night, Triple H lost the World Heavyweight Championship to Chris Benoit when he tapped out to the Crippler Crossface. At Backlash, Flair lost to Shelton Benjamin in one-on-one action, Triple H and Shawn Michaels would later continue their feud at Bad Blood inside a Hell in a Cell, which was won by Triple H and thus ending their feud. While still World Champion, Benoit teamed with Edge to take the World Tag Team Championship from Flair, in mid-2004, Eugene befriended Triple H
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Women in WWE
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Diva was a term used by WWE, an American professional wrestling promotion, to refer to its female performers. The term was applied to women who appear as wrestlers, managers or valets, backstage interviewers, thus, The Fabulous Moolahs reign was considered to have lasted 27 years by the promotion. WWF also introduced the WWF Womens Tag Team Championship with Velvet McIntyre, Moolah lost the title at The Brawl to End It All, broadcast live on MTV. Richter then lost the title to Leilani Kai the following year, in the summer of 1985, the WWF did a storyline where all established managers in the promotion competed to offer their services to Randy Savage. Savage revealed his new manager to be Miss Elizabeth on the August 24,1985 edition of WWF Prime Time Wrestling, in real life, Savage and Miss Elizabeth were married, but this was not mentioned on television. Miss Elizabeths first major angle was during Savages feud with George The Animal Steele in 1986, in the angle, Steele fell in love with Elizabeth, angering Savage and leading to a series of grudge matches between him and Steele. When Savage—who had formed an alliance with Hogan—turned on Hogan in early 1989, Elizabeth was a major factor, meanwhile, Savage became allied with Sensational Sherri, who had success as a wrestler from 1987–1989 and was phased into a role as an ill-tempered, venomous valet. Sherri initially debuted on July 24,1987 by defeating The Fabulous Moolah for the WWF Womens Championship, also in 1987 Mike McGuirk was introduced as the first female ring announcer of the promotion, arriving after Jesse Ventura referred her to the WWF. In the fall of 1987, McGuirk provided color commentary for several arena show tapings in the Houston, Texas area, the first Survivor Series pay-per-view saw the first female elimination match. In February 1989, the WWF Womens Tag Team Championship was deactivated, Sapphire debuted in November 1989 on Saturday Nights Main Event as a fan cheering on Dusty Rhodes at ringside in his match against Big Boss Man. Sapphire began to manage Rhodes, who adapted Rhodes gimmick as she adorned black outfits with yellow polka dots, Sapphire and Rhodes later feuded with Randy Savage and Sensational Sherri and wrestled in a tag team match at WrestleMania VI. Rockin Robin was the last WWF Womens Champion in the late 1980s, when the WWF phased out its female-talent roster in 1990, Sensational Sherri remained with the company, joining Sapphire and Miss Elizabeth focusing on managing male wrestlers. At WrestleMania IX, Luna Vachon debuted and initially aligned herself with Shawn Michaels, later, she aligned herself with Bam Bam Bigelow to feud with Sherri and Tatanka. Martel left the company in 1993, in 1993, the WWF reinstated its Womens Championship, a title that had been vacant since 1990, and Debrah Miceli was brought in by the company to revive the womens division. She debuted under the ring name Alundra Blayze, because WWF owner Vince McMahon did not want to pay Miceli to use the name Madusa, which she had trademarked. She wrestled in a tournament to crown a new Womens Champion. After the tournament, Miceli asked WWF management to bring in new women for her to wrestle, former champion Leilani Kai briefly returned to the company at WrestleMania X facing Blayze for the Womens title. In mid-1994, Bull Nakano joined the WWF roster and began feuding with Miceli, Blayze defeated Nakano at SummerSlam, but lost the belt to her on November 20,1994 in Japan at the Big Egg Wrestling Universe event
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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 (WWE brand)
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WWE NXT, often referred to simply as NXT, is a professional wrestling promotion and a division of the American professional wrestling company WWE. It is based in Winter Park, Florida, on February 27,2014, NXT held its first live two hour special event called NXT Arrival, which was also the first live in-ring program broadcast on the WWE Network. Eventually, WWE scheduled more live two-hour special events, which have become a regular fixture on WWE Network. In 2015, NXT promoted its first live events outside of Florida, with an event that was held in March in Columbus, by 2016, NXT was running approximately 200 shows per year between the U. S. and overseas. WWE released statements regarding some of the claims came to light in 2013 and 2015 saying that investigations were done. On March 6,2015, DeMott denied the allegations but resigned from WWE to avoid any embarrassment or damage to the company, notes ^ Michael Cole acted as Interim General Manager of NXT while William Regal recovered from neck surgery. Notes ^ Jim Ross largely only called the main event, ^ The pairings of Dawson and Regal and Phillips and Maddox commentated on alternate shows. Riley replaced Maddox in August 2013 after Maddox became General Manager of Raw, ^ Tony Luftman and Tony Dawson were the same commentator. Notes ^ DMarco and Caruso are currently announcing at NXT live events, the WWE Network broadcasts NXTs eponymous television program in the United States. The show features wrestlers from NXT and WWE, from 2010 to 2012, WWE aired previous version of NXT which consisted of pairing Rookies with WWE main-roster members, with the pairs competing in challenges until there one sole winner remained. The winners of the show were Wade Barrett, Kaval, Kaitlyn, after NXT Redemption, the current developmental program replaced the previous show. NXT, in its format, was taped in large venues before the SmackDown tapings from 2010–2012. When WWE revamped the show they moved the tapings to Full Sail University in Orlando, Florida, WWE started taping NXT in Florida on May 17,2012. Tickets are available free for Full Sail students, general admission for non-students costs $10, NXT began airing on the WWE Network on February 27,2014 with a live event called NXT Arrival. Regular episodes are one-hour and are pre-taped, Live two-hour episodes are produced periodically as part of the NXT TakeOver series. WWE Performance Center Official website WWE NXT at the Internet Movie Database WWE NXT at TV. com
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Uniondale, New York
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Uniondale is a hamlet and census-designated place, as well as a suburb of New York City in Nassau County, New York, United States, on Long Island, in the Town of Hempstead. The population was 24,759 at the 2010 United States Census, Uniondale is home to Hofstra Universitys north campus. Uniondale is located at 40°42′11″N 73°35′28″W, according to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 2.7 square miles, all land. It is a hamlet and neighbors the diverse towns of Hempstead, Roosevelt, East Meadow. As of the census of 2000, there were 23,011 people,6,026 households, the population density was 8,676.5 per square mile. There were 6,201 housing units at a density of 2,338. 1/sq mi. The racial makeup of the CDP was 26. 97% White,55. 53% Black,0. 35% Native American,2. 10% Asian,0. 08% Pacific Islander,9. 95% from other races, and 5. 01% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 22. 86% of the population,16. 0% of all households were made up of individuals and 8. 5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.66 and the family size was 3.95. In the CDP the population was out with 26. 5% under the age of 18,9. 7% from 18 to 24,29. 3% from 25 to 44,21. 9% from 45 to 64. The median age was 35 years, for every 100 females there were 90.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 85.5 males, the median income for a household in the CDP was $61,410, and the median income for a family was $67,264. Males had an income of $32,417 versus $31,169 for females. The per capita income was $19,069, about 6. 0% of families and 8. 8% of the population were below the poverty line, including 9. 0% of those under age 18 and 12. 9% of those age 65 or over. Uniondale was the home of the NHLs New York Islanders, who played at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum from 1972 until 2015. The 2014–15 NHL season was their year at the Coliseum before the team moved to the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. It is also home to the Mitchel Athletic Complex, which hosts the Long Island Rough Riders, a soccer team. Uniondale was also home to one-third of WWFs WrestleMania 2 and it also hosted WWE SummerSlam 2002, WWE Great American Bash 2008 and WWE Fatal 4-Way 2010
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New York (state)
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New York is a state in the northeastern United States, and is the 27th-most extensive, fourth-most populous, and seventh-most densely populated U. S. state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south and Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont to the east. With an estimated population of 8.55 million in 2015, New York City is the most populous city in the United States, the New York Metropolitan Area is one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world. New York City makes up over 40% of the population of New York State, two-thirds of the states population lives in the New York City Metropolitan Area, and nearly 40% lives on Long Island. Both the state and New York City were named for the 17th-century Duke of York, the next four most populous cities in the state are Buffalo, Rochester, Yonkers, and Syracuse, while the state capital is Albany. New York has a diverse geography and these more mountainous regions are bisected by two major river valleys—the north-south Hudson River Valley and the east-west Mohawk River Valley, which forms the core of the Erie Canal. Western New York is considered part of the Great Lakes Region and straddles Lake Ontario, between the two lakes lies Niagara Falls. The central part of the state is dominated by the Finger Lakes, New York had been inhabited by tribes of Algonquian and Iroquoian-speaking Native Americans for several hundred years by the time the earliest Europeans came to New York. The first Europeans to arrive were French colonists and Jesuit missionaries who arrived southward from settlements at Montreal for trade, the British annexed the colony from the Dutch in 1664. The borders of the British colony, the Province of New York, were similar to those of the present-day state, New York is home to the Statue of Liberty, a symbol of the United States and its ideals of freedom, democracy, and opportunity. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance. On April 17,1524 Verrazanno entered New York Bay, by way of the now called the Narrows into the northern bay which he named Santa Margherita. Verrazzano described it as a vast coastline with a delta in which every kind of ship could pass and he adds. This vast sheet of water swarmed with native boats and he landed on the tip of Manhattan and possibly on the furthest point of Long Island. Verrazannos stay was interrupted by a storm which pushed him north towards Marthas Vineyard, in 1540 French traders from New France built a chateau on Castle Island, within present-day Albany, due to flooding, it was abandoned the next year. In 1614, the Dutch under the command of Hendrick Corstiaensen, rebuilt the French chateau, Fort Nassau was the first Dutch settlement in North America, and was located along the Hudson River, also within present-day Albany. The small fort served as a trading post and warehouse, located on the Hudson River flood plain, the rudimentary fort was washed away by flooding in 1617, and abandoned for good after Fort Orange was built nearby in 1623. Henry Hudsons 1609 voyage marked the beginning of European involvement with the area, sailing for the Dutch East India Company and looking for a passage to Asia, he entered the Upper New York Bay on September 11 of that year
