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English boxer Nicky Cook with his ring name Cookie on the trunks. A ring name [1] is a type of stage name or nickname used by an athlete such as a professional wrestler, mixed martial artist, or boxer whose real name is considered unattractive, dull, difficult to pronounce or spell, amusing for the wrong reasons, or projecting the wrong image.
WWE is an American professional wrestling promotion based in Stamford, Connecticut. [1] It is owned and operated by TKO Group Holdings , a majority owned subsidiary of Endeavor Group Holdings . WWE personnel consists of professional wrestlers , managers , play-by-play and color commentators , ring announcers , interviewers , referees , trainers ...
Professional wrestling's championship belts are modeled similarly to the championship belts in boxing, and other combat sports such as mixed martial arts. They are made of elaborately designed plates of gold or other precious metals , usually bearing the name of the title and the wrestling promotion, and is on a leather strap.
During the 1950s, the National Wrestling Alliance oversaw many wrestling territories such as Mid-Atlantic Wrestling and NWA San Francisco, in a business model known as the "territory system". [ 1 ] This is a list of the most notable past and present professional wrestling promotions.
This is an incomplete list of professional wrestlers, commentators, managers, road agents, and other workers associated in professional wrestling categorized by the promotion of which the wrestlers are mainly associated.
This template links to wrestler profiles at cagematch.net, wrestlingdata.com and the Internet Wrestling Database. It uses the identifiers passes as arguments, and if absent, will extract the values from Wikidata. Template parameters [Edit template data] Parameter Description Type Status Cagematch identifier cagematch Profile identifier at Cagematch.net. If blank, the value is extracted from ...
The term sports entertainment was coined by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) chairman Vince McMahon during the 1980s as a marketing term to describe the industry of professional wrestling, primarily to potential advertisers, [85] although precursors date back to February 1935, when Toronto Star sports editor Lou Marsh described ...
Explosive Pro Wrestling-Adelaide 2008–2011 Adelaide, Australia NWA Force One Pro Wrestling 2009–2012 New Jersey: Johnny Calzone NWA Full Throttle Action 2011–2012 Oklahoma: Will Peden Fusion Pro Wrestling 2008–2009 Colorado: Victoria Star Billy Roberts Jeff Michaels NWA Great Championship Wrestling 2004–2007 Georgia: Jerry Oates