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Typhoon briefly returned to the WWF midcard in 1994. [19] Earthquake traveled to Japan in 1993 and returned in 1994 for a short “Sumo Vs Sumo” feud with Yokozuna. [20] [21] For the few months Earthquake was in the WWF, no mention of the tag team was made. He then went to WCW, where he wrestled as Avalanche at first and later became The ...
John Anthony Tenta Jr. (June 22, 1963 – June 7, 2006) [1] was a Canadian professional wrestler and sumo wrestler best known for his work in the World Wrestling Federation as Earthquake, though initially known as Canadian Earthquake.
He then wrestled Earthquake in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) in 1994 under his given name as a jobber. Connor debuted in Smoky Mountain Wrestling in September 1994 as "A.C. Conner". In October 1994, he was renamed "'Downtown' D'Lo Brown" and introduced as the head of security for the Gangstas (Mustapha Saed and New Jack).
The theme of the group was that each member was a perennial enhancement talent (otherwise known as jobbers), in which they lost to established or up-and-coming wrestlers. The acronym J.O.B. was said to stand for "Just Over Broke", [ 3 ] a reference to wrestlers' penchant for appearing in preliminary matches and, therefore, being on the low end ...
He worked for the World Wrestling Federation (later WWE) from 1989 to 1993 under the ring names Tugboat and Typhoon. As the former, he played a key babyface ally of Hulk Hogan. As the latter, he turned heel to form The Natural Disasters with Earthquake and held the WWF Tag Team Championship. [3] [5] [2]
Bravo served as Earthquake's corner man at the 1990 SummerSlam on August 27 in Philadelphia, PA but did not get involved in the match. Bravo and Earthquake continued to feud with Hogan and Tugboat in the fall. On the October 8th edition of WWF Superstars he defeated Nikolai Volkoff via disqualification after Tugboat interfered. On the November ...
Danny Davis started out in 1981 in the World Wrestling Federation as a referee under his birthname ring name Danny Davis. [2] He also wrestled from 1984 to 1986 as the masked Mr. X, working masked so that the fans did not realize it was a referee in the ring. [4] The Mr. X character was a jobber who won very few matches.
SummerSlam is an annual pay-per-view (PPV) produced every August by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) since 1988. Dubbed "The Biggest Party of the Summer", [ 2 ] it is one of the promotion's original four pay-per-views, along with WrestleMania , Royal Rumble , and Survivor Series , which were dubbed the "Big Four". [ 3 ]