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WWF is a foundation with 65% of funding from individuals and bequests, 17% from government sources (such as the World Bank, DFID, and USAID) and 8% from corporations in 2020. [8] [9] WWF aims to "stop the degradation of the planet's natural environment and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature."
In Your House was a series of professional wrestling supercard events created by WWE, a professional wrestling promotion based in Connecticut.The events originally aired on pay-per-view (PPV) from May 1995 to February 1999 when the promotion was still called the World Wrestling Federation (WWF; renamed WWE in 2002).
The draft was first used in 2002 when the then-World Wrestling Federation (WWF) introduced the brand split. It was initially called the WWF Draft Lottery but after the company's renaming from WWF to WWE two months after that original draft, it was rebranded the following year to WWE Draft Lottery (2004–2005), then WWE Brand Extension Draft ...
The next day, the official name change from World Wrestling Federation Entertainment, Inc. to World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc., was publicized in a press release and during a broadcast of Raw, from the Hartford Civic Center. Following the name change, the use of the WWF "scratch" logo became prohibited on all WWE properties.
The WWF Tag Team Championship Tournament was a tournament to decide new WWF Tag Team Champions after former champions Diesel and Shawn Michaels vacated the titles due to the two not being able to function as a tag team, [10] which was won by The 1-2-3 Kid and Bob Holly. [10]
Created as a 50–50 joint venture between NBC and WWE-owned subsidiary WWE Properties International, Inc. [6] under the company name "XFL, LLC", the XFL was created as a "single-entity league;" instead of the franchise model used by the NFL and other major leagues, or the hybrid model where investors in the league are given operations over teams (as used in Major League Soccer), the XFL ...
The WWWF was renamed to World Wrestling Federation (WWF) in 1979 [3] and then World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) in 2002 [4] [5] —since April 2011, the company has operated under the trade name of WWE, although the legal name is still the full unabbreviated name. [6]
Randy Colley and Bill Eadie created the Demolition gimmick and worked for the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). They debuted as a heel tag team on January 4, 1987, at the Springfield Civic Centre in Massachusetts, alongside manager Luscious Johnny V, defeating the team of The Islanders and later participating in a battle royal won by Pete Doherty. [11]