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After Chyna's death, Chyna's sister Kathy reported the wrestler was offered a new WWF contract in 2001 with a minimum salary of $400,000 per year and the potential for substantially higher income via merchandising and pay-per-view appearances, but she refused to sign a contract for less than a base salary of $1 million per year. [73]
The ring boy scandal was a sex scandal in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF; now known as WWE) centered around allegations that in the late 1980s and early 1990s ring announcer Mel Phillips (1941–2012) had recruited teenage boys for the purposes of sexual exploitation.
According to a 2014 study by Eastern Michigan University examining professional wrestlers who were active between 1985 and 2011, mortality rates for professional wrestlers are up to 2.9 times greater than the rate for men in the wider United States population. [1]
All Japan Pro Wrestling held a ten-bell salute for The Dynamite Kid in 2018. On June 21, 2020, World Wonder Ring Stardom held a ten-bell salute for Hana Kimura at Stardom is Again, the first event for the promotion since the COVID-19 pandemic related shut down of the wrestling industry in Japan and Kamura's suicide death on May 23, 2020. [38]
Xia Zhao [4] (simplified Chinese: 赵霞; traditional Chinese: 趙霞; pinyin: Zhào Xià; born July 28, 1988) is a Chinese professional wrestler and mixed martial artist signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) under the ring name Léi Ying Lee. She also makes appearances on the independent circuit under her real name.
January 27 - André the Giant, French wrestler (b. 1946) January 31 - Joe McHugh, WWWF announcer (b. 1904) February 18 - Kerry Von Erich, American wrestler (b. 1960) March 10 - Dino Bravo, Canadian wrestler (b. 1948) March 25 - Wally Karbo, American wrestling promoter (b. 1915) April 18 - Masahiko Kimura, Japanese wrestler (b. 1917)
"We have conveyed, firstly, to China our dismay, our despair, our frustration, but to put it reall China court's suspended death sentence for Australian writer an 'outrage,' PM says Skip to main ...
South China Sea, off the coast of Hainan Island: 10 Airliner shootdown By People's Liberation Army Air Force, 10 of the 19 on board died Sufan movement: 1955–1957 Nationwide 53,000 [40] [41] Launched by Mao Zedong and CCP Anti-Rightist Campaign: 1957–1959 Nationwide 550,000 – 2 million Exact death toll is unknown.