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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.
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 ...
Before that, WWF Superstars of Wrestling was the name of a weekly recap show hosted by Vince McMahon (or Gene Okerlund) and Lord Alfred Hayes that lasted from 1984 through August 1986. The new version of Superstars was the program on which all the angles began and at times ended and on which the majority of title changes took place if not at a ...
Battle Royal at the Albert Hall was a live professional wrestling event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now known as WWE) that took place on 3 October 1991 at the Royal Albert Hall in London, England. The event was televised on Sky Movies Plus and later released on VHS and DVD.
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 ).
A jobber may not necessarily lose, only make the superstar look powerful—or at least make another wrestler interfering with the match to look more powerful. One example is Jimmy Jacobs: employed by WWE as a jobber for a time, Jacobs wrestled Eddie Guerrero during the latter's last heel run. Though Jacobs was squashed, he actually won by ...
On May 29, 2013, it was announced that WWE studios and Warner Bros would again team up to co-produce a Flintstones animated movie to be released in early 2015. [ 37 ] WWE Studios most successful film to date is the 2013 release The Call , starring Halle Berry and Abigail Breslin , which made close to $70 million at the box office, [ 38 ...
The 1990 SummerSlam was the third annual SummerSlam professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE). It took place on August 27, 1990, at The Spectrum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.