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World League Wrestling is based out of Troy, Missouri, and puts on approximately 11 shows a year. [2] The slogan for the company is Shut up and wrestle, which expresses its theme of more old-school wrestling and less "showboating". [2] [4] The promotion is family-style professional wrestling entertainment that excludes nudity and swearing. [4]
In describing Mid-South Wrestling, Cornette has offered the following example: "Two weeks of our lives, fourteen days, we did two one hour TV shows, fifteen house shows, two all day promo sets, drove 4,700 miles in a car while doing that, and I can't speak for anybody else, but I made — and I was only 22 years old, and just pleased as punch ...
The 2024 U20 World Wrestling Championships was the 46th edition of the World Junior Wrestling Championships, which was held in Pontevedra, Spain between 2 and 8 September 2024. [1] Turkmenistan won its first-ever world title in freestyle. [2] Sri Lanka won its first ever medal at a World Wrestling Championships event. [3]
Started wrestling in Toronto for Maple Leaf Wrestling as the "Flying Frenchman' Jacques Dubois. He would start training Terrible Ted, an American black bear, stood 7"0 and weighed 600 lbs. Ted was declawed and detoothed, and travelled with a carnival in his early years, When the carnival went bankrupt in the early 1950s, McKigney adopted and trained him.
After an injury set him back significantly, he returned to wrestling at NXT live events under the ring name Ric Boog. [3] Under his real name, Bugenhagen lost to Drew Gulak on February 6, 2019, on NXT in his television debut. [3] On the May 1, 2019 episode of WWE Worlds Collide, he participated in a 20-man battle royal as Rik Bugez. [5]
Juniors (men aged 18 to 20, as well as male youths at age 17 with a medical certificate and parental authorization) compete in freestyle wrestling and/or Greco-Roman wrestling in the following weight classes: [3] 57 kg (126 lbs) 61 kg (134 lbs) 65 kg (143 lbs) 70 kg (154 lbs) 74 kg (163 lbs) 79 kg (174 lbs) 86 kg (190 lbs) 92 kg (203 lbs)
The World Junior Wrestling Championships (U20) is the main wrestling championships in the Junior age category (between 18 and 20 years old), organised by United World Wrestling (UWW). [1] This event was held twice in 1979 and 1980.
Superstars of Wrestling is a nationally syndicated professional wrestling television program that aired throughout the United States from 1985 to 1992. [1] Created and produced by Joe Pedicino, the series broadcast eight hours of wrestling from around the country and was the first to provide national coverage of both the National Wrestling Alliance and international promotions. [2]