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While Championship Wrestling was generally taped in Poughkeepsie, New York, Saturday Night's Main Event was taped in front of packed arenas around the country. WrestleMania's popularity and ratings appeal made professional wrestling a television mainstay. Wrestling, now synonymous with the WWF, began to throw more grandiose matches.
Below is a list of former members of the American Wrestling Association , an American professional wrestling organization based in Minnesota. AWA wrestlers
Ring name (Real name) Life Years active Location Promotion Ref. Dan Adams 1989–2010 Wichita, Kansas: Sunflower State Wrestling (1989–2010) [1] Billy Anderson: 1956– 1974– San Bernardino, California: Western States Wrestling Association (1988–1991) Empire Wrestling Federation (1996–) [1] Ole Anderson: 1942–2024 1967–1993 Atlanta ...
This is an incomplete list of professional wrestlers, commentators, managers, road agents, and other workers associated in professional wrestling categorized by the promotion of which the wrestlers are mainly associated.
The National Wrestling Federation was a professional wrestling promotion based in Buffalo, New York from 1970 to 1974 and in New York City from 1986 to 1994. Former employees in the NWF consisted of professional wrestlers , managers , play-by-play and color commentators , announcers , interviewers and referees .
This marked the beginning of a working relationship between AEW and Impact. Omega would make his first appearance since winning the title on the following Tuesday's episode of Impact!, [79] [80] and made his in-ring debut at Hard to Kill event in January 2021, after reuniting with former Bullet Club stablemates Karl Anderson and Doc Gallows.
Ring name (Real name) Life Years active Promotion Managed Ref. Billy Sandow (Wilhelm Baumann) 1884–1972 1900s- circa 1920s National Wrestling Association: Ed "Strangler" Lewis, Billy Jenkins, Marin Plestina, Everett Marshall [1] Frank Smith (Francis Marion Smith) 1878–1933 1925–1933 National Wrestling Association: Jim Browning [1] [2 ...
May 2 - Bret Hart captured his first Stampede Wrestling North American Heavyweight Championship by beating Leo Burke in Bret's hometown of Calgary, Alberta. July 18 - Nick Bockwinkel's 5-year reign as AWA World Heavyweight Champion ended as Verne Gagne pinned him in Chicago, Illinois, to become the new champion. He retired after this bout.