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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.
This resulted in certain wrestlers turning heel (or, in non-wrestling terms, a villain) in regular WWF programming, but remaining good guys on the cartoon and vice versa; examples include "Rowdy" Roddy Piper (who was a heel when the show debuted, but became a face in the fall of 1986, despite remaining a bad guy in the cartoon) and André the ...
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 ...
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 ).
David William Heath (born February 16, 1969) is an American professional wrestler.He is best known for his appearances in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) from 1998 to 2001 and intermittently throughout the mid-2000s under the ring name Gangrel.
Ion William Croitoru (December 7, 1963 – February 21, 2017) [1] was a Canadian professional wrestler and outlaw biker, known to wrestling fans by his ring names Johnny K-9, Taras Bulba and Bruiser Bedlam.
Danny Davis started out in 1981 in the World Wrestling Federation as a referee under his birthname ring name Danny Davis. [2] He also wrestled from 1984 to 1986 as the masked Mr. X, working masked so that the fans did not realize it was a referee in the ring. [4] The Mr. X character was a jobber who won very few matches.