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The following is a list of gridiron football players who became professional wrestlers. [1] [2] [3] People may appear on the list multiple times if they were signed to more than one league. For example, Clem Turner appears on the list five times because he was in five different leagues.
Explosive Pro Wrestling: 2001 Current personnel: Former personnel United States: Extreme Championship Wrestling: 1992–2001 Current personnel: Former personnel United States: Extreme Rising: 2012–2014 Current personnel: Former personnel Ireland: Fight Factory Pro Wrestling: 2004 Current personnel: Former personnel Philippines: Filipino Pro ...
Pro wrestling's history has been tied to the use of gimmicks from its infancy. From its circus origins in the 1830s, showmen presented wrestlers under names such as "Edward, the steel eater", "Gustave d’Avignon, the bone wrecker", or "Bonnet, the ox of the low Alps" and challenged the public to knock them down for 500 francs. [1]
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Kayfabe characters Sgt Slaughter and The Grand Wizard in a wrestling ring. In professional wrestling, kayfabe (/ ˈ k eɪ f eɪ b /) is the portrayal of staged events within the industry as "real" or "true", specifically the portrayal of competition, rivalries, and relationships between participants as being genuine and not staged.
Oleg Aleksandrovich Prudius [a] (born April 27, 1969) [1] better known by his ring name Vladimir Kozlov, is a Ukrainian-American actor and professional wrestler signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) under his real name.
After the team disbanded in 2010, LoMonaco competed as a singles wrestler under the name Bully Ray and went on to hold the TNA World Heavyweight Championship twice. He left TNA in 2015, and returned to WWE with Hughes as The Dudley Boyz for two years, before joining Ring of Honor (ROH), until 2020.
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