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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.
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.
Many are heavily influenced by anime and manga characters such as Tiger Mask and Black Tiger during the 1980s, and Jushin Thunder Liger in the 90s. Many of these stars would appear in World Championship Wrestling during the "Monday Night War" period. [2] In recent years, World Wrestling Entertainment has re-used masked characters for comedic ...
This is a list of professional wrestlers and personalities that performed in World Championship Wrestling from 1988 to 2001. They are listed in alphabetical order by last name. For alumni of pre-WWE promotion Jim Crockett Promotions, see List of former Jim Crockett Promotions personnel. Deceased individuals are indicated with a dagger (†).
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WWE is an American professional wrestling promotion and entertainment company based in Stamford, Connecticut. [1] Former employees in WWE consist of professional wrestlers, managers, valets, play-by-play and color commentators, announcers, interviewers, referees, trainers, script writers, executives, and members of the board of directors.
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 ...
International Wrestling Association was a professional wrestling promotion based in Cleveland, Ohio from 1975 to 1978. Former employees in the IWA consisted of professional wrestlers , managers , play-by-play and color commentators , announcers , interviewers and referees .