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Over a three-day period between June 22 and 24, 2007, Chris Benoit, a 40-year-old Canadian professional wrestler employed by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), allegedly murdered his wife Nancy and their seven-year-old son, Daniel, before hanging himself at their residence in Fayetteville, Georgia, United States.
Owen James Hart (May 7, 1965 – May 23, 1999) was a Canadian-American professional wrestler who worked for several promotions including Stampede Wrestling, New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), World Championship Wrestling (WCW), and the World Wrestling Federation (WWF).
Brian Stephen Howser (February 8, 1975 – August 18, 1998), [3] [2] known by his ring name Shane Shamrock, was an American professional wrestler best known for his time Maryland Championship Wrestling. He is the only wrestler to win the Light Heavyweight Champion in the company's history, having become the inaugural champion two months before ...
Since he already had an athletic build, he decided to give wrestling a try and began attending a wrestling school. [ 6 ] [ 8 ] When he first wrestled professionally, he was known as "Tarzan Kowalski", [ 9 ] but was also called Hercules Kowalski, Killer Kowalski (this nickname is used as early as 1950) and even The Polish Apollo, according to ...
Direct-to-video professional wrestling films (1 C, 10 P) K. Kinnikuman films (4 P) L. Lucha libre films (21 P) P. Professional wrestling documentary films (26 P) W.
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.
The Marine is a 2006 American action film directed by John Bonito from a story written by Alan B. McElroy and Michelle Gallagher. It stars professional wrestler John Cena, in his acting debut and was executively produced by Vince McMahon through the film production division of WWE called WWE Films and distributed in the United States by 20th Century Fox.
Ritter died on June 1, 1998, at the age of 45, in a single-car accident on Interstate 20 near Forest, Mississippi, as he was returning home from his daughter LaToya's high school graduation in Wadesboro, North Carolina. [1] Among Ritter's last contributions to professional wrestling was the training of former WWF wrestlers Rodney Mack and Jazz.