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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: All Pro Wrestling, Toryumon, Wcw Power Plant, Hart House, Iwf Promotions, Harley Race's Wrestling Academy, Kaientai Dojo, Jdstar, !bang!, Texas Wrestling Academy, Roh Wrestling Academy, Monster Factory. Excerpt:Founded: 2001 !Bang! is a professional wrestling promotion owned by Dory Funk, Jr. It is run by the Funking Conservatory, a full-service professional wrestling school , and the stars of !BANG! play as members of the Funking Conservatory team. The school and promotion offer a three-step, three-week program for aspiring wrestlers of all skill levels, offering students the chance to work in front of a live crowd and even to become a star on the !Bang! TV show. As well as training wrestlers, the Funking Conservatory team also offer courses in the promotion of professional wrestling, refereeing, announcing and creative writing for professional wrestling. History A NWA World Heavyweight Championship bout between the champion Jeff Jarrett and Dory Funk, Jr., was held at !BANG! on January 22, 2004 and was later broadcast on !BANG! TV. Dory Funk, Jr., was also a guest at the TNA Against All Odds press conference in 2006 (shown on TNA Impact! ) regarding the upcoming NWA World Heavyweight Championship match between Jarrett and Christian Cage . Funking Conservatory Wrestlers that have been trained by Dory Funk, Jr. include Chris Sabin , Christian Cage , Jun Akiyama , Kurt Angle , Lita , Matt Hardy , Jeff Hardy , Mickie James , Paul London , Rhino , Steve Corino , William Regal , and many others. Funk previously worked as head coach of the Funking Dojo wrestling training camp for WWF in Stamford, Connecticut during the 1990s. Current pro-wrestlers and past graduates often attend the Funking Conservatory, giving advice to new students - with guests including Rob Van Dam and Bobby He... ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: WrestleMania (chronologically known as WrestleMania I) was the first WrestleMania professional wrestling event produced by the World Wrestling Federation. It took place on March 31, 1985 at Madison Square Garden in New York, New York. The attendance for the event was 19,121 fans. The event was viewed by over one million fans through Closed-circuit television, making it the largest event on closed-circuit television in the United States at the time. The event was the start of the Rock 'n' Wrestling gimmick, which brought together professional wrestling and the music industry, and matches aired on MTV during the build up to the event. Nine professional wrestling matches, performances with pre-determined outcomes between wrestlers with fictional personalities that are portrayed as real, were featured. The main event match pitted Hulk Hogan and Mr. T against Roddy Piper and Paul Orndorff. Hogan won the match after interference from "Cowboy" Bob Orton. Also at the event, Wendi Richter defeated Leilani Kai for the WWF Women's Championship, and Nikolai Volkoff and The Iron Sheik defeated The U.S. Express (Mike Rotundo and Barry Windham) to win the WWF Tag Team Championship. The reviews for the event were mixed. Reviewers considered the main event match to be entertaining and humorous but lacking in technical wrestling. Despite this, it received Pro Wrestling Illustrated's annual PWI Match of the Year award. In the late 1980s, Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Federation (WWF)'s main competition in the professional wrestling industry was from Jim Crockett Promotions. McMahon countered Jim Crockett's successful Starrcade pay-per-view, which began airing in 1983, by creating the WrestleMania franchise. For the first WrestleMania, Vince McMahon began cros... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=896839 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Women Superstars Uncensored, Women of Wrestling, Ladies Professional Wrestling Association, All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling, Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, Professional Girl Wrestling Association, Shimmer Women Athletes, Women's Extreme Wrestling, World Women's Wrestling, Naked Women's Wrestling League, Ncw Femmes Fatales, Gaea Japan, Jdstar, Powerful Women of Wrestling, Queens of Chaos, Sendai Girls' Pro Wrestling. Excerpt:Not related to All Japan Pro Wrestling for men, which was founded in 1972. All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling ( , Zennihon Joshi Puroresu ? ), nicknamed Zenjo ( : meaning "All", meaning "Woman") was a joshi puroresu (women's professional wrestling ) promotion established in 1968 by Takashi Matsunaga and his brothers. The group held their first card in June 4 of that year. For many years it had a TV program on Fuji TV . History The All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling Corporation , established in 1968, was the successor to the All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling Association , which had been formed in August 1955, to oversee the plethora of women's wrestling promotions that had sprung up in Japan following a tour in November, 1954, by Mildred Burke and her World Women's Wrestling Association (WWWA). These promotions included the All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling Federation , and the All Japan Women's Wrestling Club , started in 1948, which was the first women's wrestling promotion in Japan. By the mid-60s, the Association had fallen apart, due to infighting between the member promotions. In 1967, another attempt to organize the sport of women's professional wrestling was made with a new All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling Association. This time the Fabulous Moolah , the NWA Women's Champion , came across from the United States and traded her title with Yukiko Tomoe , to lend le... ... Read more

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: André the Giant, Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, Roddy Piper, Ricky Steamboat, Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum, Ted Dibiase, the Fabulous Moolah, Bruno Sammartino, Harley Race, Terry Funk, Jack Brisco, Killer Kowalski, Bobby Heenan, Johnny Valentine, Freddie Blassie, Ray Stevens, Verne Gagne, Maurice Vachon, the Fabulous Freebirds, Lou Thesz, Pat Patterson, Buddy Rogers, George Wagner, Pat O'connor, Dory Funk, Jr., Rikidōzan, Nick Bockwinkel, John Tolos, Mildred Burke, Reginald Lisowski, Antonino Rocca, George Steele, Martin Burns, William Muldoon, Stanislaus Zbyszko, Don Leo Jonathan, Frank Gotch, William Afflis, Joe Stecher, Sam Muchnick, Karl Istaz, Penny Banner, Dick Beyer, John Pesek, Ed Lewis, Georg Hackenschmidt, Eric Tovey, Danny Hodge, Billy Darnell, Vincent J. Mcmahon, Paul Boesch, Earl Caddock, Paul Vachon, Mike Mazurki, Orville Brown, Gordon Solie, Lionel Giroux, Jim Londos, Ed Don George, Ilio Dipaolo, Heidi Lee Morgan, Angelo Savoldi, Gus Sonnenberg, Marcel Gauthier, Ray Stern, Bill Longson. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Terry Gene Bollea (born August 11, 1953), better known by his ring name Hulk Hogan, is a professional wrestler currently signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. Hogan had mainstream popularity in the mid 1980s through the early 1990s as the all-American, working-class hero character Hulk Hogan in the World Wrestling Federation (WWFnow World Wrestling Entertainment), and was notable in the mid-to-late 1990s as "Hollywood" Hogan, the villainous nWo leader, in World Championship Wrestling (WCW), along with Kevin Nash and Scott Hall. Following WCW's fold, he made a brief return to WWE in the early 2000s, revising his heroic character by combining elements of his two most famous personas. Hogan was later induct...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=301775 ... Read more

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Curt Hawkins and Zack Ryder (formerly known as the Major Brothers) were an American professional wrestling tag team that are currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). Hawkins is best known for his time he spent with WWE on its SmackDown brand, while Ryder is wrestling on its ECW brand. The team consisted of Curt Hawkins (the former Brian Major), real name Brian Myers (born April 20, 1985 in Glen Cove, New York), and Zack Ryder (the former Brett Major), real name Matthew Cardona (born May 14, 1985 in Merrick, New York). They were both trained by Mikey Whipwreck. From May 1, 2007 to December 16, 2007, the team was known as the Major Brothers, until they were repackaged and renamed to Curt Hawkins and Zack Ryder as fans and associates of Edge on December 21, 2007, on an episode of SmackDown!. ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Starrcade '91: Battlebowl/The Lethal Lottery was the ninth annual Starrcade professional wrestling pay-per-view event. It was the fourth Starrcade event produced by World Championship Wrestling, and it took place on December 29, 1991 from the Norfolk Scope in Norfolk, Virginia. The event solely featured the Battlebowl battle royal and its qualifying matches. Forty wrestlers were chosen at random to form ten pairs of tag teams. Each pair competed in a match, and the winning team advanced to Battlebowl. This was the first Starrcade event to not feature Ric Flair. Sting won Battlebowl, and his victory led to a feud with Lex Luger over the WCW World Heavyweight Championship. Before Starrcade, Sting was in a feud with both Rick Rude and Lex Luger. On July 14, Lex Luger won the WCW World Heavyweight Championship, and vacated the WCW United States Heavyweight Championship because of this. Sting won a tournament to become the new WCW United States Heavyweight Champion on August 25, and this put Sting in contention for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship. Luger saw Sting as a threat, and had Abdullah The Butcher and Cactus Jack attempt to injure Sting. On October 27, Rude made his debut, and he made Sting his first target. Finally, at Clash of the Champions XVII, Luger ambushed Sting, and injured his knee. This allowed Rude to win the WCW United States Heavyweight Championship from Sting later that night. The first match was between the team of Michael Hayes and Tracy Smothers and the team of Marcus Bagwell and Jimmy Garvin. The match started back and forth until Smothers missed an elbow drop on Bagwell. Garvin tagged in, and performed a back body drop. Bagwell tagged in, and performed a diving crossbody. Hayes came in, and attacked Garvin and Ba... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=17713427 ... Read more

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Chapters: History of Professional Wrestling in the United States. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 63. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Professional wrestling in the United States, up until the 1920s, was viewed as a legitimate sport. This view did not endure as professional wrestling became identified with modern theatrics, or admitted fakeness ("kayfabe"), moving away from being a showcase for true competition. The scripted nature of the art has made critics view it as an illegitimate sport, particularly in comparison to boxing, mixed martial arts, and amateur wrestling. No major promoter or wrestler denies that modern professional wrestling has predetermined match outcomes. Through the advent of television in the 1950s and cable in the 1980s, professional wrestling began appearing in powerful media outlets, reaching never before seen numbers of viewers. It became an international phenomenon with the expansion of the World Wrestling Federation. Throughout the 1990s, professional wrestling achieved highs in both viewers and financial success during a time of fierce competition among competing promotions, such as World Wrestling Federation, World Championship Wrestling, and Extreme Championship Wrestling. The nature of professional wrestling changed dramatically to better fit television, enhancing character traits and storylines. Television also helped many wrestlers break into mainstream media, becoming influential celebrities and icons of popular culture. In the United States, in the First Golden Age of Professional Wrestling in the 1940s-1950s, Gorgeous George gained mainstream popularity, followed in the Second Golden Age in the 1980s-1990s by Hulk Hogan, Shawn Michaels, Bret Hart, Sting, The Undertaker, Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Rock. Professional wrestling, in the sens...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=5946313 ... Read more

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Chapters: Martial Arts Film, Professional Wrestling, Capoeira, Weapon Dance, Hong Kong Action Cinema, Stunt, Bullet Time, Stage Combat, Gun Fu, Jackie Chan Stunt Team, Girls With Guns, Combat in Film, Scarlet Blade Theatre, Swashbuckler Film, the Flyting of Dumbar and Kennedie, Seattle Knights, British Academy of Stage and Screen Combat, Heroic Bloodshed, El Juego de Maní, Extreme Martial Arts, Zerogravity, Paddy Crean, Wire Fu, David Goodall, Youngblood Services. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 188. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Professional wrestling, or pro wrestling, is a form of sporting theatre which contains strong elements of mock combat and catch wrestling. Matches are prearranged by the promotion's booking staff and contain choreographed content and scripted outcomes. Its origins date to 19th-century carnival sideshows and music halls, as part of displays of athleticism and strength. Modern professional wrestling usually features striking and grappling techniques, which are modeled after diverse sets of wrestling and pugilistic styles from around the world. Professional wrestling is especially prevalent in Japan and North American countries like the U.S. and Mexico. In Brazil, it was very popular from the 1960s to the early 1980s, where it was called Telecatch. High-profile figures in the sport have become celebrities or cultural icons in their native or adopted home countries. Although professional wrestling started out as petty acts in sideshows, traveling circuses and carnivals, today it is a billion-dollar industry. Revenue is drawn from ticket sales, television broadcasts, branded merchandise and home video. Recently, internet programming has also been utilized, adding to the aforementioned methods. Broadcasting, known on the internet as streaming, of live and pas...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=24864 ... Read more

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Chapters: Muhammad Ali, Tito Ortiz, Mick Foley, Ricky Steamboat, Shane Mcmahon, Sylvain Grenier, Jacqueline Moore, Tully Blanchard, Theodore Long, Ron Garvin, Dan Marsh, Ole Anderson, Earl Hebner, Jerry Sags, Charles Robinson, Referee, Matt Knowles, Earnie Shavers, Nick Hamilton, Mikey Batts, Joseph James, Jr., Jim Korderas, Bill Alfonso, Rudy Charles, Chad Patton, Tim White, Mike Chioda, Brian Hildebrand, Mark "Slick" Johnson, Jack Doan, Mickie Henson, Dave Hebner, William Boulware, Jr., Joey Marella, John Cone, Randy Anderson, Andy Depaul, Norio Honaga, Tommy Young, Billy Silverman, Scott Dickinson. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 272. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Michael Francis "Mick" Foley, Sr. (born June 7, 1965) is an American actor, author, comedian, voice actor, and professional wrestler. He has worked for many wrestling promotions, including World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE, formerly World Wrestling Federation), World Championship Wrestling (WCW), National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) and Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), and currently Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). He is often referred to as "The Hardcore Legend", a nickname he shares with Terry Funk. Throughout his wrestling career, Foley has wrestled both under his real name and under various personas (most notably Cactus Jack, Mankind and Dude Love). He was the first ever WWF Hardcore Champion and he also became a three-time WWF Champion as Mankind throughout his WWF career. He has also won the WWF Tag Team Championship eight times, the ECW World Tag Team Championship two times, and the WCW World Tag Team Championship one time. Following his retirement from a full-time wrestling schedule, Foley appeared occasionally with WWE as a special guest referee and, later, a color commentator for the SmackDown bra...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=305487 ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Nelson Scott Simpson (born March 9, 1959) is a former American professional wrestler better known by his ring name Nikita S. Koloff, and legally changed his name to this in 1988. Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, he wrestled as "The Russian Nightmare" Nikita Koloff, which was a play on the nickname of fan favorite "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes (in fact, it was Rhodes who gave him the nickname). ... Read more

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Chapters: 1997 in Professional Wrestling, 1997 in Sport Wrestling, Montreal Screwjob, Wrestlemania 13, Royal Rumble, in Your House 13: Final Four, Starrcade, in Your House 14: Revenge of the 'taker, Survivor Series, Ecw Barely Legal, 1997 Fila Wrestling World Championships, Triplemania V-A, Summerslam, Triplemania V-B, Rey de Reyes, Guerra de Titanes, Verano de Escandalo, Wwf One Night Only. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 94. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Montreal Screwjob was a controversial real-life wrestling event in which the owner of the World Wrestling Federation Vince McMahon double-crossed the defending WWF Champion Bret Hart. During the main event match of the professional wrestling pay-per-view event Survivor Series held on November 9, 1997 at the Molson Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. A secret change of the match's pre-determined finish (known as a "shoot screwjob" in professional wrestling parlance) was devised by McMahon and discussed with Hart's match opponent, Shawn Michaels. The plan was executed when the match referee, Earl Hebner, under orders from McMahon, called for the bell to ring and ended the match as Michaels held Hart in the Sharpshooter submission hold (Hart's signature finishing move), even though Hart had not submitted. Michaels was declared the victor by submission and crowned as the new WWF Champion. The Montreal Screwjob starts in late 1997, when McMahon informed Hart that financial problems would not allow him to keep Hart on at the same rate of pay under his recently signed 20 year contract. Although Hart was arguably the biggest wrestler in the world during the mid-1990s, McMahon also felt that Hart's value was beginning to wane amidst the WWF's increasingly edgier storylines signifying the arrival of the Attitude Era of which Hart d...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=542835 ... Read more

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Chapters: 1990 in Professional Wrestling, Royal Rumble, Starrcade, Survivor Series, Wrestlemania Vi, Jucio Final, Summerslam, Capital Combat. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 49. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Royal Rumble (1990) was the third annual Royal Rumble professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by the World Wrestling Federation. It took place on January 21, 1990 at the Orlando Arena in Orlando, Florida. The main event was the 1990 Royal Rumble match won by WWF Champion Hulk Hogan. Hogan last eliminated Mr. Perfect to win the match. Featured matches on the undercard were Jim Duggan versus The Big Boss Man, Ronnie Garvin versus Greg Valentine in an "I Quit" match and The Bushwhackers (Butch and Luke) versus The Fabulous Rougeaus (Jacques and Raymond). The Bushwhackers (Butch and Luke) made their WWF debut in Madison Square Garden on December 30, 1988, defeating The Bolsheviks (Nikolai Volkoff and Boris Zhukov). They got involved in a feud with Bolsheviks, which was to be settled at WrestleMania V. Bolsheviks missed the event, however, so they were replaced by The Fabulous Rougeaus (Jacques and Raymond), whom Bushwhackers beat. Bushwhackers and Rougeaus continued to feud with each other for the rest of the year, culminating in a tag team match at Royal Rumble 1990. Greg Valentine and Ronnie Garvin had been feuding since a match on December 30, 1988 in Madison Square Garden (MSG) which Valentine won by grabbing the tights for leverage. On the April 22, 1989 episode of Superstars, Garvin defeated Valentine in a match. On the following edition of Superstars, they both faced each other in a retirement match where the loser could not wrestle anymore in WWF. Valentine won the match, sending Garvin into retirement. Garvin became a referee for WWF. During this time, he d...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=5828396 ... Read more

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Chapters: January 4 Dome Show, December to Dismember, Wrestlemania 22, Vengeance, Ecw One Night Stand, Money in the Bank Ladder Match, Cyber Sunday, Summerslam, Royal Rumble, Backlash, Judgment Day, Unforgiven, Survivor Series, No Mercy, Armageddon, No Way Out, New Year's Revolution, the Great American Bash, Tna 2006 World X Cup Tournament, Cmll 73rd Anniversary Show, Bound for Glory, Fight for the Right Tournament, Rey de Reyes, Sin Piedad, Tna Today, Triplemania Xiv, Wrestling Summit, Verano de Escandalo, Guerra de Titanes, Homenaje a Dos Leyendas, Lockdown, Slammiversary, World Wrestling Legends, Card Subject to Change 2. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 257. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The January 4 Tokyo Dome Show is a professional wrestling major show, some times broadcast as a Pay-Per-View (PPV), held by Japanese Professional wrestling promotion New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW). The shows often feature wrestlers from North American promotions such as World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) and has on these occasions been shown either partially or in full in the United States. NJPW often invites other promotions to participate in their January 4 Dome Shows as well including several companies that have been involved in scripted inter-promotional rivalries such as UWF International (UWFi), Big Japan Pro Wrestling (BJPW), All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW), Pro Wrestling Zero1 and Pro Wrestling NOAH (NOAH), as well as representatives from the Mexican Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) promotion. It has become an annual event that starts the new year in NJPW since it's inception in 1992. NJPW have held shows at the Tokyo Dome as far back as April 24, 1989 but their January 4 show has become the most anticipated shows on NJPW calendar, simila...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=3644729 ... Read more

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Chapters: 2009 in Professional Wrestling, 2009 in Sport Wrestling, Wrestlemania Xxv, January 4 Dome Show, Summerslam, the Legacy, Night of Champions, the Bash, Money in the Bank Ladder Match, Judgment Day, Extreme Rules, Wwe Tlc: Tables, Ladders ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Wrestlemania X, Survivor Series, Royal Rumble, Summerslam, Super J Cup, Triplemania Ii-C, Triplemania Ii-A, Triplemania Ii-B. Excerpt:Royal Rumble (1994) item Royal Rumble chronology item Royal Rumble (1993) : Royal Rumble (1994): Royal Rumble (1995) Royal Rumble (1994) was the seventh annual Royal Rumble professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). It took place on January 22, 1994 at the Providence Civic Center in Providence, Rhode Island . The main event was the Royal Rumble match , a battle royal in which wrestlers enter the ring at regular intervals. Lex Luger and Bret Hart were named co-winners after they simultaneously eliminated each other. The undercard featured a Casket match for the WWF Championship , in which Yokozuna successfully defended the title against The Undertaker . In addition, The Quebecers beat Bret and Owen Hart to retain the WWF Tag Team Championship and Razor Ramon successfully defended his Intercontinental Championship . Background The first televised match of the pay-per-view was supposed to be Ludvig Borga vs. Tatanka . The two were engaged in a feud that began prior to Survivor Series 1993 . Tatanka was undefeated in the WWF since his debut in 1991. Borga ended this streak on the October 30, 1993 edition of WWF Superstars (taped on September 28, 1993), when he hit Tatanka with a steel chair while the referee was distracted. As a results of storyline injuries from this attack and the beating he suffered afterward at the hands of Borga and Yokozuna , Tatanka was forced to miss the main event match at Survivor Series. Although Tatanka defeated Borga by disqualification on the December 20, 1993 edition of Monday Night Raw , the bitterness between the two remained. Borga suffered a legitimate ankle injury,... ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! TNA Impact! (official typeset "TNA iMPACT!") is the first video game released by the professional wrestling promotion, Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). The game was developed by Midway Studios in Los Angeles and published by Midway Games. After periods of negotiation with Electronic Arts and Rockstar Games, TNA signed a multi-year agreement with Midway Games on November 7, 2005. Midway announced their intentions to release Impact!, the first game in TNA's history, for each of the seventh generation consoles on March 2, 2006. TNA wrestlers have been involved with the games production. The self described "hardcore gamers" Samoa Joe and A.J. Styles have both taken part in meetings with Midway staff to brainstorm game-play ideas, and Joe, Styles, Christopher Daniels, Senshi, Sonjay Dutt, and Jeff Jarrett were all a part of the motion capture sessions. ... Read more

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Chapters: Asistencia Asesoría Y Administración, Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre, Toryumon, International Wrestling Revolution Group, World Wrestling Association, Universal Wrestling Association. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 38. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) (Spanish for "Assistance, Consulting and Administration") is a lucha libre professional-wrestling promotion based in Mexico. Founded in 1992 when Antonio Peña broke away from Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) to set up a promotion which allowed him more creative freedom, the AAA has held a number of Pay-Per-Views (PPV) over the years and has promoted shows not just in Mexico but in the United States of America and in Japan as well. The promotion utilizes a hexagonal wrestling ring (as opposed to the more conventional four-sided ring) and has a reputation for its outlandish gimmicks and characters as well as having developed a more Extreme match style over the last couple of years. Over the years AAA has worked together with several North American promotions such as the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) and currently has a working relationship with Japan-based Pro Wrestling Noah and the US-based Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) and Ring of Honor. AAA dates from May 15, 1992, when CMLL booker Antonio Peña broke with the company in favor of establishing his own group. Along with Konnan, much of the young and exciting talent transferred to AAA, which left CMLL with a middle-aged roster and a seemingly bleak future. AAA also looked for talent from other markets, as they found and signed Tijuana natives Rey Mysterio and Psicosis. The promotion flourished with top talent like El Hijo del Santo, Octagón, Blue Panther, the Casas brothers (Negro Casas and Heavy Metal) and p...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1720141 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Wrestlemania V, Survivor Series, Royal Rumble, Summerslam, Starrcade, Awa War in the Windy City, Chi-Town Rumble. Excerpt:War in the Windy City War in the Windy City was an American Wrestling Association (AWA) supercard held at the Odeon Pavilion in Chicago, Illinois on June 23, 1989, attended by an estimated 1,000 fans and aired live on SportsChannel Chicago . It was one of the last supercards held by the promotion prior to the Team Challenge Series later that year. In the semi-main events, AWA World Heavyweight Champion Larry Zbyszko held on to the title after battling challenger Greg Gagne to a 22-minute time-limit draw. Col. DeBeers pinned Derrick Dukes in a "loser gets painted yellow" match but was run off by Dukes' tag team partner Tommy Jammer before he could paint his fallen opponent. References (URLs online) Websites (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Chi-Town Rumble Chi-Town Rumble was a professional wrestling pay-per-view from the National Wrestling Alliance through World Championship Wrestling . It took place on February 20, 1989 at the UIC Pavilion in Chicago, Illinois . Results # : Results : Stipulations : Times item 1: Michael Hayes defeated Russian Assassin #1 (with Paul Jones ): Singles match : 15:48 item 2: Sting defeated Butch Reed (with Hiro Matsuda ): Singles match: 20:07 item 3: The Midnight Express (Bobby Eaton and Stan Lane ) and Jim Cornette defeated The Original Midnight Express (Jack Victory and Randy Rose ) and Paul E. Dangerously : Loser Leaves NWA match : 15:51 item 4: Mike Rotunda defeated Rick Steiner (c) (with Scott Steiner ): Singles match for the NWA World Television Championship : 16:21 item 5: Lex Luger defeated Barry Windham ... ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: 1987 in Professional Wrestling, 1987 in Sport Wrestling, Wrestlemania Iii, Survivor Series, Starrcade, 1987 Fila Wrestling World Championships, Wrestling at the 1987 Pan American Games. Excerpt: WrestleMania III was the third annual WrestleMania professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). The event was held on March 29, 1987 at the Pontiac Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan. The event is particularly notable for the record attendance of 93,173, the largest recorded attendance for a live indoor sporting event in North America. Though differing numbers have been argued, the event is considered to be the pinnacle of the 1980s wrestling boom. Almost one million fans watched the event at 160 closed circuit locations in North America. The number of people watching via pay-per-view was estimated at several million, and pay-per-view revenues were estimated at $10 million. Like all other WrestleMania events, WrestleMania III was hyped for several months in advance. The main feud stemmed from André the Giant's kayfabe turn and betrayal of his ally, the WWF Champion Hulk Hogan, which began when Hogan was presented a trophy for being the WWF Champion for three years, and André, his good friend, came out to congratulate him. Shortly afterwards, André was presented a slightly smaller trophy for being "undefeated in the WWF for 15 years" and Hogan came out to congratulate André, but ended up being the focal point of the interview. Annoyed by this, André walked out during Hogan's congratulation speech and not long after that, on an edition of the interview segment Piper's Pit, Bobby Heenan, a long-time Hogan adversary, announced himself to be André's new manager. André then challenged Hogan to a title match at Wr... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=896863 ... Read more

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Eric Aaron Bischoff (born May 27, 1955) is an American entrepreneur and former professional wrestling booker, producer, and on-screen personality, most known for serving as Executive Producer and later President of World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and later, the General Manager of World Wrestling Entertainment's Raw brand and now working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling . With an amateur background in martial arts, Bischoff was also known to sporadically compete as an in-ring performer, and is a former WCW Hardcore Champion. He released his autobiography, Controversy Creates Cash, in 2006. ... Read more