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Holiday Bash (2021)
The 2021 Holiday Bash was the second annual Holiday Bash professional wrestling Christmas television special produced by All Elite Wrestling (AEW). It took place on December 22, 2021, at the Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, North Carolina. The two-part event was broadcast on TNT as special episodes of AEW's weekly television programs, '' Wednesday Night Dynamite'' and '' Friday Night Rampage''. ''Dynamite'' aired live while ''Rampage'' aired on tape delay on December 25 at 9pm ET as a special Saturday night episode, which was moved back from its usual Friday night 10pm ET slot because of TNT's traditional holiday marathon showing of ''A Christmas Story''. The ''Dynamite'' broadcast is notable for the AEW debut of Kyle O'Reilly, who previously wrestled on WWE's NXT brand. O'Reilly reunited with Adam Cole and Bobby Fish, the original three members of The Undisputed Era in NXT. It was also the first time that Sting and CM Punk main evented an AEW event; the two teamed with Dar ...
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All Elite Wrestling
All Elite Wrestling (AEW) is an American professional wrestling promotion based in Jacksonville, Florida. It is considered the second largest wrestling promotion in the United States behind WWE. AEW is owned by Shahid Khan and his son Tony, who founded the company in 2019; in-ring performers Matt & Nick Jackson and Kenny Omega also serve as company executives. Its headquarters are located at TIAA Bank Field, the home stadium of the National Football League's Jacksonville Jaguars, a team also owned by Shahid Khan. Since October 2, 2019, AEW has produced a two-hour weekly television show, ''Dynamite'', which airs live, with some exceptions. The show originally aired on TNT until December 2021; it moved to TNT's sister channel, TBS, on January 5, 2022. The company also has one other weekly television show, '' Rampage'', which is a one-hour program that has aired on TNT since August 13, 2021. Additionally, AEW has two weekly YouTube-exclusive shows: ''Dark'' and '' Dark: Elevati ...
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Live Television
Live television is a television production broadcast in real-time, as events happen, in the present. In a secondary meaning, it may refer to streaming television over the Internet when content or programming is played continuously (not on demand). For example, the Pluto TV app has two categories for viewing: "Live TV" & "On Demand." On its website, Xfinity states "Watch TV series and top rated movies live and on demand with Xfinity Stream." In most cases live programming is not being recorded as it is shown on TV, but rather was not rehearsed or edited and is being shown only as it was recorded prior to being aired. Shows broadcast live include newscasts, morning shows, awards shows, sports programs, reality programs and, occasionally, episodes of scripted television series. Live television was more common until the late 1950s, when videotape technology was invented. Because of the prohibitive cost, adoption was slow, and some television shows remained live until the 1970s, ...
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Maxwell Jacob Friedman
Maxwell T. Friedman (born March 15, 1996), better known by his ring name Maxwell Jacob Friedman (often abbreviated to MJF), is an American professional wrestler. He is currently signed with All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he is the current AEW World Champion in his first reign, and holds the AEW Dynamite Diamond Ring, which he has won for four consecutive years. He previously worked for Major League Wrestling (MLW), where he is a former MLW World Tag Team Champion, while also being a former one-time and inaugural MLW World Middleweight Champion. He departed MLW in January 2020. Friedman has also worked on the American independent circuit appearing most notably for Combat Zone Wrestling, where he is a former one-time CZW World Heavyweight Champion and a two-time CZW Wired Champion. Early life Maxwell T. Friedman was born into an American Jewish family in the suburbs of Plainview, New York, on Long Island, on March 15, 1996. He graduated in 2014 from Plainview – Old Bet ...
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The Pinnacle (professional Wrestling)
The Pinnacle is a professional wrestling stable formed in the professional wrestling promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW). The group, which was formed in March 2021, consists of FTR ( Dax Harwood) and ( Cash Wheeler), Shawn Spears, and Wardlow. The group's original incarnation was lead by Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF) and also had Tully Blanchard as a manager. In March 2022, Wardlow would leave the group after betraying MJF, Blanchard left after being fired by FTR, and FTR themselves would quietly end their association with the team. After quietly disbanding in June 2022, the group reformed in October without Friedman and Blanchard. History Origins During the early days of AEW, Tully Blanchard joined the company as the on-screen manager of Shawn Spears. He later took a hiatus due to COVID-19, but return a few months later in Spears's corner, as well as that of the tag team FTR, the latter of which has received a lot of comparisons with Blanchard's former tag team w ...
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Darby Allin
Samuel Ratsch (born January 7, 1993), better known by the ring name Darby Allin, is an American professional wrestler signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he is a former and longest-reigning AEW TNT Champion. He is also known for his appearances in World Wrestling Network promotions, wrestling for Evolve. Early life Growing up, Ratsch took part in track and field and played football as one of his grandfathers played in the NFL. He also took part in amateur wrestling, but only because he assumed it was professional wrestling. He later attended a film school in Arizona, dropping out to pursue a career in skateboarding. Through his connections with Matt Schlager, Ratsch regularly appeared in video clips with his friends on '' Ridiculousness'', until one video was too extreme for the program to air. He also appeared on an episode of '' Sex Sent Me to the ER'', later admitting in an interview with Chris Van Vliet that the story was fabricated, as he needed the money. F ...
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CM Punk
Phillip Jack Brooks (born October 26, 1978), better known by the ring name CM Punk, is an American professional wrestler, sports commentator, actor, and retired mixed martial artist currently signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW). Best known for his time in WWE, Brooks' 434-day reign as WWE Championship, WWE Champion stands as the sixth longest in the championship's history. Brooks began his professional wrestling career in 1999 on the independent circuit, mainly with Ring of Honor (ROH), winning the ROH World Championship once. He signed with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) in 2005 and won the WWE Championship twice, the World Heavyweight Championship (WWE), World Heavyweight Championship three times, and the WWE Intercontinental Championship, Intercontinental Championship and the ECW World Heavyweight Championship once each. Brooks also won the World Tag Team Championship (WWE), World Tag Team Championship, becoming WWE's Triple Crown (professional wrestling)#WWE, 19th Trip ...
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Sting (wrestler)
Steve Borden (born March 20, 1959), better known by the ring name Sting, is an American professional wrestler and former bodybuilder, currently signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW) as the mentor of Darby Allin. He is regarded as one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time, having cultivated a legacy over a career spanning five decades. Throughout his career, he won a total of fourteen world championships. Sting is widely known for his time spent as the public face of two major American professional wrestling promotions: the now-defunct World Championship Wrestling (WCW), which was bought by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) in 2001, and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA, now Impact Wrestling). Although the WWF had purchased WCW, Sting did not sign with them at that time. Prior to WCW, he also wrestled for the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), the Universal Wrestling Federation (UWF), and Mid South. Sting's 14-year association with WCW and its predecess ...
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The Undisputed Era
The Undisputed Era was a professional wrestling stable from WWE's NXT brand. It formed on August 19, 2017 at NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn III shortly after Adam Cole, Bobby Fish, and Kyle O'Reilly signed with WWE, although Fish and O'Reilly had already been a tag team since 2012 under the name reDRagon. After, Fish suffered an injury in March 2018, April 7 at NXT TakeOver: New Orleans marked a turning point for The Undisputed Era: during the event, Cole became the inaugural NXT North American Champion, he and O'Reilly won the 2018 Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic, and Roderick Strong joined the stable at the end of a lengthy feud against it; both Cole and Strong were subsequently recognized as co-Tag Team Champions under the Freebird Rule. O'Reilly later had two more additional reigns as NXT Tag Team Champion, one with Strong and one with Fish, while Cole became NXT Champion at NXT TakeOver: XXV, becoming NXT's second Triple Crown winner. On September 18, Strong won the NXT North Amer ...
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Bobby Fish
Robert Anthony Fish (born October 27, 1976) is an American professional wrestler currently appearing on the independent circuit. He is best known for his tenure with WWE, where he performed on the NXT brand and was a member of The Undisputed Era. In WWE, he is a former 2-time NXT Tag Team Champion alongside his tag team partner Kyle O'Reilly. He is also known for his time with All Elite Wrestling (AEW) from 2021–2022 and Ring of Honor (ROH) from 2013 to 2017, where he wrestled as one-half of the tag team reDRagon (also with O'Reilly) and held the ROH World Tag Team Championship three times and the ROH World Television Championship once. He is also known for his appearances in Japan both for Pro Wrestling Noah and for New Japan Pro-Wrestling, where he held the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship twice. Early life Robert Anthony Fish was born on October 27, 1976, in Albany, New York, and is the youngest of three children to Richard and Ann Fish. Fish's father worked a ...
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Adam Cole
Austin Kirk Jenkins (born July 5, 1989) is an American professional wrestler currently signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he performs under the ring name Adam Cole. He is also known for his tenures with WWE and Ring of Honor (ROH). Cole began his eight-year tenure with ROH in 2009 and went on to become the first-ever three-time ROH World Champion. In addition, he is a one-time ROH World Television Champion, and the winner of the 2014 ROH Survival of the Fittest tournament. Cole has also wrestled for several independent promotions, including Chikara, Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW), where he is a former CZW World Junior Heavyweight Champion, and Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG), where he is a former PWG World Champion; he holds the records for longest reigns for both titles. He also worked in New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he was part of the Bullet Club stable. From 2017 to 2021, Cole was signed to WWE and performed on their NXT brand. During this time, Cole was th ...
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NXT (WWE Brand)
NXT is a WWE brand extension, brand of the American professional wrestling Professional wrestling promotion, promotion WWE that was introduced on February 23, 2010. Brands are divisions of WWE's roster where wrestlers are assigned to perform on a weekly basis when a brand extension is in effect. Wrestlers assigned to NXT primarily appear on the brand's weekly television program, ''WWE NXT, NXT''. The brand serves as a Farm team, developmental territory for WWE's two main brands, Raw (WWE brand), Raw and SmackDown (WWE brand), SmackDown, which are referred to as the main roster. Due to its status as the company's developmental territory, NXT operates regardless if there is a brand extension in effect or not. In its WWE NXT (seasons 1–5), original incarnation, ''NXT'' was a Reality television, reality-based television show in which rookies competed to become a star in WWE. In 2012, NXT was relaunched as a separate brand and replaced the now-defunct Florida Championship Wrestling ( ...
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Kyle O'Reilly
Kyle Edward Greenwood (born March 1, 1987) is a Canadian Professional wrestling, professional wrestler currently signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW) where he performs under the ring name Kyle O'Reilly. He is also known for his time in Ring of Honor (ROH) from 2009 to 2017, and WWE where he performed on the NXT (WWE brand), NXT WWE brand extension, brand from 2017 to 2021, both of which he used the same ring name. He is a record three-time NXT Tag Team Championship, NXT Tag Team Champion, and was a founding member of The Undisputed Era. He also worked for New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) and competed for several Independent circuit, independent Professional wrestling promotion, promotions, most notably Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG). In ROH, he is a List of ROH World Champions, one-time ROH World Championship, ROH World Champion and List of ROH World Tag Team Champions, three-time ROH World Tag Team Championship, ROH World Tag Team Champion alongside Bobby Fish as reDRagon, while in PW ...
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