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José Luis Rivera
Marcelino Rivera Alicea (born August 6, 1960), better known as Jose Luis Rivera, is a Puerto Rican retired professional wrestler. He is notable for his time in the World Wrestling Federation (today known as WWE) where he was also known as Conquistador #1 or Conquistador Uno when he teamed with fellow Puerto Rican José Estrada Sr. Professional wrestling career Early career (1973–1976) Rivera made his wrestling debut in April 1973 working for promoter Arturo Mendoza in the west of Puerto Rico. National Wrestling Alliance (1976–1982) Jose Luis Rivera started his professional wrestling career in the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) in the state of Florida. According to Rivera, he also wrestled amateur in the gyms before going professional and wrestling the likes of "Superstar" Billy Graham, Ox Baker, and Ivan Koloff. World Wrestling Federation (1982–1991) In 1982, Rivera went to the WWF. Rivera then changed his nickname to Mac Rivera and was mostly used as a face preli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
Mayagüez (, ) is the ninth-largest Municipalities of Puerto Rico, municipality in Puerto Rico. It was founded as Pueblo de Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria de Mayagüez (Township of Virgin of Candelaria, Our Lady of Candelaria), and is also known as ''La Sultana del Oeste'' (The Sultaness of the West), ''Ciudad de las Aguas Puras'' (City of Pure Waters), or ''Ciudad del Mangó'' (Mango City). On April 6, 1894, the Monarchy of Spain, Spanish Crown granted it the formal title of ''Excelente Ciudad de Mayagüez'' (Excellent City of Mayagüez). Mayagüez is located in the center of the western coast on the island of Puerto Rico. It has a population of 73,077, and it is the principal city of the Mayagüez metropolitan area, Mayagüez Metropolitan Statistical Area (pop. 213,831) and the Mayagüez metropolitan area#Combined Statistical Area, Mayagüez–Aguadilla, PR Combined Statistical Area (pop. 467,599). History The Mayagüez metropolitan area, Mayagüez Metro Area (and part of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Bradley (wrestler)
Robert Markovich (born March 3, 1958) is an American retired professional wrestler, better known by the ring names Bob Bradley and Battle Kat. He wrestled for the World Wrestling Federation, World Class Championship Wrestling, the Universal Wrestling Federation, World Championship Wrestling, All Japan Pro Wrestling, and the National Wrestling Conference. Professional wrestling career World Wrestling Federation (1982–1988) After being trained by "Superfly" Jimmy Snuka, Markovich began his career in 1982, appearing at a World Wrestling Federation taping on June 1, 1982, in Allentown, PA. There he wrestled and was defeated by noted wrestler and trainer Larry Sharpe. Wrestling as "Bob Bradley", he would continue to make appearances at tapings for the WWF syndicated shows Championship Wrestling and All-American Wrestling, facing opponents such as Jimmy Snuka, Blackjack Mulligan, and Buddy Rose. A little more than a month after his first match, Bradley gained his first victory w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Powers
James Manley (born January 4, 1958) is an American retired professional wrestling, professional wrestler, better known by the ring name Jim Powers. He worked for the World Wrestling Federation from 1984 to 1994, then elsewhere until 2010. He was born in Washington Heights, Manhattan, and grew up watching the then-regional promotion at Madison Square Garden. Professional wrestling career World Wrestling Federation (1984–1985) Powers was discovered and brought into the WWE, World Wrestling Federation (WWF) in late 1984 by Big John Studd who also had a hand in training him. He made his WWF debut on October 2, 1984, losing to Carl Fury at a house show in Lindenhurst, New York. He then made his televised debut on the December 8, 1984, edition of Georgia Championship Wrestling, teaming with Jose Luis Rivera in a match against Nikolai Volkoff and The Iron Sheik. He went on to lose to The Moondogs, The Spoiler (wrestler), The Spoiler, and Bob Orton Jr. He gained his first victory wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Roma
Paul Centopani (born April 29, 1959) is an American retired professional wrestler and boxer, better known by his ring name Paul Roma. He is best known for his time in the World Wrestling Federation and World Championship Wrestling between 1984 and 1995. Professional wrestling career World Wrestling Federation (1984–1991) Early career (1984–1987) Centopani was trained to wrestle by Tony Altomare. He made his professional wrestling debut on December 17, 1984, with the World Wrestling Federation at a '' WWF All American Wrestling'' taping in Poughkeepsie, New York, teaming with Salvatore Bellomo in a loss to the Tag Team Champions Adrian Adonis and Dick Murdoch. Roma primarily wrestled as a face during this time, and despite being successful over other preliminary wrestlers, he would still hold defeats to more-established superstars at the time such as Bret "Hitman" Hart, "Macho Man" Randy Savage, and Ace Cowboy Bob Orton at both TV shows and untelevised events. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lanny Poffo
Lanny Mark Poffo (December 28, 1954 – February 2, 2023) better known by his ring names "Leaping" Lanny Poffo and the Genius, was a Canadian-American professional wrestler, motivational speaker, poet, and actor. Poffo was a second generation professional wrestler, his father being Angelo Poffo. His brother, "Macho Man" Randy Savage, was also a professional wrestler. Early life Poffo was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, to Angelo Poffo, an Italian American Catholic, and Judy (Sverdlin) Poffo, a Jewish-American of Belarusian and Lithuanian descent. He was the younger brother of "Macho Man" Randy Savage and grew up in Downers Grove, Illinois. Professional wrestling career Early career (1974–1979) Poffo made his debut in 1974, losing to Wayne Cowan in the opening match of an All-South Wrestling Alliance card held in Atlanta, Georgia, on April 16. Poffo remained in the promotion for several months, defeating Cowan in a rematch and also gaining a win over The Great F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Shadows (professional Wrestling)
Los Conquistadores were a heel jobber professional wrestling tag team in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), consisting of two masked wrestlers known as ''One'' (or Spanish ''Uno'' for "one") and ''Two'' (or Spanish ''Dos'' for "two"). The original team consisted of José Estrada Sr. and Jose Luis Rivera. Several other wrestlers made use of the gimmick in 2000 and 2003. Edge and Christian and the Hardy Boyz both won the WWF World Tag Team Championship as Los Conquistadores, although their reigns were later credited under their actual team names. History 1987 The Shadows was the name of a masked heel jobber professional wrestling tag team in the WWF in 1987. The team consisted of two masked wrestlers known as Light and Dark or simply "Shadow No. 1" and "Shadow No. 2". Randy Colley was "Shadow No. 1", and Jose Luis Rivera who was "Shadow No. 2". Colley was previously part of the tag team Demolition as the original Smash, and before that a tag team called The Moondogs as Moo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Randy Colley
Randy Colley (May 2, 1950 – December 14, 2019) was an American professional wrestler, better known by the ring name Moondog Rex. He was best known for his appearances in the World Wrestling Federation as a part of The Moondogs. Colley was also one of the original members of the tag team Demolition, performing under the ring name Smash. Professional wrestling career Early career (1970–1980) Colley made his debut wrestling as Jack Dalton. Teaming with Jim Dalton, he lost to Bob Boyer and Joe Turner on September 21, 1970, in Panama City, Florida, at a Gulf Coast Championship Wrestling event. The Dalton Brothers would remain a tag team throughout 1970 and 1971, facing various opponents such as The Welch Brothers and The Australians. In 1972 the Dalton Brothers moved to NWA Mid-America and were ultimately rebranded as "The Medics". In 1976 he joined Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling and began wrestling under his real name for the first time. This would also be his first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
YouTube
YouTube is an American social media and online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim who were three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google Search. In January 2024, YouTube had more than 2.7billion monthly active users, who collectively watched more than one billion hours of videos every day. , videos were being uploaded to the platform at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute, and , there were approximately 14.8billion videos in total. On November 13, 2006, YouTube was purchased by Google for $1.65 billion (equivalent to $ billion in ). Google expanded YouTube's business model of generating revenue from advertisements alone, to offering paid content such as movies and exclusive content produced by and for YouTube. It also offers YouTube Premium, a paid subs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Orton, Jr
Robert Keith Orton Jr. (born November 10, 1950), known by his ring name "Cowboy" Bob Orton, is an American semi-retired professional wrestler. He is a son of professional wrestler Bob Orton Sr., the brother of professional wrestler Barry Orton, and the father of professional wrestler Randy Orton. He is best known for his time in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE), including his involvement in the main event of the inaugural WrestleMania. He has also wrestled for several promotions in the United States, Japan, and other countries. Professional wrestling career Championship Wrestling from Florida (1972–1980) In 1972, Orton began his career in Championship Wrestling from Florida, initially as a referee for promoter Eddie Graham. Early in his career, he wrestled as part of tag teams with Bob Roop and Mr. Wrestling II, with whom he won the NWA Georgia Tag Team Championship on June 9, 1973. Orton was one of the first wrestlers to use the superplex as his finishing mov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boxing
Boxing is a combat sport and martial art. Taking place in a boxing ring, it involves two people – usually wearing protective equipment, such as boxing glove, protective gloves, hand wraps, and mouthguards – throwing Punch (combat), punches at each other for a predetermined amount of time. Although the term "boxing" is commonly attributed to western boxing, in which only fists are involved, it has developed in different ways in different geographical areas and cultures of the World. In global terms, "boxing" today is also a set of combat sports focused on Strike (attack), striking, in which two opponents face each other in a fight using at least their fists, and possibly involving other actions, such as kicks, Elbow (strike), elbow strikes, Knee (strike), knee strikes, and headbutts, depending on the rules. Some of these variants are the bare-knuckle boxing, kickboxing, Muay Thai, Lethwei, savate, and Sanda (sport), sanda. Boxing techniques have been incorporated into many ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Fulton (wrestler)
Gary Lee Fulton (March 9, 1949 – March 12, 2016) was an American professional wrestler who worked in the World Wrestling Federation as Charlie Fulton from 1982 to 1985, Jim Crockett Promotions from 1972 to 1981 and various National Wrestling Alliance territories. Professional wrestling career Fulton began his wrestling career in 1968 in Detroit. Later that year he was drafted into the US Army to fight in Vietnam and served two years there. In 1970, he returned to Detroit and later worked in various territories such as Florida and the Mid-Atlantic. In 1973, he teamed with Frank Morrell as the Mighty Yankees in NWA Mid-America winning the AWA Southern Tag Team Championship twice and the NWA Tennessee Tag Team Championship three times from 1973 to 1974. After the Mighty Yankees split up in 1974, Fulton went on his own and worked in many territories in St. Louis, Georgia, Detroit and Toronto. He continued to work for Mid-Atlantic during the rest of the 1970s until 1981. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Garea
Anthony Gareljich (born 20 September 1946) is a New Zealand retired professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Tony Garea. He is best known for his appearances in the United States with the World Wide Wrestling Federation/ World Wrestling Federation in the 1970s and 1980s. Early life The son of Croatian-born Ivan Gareljich, Anthony Gareljich was born in Auckland, New Zealand, to parents of Yugoslavian and Irish descent. He was originally an accomplished sprinter and a rugby league player. Garea grew up in New Zealand's largest city Auckland until he was 8. It was then that his parents bought an Orchid on which they lived and worked for 6 years before returning to the western suburbs of Auckland where Tony went to school for a further year before quitting just a month before his 15th birthday. After that he worked at various jobs including in a men's clothing store for 6 months, then he spent another 6 months delivering paint and wallpaper supplies before spending ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
