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Kid Romeo
Samuel Roman (born 1975) is a Puerto Rican-American former professional wrestler. He is best known for his stint in World Championship Wrestling in 2001 under the ring name Kid Romeo, where he was one half of the first ever Cruiserweight Tag Team Champions alongside Elix Skipper. Professional wrestling career World Championship Wrestling (1999–2001) After briefly working as a male stripper, Roman started wrestling in 1999 in World Championship Wrestling after being trained by Paul Orndorff at the WCW Power Plant. He debuted later that year at a house show on September 3 under the ring name Kid Romeo, where he defeated Triple A. Two days later, Triple A defeated Romeo in a rematch. After Triple A began using his real name (Allan Funk), the two exchanged victories on '' Saturday Night'' before Romeo began wrestling against fellow Power Plant graduates in dark matches through the rest of 1999 and into early 2000. On the January 24, 2000 episode of ''Nitro'', Romeo made his tele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miami, Florida
Miami ( ), officially the City of Miami, known as "the 305", "The Magic City", and "Gateway to the Americas", is a East Coast of the United States, coastal metropolis and the County seat, county seat of Miami-Dade County, Florida, Miami-Dade County in South Florida, United States. With a population of 442,241 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, it is the List of municipalities in Florida, second-most populous city in Florida and the eleventh-most populous city in the Southeastern United States. The Miami metropolitan area is the ninth largest in the U.S. with a population of 6.138 million in 2020. The city has the List of tallest buildings in the United States#Cities with the most skyscrapers, third-largest skyline in the U.S. with over List of tallest buildings in Miami, 300 high-rises, 58 of which exceed . Miami is a major center and leader in finance, commerce, culture, arts, and international trade. Miami's metropolitan area is by far the largest urban econ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WCW Thunder
''WCW Thunder'', or simply ''Thunder'', is an American professional wrestling show that was produced by World Championship Wrestling (WCW) which aired on TBS from January 8, 1998 to March 21, 2001. The popularity of WCW in 1996 and 1997 allowed for the creation of a new show, which became ''WCW Thunder''. ''Thunder'' was taped on Tuesday nights and then aired on Thursday, a change for WCW as producer Eric Bischoff was very keen on its primary show ''WCW Monday Nitro'' being aired live every week. The rights to ''WCW Thunder'' now belong to WWE, who purchased WCW properties in 2001. The trademark for "WCW Thunder" was renewed by WWE in 2018. As of November 2019, all 156 episodes of ''Thunder'' are available to stream on the WWE Network and Peacock. History Creation The popularity of World Championship Wrestling (WCW)'s primary show, ''WCW Monday Nitro'' on TNT, led Ted Turner to create a new show, which would eventually be named ''Thunder'', that would air Thursdays on TBS. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ricky Martin
Enrique Martín Morales (born December 24, 1971), known professionally as Ricky Martin, is a Puerto Rican singer, songwriter, and actor. He is known for his musical versatility, with his Ricky Martin albums discography, discography spanning Latin pop, Pop music, pop, Dance music, dance, reggaeton, and Salsa music, salsa genres. Dubbed the "Honorific nicknames in popular music#M, King of Latin Pop", the "King of Latin Music", and the "Latin Pop God", he is regarded as one of the most influential artists in the world. Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, San Juan, Martin began appearing in television commercials at age nine and began his musical career at twelve, as a member of Puerto Rican boy band Menudo (group), Menudo. He began his solo career in 1991 while in Sony Music Mexico, gaining recognition in Latin America with the release of his first two studio albums, ''Ricky Martin (1991 album), Ricky Martin'' (1991) and ''Me Amaras (album), Me Amaras'' (1993), both of which were focu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gimmick (professional Wrestling)
In professional wrestling, a gimmick generally refers to a wrestler's in-ring persona, character, behaviour, attire and/or other distinguishing traits while performing which are usually artificially created in order to draw fan interest. These in-ring personalities often involve costumes, makeup and catchphrases that they shout at their opponents or the fans. Gimmicks can be designed to work as good guys/heroes (babyfaces) or bad guys/villains ( heels) depending on the wrestler's desire to be popular or hated by the crowd. A tweener gimmick falls between the two extremes, such as wrestlers who manifests many heel and face traits such as Randy Orton's viper gimmick. A wrestler may portray more than one gimmick over their career depending on the angle or the wrestling promotion that they are working for at that time. Promotions will use gimmicks on more than one person, albeit at different times, occasionally taking advantage of a masked character which allows for the identity ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heel (professional Wrestling)
In professional wrestling, a heel (also known as a ''rudo'' in '' lucha libre'') is a wrestler who portrays a villain, "bad guy", or "rulebreaker", and acts as an antagonist to the faces, who are the heroic protagonist or "good guy" characters. Not everything a heel wrestler does must be villainous: heels need only to be booed or jeered by the audience to be effective characters, although most truly successful heels embrace other aspects of their devious personalities, such as cheating to win or using foreign objects. "The role of a heel is to get 'heat,' which means spurring the crowd to obstreperous hatred, and generally involves cheating and pretty much any other manner of socially unacceptable behavior that will get the job done." To gain heat (with boos and jeers from the audience), heels are often portrayed as behaving in an immoral manner by breaking rules or otherwise taking advantage of their opponents outside the bounds of the standards of the match. Others do not (or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Air Paris
Frank Parris (born May 11, 1979) is an American professional wrestler. He is best known for his stint in World Championship Wrestling under ring name Air Paris. Professional wrestling career Debut On April 20, 1996, Parris made his professional wrestling debut under ring name Kid Ego, where he and Mark Pain lost to Dusty Dotson and Nasty Critter in a tag team match for the North Georgia Wrestling Alliance. One week later, Ego made his singles debut in a losing effort to Mike Golden. After losing to Jailhouse Rocker on May 10, he picked up the first win of his career by defeating Kenny D on June 21. National Wrestling Alliance NWA Wildside After a three-year hiatus, Parris returned to wrestling and began competing on the independent circuit, most prominently for the National Wrestling Alliance, as Air Paris. He debuted for the NWA on September 25, 1999, at their 51st anniversary show, and was unable to win a battle royal to determine the number one contender for the World Junio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SuperBrawl Revenge
SuperBrawl Revenge was the eleventh and final SuperBrawl professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event and the penultimate pay-per-view event produced by World Championship Wrestling (WCW). It took place on February 18, 2001 from the Nashville Municipal Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee. This was the last SuperBrawl event and the penultimate WCW pay-per-view before the World Wrestling Federation (now WWE) purchased WCW in March 2001. Along with SuperBrawl IV, it was one of only two SuperBrawls never released on home video. The main event was a two out of three falls count anywhere loser leaves town match between Scott Steiner and Kevin Nash for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship. Steiner retained the title, forcing Nash to retire from WCW. Featured matches on the undercard were Diamond Dallas Page versus Jeff Jarrett, Ernest Miller versus Lance Storm for the position of WCW Commissioner, title defenses of the World Tag Team, United States Heavyweight and Cruiserweig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dark Match
Professional wrestling has accrued a considerable amount of jargon throughout its existence. Much of it stems from the industry's origins in the days of carnivals and circuses. In the past, professional wrestlers used such terms in the presence of fans so as not to reveal the nature of the business. Into the 21st century, widespread discussion on the Internet has popularized these terms. Many of the terms refer to the financial aspects of professional wrestling in addition to in-ring terms. A B C D E F G H I J K L M mic work, mic skills, microphone work The ability to generate reaction from the audience using words, and generally by spea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Harris (wrestler)
Christopher Eric Harris (born December 25, 1973) is an American professional wrestler, better known by the ring name "Wildcat" Chris Harris. He is best known for his time with NWA Total Nonstop Action (TNA) as one-half of the tag team America's Most Wanted alongside James Storm, where the duo won the NWA World Tag Team Championship six times. He is also known for his appearances with World Wrestling Entertainment as Braden Walker. Professional wrestling career Early career (1994–1999) Harris debuted in November 1994. Over the next several years, he wrestled primarily in Kentucky for promotions such as the Northern Wrestling Federation. In August 1996, he made two appearances with the World Wrestling Federation, wrestling two matches on ''WWF Superstars''. World Championship Wrestling (1999–2001) Along with several other wrestlers, including future tag team partner James Storm, Harris was signed to a World Championship Wrestling (WCW) developmental deal in October 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WWF Jakked/Metal
''WWF Jakked'' and ''WWF Metal'' are professional wrestling television programs that were produced by the World Wrestling Federation (now known as WWE). Both programs aired syndicated weekly from August 28, 1999 until May 19, 2002 and replaced ''WWF Shotgun Saturday Night''. Originally produced under the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) banner, they were replaced by the similarly formatted ''WWE Bottom Line'' and ''WWE Afterburn'' in syndication. History ''Jakked'' aired on Saturday nights while ''Metal'' aired in the afternoon. Both shows featured matches from the week's events, including exclusive undercard matches taped before ''Raw is War''. As a result of the WWE Brand Extension, from April 2002 until the discontinuation of ''Jakked'' and ''Metal'' in May of that year (by which the shows were now named ''WWE Jakked'' and ''WWE Metal'' per the name change that month), both shows began to feature matches from the SmackDown brand; as such, it was taped before ''SmackDown'' tapin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Essa Ríos
Essa or ESSA may refer to: Places * Essa, Ontario, Canada * Saltash (Cornish: Essa), a town and civil parish in Cornwall, England, UK * Essa Academy, Bolton, England, UK * Stockholm-Arlanda Airport (ICAO code) People Given name * Essa (rapper) or Yungun, British rapper * Essa Al-Zenkawi (born 1992), Kuwaiti–Hungarian discus thrower * Essa M. Faal, Gambian lawyer at the International Criminal Court * Essa Obaid (bodybuilder) (born 1979), Emirati bodybuilder * Essa Obaid (footballer) (born 1984), Emirati football player * Essa Rios, José Delgado Saldaña (born 1978), Mexican professional wrestler Surname * Irfan Essa, Pakistani-American computer engineering academic * Michael Essa, American drifter and racing driver * Muhammad Essa (born 1983), Pakistani football player and coach * Omair Essa (born 1995), Qatari footballer * Qazi Muhammad Essa (1914–1976), Pakistani politician * Salim Essa, South African businessman Acronyms * Economic Society of South Africa * Envi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Japan Pro-Wrestling
(NJPW) is a Japanese professional wrestling promotion based in Nakano, Tokyo. Founded on January 13, 1972, by Antonio Inoki, the promotion was sold to Yuke's, who later sold it to Bushiroad in 2012. TV Asahi and Amuse, Inc. own minority shares of the company. Naoki Sugabayashi has served as the promotion's Chairman since September 2013, while Takami Ohbari has served as the president of the promotion since October 2020. Owing to its TV program aired on TV Asahi, NJPW is the largest and longest-running professional wrestling promotion in Japan. It was affiliated with the National Wrestling Alliance at various points in its history. NJPW has had agreements with various MMA and professional wrestling promotions around the world, including WWE, World Championship Wrestling, American Wrestling Association, World Class Championship Wrestling, Impact Wrestling, WAR, Jersey All Pro Wrestling, UWFi, Ring of Honor, Pride Fighting Championships, and All Elite Wrestling. NJPW's bigge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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