FIP World Heavyweight Championship
The FIP World Heavyweight Championship is a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship held by the Full Impact Pro (FIP), a promotion owned by the World Wrestling Network. It is currently the highest ranked championship in FIP. History The title was introduced on September 25, 2004, at FIP's "Emergence: Part Two" event as the FIP Heavyweight Championship. It was renamed the FIP World Heavyweight Championship on March 3, 2007, when then-champion Roderick Strong defeated Pac in Liverpool, England, at the Ring of Honor (ROH) promotion's "Fifth Year Festival: Liverpool" event. Overall, there have been 23 reigns shared among 17 wrestlers. Title changes happen mostly at FIP-promoted events, which are usually released on DVD. The title has changed hands four times at non-FIP events. Reigns two and four occurred at ROH-promoted events, while reigns 10 and 11 happened at Dragon Gate events. Since being renamed as a "World Championship" after a UK defense in March 2007, the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Austin Theory
Austin Tyler White (born August 2, 1997) is an American Professional wrestling, professional wrestler and Bodybuilding, bodybuilder. He is signed to WWE, where he performs on the Raw (WWE brand), Raw WWE brand extension, brand under the ring name Austin Theory, and is in a tag team with Grayson Waller as A-Town Down Under. He is a former two-time WWE United States Champion, a former one-time WWE Tag Team Champions, WWE Tag Team Champion, and the winner of the Money in the Bank (2022), 2022 Money in the Bank ladder match. Prior to joining WWE, White competed on the independent circuit, including several promotions under the WWNLive, World Wrestling Network umbrella, such as Full Impact Pro (FIP) and Evolve (professional wrestling), Evolve – along the way winning the WWN Championship FIP World Heavyweight Championship and the Evolve Championship. Early life Austin Tyler White was born on August 2, 1997, in the Atlanta suburb of McDonough, Georgia. His parents were divorced prior ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Dragon Gate (wrestling)
Dragongate Japan Pro-Wrestling, often referred to simply as Dragongate or Dragon Gate (, ''Doragongēto''), is a Japanese professional wrestling promotion founded and headquartered in Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Hyōgo, Japan. Most of the promotion's wrestlers are graduates of its Dragongate#Trueborn (Dragongate Dojo), dojo or Último Dragón, Yoshihiro "Último Dragón" Asai's Toryumon (Último Dragón), Toryumon Gym, and thus the promotion is based on a Cruiserweight (professional wrestling), junior heavyweight style with varying emphasis on high flying maneuvers, flashy technical grappling, and submission wrestling. The promotion is the byproduct of the original Japanese promotion. History On July 4, 2004, Último Dragón departed from the Toryumon (Último Dragón), Toryumon Gym and seized ownership of the "Toryumon" trademarks. The Toryumon (Último Dragón), Toryumon Japan promotion subsequently restructured and changed its name to Dragon Gate. Dragon Gate declared Nobuhiko O ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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CM Punk
Phillip Jack Brooks (born October 26, 1978), better known by his ring name CM Punk, is an American Professional wrestling, professional wrestler and actor. He is signed to WWE, where he performs on the Raw (WWE brand), Raw brand. Regarded as one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time, he is known for his outspoken and confrontational straight edge Gimmick (professional wrestling), persona, which is based on his real-life experiences. His 434-day reign with the WWE Championship is the World championships in WWE#Ten longest, tenth-longest world title reign in the company's history. Brooks began his wrestling career on the independent circuit in 1997. He signed with Ring of Honor (ROH) in 2002, where he won the ROH World Championship once and was one of the inaugural inductees into the ROH Hall of Fame. Brooks signed with WWE in 2005 and won the WWE Championship twice, the World Heavyweight Championship (WWE, 2002–2013), World Heavyweight Championship three times, ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Vordell Walker
Edward Vordell Walker (born 1982) is an American professional wrestler, currently wrestling under the ring name Vordell Walker. He is perhaps best known for his work in Ring of Honor, Total Nonstop Action Wrestling and Pro Wrestling Extreme (PWX). Professional wrestling career In 2004 Walker wrestled two matches for TNA Xplosion both in losing efforts to 3 Live Kru, and Hector Garza. Throughout 2004 and 2005 Walker wrestled in NWA Florida and NWA Spinebuster competing against the likes of Tony Mamaluke, Matt Sydal, Billy Fives, Chris Sabin, and Homicide. He also competed in Full Impact Pro feuding with Jared Steel until mid-2005, he also competed in Ring of Honor, Georgia Championship Wrestling and Southern Championship Wrestling in 2005. In 2005, Walker was involved in an altercation with veteran wrestler Rick Steiner. Steiner, known to be somewhat of a bully in the ring, began legitimately striking the much younger Walker, resulting in a somewhat shoot fight. He wrestled a f ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Justin Credible
Peter Joseph Polaco (born October 16, 1973) is an American professional wrestler. He is best known for his appearances with Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) and the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) under the ring name Justin Credible. Debuting in 1992, Polaco first came to prominence in 1994 when he debuted in the WWF as Aldo Montoya. After leaving the WWF in 1997, he joined ECW and adopted the ring name "Justin Credible". He formed the Impact Players tag team with Lance Storm in 1999 and the duo won the ECW World Tag Team Championship twice in 2000. Later that year, he won the ECW World Heavyweight Championship at CyberSlam (2000), CyberSlam and held it for five months. He remained in the title contention until ECW folded in 2001 and competed in the last match of ECW. He then returned to WWF as a member of X-Factor (professional wrestling), X-Factor and later The Alliance (professional wrestling), The Alliance during the The Invasion (professional wrestling), Invasion Glossa ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Austin Aries
Daniel Healy Solwold Jr. (born April 15, 1978), better known by his ring name Austin Aries, is an American Professional wrestling, professional wrestler. He is known for his time with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, TNA Wrestling, where he is a three-time TNA World Championship, TNA World Champion and a six-time TNA X Division Championship, TNA X Division Champion, and Ring of Honor (ROH) where he was the first multi-time ROH World Championship, ROH World Champion. He is also known for his time with WWE, where he competed in the 205 Live (WWE brand), cruiserweight division as well as doing color commentary. Between TNA/Impact and ROH, Aries has held 14 total championships and has also held numerous international and U.S. independent championships. Aries began to work with ROH in 2004, joining the Generation Next (professional wrestling), Generation Next faction. He won the ROH World Tag Team Championship with his teammate Roderick Strong, and at Final Battle 2004, ROH's biggest ev ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Scoot Andrews
Andrew Warner (born June 1, 1967) is an American retired professional wrestler, better known by his ring name "the Black Nature Boy" Scoot Andrews. After debuting in 1994, Andrew competed for numerous independent professional wrestling promotions throughout his career. Throughout the 1990s he competed in Southeastern independent promotions including Florida Championship Wrestling, Maryland Championship Wrestling, East Coast Wrestling Association, and the National Wrestling Alliance as one half of Naturally Marvellous with Mike Sullivan. He also had a short stint in the World Wrestling Federation during 2001 appearing several times on '' WWF Jakked'', '' WWF Metal'', and '' WWF Sunday Night Heat'' and again during 2003 and 2004 on ''WWE Raw'' and ''WWE SmackDown''. During the early 2000s, he wrestled for Full Impact Pro and Ring of Honor. He continued to compete for independent promotions until his retirement in 2005. Professional wrestling career After being trained by Hack ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kahagas
Kahagas (born July 15, 1973) is a Japanese-American professional wrestler. He currently wrestles on the independent circuit and is a former NWA National Heavyweight Champion, NWA North American Heavyweight Champion and NWA Worlds Heavyweight Champion. Career Full Impact Pro (2003–2006) Kahagas made his debut for Full Impact Pro's Inaugural Show, defeating Dagon Briggs and Thunderbolt Norton. In his first year of wrestling, Kahagas feuded with Dagon Briggs and Brian Gamble with the latter of which he came out on top of. On April 9, 2003, he won the Jersey Championship Wrestling (JCW) Lightweight Championship defeating Shawn Sherdian. With FIP being the sister promotion to Ring of Honor, FIP wrestlers could also wrestle at ROH shows and Kahagas was no different, at Glory By Honor Kahagas lost a six-man mayhem match which was won by Trent Acid. In September, Kahagas participated in the FIP Heavyweight Championship tournament, making the second round before being eliminated b ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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AJ Styles
Allen Neal Jones (born June 2, 1977), better known by his ring name AJ Styles (or A.J. Styles), is an American Professional wrestling, professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE, where he performs on the Raw (WWE brand), Raw WWE brand extension, brand. Jones debuted in 1998 and competed for various independent circuit, independent promotions before gaining initial mainstream exposure in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in 2001. He gained prominence after signing with Impact Wrestling, Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) having been described as "the cornerstone of the company since its inception"; he won the Impact World Championship, TNA World Heavyweight Championship List of Impact World Champions, twice, the NWA World Heavyweight Championship List of NWA World Heavyweight Champions, three times, and was the inaugural titleholder of the Impact X Division Championship, X Division Championship, which he won List of Impact X Division Champions, six times. He is also the first T ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jason Cross
William Jason Massengale (born June 13, 1979) is an American professional wrestler,ring name, Jason Cross. He is best known for his appearances with NWA Total Nonstop Action and NWA Wildside in the 2000s. Professional wrestling career NWA Wildside (2002–2005) After training under his childhood friend, mentor, and perpetual superior John Phoenix (alias John Couch), Massengale made his professional wrestling debut with a local promotion in 1998 at Walter B. Williams Gymnasium in Milledgeville, GA. Jason Cross later appeared in NWA Wildside in mid-2001 where he, Adam Jacobs, John Phoenix and Prince Justice defeated A.J. Styles, Onyx, Air Paris and Stone Mountain. Soon after his debut in Wildside, Cross became a heel and was managed by Jeff G. Bailey, Styles' former manager. Cross' gimmick was that of a "clone" of Styles, in which Cross copied him in every aspect, except wrestling ability and charisma, such as attire and wrestling moves. After David Young defeated Styles ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kory Chavis
Kory Chavis is an American professional wrestler, also known by the ring name Rainman. He works for several independent promotions, including Dragon Gate USA, Full Impact Pro, and Evolve. Chavis wrestled with tag team partner Jon Davis as The Dark City Fight Club , and with Davis is a former co-holder of both the NWA Florida Tag Team Championship and the NWA World Tag Team Championship. Early life In high school, Chavis played football for one year, and played basketball and participated in wrestling for three years. Professional wrestling career After being trained by New Jack and Murder One in Atlanta, Georgia, Chavis made his professional wrestling debut on March 1, 1998. Rainman (2001–2007) Chavis quickly began using the name Rainman, and began competing for NWA Wildside. He began teaming with Murder One (Then known as Homicide) as Blackout, and the pair won the NWA Wildside Tag Team Championship by defeating Tony Stradlin and Todd Sexton on August 10, 2001. ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mexico
Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in North America. It is the northernmost country in Latin America, and borders the United States to the north, and Guatemala and Belize to the southeast; while having maritime boundary, maritime boundaries with the Pacific Ocean to the west, the Caribbean Sea to the southeast, and the Gulf of Mexico to the east. Mexico covers 1,972,550 km2 (761,610 sq mi), and is the List of countries by area, thirteenth-largest country in the world by land area. With a population exceeding 130 million, Mexico is the List of countries by population, tenth-most populous country in the world and is home to the Hispanophone#Countries, largest number of native Spanish speakers. Mexico City is the capital and List of cities in Mexico, largest city, which ranks among the List of cities by population, most populous metropolitan areas in the world. Human presence in Mexico dates back to at least 8,000 BC. Mesoamerica, considered a cradle ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |