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Mike Bailey (wrestler)
Émile Charles Baillargeon-Laberge (born July 16, 1990), better known by his ring name "Speedball" Mike Bailey, is a Canadian professional wrestler. He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he is one-half of Jet Speed with Kevin Knight. He is also known for his tenure in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), where he is a former three-time TNA X Division Championship, TNA X Division Champion. He also performed in New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). He is a former two time IWS World Heavyweight Championship, IWS World Heavyweight Champion and a former two-time KO-D Tag Team Championship, KO-D Tag Team Champion. Bailey was also the winner of Combat Zone Wrestling's 2015 CZW Best of the Best, Best of the Best, DDT Pro-Wrestling's 2016 DNA Grand Prix, Revolution Pro Wrestling's British J-Cup (2021), 2021 British J-Cup and Pro Wrestling Guerrilla's Battle of Los Angeles (2023), 2023 Battle of Los Angeles tournaments. Professional wrestling career Independent circuit (2006–prese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Laval, Quebec
Laval is a city in Quebec, Canada. It is in the southwest of the province, north of Montreal. It is the largest suburb of Montreal, the third-largest city in the province after Montreal and Quebec City, and the thirteenth largest city in Canada, with a population of 443,192 in 2021. Laval is geographically separated from the mainland to the north by the Rivière des Mille Îles, and from the Island of Montreal to the south by the Rivière des Prairies. Laval occupies all of Île Jésus as well as the Îles Laval. Laval constitutes one of the 17 administrative regions of Quebec, with a region code of 13, as well as a territory equivalent to a regional county municipality (TE) and census division (CD) with geographical code 65. It also constitutes the judicial district of Laval. It is the smallest administrative region in the province by area. History The first European Settlers in Laval were Jesuits, who were granted a seigneury there in 1636. Agriculture first appe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
DDT Pro-Wrestling
is a Japanese professional wrestling promotion based in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Shinjuku, Tokyo. Its name is an initialism of Dramatic Dream Team, which was the promotion's original name from 1997 to 2004. Founded in March 1997 by Shintaro Muto, the promotion was eventually bought and managed by Shoichi Ichimiya until December 2005, when Sanshiro Takagi took over as the new president. In 2017, DDT was sold to CyberAgent. Takagi retained his position, while Takahiro Yamauchi took over as the new DDT director. DDT became one of the top promotions in Japanese independent wrestling by creating a unique sports entertainment style, often parodying WWE, with a Japanese puroresu flair to the matches. DDT's biggest event is DDT Peter Pan, Peter Pan, held each year since 2009. The cards' matches tend to be a mixture of Japanese lucharesu (a mix of lucha libre and traditional puroresu), worked shoot-style, hardcore brawling and comedy matches. DDT is in many ways a parody of American pro wrestli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Josh Alexander
Joshua Lemay (born May 29, 1987), better known by his ring name Josh Alexander, is a Canadian Professional wrestling, professional wrestler. He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he is a member of the Don Callis Family. He also makes appearances for Maple Leaf Pro Wrestling (MLP), where he is the reigning and inaugural Maple Leaf Pro Wrestling#Championships, MLP Canadian Champion. He is best known for his tenure in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) from 2019 to 2025, where he is a former List of Impact World Champions, two-time TNA World Championship, TNA World Champion, with his second reign being the longest in the company's history at 335 days, and a one-time TNA X Division Championship, TNA X Division Champion. His singles accomplishments outside of TNA, AAW Wrestling include being where a two-time AAW Heavyweight Championship, AAW Heavyweight Champion and singles winner Jim Lynam Invitational Tournament (2019). A tag-team specialist, Alexander has won several ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Kevin Steen
Kevin Yanick Steen (born May 7, 1984) is a Canadian Professional wrestling, professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown (WWE brand), SmackDown WWE brand extension, brand under the ring name Kevin Owens. As of April 2025, he is on hiatus due to a neck injury. Steen began his career in 2000, at the age of 16. Prior to joining WWE in late 2014, he wrestled under his birth name for Ring of Honor (ROH), where he held the ROH World Championship and ROH World Tag Team Championship. He also wrestled extensively on the independent circuit for 14 years, most notably in Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG), where he held the PWG World Championship a record List of PWG World Champions, three times, as well as the PWG World Tag Team Championship on three occasions. Steen also competed for International Wrestling Syndicate (IWS), where he held the International Wrestling Syndicate#IWS World Heavyweight Championship, IWS World Heavyweight Championship three times, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Evil Uno
Nicolas Dansereau (born July 20, 1987), better known by the ring name Evil Uno, is a Canadian Professional wrestling, professional wrestler. He is the co-founder of Mystery Wrestling. He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he is a member of The Dark Order. Formerly known as Player Uno, he regularly tag team, teamed with Stu Grayson as the Super Smash Brothers (professional wrestling), Super Smash Brothers for various Independent circuit, independent promotions across North America, including Alpha-1 Wrestling, Capital City Championship Combat (C*4), Inter Species Wrestling (ISW), and California-based Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG). Together, they are former one-time Chikara Campeonatos de Parejas, Chikara Campeones de Parejas, List of PWG World Tag Team Champions, one-time PWG World Tag Team Championship, PWG World Tag Team Champions and winners of PWG's ''List of Pro Wrestling Guerrilla tournaments#DDT4 (2012), 2012 Dynamite Duumvirate Tag Team Title Tournament''. Caree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
2point0
Angelo Parker and Matt Menard, also formerly known as 2.0 (stylized as 2point0) and 3.0, and later Ever-Rise in WWE, are a Canadian professional wrestling tag team signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), both as wrestlers and, in Menard's case, an occasional Sports commentator#In professional wrestling, commentator. The team of "Cool Hand" Angelo Parker (born March 20, 1984) and "Daddy Magic" Matt Menard (born December 7, 1983) is best known for working for Chikara (professional wrestling), Chikara and International Wrestling Syndicate (IWS), but have also made appearances for several other Independent circuit, independent promotions, including Ring of Honor (ROH), Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW), Independent Wrestling Association Mid-South (IWA-MS) and Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG). They are former two-time holders of both the Chikara Campeonatos de Parejas and the IWS Tag Team Championship. They are also known for their time in WWE's developmental territory NXT (WWE brand), NXT, where ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
International Wrestling Syndicate
International Wrestling Syndicate (IWS) is a professional wrestling promotion based out of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Originating from the Dawson Wrestling Federation, it was formerly known as the Internet Wrestling Syndicate and World Wrestling Syndicate. IWS is renowned as being one of the continent's longest-running promotions, and one of hardcore wrestling's staunchest standouts, while evolving into a proving ground for young talent from Quebec, Ontario and Atlantic Canada.Curtis, Christopher. (2018-07-21"The many, many lives of The Green Phantom, Montreal's teacher wrestler" ''Montreal Gazette'', Retrieved on July 23, 2018. History Formation and Early years In April 1998, SeXXXy Eddy organized the Dawson Wrestling Federation to perform on the grounds of Dawson College in Montreal. He became the promotion's first champion. Professional wrestling was banned from being performed on Dawson College property following the events of April 23, 1999, when SeXXXy Eddy and PCP Crazy F' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
List Of Professional Wrestling Promotions
A professional wrestling promotion is a company or business that regularly performs shows involving professional wrestling. "Promotion" also describes a role which entails management, advertising and logistics of running a wrestling event. Within the convention of the show, the company is a sports governing body which sanctions wrestling matches and gives authority to the championships and is responsible for maintaining the divisions and their rankings. In truth, the company serves as a touring theatre troupe, as well as event promotion body for its own events. Most promotions are self-contained, organized around one or more championships and do not acknowledge or recognize the legitimacy of other promotions' titles unless they share a working agreement. Governing bodies, such as the CyberFight, United Wrestling Network, WWNLive, Allied Independent Wrestling Federations, Union of European Wrestling Alliances, Pro Wrestling International and, previously, the National Wres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Professional Wrestling Match Types
Many types of wrestling matches, sometimes called " gimmick matches" in the jargon of the business, are performed in professional wrestling. Some gimmick matches are more common than others and are often used to advance or conclude a storyline. Throughout professional wrestling's decades-long history, some gimmick matches have spawned many variations of the core concept. Singles match The singles match is the most common of all professional wrestling matches, which involves only two competitors competing for one fall. A victory is obtained by pinfall, submission, knockout, countout, or disqualification. One of the most common variations on the singles match is to restrict the possible means for victory. Blindfold match In a blindfold match, the two participants must wear a blindfold over their eyes for the entire duration of the match. A well-known example of this match is the WrestleMania VII match between Jake "The Snake" Roberts and Rick Martel. No count-out match ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
House Show
A house show (also commonly called a live event) is a professional wrestling event produced by a major Professional wrestling promotion, promotion that is not televised, though they can be recorded. Promotions use house shows mainly to cash in on the exposure that they and their wrestlers receive during televised events, as well as to test reactions to matches, wrestlers, and Gimmick (professional wrestling), gimmicks that are being considered for the main televised programming and upcoming pay-per-views. As house shows are not televised, all matches are technically dark matches, though that term is usually reserved for non-televised matches at otherwise televised events. House shows are also often scripted to make the Face (professional wrestling), face wrestlers win most matches, largely to send the crowd home happy. If a Heel (professional wrestling), heel defends a title, the face may win by disqualification, preventing the title from changing hands. Until the 1990s, most t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Professional Wrestling
Professional wrestling, often shortened to either pro wrestling or wrestling,The term "wrestling" is most often widely used to specifically refer to modern scripted professional wrestling, though it is also used to refer to Real life, real-life wrestling combat. is a form of athletic theaterEero Laine (2017). "Stadium-sized theatre: WWE and the world of professional wrestling". In #refChowEtAl2017, Chow et al. (2017). ''Performance and Professional Wrestling'', p. 39: "The business of professional wrestling is the business of theatre. Even if on the surface professional wrestling seems anathema to theatrical sensibilities, it is hard to deny the formal similarities. After all, professional wrestling is scripted entertainment performed live in front of an audience by actors portraying characters." centered around mock combat with the premise that its performers are competitive wrestlers. In the United States, the term "professional wrestling" does not refer to authentic wrest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Battle Of Los Angeles (2023)
The 2023 Battle of Los Angeles was the seventeenth Battle of Los Angeles (professional wrestling), Battle of Los Angeles professional wrestling Pro Wrestling Guerrilla tournaments, tournament produced by Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG). It was a two-night event on January 7 and 8, 2023, at the Globe Theatre (Los Angeles), Globe Theatre in Los Angeles, California. The tournament marked the PWG debuts of Michael Oku, Shun Skywalker, El Hijo del Vikingo, SB Kento and Bryan Keith as well as the surprise PWG debut of Chris Jericho. Mike Bailey (wrestler), Mike Bailey won the Battle of Los Angeles tournament by defeating Konosuke Takeshita in the final. Two non-tournament matches took place on the second night. In the first match, Black Taurus and Látigo (wrestler), Latigo defeated Aramis (wrestler), Aramis and Rey Horus. The second match was a ten-man tag team match in which Jericho Appreciation Society (Chris Jericho, Daniel Garcia (wrestler), Daniel Garcia, 3.0 (professional wrestling) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
