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Ricochet (wrestler)
Trevor Mann (born October 11, 1988), known by his ring name Ricochet, is an American professional wrestler. , he is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW). He is best known for his tenure in WWE from 2018 to 2024 where he is a former WWE Intercontinental Champion, WWE United States Champion, NXT North American Champion, the 2019 Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic winner (with Malakai Black, Aleister Black), and the inaugural WWE Speed Champion. Known for his high-flying wrestling style marked by innovative acrobatics, agility, and mid-air flexibility, Mann has performed for various Japanese Professional wrestling promotion, promotions such as Dragon Gate (wrestling), Dragon Gate (DG) and its American branch Dragon Gate USA (DGUSA), and New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). In DG and DGUSA, he held the Open the Brave Gate Championship, Open the Brave, Open the Dream Gate Championship, Dream, Open the Triangle Gate Championship, Triangle, Open the Twin Gate Championship, Twin, and Open the Freed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Alton, Illinois
Alton ( ) is a city on the Mississippi River in Madison County, Illinois, United States, about north of St. Louis, Missouri. The population was 25,676 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. It is a part of the River Bend (Illinois), River Bend area in the Metro-East region of the Greater St. Louis metropolitan area. It is well known for its limestone bluffs along the river north of the city. It's the former location of an historical state penitentiary, and played a significant role preceding and during the American Civil War. It was the site of the last Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas debate in October 1858. The former state penitentiary in Alton was used during the Civil War to hold up to 12,000 Confederate prisoners of war. History Although Alton once was growing faster than the nearby city of St. Louis, a coalition of St. Louis businessmen planned to build a competing town to stop Alton's expansion and bring business to St. Louis. The resulting town was Grafton, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Professional Wrestling Promotion
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 Wr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Matt Sydal
Matthew Joseph Korklan (born March 19, 1983), better known by the ring name Matt Sydal, is an American professional wrestler. He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW). He is also known for his tenure with WWE from 2008 to 2014 under the ring name Evan Bourne. Prior to signing with AEW, Sydal wrestled in WWE as Evan Bourne, and was a List of WWE Raw Tag Team Champions, one-time WWE Raw Tag Team Championship, WWE Tag Team Champion, with Kofi Kingston. Sydal is known for his time in Impact Wrestling where he is a former Impact Grand Championship, Impact Grand Champion and Impact X Division Championship, Impact X Division Champion, and in Ring of Honor (ROH), where he is a former ROH World Tag Team Champion. He has also wrestled for New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he is a former two-time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion and a one-time NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Champion. Korklan has also wrestled on the independent circuit, for Professional wrestling promotion, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Super Junior Tag League
The Super Junior Tag League is a professional wrestling tag team professional wrestling tournament, tournament held by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). Established in 2010, but preceded by the G1 Climax Junior Heavyweight Tag League in 2001 (won by El Samurai and Jushin Liger, Jushin Thunder Liger), it is the Cruiserweight (professional wrestling), junior heavyweight equivalent of the World Tag League (NJPW), World Tag League for heavyweight tag teams. From 2010 to 2017, it was named the Super Junior Tag Tournament and followed a Single-elimination tournament, single-elimination format, before becoming the Super Junior Tag League in 2018, switching to a Round-robin tournament, round-robin format. Since the tournament's inception, there were two years where the tournament did not take place—in 2011 and 2020 (due to major changes to NJPW's schedule during the COVID-19 pandemic). Super Junior Tag Tournament (2010–2017) 2010 Super J Tag Tournament was a one-night professional w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Professional Wrestling Tournament
On various occasions in professional wrestling, a single-elimination tournament of varying match types are held, often to determine a champion for a vacant or newly-created championship, to determine the number-one contender for a championship, to determine the participants in a future championship match, or is held with no championship or future championship match qualification attached to winning, such as in most editions of the King of the Ring tournament. Sometimes promotion (especially in earlier eras of wrestling) may use a title tournament that are fictitious in nature (that is, the title may have been simply awarded under the pretext of winning a tournament elsewhere) - notable ones include the tournaments that established the WWE Championship, WWE World Heavyweight Championship, the WWE Intercontinental Championship, and the WWE United States Championship (the latter when it was the NWA United States Championship). In tournaments with a fixed bracket, a multiple-disqualif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Best Of The Super Juniors
The Best of the Super Juniors (stylized as the BEST OF THE SUPER Jr. and often abbreviated BOSJ) is an annual professional wrestling tournament held by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), typically in May or June. Originally known as Top of the Super Juniors, the first tournament was held in 1988 with annual tournaments taking place since 1991. The wrestlers in the tournament are typically junior heavyweight wrestlers from promotions all over the world. NJPW has held 29 Super Juniors tournaments. Hiromu Takahashi holds the record for most tournament wins with four. Takahashi is also the only wrestler to have won three consecutive tournaments. Kanemoto holds the record for the most final appearances, having wrestled eight finals between 1997 and 2009. Liger has participated in the most tournaments, competing in all tournaments except 1995 and 2000 until his 26th and final Super Junior tournament in 2017. History and format The tournament was formed in 1988 by NJPW. It was originall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
King Of Gate
__NOTOC__ King of Gate is an annual single-elimination professional wrestling singles tournament held in the Japanese promotion Dragon Gate. It is the successor to El Numero Uno, previously held in Dragon Gate and Toryumon, although Uno was a round-robin tournament, as opposed to the single-elimination format used by King of Gate. In 2016, King of Gate adopted a round robin format with four separate blocks. Results List of winners 2005 The 2005 King of Gate was a 26-man tournament held from December 23 to December 27 over 5 daily shows. Due to the uneven number of participants, six were given byes to the second round. 2006 The 2006 King of Gate was a 15-man tournament held from December 10 to December 22 over four shows. The 2005 winner, Ryo Saito, received a bye to the second round. 2007 The 2007 King of Gate was a 16-man tournament, held from December 1 to December 9 over seven shows. 2008 The 2008 King of Gate tournament, a sixteen-man tournament, was held from De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Open The Freedom Gate Championship
The Open the Freedom Gate Championship was the major title in the promotion Dragon Gate USA. The first holder of the title was crowned following a 14-man tournament held at DGUSA Freedom Fight on November 28, 2009. The title was recognized by Dragon Gate USA's parent promotion, Dragon Gate, and it has been defended at a Dragon Gate show in Japan. The title was also recognized by the Evolve promotion. There were seven reigns by six wrestlers. BxB Hulk became the first champion by winning a 14-man tournament. Timothy Thatcher was the final champion, vacating the title on August 15, 2015. The championship was defended in the USA, Japan, China, England, Germany, Canada, Scotland and Northern Ireland for promotions such as Revolution Pro Wrestling, British Championship Wrestling, Outback Championship Wrestling, Dragon Gate, Fight Club: PRO, Southside Wrestling Entertainment, Alpha-1 Wrestling, WWNLive, Kamikaze Pro, Premier British Wrestling and Pro Wrestling Ulster. Title history ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Open The Twin Gate Championship
The is a professional wrestling tag team title created and promoted by the Japanese promotion Dragongate. The title was introduced on August 26, 2007, as an interim title for the winners of the first Summer Adventure Tag League tournament. It was then unified with the Wrestle Association R International Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship on October 12, 2007, to determine the inaugural Open the Twin Gate champions. Being a professional wrestling championship, the title is won as a result of a predetermined outcome. History Dragongate had been using the WAR IJ Tag Team Championship since 2006, until 2007 when Masato Yoshino and Naruki Doi were declared interim Open the Twin Gate Champions after winning the first edition of the Summer Adventure Tag League tournament. They later proposed a title unification match against IJ Tag Team Champions Kenichiro Arai and Taku Iwasa. On October 12, during the Gate of Victory tour, Doi and Yoshino won the unification bout at Kor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Open The Triangle Gate Championship
The Open the Triangle Gate Championship is a professional wrestling Tag team, trios Championship (professional wrestling), title in Japanese Professional wrestling promotion, promotion Dragon Gate (wrestling), Dragon Gate. It was created on November 7, 2004 when The Italian Connection faction of Akihito Terui, Milano Collection A.T., Takayuki Mori, Anthony W. Mori and Masato Yoshino, Yossino defeated Aagan Iisou's Shuji Kondo, Takuya Sugawara and Yasushi Tsujimoto, "brother" Yasshi in a tournament final. Each title belt's face has three emblems on it, shaped in a triangle, that represent Power, Technique and Mind. Not including interim reigns, there have been a total of 69 recognized individual champions and 80 recognized trios, who have had a combined 94 official reigns. The current champions are Z-Brats (Homare, Ishin Iihashi, Ishin and Yoshiki Kato) who are also in their first reign as a team. Title history Combined reigns By team As of , . {, class="wikitable sortable" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Open The Dream Gate Championship
The is a professional wrestling World championship, championship created and promoted by the Japan, Japanese Professional wrestling promotion, promotion Dragon Gate (wrestling), Dragon Gate. The wrestler who holds it is considered the top singles wrestler in Dragon Gate. It was created on July 4, 2004 when Cima (wrestler), Cima was awarded the title as a result of being the last Último Dragón Gym Championship, Último Dragón Gym Champion. History The inaugural champion was Cima (wrestler), Cima, who was awarded the championship for being the last Último Dragón Gym Championship, Último Dragón Gym Champion. He is still the longest reigning champion as of today at 574 days. Title reigns are determined either by mock combat, professional wrestling matches between different wrestlers involved in pre-existing scripted feuds, Plot (narrative), plots, and narrative thread, storylines, or by scripted circumstances. Wrestlers were portrayed as either Heel (professional wrestling), vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Open The Brave Gate Championship
The is a professional wrestling title created and promoted by the Japanese promotion Dragongate. It has a weight limit of , though it has been defended against heavier wrestlers in the past. It can be considered the secondary singles title in Dragongate and is more of a light heavyweight championship. History The championship was created on March 13, 2005 when Naruki Doi defeated Yossino in a tournament final. Belt design Eita2016.jpg, Eita with the (2005–2019) design of the title in November 2016. Jason Lee Brave Gate Jun 2023 1.jpg, Jason Lee with the current design of the title (2019–present). Hyo brave champion 202405.jpg, H.Y.O with a closer look to the current belt design. The first design of the belt, from 2005 to 2019, had the faceplate logo divided into eight pieces, each representing the eight wrestlers who fought in the tournament to determine the inaugural champion. During Gamma's reign, he threw away all eight pieces of the faceplate and replaced it wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
