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TNA Women's Knockout Championship
The TNA Knockouts World Championship is a women's professional wrestling Professional wrestling championship#World championships, world championship owned by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). The championship debuted on October 14, 2007, at the Bound for Glory (2007), Bound for Glory pay-per-view (PPV) List of TNA pay-per-view events, event and the inaugural champion was Gail Kim. The current champion is Masha Slamovich, who is in her first reign. History TNA Knockout TNA Knockout, or just Knockout for short, is the term used by TNA to refer to its onscreen female performers; this is similar to TNA's main rival World Wrestling Entertainment and their WWE Diva, Divas pseudonym. TNA's first women's accomplishment was announced at TNA's first Impact Wrestling#Weekly pay-per-views (2002–2004), weekly pay-per-view event on June 19, 2002. It was called the "Miss TNA" crown. The holder of the crown was determined in a Professional wrestling match types#Strip matches, lingerie Batt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masha Slamovich
Anna Khozina (; born 18 June 1998) is a Russian-American professional wrestler, better known by her ring name Masha Slamovich. She is signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), where she is the reigning TNA Knockouts World Champion in her List of TNA Knockouts World Champions, first reign, as well as a former three-time TNA Knockouts World Tag Team Champion. She also makes appearances on the independent circuit and performs for Game Changer Wrestling (GCW), where she is the current JCW World Championship, JCW World Champion, in her first reign. Early life Anna Khozina was born in Moscow, Russia, and has dual U.S. and Russian citizenship. She began training in professional wrestling at age 16, under Johnny Rodz. In 2021, Khozina earned a degree in criminal justice. Professional wrestling career Independent circuit (2016–present) In 2016, Khozina made her in-ring debut in Japan, wrestling on an independent Joshi puroresu, women's professional wrestling show named Reina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Sarah Stock
Sarah Stock (born March 4, 1979) is a Canadian professional wrestler. She is known for her role in All Elite Wrestling (AEW) and WWE as a trainer and producer for WWE. Previously began her career in Canada and moved back and forth across the country, working for various promotions, facing both male and female wrestlers. She then moved to Mexico, where she worked under the ring name Dark Angel for Lucha Libre AAA World Wide (AAA) and later for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). She is also known for her time in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), where under the ring name Sarita she became the inaugural and two-time TNA Knockouts Tag Team Champion, holding the title the first time with Taylor Wilde and the second time with Rosita. She has also worked in Japan for JDStar and World Wonder Ring Stardom, where she held the Wonder of Stardom Championship. Early and personal life Stock was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and graduated from Winnipeg's St. John's-Ravenscourt School. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No Surrender (2009)
The 2009 No Surrender was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) promotion, which took place on September 20, 2009 at the TNA Impact! Zone in Orlando, Florida. It was the fifth event under the No Surrender chronology. Nine matches were contested at the event. In the main event, AJ Styles defeated Kurt Angle, Sting, Matt Morgan and Hernandez in a Five-Way Dance to win the TNA World Heavyweight Championship. In other prominent matches, Bobby Lashley defeated Rhino, Kevin Nash defeated Abyss in a $50,000 Bounty Challenge to retain the TNA Legends Championship, Samoa Joe defeated Daniels to retain the TNA X Division Championship, and Sarita and Taylor Wilde defeated The Beautiful People (Madison Rayne and Velvet Sky) to become the inaugural TNA Knockouts World Tag Team Champions. Storylines No Surrender featured nine professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Single-elimination Tournament
A single-elimination knockout, or sudden-death tournament is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of a match-up is immediately eliminated from the tournament. Each winner will play another in the next round, until the final match-up, whose winner becomes the tournament champion(s). Some match-ups may be a single match or several, for example two-legged ties in European sports or best-of series in North American pro sports. Defeated competitors may play no further part after losing, or may participate in "consolation" or "classification" matches against other losers to determine the lower final rankings; for example, a third place playoff between losing semi-finalists. In a shootout poker tournament, there are more than two players competing at each table, and sometimes more than one progresses to the next round. Some competitions are held with a pure single-elimination tournament system. Others have many phases, with the last being a single-elimination final stage, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lauren Brooke (interviewer)
Lauren Thompson (born July 29, 1982) is an American television personality, print model and voiceover actor who worked for Golf Channel, mostly as a co-host on "Morning Drive", (from 2010 to 2020) the channel's daily morning show. She has been a host of "Top Ten", the "College Sports Minute" and is currently a host for GolfNow (formerly "Destination Golf"). She is also known for having worked for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) as a backstage interviewer. Career Thompson has modeled, represented companies as a spokesmodel and done voice-overs. She has appeared in various television commercials, many television shows, and music videos. She has appeared at conventions across the United States and accepts national bookings through her website as a spokesperson, print model and voiceover talent. She appeared in the music video for Jason Aldean's song " Hicktown", and for Sevendust's song "Praise". She also has been on Southeastern Conference rivalries on SEC websites. She modeled ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TNA Impact!
''TNA Impact!'' (stylized as ''TNA iMPACT!'') is an American professional wrestling television program produced by the American promotion Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) that debuted on June 4, 2004. It also features wrestlers from WWE's NXT brand due to the working relationship between the two companies. The series currently airs on AXS TV as well as streaming on TNA+ in the United States, owned by parent company Anthem Sports & Entertainment. History Fox Sports Net and Webcasts (2004–2005) In May 2004, TNA sealed a television deal with Fox Sports Net (FSN) where they would get a one-hour timeslot on Fridays in most markets, putting TNA on unrestricted cable and satellite for the first time. TNA began taping a new weekly series that month, ''TNA Impact!'', with the first episode premiering on June 4, 2004. After 51 shows TNA's contract with FSN expired in May 2005 and was not renegotiated, with the last FSN episode of ''Impact!'' airing on May 27, 2005. ''Impa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jordynne Grace
Patricia Forrest Gresham (née Parker, born March 5, 1996), better known by her ring name Jordynne Grace, is an American professional wrestler, bodybuilder and powerlifter. She is signed to WWE, where she performs on the NXT brand. She is best known for her time in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), where she is a three-time TNA Knockouts World Champion, one-time TNA Digital Media Champion (and the first woman to hold the title) and TNA Knockouts Tag Team Champion. Upon becoming the inaugural Digital Media Champion, Parker was recognized by TNA as the first Knockouts Triple Crown winner. She has previously made appearances in Beyond Wrestling, Progress Wrestling, Pro-Wrestling: EVE, and Shine Wrestling. As a powerlifter, Parker is the World Natural Powerlifting Federation (WNPF) Georgia State & National Records holder in the squat at , the bench press at and the deadlift at in the 165 lb weight class. Professional wrestling career Independent circuit (2012–2018 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TNA Home Video
TNA Home Video is a division of Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) that releases its pay-per-view (PPV) events, documentaries and other TNA produced compilations on physical mediums via its official website. History Prior to TNA Home Video, the promotion did not have a distribution partner and self-published six DVDs exclusively through their website between 2003 and 2004. In June 2005, TNA announced an agreement with the Navarre Corporation to distribute home videos for the United States and Canada. Navarre released TNA's monthly PPV events and various compilations to major retailers. In March 2012, it was announced that the Navarre Corporation had left the DVD distribution business to focus on other business interests, and that TNA was looking for a new distribution partner. Though, would ultimately revert to self-publishing via their official website. In November 2021, the promotion announced they would release that year's Slammiversary in the VHS format as a collector's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Total Nonstop Action
Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (abbreviated as TNA Wrestling or TNA) is an American professional wrestling promotion based in Nashville, Tennessee. It is a subsidiary of Anthem Sports & Entertainment, a Canadian media company owned by businessman Leonard Asper. Founded by Jeff Jarrett and Jerry Jarrett in 2002, following the end of World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in 2001, the promotion was initially known as NWA: Total Nonstop Action (NWA-TNA) and was affiliated with the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) governing body. The promotion dropped the "NWA" brand from its name in 2004, becoming Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. TNA continued to use the NWA World Heavyweight and Tag Team championships until this agreement ended in 2007; after which, the company would create its own World Heavyweight and World Tag Team championships. The promotion was purchased by Anthem at the beginning of 2017. In March of that year, it was rebranded to Impact Wrestling after its weekly flag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daffney
Shannon Claire Spruill (July 17, 1975 – September 1, 2021) was an American professional wrestling, professional wrestler, Manager (professional wrestling), wrestling manager and actress better known by her ring name Daffney. Daffney began her professional wrestling career at World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in 1999. In WCW, she was known for her association with David Flair and Crowbar (wrestler), Crowbar, and she became the second woman (after Madusa) to hold the WCW Cruiserweight Championship before the promotion was purchased by the WWE in early 2001. She subsequently appeared on the independent circuit until she signed with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) in 2008. Injuries forced her to retire from in-ring wrestling in 2011 but she continued to appear in non-wrestling roles for various professional wrestling promotion, promotions until 2018. Early life As a "Military brat (U.S. subculture), military brat", Shannon Claire Spruill was born on July 17, 1975, at the W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francine Fournier
Francine Meeks ( Fournier; born February 19, 1972), known by the Mononymous person, mononym Francine, is an American professional wrestling valet and professional wrestler. She is best known for her appearances with Extreme Championship Wrestling from 1995 to 2001 and with World Wrestling Entertainment in 2005 and 2006. During her tenure with ECW, Francine managed several of the promotion's top wrestlers. Early life Francine was born on February 19, 1972. She grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she attended West Catholic Preparatory High School in West Philadelphia. She became a fan of professional wrestling as a teenager, attending events at the Spectrum (arena), Spectrum. While working for a life insurance company in 1993, Francine saw a Advertisement film, television commercial for the "House of Hardcore", the professional wrestling school run by Extreme Championship Wrestling, on SportsChannel Philadelphia and decided to enroll as she "didn't want to be stuck behin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
