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205 Live (WWE Brand)
205 Live was a brand of the American professional wrestling promotion WWE that was established in November 2016 and discontinued in February 2022. Brands are divisions of WWE's roster where wrestlers are assigned to perform on a weekly basis when a brand extension is in effect. Wrestlers assigned to 205 Live primarily appeared on the brand's weekly television program, '' 205 Live''. From October 2019 to February 2022, the brand served as a sub-brand of WWE's developmental territory, NXT, which allowed 205 Live wrestlers to also appear on its show, '' NXT''. 205 Live originally only centered on male wrestlers that were promoted as weighing 205 lbs. and under – designated by WWE as cruiserweights. The cruiserweight division was revived by WWE in 2016 and was originally exclusive to the promotion's main brand, Raw, with ''205 Live'' serving as a supplementary show for Raw's cruiserweight wrestlers until 205 Live was established as its own standalone brand in April 2018. 205 Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WWE 205 Live
''WWE 205 Live'' is an American professional wrestling streaming television program that was produced by WWE. It premiered on November 29, 2016, as a replacement for '' WWE Superstars'', and ended on February 11, 2022. The show originally aired exclusively on the WWE Network until March 2021 when the American version of the WWE Network merged under Peacock, after which, it was available on Peacock in the United States and the WWE Network in international markets. The show was originally centered around cruiserweights, male competitors billed at a maximum weight of 205 lbs from the namesake 205 Live brand. With some exceptions, the show originally aired live (as its name implied) at 10 p.m. Eastern Time (ET), and was usually presented from the same venue as that night's episode of ''WWE SmackDown''. By 2020, ''205 Live'' episodes were pre-taped on the Tuesday before its airing. In October 2019, ''205 Live'' was integrated with the NXT brand with cruiserweights from both NXT a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cruiserweight (professional Wrestling)
In professional wrestling, Cruiserweight is a weight class but also a term for a fast-paced, aerial-based style of performer. The term was first coined in the United States in 1996 by World Championship Wrestling. Prior to this, the terms "Light Heavyweight" and "Junior Heavyweight" were more commonly in use. The older term Junior Heavyweight is still favored in Japan, where many titles for lighter-weight competitors are called Junior Heavyweight titles. Prominent titles include New Japan Pro-Wrestling's IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship, Pro Wrestling Noah's GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship, and All Japan Pro Wrestling's World Junior Heavyweight championships. The weight limit used by World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and Japanese promotions is "up to 225 lbs" (102 kg), while WWE currently uses 205 lb (93 kg) as its weight limit. Due to the scripted nature of professional wrestling and that the billed weight of wrestlers can be changed, weight classes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucha House Party
Lucha House Party was a professional wrestling stable and later tag team that consisted of Kalisto, Gran Metalik, and Lince Dorado. It was originally formed as a trio consisting of cruiserweights Kalisto, Metalik and Dorado on the 205 Live brand in 2018. The group was based on the fact that the three were masked high-flying luchadores and implemented various elements of Kalisto's former tag team The Lucha Dragons. The trio would compete on the Raw and SmackDown brands challenging for the Raw and SmackDown Tag Team Championships on many occasions between 2018 and 2020 until Kalisto was sidelined due to an injury. This led to Metalik and Dorado competing as a tag team for a while until Kalisto returned to WWE in the summer of 2020 but differences began arising within the group until Kalisto was separated from the team in the 2020 draft, which led to Lucha House Party becoming a tag team. As part of the group, Metalik and Dorado held the 24/7 Championship once each. Hist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cedric Alexander
Cedric Alexander Johnson (born August 16, 1989) is an American Professional wrestling, professional wrestler. He is performing on the independent circuit. He is best known for his tenures in WWE and Ring of Honor (ROH). Alexander worked for ROH from 2010 until 2016. He started as part of C&C Factory, a tag team with Caprice Coleman. They worked together until 2014, then he worked as a singles wrestler. He left ROH in 2016, when he was invited to WWE's Cruiserweight Classic tournament. After that, Alexander would sign a contract with WWE after an impressive performance at the tournament despite losing, which gained critical and fan praise, and would begin performing in their new Cruiserweight (professional wrestling), cruiserweight division. At WrestleMania 34, Alexander won a tournament to win the NXT Cruiserweight Championship, WWE Cruiserweight Championship. He would then be drafted to the Raw (WWE brand), Raw WWE brand extension, brand, later becoming part of The Hurt Business ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WWE Tournaments
Under its fictional premise, WWE has held a variety of different professional wrestling tournaments, competed for by professional wrestlers that are part of their roster. Sporadic tournaments The Wrestling Classic The Wrestling Classic, also known as Wrestlevision, was a pay-per-view event that took place on November 7, 1985, from the Rosemont Horizon in Rosemont, Illinois. It revolved around a 16-man single-elimination tournament, and also featured a WWF Championship match. Junkyard Dog won the tournament after defeating Randy "Macho Man" Savage. Sam Muchnick Memorial Tournament Frank Tunney Sr. Memorial Tag Team Tournament The Frank Tunney Sr. Memorial Tag Team Tournament was a tournament held at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on March 15, 1987. WWF World Heavyweight Championship Tournament (1988) The main event at WrestleMania IV was a 14-man tournament for the WWF World Heavyweight Championship where "Macho Man" Randy Savage defeated "Million Dollar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Professional Wrestling Authority Figures
This list brings together authority figures—people who hold on-screen power—in professional wrestling promotions or brands within North America. The North American wrestling industry portrays authority figures as responsible for making matches, providing rules and generally keeping law and order both in and outside the ring. The role can vary according to disposition as a face authority figure tends to give what the fans want and does what is fair while a heel authority figures tend to run their shows out of their own self-interest. WWE authority figures From its founding in 1963 to 1997, the WWE looked to a president as an authority figure. The president had booking power and controlled all wrestlers. However, in 1997 the commissioner replaced the president, with Sgt. Slaughter serving as the first WWE commissioner. During the Attitude Era (1997–2002), not only the commissioner, but also Vince McMahon (through his position as WWE chairman under his evil character ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drake Maverick
James Michael Curtin (born 30 January 1983) is an English former Professional wrestling, professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE as a writer on WWE Raw, Raw. During his time as an on screen performer in the company, he worked under the ring name Drake Maverick. He has also worked for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, under the ring name Rockstar Spud. During his first decade, Curtin performed as Rockstar Spud, and worked in the British independent circuit, winning several championships in promotions like International Pro Wrestling: United Kingdom (IPW:UK), One Pro Wrestling (1PW), Revolution Pro Wrestling (RPW), and XWA (professional wrestling), XWA Wrestling. In 2012, he appeared in the Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA, later Impact Wrestling) program TNA British Boot Camp, British Boot Camp, winning the competition and being signed to a contract with the promotion. In TNA/Impact, he was a List of Impact X Division Champions, two-time Impact X Division Championship, X Divi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WrestleMania 34
WrestleMania 34 was a 2018 professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming event produced by WWE. It was the 34th annual WrestleMania and took place on April 8, 2018, at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana, held for wrestlers from the promotion's Raw, SmackDown, and 205 Live brand divisions. This was the second WrestleMania held at this venue after WrestleMania XXX in 2014 and the first to include the cruiserweight-exclusive 205 Live brand, albeit on the Kickoff pre-show, subsequently being the first to feature wrestlers from three brands since WrestleMania XXVI in 2010. The card comprised 14 matches, including three on the Kickoff pre-show. In the main event, which was the main match of the Raw brand, Brock Lesnar retained the Universal Championship against Roman Reigns. The main match from SmackDown saw AJ Styles retain the WWE Championship against Shinsuke Nakamura. Other matches saw Ronda Rousey make her WWE debut and Daniel Bryan return ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WWE Raw
''WWE Raw'', also known as ''Monday Night Raw'' or simply ''Raw'', is an American professional wrestling television program produced by WWE. It currently airs Live television, live every Monday at 8 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) on Netflix. The show features characters from the Raw (WWE brand), Raw WWE brand extension, brand, to which WWE wrestlers are assigned to work and perform. It debuted on January 11, 1993, and is considered to be one of WWE's two flagship programs, along with ''WWE SmackDown, Friday Night SmackDown''. Since its first episode, ''Raw'' has been broadcast live from 210 different arenas, 173 cities and towns, and twelve different nations, mostly in the United States; ''Raw'' shows have also been broadcast and taped in Belgium, Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, and the United Kingdom, as well as Afghanistan and Iraq as part of WWE Tribute to the Troops results, ''Tribute to the Troops''. Debuting on the USA Network television channel, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NXT Cruiserweight Championship
The NXT Cruiserweight Championship was a professional wrestling championship that was created and promoted by the American promotion WWE. Before its retirement, it was defended across the NXT, NXT UK, and 205 Live brand divisions, which were developmental territories for WWE. During its short tenure, it was the promotion's only championship with a weight limit, wherein only wrestlers 205 lb (93 kg) and under—designated as cruiserweights—could compete for the title. Originally established as the WWE Cruiserweight Championship, it was first unveiled on September 14, 2016, as the award for the Cruiserweight Classic, which was won by T. J. Perkins. It was originally defended on '' Monday Night Raw'' as part of the Raw brand's cruiserweight division before the premiere of the cruiserweight-exclusive '' 205 Live'' in November 2016, after which, it was defended on both shows. Following WrestleMania 34 in 2018, the title became exclusively defended on the 205 Live brand. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Kendrick
Brian David Kendrick (born May 29, 1979) is an American Professional wrestling, professional wrestler. He is best known for his tenure in WWE. He is also known for his time in Ring of Honor (ROH), Impact Wrestling, Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), and Pro Wrestling Zero1 (Zero1). Kendrick began his career in 1999. During the early years of his career, Kendrick wrestled as Leonardo Spanky or simply Spanky for several small American Professional wrestling promotion, promotions like ROH and TNA and for Japanese promotions like Zero1, where he won the International Lightweight Tag Team Championship (Zero1), NWA International Lightweight Tag Team Championship and Zero-One United States Heavyweight Championship, Zero-One United States Openweight Championship. In the early 2000s, he also had two stints with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, later World Wrestling Entertainment), one as a Farm team#Professional wrestling, developmental wrestler and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rich Swann
Richard Anthony Swann (born February 15, 1991) is an American professional wrestler. he is best known for his tenure in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). He is a former Impact World Champion, TNA World Heavyweight Championship (2020–2021), TNA World Heavyweight Champion, Impact X Division Champion, and Impact Digital Media Championship, Impact Digital Media Champion. He also wrestles for Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW), where he is a former CZW World Heavyweight Championship, CZW World Heavyweight Champion and currently working for other promotions. Swann is also known for his time in WWE, where he was a former NXT Cruiserweight Championship, WWE Cruiserweight Champion. Additionally, Swann has competed for promotions such as Full Impact Pro, Evolve (professional wrestling), Evolve, Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG), Chikara (professional wrestling), Chikara, Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW), Dragon Gate (wrestling), Dragon Gate and Major League Wrestling (MLW). He is a former RPW Undispu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
