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AJPW Junior League
The Junior League is an annual professional wrestling Round-robin tournament, round-robin Professional wrestling tournament, tournament held by All Japan Pro Wrestling, to decide the promotion's top Cruiserweight (professional wrestling), junior heavyweight wrestler, as well as the #1 contender to the World Junior Heavyweight Championship (AJPW), World Junior Heavyweight Championship. It was established in 1983 as a single-block round-robin tournament then in 2006, it began as a Round-robin tournament, two-block round-robin tournament, in which each block's highest scorers face off in the finals. A victory is worth two points, a draw is worth one, and a loss zero; each match has a Glossary of professional wrestling terms, thirty-minute time limit. In 2012, the tournament was renamed the "Junior Hyper League". After no tournament took place in 2013, the 2014 tournament was dubbed "Jr. Battle of Glory", being announced to take place in February, instead of its usual place in the summer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All Japan Pro Wrestling
(AJPW/AJP) or simply All Japan is a Puroresu, Japanese professional wrestling Professional wrestling promotion, promotion founded on October 21, 1972, by Giant Baba after he left the Japanese Wrestling Association to create his own promotion. Many wrestlers had left with Baba, with many more joining the following year when JWA folded. From the mid-1970s, All Japan was firmly established as the largest promotion in Japan. As the 1990s began, aging stars gave way to a younger generation including Mitsuharu Misawa, Steve Williams (wrestler), "Dr. Death" Steve Williams, Kenta Kobashi, Gary Albright, Toshiaki Kawada, Mike Polchlopek, Mike Barton (Bart Gunn), Akira Taue and Jun Akiyama, leading to perhaps AJPW's most profitable period in the 1990s. In 1999, Giant Baba died and the promotion was run by Motoko Baba. Misawa was named president but left in 2000 after disagreements with Motoko. Misawa created Pro Wrestling Noah and every single native wrestler besides Masanobu Fuchi and Tos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2003
2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater. In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War. Demographics The world population on January 1, 2003, was estimated to be 6.272 billion people and increased to 6.353 billion people by January 1, 2004. An estimated 134.0 million births and 52.5 million deaths took place in 2003. The average global life expectancy was 67.1 years, an increase of 0.3 years from 2002. The rate of child mortality was 6.85%, a decrease of 0.27Percentage point, pp from 2002. 25.54% of people were living in extreme poverty, a decrease of 1.31pp from 2002. There were approximately 10.6 million global refugees at the beginning of 2003, and the number was reduced to 9.7 million refugees by the end of the year. Afghanistan was the largest source of refugees, with a total of 2.1 million at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2014
The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resulting in 28,646 confirmed infections and 11,323 confirmed deaths according to the World Health Organization, who declared it a Public health emergency of international concern, Public Health Emergency in August. The virus caused major Western African Ebola epidemic#Economic effects, socioeconomic disruption in the region, primarily in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Other notable health concerns in 2014 included a significant increase in polio cases in Pakistan. The rise of Islamic State, ISIS became a major Geopolitics, geopolitical crisis in 2014 after the group declared a global caliphate and launched devastating List of wars and battles involving the Islamic State, offensives in Northern Iraq offensive (June 2014), Iraq and 2014 Easte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiroshi Yamato
, better known by his ring name , is a Japanese professional wrestler who works as a freelancer. Trained by the All Japan Pro Wrestling promotion, he started his career in February 2007 working in Mexico for the International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG) promotion, where he won the 2007 Rey del Ring tournament. Yamato returned to Japan and his home promotion in February 2008 and during the next five years went on to become a one-time World Junior Heavyweight and All Asia Tag Team Champion and the winner of the 2012 Junior Hyper League. In June 2013, Yamato left All Japan in a mass exodus to join the new Wrestle-1 promotion. In January 2016, Yamato won the Wrestle-1 Cruiser Division Championship. Yamato also worked as a trainer and sales manager for Wrestle-1 until his departure from the promotion in 2018. Early life Mihara is an alum of Tokyo University of Agriculture, which he represented at the 2002 JOC Junior Olympic Cup, where he finished third at weight class in a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2012
2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the Romanian city of Târgu Mureș, protesters expressing solidarity towards certain figures in the medical field and calling for the resignation of president Traian Băsescu. The protests would soon spread through all of the country, marking the start of a long 2012–2015 unrest in Romania, civil unrest in Romania, lasting up to 2015 Romanian protests, November 2015. * January 13 – The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia disaster, ''Costa Concordia'' runs aground off the coast of Italy, causing 32 deaths. * January 23 – Iran–European Union relations: the European Union adopts an embargo against Iran in protest of its continued effort to enrich uranium. February * February 1 – Egypt's deadliest football incident known as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2011
The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen, and in some cases sparking civil wars such as the Syrian civil war and the Libyan civil war (2011), first Libyan civil war, the former still ongoing while the latter gave way to the Libyan civil war (2014–2020), second Libyan civil war. U.S. Navy SEALs Killing of Osama bin Laden, killed al-Qaeda leader and terrorist Osama bin Laden in his Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, compound in Pakistan on May 2. The Curiosity (rover), Curiosity rover, which was to land on Mars in August of the following year, launched from Cape Canaveral on November 26. In December, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, who had been the supreme leader of North Korea since the death of his father Kim Il Sung in 1994, Death and state funeral of Kim Jong Il, di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Yun
James Carson Yun (born May 13, 1981) is an American professional wrestler and actor. He is best known for his tenures in World Championship Wrestling and World Wrestling Federation/World Wrestling Entertainment from 1999 to 2010, under the ring names Jimmy Yang, Akio and Jimmy Wang Yang. Yun was trained in the Power Plant, the World Championship Wrestling farm territory. He worked in WCW until its closure in 2001. During the following years, he worked for several promotions. In the United States, he worked with NWA Total Nonstop Action (where he was part of the promotion's first match) or Ring of Honor, but most notably with World Wrestling Entertainment, where he had three different stints from 2001 to 2002, 2003 to 2005 and 2006 to 2010. During his last stint, he wrestled as Jimmy Wang Yang, an Asian-American cowboy and redneck. He also starred in All Japan Pro Wrestling, where he won the World's Strongest Junior Tag League in 2002 with Kaz Hayashi and the Junior League in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2010
The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year dissipated in this year. In addition, the OECD, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) gained four new members; Chile, Slovenia, Israel, and Estonia. 2010 also saw advancements in technology such as the release of the iPad, the public launch of Instagram, and the first successful trapping of antimatter. 2010 was designated as: *International Year of Biodiversity *International Year of Youth *2010 European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion *International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures Pronunciation There is a debate among experts and the general public on how to pronounce specific years of the 21st century in English. The year 2010 is pronounced either "twenty-ten" or "two thousand (and) ten" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009
2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Johannes Kepler. It was also declared as the International Year of Natural Fibres by the United Nations General Assembly, as well as the International Year of Reconciliation and the Year of the Gorilla (UNEP and UNESCO). Events January * January 1 ** Japan, Mexico, Turkey and Uganda United Nations Security Council election, 2008, assume their seats on the United Nations Security Council. ** Asunción, the capital of Paraguay, becomes the American Capital of Culture and Vilnius and Linz become the European Capital of Culture, European Capitals of Culture. ** Slovakia adopts the euro as its national currency, replacing the Slovak koruna. ** A Bay Area Rapid Transit Bay Area Rapid Transit Police Department, police officer Killing of Oscar Gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008
2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued through the entirety of 2008. Events January * January 1 – Cyprus and Malta adopt the euro currency. * January 14 – At 19:04:39 Coordinated Universal Time, UTC, the uncrewed MESSENGER space probe is at its closest approach during its first flyby of the planet Mercury (planet), Mercury. * January 21 **Stock markets around the world plunge amid growing fears of a Great Recession in the United States, U.S. Great Recession, fueled by the 2007 subprime mortgage crisis. **Online activist group Anonymous (hacker group), Anonymous initiates Project Chanology, after a News leak, leaked interview of Tom Cruise by the Church of Scientology is published on YouTube, and the Church of Scientology issued a DMCA takedown, "copyright infringement" claim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Sabin
Joshua Harter (born February 4, 1982), better known by the ring name Chris Sabin, is an American professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown brand. After being trained by Scott D'Amore, Sabin debuted in 2000 for Border City Wrestling, and quickly began competing for numerous other independent promotions. In 2003, Sabin joined Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, NWA: Total Nonstop Action (NWA-TNA), and quickly won the TNA X Division Championship, which he later unified with the WWA International Cruiserweight Championship. Throughout the next few years, Sabin competed mainly in TNA's X Division, until forming the Motor City Machine Guns with Shelley in mid-2007. Sabin won 14 total championships while with TNA, including one reign as TNA World Heavyweight Champion, a record 10 reigns as TNA X Division Champion, and three reigns as TNA World Tag Team Champion. Sabin is also known for his appearances with New Japan Pro-Wrestling, where he was a one-time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2007
2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eurozone. ** Adam Air Flight 574, en route to Manado, Indonesia, from Surabaya, Surabaya, Indonesia, crashes into the Makassar Strait; killing all 102 on board. * January 4 – Nancy Pelosi becomes the first female speaker of the United States House of Representatives. * January 8 – Russian oil supplies to Poland, Germany, and Ukraine are cut as the 2007 Russia–Belarus energy dispute, Russia–Belarus energy dispute escalates; they are restored three days later. * January 9 – Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduces the original iPhone (1st generation), iPhone at a Macworld keynote in San Francisco, starting the new era of smartphones with this invention. * January 30 – Windows Vista is released to consumers by Microsoft. * January 31 – B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
