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Brain Damage (wrestler)
Marvin Lambert (December 14, 1977 – October 18, 2012) was an American professional wrestler best known by his ring name Brain Damage. Brain Damage competed for a number of different promotions throughout his career, but is best known for his work in Independent Wrestling Association Mid-South (IWA Mid-South) and Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW). In IWA Mid-South, Brain Damage formed a tag team with Deranged, known as the Vulgar Display of Power. They won the IWA Mid-South Tag Team Championship once and also won the IWA Mid-South Double Death Tag Team Tournament in both 2007 and 2008. In CZW, Brain Damage is a two time CZW Iron Man Champion and a two time CZW Ultraviolent Underground Champion. He held both the Iron Man Championship and the Ultraviolent Underground Championship simultaneously. Career Independent Wrestling Association Mid-South Brain Damage began wrestling in Independent Wrestling Association Mid-South (IWA Mid-South) in 2000, making his first appearance at the se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mansfield, Ohio
Mansfield is a city in Richland County, Ohio, United States, and its county seat. The population was 47,534 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Located approximately from Cleveland and Columbus, Ohio, Columbus via Interstate 71, it is part of Northeast Ohio region in the western foothills of the Allegheny Plateau. The city was founded in 1808 on a fork of the Mohican River in a hilly region surrounded by fertile farmlands, and became a manufacturing center owing to its location with numerous railroad lines. After the decline of heavy industry, heavy manufacturing, the city's economy has since diversified into a tertiary sector of industry, service economy, including retailing, education, and Health care in the United States, healthcare sectors. The city anchors the Mansfield Metropolitan Statistical Area, which had a population of 124,936 residents in 2020,Table of United States Metropolitan Statistical Areas while the Mansfield–Ashland–Bucyrus, OH Combined Stati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sal Thomaselli
The Thomaselli Brothers are the professional wrestling stable that consists of real life brothers Pauly Thomaselli (Brandon Thomas), Vito Thomaselli (Kent Thomas), and storyline brother Sal Thomaselli (Sal Takavoli). Kent Thomas and Sal Takavoli are now retired. They formerly worked for the American promotion Juggalo Championship Wrestling, as well as occasionally for other various independent promotions. Before forming the group, all members competed as singles competitors. Sal and Vito first began teaming together in 2005 as The Iron Saints. The duo won the IWA Mid-South Tag Team Championship three times. Brandon permanently joined his brothers in 2007, creating the stable the Thomaselli Brothers. As the Thomaselli Brothers, later renamed the Haters, Pauly and Vito are three time JCW Tag Team Champions. Vito Thomaselli (Single Career) Vito started his pro wrestling career at the young age of 18. Iron Saints are Formed After moving out to California and becoming the head train ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mitch Ryder
William Sherille Levise Jr. (born February 26, 1945), known professionally as Mitch Ryder, is an American rock singer who has recorded more than 25 albums over more than four decades. Career Ryder was born on February 26, 1945, in Hamtramck, Michigan. He spent his high school years in Warren, Michigan, a suburb north of Detroit. He formed his first band, Tempest, when he was in high school, and the group gained some notice playing at a Detroit soul music club called The Village. Ryder next appeared fronting a band named Billy Lee & The Rivieras, which had limited success until they met songwriter / record producer Bob Crewe. He selected his stage name when he saw "Mitch Ryder" in the Manhattan telephone directory and renamed the group Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels. They recorded several hit records for his DynoVoice Records and New Voice labels in the mid to late 1960s, most notably 1966's " Devil with a Blue Dress On", their highest-charting single at number four, as well ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heel (professional Wrestling)
In professional wrestling, a heel (also known as a ''rudo'' in ''lucha libre'') is a wrestler who portrays a villain, "bad guy", "baddie", "evil-doer", or "rulebreaker", and acts as an antagonist to the Face (professional wrestling), faces, who are the heroic protagonist or "good guy" characters. Not everything a heel wrestler does must be villainous: heels need only to be booed or jeered by the audience to be effective characters, although most truly successful heels embrace other aspects of their devious personalities, such as cheating to win or using Glossary of professional wrestling terms#foreign object, foreign objects. "The role of a heel is to get 'heat,' which means spurring the crowd to obstreperous hatred, and generally involves cheating and any other manner of socially unacceptable behavior." To gain Heat (professional wrestling), heat (with boos and jeers from the audience), heels are often portrayed as behaving in an immoral manner by breaking rules or otherwise ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Gage
Nicholas William Wilson (born September 22, 1980), better known by his ring name Nick Gage, is an American professional wrestling, professional wrestler wrestling for various Professional wrestling promotions, promotions on the independent circuit. He is the only man to win the "big three" of American deathmatch tournaments: the CZW Tournament of Death, the IWA Mid-South King of the Deathmatch, and the GCW Tournament of Survival. Along with being the first-ever CZW World Heavyweight Championship, CZW World Heavyweight Champion for Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW), until late 2010, Gage wrestled at nearly every CZW show and competed in more CZW matches than any other wrestler. In addition to these accomplishments, he has held the CZW World Tag Team Championship, World Tag Team, CZW Iron Man Championship, Iron Man, CZW Ultraviolent Underground Championship, Ultraviolent Underground, and Death Match championships during his CZW career. Gage's late brother, Chris Wilson, was also a prof ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pin (professional Wrestling)
In professional wrestling, a pin is a move where a wrestler holds an opponent's shoulders to the mat in an attempt to score a fall. A pinfall is a common victory condition, where the attacker pins an opponent and the referee makes a three count before the opponent gets released from the pin. Background The origin of the pinfall is the pin from amateur wrestling, whereby pinning an opponent to the mat will result in an automatic victory despite any points scored. However, while an amateur wrestling pin need be only one or two seconds, the count in professional wrestling is based on the referee's arm gestures, regardless of how much actual time elapses, and is to three slaps of the mat. The count is broken (a near-fall) if the opponent manages to raise one or both of their shoulders off the mat, commonly by ''kicking out'' (throwing their legs up to cause their shoulders to rise from the mat). In some positions, a wrestler may ''bridge'' (arching their back so that only their f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beef Wellington (wrestler)
Joshua Tyler Kluttz (born May 4, 1984) is an American Professional wrestling, professional wrestler and actor best known for his tenure in WWE, where he performed under the ring name Brad Maddox. From 2008 to 2012, Maddox was assigned to WWE's Farm team#Professional wrestling, developmental territories Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW) and Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW), where he held the OVW Heavyweight Championship and OVW Television Championship once each and the FCW Florida Tag Team Championship twice with different partners. He served as the Professional wrestling authority figures, General Manager of WWE Raw, Raw in Kayfabe, storyline from July 2013 to May 2014, before being released in November 2015. Professional wrestling career World Wrestling Entertainment/WWE (2008–2015) Ohio Valley Wrestling (2008–2010) Kluttz debuted on April 2, 2008, on the Ohio Valley Wrestling, OVW tapings teaming up with Galvin Garrison against Dewey and Adam Revolver, which they lost, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Castle, Delaware
New Castle is a city in New Castle County, Delaware, United States. The city is located six miles (10 km) south of Wilmington, Delaware, Wilmington and is situated on the Delaware River. As of 2020, the city's population was 5,551. New Castle constitutes part of the Delaware Valley, Delaware Valley or Philadelphia metropolitan area. History 17th century New Castle was originally settled by the Dutch West India Company in 1651 under the leadership of Peter Stuyvesant on the site of a former indigenous village, "Tomakonck" ("Place of the Beaver"), to assert their claim to the area based on a prior agreement with the original inhabitants of the area. The Dutch originally named the settlement Fort Casimir, but this was changed to Fort Trinity following its seizure by the colony of New Sweden on Trinity Sunday in 1654. The Dutch conquered the entire colony of New Sweden the following year and rechristened the fort as Nieuw-Amstel, named after the Amstel. This marked the end of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CZW Tournament Of Death
The Tournament of Death is an annual professional wrestling tournament organized by Combat Zone Wrestling since 2002, during which a number of wrestlers compete in various deathmatches in what are mostly single-elimination tournaments similar to World Wrestling Entertainment's King of the Ring tournament. These tournaments include the typical hardcore weapons used in hardcore wrestling, deathmatch wrestling such as barbed wire, nail (fastener), nails, thumbtacks, fire, table (furniture), tables, ladders, and Fluorescent lamp, light tubes, and are known for all their large amounts of blood loss. Notable entrants in the Tournament of Death have included Jon Moxley, Nick Gage, Eddie Kingston, Sami Callihan, Nick Mondo, Jimmy Havoc, Ian Rotten, Ruckus (wrestler), Ruckus, Drake Wuertz, Drake Younger and Mickie Knuckles (the only female entrant to date). Many of the Glossary of professional wrestling terms#Card, cards have also included non-tournament matches featuring top independent wre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danny Havoc
Grant Amos Berkland (May 19, 1986 – May 31, 2020), better known by his ring name Danny Havoc, was an American professional wrestler. He was best known for his work in Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW), and was noted for mixing his technical style with hardcore wrestling. In CZW, he was a two-time World Tag Team Champion (with Devon Moore and Lucky 13), two-time Ultraviolent Underground Champion, a one-time World Junior Heavyweight Champion and won Tournament of Death on two occasions. He announced his retirement at Tournament of Death 16, and wrestled his final match on September 9, 2017, which was covered on an episode of ''The Wrestlers''. He also wrestled for Game Changer Wrestling (GCW), Westside Xtreme Wrestling (wXw), Big Japan Pro Wrestling (BJW), IWA Mid-South, IWA East Coast, and IWA Deep-South. Two years after his final match, Havoc came out of retirement for a benefit show by Matt Tremont's and returned to Game Changer Wrestling for their Tokyo tour in February ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tracy Smothers
Tracy Stanton Smothers (September 2, 1962 – October 28, 2020) was an American professional wrestling, professional wrestler, best known for his appearances with World Championship Wrestling, Smoky Mountain Wrestling, the WWE, World Wrestling Federation, and Extreme Championship Wrestling. Early life Smothers was born in Springfield, Tennessee, on September 2, 1962, and graduated from Springfield High School (Tennessee), Springfield High School, where he played football, golf, and wrestled. Smothers was the first person in Springfield High School history to go to the state championship in wrestling. Professional wrestling career Early career (1982–1984) Smothers started his career in 1982 after being trained by Steve Keirn and Stan Lane. He later appeared in the combined promotional effort Pro Wrestling USA, making his televised debut at a taping on September 18, 1984, that was held in Memphis. Continental Wrestling Association (1984–1986) A month later, Smother ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iceberg (wrestler)
Edward Chastain is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Iceberg. Iceberg has competed for several professional wrestling promotions, including Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), Ring Of Honor, World Wrestling Council and Wrestling International New Generations (W*ING) in Japan. He later wrestled as part of The Extreme Freebird Alliance. He was NWA Wildside Heavyweight Champion, NWA Wildside Tag Team Champion 3 times. He has also held the NWA Anarchy Heavyweight Championship and the NWA Anarchy Tag Team Championships 2 times. Professional wrestling career Chastain was mentored by Abdullah the Butcher, who inspired him to use a fork as a foreign object during matches. Early in his career, Chastain faced and defeated such wrestlers as Mr. Pogo and Abdullah the Butcher. In TNA Wrestling, he was brought in by manager Don Callis to feuded with The Sandman. At TNA's fifty-third weekly pay-per-view event, Chastain defeated Norman Smiley. Chastain later l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
