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Grand Slam (2022)
The 2022 Grand Slam was a two-part professional wrestling television special produced by All Elite Wrestling (AEW). It was the second annual Grand Slam event and took place on September 21, 2022, at the Arthur Ashe Stadium in the Queens borough of New York City, encompassing the broadcasts of ''Wednesday Night Dynamite'' and '' Friday Night Rampage''. ''Dynamite'' aired live on TBS while ''Rampage'' aired on tape delay on September 23 on TNT and was expanded to two hours for the Grand Slam special. The card comprised a total of thirteen matches, five of which aired live on ''Dynamite'' while the other eight were taped for ''Rampage''. In the main event of the ''Dynamite'' broadcast, Jon Moxley defeated Bryan Danielson in a tournament final to win the vacant AEW World Championship. Other prominent matches saw The Acclaimed (Anthony Bowens and Max Caster) defeat Swerve In Our Glory ( Keith Lee and Swerve Strickland) to win the AEW World Tag Team Championship, and in the openin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AEW Dynamite
''AEW Dynamite'', also known as ''Wednesday Night Dynamite'' or simply ''Dynamite'', is an American professional wrestling television program produced by the American Professional wrestling promotion, promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW). It airs Live television, live every Wednesday at 8 p.m. Eastern Time Zone, Eastern Time (ET), with some exceptions, and is simulcast on TBS (American TV channel), TBS and the streaming service Max (streaming service), Max. The show premiered on October 2, 2019, and is considered AEW's flagship program. It is one of the company's two weekly programs, along with its second main program, ''AEW Collision, Saturday Night Collision.'' ''Dynamite'' is the first professional wrestling program to air on TBS since the WCW Thunder#Final broadcast, final episode of ''WCW Thunder'' on March 21, 2001. The show was originally broadcast on TBS's sister channel, TNT (American TV network), TNT, from October 2, 2019, to December 29, 2021, before moving to TBS begi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City
New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive with a respective county. The city is the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the United States by both population and urban area. New York is a global center of finance and commerce, culture, technology, entertainment and media, academics, and scientific output, the arts and fashion, and, as home to the headquarters of the United Nations, international diplomacy. With an estimated population in 2024 of 8,478,072 distributed over , the city is the most densely populated major city in the United States. New York City has more than double the population of Los Angeles, the nation's second-most populous city. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swerve Strickland
Stephon Strickland (born September 30, 1990) is an American professional wrestler and rapper. He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he performs under the ring name Swerve Strickland. He also appears on the independent circuit. Strickland began his career in 2008 as Shane Strickland, working for several independent promotions until 2019 such as Major League Wrestling (MLW), Evolve Wrestling, and Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW). He is a one-time MLW World Heavyweight Championship, MLW World Heavyweight Champion, one-time Evolve Championship, Evolve Champion, and one-time CZW World Heavyweight Championship, CZW World Heavyweight Champion. From 2014 until 2018, he performed in Lucha Underground as a masked wrestler named Killshot. In 2019, he signed a Farm team, developmental contract with WWE, where he worked as Isaiah "Swerve" Scott in NXT (WWE brand), NXT and was part of the Hit Row stable; he won the NXT North American Championship once and was soon promoted to the main ros ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Lee (wrestler)
Keith Gerald Lee II (born November 8, 1984) is an American professional wrestler. He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he is a former AEW World Tag Team Champion. He is on hiatus due to an undisclosed injury. He is also known for his time in WWE and Ring of Honor (ROH), as well as on the independent circuit, in promotions such as Evolve, All American Wrestling (AAW), and Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG), where he held the PWG World Championship. Lee signed with WWE in May 2018 and was assigned to the developmental brand, NXT, where he won the NXT Championship and NXT North American Championship, and became the first person to hold both titles simultaneously. Lee began appearing on the Raw brand in August 2020, where he faced AJ Styles and Drew McIntyre in WWE Championship matches. Lee left WWE in November 2021, debuting in AEW the following February and winning the AEW World Tag Team Championship later that year. Early life Lee was born Keith Gerald Lee II on N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Caster
Max Caster (born July 31, 1989) is an American professional wrestler and rapper. He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he is a former one-time AEW World Trios Champion and one-time AEW World Tag Team Champion. He is also a former member of The Acclaimed. He began his wrestling career in 2015 and signed with AEW in November 2020, beginning a team with Bowens called The Acclaimed. Caster is known for his hip hop-inspired persona, often rapping to diss his opponents during his entrance. He released his debut album, ''Critically Acclaimed, Vol.1'', in May 2021, under the name Platinum Max. Professional wrestling career Early career (2015–2020) Caster trained under Brian Myers and Pat Buck at their Create A Pro Wrestling Academy and made his debut for the school's promotion in February 2015, later becoming the inaugural CAP Champion in December of that year. He wrestled on the independent circuit for a number of promotions including Combat Zone Wrestling. He also made ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Bowens
Anthony Bowens (born December 18, 1990) is an American professional wrestler. He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he is a former one-time AEW World Tag Team Champion and one-time and longest reigning AEW World Trios Champion as a former member of The Acclaimed. Early life Bowens was born in Nutley, New Jersey. He attended Nutley High School and Montclair State University. He played baseball "for eleven years", including at Montclair State and Seton Hall University, playing two seasons each for the Pirates and Red Hawks. He was discovered by professional wrestler Santino Marella, who asked him whether he had ever thought about professional wrestling. He went on to train under Pat Buck. Professional wrestling career Early career (2012–2016) Bowens started training in 2012 and made his professional wrestling debut in 2013. On the December 21, 2016 episode of ''WWE NXT'', Bowens and John Ortagun faced The Authors of Pain ( Akam and Rezar) in a tag team match. Bow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AEW World Championship
The AEW World Championship is a men's professional wrestling World championship (professional wrestling), world championship created and promoted by the American professional wrestling promotion, promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW). Unveiled on May 25, 2019, it is the promotion's top championship and is presented as being AEW's most prestigious title. Chris Jericho was the inaugural champion. The current champion is Jon Moxley, who is in his record-setting fourth reign. He won the title by defeating Bryan Danielson at WrestleDream (2024), WrestleDream on October 12, 2024. History On January 1, 2019, the American professional wrestling promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW) was founded and its inaugural event and pay-per-view (PPV), Double or Nothing (2019), Double or Nothing, was scheduled for May 25. The unveiling of the promotion's men's World championship (professional wrestling), world championship was first teased on AEW's YouTube channel on May 22, where actor and comedian Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vacant (professional Wrestling)
Professional wrestling has accrued a considerable amount of jargon throughout its existence. Much of it stems from the industry's origins in the days of carnival Carnival (known as Shrovetide in certain localities) is a festive season that occurs at the close of the Christian pre-Lenten period, consisting of Quinquagesima or Shrove Sunday, Shrove Monday, and Shrove Tuesday or Mardi Gras. Carnival typi ...s and circuses. In the past, professional wrestlers used such terms in the presence of fans so as not to reveal the nature of the business. Into the 21st century, widespread discussion on the Internet has popularized these terms. Many of the terms refer to the financial aspects of professional wrestling in addition to in-ring terms. A B C D E F G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bryan Danielson
Bryan Lloyd Danielson (born May 22, 1981) is an American semi-retired professional wrestler. He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he performs on a part time basis. He is also known for his tenure in WWE, where he performed under the ring name Daniel Bryan from 2010 to 2021. Noted for his technical wrestling style and popularity with fans, he has been described as one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time. Danielson began his professional wrestling career in 1999 on the independent circuit, and signed an 18-month contract with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) in 2000; he later went on to make appearances in WWE until 2003. He joined Ring of Honor (ROH) in 2002, wrestling in the main event of the promotion's first event; considered a mainstay of ROH, he stayed with the company until 2009, winning the ROH World Championship and ROH Pure Championship once each. He Championship unification, unified the championships at one point and was also th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
