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Jonathan Ayala (wrestler)
Jonathan Ayala Quiñones (born March 3, 1992) is a Puerto Rican professional wrestler, best known by his ring names Diego de Jesús, Sebastián Guerra and ATLAS. He is a graduate of the Savio Vega Wrestling Academy and began his career working for the International Wrestling Association, where he won the IWA World Tag Team Championship in his debut. Ayala later migrated to the World Wrestling Council, where he appeared as a part-time performer. Personal life Ayala became interested in professional wrestling at a very early age. His grandfather used to attend the cards held by the World Wrestling Council (WWC), where he became a follower of Ray González. As a teenager, he was inspired by Germán Figueroa, beginning weight training at the age of 15. Three years later he began training to become a wrestler, with the help of his compadre, performer Luis Maldonado who would hitchhike him to the classes when he still did not own a car. Afterwards, Ayala joined the newly opened Savio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yabucoa, Puerto Rico
Yabucoa () is a Yabucoa barrio-pueblo, town and Municipalities of Puerto Rico, municipality in Puerto Rico located in the eastern region, north of Maunabo, Puerto Rico, Maunabo; south of San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico, San Lorenzo, Las Piedras, Puerto Rico, Las Piedras and Humacao, Puerto Rico, Humacao; and east of Patillas, Puerto Rico, Patillas. Yabucoa is spread over 9 barrios and Yabucoa barrio-pueblo, Yabucoa Pueblo (the downtown area and the administrative center of the city). It is part of the San Juan-Caguas-Guaynabo Metropolitan Statistical Area. Etymology and nicknames The name ''Yabucoa'' is said to come from the Taíno language, Taíno name ''Guaroca'', both a toponymic and personal name meaning "where water [is found]". However this is considered a folk etymology and other linguists suggest the name is most likely a Spanish language, Spanish interpretation of the Taíno word ''yaucoa'' (similar to the name Yauco, Puerto Rico, Yauco) which means "cassava plantation". Som ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WWC Puerto Rico Heavyweight Championship
The WWC Puerto Rico Championship is the secondary professional wrestling championship that is defended by the World Wrestling Council based in Puerto Rico. The title was created in January 1974 and, as its name suggests, is defended exclusively within Puerto Rico. Overall, the title has been possessed by seventy-five different wrestlers throughout the title's existence. The first champion was José Miguel Pérez, who was billed as champion upon the title's creation. He also holds the longest reign, at 426 days. Invader I holds the record for most reigns at 12. Belt designs The belt and its design have been changed several times for a number of reasons. The location represented in the title's name has changed twice, both times in unofficial fashion after being rechristened and modified by its current holder in under to sell a villainous persona. During Fidel Sierra's second reign, which began on June 2, 2001, and lasted for three months, he defended the title under the name of " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Wrestling League
La Liga Wrestling (formerly World Wrestling League or Liga Mundial de Lucha), was a wrestling promotion company based out of San Juan, Puerto Rico. Founded in 2012 by businessman Richard Negrín with the cooperation of established wrestling figures such as Hugo Savinovich, the company developed a global scope, establishing alliances with over a dozen international promotions and holding shows throughout the Americas. In line with the traditional model of professional wrestling, LLW's shows do not feature legitimate sporting contests. Instead, its programs feature storyline-driven combat sport matches with predetermined outcomes and acrobatic and grappling maneuvers that are worked, which are publicly promoted as legitimate bouts to accentuate the entertainment. Under its first administration the promotion featured a similar business model to other companies targeting a global audience, including a system of income that relies on licensed merchandise and an intricate developmental ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Jarrett
Jeffrey Leonard Jarrett (born July 14, 1967) is an American professional wrestler and professional wrestling promoter. He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he both wrestles and serves as Director of Business Development. He is also the founder of the revived Acclaim Entertainment. Beginning his career in his father Jerry Jarrett's Continental Wrestling Association (CWA) in 1986, Jarrett first came to prominence upon debuting with a country music star gimmick in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) in 1993. Over the next nine years, he alternated between the WWF and its main competitor, World Championship Wrestling (WCW). After WCW was purchased by the WWF in 2001, Jarrett joined the upstart World Wrestling All-Stars (WWA) promotion. In 2002, Jarrett and his father together founded NWA: Total Nonstop Action (NWA-TNA, now Total Nonstop Action Wrestling). After departing the promotion in 2014, Jarrett founded another new promotion, Global Force Wrestli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
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 NWA World Heavyweight Championship, World Heavyweight and NWA World Tag Team Championship, Tag Team Professional wrestling championship, championships until this agreement ended in 2007; after which, the company would create its own TNA World Championship, World Heavyweight and TNA World Tag Team Championship, World Tag Team cham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NXT (WWE Brand)
NXT is a Farm team, developmental brand of the American professional wrestling Professional wrestling promotion, promotion WWE, serving as a training ground for wrestlers before they move to WWE's main roster on either Raw (WWE brand), Raw or SmackDown (WWE brand), SmackDown. Introduced on February 23, 2010, NXT features a separate roster of wrestlers who primarily appear on the brand's weekly television program, ''WWE NXT, NXT''. Unlike Raw and SmackDown, which are affected by WWE's WWE brand extension, brand extension, NXT operates as a developmental system regardless of whether a brand split is in effect. In its WWE NXT (seasons 1–5), original incarnation, ''NXT'' was a Reality television, reality-based television show in which rookies competed to become a star in WWE. In 2012, NXT was relaunched as a separate brand and replaced the now-defunct Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW) as WWE's developmental territory. Primarily holding its events in the Orlando, Florida area sinc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ohio Valley Wrestling
Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW) is an American professional wrestling promotion, professional wrestling promotion and former developmental territory based in Louisville, Kentucky. The company is currently run by Al Snow, Matt Jones (radio host), Matt Jones, and Louisville mayor Craig Greenberg. OVW was initially a List of National Wrestling Alliance territories, member promotion of the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) from its inception in 1993 until 2000, when it became the primary Farm team#Professional wrestling, developmental territory for the World Wrestling Federation, now known as WWE. It remained in this role from 2000 until February 7, 2008, when the promotion became Independent circuit, unaffiliated. In November 2011, OVW became the developmental territory for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. This relationship initially ended on November 2, 2013, but on March 19, 2019, the two promotions re-established their developmental agreement. OVW's television programming originates ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Davey Richards
Wesley David Richards (born March 1, 1983), best known under the ring name Davey Richards, is a retired American Professional wrestling, professional wrestler. Best known for his time in Impact Wrestling, TNA Wrestling and Ring of Honor, and for several independent circuit, independent promotions, including Pro Wrestling Guerrilla and Full Impact Pro, he was previously signed to Major League Wrestling, Major League Wrestling (MLW), where he was a former MLW National Openweight Championship, MLW National Openweight Champion. Richards also worked internationally in Pro Wrestling Noah through ROH's involvement in the Global Professional Wrestling Alliance, a global organization of cooperative promotions that allow their competitors to travel abroad to other companies, and in New Japan Pro-Wrestling. Richards was a former one-time ROH World Championship, ROH World Champion. He is also a thirteen-time World Tag Team Championship, world tag team champion, having won the ROH World Tag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jesse James
Jesse Woodson James (September 5, 1847April 3, 1882) was an American outlaw, Bank robbery, bank and Train robbery, train robber, guerrilla and leader of the James–Younger Gang. Raised in the "Little Dixie (Missouri), Little Dixie" area of Missouri, James and his family maintained strong Southern United States, Southern sympathies. He and his brother Frank James joined pro-Confederate States of America, Confederate guerrillas known as "bushwhackers" operating in Missouri in the American Civil War, Missouri and Kansas in the American Civil War, Kansas during the American Civil War. As followers of William Quantrill and William T. Anderson, "Bloody Bill" Anderson, they were accused of committing atrocities against Union soldiers and civilian abolitionists, including the Centralia Massacre (Missouri), Centralia Massacre in 1864. After the war, as members of various List of Old West gangs, gangs of outlaws, Jesse and Frank robbed banks, stagecoaches, and trains across the Midwest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Regal
Darren Kenneth Matthews (born 10 May 1968), better known by the ring name William Regal, is an English retired professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE, where he serves as the vice-president of Global Talent Development. He is also known for his tenures in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and All Elite Wrestling (AEW), having served as a manager in the latter promotion. Trained by Marty Jones, Matthews started his career at the age of 15 in 1983. His first matches took place at one of the rare final wrestling carnival booths at Blackpool Pleasure Beach. He went on to wrestle for national promotions on the Professional wrestling in the United Kingdom, British wrestling circuit and wrestled on television for ITV (TV network), ITV. He then progressed to touring around the world until 1993 when he was signed to WCW, where he took the ring name Steven Regal and became a four-time WCW World Television Championship, WCW World Television Champion. In 1998, Matthews joined the WWF ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Triple H
Paul Michael Levesque (; born July 27, 1969), also known by the ring name Triple H, is an American business executive and former professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE, where he serves as its chief content officer. Levesque began his wrestling career in 1992 under the ring name Terra Ryzing, and gained his first mainstream exposure in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in 1994, becoming known as Jean-Paul Levesque. In 1995, he signed with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) and became known as Hunter Hearst Helmsley, which was later shortened to Triple H. In WWF, he gained fame during the Attitude Era as a member of The Kliq and of . He is a world champion in WWE, having won the WWE Championship, WWF/WWE Championship nine times and the World Heavyweight Championship (WWE, 2002–2013), World Heavyweight Championship five times. He is also a WWE Intercontinental Championship, Intercontinental Champion, World Tag Team Championship (WWE), WWE Tag Team Champion (w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WWE Performance Center
WWE Performance Center (WWE PC) is a group of professional wrestling schools owned by American company WWE. They serve as tryout and training facilities for WWE, and also contain sports science and medical facilities as well as live events and production studios. WWE currently operates two Performance Center locations, with the first opened in Orlando, Florida on July 11, 2013, replacing the training facility of WWE's former developmental territory Florida Championship Wrestling. A second branch opened on January 11, 2019, in Enfield, London. The Performance Center in Orlando temporarily became the home venue for WWE's Raw, SmackDown, and 205 Live brands in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with its weekly television programs '' Monday Night Raw'', '' Friday Night Smackdown'', '' 205 Live'', and '' Main Event'', as well as pay-per-view events (including WrestleMania 36) being recorded in a studio at the Performance Center with no audience. In August 2020, WWE mov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
