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Tony D'Angelo
Joseph Ariola (born June 9, 1995) is an American professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE, where he performs on the NXT (WWE brand), NXT WWE brand extension, brand under the ring name Tony D'Angelo. Working with a American Mafia, mafia gimmick, he is the leader of The D'Angelo Family stable as "The Crime boss, Don of NXT". D'Angelo is a former one-time NXT North American Champion, a one-time NXT Heritage Cup Champion and a two-time NXT Tag Team Championship, NXT Tag Team Champion. Early life Joseph Ariola was born on June 9, 1995 in Oak Park, Illinois, Oak Park, Illinois. Before becoming a professional wrestler, Ariola was a collegiate wrestler for the University at Buffalo, from which he graduated in 2018. Professional wrestling career Independent circuit (2019–2021) Joseph Ariola, under the ring name Joey Ariola, made his professional wrestling debut on November 9, 2019, at the WrestleRage 17 event held by POWW Entertainment, teaming with Joey Cece against Dave Ryde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oak Park, Illinois
Oak Park is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States, adjacent to Chicago. It is the List of municipalities in Illinois, 26th-most populous municipality in Illinois, with a population of 54,318 as of the 2020 census. Oak Park was first settled in 1835 and later incorporated in 1902, when it separated from Cicero, Illinois, Cicero. It is closely tied to the smaller town of River Forest, Illinois, River Forest sharing a chamber of commerce and a high school, Oak Park and River Forest High School. Architect Frank Lloyd Wright and his wife settled in Oak Park in 1889, and his work heavily influenced local architecture and design, including the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio. Over the years, rapid development was spurred by railroads and streetcars connecting the village to jobs in nearby Chicago. In 1968, Oak Park passed the Open Housing Ordinance, which helped devise strategies to integrate the village rather than resegregate. Today, Oak Park remains ethnically diverse a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Double Count Out
Professional wrestling, often shortened to either pro wrestling or wrestling,The term "wrestling" is most often widely used to specifically refer to modern scripted professional wrestling, though it is also used to refer to Real life, real-life wrestling combat. is a form of athletic theaterEero Laine (2017). "Stadium-sized theatre: WWE and the world of professional wrestling". In #refChowEtAl2017, Chow et al. (2017). ''Performance and Professional Wrestling'', p. 39: "The business of professional wrestling is the business of theatre. Even if on the surface professional wrestling seems anathema to theatrical sensibilities, it is hard to deny the formal similarities. After all, professional wrestling is scripted entertainment performed live in front of an audience by actors portraying characters." centered around mock combat with the premise that its performers are competitive wrestlers. In the United States, the term "professional wrestling" does not refer to authentic wrest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LA Knight
Shaun Edward Ricker (born November 1, 1982) is an American Professional wrestling, professional wrestler and actor. He is signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown (WWE brand), SmackDown WWE brand extension, brand under the ring name LA Knight. Ricker began his professional wrestling career on the independent circuit in 2003 and he joined the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) affiliated Championship Wrestling from Hollywood (CW) in 2010. Ricker signed with WWE in 2013 and performed as an enhancement talent under the ring name Slate Randall until being released in 2014. After adopting the ring name Eli Drake, Ricker signed with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, TNA in 2015 and won the TNA World Championship, TNA Television Championship, TNA King of the Mountain Championship, the TNA World Tag Team Championship (with Scott Steiner) once each and twice won the Feast or Fired briefcase. Ricker departed TNA in 2019 and rejoined the NWA, winning the NWA World Tag Team Champions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Gargano
John Anthony Nicholas Gargano (born August 14, 1987) is an American professional wrestler. , he is signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown brand and is one-half of #DIY with Tommaso Ciampa. Gargano is known for his time in NXT, where he became the first-ever NXT Triple Crown winner by winning the NXT Championship once, the NXT North American Championship a record three times, and the NXT Tag Team Championship once. His popularity and success in NXT led him to be given the moniker "The Heart and Soul of NXT". Gargano started his professional wrestling career in 2005, working for the Cleveland All–Pro Wrestling (CAPW) promotion. Over the following years, Gargano worked for some of the top promotions on the American independent circuit, including Chikara, Dragon Gate USA (DGUSA), Evolve and Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG). Titles Gargano held include the Chikara Campeonatos de Parejas, the Evolve Tag Team Championship and DGUSA's Open the Freedom Gate Championship, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grayson Waller
Matthew Farrelly (born 21 March 1990) is an Australian professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE, where he performs on the Raw brand under the ring name Grayson Waller, and is in a tag team with Austin Theory as A-Town Down Under, where he is a former one-time WWE Tag Team Champion. Before signing with WWE, he previously performed on the independent circuit under the ring name Matty Wahlberg. Outside of professional wrestling, Farrelly was a contestant on season six of ''Australian Survivor''. Professional wrestling career Independent circuit (2017–2021) On 15 April 2017, at a Newcastle Pro Wrestling event, Farrelly made his debut under the ring name Matty Wahlberg (a reference to Hollywood actor Mark Wahlberg), losing to SnapChad. Wahlberg would form a tag team with Carter Dreams, known as The BABES (Blonde And Blue Eyed Squad), managed by Harley Wonderland. Wahlberg then returned to singles competition and he would receive a PWA Heavyweight Championship match agai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carmelo Hayes
Christian Brigham (born August 1, 1994) is an American professional wrestling, professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown (WWE brand), SmackDown WWE brand extension, brand under the ring name Carmelo Hayes. He is a former one-time NXT Championship, NXT Champion, a two-time and record-tying longest combined reigning NXT North American Championship, NXT North American Champion, a one-time and the final NXT Cruiserweight Championship, NXT Cruiserweight Champion (having Championship unification, unified it with the NXT North American Championship), and the André the Giant Memorial Battle Royal, 2025 André the Giant Memorial Battle Royal winner. Prior to signing with WWE, Brigham wrestled on the independent circuit, primarily in the New England region under the ring name Christian Casanova. Professional wrestling career Independent circuit (2014–2021) On April 12, 2014, Brigham made his professional wrestling debut for Independent circuit, i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bron Breakker
Bronson Rechsteiner (born October 24, 1997) is an American professional wrestler and former football player. He is signed to WWE, where he performs on the Raw brand under the ring name Bron Breakker. He is a former two-time WWE Intercontinental Champion, two-time NXT Champion, and a one-time NXT Tag Team Champion. A second-generation professional wrestler, Rechsteiner is the son of Rick Steiner and the nephew of Scott Steiner (who performed together as the Steiner Brothers). Rechsteiner was voted " Rookie of the Year" for 2022 by readers of the ''Wrestling Observer Newsletter''. Early life and football career Rechsteiner was born in Woodstock, Georgia. He attended Etowah High School in Woodstock, where he played football, winning varsity letters in three years. He also participated in wrestling, winning the Georgia Class AAAAAA state championship (220 lb weight class) in 2016. After graduating from high school, Rechsteiner went on to study at Georgia's Kennesaw Stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NXT WarGames (2021)
The 2021 NXT WarGames was a professional wrestling event produced by WWE. It was the fifth annual and final NXT WarGames held exclusively for wrestlers from the promotion's NXT brand division, which reverted to being WWE's developmental territory in September. The event took place on Sunday, December 5, 2021, at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida, and aired via pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming, marking the first WarGames to livestream on Peacock. It was also the last WWE PPV and livestreaming event to carry the term "pay-per-view" as WWE began to use the term "premium live event" for these major events beginning with Day 1 the following month. This was NXT's first WarGames event to not carry the NXT TakeOver name, as the events from 2017 to 2020 were held as a subseries of TakeOvers titled "TakeOver: WarGames". It was subsequently NXT's first PPV and livestreaming event following the discontinuation of the TakeOver series, and subsequently NXT's first event to n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malik Blade
Josh Dawkins is an American professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE, where he performs under the ring name Malik Blade on the NXT brand. Early career Dawkins was trained by D-Von Dudley at the Dvon Dudley Academy, making his debut on the independent circuit in Orlando in 2018. Professional wrestling career WWE (2021–present) Dawkins, now under the ring name Malik Blade, made his NXT brand debut on the 5 October 2021 episode of ''NXT'', losing to Tony D'Angelo. On 26 October, at ''NXT'': Halloween Havoc he faced Joe Gacy in a losing effort. He also made several appearances on ''205 Live'' in late 2021. On 12 December 2022, he made his ''Main Event'' debut, teaming with Edris Enofé in a loss to Cedric Alexander and Mustafa Ali in a tag team match. On 30 July 2024 at ''NXT'': The Great American Bash, he defeated Bronco Nima. In February 2024, it was reported that Enofé suffered a serious injury whereas Blade suffered a torn ACL later in November. Enofé returned on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mafia
"Mafia", as an informal or general term, is often used to describe criminal organizations that bear a strong similarity to the Sicilian Mafia, original Mafia in Sicily, to the Italian-American Mafia, or to other Organized crime in Italy, organized crime groups from Italy. The central activity of such an organization would be the arbitration of disputes between criminals, as well as the organization and enforcement of illicit agreements between criminals through violence. Mafias often engage in secondary activities such as gambling, loan sharking, Illegal drug trade, drug-trafficking, prostitution, and fraud. The term ''Mafia'' was originally applied to the Sicilian Mafia. Since then, the term has expanded to encompass other organizations of similar practices and objectives, e.g. "the Russian mafia" or "the Japanese mafia". The term was coined by the press and is informal; the criminal organizations themselves have their own names (e.g. the Sicilian Mafia and the related American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Americans
Italian Americans () are Americans who have full or partial Italians, Italian ancestry. The largest concentrations of Italian Americans are in the urban Northeastern United States, Northeast and industrial Midwestern United States, Midwestern urban areas, metropolitan areas, with significant communities also residing in many other major U.S. metropolitan areas. Between 1820 and 2004, approximately 5.5 million Italians migrated to the United States during the Italian diaspora, in several distinct waves, with the greatest number arriving in the 20th century from Southern Italy. Initially, most single men, so-called birds of passage, sent remittance back to their families in Italy and then returned to Italy. Immigration began to increase during the 1880s, when more than twice as many Italians immigrated than had in the five previous decades combined. Continuing from 1880 to 1914, the greatest surge of immigration brought more than 4 million Italians to the United States. Th ... [...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] |
