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Wrath (wrestler)
Bryan Emmett Clark (born March 14, 1964) is an American retired professional wrestler. He is best known for his appearances with World Championship Wrestling (WCW), the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), and All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) under the ring names The Nightstalker, Adam Bomb, Wrath and his real name. He is a former two-time WCW World Tag Team Champion and one-time AJPW World Tag Team Champion with his KroniK teammate, Brian Adams. Professional wrestling career American Wrestling Association (1989–1990) Clark made his wrestling debut in 1989 under the ring name The Nightstalker, after completing training under Jody Hamilton and DeWayne Bruce in Atlanta, Georgia. After working matches on the independent circuit, Clark joined the Minnesota-based American Wrestling Association (AWA). He appeared at live AWA house shows and television events, mainly in the midwestern United States, with some of these matches being broadcast on ESPN's AWA Championship Wrestling show ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tallahassee, Florida
Tallahassee ( ) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital city of the U.S. state of Florida. It is the county seat of and the only incorporated municipality in Leon County, Florida, Leon County. Tallahassee became the capital of Florida, then the Florida Territory, in 1824. In 2024, the estimated population was 205,089, making it the List of municipalities in Florida, eighth-most populous city in the state of Florida. It is the principal city of the Tallahassee, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area, which had an estimated population of 397,675 . Tallahassee is the largest city in the Big Bend (Florida), Florida Big Bend and Florida Panhandle regions. With a student population exceeding 70,000, Tallahassee is a college town, home to Florida State University, Florida A&M University, and Tallahassee State College (a large Florida College System, state college that serves mainly as a feeder school to FSU and FAMU). As the capital, Tallahassee is the site of the Florid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atlanta
Atlanta ( ) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital and List of municipalities in Georgia (U.S. state), most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. It is the county seat, seat of Fulton County, Georgia, Fulton County and extends into neighboring DeKalb County, Georgia, DeKalb County. With a population of 520,070 (2024 estimate) living within the city limits, Atlanta is the eighth most populous city in the Southeastern United States, Southeast and List of United States cities by population, 36th most populous city in the United States according to the 2020 United States census, 2020 U.S. census. Atlanta is classified as a Globalization and World Cities Research Network#Beta +, Beta + global city and is the principal city of the much larger Atlanta metropolitan area, the core of which includes Cobb County, Georgia, Cobb, Clayton County, Georgia, Clayton and Gwinnett County, Georgia, Gwinnett counties, in addition to Fulton and DeKalb. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curtis Hughes
Curtis Hughes (born December 7, 1964) is an American professional wrestler, also known by the ring name Mr. Hughes. He is best known for his stints in World Championship Wrestling and the World Wrestling Federation. He also worked for the American Wrestling Association, the American Wrestling Federation and Extreme Championship Wrestling. He trained wrestlers at WWA4 wrestling school for more than ten years and wrestles on the independent circuit. Professional wrestling career Early career (1988–1990) While briefly attending Kansas State University, Hughes played on their Kansas State Wildcats football, football team. After leaving university, he trained for professional wrestling under Sonny Myers and Bob Geigel. He debuted in 1988 for Central States Wrestling, before moving to the American Wrestling Association as a Face (professional wrestling), face under the ring name Curtis "The Cat" Hughes. World Championship Wrestling (1990–1992) He moved to World Championship Wre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thanksgiving Thunder
Thanksgiving is a national holiday celebrated on various dates in October and November in the United States, Canada, Saint Lucia, Liberia, and unofficially in countries like Brazil and Germany. It is also observed in the Australian territory of Norfolk Island. It began as a day of giving thanks for the blessings of the harvest and of the preceding year. Various similarly named harvest festival holidays occur throughout the world during autumn. Although Thanksgiving has historical roots in religious and cultural traditions, it has long been celebrated as a secular holiday as well. History Prayers of thanks and special thanksgiving ceremonies are common among most religions after harvests and at other times of the year. The Thanksgiving holiday's history in North America is rooted in English traditions dating from the Protestant Reformation. It also has aspects of a harvest festival, even though the harvest in New England occurs well before the late-November date on which the mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sid Eudy
Sidney Raymond Eudy (December 16, 1960 – August 26, 2024) was an American Professional wrestling, professional wrestler, best known for his tenures in the WWE, World Wrestling Federation (WWF) and World Championship Wrestling (WCW), wrestling under the ring names Sid Justice, Sid Vicious, and Sycho Sid. Eudy was a six-time Professional wrestling#Championships, world champion, having won the WWF Championship List of WWE Champions, twice, the WCW World Heavyweight Championship List of WCW World Heavyweight Champions, twice, and the USWA Unified World Heavyweight Championship USWA Unified World Heavyweight Championship#Title history, twice. He held the WCW United States Heavyweight Championship List of WWE United States Champions, once and headlined pay-per-views for both promotions, including the main events of WrestleMania VIII and WrestleMania 13, WrestleMania 13 in 1992 and 1997, and Starrcade (2000), Starrcade in 2000. Professional wrestling career Early career (1987–1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Jackson (wrestler)
Gary Jackson (born August 27, 1960) is an American professional wrestler and sheriff best known for working in the World Championship Wrestling, World Wrestling Federation during the late 1980s and early 1990s and various Missouri promotions. Professional wrestling career Jackson began his career in 1984 in Kansas City for Central States Wrestling. On November 5, 1986, he made his debut in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) losing to Kamala (wrestler) at a house show in St. Louis, Missouri. He continued working for the WWF until 1991 when he went to USWA in Memphis. During that time he battled the likes of Dino Bravo, Sgt. Slaughter, The Warlord, and The Orient Express. In 1991, Jackson went to the USWA (United States Wrestling Association) in Memphis, Tennessee where he was known as Night Train Jackson. In 1992, he made his debut for World Championship Wrestling (WCW) where he fought against Rick Rude, Brian Pillman, Terry Gordy, Steve Williams (wrestler), and Dan Spivey. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WCW Saturday Night
''WCW Saturday Night'' is an American weekly Saturday night television show on TBS that was produced by World Championship Wrestling (WCW). Launched in 1971 initially by Georgia Championship Wrestling, the program existed through various incarnations under different names before becoming ''WCW Saturday Night'' in 1992. Although initially the anchor show of the Turner Broadcasting-backed wrestling company, the September 1995 premiere of ''WCW Monday Nitro'' airing on sister station TNT usurped the show's once preeminent position in the company, as the primary source of storyline development and pay-per-view buildup. The show's place in the company was further devalued by the advent of '' WCW Thunder'' in 1998, airing on TBS and providing the secondary wrestling and storyline development that ''WCW Saturday Night'' had produced in the wake of ''Nitro'' burgeoning three-hour-long format. Once the cornerstone of the WCW wrestling empire, ''WCW Saturday Night'' ended its run in 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larry Zbyszko
Lawrence Whistler (born December 5, 1951), better known by the ring name Larry Zbyszko, is an American retired professional wrestler. He is perhaps best known for his Feud (professional wrestling), feud with his mentor, Bruno Sammartino, during the early 1980s as well as his work as a wrestler and color commentator for World Championship Wrestling. Among other accolades, he is a two-time World Heavyweight Championship (professional wrestling), world champion having AWA World Heavyweight Championship#Title history, twice held the AWA World Heavyweight Championship. Zbyszko was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame on March 28, 2015, by Sammartino. Professional wrestling career World Wide Wrestling Federation (1971–1981) Whistler trained under Bruno Sammartino after cutting his collegiate wrestling career at Pennsylvania State University, Penn State University short. He debuted in 1973 as the Face (professional wrestling), babyface "Larry Zbyszko", with his name a tribute to 192 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Patriot (wrestler)
Delbert Alexander "Del" Wilkes, Jr. (December 21, 1961 – June 30, 2021) was an American professional wrestler and college football player, better known by his ring names, The Trooper and The Patriot. Over the course of his ten-year career, Wilkes wrestled for the American Wrestling Association, the Global Wrestling Federation, All Japan Pro Wrestling, World Championship Wrestling, and the World Wrestling Federation. College football career Wilkes was heavily recruited as an offensive lineman at Columbia's Irmo High School and played for the South Carolina Gamecocks. He was one of only four Gamecock consensus All-Americans, the others being George Rogers (1980), Melvin Ingram (2011), and Jadeveon Clowney (2012). Wilkes added 50 pounds of bulk to his six-foot-three, 225-pound frame to bolster an offensive line that in 1984 helped set school records for touchdowns (49), points (371) and total offense (5,095 yards). He knew the Gamecocks would do something special when he met fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
