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Inaugural Mae Young Classic
The 2017 Mae Young Classic was a multi-night special event and tournament promoted by the American professional wrestling promotion, WWE. It was constituted by a 32-competitor tournament for women from WWE's NXT (WWE brand), NXT WWE brand extension, brand division and wrestlers from the independent circuit. The majority of the tournament took place at Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida and was Broadcast delay, taped from July 13–14, 2017; these matches aired on the WWE Network on August 28 (round 1) and September 4 (round 2, quarterfinals, and semifinals). The tournament final match aired Live television, live on the WWE Network on September 12 and took place at the Thomas & Mack Center in Paradise, Nevada. The event was named in honor of Mae Young. The winner of the inaugural tournament was Kairi Sane. The 2017 Mae Young Classic also featured WWE's first full-time female referee, Jessika Carr. A Mae Young Classic (2018), second edition of the tournament was held in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Full Sail University
Full Sail University is a Private university, private For-profit higher education in the United States, for-profit university in Winter Park, Florida. It was formerly a recording studio in Ohio named Full Sail Productions and Full Sail Center for the Recording Arts. The school moved to Florida in 1980, began offering bachelor's degrees in 2005, and began offering online degrees in 2007. The following year, the school was granted university status by the Florida Department of Education. Full Sail is Higher education accreditation in the United States, accredited by the Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges to award associate degree, associate, bachelor's degree, bachelor's, and master's degrees in Sound recording and reproduction, audio, Graphic design, design, computer animation and business administration. History Full Sail University was founded by Jon Phelps in Ohio, in 1979. Its curriculum was centered on recording arts and offered courses in audio engine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jessika Carr
Jessika Heiser (born June 25, 1991) is an American professional wrestling referee and professional wrestler. She is signed to WWE, where she performs on the Raw brand as a referee under the ring name Jessika Carr as well as wrestling on the Evolve brand as Kalyx. After signing with the company in 2017, Heiser became the first female WWE referee since the 1980s. She is also known by her ring names Jessie Kaye and Kennadi Brink on the independent circuit. She regularly worked for Maryland Championship Wrestling. Early life As a teenager, Heiser was overweight; she credited her love of wrestling and desire to become a wrestler as "her escape" and her inspiration to change. With help from a local professional wrestler, who was signed to a developmental contract with WWE, she was able to lose over 60 lbs and become an athlete. Professional wrestling career Wrestler (2011–2017, 2025–present) In July 2010, she started training regularly at Duane Gill's Academy of Profess ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Discovery Communications
Discovery, Inc. was an American multinational mass media factual television conglomerate based in New York City. Established in 1982, the company operated a group of factual and lifestyle television brands, such as the namesake Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, Science Channel, and TLC. In 2018, the company acquired Scripps Networks Interactive, adding networks such as Food Network, HGTV, and Travel Channel to its portfolio. Since the purchase, Discovery described itself as serving members of "passionate" audiences, and also placed a focus on streaming services built around its properties. Discovery owned or had interests in local versions of its channel brands in international markets, in addition to its other major regional operations such as Eurosport (a pan-European group of sports channels, most prominently the rightsholder of the Olympic Games throughout most of Europe), GolfTV (an international golf-focused streaming service, which is the international digital rig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Facebook
Facebook is a social media and social networking service owned by the American technology conglomerate Meta Platforms, Meta. Created in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with four other Harvard College students and roommates, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes, its name derives from the face book directories often given to American university students. Membership was initially limited to Harvard students, gradually expanding to other North American universities. Since 2006, Facebook allows everyone to register from 13 years old, except in the case of a handful of nations, where the age requirement is 14 years. , Facebook claimed almost 3.07 billion monthly active users worldwide. , Facebook ranked as the List of most-visited websites, third-most-visited website in the world, with 23% of its traffic coming from the United States. It was the most downloaded mobile app of the 2010s. Facebook can be accessed from devices with Internet connectivit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
YouTube
YouTube is an American social media and online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim who were three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google Search. In January 2024, YouTube had more than 2.7billion monthly active users, who collectively watched more than one billion hours of videos every day. , videos were being uploaded to the platform at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute, and , there were approximately 14.8billion videos in total. On November 13, 2006, YouTube was purchased by Google for $1.65 billion (equivalent to $ billion in ). Google expanded YouTube's business model of generating revenue from advertisements alone, to offering paid content such as movies and exclusive content produced by and for YouTube. It also offers YouTube Premium, a paid subs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Ross
James William Ross (born January 3, 1952) is an American professional wrestling commentator, sports announcer, and podcaster, better known by the ring name Jim Ross (often shortened to JR). He is signed with All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he serves as a commentator as well as an analyst and senior advisor. Ross is best known for a long and distinguished career as a play-by-play commentator for WWE. Known affectionately by WWE fans as "Good Ol' JR", Ross has been labeled as the greatest wrestling commentator of all time. Ross, while in WWE, was occasionally involved in storylines and also participated in nine wrestling matches from 1999 to 2011. After years of working various jobs in the professional wrestling industry, Ross became the primary play-by-play announcer for Mid-South Wrestling in the early 1980s. He went on to do commentary for the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA)'s World Championship Wrestling territory, before jumping to the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lita (wrestler)
Amy Christine Dumas (born April 14, 1975) is an American professional wrestler and singer. She is best known for her time in WWE under the ring name Lita. She is often regarded as one of the greatest and most popular female wrestlers in history. She is known for her extreme style of wrestling which has made her an inspiration for many female wrestlers. Initially using the name of Angelica, Dumas started her wrestling career in Mexico with Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) in 1998, followed by briefly working on the US independent circuit in early 1999, and then working for six months in Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW). Dumas then signed with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, renamed to WWE in 2002) in August 1999, debuting in February 2000 as Lita. She was originally paired with Mr. Águila, Essa Rios, but she achieved her greatest push (professional wrestling), push alongside Matt Hardy, Matt and Jeff Hardy as Hardy Boyz, Team Xtreme, and in 2005–2006 was a heel ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toni Storm
Toni Rossall (born 19 October 1995), better known by the ring name Toni Storm, is a New Zealand-Australian professional wrestler. She is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW) under the epithet "Timeless" Toni Storm and is the reigning AEW Women's World Championship, AEW Women's World Champion in her record-setting list of AEW Women's World Champions, fourth reign. Prior to signing with AEW, Rossall worked for WWE, where she was an NXT UK Women's Champion. Rossall first gained attention in WWE from her 2017 and 2018 performances in the Mae Young Classic tournament. She progressed to the tournament's semi-finals in 2017 and won it in 2018 at WWE Evolution, Evolution, WWE's first all-female PPV. She then performed on the NXT UK (WWE brand), NXT UK, NXT (WWE brand), NXT, and SmackDown (WWE brand), SmackDown brands before her release in 2021. Beyond WWE, Rossall has held various world championships from other promotions in other countries, such as the World of Stardom Championship an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Princesa Sugehit
Ernestina Sugehit Salazar Martínez (born June 25, 1980) is a Mexican '' luchadora'' (Spanish for ''professional wrestler'') who is best known under the ring name Princesa Sugehit. She is working for the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) portraying a '' ruda''/heel ("bad guy") wrestling character. Her name has appeared differently in different publications, even her employer CMLL has not always spelled her name consistently, it has appeared as Princesa Sujei, Princesa Sugey, Princesa Sujey, Princesa Sugeth, Princesa Sugehit and variations thereof. Early life Salazar was a fan of professional wrestling or lucha libre from a young age and was one of the first people to show up when a new wrestling school opened in her native Monterrey, Nuevo León. She was the only female in the wrestling school, which meant that the diminutive woman () had to wrestle against men as she was taught to wrestle by Bello Kalifa, Centurión Negro, and Carnic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lacey Evans
Macey Estrella-Kadlec ( Evans; born March 24, 1990) is an American professional wrestler and former U.S. Marine. She is best known for her tenure in WWE, where she performed under the ring name Lacey Evans. Originally introduced to wrestling while serving as a military police officer in the Marines, Evans trained and began her career on the independent circuit. She started working for WWE in their WWE NXT, NXT developmental brand in 2016, and participated in their inaugural Mae Young Classic (2017), Mae Young Classic. After feuding with Kairi Sane in NXT, Evans debuted on the main roster on Raw (WWE brand), Raw in January 2019, entering a feud with Becky Lynch that culminated in a mixed tag team match in the main event of Extreme Rules (2019), Extreme Rules. Over the next several years, Evans had various feuds on WWE programming until leaving the promotion in August 2023. Early life Estrella-Kadlec was born Macey Evans in Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia on March 24, 1990. Accord ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crazy Mary Dobson
Sarah Rowe (née Bridges; born September 10, 1993) is an American professional wrestler. She is best known for her tenure in WWE, where she performed under the ring names Sarah Logan and Valhalla. Bridges began her career in 2011 and worked for 5 years on the independent circuit as Crazy Mary Dobson. In 2016 signed a contract with WWE and was assigned to NXT, where he changed her ringname to Sarah Logan. She made her main roster debut the next year as part of the stable The Riott Squad with Ruby Riott and Liv Morgan. The stable disbanded in 2019 and was released the next year. WWE signed her again in 2022 and worked with the promotion until 2025. During her second stint, she worked first as Sarah Logan, but later she changed her character to Valhalla, managing The team of The War Raiders. Early life Sarah Bridges was born on September 10, 1993, in Louisville, Kentucky. She attended Jeffersonville High School in Jeffersonville, Indiana. Professional wrestling career Indepen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WWE Hall Of Fame
The WWE Hall of Fame is a List of halls and walks of fame, hall of fame which honors professional wrestlers and professional wrestling personalities maintained by WWE. Originally known as the "WWF Hall of Fame", it was created in 1993 when André the Giant was posthumously inducted with a video package as the sole inductee that year. The 1994 and 1995 ceremonies were held in conjunction with the annual King of the Ring pay-per-view events and the 1996 ceremony was held with the Survivor Series event. Since 2004, the promotion has held the ceremonies in conjunction with WrestleMania ever since. Since 2005, portions of the induction ceremonies have aired on television and since 2014, the entire ceremonies have aired on the WWE's livestreaming platforms. As of 2025, there have been 254 inductees, with 134 wrestlers inducted individually, 49 Legacy inductees, 20 group inductions (consisting of 54 wrestlers within those groups), 14 celebrities, 9 Warrior Award recipients, and 1 Imm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
