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The Brawling Brutes
The Brawling Brutes were a professional wrestling stable in WWE. The stable was led by Sheamus and also contained Ridge Holland and Butch. The group started in November 2021. In August 2023, Sheamus suffered a shoulder injury and three months later in November, Holland walked out on Butch during a tag team match, ending the group in the process. History During the 2021 WWE Draft, Ridge Holland was drafted from NXT to SmackDown. On the November 19 episode of ''SmackDown'', Holland helped Sheamus defeat Cesaro, Ricochet, and Jinder Mahal in a four-way match, starting an alliance between the two. On January 1, 2022, at Day 1, Holland would team with Sheamus to defeat Cesaro and Ricochet, however, during the match, Holland would suffer a broken nose and would be removed mid-match. In March, they would enter a feud with The New Day, where on the March 11 episode of ''SmackDown'', Sheamus and Holland introduced Butch as part of their stable. After an overhead belly-to-belly suplex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ridge Holland
Luke Menzies (born 29 May 1988) is an English professional wrestler and a former professional rugby league player. As a professional wrestler, he is signed to WWE, where he performs on the NXT brand under the ring name Ridge Holland. He is a former one-time NXT Tag Team Champion. Menzies spent the majority of his rugby league career with various clubs in the Rugby Football League Championship, making one appearance in the Super League for Hull Kingston Rovers in 2008. He began pursuing a career in professional wrestling in 2016 and signed with WWE in 2018. Rugby league career Menzies signed for Hull Kingston Rovers in September 2007, making one appearance in the Super League in 2008. He later appeared for a number of lower league clubs such as Batley Bulldogs, Oldham, Dewsbury Rams, Hunslet, and Swinton Lions. He joined Salford Red Devils in 2014, making one appearance for the club. In 2015, he joined York City Knights on loan. Later that year, he joined Halifax on loan. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big E (wrestler)
Ettore Ewen (born March 1, 1986) is an American former professional wrestler and powerlifter. He is signed to WWE, where he performs under the ring name Big E. He appears only in non-wrestling capacities due to a cervical fracture he suffered in March 2022. Ewen was a collegiate football player at the University of Iowa and later became a powerlifter and a USA Powerlifting champion. He also won a state championship in Scholastic wrestling, high-school wrestling. Upon signing with WWE in 2009, Ewen was assigned to its Farm team#Professional wrestling, developmental brand Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW) under the ring name Big E Langston. After FCW was rebranded to NXT (WWE brand), NXT, he became the second NXT Champion. He was promoted to WWE's main roster in December 2012, and found his greatest success as a part of The New Day (professional wrestling), The New Day with Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods, with whom he has become a List of WWE Raw Tag Team Champions, two-time Raw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Usos
The Usos were a Samoan-American professional wrestling tag team which consisted of twin brothers Jey Uso and Jimmy Uso. They are signed to WWE, where Jey performs on the WWE Raw, Raw brand while Jimmy performs on the SmackDown (WWE brand), SmackDown brand. They are the three-time World Tag Team Championship (WWE), Raw Tag Team Champions and five-time WWE Tag Team Championship, SmackDown Tag Team Champions, making their team overall eight-time champions and holding the record for the longest male tag team championship reign in WWE history at 622 days. The Usos are members of the renowned Anoaʻi family of Samoan wrestlers. Trained since childhood by their father, WWE Hall of Famer Rikishi (wrestler), Rikishi, the twin brothers Joshua and Jonathan debuted in WWE's then-Farm team (professional wrestling), developmental territory Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW) in 2009, where they became FCW Florida Tag Team Championship, FCW Florida Tag Team Champions, and wrestled as Jules U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wrestling Observer Newsletter
The ''Wrestling Observer Newsletter'' (''WON'') is a newsletter that covers professional wrestling and mixed martial arts. Founded in print in 1982 by Dave Meltzer, the ''Wrestling Observer'' website merged with Bryan Alvarez's ''Figure Four Weekly'' website in 2008, becoming ''Wrestling Observer Figure Four Online''. The newsletter is often considered the first "dirt sheet", which is a wrestling publication covering the art from a real-life perspective. History The beginnings of the ''Wrestling Observer Newsletter'' date back to 1980, when Meltzer began an List of Wrestling Observer Newsletter awards, annual poll amongst those with whom he corresponded regarding professional wrestling. According to Meltzer, he was just a fan at first. A short time later, he began maintaining a tape-trading list, and would occasionally send match results and news updates along with tape updates. Meltzer stated that he wanted to keep his friends in college "in the loop" for his tape trading as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Meltzer
David Allen Meltzer (born October 24, 1959) is an American journalist, author, and historian who reports on professional wrestling and mixed martial arts. Since 1983, he has been the publisher and editor of the ''Wrestling Observer Newsletter'' (WON), a dirtsheet primarily addressing professional wrestling. He has also written for the ''Oakland Tribune'', the ''Los Angeles Times'', Yahoo! Sports, SI.com, and '' The National Sports Daily''. He has extensively covered mixed martial arts since UFC 1 in 1993 and also covers it for SB Nation. He has been called "the most accomplished reporter in sports journalism" by Frank Deford of ''Sports Illustrated''. Early life David Allen Meltzer was born into a Jewish family in Upstate New York on October 24, 1959. He later moved with his family to San Jose, California. He earned a journalism degree from San Jose State University and started out as a sportswriter for the ''Wichita Falls Times Record News'' and the '' Turlock Journal'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clash At The Castle (2022)
The 2022 Clash at the Castle was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming event produced by the American company WWE. It was the inaugural Clash event and the first of only two titled as "Clash at the Castle". It took place on Saturday, September 3, 2022, at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff, Wales and was held for wrestlers from the promotion's Raw and SmackDown brand divisions. This marked WWE's first major stadium event to take place in the United Kingdom since the 1992 SummerSlam and the company's first UK PPV overall since Insurrextion in 2003. The event's title was a reference to Cardiff Castle, situated near the Principality Stadium. An event was not held in 2023 but it returned in 2024 in Scotland. Seven matches were contested at the event, including one on the Kickoff pre-show. In the main event, Roman Reigns defeated Drew McIntyre to retain the Undisputed WWE Universal Championship. In other prominent matches, Seth "Freakin" Rollins defeated Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ludwig Kaiser
Marcel Barthel (born 8 July 1990) is a German professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE, where he performs on the Raw brand under the ring name Ludwig Kaiser and is a member of Imperium alongside Gunther. He previously wrestled under the ring name Axel Dieter Jr. in Germany, most notably for Westside Xtreme Wrestling (wXw), where he became a two-time World Tag Team Champion and one-time Unified World Wrestling Champion. He also wrestled in the UK for Progress Wrestling. Early life Barthel was born in Pinneberg on 8 July 1990. He is a second-generation professional wrestler; his father, Axel Dieter (1933–2015), was later at ringside for his championship win in Westside Xtreme Wrestling (wXw) when he became one half of the wXw World Tag Team Champions. His father was also a child soldier during World War II, fighting first for Nazi Germany before defecting to France, all before he was 12 years old. He later joined the French Foreign Legion. Professional wrestling career I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WWE Clash At The Castle
WWE Clash, originally known as Clash at the Castle, is a recurring professional wrestling event produced by the American company WWE. It is broadcast live and available only through pay-per-view (PPV) and WWE's livestreaming platforms and features wrestlers from the Raw and SmackDown brand divisions. Established in 2022, the events are held in European countries and the event's original title was in reference to castles found in or around the host city. The inaugural event was held in September 2022 in Cardiff, Wales with its name in reference to the Cardiff Castle. This was also WWE's first PPV and livestreaming event to be held in the United Kingdom since Insurrextion in 2003, and the company's first UK stadium event since the 1992 SummerSlam. The event returned in June 2024 in Glasgow, Scotland, with its title referencing the various castles found in and around Glasgow. This was also WWE's first PPV and livestreaming event to be held in Scotland. The 2025 event, known as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WWE Intercontinental Championship
The WWE Intercontinental Championship is a men's professional wrestling championship created and promoted by the American promotion WWE, defended on the Raw brand division. It is one of two secondary championships for WWE's main roster, along with the WWE United States Championship on SmackDown. The current champion is Dominik Mysterio, who is in his first reign. He won the title by defeating previous champion Bron Breakker, Penta, and Finn Bálor, whom Mysterio pinned, in a fatal four-way match on night two of WrestleMania 41 on April 20, 2025. The championship was established by the then- World Wrestling Federation (WWF) on September 1, 1979, as a result of the WWF North American Heavyweight Championship being unified with an apocryphal South American Heavyweight Championship, with Pat Patterson as the inaugural champion. It is the third-oldest championship currently active in WWE, behind the WWE Championship (1963) and United States Championship (1975), but the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gunther (wrestler)
Walter Hahn (born 20 August 1987) is an Austrian professional wrestler. He has been signed to WWE , where he performs on the Raw (WWE brand), Raw WWE brand extension, brand under the ring name Gunther and is the current World Heavyweight Championship (WWE), World Heavyweight Champion in his record-setting second reign. He is also the incumbent King of the Ring tournament, King of the Ring and is one half of the tag team Imperium (professional wrestling), Imperium alongside Ludwig Kaiser. Nicknamed ''Der Ringgeneral'' (English language, English: "The Ring General"), Hahn's wrestling Gimmick (professional wrestling), gimmick sees him follow a stiff wrestling style (which had been inspired by the likes of Stan Hansen, Big Van Vader and Kenta Kobashi) and a philosophy signified by the motto ''Die Matte ist Heilig'' (English: "The Mat is Sacred"). He has been consistently regarded as one of the best wrestlers in the world and of all time by industry journalists and fellow wrestlers a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fatal Five-way Match
Many types of wrestling matches, sometimes called "Glossary of professional wrestling terms#Gimmick, gimmick matches" in the Glossary of professional wrestling terms, jargon of the business, are performed in professional wrestling. Some gimmick matches are more common than others and are often used to advance or conclude a Glossary of professional wrestling terms#Angle, storyline. Throughout professional wrestling's History of professional wrestling, decades-long history, some gimmick matches have spawned many variations of the core concept. Singles match The singles match is the most common of all professional wrestling matches, which involves only two competitors competing for one Glossary of professional wrestling terms#Fall, fall. A victory is obtained by Professional wrestling#Pinfall, pinfall, Submission (professional wrestling), submission, Knockout (professional wrestling), knockout, Countout (professional wrestling), countout, or Disqualification (professional wrestling), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WrestleMania 38
WrestleMania 38 was a 2022 professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming List of WWE pay-per-view and livestreaming supercards, event produced by WWE. It was the 38th annual WrestleMania and took place as a two-night event on Saturday, April 2, and Sunday, April 3, 2022, at the AT&T Stadium in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex city of Arlington, Texas, held for wrestlers from the promotion's Raw (WWE brand), Raw and SmackDown (WWE brand), SmackDown WWE brand extension, brand divisions. The event was the fourth WrestleMania to be held in the U.S. state of Texas, after WrestleMania X-Seven in 2001, WrestleMania 25 in 2009, and WrestleMania 32 in 2016, and the second in AT&T Stadium after the latter. It was the third WrestleMania to feature Brock Lesnar vs. Roman Reigns in the main event (after WrestleMania 31 in 2015 and WrestleMania 34 in 2018). WWE billed the match as "The Biggest WrestleMania Match of All-Time", which was a Winner Takes All match for the promotion's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
