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  Professional wrestling / Female Single Combat Club
Professional wrestling is a form of performance art where the participants engage in simulated sporting matches in the boxing-like ring.
In essence, pro wrestling is a circus performance, a peculiar acrobatic clownery, which represents human relations in the hypertrophied and grotesque forms by means of "wrestling in the ring".
Due to the term, "professional wrestling" is the traditional and stable name of this incredibly popular show, attempting to search in WEB for keywords "wrestling", "women wrestling" leads to getting the enormous number of sites dedicated to pro wrestling and to other pseudo-combat shows.
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 Wrestling Encyclopedia
Compiled Wrestling Title Histories, the most complete record of pro wrestling titles and titleholders ever published, which is cited by historians as the bible of professional wrestling’s championship history.
A former amateur wrestling champion, he was a professional superstar for nearly three decades before becoming one of the Midwest’s most powerful promoters, as he partnered with Harley Race in overseeing the prestigious Kansas City region.
Billionaire mogul who first broadcast professional wrestling on his national cable network in the 1970’s and later purchased WCW in 1988, eventually financing their competitive run against the WWF during the 1990’s Monday Night Wars.
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 Get in Shape for Wrestling
Wrestling has always been a sport known for its toughness and need for discipline to achieve such physical skills and movements.
The main emphasis in wrestling is the ability to create short, explosive bursts of energy during the match to be able to execute offensive attacks and defensive counter-strikes.
Wrestling is a combination of two different types of athletes: Power distance and endurance.
www.illpumpyouup.com /articles/get-in-shape-for-wrestling.htm   (402 words)

  
 Wrestling Terms Courtesy of pwbts.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Wrestling announcers on TBS picked up on this, and a foreign object is still occasionaly, jokingly called the "international object".
Plant: A wrestler, or someone who works for the organization, who is placed in the audience who preteneds to be a fan, yet participates in an angle.
Strong Style Wrestling: A style of wrestling, that is worked, found in Japan, where the action seems to be shooting and realistic looking because of the highspots used.
www.angelfire.com /wrestling/tlm/terms.html   (2134 words)

  
 Plant (professional wrestling) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Plant is a professional wrestling term for a trained wrestler who poses as a fan, usually seated in the front row of an event.
Steve Blackman debuted in the WWF as a plant, Rob Conway debuted as a plant, as did Tori, Beth Phoenix and, in another sense, Zach Gowen debuted as a plant.
Rinauro was planted as a Jeff Jarrett fan in the front row of the Impact Zone on the pre-show prior to TNA Slammiversary 2005.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Plant_(professional_wrestling)   (416 words)

  
 Cowboy Bill Watts Tribute Page
Only a few months before, Cowboy Bill Watts had been one of the most beloved performers on the eastern professional wrestling "wheel." Now he was parking his car six blocks from the arena where he was to do battle, hoping that no one would identify him and slash his tires in his absence.
Since the Roaring ‘20s, professional wrestling has flourished despite the practically unanimous opinion of sports authorities that all pro matches are theatrical frauds.
After wrestling in a TV show in Washington Thursday, he went to appear at an ice arena in Brick Town, N.J., on Friday, and then flew to Pittsburgh, where he would wrestle twice on Saturday—at a TV studio at six o’clock and a few hours later at a racetrack.
www.midsouthwrestling.com /photos-then-watts.html   (4430 words)

  
 Plant (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A plant is a living organism that generally does not move or have sensory organs.
Plant (person), anyone assigned to behave as a member of the public during a covert operation (as in a police investigation)
Plant (professional wrestling), a person hired to pose as a fan and who usually winds up involved in the action
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Plant_(disambiguation)   (219 words)

  
 Assassin: The Man Behind the Mask Reviews and Comments
Back then, there were no wrestling schools, so anybody wanting to get on board had to gain the confidence of veteran workers and then get stretched and beat on for months before that first match.
Sure wrestling is a completely different beast than it was in Hamilton's time, but there are some basic booking principles that needed to be remembered, even in 2006.
Wrestling 2; The Kentuckians; and dozens of others are all given their due.
www.1wrestlinglegends.com /crowbarpress/assassin/reviews.htm   (2342 words)

  
 Obsessed With Wrestling   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
For example many of the wrestlers on the RAW roster have been "buried" as a result of always losing high profile matches, particularly when they work with Triple H. Chris Jericho and especially Rob Van Dam are good examples of this.
Plant: A wrestler or someone who works for the wrestling company who is placed in the audience to pose as a fan and is used in a wrestling angle.
Rest Hold/Rest Spot: A wrestling hold that is applied that is very light and allows for the wrestlers to take a rest or a breather usually after a high spot or after several minutes of fast paced action.
www.obsessedwithwrestling.com /information/dictionary.html   (2847 words)

  
 Diva (professional wrestling)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
In professional wrestling a diva is a recent term for a phenomenon; 'beautiful women' employed in the capacity eye candy.
As wrestling has been traditionally a male-oriented which originated in the spectacle of carnival it is perhaps not surprising that practices occur.
It is unclear as to whether 'bit played by women such as The Godfather 's Hos or relatives of WWE owner Vince McMahon such as his wife Linda McMahon as Divas.
www.freeglossary.com /Diva_(professional_wrestling)   (544 words)

  
 Southpinellas: Wrestling with a conscience
Onlookers, gathered for an evening of no-holds-barred professional wrestling, jeered, cheered and stomped their feet.
Tristani, 45, founded the Christian Wrestling Federation, which is based in St. Petersburg, a little more than a year ago.
Wrestling, he says, is an ideal way to spread the word of God to those who would never dream of walking into a church or showing up at a religious function.
www.sptimes.com /News/102401/SouthPinellas/Wrestling_with_a_cons.shtml   (1264 words)

  
 wrestlingnewsboard.com - Professional Wrestling News - WWE
Wrestling announcers on TBS picked up on this, and a foreign object is still occasionally, jokingly called the "international object".
A fan of or participant in the wrestling industry who believes that a part of any aspect of the industry is more important than making money.
Plant: A wrestler, or someone who works for the organization, who is placed in the audience who pretends to be a fan, yet participates in an angle.
www.wrestlingnewsboard.com /info/terms.php   (1947 words)

  
 story by mark binelli: wcw power plant - part I
The WCW Power Plant - November 1996It's not even noon and I'm being straddled by a relative stranger with a great body and enormous breasts.
We're at the Power Plant, the official World Championship Wrestling training facility, what Rage calls "the Harvard school of wrestling." More specifically, we're inside one of the Plant's four full-sized rings.
The North Tower of the gleaming CNN Center is the official headquarters of World Championship Wrestling, the top wrestling organization in the country and one of many broadcast ventures that's made Ted Turner more than just Mr.
www.mindspring.com /~mollystevens/wcwstory.html   (1074 words)

  
 -- Rajah.com -- Beauty in Wrestling: Of Blood and Honor
Standard stigmas attached to wrestling are "it's all just fake" and "anyone watches is a dumb-as-a-post hillbilly." If wrestling did not have enough problems in the mainstream public, the overuse of hardcore hurts perception by a great deal.
CZW features trash wrestling including (but not limited to) putting empty plant pots over a wrestler's head and crushing both it and the head with a chair, crashing through flourescent light tubes, a dangerous amount of blood loss, throwing wrestlers off balconies and scaffolds, powerbombing through ironing boards, fire, and a lot more.
As a long-time wrestling fan, I know it's a shame when town councils actually have to go to legal lengths to stop this madness, but the alternative was simply worse.
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 Lou's View On Professional Wrestling
I would like to say that though Wrestling is not considered a sport by many, it is created by many great athletes.
Professional Wrestling is the highest rated cable show of all time and the numbers are just getting bigger.
I have watched wrestling for a while and I have seen a time when there was less than 1,000 people at a house or live show.
www.expage.com /lousview   (463 words)

  
 Georgia Regional Wrestling
A small, very slam wrestling promotion was starting up in his hometown and they needed talented men to wrestle.
Chris went down to the small gym where this small promotion was having tryouts but did not make it to the fed, however, the promoter liked what he saw and put Chris in a local wrestling school for free.
Chris began to work hard to become a wrestler and many thought he was a good performer; he was an excellent brawler.
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 plant - Ask.com Web Search
Plants are a major group of living things including familiar organisms such as trees, flowers, herbs, and ferns.
The International Plant Names Index (IPNI) is a database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of all seed plants, ferns...
Plant fossils include roots, wood, leaves, seeds, fruit, pollen, spores, phytoliths, and amber (the fossilized resin produced by some plants).
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 SLAM! Wrestling Canadian Hall of Fame: Killer Kowalski
Jan. 14, 1953, Kowalski was involved in the first professional wrestling match to be televised in Canada.
A few wrestling fans looked upon my uncle as a truly evil person and they thought it was their duty to wait for him in the parking lot with baseball bats and metal pipes.
We'll papaw was a huge wrestling fan and would tell me stories of the matches that he and the other workers would go and see.
slam.canoe.ca /SlamWrestling/kowalski.html   (4006 words)

  
 Elite Pro Wrestling Training
Whether you want to start into professional wrestling, you are a martial artist, or just a fan that wants to know what REALLY is going on in the ring, and how those guys train to do those amazing stunts, this book is for you.
I have only been wrestling a few years but I was able to learn and and be trained by the best in the business.
I had already been to wrestling school and was "trained" but I knew the knowledge that I would recieve from Les, Ricky, Harley, Dr Tom and whom ever else may "drop" by would be priceless.
www.epwt.com /epwttestimonials.shtml   (5590 words)

  
 Wrestling Facts :: Impact Wrestling.com
Two examples: 1 when he wrestled the Ultimate Warrior at WMVII as a heel and left as a babyface, he entered the ring wearing a white hat.
Actually, the Kid still wrestles in England and the real reason he left was because of a locker room fight with him and Jacques Rougeau.
The Rockers defended the titles for a week after that, but then Neidhart was re-hired by the WWF, and Vince McMahon decided that the title change never actually happened, in one of the goofier decisions of the 90s, and one of many to affect the careers of Shawn and Bret.
www.impactwrestling.com /wresfacts.htm   (3351 words)

  
 INDY NEWS: Alliance Wrestling Force
Results from 1/7/06 Plant City, FL AWF was proud to be at the first Bike Fest of 2006.
He explained that he is from a rich and wealthy family that despised professional wrestling and that he loved this business so much that he needed to pursue a long time dream and become a professional wrestler.
He blames the fans and the love of professional wrestling for what has happened in his life.
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 Ultimate Warrior Profile   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Warrior wrestled under the moniker of the Dingo Warrior, a gimmick that would plant the seeds for his evolution to the Ultimate Warrior a few years down the line.
His unique character entertained fans at a time when wrestling was at a peak, and his larger life character was able to connect with the fans and become an instant hit.
A return for Warrior to the Professional Wrestling world is just as unpredictable as Warrior’s character was, and while its doubtful, I wouldn’t totally surprised to see him again return one day.
www.wrestling101.com /101/article/USProfiles/616   (2151 words)

  
 Bill Goldberg biography, information, news, links, pictures (pics) and products (WWE Wrestling)
Goldberg became a wrestler, training in the WCW Power Plant wrestling school and entered the ring professionally on September 22, 1997, defeating Hugh Morrus.
Many Internet wrestling fans consider Goldberg to be the one responsible for the ending of Bret Hart's career, although there is no bad blood between Goldberg and Hart, and they have become friends in recent years.
Has the most impressive undefeated streak in all of "modern" professional wrestling history (with Lou Thesz having the most impressive with 900+ wins between 1948-1956) with 174 wins before suffering his first loss to Kevin Nash.
www.popstarsplus.com /wrestling_men_billgoldberg.htm   (2023 words)

  
 STADIUM 64 - Manuals Archive: Championship Wrestling
In their dressing rooms, eight of the biggest, baddest bruisers in all of professional wrestling await their shot at the World Wrestling Title.
It's Championship Wrestling at its most thrilling, and the first round is about to begin.
With over 25 classic wrestling moves at your command - and a few special tricks up your sleeve - you may want to practice first.
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 H.B. Plant High School Academic Foundation
Student busses will be leaving Plant High on Saturday 12/9 at 7:00 am sharp.
Students are welcome to use the computers in Plant's Media Center or Guidance Resource Room to register.
Numerous professional athletes are Plant High graduates and this year's athletes are up to the challenge.
www1.sdhc.k12.fl.us /~hbplant.high/sports.htm   (427 words)

  
 Bromelain Bodybuilding Wonder Supplement? - Professional Muscle
Pineapple has been used as a medicinal plant in several native cultures and bromelain has been known chemically since 1876.
Bromelain is a general name for a family of sulfhydryl proteolytic enzymes obtained from Ananas comosus, the pineapple plant.
It is usually distinguished as either fruit bromelain or stem bromelain depending on its source, with all commercially available bromelain being derived from the stem.1 The term bromelain will be used to refer to stem bromelain in the remainder of this article.
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 Paul Orndorff   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
professional wrestling is treated like a legitimate sport over in the Land of the Rising Sun.
Before coming north, Orndorff had wrestled for a number of years in the south, in the
He did wrestle for other promotions in the 90s (i.e.
www.carlson316wrestling.net /halloffame/paulorndorff.html   (427 words)

  
 1WRESTLING.COM - NEWSLINE - PRO WRESTLING'S DAILY NEWS SOURCE
JJ says change is all around not just in wrestling but in life.
At the age of 28 he wrestled Gene Anderson and JJ says that was the real start of his career.
From a wrestling fan to working side by side with Vince McMahon, and WCW from the rise through fall.
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