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  Salty Ham: Wrestling   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
At a time when women wrestling was almost non-existent, Stratus was kept away from the women's division, or from wrestling in general, other than the usual lingerie battle, and bra and panties match.
She proved that you don't have to be a mutant woman that is 6 feet tall and weighs more than 225 pounds to be successful.
Wrestling is no doubt a business, and its goal is to make money, but it's the most beautiful business there is, and the core of it are fans that get a very special excitement out of the industry, that they can get nowhere else.
www.saltyham.com /Wrestling/EddiesCorner.asp   (1172 words)

  
  Britain.tv Wikipedia - Professional wrestling slang
Professional wrestling has accrued a considerable amount of slang, in-references and jargon.
Backyard wrestling, the act of staging pro-style wrestling (not to be confused with sport wrestling or amateur wrestling) as a hobby rather than a job, usually (but not always) by untrained performers, predominantly teenagers.
Wrestling announcers on TBS picked up on this, and a foreign object is still occasionally, jokingly, called an "international object".
www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=Professional_wrestling_slang   (8062 words)

  
 Parent/Athlete Testimonials - Velocity Sports Performance
Velocity training enhances the player's ability to compete at a higher speed of play by improving agility, fitness, and power.
When Velocity called us to see if there was any interest in returning, I knew I was not going to prevail.
I was able to ski hard for five straight days without any of the aches and pains such a ski trip would usually cause me. When all of the other guys were stiff and done for the day, I was still on the slopes until the last lift.
www.velocitysp.com /mayfield/coverstories/Testimonials.html   (966 words)

  
 World Wrestling Entertainment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (WWE) is a publicly traded, privately controlled integrated media (focusing in television, internet, and live events), sports, and entertainment company dealing primarily in the professional wrestling industry, with major revenue sources also coming from movies, music, product licensing, and direct product sales.
It is currently the largest professional wrestling promotion in the world, and holds an extensive library of videos representing a significant portion of the visual history of professional wrestling.
The concept of a wrestling super card was nothing new in North America; the NWA had been running StarrCade a few years prior to WrestleMania, and even the elder McMahon had marketed large Shea Stadium cards viewable in closed-circuit locations.
domainhelp.search.com /reference/World_Wrestling_Entertainment   (2691 words)

  
 wikien.info: Main_Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Backyard wrestling, the act of wrestling as a hobby rather than a job, usually but not always untrained, predominantly by teenagers.
Garbage Wrestling, "hardcore" matches or extremely spot heavy matches wherein wrestlers use nothing but weaponry or highly planned out spots to attack each other, also outrageous gimmick matches that have no obvious elements of traditional in-ring competition.
Hardcore wrestling, matches that focus on the use of weapons such as chairs, chains, fireballs, ladders, and tire irons, often combined with brawling all over the arena, rather than traditional wrestling holds and techniques, also referred to by some as "garbage" wrestling
www.hostingciamca.com /index.php?title=Professional_wrestling_slang   (7640 words)

  
 SingaporeMoms - Parenting Encyclopedia - World Wrestling Entertainment
World Wrestling Entertainment is a publicly-traded company, but the vast majority of voting shares are owned by chairman Vince McMahon, wife and CEO Linda McMahon, son Shane McMahon, and daughter Stephanie McMahon-Levesque.
The NWA is a broad group of wrestling companies that recognized an undisputed champion, who went from wrestling company to wrestling company in the alliance and defended the belt around the world.
Capitol dominated professional wrestling in the Northeastern United States during the mid-20th century, when it was divided into strictly regional enterprises.
www.singaporemoms.com /parenting/WWE   (4078 words)

  
 Wrestling Academy Graduate Testimonials   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
I had always had dreams of becoming a professional wrestler ever since I was four years old and by meeting Harley and his wife B.J. put me closer to the realization of that dream.
You have opportunity to be a professional wrestler, you have the opportunity to be a somebody, you have the opportunity to live out a child hood dream, and the list is endless.
Professional wrestling has always attracted a wide variety of athletes to partake in the sport.
www.harleyrace.com /wlw/hratestimonials.htm   (2658 words)

  
 Wrestling Shoes and Wrestling Gear from WrestlingGear.Com - Products available from Brute, ASICS, Adidas, and more.
My best years of wrestling and most enjoyable years where on the international circuit when I was training with the Hawkeye Wrestling Club and at the US Olympic Training Center.
There are many strength training cycles in the high school wrestling season (hypertrophy, strength, power, and competition, etc) Your weight lifting program should change according to the time of season, age of athlete, strength training needs, location of any existing injury, and knowledge of strength training lifts.
If you don’t have anyone to wrestle find a medicine ball and realize that rarely in wrestling are you limited to a bicep curl in your scoring attack.
www.wrestlinggear.com /info/articles/offseasonstrengthtraining.html   (1357 words)

  
 Ring of Honor Discussion Forum - PWinsider interview with Gabe
I grew up a huge fan of wrestling and was hooked when I saw a Greg Valentine promo to promote a local match at the Boston Garden and then I got even more hooked when I saw the action in NWA and once it gets in your blood it's there to stay.
Now we still feature awesome wrestling, in fact I feel we've had more great matches this year than any other year, but it’s not as straight laced as it was and a little more old school.
Wrestling is all about perception and if you create perception that someone is small, then they are small.
www.rohwrestling.com /MessageBoard/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=4603   (3687 words)

  
 1WRESTLING.COM - NEWSLINE - PRO WRESTLING'S DAILY NEWS SOURCE
TNA wrestlers only wrestle for TNA about two to three times a month due to Impact being taped, and in most cases two weeks at a time.WWE wrestlers however wrestle over 300 times a year.
Someone like AJ Styles or even Christian could wrestle once for Impact and have close to the rest of the month off until the next PPV.If that were me of course I would go balls to the ball knowing I had ample time to rest before my next match.
Wrestling is a tough business and it is not fair to say that anyone works harder than someone else because as far as I am concerned all wrestlers work very hard to get where they are.
www.1wrestling.com /news/newsline.asp?news=24579   (966 words)

  
 CANOE -- SLAM! Sports - Wrestling - Slam Bam more physical than physics
Though there may be a science involved in wrestling, this program exposes the painful trek of becoming a wrestler more than the physics of sports-entertainment.
The first part of Slam Bam, "That's Gotta Hurt," serves as an introduction to professional wrestling and answers the age old question: "Is wrestling real?" A montage of accomplishments and stats introduces wrestling legend Bret "Hitman" Hart, who would provide his personal insight on various aspects of wrestling throughout the show.
For both fans and non-fans of wrestling who are curious about what it takes to be a wrestler, this documentary is a fun and worthwhile viewing -- especially among a group of friends.
slam.canoe.ca /Slam/Wrestling/2004/11/26/732708.html   (655 words)

  
 Eddie Gilbert - Professional Wrestling Online Museum Biography
By competing in the unpredictable Puerto Rican wrestling scene, Eddie Gilbert was once again exposed to another new, different and barbaric style of wrestling, one that would play a role in his career many years later, particularly once he was booking ECW.
With both his professional and personal life in a state of turmoil, Gilbert regrouped by making a brief return home to Tennessee and the USWA, where he defeated the young Jeff Jarrett for the USWA Heavyweight championship on September 29, 1990.
Of course, as is usually the case in wrestling, Gilbert's "retirement" did not last long, and he eventually began wrestling again for the USWA.
www.wrestlingmuseum.com /pages/bios/eddiegilbert2.html   (5181 words)

  
 Ring of Honor Discussion Forum - Why Pro Wrestling is in the Crapper - but not ROH
It is a serious wrestling depression and it's not clear if the wrestling industry will ever recover from the ills that currently plague the business.
The number of wrestling hours on free TV 10 timesed and the pressure was on the big promotions to offer shows that drew big ratings.
So the conclusion is that professional wrestling has evolved to a state where it is extremely difficult for it to offer the fans the kinds of wrestlers and matchups that draw the fans.
www.rohwrestling.com /MessageBoard/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=5122   (3462 words)

  
 WWE Velocity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
WWE Velocity, also known as simply Velocity, was a professional wrestling television program for World Wrestling Entertainment.
With the re-introduction of ECW, Velocity was cancelled, with the last episode being uploaded to WWE.com on June 10, 2006.
The Velocity section of WWE.com was removed on June 30, 2006.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/WWE_Velocity   (248 words)

  
 CANOE -- SLAM! Sports - Wrestling - Fiery words from American Dragon
Wrestling had the opportunity to speak to him for over an hour last week, taking an in depth look at his career.
Also you are wrestling five to six nights a week, my first tour we did a stretch of 17 dates in a row which was fantastic.
In addition to wrestling and running the ROH training school, Danielson is preparing for the future by taking college courses in order to achieve another goal in life.
slam.canoe.ca /Slam/Wrestling/2006/09/14/1838600.html   (4902 words)

  
 History of Wrestling. Quizzes and History of Wrestling. Trivia -- FunTrivia
The National Wrestling Alliance was, arguably, the number one promotion in the world for over 30 years, from its creation in 1948.
This is a mish-mash of professional wrestling in America over the last 40 years.
This quiz covers some of the worst moments in the history of professional wrestling, in terms of being inappropriate or poorly executed.
www.funtrivia.com /quizzes/entertainment/pro_wrestling/history_of_wrestling.html   (1075 words)

  
 Hagen’s Artful Analysis #14: Defining “Extreme Championship Wrestling”
Vince’s current brand of professional wrestling promotes a style that, while certainly workable, often appearss limiting and awkward in situations where it shouldn’t.
Whether or not Benoit embodies the grandness of professional wrestling in the ring or the Spirit Squad makes me laugh by bouncing off of trampolines, I am a fan of professional wrestling.
He isn’t promising something that delivered “garbage wrestling.” He is promising something that connected with me and a lot of wrestling fans on a personal level at a time when RVD’s theme song by Pantera meant more than its words denoted.
www.wrestleview.com /news2006/1147283854.shtml   (1152 words)

  
 Wrestling Observer - headlines   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
ECW will have their well known voice, and Raw gets back the best announcer in the history of wrestling, and it will be great to have him back in his familiar seat on TV next week.
TNA has fashioned themselves as the alternative to WWE, as the new wave of what’s popular in professional wrestling, and they present a lot of action that is very different to anything in WWE.
There is more buzz among the wrestling community about the return of ECW then there has been for anything in quite a long time.
www.wrestlingobserver.com /wo/news/headlines/default.asp?aID=16186   (3194 words)

  
 Velocity Racquetball
The highly publicized usage of this herbal supplement on the professional level has trickled down into increasing teenager’s doses as well.
Performance enhancers may be tempting to those who participate in wrestling, tennis, gymnastics, baseball, volleyball and football.
Kids in general produce more heat than adults when they play and work, you have a recipe for disaster that far outweighs the risk for the adult population." Yes, dehydration coupled with an intense workout in hot summer weather can lead to potentially fatal heatstroke, the same thing that killed the Baltimore Oriole’s Belcher.
www.velocityracquetball.net /Health/Herbal/ephedra02.htm   (236 words)

  
 Pro Wrestling
Modern pro wrestling is a performing art, where the wrestlers create an entertainment show simulating a combat sporting match.
Orginally professional wrestling promoters and performers claimed that the competition was completely real and vehemently defended secrets of the trade (a situation known as kayfabe).
The vast majority of bleeding incidents in wrestling are real, and are typically induced by using a small blade to make a small cut, often on the forehead near the hairline.
www.prowrestling.us   (549 words)

  
 OO Reference Desk: Insider Dictionary (Pro Wrestling News, Analysis, and Commentary...  WWF, WCW, ECW, The Rock, ...
This is not intended to be a list of technical wrestling terms but is, rather, intended to shed light on some of the more arcane terms used in the business.
Wrestling announcers on TBS picked up on this, and a foreign object is still occasionaly, jokingly called the "international object".
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.onlineonslaught.com /reference/glossary.shtml   (2465 words)

  
 Ten Questions With . . .
I used to always talk about wrestling and we would all pretend to be D-X, cause they were hot at the time.
You're bigger than he is, you wrestled in high school too.
His psycology is off the page and then when you add timing with pure wrestling technique, he's ring general.
www.wrestlingclothesline.com /MoSexy.htm   (1903 words)

  
 NoDQ.com > Features > The history of Pro-wrestling as a performing art
Originating in the days of traveling carnival shows, professional wrestling began as strongman feats, employing Greco-Roman wrestling, Lancashire wrestling, Catch wrestling, acrobatic performances and forms of national and regional wrestling and martial arts such as Pehlwani, Collar and elbow, Judo etc., which made money for promoters all over the world.
In the earlier parts of the 20th Century, "professional wrestling" was at times just that, a professional contest of amateur-style wrestlers competing for a purse with a league structure similar to professional boxing.
For over a century, professional wrestling promoters and performers claimed that the competition was completely real and vehemently defended secrets of the trade (a situation known as kayfabe).
nodq.com /features/149720698.shtml   (254 words)

  
 Macaela Mercedes of G.L.O.R.Y. Wrestling: The Hardest Working Women In Independent Wrestling
(At that time I had quit watching wrestling to some extent...I was really busy!) In my first semester, a friend and I decided to go to a RAW on the spur of the moment.
I was so overwhelmed that the next day I found a wrestling school and started that week.
Wrestling Ambition: To become the WWE Women's Champion whether on RAW or Smackdown.
www.glorywrestling.com /gg/MacaelaMercedes/MM.asp   (533 words)

  
 Ten Questions With . . .
RR: Well I have been a fan of professional wrestling (WWF) just about as long as I can remember; I would emulate all the taunts, moves, promos etc, anything from wearing Warrior Face paint and shoestrings on my arms, to stripping out of my PJ’s during HBK’s entrance.
RR: My first LIVE match was in HVW (High Velocity Wrestling) it was a 4 on 3 handicap match that featured, The “Hollywood Kid” JDT, Rob Ryzin, Jay Synn and the HVW Commissioner VS. Tag Team Champs, Deuce and Bud Doobie along with Vinny Vagrant.
I would say that my wrestling style emulates kind of all of them with some of my own stuff, Jeff Hardy and Shawn Michaels are probably the 2 that stand–out most though.
www.wrestlingclothesline.com /RobRyzin.htm   (557 words)

  
 WWE Velocity TV Show - WWE Velocity Television Show - TV.com
WWE Velocity is one hour of highly intensive wrestling action which continues the highs and lows experienced by all the WWE Smackdown!
Velocity has its own matches and gives all the updates and gossip you want to hear from the locker rooms of the WWE.
WWE Velocity left televsion and for a couple of shows went online where you could watch it online and on June 10, 2006 they...
www.tv.com /wwe-velocity/show/10674/summary.html   (554 words)

  
 velocity - OneLook Dictionary Search
Velocity : Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
Velocity : Encarta® Online Encyclopedia, North American Edition [home, info]
Phrases that include velocity: escape velocity, terminal velocity, radial velocity, angular velocity, muzzle velocity, more...
www.onelook.com /?w=velocity   (354 words)

  
 1WRESTLING.COM - NEWSLINE - PRO WRESTLING'S DAILY NEWS SOURCE
In a recent edition of Inside Wrestling Magazine, you visited the effect of WWE purchasing WCW two years later.
They even candidly admitted to me that one of the reasons for the offer was the fact that they knew they no longer had any competition.
The risks of having my family's financial well-being rest on a one-company controlled industry, professional wrestling or not, greatly outweighed the compensation they were willing to pay a full-time announcer.
www.1wrestling.com /news/newsline.asp?news=13367   (459 words)

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