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	Gene Tunney's Magazine Article - Wrestling Heavyweight Champion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The world's champion in any sport, throughout the ages, naturally was the best of his era, but primarily he was a human being.
		Trying to decide who was the greatest wrestling champion since the beginning of civilization is about as futile a pastime as I can imagine.
		Monsieur Jacques maintained that if it were possible to resurrect all the world champions at their peak and put them in an elimination tournament, any two would be even money against each other.
	www.genetunney.org /magazine14.html (603 words)

	World Wrestling Entertainment Summary
		Champion Hulk Hogan bragged about having the "largest arms in the world," and performers like the Ultimate Warrior were touted not because of their ring talent, but because of their bodybuilder physiques.
		World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (WWE) is a publicly traded 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.
		Mondt and McMahon wanted Rogers to keep the NWA World Championship, but Rogers was unwilling to sacrifice his $25,000 deposit on the belt (title holders at the time had to pay a deposit to insure they would honor their commitments as champion).
	www.bookrags.com /World_Wrestling_Entertainment (3397 words)

	SLAM! Sports - Wrestling - World champs still reign supreme at fanfest
		Bockwinkel, a four-time AWA champion, said his ankle is "bone on bone" from his work in the ring, and he expects a chipped vertebrae in his back to haunt him for years.
		Yet the respect between the champions came through loud and clear, as Race exuberantly praised Backlund for his ability to walk through the political minefields of the WWWF and for unparalleled physical conditioning.
		Backlund, WWWF champion from 1978-1983, always wrestled as the "All-American" boy, but left the business for a decade after Vincent K. McMahon moved the title to the waist of Hulk Hogan with a pitstop in the possession the Iron Sheik.
	slam.canoe.ca /Slam/Wrestling/2004/08/29/608497.html (1221 words)

	The Death of Jim Londos -- August 19, 1975 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Londos was a world heavyweight champion for almost 16 years -- mostly in the post-Depression era, when world wrestling champions, it seemed, sprouted up in plentiful numbers.
		In keeping with the theme adopted by wrestling promoters of trying to give their performers distinct identities, Londos, during World War I, toured the Pacific Coast as "Chris Theophelus, the Wrestling Plasterer." He would crawl through the ropes in working clothes, his shoes daubed with property plaster.
		Jimmy Londos was the professional wrestling champion of this wide, bewildered world in the days of the Great Depression, Prohibition, Repeal and the New Deal.
	www.wrestling-titles.com /people/londos_jim/death.html (1389 words)

	Winning Wrestling Moves - Human Kinetics
		Winning Wrestling Moves is a generously illustrated guide that shows wrestlers at the high school and college levels how to come out on top in every match.
		Mark Mysnyk was a two-time New York state high school champion, a member of four of the University of Iowa’s NCAA championship teams, an alternate on the 1976 U.S. Olympic freestyle wrestling team, and a member of the 1977 World University team.
		Brooks Simpson is a champion wrestler at the national level as a Big Ten champion and NCAA runner-up in 1990.
	www.humankinetics.com /products/showproduct.cfm?isbn=0873224825 (467 words)

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		Wrestling in the at-the-time unique role of a babyface masked man. Woods would redon the mask to maintain the identity and myth for Georgia viewers who had no access to Solie's Florida shows (though south Georgia viewers who weekly saw Florida matches in Jacksonville and Tallahassee were already onto secret of the masquerade).
		Wrestling II still holds the record for the highest national rating ever in the history of the old Saturday show, for a 1983 elimination tag bout with the storyline of II putting up his mask against the $25,000 of Larry Zbyszko.
		Wrestling 2, who was presented with a plaque and spoke to the crowd later on the show, helped Road Dogg (Brian James) defeat Chris Stevens in the Canadian Lumberjack main event after delivering his famous knee lift to Stevens to set up the pin.
	www.wrestlingclassics.com /wawli/New051-060.htm (19677 words)

	The Official web site for National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum
		Both were founded by the same group of wrestling visionaries who foresaw the two organizations working together to serve a common mission in the sport.
		The National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum is presenting a “Test Your Collegiate Wrestling Trivia Challenge” in conjunction with the 2007 NCAA Division I Championships slated for Mar.15-17 in Auburn Hills, Michigan.
		The National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum has announced the selection of the Class of 2007 Distinguished Members to be inducted at its annual Honors Weekend Banquet and Induction Ceremony June 2, 2007 in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
	www.wrestlinghalloffame.org (813 words)

	2005 IPRA Steer Wrestling World Champion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Having grown up in the sport of rodeo it was never "if" he would be a world champion, it was "when" he would become a world champion and in which event.
		This personable cowboy earned the Steer Wrestling Rookie of the Year in 2000 and this accomplishment fueled the fire for wanting to achieve his ultimate goal of earning a world championship.
		His biggest win was at the Canadian rodeo in St. Tite where he earned the win in both the steer wrestling as well as the prestigious all-around cowboy title.
	iprarodeo.com /2005/Champ/SteerWrestling.php (216 words)

	CNN.com - British triumph at toe wrestling - Jun. 22, 2003
		British contenders fought off competition from around the world to be crowned World Toe-Wrestling Champions.
		The sport, which resembles arm wrestling, was dreamt up in the 1970s by the landlord of Ye Olde Royal Oak Inn.
		Legend has it the championships were abandoned after a Canadian tourist took the title in 1977, destroying the sport's founding principle as an activity at which the English could excel.
	cnn.com /2003/WORLD/europe/06/22/offbeat.uk.toes (384 words)

	Kevin Smyth \| News
		What a great honor it is to their country and to their wrestling champions past and present.
		My previous championship belts date back to 1987 and therefore, the International Wrestling communities felt it was appropriate, to authorize, a new World Light Heavyweight Championship Belt in recognition of my current achievements, and world ranking status.
		I had to remove the picture of my new World Light Heavyweight Championship Belt because people were stealing copies of it and posting them to their websites.
	www.worldchampionkevinsmyth.com /news/whatsup_index.htm (797 words)

	IWIM - 1999 George Tragos/Lou Thesz Hall of Fame Inductions
		Wrestling history was made Saturday, April 24, when the first-ever inductions were held at the George Tragos/Lou Thesz Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame at the International Wrestling Institute and Museum.
		Wrestling legends Frank Gotch, Ed "Strangler" Lewis, Lou Thesz and Verne Gagne were inducted into the Museum on Saturday.
		A total of seven former world wrestling champions attended the ceremonies.
	www.wrestlingmuseum.org /gtlthofinductions_99.html (386 words)

	CNN.com - British triumph at toe wrestling - Jun. 22, 2003
		British contenders fought off competition from around the world to be crowned World Toe-Wrestling Champions.
		The sport, which resembles arm wrestling, was dreamt up in the 1970s by the landlord of Ye Olde Royal Oak Inn.
		Legend has it the championships were abandoned after a Canadian tourist took the title in 1977, destroying the sport's founding principle as an activity at which the English could excel.
	www.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/europe/06/22/offbeat.uk.toes/index.html (384 words)

	List of World Heavyweight Champions (WWE) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the interest of maintaining kayfabe, please do not add any information that has not been aired to the public yet on official media such as organization television programs or websites.
		The World Heavyweight Championship is a professional wrestling title.
		This is a list, by ring name, of people that have been World Heavyweight Champion.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/World_Wrestling_Champions (287 words)

	World Championship Wrestling in Australia
		The unusual characters, superb athletes representing Australia and almost every country in the world whose names are fondly embedded in the psyche of the Australian television public, thanks to the weekly exposure attributed to the sport during the 60’s and 70’s by the Nine Network.
		Under various owners J. Barnett, John Doyle, Florida Wrestling, T. Kolonie, L. O’Day and myself WCW (Aust) produced high rating weekly TV programmes, which was the key to its success, and promoted over 300 live shows per year throughout Australia, South Pacific and the East, and set attendance records that may never be broken.
		He was constantly in demand and toured Australia and the World wrestling the best as Australian Heavyweight Champion, a title which he held for a record length of time.
	www.worldchampionshipwrestling.com.au (539 words)

	ISH No 7 - Public Declaration of Pahlavan Razaz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		We know we live in another era, and this is the period commercialism and economics influence the statue of wrestling in Iran immensely.
		Nevertheless, the new generation of wrestlers need to remind themselves constantly as who they are, what legacy of wrestling they represent, and who they should look up to in order to form a role model.
		However, if the foreign champions decide to donate some money for education, it is up to them as what percentage they want to donate.
	www.sportestan.com /ish/html/news/ph822101.htm (880 words)

	World Champions in New Zealand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		For a very small country we are proud of the fact that no fewer than ten World's heavyweight Wrestling Champions have paid us a visit (I wrote this story in 1973 so it does not include the more recent Champions like Rick Flair, Harley Race, Jack Brisco and Giant Baba).
		The Auckland Wrestling Association secured the bout and ventured outdoors to Carlaw Park, the headquarters of Rugby League, where a record crowd of over 12,000 sat shivering in the chill late-Spring evening.
		It might be said in defence of Londos continuing in wrestling that he drew 14,000 spectators to his Sydney bout, and 6,000 to the Auckland affair, and that while he can do this he's justified in carrying on until he's 100 if he can get someone to prop him up.
	www.fighttimes.com /magazine/magazine.asp?article=267 (1763 words)

	Movie Poop Shoot - Kentucky Fried Rasslin'
		A popular theory at the time suggested that pro wrestling was the only way to unite the city's divided population of fls and whites for a common cause.
		In fact, wrestling at the old Elis Auditorium in the late '50s was the first integrated sporting event in the city, which came about only because then-top-draw Sputnik Monroe demanded it.
		The marks' dedication was never more evident than when the NWA or AWA World champion made a rare appearance to defend against the King in his "backyard." The atmosphere was like the Super Bowl, with a SRO crowd of nearly 12,000 sure to be on hand to cheer on the city's favorite son.
	www.moviepoopshoot.com /wrestling/3.html (2539 words)

	NWW [New World Wrestling] newworldwrestling.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Tony joins an elite group of wrestling legends to be inducted into the Hall of Fame and is most definitely deserving of the honor.
		Tony Atlas was born in Roanoke, VA in 1954 and began his wrestling career when he was trained by Larry Sharpe in 1973.
		He was able to get work with World Class Championship Wrestling in Texas in the late 80's and with the WWC in Puerto Rico, but he failed to regain the momentum that propelled him to the top of the WWF.
	newworldwrestling.com /atlascolumn.htm (508 words)

	World BlackBelt Online
		Dan was inducted into Arizona State University's wrestling hall of fame at the end of his prestigious collegiate career.
		Dan wrestled weekly for the WWF as he continued a grueling appearance, seminar, and no holds barred fighting schedule.
		He is known around the world as the most active competitor in sports today.
	www.worldblackbelt.com /Living_Legends/Severn_Dan.asp (1164 words)

	WORLD WRESTLING ENTERTAINMENT
		World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc., or WWE, is a professional wrestling promotion, currently the largest in North America.
		World Wrestling Entertainment is a publicly-traded company, but 70% of voting shares are owned by Chairman Vince McMahon, his wife, CEO Linda McMahon, his son, Executive Vice President of Global Media Shane McMahon, and his daughter, Vice President of Creative Writing Stephanie McMahon-Levesque.
		Wrestling Blog is one of the only blogs covering the wrestling business.
	www.squidoo.com /WORLDWRESTLINGENTERTAINMENT (710 words)

	World Of Hurt Wrestling
		World of Hurt is an organization presented to support athletic programs in the region.
		The regular shows are a way for World of Hurt students to practice their skills with professionals in front of a live audience.
		All text, logos, and images within worldofhurtwrestling.com (with the exception of the links page) are property of World Of Hurt Wrestling, and those affilated with World Of Hurt Wrestling, unless otherwise stated.
	www.worldofhurtwrestling.com /index.shtml (169 words)

	OVW Wrestling School
		Ohio Valley Wrestling is recognized around the world as one of the finest professional wrestling training facilities in the industry.
		OVW counts among its many accolades that it is the official developmental program for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), the sport's leading promotion.
		Student will begin to explore more of the moves, holds, and psychology of pro wrestling matches, and the top students will be considered for "tryouts" at selected live OVW events.
	www.ovwrestling.com /school.htm (936 words)

	World Wrestling Insanity
		The ending was one of the most unique I've ever seen in wrestling and has to be seen to be believed.
		Pre-Order World Wrestling Insanity: The Fall and Decline of a Family Empire
		World Wrestling Insanity is not affiliated with any wrestling promotion.
	www.worldwrestlinginsanity.com /artman/publish/article_27.htm (171 words)

	2003 IPRA Steer Wrestling World Champion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Troy Orr from Lebanon, Tenn., has made a habit of being the center of attention during the steer wrestling competition at the International Finals Rodeo.
		That gave Orr his third consecutive IFR steer wrestling average title with a total time of 16.4 seconds on four head of cattle.
		The only other steer wrestler with as many as two straight is 11-time IPRA world champion Dale Yerigan, who won consecutive average crowns at IFRs 17 and 18.
	www.iprarodeo.com /2003/Champ/SteerWrestling.php (468 words)

	BK Grang to Defend World Backyard Wrestling Championship in Triple Threat Match November 18 - National Championship ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Grang is the first Texan to ever hold the World Backyard Wrestling Championship, whose origins stretch back to 1971.
		As all World Backyard Wrestling Champions before him, BK Grang will defend the title against any and all challengers.
		National Championship Wrestling is an international sports-entertainment company whose 30-plus affiliate organizations in 6 countries produce televised and streaming video content.
	www.prleap.com /printer/19335 (303 words)

	Boston Red Sox - World Champions! - Talk Wrestling Online
		I watched the world series game last night and the drama and entertainment was second to none.
		I thought that the Yankees were a sure thing for the World Series when they were three games up, but Boston showed their resolve and pulled out an astounding win.
		The Cardinals were not going to win as soon as Boston made it into the Series, it was like a fairytale and the Red Sox were destined to be the ones with the happy ending.
	www.talkwrestlingonline.com /forum/showthread.php?t=15832 (495 words)

	World Of Hurt Wrestling
		World of Hurt is an organization presented to support athletic programs in the region.
		The regular shows are a way for World of Hurt students to practice their skills with professionals in front of a live audience.
		All text, logos, and images within worldofhurtwrestling.com (with the exception of the links page) are property of World Of Hurt Wrestling, and those affilated with World Of Hurt Wrestling, unless otherwise stated.
	www.worldofhurtwrestling.com (161 words)

	Amazon.com: "World Wrestling Federation": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		I had always tried to downplay the importance of the World Wrestling Federation title in my career.
		It may not be as badass as "the toughest SOB in the World Wrestling Federation,...
		World Wrestling Federation - 13 Issues -- Get 66% off World Wrestling Federation magazine subscriptions, published monthly.
	www.amazon.com /phrase/World-Wrestling-Federation (639 words)

	Current WWE Champions (formerly WWF) - Rock13.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Of course wwe.com always had the current champion highlighted, but finding who was defeated or how the title was won was very difficult on the WWE site; and they had nothing on title histories.
		I've been falling behind in keeping this page updated as I realized there were a couple reliable sources on the web and the WWE is better utlizing the web to share, and archive, their information.
		Images, names, or phrases not created by the author are property of their respective owners.
	rock13.com /austin/current_champs.html (136 words)

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