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A professional wrestling promotion is a company or business that regularly performs shows involving professional wrestling, a form of entertainment that has little relationship to the rules of the Olympic form of wrestling. "Promotion" also describes a role which entails management, advertising and logistics of running a wrestling event.
Handles the Southern California Pro-Wrestling Hall of Fame. [12] [13] Solowrestling.com. Sebastián MartÃnez. Spanish. 2007. Largest Spanish website for wrestling. [14] SuperLuchas.com.
Xtreme Pro Wrestling (XPW) is an American independent professional wrestling promotion owned by Rob Zicari and operated by Extreme Gifts. The promotion is known for its deathmatch style . From 2000 to 2002, XPW held an annual death match tournament called Baptized in Blood, also known as the King of the Deathmatch Tournament.
A Hot Summer Night: The '85 World Invitational Wrestling Spectacular [6] (also known as Polynesian Hot Summer Night [2]) was a professional wrestling supercard produced by NWA Polynesian Pro Wrestling (NWA-PPW), which took place on August 3, 1985, at the Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, Hawaii. [2] An interpromotional show, it featured wrestlers from ...
The history of professional wrestling, as a performing art, started in the early 20th century, with predecessors in funfair and variety strongman and wrestling performances (which often involved match fixing) in the 1830s. [1] Professional wrestling is a popular form of entertainment in Australia, North America, Latin America, Europe, and Japan.
Professional wrestling (often referred to as pro wrestling, or simply, wrestling) is a form of athletic theater [2] that combines mock combat with drama, under the premise that the performers are competitive wrestlers. Although it entails elements of sports wrestling and martial arts, including genuine displays of athleticism and physicality ...
Debut. July 14, 2012 [5] Carlos Ruiz [6] (born May 9, 1997) is a Spanish professional wrestler currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the NXT brand under the ring name Axiom and is currently one-half of the NXT Tag Team Champions with Nathan Frazer in their first reign. He previously performed in NXT UK as A-Kid, where he was a former ...
e. Professional wrestling in the United States, until the 1920s, was viewed as a legitimate sport. This view did not endure into the 1930s, as professional wrestling became identified with modern theatrics. The scripted nature of the art has made some critics view it as an illegitimate sport, particularly in comparison to boxing, mixed martial ...