* The Band ( wrestling ), the Total Nonstop Wrestling name for the professional wrestling stable New World Order

* Capitol Wrestling Corporation, a predecessor organization to World Wrestling Entertainment

Mercer is perhaps best known as the ringside commentator of World Class Championship Wrestling in the 1980s.

* Euphoria an event of World Wrestling Council

Judo, Freestyle Wrestling, and Greco-Roman Wrestling are Olympic Sports while Brazilian Jiu-jitsu and Sambo have their own World Championship Competitions.

The ADCC Submission Wrestling World Championship is the most prestigious full range ( takedown, position, and submission inclusive ) grappling tournament in the world.

He was Hulk Hogan's tag-team partner at the World Wrestling Federation's ( WWF ) first WrestleMania which he won.

Mr. T returned to the World Wrestling Federation as a special guest referee in 1987 as well as a special referee enforcer confronting such stars as the Honky Tonk Man.

On July 21, 1989, Mr. T. made an appearance in World Class Championship Wrestling, seconding Kerry Von Erich.

FILA Wrestling World Championships and Boxing at the Summer Olympics were introduced in 1904.

World Wrestling Entertainment had a revenue of USD 1. 4 billion.

Currently, the largest professional wrestling company worldwide is the United States-based World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ), which bought over many smaller regional companies in the late twentieth century, as well as its primary competitors in early 2001, World Championship Wrestling ( WCW ) and Extreme Championship Wrestling ( ECW ).

Gradually, the nature of professional wrestling became an open secret, although American promotions ' events were still often regulated by state athletic commissions through the 1980s, until World Wrestling Federation owner Vince McMahon publicly admitted that wrestling was entertainment, not competition.

She then formed the World Women's Wrestling Association in the early 1950s and recognized herself as the first champion, although the championship would be vacated upon her retirement in 1956.

The French theorist Roland Barthes was among the first to propose that wrestling was worthy of deeper analysis, in his essay " The World of Wrestling " from his book Mythologies, first published in 1957.

Other documentaries have been produced by The Learning Channel ( The Secret World of Professional Wrestling ) and A & E Network ( Hitman Hart: Wrestling with Shadows ).

* OnlineWorldofWrestling. com-The Online World of Wrestling

World of Warcraft has employees of Blizzard Entertainment that serve as gamemasters to help users with various problems in gameplay, chat, and other things like account and billing issues.

A fifth title, Intellivision World Series Major League Baseball, developed as part of the Entertainment Computer System series, also supports the Intellivoice if both the ECS and Intellivoice are connected concurrently.

Blizzard Entertainment helped to set part of " Make Love, Not Warcraft ", an Emmy Award – winning 2006 episode of the comedy series South Park, in its massively multiplayer online role-playing game ( MMORPG ) World of Warcraft.

A few weeks later, Blizzard Entertainment posted on WorldofWarcraft. com their " Letter to the Machinimators of the World ", a license for noncommercial use of game content.

In December 2005, Blizzard Entertainment and Xfire, a gaming-focused instant messaging service, jointly sponsored a World of Warcraft machinima contest.

* Might and Magic II: Gates to Another World ( 1988 ; Apple II, Amiga, DOS, Commodore 64, Mac, Sega Genesis, Super Nintendo Entertainment System ( Europe only ), SNES ( Japan-only, different from the European version ), MSX, PC-Engine CD )

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* Titan Sports, the former parent company of World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE )

Anchor Bay Entertainment had once announced that it would be releasing the director's cut of Until the End of the World in North America, but has since changed ownership and interest in Wenders ' work was abandoned.

The World Series of Poker ( WSOP ) is a series of poker tournaments held annually in Las Vegas and, since 2005, sponsored by Caesars Entertainment ( known as Harrah's Entertainment until 2010 ).

In 2004, Harrah's Entertainment ( now Caesars Entertainment ) purchased Binion's Horseshoe, retained the rights to the Horseshoe and World Series of Poker brands, sold the hotel and casino to MTR Gaming Group, and announced that the 2005 Series events would be held at the Harrah's-owned Rio Hotel and Casino, located just off the Las Vegas Strip.

The league was founded by World Wrestling Entertainment owner Vince McMahon.

* August 22 – Jonathan Coachman, American World Wrestling Entertainment announcer

* August 25 – Mike Lockwood ( Crash Holly ), American World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ) professional wrestler ( d. 2003 )

Two castmembers of non-athletic reality shows, Mike " The Miz " Mizanin ( from The Real World and its spin-off, The Challenge ) and David Otunga ( from I Love New York ), became professional wrestlers for World Wrestling Entertainment.

* Robotomy ( 2010 — 2011 ; co-production with World Leaders Entertainment )

Dynamite Entertainment have since published 25 issues of the The Wheel of Time: Eye of the World comic book series as of March 2012.

Born to race car driver Ralph Lee Earnhardt, Earnhardt began his career in 1975 when he drove in the 1975 World 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway as part of the Winston Cup Series ( later the Sprint Cup Series ).

Earnhardt began his professional career at the Winston Cup in 1975, making his debut at the Charlotte Motor Speedway in North Carolina in the longest race on the Cup circuit, the World 600.

Howe returned to pro hockey shortly after to play with his two sons Mark and Marty Howe ( Mark would later join the Red Wings at the end of his career ) in the upstart World Hockey Association in 1972.

In 2003, Morris won the Best Documentary Oscar at the Academy Awards, for his film The Fog of War, about the career of Robert S. McNamara, who was famous for having been the Secretary of Defense who had led the nation into the Vietnam War under Presidents John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, and who was also crucially involved in having helped President Kennedy avoid a Third World War over the issue of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba.

She then continued her career in the United States, as did Maurice Tourneur and Léonce Perret after World War I.

Professional skaters may range from former Olympic and World champions who have ended their competitive career to skaters with little or no international competitive experience.

After World War II, however, Capra's career declined as his subjects were more out of tune with the mood of audiences.

He enlisted in the Army during World War I after graduating college, and again in World War II at the peak of his career, when he directed 11 documentary war films for the U. S. government's Why We Fight series, winning an Academy Award for one and a Distinguished Service Medal when the war ended.

Crick began a Ph. D. research project on measuring viscosity of water at high temperatures ( which he later described as " the dullest problem imaginable ") in the laboratory of physicist Edward Neville da Costa Andrade at University College, London, but with the outbreak of World War II ( in particular, an incident during the Battle of Britain when a bomb fell through the roof of the laboratory and destroyed his experimental apparatus ), Crick was deflected from a possible career in physics.

Hayek served in World War I and said that his experience in the war and his desire to help avoid the mistakes that had led to the war led him to his career.

He started his political career during World War II.

Connick began his acting career as a tail gunner in the World War II film, Memphis Belle, in 1990.

He rose to prominence through his service in the First World War, receiving numerous honours and decorations, and continued his military career through various British campaigns across Europe and Asia.

In 1993, Polgár defeated former World Champion Boris Spassky ( pictured here in 1984 ) in an exhibition match winning the largest prize money up to that point of her career of $ 110, 000.

By that time, however, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor had taken place, drawing the United States into World War II and ending Robinson's nascent football career.

During his career, the Dodgers played in six World Series, and Robinson himself played in six All-Star Games.

He started his career in the German Navy ( Kaiserliche Marine, or " Imperial Navy ") before World War I.

Riefenstahl ’ s prominence in the Third Reich, along with her personal association with Adolf Hitler, destroyed her film career following Germany's defeat in World War II, after which she was arrested but released without any charges.

His career achievements include winning the 2000 US Open men's doubles, the 2001 US Open and 2002 Wimbledon men's singles, and back-to-back Tennis Masters Cup ( now called the ATP World Tour Finals ) titles ( 2001 and 2002 ).

Brando also participated in the singer's two-day solo career 30th-anniversary celebration concerts in 2001, and starred in his 13-minute-long music video, " You Rock My World ," in the same year.

The World Cup should mark the end of my career.

Nurmi had set his heart on ending his career with a marathon gold medal, as Kolehmainen had done shortly after the First World War.

An 11-time All-Star and two-time World Series champion, he won seven Cy Young Awards during his career, the most of any pitcher in MLB history.

On April 8,, Clemens won his first start of the season against the Cincinnati Reds, which tied him with Steve Carlton for second in wins for live-ball pitchers, and first among pitchers whose career began after World War II.