After being trained by former professional wrestler Boris Malenko and his son Joe Malenko, Waltman began his career as The Lightning Kid, working his way through various independent organizations such as Pro Wrestling America ( PWA ) and the Global Wrestling Federation ( GWF ), winning the PWA Light Heavyweight title, the PWA Iron Horse TV Title and the GWF Light Heavyweight Championship.

PWA and later Canadian Airlines were based in Calgary.

After the PWA folded, Lynn wrestled for the Global Wrestling Federation ( GWF ) based in Dallas, Texas.

I point now with pride to the fact that, long ere the Committee on Un-American Activities, the Minute Women, the Economic Council and other such notable `` watchdog '' organizations were so much as heard of, I was Hollywood's leading bulwark against communism, fighting single-handedly `` creeping socialism '' against such insuperable odds as the Fascio-Communist troops of the NRA, PWA, WPA, CCC and an army of more than twenty-two million mercenaries whom F.D.R. employed secretly, through the transparent ruse of regular `` relief '' checks.

With grants from the Public Works Administration ( PWA ), the Indian Division built schools and operated an extensive road-building program in and around many reservations.

Long-Range Public Investment: The Forgotten Legacy of the New Deal ( 2007 ), providing a context for American public works programs, and detailing major agencies of the New Deal: CCC, PWA, CWA, WPA, and TVA.

To obtain large-scale federal money the mayor became a close partner of Roosevelt and New Deal agencies such as CWA, PWA and WPA, which poured $ 1. 1 billion into the city from 1934 – 39.

At this stage, Friedman said that he and his wife " regarded the job-creation programs such as the WPA, CCC, and PWA appropriate responses to the critical situation ," but not " the price-and wage-fixing measures of the National Recovery Administration and the Agricultural Adjustment Administration.

The Public Works Administration ( PWA ), part of the New Deal of 1933, was a large-scale public works construction agency in the United States headed by Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes.

The PWA spent over $ 6 billion in contracts to private construction firms that did the actual work.

The PWA was much less controversial than its rival agency with a confusingly similar name, the Works Progress Administration ( WPA ), headed by Harry Hopkins, which focused on smaller projects and hired unemployed unskilled workers.

After having scaled back the initial cost of the PWA, Franklin Delano Roosevelt agreed to include the PWA as part of his New Deal proposals in the " Hundred Days " of spring 1933.

The PWA headquarters in Washington planned projects, which were built by private construction companies hiring workers on the open market.

More than any other New Deal program, the PWA epitomized the progressive notion of " priming the pump " to encourage economic recovery.

Between July 1933 and March 1939 the PWA funded and administered the construction of more than 34, 000 projects including airports, large electricity-generating dams, major warships for the Navy, and bridges, as well as 70 % of the new schools and one-third of the hospitals built between 1933 – 1939.

Streets and highways were the most common PWA projects, as 11, 428 road projects, or 33 % of all PWA projects, accounted for over 15 % of its total budget.

PWA functioned chiefly by making allotments to the various Federal agencies ; making loans and grants to state and other public bodies ; and making loans without grants ( for a brief time ) to the railroads.

The PWA became, with its " multiplier-effect " and first two-year budget of $ 3. 3 billion ( compared to the entire GDP of $ 60 billion ), the driving force of America ’ s biggest construction effort up to that date.

For every worker on a PWA project, almost two additional workers were employed indirectly.

The PWA accomplished the electrification of rural America, the building of canals, tunnels, bridges, highways, streets, sewage systems, and housing areas, as well as hospitals, schools, and universities ; every year it consumed roughly half of the concrete and a third of the steel of the entire nation.

Some of the most famous PWA projects are the Triborough Bridge and the Lincoln Tunnel in New York City, the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington state, the longest continuous sidewalk in the world along 6½ miles of Bayshore Blvd.

The PWA also electrified the Pennsylvania Railroad between New York and Washington, DC.

The PWA was the centerpiece of the New Deal program for building public housing for the poor people in cities.

James Curtin ( born 30 January 1983 ) is an English professional wrestler, better known by his ring names Spud and Rockstar Spud.

*" Wildcat ", ring name of Robbie Brookside ( born 1966 ), British professional wrestler and trainer

If the wrestler has passed out, the opponent then scores by submission.

For example, a wrestler may get whipped into a referee at a slower speed, knocking the ref down for short amount of time ; during that interim period, one wrestler may pin his opponent for a three-count and would have won the match but for the referee being down ( sometimes, another referee will sprint to the ring from backstage to attempt to make the count, but by then, the other wrestler has had enough time to kick out on his own accord ).

However, Mondt discovered a solution that would completely transform the industry, as he convinced Lewis and Sandow to implement a new form of wrestling that combined features of boxing, Greco-Roman, freestyle, lumber-camp fighting, and theater into what he deemed “ Slam Bang Western-Style Wrestling .” He then formed a promotion with wrestler Ed Lewis and his manager Billy Sandow.

Kaufman decides to become a professional wrestler — but to emphasize the “ villain ” angle, he would wrestle only women ( hired actresses ) and then berate them after winning, declaring himself " Inter-Gender Wrestling Champion ".

Creating the costumed identity of Spider-Man for himself, Peter sought first to exploit his newfound powers as a masked wrestler and then as a television star.

Seiji Ozawa relates an anecdote: on hearing of the death of the baby daughter of his friend the sumo wrestler Chiyonofuji, Slava flew unannounced to Tokyo, took a 1 1 / 2 hour cab ride to Chiyonofuji's house and played his Bach sarabande outside, as his gesture of sympathy — then got back in the taxi and returned to the airport to fly back to Europe.

The steer wrestler then is pulled off his horse by the slowing steer and plants his heels into the dirt further slowing the steer and himself.

The steer wrestler then slides with his feet turned slightly to the left, twisting the head of the steer toward one by pushing down with the near hand and pulling up and in with the far elbow.

When one wrestler finally tapped-out and pulled away from his opponent, it was only then that he and the crowd realised the other man was, in fact, dead and had effectively won the match posthumously.

McMahon then began an on-screen relationship with wrestler Test, which led to a rivalry between him and her older brother Shane.

Edge was then placed in a feud against the vampire wrestler Gangrel.

In a backstage meeting in August 1999, which involved every contracted WCW wrestler, Eric Bischoff offered anyone their release right then and there.

Filipović then defeated Mexican professional wrestler Dos Caras Jr. at Pride Bushido 1, also with a head kick knockout, in 46 seconds.

After Styles dropped the World Heavyweight Championship to Rob Van Dam, then failed to regain it in a rematch and later was pinned by Jay Lethal, Flair adopted Kazarian as his newest protégé, seemingly replacing Styles as his number one wrestler.

This variation of the armbreaker involves the attacking wrestler grabbing the opponent's left or right arm, holding it across their chest and then falling backwards, dropping the opponent face first as well as damaging the opponent's arm and shoulder.

The wrestler grabs his or her opponent's arm, then turns to face the other direction and pulls the opponent over his or her shoulder.

An arm drag which sees the wrestler being spun in front of the opponent's body in a tilt-a-whirl, and then ending it up with an arm drag.

This arm drag sees the wrestler being held in a wheelbarrow hold by the opponent, and then going for an over the shoulder arm drag as he frees his legs off the opponent's waist.

A move in which the wrestler goes behind an opponent, then puts his head under the opponent's shoulder.

Periodically called a Manhattan Drop, this is a move in which the wrestler puts his or her head under the opponent's shoulder and lifts the opponent up and then drops his or her " lower abdomen region " or groin first on the wrestler's knee.

The wrestler then lifts the opponent into the air and falls into a seated position, driving the opponent tailbone-first on to the mat.

The wrestler then jumps up and falls on to his / her back so that the opponent lands on his / her head while remaining vertical.

The wrestler applies a cobra clutch and then leaps forward, falling into a sitting position and driving the face of the opponent into the ground.