While at Dunbar he became the city-wide wrestling champion two years in a row.

While each wrestling match is ostensibly a competition of athletics and strategy, the goal of each match from a business standpoint is to excite and entertain the audience.

While pro wrestling is often described simplistically as a " soap opera for males ", it has also been cited as filling the role of past forms of literature and theatre ; a synthesis of classical heroics, commedia dell ' arte, revenge tragedies, morality plays, and burlesque.

He met with Pope Pius X and Abbas II Hilmi Bey ( the last Khedive of Egypt ), and played before 20, 000 people in London including King George V. While in Rome, he was filmed wrestling with another baseball player on the floor of the Colosseum ( although no known copy of that film has survived ).

While Eric Bischoff has received much criticism for some of his mishandling while he acted as WCW Executive Producer ( and later, WCW President ), he combined an understanding of wrestling with a willingness to make changes that were needed in order to help WCW become more visible in the eyes of the media and advertisers.

While at the University of Minnesota, he was a member of the varsity wrestling team, reaching the Big Ten semifinals ; and helped introduce the sport to Minnesota high schools by putting on exhibition matches around the state.

While signing modeling posters for Jonathan Gold, a talent agent and professional wrestling promoter, Psaltis jokingly told Gold that she would be interested in pursuing a career in wrestling.

While attending Nanuet Senior High School ( located in Rockland County, New York ), Maritato competed in football ( as part of the school's 1989 team that went undefeated, untied, and unscored upon ) and wrestling.

While there, he was interviewed by a local TV station and when asked if he still watched TV wrestling he said it made him sick and that he would never watch it.

While the Road Warriors never officially broke up, Animal started making an increasing number of solo appearances after they left the WWF as Hegstrand struggled with drug and alcohol addiction and generally did not appear at many wrestling shows during this time.

While Shaw is highly resistant to injury, especially kinetic ones, even he can be damaged by powerful enough blows, and his reliance on punches has been used against him on occasion ; Nightcrawler once tried to defeat Shaw by wrestling him, thus avoiding delivering any blows that would empower Shaw.

While working in Memphis, Tennessee as a disc jockey, Lawler's artistic ability attracted the attention of local wrestling promoter Aubrey Griffith.

While at a taping session for a Lowes commercial, Lockett engaged in a friendly wrestling match with former amateur rugby player Ace ( Adrian ) Mueller, who was at the time working for Lowes corporate division.

While wrestling in WCW, he became a two-time United States Champion and one-time World Tag Team Champion.

While the term technically applies only to wrestling performers, crowds also cause shoots by interfering in events, usually by assaulting or attempting to assault a wrestler.

While traditional sports like horse racing, camel racing, and sorro wrestling survive, world sports like football dominate in urban areas.

" While phrases such as that are often used by professional wrestling commentators to make matches seem more legitimate, Ross later stated that he made the comment out of character, being seriously worried for his friend ( who had, indeed, suffered a severe concussion as a result of the fall ).

While many feuds in professional wrestling are entirely fictional, there have been successful feuds that actually originated from a real life rivalry and / or animosity between wrestlers.

While part of the WWF, the Dudley Boyz's claim to fame was bringing the use of tables as weapons into the wrestling mainstream, often using their signature double-team move, the 3D, to put their opponents through one of these tables.

While working at Subway, it was suggested to Nora that she try out for wrestling, and out of curiosity, she did.

While in high school he was a successful freestyle wrestling competitor on his school team ; as he recalled many years later, he and a friend once " worked " a dramatic match against each other at a tournament, and were amused when nobody could see how much they were faking.

While attending Opelika High School he participated in wrestling and football.

While scratch matches were played by Australian " diggers " in remote locations around the world, the game lost many of its great players to wartime service.

While the Hungarians had the best won – loss record of the tournament as a team and lost only a single game of the 56 they played, they had won most of their matches by 2½ – 1½ scores, while the Russian team won gold as they piled up the points.

While many of these moments were baseball-related — including World Series games, no-hitters, perfect games, and historic home runs — the stadium also hosted boxing matches, concerts, Conventions of Jehovah's Witnesses ( see record attendance ), and three Papal Masses.

While Davenport's first play dated back to 1991, she officially became a professional two years after her first professional-level matches.

While he is considering this offer, one of his drone friends, Mawhrin-Skel, which had been ejected from Special Circumstances due to its unstable personality, convinces him to cheat in one of his matches in an attempt to win in an unprecedented perfect fashion.

While in Demerara he played two first-class cricket matches for the colony.

While many events took place in Lillehammer, skating took place in Hamar, some ice hockey matches were placed in Gjøvik, while Alpine skiing was held in Øyer and Ringebu.

While the stadium is primarily used for Australian Football League matches, it is also used for SANFL games.

While theoretically a player can excel in all fields over time by training all skills, usually players pick one field that matches their playing style, thus following the archetype model.

While the rest of the England team took part in warm-up matches, Boycott remained in Lahore and organised a special warm up match where the team would play itself.

They outwitted opposing batsmen not only through line, length, and trajectory variations but also by physically and psychologically exploiting rough spots resulting from wear and tear on the playing top and cracks from increasing surface dryness as a game progressed. The Indian batsmen being superb players of spin bowling have generally relished home conditions. Also few opposition teams have fielded quality spinners with Australia having Shane Warne in the team an obvious exception. Not surprisingly building a first inning lead is crucial in matches played in India. While the Brabourne and Wankhede stadiums in Mumbai and Ferozshah Kotla in Delhi never offered nearly as much turn to spinners, winning a series in India was nevertheless quite difficult, and considered an ultimate challenge for visiting teams, as it is to this day.

While he was able to recover and to resume his chess career in 1991 with matches against Predrag Nikolić and ( in 1992 ) Yasser Seirawan, followed by intermittent tournament appearances, his chance at the world title had passed and he did not reach the Candidates matches again.

While the address in the Return-Path often matches other originator addresses in the mail header such as From or Sender, this is not necessarily the case, and SPF does not prevent forgery of these other addresses.

While he claimed to have many fans ( due to his other performances at football matches ), he was criticized for risking the lives of the drivers, even though the cars were still travelling at low speed at this point.

While today's Swedish Match still produces matches, the majority of its sales and profits come from its smokeless products and machine made cigars.

While the music provides a tempo cue, the cadence does not need to be a multiple of the beat in order for the rider to feel in rhythm ; the music therefore helps a rider maintain any constant cadence, not just a cadence that matches the beat.

While British football has never been rocked by match fixing allegations on the scale of the Black Sox scandal ( the aforementioned incidents involved league matches, not major championships ), football match-fixing has become a serious problem in parts of Continental Europe.

While early matches were often between XIs named after counties, they were not the club teams the usage would imply today.

While Lawler was able to defeat Eudy in non-title matches, Eudy was able to retain his title in several championship defenses through screwjobs initiated by The Spellbinder, his ally at the time.

While competing in matches, Goldust utilized such tactics as groping his opponents and expressing affection towards them in the midst of his onslaught.

While competing for AJPW in 2007, Runnels returned to CCW to feud with Phi Delta Slam, mainly in tag team matches with a variety of partners, including Kip James.