His short " Wrestling Swordfish " was awarded the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film in 1932 and he earned an Academy Honorary Award in 1937.

In 1932 he was nominated for the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film in the comedy division for producing The Loud Mouth ( with Matt McHugh, in the sports-heckler role later taken in Columbia Pictures remakes by Charley Chase and Shemp Howard ), and he won in the novelty division for his film Wrestling Swordfish.

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

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.

The first major time this was done was when the National Wrestling Alliance kayfabe banned Jerry " The King " Lawler from using the Piledriver in his matches.

This type of match became increasingly prominent during the 1990s, and was a particular feature of the Extreme Championship Wrestling ( ECW ) promotion.

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.

In 2001, under AOL Time Warner, it was sold to the World Wrestling Federation.

Super Fire Pro Wrestling X Premium was the first game to include such a feature, and later fighting games such as Fighter Maker, Soulcalibur III, Mortal Kombat: Armageddon, and Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2 adopted the concept.

Wrestling with evident depression, ( which after his death would be assessed as clinical depression ), Foster was prescribed the anti-depressant medication Trazodone over the phone by his Arkansas doctor, though he was given an insufficient initial dosage to have much effect.

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

Created as a joint venture between NBC and the World Wrestling Federation under the company name " XFL, LLC ", the XFL was created as a " single-entity league ", meaning that the teams were not individually owned and operated franchises ( as in the NFL ), but that the league was operated as a single business unit.

Wrestling Observer Newsletter had a recall poll to remove him from their Hall of Fame but was under the 60 % needed to do so.

The team was a member of the XFL begun by Vince McMahon of World Wrestling Entertainment and by NBC, a major television network in the United States.

* The first edition of World Wrestling Entertainment's pay per view New Year's Revolution was held here in January 2005.

In 1982, it was sold to the same family's Titan Sports company, which later changed its name to World Wrestling Federation Entertainment, before becoming World Wrestling Entertainment in 2002, and simplified to WWE in 2011.

In March 1979, for marketing purposes, the World Wide Wrestling Federation was renamed the World Wrestling Federation ( WWF ).

The WWF was not the only promotion to have broken ranks with the NWA ; the American Wrestling Association ( AWA ) had long ago ceased being an official NWA member ( although like the WWF, they seldom left their own territory ).

With the inaugural WrestleMania the WWF initiated a joint-promotional campaign with MTV, which featured a great deal of WWF coverage and programming, in what was termed the Rock ' n ' Wrestling Connection.

Wrestling historically was the most frequently dropped sport, but other men's sports later overtook the lead, such that according to the NCAA, the most-dropped men's sports between 1987 and 2002 were as follows: Cross country ( 183 ), indoor track ( 180 ), golf ( 178 ), tennis ( 171 ), rowing ( 132 ), outdoor track ( 126 ), swimming ( 125 ) and wrestling ( 121 ).

He wrestled in Extreme Championship Wrestling ( ECW ) from 1995 to 1996 and World Championship Wrestling ( WCW ) from 1996 to 2001, as Rey Misterio, Jr ./ Rey Mysterio, Jr. but dropped the " Junior " from his name when he began working for WWE in 2002.

Wrestling was introduced in 1969, but then was dropped in 1981.

Wrestling was dropped as a conference sponsored sport after the 2002 – 03 season.

During the summer of 2002, the HWA was dropped as a developmental territory by the renamed World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ), but Cade was transferred over to WWE's main developmental company, Ohio Valley Wrestling when he signed a developmental contract in 2003.

This angle was postponed and then dropped after Sabu was sidelined with various health problems, and in the interim Dutt made appearances with World Wrestling Entertainment, provoking rumors of an imminent contract offer.

On the 29 December episode of Impact Wrestling, Williams was sidelined with a storyline injury, after Gunner dropped him onto the concrete floor with a DDT.

He dropped the title to Dick Slater on December 14, just before leaving the for the World Wrestling Federation.

He began his wrestling career in 1985 in the Sheik's promotion, Big Time Wrestling, and was billed as being from Saudi Arabia under the ring name " Sabu the Elephant Boy " ( use of " The Elephant Boy " was dropped in his later days ), as well as Terry S. R ( the S. R.

The next year, both Fatu and his cousin Matt were brought into the World Wrestling Federation ( WWF ) to take part in an angle with Solafa Fatu, Jr., Fatu's brother and Matt's cousin, that ended up being quickly dropped.

During June 2001, it emerged that the World Wrestling Federation had dropped Memphis Championship Wrestling as their developmental territory.

Starting in November 2009, WFVX began airing IWE: Championship Wrestling every Saturday night ; it has since been dropped.

In late 2001, WCW was bought out by the World Wrestling Federation and the deal with Clear Channel was dropped.

The show itself differed from Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Federation in that they had actual seasons where some wrestlers were dropped, changed, or added before the new season began.

Jerry Jarrett and Jerry Lawler brought the USWA back to Texas, but only on a limited basis, while promoters Joe Pedicino, Max Andrews, Boni Blackstone and Grey Pierson were getting the new Global Wrestling Federation ready for a spring 1991 debut at the Sportatorium.

* Shortly before Piper took a hiatus from the ring in the spring of 1986, his then-friend Adrian Adonis visits the set and changes gimmicks on the spot, foregoing his leather jacket that embodied his bad-boy biker persona for the more flamboyant, borderline homosexual gimmick that he would take on for the remainder of his World Wrestling Federation tenure.

Sports include Soccer, Field Hockey, and Cross Country in the fall, Wrestling, Basketball, and Ice Hockey in the winter, and Lacrosse, Softball and Track and Field in the spring.

After leaving the WWF, Harley continued to wrestle until the spring of 1991, most notably with World Wrestling Council ( WWC ) in Puerto Rico, the NWA, and the AWA.

In the spring of 2005, Guerrera had signed a contract with World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ).

By the spring of 1990 Orndorff signed with World Championship Wrestling, making his debut as a member of a group called the “ Dudes with Attitudes " consisting of himself, Sting, Lex Luger, Junkyard Dog, and The Steiner Brothers.

In the spring of 2003, Sytch and Candido moved to Puerto Rico and were set to work for Victor Quinones ' International Wrestling Association promotion.

Sullivan left Woman behind and headed to World Championship Wrestling in spring 1994.

This was memorialized in the spring edition of the Wrestling ' 87 magazine, with a large photograph of Koloff with the words " I cry for Magnum T. A.

In the spring of 1987, Paul E. Dangerously formed The Dangerous Alliance with Adrian Adonis and The Original Midnight Express ( Dennis Condrey and Randy Rose ) in the American Wrestling Association.

In the spring of 1960, Eddie left the team and went to the National Wrestling Alliance's territory in Florida to wrestle.

She also worked for Southern Championship Wrestling in Raleigh, North Carolina at the last-ever event at King's Barcade in the spring of 2007.