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WWE Legend Mr. Fuji Passes Away
WWE legend Mr. Fuji passes away Author : Robert D. Cobb The WWE universe lost a legend today. As reported through WWE.com, Former WWE Hall of Famer Mr. Fuji passed away at the age of 82. As of now, there is no cause for his passing. Mr. Fuji was involved in professional wrestling from 1965 until 1985 as a wrestler and then transformed into a heel manager from 1985 to 1996. He made his professional wrestling debut on December 15, 1965, in his native Hawaii. When he made his debut, though, he was under his ring name Mr. Fujiwara.It would be less than a month into his wrestling career that he would win his first belt, and that would be the NWA Hawaii Tag Team with Curtis Iaukea on January 7, 1966. It would be at that point where he would shorten his name to Mr. Fuji and would start touring many territories. Territories were a feature in wrestling before Vince McMahon bought the WWF into the 21st century and started buying up many of the territories. Mr. Fuji would continue to tour the territories util 1972. In 1972, he would make his debut for WWWF as a heel. He would form a tag team with Professor Tanaka and would be managed by one of the legendary heel managers, the Grand Wizard. During his run with Tanaka is where Mr. Fuji would begin throwing salt into his opponent's faces. He would win his first title in WWWF on June 27, 1972, when they would defeat Sonny King and Chief Jay Strongbow for the World Tag titles. -
Donald Trump Shoots the Match1 Sharon Mazer
Donald Trump Shoots the Match1 Sharon Mazer The day I realized it can be smart to be shallow was, for me, a deep experience. —Donald J. Trump (2004; in Remnick 2017:19) I don’t care if it’s real or not. Kill him! Kill him! 2 He’s currently President of the USA, but a scant 10 years ago, Donald Trump stepped into the squared circle, facing off against WWE owner and quintessential heel Mr. McMahon3 in the “Battle of the Billionaires” (WrestleMania XXIII). The stakes were high. The loser would have his head shaved by the winner. (Spoiler alert: Trump won.) Both Trump and McMahon kept their suits on—oversized, with exceptionally long ties—in a way that made their heads appear to hover, disproportionately small, over their bulky (Trump) and bulked up (McMahon) bodies. As avatars of capitalist, patriarchal power, they left the heavy lifting to the gleamingly exposed, hypermasculinist bodies of their pro-wrestler surrogates. McMahon performed an expert heel turn: a craven villain, egging the audience to taunt him as a clueless, elitist frontman as he did the job of casting Trump as an (unlikely) babyface, the crowd’s champion. For his part, Trump seemed more mark than smart. Where McMahon and the other wrestlers were working around him, like ham actors in an outsized play, Trump was shooting the match: that is, not so much acting naturally as neglecting to act at all. He soaked up the cheers, stalked the ring, took a fall, threw a sucker punch, and claimed victory as if he (and he alone) had fought the good fight (WWE 2013b). -
Wrestling with Manhood – Abridged Version
1 MEDIA EDUCATION F O U N D A T I O N 60 Masonic St. Northampton, MA 01060 | TEL 800.897.0089 | [email protected] | www.mediaed.org Wrestling With Manhood Boys, Bullying & Battering (Abridged Version) Transcript FANS: Welcome! Finally the Rock has come back to Springfield. You know, it’s good clean fun. Honestly, I wouldn’t let my son watch it. This is Austin’s middle finger. Too much violence. That and a lot of kids want to be like Stone Cold so they’ll drink beer. The female wrestlers, I think, are tremendous athletes. Big boobs and ripping each other’s clothes off. She’s a whore. Sometimes they get naked. The women are just their little playthings. The things they make them do, get on the ground and bark (barking sounds). That was pretty cool what they did to Trish. It’s promoting men beating on women. They want to come into the man’s world, they deserve to be treated just like a man. If a man is hitting a woman what is that showing the little kid? It’s not the WWF’s responsibility to raise them kids. It’s no worse than watching a movie or watching a soap opera or watching television. It’s entertainment. It’s entertainment. It’s just entertainment. I think it’s only entertainment, yeah. SUT JHALLY: You know it’s really difficult to get people to take professional wrestling seriously. Whenever I say that I’m working on this project on wrestling, people start smiling and laughing, almost as if to say “ how can you take this stuff so seriously. -
Professional Wrestling, Sports Entertainment and the Liminal Experience in American Culture
PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING, SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT AND THE LIMINAL EXPERIENCE IN AMERICAN CULTURE By AARON D, FEIGENBAUM A DISSERTATION PRESENTED TO THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA 2000 Copyright 2000 by Aaron D. Feigenbaum ACKNOWLEDGMENTS There are many people who have helped me along the way, and I would like to express my appreciation to all of them. I would like to begin by thanking the members of my committee - Dr. Heather Gibson, Dr. Amitava Kumar, Dr. Norman Market, and Dr. Anthony Oliver-Smith - for all their help. I especially would like to thank my Chair, Dr. John Moore, for encouraging me to pursue my chosen field of study, guiding me in the right direction, and providing invaluable advice and encouragement. Others at the University of Florida who helped me in a variety of ways include Heather Hall, Jocelyn Shell, Jim Kunetz, and Farshid Safi. I would also like to thank Dr. Winnie Cooke and all my friends from the Teaching Center and Athletic Association for putting up with me the past few years. From the World Wrestling Federation, I would like to thank Vince McMahon, Jr., and Jim Byrne for taking the time to answer my questions and allowing me access to the World Wrestling Federation. A very special thanks goes out to Laura Bryson who provided so much help in many ways. I would like to thank Ed Garea and Paul MacArthur for answering my questions on both the history of professional wrestling and the current sports entertainment product. -
Bodyslam from the Top Rope: Unequal Bargaining Power and Professional Wrestling's Failure to Unionize Stephen S
University of Miami Law School Institutional Repository University of Miami Entertainment & Sports Law Review 1-1-1995 Bodyslam From the Top Rope: Unequal Bargaining Power and Professional Wrestling's Failure to Unionize Stephen S. Zashin Follow this and additional works at: http://repository.law.miami.edu/umeslr Part of the Entertainment and Sports Law Commons Recommended Citation Stephen S. Zashin, Bodyslam From the Top Rope: Unequal Bargaining Power and Professional Wrestling's Failure to Unionize, 12 U. Miami Ent. & Sports L. Rev. 1 (1995) Available at: http://repository.law.miami.edu/umeslr/vol12/iss1/3 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by Institutional Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in University of Miami Entertainment & Sports Law Review by an authorized administrator of Institutional Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Zashin: Bodyslam From the Top Rope: Unequal Bargaining Power and Professi UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI ENTERTAINMENT & SPORTS LAW REVIEW ARTICLES BODYSLAM FROM THE TOP ROPE: UNEQUAL BARGAINING POWER AND PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING'S FAILURE TO UNIONIZE STEPHEN S. ZASHIN* Wrestlers are a sluggish set, and of dubious health. They sleep out their lives, and whenever they depart ever so little from their regular diet they fall seriously ill. Plato, Republic, III I don't give a damn if it's fake! Kill the son-of-a-bitch! An Unknown Wrestling Fan The lights go black and the crowd roars in anticipation. Light emanates only from the scattered popping flash-bulbs. As the frenzy grows to a crescendo, Also Sprach Zarathustra' pierces the crowd's noise. -
The Operational Aesthetic in the Performance of Professional Wrestling William P
Louisiana State University LSU Digital Commons LSU Doctoral Dissertations Graduate School 2005 The operational aesthetic in the performance of professional wrestling William P. Lipscomb III Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations Part of the Communication Commons Recommended Citation Lipscomb III, William P., "The operational aesthetic in the performance of professional wrestling" (2005). LSU Doctoral Dissertations. 3825. https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/3825 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at LSU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in LSU Doctoral Dissertations by an authorized graduate school editor of LSU Digital Commons. For more information, please [email protected]. THE OPERATIONAL AESTHETIC IN THE PERFORMANCE OF PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in The Department of Communication Studies by William P. Lipscomb III B.S., University of Southern Mississippi, 1990 B.S., University of Southern Mississippi, 1991 M.S., University of Southern Mississippi, 1993 May 2005 ©Copyright 2005 William P. Lipscomb III All rights reserved ii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I am so thankful for the love and support of my entire family, especially my mom and dad. Both my parents were gifted educators, and without their wisdom, guidance, and encouragement none of this would have been possible. Special thanks to my brother John for all the positive vibes, and to Joy who was there for me during some very dark days. -
Revue De Recherche En Civilisation Américaine, 4 | 2013 Vers Une Réappropriation Du Récit Par Ses Acteurs Dans Le Catch Contemporain 2
Revue de recherche en civilisation américaine 4 | 2013 Le catch et... Vers une réappropriation du récit par ses acteurs dans le catch contemporain Stéphane Rupa Édition électronique URL : http://journals.openedition.org/rrca/541 ISSN : 2101-048X Éditeur David Diallo Référence électronique Stéphane Rupa, « Vers une réappropriation du récit par ses acteurs dans le catch contemporain », Revue de recherche en civilisation américaine [En ligne], 4 | 2013, mis en ligne le 28 décembre 2013, consulté le 20 avril 2019. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/rrca/541 Ce document a été généré automatiquement le 20 avril 2019. © Tous droits réservés Vers une réappropriation du récit par ses acteurs dans le catch contemporain 1 Vers une réappropriation du récit par ses acteurs dans le catch contemporain Stéphane Rupa 1 Qu'on le nomme professionnal wrestling, lucha libre, puroresu ou sport-entertainment, le catch n'est qu'une immense machinerie destinée à produire du récit (Jenkins, 1997). La démarche utilisée ici est celle qui consiste en une analyse globale des mécanismes et des rouages de cette machinerie durant les soixante dernières années. Si le choix d'une telle période est volontairement long, c'est pour avoir la certitude d'englober la mutation majeure de cette activité, celle du passage d'un art forain, un état artisanal donc, à une production quasi-industrielle générée essentiellement par une multinationale du divertissement, la WWE. 2 La particularité du récit qu'offre le catch au monde réside dans son caractère composite. Chacune des histoires racontées par le wrestling-business1 n'est qu'une pièce d'un ensemble global et polymorphe. -
FY18 Indian Creek Budget Readoption.Pdf
A2 | Orlando Sentinel Thursday, July 12, 2018 ABCDE PEOPLE & ARTS CELEBRITIES Tribune news services EVAN AGOSTINI/INVISION Cardi B welcomes baby girl: Cardi B, above, is celebrating the birth of her first child. The 25- year-old rapper welcomed Kulture Kiari Cephus in a post on Instagram Wednesday. The girl was born Tuesday. The an- nouncement comes two weeks after Cardi B con- firmed she and rapper HAPPY FISH PRODUCTIONS Offset had secretly mar- Bret “Hit Man” Hart was one of 70 wrestlers interviewed for “350 Days,” a documentary ried in September 2017. about older wrestlers’ days of pain and glory. It is coming to three area theaters today. This is the fourth child for Offset. CHRIS PIZZELLO/INVISION Sharon Tate auction: ‘350 Days’ of life on Benji Madden, left, and Joel Madden of Good Char- Minidresses and a wed- lotte, which will play an Annapolis, Md., benefit July 28. ding dress are among the items from the estate of CFD/Special Assesments Local/A002/FLA FY18 Budget 7/12 actress Sharon Tate that road with wrestlers Good Charlotte set are going up for auction Nov. 17. Tate starred in the 1967 film “Valley of the By Jay Reddick wrestlers’ bodies and fam- fast as the manager of the to headline benefit Dolls” and was the toast of Staff Writer ily lives. Four Horsemen in the Na- the swinging ’60s social “ ‘Sorry I won’t be home tional Wrestling Alliance for Capital Gazette scene. She was murdered Professional wrestling is for Christmas, I’m working and WCW in the 1980s and in Los Angeles by the a storytelling business. -
Portico: Winter 2009
Winter 2009 The Magazine of the UIndyUniversity of Indianapolis Portico IN THIS ISSUE HELP THE WORLD. TAKE A VACATION New global travel venture combines ecotourism and fair trade. Page 22 THE FARMER WITH A DELL Putting an MBA to work in the lower 40 instead of the corner office.Page 32 GROWTH SPURT UIndy enrollment has doubled since this year’s freshmen were born. That means changes.Starts on page 6 ALUMNI.UINDY.EDU 1 UIndyPortico Table of Contents 4 6 10 22 President’s forum My, how we’ve grown Extreme makeover, Help the world. UIndy is growing again to This year’s record freshman Schwitzer edition Take a vacation meet the needs created by its class occasioned comparison With the student body International relations grad rising enrollments: changing of the UIndy of 1990 with continuing to grow, the Kelly Campbell has teamed buildings, adding buildings, the UIndy of today. Here’s student center needs to keep with her sister to launch a planning buildings. And a quick snapshot of the pace. The Schwitzer center business devoted to travel— technology is bringing new University then and now. addition and makeover are but with an ecotourism and features to publications. nearly complete and feature fair trade approach that 8 many new dining and leaves their destinations UIndy launches entertainment options. 5 campaign for new better off than before. Smart pdfs bring recreation facility ‘green’ a step closer Athletes represent a quarter 12 26 Publications viewed online Scholarly pursuits of our student body, and Sports update offer opportunities for live The remarkable number of many of the rest of our The football team exploded links, search functions, and faculty academic activities students make fitness and in the fourth quarter of the much more, and we look and highlights includes the regular workouts a priority. -
ORIGINAL ATLANTA DIVISION FILED )NC~FR}('$( U ~ ~.R`
Case 1:00-cv-01716-CC Document 125 Filed 02/24/03 Page 1 of 296 f IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OE GEORGIA ORIGINAL ATLANTA DIVISION FILED )NC~FR}('$( U ~ ~.r`. q~i,ti DARRON EASTERLING, 1003 Plaintiff, Civil Action dpi e~. ; ;1R S v . 1 :00-CV-171E L WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING, JURY TRIAL DEMANDED INC ., TURNER SPORTS, INC . and TURNER BROADCASTING SYSTEM, INC . Defendants . PLAINTIF'F'S NOTICE OF FILING APPENDIX Plaintiff, DARRON EASTERLING, hereby serves notice that he is filing herewith in the above-styled case an Appendix containing copies oz relevant deposition testimony and exhibit documents in support of his Response To Defendants' Motion For Summary Judgment filed with this Cou This Z4 day of --I'~7~(jWn ~~ 3 . / Yi' Ca'ry chter Georg~ Bar No . 382515 Charle J . Gernazian Georgia Bar No . 291703 Michelle M . Rothenberg-Williams Georgia Bar No . 615680 MEADOWS, ICHTER 6 BOWERS, P .C . Fourteen Piedmont Center, Suite 1100 3535 Piedmont Road Atlanta, GA 30305 Telephone : (909) 261-6020 Telecopy : (404) 261-3656 Case 1:00-cv-01716-CC Document 125 Filed 02/24/03 Page 2 of 296 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE This is to certify that I have this day served all parties in the foregoing matter with the foregoing Plaintiff's Notice of Filing Appendix by depositing a copy of same in the United States Mail, postage prepaid and properly addressed as follows : Eric Richardson Evan Pontz Troutman Sanders LLP Suite 5200, Bank of America Plaza 600 Peachtree Street, N .E . Atlanta, Georgia 30308-22165 This 2~~ day of Februak~, coos . -
Professional Wrestling: Local Performance History, Global Performance Praxis Neal Anderson Hebert Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
Louisiana State University LSU Digital Commons LSU Doctoral Dissertations Graduate School 2016 Professional Wrestling: Local Performance History, Global Performance Praxis Neal Anderson Hebert Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations Part of the Theatre and Performance Studies Commons Recommended Citation Hebert, Neal Anderson, "Professional Wrestling: Local Performance History, Global Performance Praxis" (2016). LSU Doctoral Dissertations. 2329. https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/2329 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at LSU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in LSU Doctoral Dissertations by an authorized graduate school editor of LSU Digital Commons. For more information, please [email protected]. PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING: LOCAL PERFORMANCE HISTORY, GLOBAL PERFORMANCE PRAXIS A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in The School of Theatre By Neal A. Hebert B.A., Louisiana State University, 2003 M.A., Louisiana State University, 2008 August 2016 TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS .............................................................................................. iv ABSTRACT ......................................................................................................................v -
Robschambergerartbook1.Pdf
the Champions Collection the first year by Rob Schamberger foreward by Adam Pearce Artwork and text is copyright Rob Schamberger. Foreward text is copyright Adam Pearce. Foreward photograph is copyrgiht Brian Kelley. All other likenesses and trademarks are copyright to their respective and rightful owners and Rob Schamberger makes no claim to them. Brother. Not many people know this, but I’ve always considered myself an artist of sorts. Ever since I was a young kid, I invariably find myself passing the time by doodling, drawing, and, on occasion, even painting. In the space between my paper and pencil, and in those moments when inspiration would strike, my imagination would run amok and these bigger-than-life personas - football players and comic book characters and, of course, professional wrestlers - would come to life. I wasn’t aware of this until much later, but for all those years my mother would quietly steal away my drawings, saving them for all prosperity, and perhaps giving her a way to relive all of those memories of me as a child. That’s exactly what happened to me when she showed me those old sketches of Iron Man and Walter Payton and Fred Flintstone and Hulk Hogan. I found myself instantly transported back to a time where things were simpler and characters were real and the art was pure. I get a lot of really similar feelings when I look at the incredible art that Rob Schamberger has shared with 2 foreward us all. Rob’s passion for art and for professional wrestling struck me immediately as someone that has equally grown to love and appreciate both, and by Adam Pearce truth be told I am extremely jealous of his talents.