Knowledge (XXG)

• Jeff Hardy, Matt Hardy, Money Inc., and Vengeance (2005) have been elevated to Good article status.
• Acolytes Protection Agency, Backlash (2006), Brian Kendrick, Brock Lesnar, Judgment Day (2005), Over the Edge (1999), Randy Orton, Royal Rumble (2005), Stacy Keibler, and Survivor Series (2005) are currently Good article candidates.

• William Regal won the King of the Ring tournament on the April 21 edition of Raw.
• Senators Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and John McCain, made special appearance on Raw, via the titantron to address the Raw fans.
• During Backlash, Triple H became the new WWE Champion by defeating Randy Orton.
• Matt Hardy defeated MVP and became the new United States Champion.
• The Undertaker had the World Heavyweight Championship taken from him on the May 2 episode of SmackDown!.

• Current: Giovanni picarazzi.
• Kept:
• Deleted: PJ Black (wrestler), The Lizard (wrestler), Xterminator (wrestler), The Playa (wrestler), Kalahari Boerboel (wrestler), InterMat.

Since the last issue, the number of stub articles has decreased again. It would be greatly appreciated if anyone could help expand and/or source an article or two. A list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve.

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA			2	3	5
	FL		1	5	15	21
	GA		4	11	31	47
	B	1	12	51	199	265
	Start	2	51	220	2316	2593
	Stub		1	23	609	629
	Assessed	3	69	313	3175	3559
	Total	3	69	312	3173	3559

• Based on the members list, there are currently 377 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
• Based on the active members list, there are currently 37 members currently active in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
  • NOTICE: If you are actively editing and contributing to articles under the scope of WikiProject Professional Wrestling, we suggest you add your name to the list of active members.
• On the calendar:
• 4 - S-pac54's birthday
• 8 - The Chronic's birthday
• 11 - Stevenplunkett's birthday and TNA presents Sacrifice
• 18 - WWE presents Judgment Day
• 18 - Self Preteder's birthday
• 19 - Frenchbreadpizza's birthday
• 24 - Unopeneddoor's birthday

The article collaboration for April 27 through May 11 is National Wrestling Alliance. The featured article collaboration is Amy Dumas. Please help to improve these articles to match the quality of an ideal Knowledge (XXG) professional wrestling related article. The next articles for collaboration will be chosen on Sunday, May 11.

• Welcome to the Editor of the Week!
  
• Our first editor of the week is Nikki311, who won with 6 votes.
  
• The runner-up, LAX came in second with 3 votes.
  
• Nikki311's award page can be found here. Congratulations Nikki!

Contributors to this Issue:

• GaryColemanFan (talk · contribs)
• iMatthew (talk · contribs)
• LAX (talk · contribs)
• NiciVampireHeart (talk · contribs)
• RkOrton (talk · contribs)
• ThinkBlue (talk · contribs)

• Brian Kendrick, Brock Lesnar, Stacy Keibler, Randy Orton, and Acolytes Protection Agency have been elevated to Good article status.
• Over the Edge (1999) failed its Good article nomination, but has been reassessed here.
• Backlash (2006), Backlash (2007), Insane Clown Posse, Judgment Day (2005), Judgment Day (2007), One Night Stand (2007), Royal Rumble (2005), Survivor Series (2005), The Great American Bash (2007), The Rock (entertainer) and Unforgiven (2006) are currently Good article candidates.

• Torrie Wilson was released by WWE on May 8.
• L.A.X. won the vacated TNA World Tag Team Championship as a result of defeating Team 3D in the Deuces Wild tournament final at TNA Sacrifice.
  • Also at TNA Sacrifice, Samoa Joe defeated Scott Steiner and Kaz to retain the TNA World Heavyweight Championship.
• During WWE Backlash, Triple H, The Miz and John Morrison, and Mickie James retained the WWE Championship, WWE Tag Team Championship, and WWE Women's Championship, respectively.

• Current: Africa Wrestling Alliance, International Wrestling Federation (South Africa), Joseph Carl Bailey, Junior.
• Kept: TNA 2005 Super X Cup Tournament, TNA 2006 World X Cup Tournament.
• Redirected: Deuces Wild Tournament, Meltdown: The Music of TNA Wrestling Vol.2.
• Deleted: Sean Creed, Giovanni picarazzi, Cf Turbo, Mother's Day Massacre (2008), Boerseun (wrestler), Nizaam Hartley, The Taxidriver (wrestler), Scorpion Kruger (wrestler), The Blacksmith (wrestler), RingDivas Womens Wrestling, Parrow Civic Centre, Nightmare (wrestler), Pro Wrestling Alliance: Africa, Steve Eden (wrestler).

The number of stub articles has decreased to its lowest level since the project began its focus on improving them. The goal is to get the number below 600, and we're getting close. It would be greatly appreciated if anyone could help expand and/or source an article or two. A list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve.

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA			2	3	5
	FL		1	5	15	21
	GA		4	12	34	50
	B	1	13	55	203	272
	Start	2	52	220	2328	2604
	Stub		1	23	606	628
	Assessed	3	71	317	3189	3580
	Total	3	71	317	3189	3580

• Based on the members list, there are currently 385 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
• Based on the active members list, there are currently 38 members currently active in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
  • NOTICE: If you are actively editing and contributing to articles under the scope of WikiProject Professional Wrestling, we suggest you add your name to the list of active members.
• On the calendar:
• 18 - WWE presents Judgment Day; Self Preteder's birthday
• 19 - Frenchbreadpizza's birthday
• 24 - Unopeneddoor's birthday
• 1 - WWE presents One Night Stand
• 8 - TNA presents Slammiversary

The article collaborations for May 11 through May 24 are Chris Benoit double murder and suicide and John Layfield. Please help to improve these articles to match the quality of an ideal Knowledge (XXG) professional wrestling related article. The next articles for collaboration will be chosen on Sunday, May 25.

• Our second editor of the week is GaryColemanFan, who won with 4 votes.
  
• The runner-up, D.M.N., came in second with 3 votes.
  
• GaryColemanFan's award page and interview can be found here. Congratulations!
• The interview portion of the award page was just recently added. To see Nikki311's interview, go to her award page here

Contributors to this Issue:

• IMatthew (talk · contribs)
• LAX (talk · contribs)
• NiciVampireHeart (talk · contribs)
• ThinkBlue (talk · contribs)

• Backlash (2006), Insane Clown Posse, Judgment Day (2005), Judgment Day (2007), Royal Rumble (2005), and Survivor Series (2005) have been elevated to Good Article status.

• SummerSlam (2007) (link) and SummerSlam (1988) (link) have been nominated for Featured Article status.

• Backlash (2007), One Night Stand (2007), Paul London, Royal Rumble (2005), The Great American Bash (2007), The Rock (entertainer) and Unforgiven (2006) are currently Good article candidates.

• Over the Edge (1999) failed it's Good article nomination, though, it has been reassessed here.

• Darren Matthews (William Regal) was suspended by WWE for 60 days for breaching the Substance Abuse and Drug Testing Policy.

• The 2008 WWE Draft was announced by World Wrestling Entertainment chairman, Vince McMahon, to take place on June 23 2008.

• At One Night Stand, Randy Orton suffered a broken collarbone during his Last man standing match with Triple H.

• Also, at One Night Stand, Edge won the World Heavyweight Championship in a Tables, Ladders and Chairs match defeating The Undertaker. Per the pre-match stipulation, Undertaker was kayfabe forced to leave WWE.

• May 23, 1999 - Owen Hart died in a tragic fall during Over the Edge.
• May 21, 2000 - Triple H defeated The Rock for the WWF Heavyweight title.
• May 22, 2000 - Vince Russo stripped Ric Flair of the WCW World Heavyweight Championship, and awarded it to Jeff Jarret.
• May 17, 2002 - "The British Bulldog" Davey Boy Smith died of a heart attack.
• May 19, 2004 - Ron Killings won the NWA World Heavyweight Championship.

The number of stub articles has decreased to its lowest level since the project began its focus on improving them. The goal is to get the number below 600, and we're getting close. It would be greatly appreciated if anyone could help expand and/or source an article or two. A list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve.

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA			2	3	5
	FL		1	5	15	21
	GA		4	15	39	58
	B	1	13	57	203	274
	Start	2	52	221	2331	2606
	Stub		1	23	600	624
	Assessed	3	71	323	3191	3588
	Total	3	71	323	3191	3588

• Based on the members list, there are currently 389 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
• Based on the active members list, there are currently 37 members currently active in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
  • NOTICE: If you are actively editing and contributing to articles under the scope of WikiProject Professional Wrestling, we suggest you add your name to the list of active members.
• On the calendar:
  • 19 - Frenchbreadpizza's birthday
  • 24 - Unopeneddoor's birthday
  • 29 - CJMiller's birthday
  • 1 - WWE presents One Night Stand
  • 8 - TNA presents Slammiversary

The article collaboration for May 25 through June 7 is Rick Rude. The Featured article collaboration is Carly Colón. Please help to improve these articles to match the quality of an ideal Knowledge (XXG) professional wrestling related article. The next articles for collaboration will be chosen on Sunday, June 8.

• Current:
• Kept: Africa Wrestling Alliance, Blood sweat and ears, List of Ring of Honor events, The Fingerpoke of Doom.
• Redirected:
• Deleted: International Wrestling Federation (South Africa), Joseph Carl Bailey, Junior, Independent Pro Wrestling Association, Crash TV, Drew Roode, WWE wins top 10.

Contributors to this Issue:

• IMatthew (talk · contribs)
• NiciVampireHeart (talk · contribs)
• SRX (talk · contribs)
• ThinkBlue (talk · contribs)

• SummerSlam (1988) and SummerSlam (2007) have both failed their Featured Article Candidacy's, their review pages can be found here and here, respectively.

• List of WWE SmackDown video game titles (link) has been nominated for Featured List status.

• IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship (link) has been nominated for removal as a Featured List.

• Paul London, SummerSlam (2004), Survivor Series (1994), and WWE SmackDown (video game series) are currently Good article candidates.

• Backlash (2007) (link), Unforgiven (2006) (link), The Rock (entertainer) (link), One Night Stand (2007) (link), The Great American Bash (2007) (link) and Royal Rumble (2005) (link) have been elevated to Good article status.

• Over the Edge (1999) has passed its reassessment and is now a good article! The article's reassessment can be found here.

• A pay-per-view event chronology has been added as a feature to the Wrestling event infobox, please assist the project in adding this feature to professional wrestling pay-per-view event articles.

• The C-Class rating has been introduced. The rating falls between articles that are more than Start class, but less than B-Class.

• June 1, 1998 - Junkyard Dog died at the age of forty-five in an automobile accident.
• June 2, 2003 - Freddie Blassie died at the age of eighty-five from natural causes.
• June 10, 1983 - Harley Race defeated Ric Flair for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship.
• June 13, 1982- "High Chief" Peter Maivia died of cancer at forty-seven.
• June 13, 1993 - Yokozuna defeated Hulk Hogan for the WWF Heavyweight title.
• June 19 2002 - AJ Styles became the first TNA X Division Champion.

The number of stub articles has decreased to its lowest level since the project began its focus on improving them. The goal is to get the number below 600, and we're getting close. It would be greatly appreciated if anyone could help expand and/or source an article or two. A list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve.

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA			2	3	5
	FL		1	5	15	21
	GA		5	17	42	64
	B	1	13	67	206	287
	C		1	7	36	44
	Start	2	53	211	2312	2578
	Stub		1	24	604	629
	Assessed	3	74	333	3218	3628
	Total	3	74	333	3218	3628

• Based on the members list, there are currently 389 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
• On the calendar:
  • 8 - TNA presents Slammiversary
  • 10 - Chandlerjoeyross's birthday
  • 10 - King Gemini's birthday
  • 11 - Wweisreal's birthday
  • 20 - Umdunno's birthday

• James Yun was suspended for 30 days for violating WWE's Wellness Policy.

• Vince McMahon was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Promax|BDA Conference for "for his remarkable accomplishments and innovations in global marketing, advertising and promotion."

• WWE is currently holding "Million Dollar Mania", where they give out prize money totalling $1 million on Raw to viewers watching the show at home.

The article collaboration for June 22 through July 5 is James Yun. The Featured article collaboration is Candice Michelle . Please help to improve these articles to match the quality of an ideal Knowledge (XXG) professional wrestling related article. The next articles for collaboration will be chosen on Sunday, July 5.

• Current: Mark Beale.
• Kept: Triplemania, Antonio Peña.
• Redirected:
• Deleted: All Action Wrestling.

Contributors to this Issue:

• iMatthew (talk · contribs)
• NiciVampireHeart (talk · contribs)
• SRX (talk · contribs)

• December to Dismember (2006) is currently under Featured Article review (link).

• Starrcade (1983) has failed its Featured Article nomination (link).

• List of WWE SmackDown video game titles has been elevated to Featured List status (link).

• IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship has been removed as a Featured List (link).

• Faces of Fear (link), Maria Kanellis (link), Paul London (link), Survivor Series (1994) (link), The Mega Bucks (link) and WWE SmackDown (video game series) (link) have been elevated to Good article status.

• Backlash (2003), Dark Angel (wrestler), Juggernaut (wrestler), SummerSlam (1988), SummerSlam (2004), and Survivor Series (2004) are currently Good article candidates.

• Lockdown (2008) (link) and Survivor Series (2007) (link) are currently under Peer Review.

• Category:Vengeance is being discussed at WP:CFD for renaming, it's discussion page can be found here.

• The C-Class rating has been introduced. The rating falls between articles that are more than Start-Class, but less than B-Class.

• Immediately put into effect, our project has begun use of the List-Class rating. The List-Class rating is for list articles that are of less quality than B-Class articles.

• At Night of Champions:
  • Mark Henry became the new ECW Champion.
  • Kofi Kingston won the WWE Intercontinental Championship.
  • Cody Rhodes turned on Hardcore Holly to capture the World Tag Team Championship with Ted DiBiase.
• On June 30, CM Punk won the World Heavyweight Championship on Raw.
• Trevor Murdoch was released from WWE on July 3.

• June 24, 2001 - Edge defeated Kurt Angle in the finals of the 2001 King of the Ring.
• June 26, 1992 - Buddy Rogers died of a stroke at age 71.
• June 28, 1999 - Steve Austin defeated The Undertaker for the WWF Heavyweight title.
• July 2, 1969 - "Iron" Mike DiBiase died of a heart attack in the ring.
• July 3, 2001 - AJ Styles and Jerry Lynn become the first NWA World Tag Team Champions under the ownership of TNA, via winning a tournament final.

• Our goal is to get the number of Stub-Class articles below 600. The current count is 631. It would be greatly appreciated if anyone could help expand and/or source an article or two. A list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve.

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA			2	3	5
	FL		1	6	14	21
	GA		5	17	45	67
	B	1	14	65	202	282
	C		1	10	44	55
	Start	2	52	211	2310	2575
	Stub		1	24	602	627
	List		1	7	39	46
	Assessed	3	74	335	3223	3639
	Total	3	74	335	3223	3639

• Based on the members list, there are currently 397 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
• On the calendar:
  • 29 - WWE presents Night of Champions
  • 1 - D.M.N.'s birthday
  • 7 - Alex Roggio's and The Hybrid's birthdays
  • 13 - TNA presents Victory Road

• The article collaborations for July 6 through July 19 are Sean Waltman and The Attitude Era.

• Please help to improve these articles to match the quality of an ideal Knowledge (XXG) professional wrestling related article.

• The next articles for collaboration will be chosen on July 20.
  

• Current: Jack Korpela, List of Ring of Honor events, List of World Wrestling Entertainment championships, Beer Money Inc., and The Badd guys.
• Kept:
• Redirected/Merged: Mark Beale, and Eric Mastrocola.
• Deleted: List of ECW events.

As I'm sure you noticed above, this is the 20th edition of the WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter! It has come a long way since the first issue, and I'm sure it will only improve from here. I'd like to thank everyone reading this for continuing to read the newsletter, biweekly.

I'd like to especially thank those who have helped to get the newsletter to it's 20th edition; The Hybrid, The Chronic, TJ Spyke, Alex Roggio, LAX, ThinkBlue, Nikki311, GaryColemanFan, Gavyn Sykes, D.M.N., Naha, NiciVampireHeart, SRX, Zenlax and, RkOrton.

Also, lastly I'd like to thank Misza13, for sending the newsletter out for us, though his bot. His bot has to be the most important part of the process, because without it, the newsletter would not get sent to project members.

I know that's a long list, but they all deserve recognition for their hard work towards the newsletter. So again, thank you to that list of people, and thank you to all of the newsletter's biweekly readers. If you have an questions, comments, or feedback about the newsletter, remember those links below.

-- iMatthew _T.C.

Contributors to this Issue:

• IMatthew (talk · contribs)
• NiciVampireHeart (talk · contribs)
• SRX (talk · contribs)

• A fact from Porkchop Cash and Armageddon (2006) were featured on the Main Page in the Did you know? column on July 11, 2008 and July 17, 2008, respectively.

• December to Dismember (2006) is currently under Featured Article review (link).

• WWE No Way Out (link) and 2008 WWE Draft (link) are current Featured List candidates

• Backlash (2003) (link), Backlash (2004) (link), Survivor Series (2004) (link), and Unforgiven (2007) (link) have been elevated to Good article status.

• Cyber Sunday (2007), Dark Angel (wrestler), Juggernaut (wrestler), Royal Rumble (2007), SummerSlam (1988), SummerSlam (2004), and Vengeance: Night of Champions are currently Good article candidates.

• SummerSlam (2003) (link) and Survivor Series (2007) (link) are currently under Peer Review.

• Per this edit and the discussion here, date linking is not mandatory in articles. This mainly applies to the project's pay-per-view expanded articles. Please take this regulation in notice and apply it to the project's expanded pay-per view articles.

• New parameters have been added to the {{Infobox Wrestling event}} template, for the discussion explaining these parameters, see the discussion here

• Ashley Massaro was released from WWE on July 9.

• Taylor Wilde won the TNA Women's Championship on the July 10 edition of TNA Impact!, defeating Awesome Kong.

• July 9, 2000 - Booker T defeated Jeff Jarrett for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship.
• July 11, 1961 - Gene Kiniski defeated Verne Gagne for the AWA World Heavyweight Championship.
• July 12, 1992 - Jimmy Snuka defeated Johnny Hot Body for the ECW Heavyweight Championship.
• July 12, 1999 - Hulk Hogan defeated Randy Savage for the WCW World Heavyweight title.
• July 16, 2001 - Terry Gordy died of a heart attack at age 40.
• July 17, 1988 - Bruiser Brody died in Puerto Rica after being stabbed, aged 42.

• Our goal is to get the number of Stub-Class articles below 600. The current count is 625. It would be greatly appreciated if anyone could help expand and/or source an article or two. A list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve.

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA			2	3	5
	FL		1	6	14	21
	GA		5	18	51	74
	B	1	14	66	203	284
	C		1	9	56	66
	Start	2	50	202	1734	1988
	Stub		1	23	601	625
	List		2	20	572	594
	Assessed	3	74	346	3234	3657
	Total	3	74	346	3234	3657

• Based on the members list, there are currently 401 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
• On the calendar:
• 7 - Alex Roggio's and The Hybrid's birthdays
• 13 - TNA presents Victory Road
• 19 - ProtoWolf's & The Founders Intent's birthday
• 20 - WWE presents The Great American Bash
• 22 - Darrenhusted's birthday
• 27 - Sundogs' birthday
• 29 - Kris Classic's birthday
• 31 - Normy's birthday

• The article collaboration for July 20 through August 2 is Chris Jericho. The Featured article collaboration is Torrie Wilson.

• Please help to improve these articles to match the quality of an ideal Knowledge (XXG) professional wrestling related article.

• The next articles for collaboration will be chosen on August 3.
  

• Current: Taryn Terrell (wrestler), and List of wrestling championships.
• Kept:
• Redirected/Merged: List of World Wrestling Entertainment championships.
• Deleted: Jack Korpela (2), Velocity Championship Wrestling (VCW), List of Ring of Honor events, Marc Loyd, Tna Wrestlers Payroll, TNA INCOME, TNA payroll, Beer Money Inc., The Badd guys, and Cyme Tyme Cenation.

Contributors to this Issue:

• IMatthew (talk · contribs)
• NiciVampireHeart (talk · contribs)
• SRX (talk · contribs)

• Featured news
  • SummerSlam (2003) (link) is a current Featured Article candidate
  • December to Dismember (2006) (link) is currently under Featured Article review.
  • WWE No Way Out (link) has been elevated to Featured List status.
  • 2008 WWE Draft (link) was not promoted to Featured List status, though it has been renominated as a Featured List candidate, here
  • IWGP Tag Team Championship (link) is a current Featured List removal candidate.

• Good article news
  • Armageddon (2006), Dark Angel (wrestler), Juggernaut (wrestler), and Lockdown (2008) are currently Good article candidates.
  • Cyber Sunday (2007) (link), Lipstick and Dynamite, Piss and Vinegar: The First Ladies of Wrestling (link), Royal Rumble (2007) (link), Stacy Carter (link), SummerSlam (1988) (link), The Great American Bash (2004) (link) and Vengeance: Night of Champions (link) have been elevated to Good Article status.
  • SummerSlam (2004) (link) failed its Good Article nomination.

• Other project news
  • Sacrifice (2008) (link) and The Great American Bash (2005) (link) are currently under Peer Review.
  • A fact from Lipstick and Dynamite, Piss and Vinegar: The First Ladies of Wrestling (July 20), The Great American Bash (2004) (July 21), C.W. Bergstrom (July 22), Survivor Series (1993) (July 23), The Great American Bash (2005) (July 25), No Mercy (2005) (July 30) and New Year's Revolution (2005) (August 1) were featured on the Main Page in the Did you know? column.
  • Hell in a Cell has been proposed to be merged into Professional wrestling match types, the discussion can be found here.
  • WWE World Tag Team chamiopship, a current redirect to World Tag Team Championship (WWE) is currently a RfD. It's deletion page can be found here.

• July 23, 1984 - Wendi Richter defeated The Fabulous Moolah for the WWF Women's Championship.
• June 26, 1992 - Buddy Rogers died of a stroke aged 71.
• July 27, 1963 - Fritz Von Erich defeated Verne Gagne for the AWA World Heavyweight Championship.
• July 27, 2002 - Low-Ki defeated Christopher Daniels, Spanky, and Doug Williams to become the inaugural ROH World Heavyweight Champion.
• July 27, 2002 - Eddie Guerrero defeated Chris Benoit in a tournament final to win the reinstated WWE United States Championship.
• August 3, 1997 - Bret Hart defeated The Undertaker for the WWF Heavyweight title.

• Our goal is to get the number of Stub-Class articles below 600. The current count is 625. It would be greatly appreciated if anyone could help expand and/or source an article or two. A list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve.

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA			2	3	5
	FL		1	6	15	22
	GA		5	20	56	81
	B	1	15	67	203	286
	C		1	10	60	71
	Start	2	49	203	1735	1989
	Stub		1	23	601	625
	List		2	20	573	595
	Assessed	3	74	351	3246	3674
	Total	3	74	351	3246	3674

• Based on the members list, there are currently 406 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
• On the calendar:
  • For the month of July:
    • 1 - D.M.N.'s birthday
    • 7 - Alex Roggio's and The Hybrid's birthdays
    • 13 - TNA presents Victory Road
    • 19 - ProtoWolf's and The Founders Intent's birthday
    • 20 - WWE presents The Great American Bash
    • 22 - Darrenhusted's birthday
    • 27 - Sundogs' birthday
    • 29 - Kris Classic's birthday
    • 31 - Normy's birthday
  • For the month of August:
    • 10 - TNA presents Hard Justice
    • 12 - NickSentowski's birthday
    • 16 - Lakers244805's birthday
    • 17 - iMatthew's birthday; WWE presents SummerSlam
    • 18 - Crash Underride's and Wrestlinglover's birthdays
    • 19 - Darren Jowalsen's birthday
    • 22 - HeartBurn Kid's birthday

• At The Great American Bash:
  • Curt Hawkins and Zach Ryder won the WWE Tag Team Championship in a Fatal Four-Way match.
  • Shelton Benjamin won the WWE United States Championship, defeating Matt Hardy.
  • Michelle McCool defeated Natalya to become the inaugural WWE Divas Champion.
• TNA has posted a notice on their official website detailing a release of wrestler Kaz. This has been reported to be kayfabe by numerous other sites, but be prepared to revert edits to Kaz's article regarding this as well as List of Total Nonstop Action Wrestling alumni
• A redesigned ECW Championship belt was introduced on July 22 during an episode of ECW.
• Mike Adamle was appointed the new General Manager of Raw. Todd Grisham has now taken over as the commentator for ECW.

• The article collaborations for August 3 through August 16 are Gail Kim and The Kliq.
• Please help to improve these articles to match the quality of an ideal Knowledge (XXG) professional wrestling related article.

• The next articles for collaboration will be chosen on August 17.
  

• Current: Between the Ropes, Rycklon Stephens, Taryn Terrell (wrestler), and Ted DiBiase and Cody Rhodes.
• Kept: Mark Madden.
• Redirected/Merged: List of wrestling championships, Ranjin Singh.
• Deleted: Anastacia Rose McPherson, Dollar Store Wrestling, Jake Hardy, List of Current World Champions, and Simply Pricelss.

Contributors to this Issue:

• IMatthew (talk · contribs)
• NiciVampireHeart (talk · contribs)
• SRX (talk · contribs)

• Featured news
  • SummerSlam (2003) (link) is a current Featured Article candidate.
  • December to Dismember (2006) (link) is currently under Featured Article review.
  • 2008 WWE Draft (link). has been elevated to Featured List status.
  • IWGP Tag Team Championship (link) is a current Featured List removal candidate.

• Good article news
  • Armageddon (2006) (link), Bad Blood (2003), Chyna, In Your House 2: The Lumberjacks, Juggernaut (wrestler) (link), Lockdown (2008) (link), No Mercy (2005), SummerSlam (1992) and The Great American Bash (2005) are currently Good article candidates.
  • Sarah Stock (link) has been elevated to good article status.

• Other project news
  • Matt Sydal (link) is currently under Peer Review.
  • A fact from SummerSlam (1992)‎, Armageddon (2003), and Bad Blood (2003) were featured on the Main Page in the Did you know? column on August 9, 11, and 14 respectively.
  • Hell in a Cell has been proposed to be merged into Professional wrestling match types, the discussion can be found here.
  • The guidelines for writing pay-per-view articles has been updated, see here. The new guidelines should be followed in order for an article to be nominated for Good article or Featured article status.
  • The project has had a cleanup listing generated here. It details all the article within the project that are tagged as having problems. Please help to fix the problems outlined.

• August 3, 1997 - Bret Hart defeated The Undertaker for the WWF Heavyweight championship.
• August 4, 1997 - Lex Luger defeated Hulk Hogan to win the WCW Heavyweight title.
• August 7, 2002 - Ron Killings defeated Ken Shamrock for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship.
• August 8, 1963 - Verne Gagne defeated Fritz Von Erich for the AWA World Heavyweight Championship.
• August 9, 1999 - Jackie Sato died of stomach cancer at age 41.
• August 12, 1995 - Brad Armstrong defeated Buddy Landel for the Smokey Mountain Heavyweight Championship.
• August 15, 2004 - Randy Orton defeated Chris Benoit to win the World Heavyweight Championship and become the youngest World Champion in WWE history.
• August 16, 1992 - The Great Muta defeated Riki Chōshū for the IWGP Heavyweight title.

• Our goal is to get the number of Stub-Class articles below 600. The current count is 625. It would be greatly appreciated if anyone could help expand and/or source an article or two. A list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve.

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA			2	3	5
	FL		1	7	15	23
	GA		5	20	57	82
	B	1	15	68	203	287
	C		1	10	63	74
	Start	2	49	203	1751	2005
	Stub		1	23	595	619
	List		2	20	573	595
	Assessed	3	74	353	3260	3690
	Total	3	74	353	3260	3690

• Based on the members list, there are currently 414 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
• On the calendar:
  • For the month of August:
    • 10 - TNA presents Hard Justice
    • 12 - NickSentowski's birthday
    • 16 - Lakers244805's birthday
    • 17 - iMatthew's birthday; WWE presents SummerSlam
    • 18 - Crash Underride's and Wrestlinglover's birthdays
    • 19 - Darren Jowalsen's birthday
    • 22 - HeartBurn Kid's birthday

• At WWE Saturday Night's Main Event, Jenny McCarthy appeared on the television program to promote funding for the prevention of autism in children.
• On August 3, World Wrestling Entertainment's official website announced that Ric Flair and the WWE would part ways.
• On the August 4 edition of Raw, Batista and John Cena defeated Cody Rhodes and Ted DiBiase to win the World Tag Team Championship; however, the following week DiBiase and Rhodes regained the titles.
• Braden Wlker was released from WWE on August 7.
• On August 8, WWE released Shannon Moore, Nick Patrick, James Curtis, Domino, Nunzio and Big Daddy V.
• On August 10, Randy Orton reinjured his shoulder in a motorcycle accident.
• Beer Money Inc (James Storm and Robert Roode) won the TNA World Tag Team Championship at Hard Justice, defeating the Latin American Xchange.
• WWE released Cherry, Colin Delaney, Stevie Richards, The Highlanders and referee Wes Adams on August 15.

• The article collaboration for August 17 through August 29 is A.J. Styles. The featured article collaboration is Randy Orton.
• Please help to improve these articles to match the quality of an ideal Knowledge (XXG) professional wrestling related article.

• The next articles for collaboration will be chosen on August 30.
  

• Current: National Wrestling Coalition and Yogeshwar Dutt.
• Kept: Rycklon Stephens and WWE Saturday Night's Main Event results.
• Redirected/Merged:
• Deleted: Bad Guys (professional wrestling), Beer Money (professsional wrestling), Between the Ropes, Finlay and Horsnwoggle, Taryn Terrell (wrestler), and Ted DiBiase and Cody Rhodes.
• Redirects for Deletion: WWE World Tag Team chamiopship (kept).

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