Knowledge (XXG)

As of February 2009:

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA			5	6	11
	FL			12	12	24
	GA		6	33	77	116
	B	1	17	66	197	281
	C		3	19	110	132
	Start	2	54	226	1847	2129
	Stub		2	21	537	560
	List		3	23	596	622
	Future			3	13	16
	Assessed	3	85	408	3395	3891
	Total	3	85	408	3395	3891

• The Featured article No Way Out (2004) (review page) was withdrawn as a request to appear on the main page as Today's featured article for February 15 by the nominator.
• NWA Hall of Fame (review page) and List of ECW Tag Team Champions (review page) are current Featured list candidates. WCW Hall of Fame (review page) was not promoted to Featured list status; however, it has been renominated here.
• Bob Holly, Rip Hawk, Swede Hanson (wrestler), Taboo Tuesday (2005), Terri Runnels, Vengeance (2006), and Wendi Richter are current Good article nominees.
• Brian Adams (wrestler) (review page) is currently under Good article reassessment.
• It has been proposed to merge the WWE Hall of Fame and the List of members of the WWE Hall of Fame articles. The discussion can be found here.
• The following articles appeared on the Did You Know? column on the main page:

• January 19: Mighty Igor Vodic and Tiger Conway, Sr.
• January 21: Sue Green
• January 22: Donn Lewin and Danny McShain
• January 23: Lanny Kean
• January 24: The Brawl to End it All and The War to Settle the Score
• January 26: George "Two Ton" Harris
• January 28: Jean Gagné
• February 1: St. Louis Wrestling Hall of Fame

• Based on the members list, there are currently 212 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
• There are currently 583 articles in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still 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.
• Deletion Discussions

• Articles for Deletion

• Current: Irish Whip Wrestling International Heavyweight Championship and The Face Lift.
• Kept: Kim Neilson and LeRoy Gardner III.

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• 4 - New Japan Pro Wrestling presents Wrestle Kingdom III
• 11 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling presents Genesis
• 16 - Ring of Honor presents Rising Above
• 25 - World Wrestling Entertainment presents Royal Rumble

• 8 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling presents Against All Odds
• 15 - World Wrestling Entertainment presents No Way Out

• On the January 19 episode of Raw:

• CM Punk defeated William Regal to win the WWE Intercontinental Championship in a No Disqualification match; this win made Punk the nineteenth Triple Crown Champion.
• Vince McMahon made his WWE television return after suffering an injury in a scripted accident during his Million Dollar Mania in mid-2008.

• After being temporarily sidelined with a knee injury, WWE Diva's Champion Maryse made her return to WWE television on the January 23 episode of Friday Night SmackDown.
• At the Royal Rumble on January 25:

• Melina defeated Beth Phoenix to win her third WWE Women's Championship.
• Edge won his fourth WWE Championship by defeating Jeff Hardy.
• During the Royal Rumble match:

• Rob Van Dam returned to WWE for one night only by entering at number 25.
• Randy Orton, who entered at number 8, last eliminated Triple H to win the match and a WWE, World Heavyweight, or ECW Championship match at WrestleMania XXV.

• On January 26, Ring of Honor announced that they had signed a long-term television deal with the HDNet Fights broadcast network.
• ECW General manager Theodore Long announced on the January 27 episode of ECW on Sci Fi that Matt Hardy had been released from his ECW contract and had signed with the SmackDown brand.
• On the January 29 episode of Impact!, Kevin Nash made his TNA television return after being sidelined with a Staph infection.
• After debating over a competitive role, it was announced on January 31 by WWE that Mickey Rourke, the star of The Wrestler, would appear at WrestleMania XXV as a guest and not as a competitor.

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1. This list is of topics that may be easy (or are fairly close) to Good Topic status. Consider helping by improving an article on the list that is not yet at Good Article status.
2. Consider expanding an article from the project's list of stub articles and nominating it at Did You Know?. The project's goal is to have 100 total DYKs by the end of the year.
3. All Knowledge (XXG) articles should be written from a neutral point-of-view, representing fairly, and as far as possible without bias, all significant views that have been published by reliable sources.
4. When the title of an refers to several things, it is necessary to provide links or disambiguate the page so that readers typing in that title can quickly navigate to the article that interests them. For example: World Heavyweight Championship (WWE).
5. Addition of content that is likely to be challenged in an article needs to be verified with a reliable source
6. Do not overlink terms in an article, only make links where they are relevant to the context.
7. When creating an article that has an image, make sure the image is right-aligned in the lead or in the infobox, per MOS:IMAGES.

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As of February 2009:

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA			6	5	11
	FL			12	14	26
	GA		6	33	78	117
	B	1	17	66	195	279
	C		3	20	112	135
	Start	2	54	226	1860	2142
	Stub		2	21	539	562
	List		3	23	597	623
	Future			3	14	17
	Assessed	3	85	410	3414	3912
Total	3	85	410	3414	3912

• Backlash (2006) (review page) is a current Featured article candidate.
• Bob Holly, Rip Hawk, Vengeance (2006), and Wendi Richter are current Good article nominees.
• Swede Hanson (wrestler) (review page) failed its Good article nomination.
• The following articles appeared on the Did You Know? column on the main page:

• February 2: Maurice Catarcio, Blond Bombers, Rip Hawk, Swede Hanson (wrestler), Brute Bernard, and Skull Murphy.

• Deletion Discussions

• Articles for Deletion

• Deleted: Chris bullock, Hexagon Crown Champion, The Face Lift, and WWE title history since Draft (2008).
• Kept: Irish Whip Wrestling International Heavyweight Championship.
• Redirected: SmackDown All-Star Kick-Off.

• WWE Hall of Fame and the List of members of the WWE Hall of Fame articles have been merged.
• It has been proposed to merge the History of World Wrestling Federation back into History of World Wrestling Entertainment after they were split.
• Based on the members list, there are currently 211 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
• There are currently 584 articles in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still 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.
• The Broken external links and Dead links tools that assisted the project in fixing external links has not been updated for a period length of time, and as a result, it is not functioning any longer.

This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of vandalism and speculation: professional wrestling events from major promotions for the month of February.

• 8 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling presents Against All Odds
• 15 - World Wrestling Entertainment presents No Way Out

• On February 2:

• It was announced by Ring of Honor (ROH) that they would tape their first episode of ROH for HDNet on February 28 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvannia.
• Former professional wrestler and football player Jim Wilson died at the age of 67 after a lengthy battle with cancer.

• On the February 6 episode of Friday Night SmackDown, Eve Torres made her World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) in-ring television debut in singles competition in a losing effort to Michelle McCool.
• On February 7:

• D'Lo Brown made his debut with ROH at a live event.
• Chris Jericho was involved in an altercation with a fan while leaving a live event in Victoria, British Columbia.
• At a live event in Naguabo, Puerto Rico, Steve Corino won the WWC Universal Heavyweight Championship.

• On February 9:

• WWE announced the naming of a new Executive Vice President in Marketing, Michelle D. Wilson.
• On Raw, Ric Flair made his first appearance in WWE since June 2008.

• On February 10:

• On ECW on Sci Fi:

• Christian returned to WWE after a near four year absence.
• TJ Wilson debuted under the name "Tyson Kidd".

• Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) released Petey Williams and Lance Rock.

• Stevie Richards was featured in a video promo with Abyss on the February 12 episode of Impact!.

This is a section in the newsletter devoted to help familiarize project members with the Manual of Style and general editing tips.

1. Consider expanding an article from the project's list of stub articles and nominating it at Did You Know?. The project's goal is to have 100 total DYKs by the end of the year.
2. Please familiarize yourself with the general notability policy of Knowledge (XXG). Avoid creating new articles that do not satisfy the requirements.
3. Addition of content that is likely to be challenged in an article needs to be verified with a reliable source
4. Avoid using bolding to emphasize text. See MOS:BOLD for appropriate uses of bold text.
5. When adding an image to an article, follow MOS:IMAGES and align the image based on the direction the subject of the image is facing.

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As of February 2009:

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA			6	5	11
	FL			12	15	27
	GA		6	35	79	120
	B	1	18	65	207	291
	C		3	23	113	139
	Start	2	53	233	1855	2143
	Stub		2	21	534	557
	List		3	23	594	620
	Future			4	15	19
	Assessed	3	85	422	3417	3927
	Total	3	85	422	3417	3927

• Backlash (2006) (review page) was not promoted to Featured article status.
• Blond Bombers, Bob Holly, Darren Matthews, John Hennigan, John Morrison and The Miz, Mike Mizanin, Montel Vontavious Porter, Mr. Kennedy, Rip Hawk, Swede Hanson (wrestler), and Turning Point (2004) are current Good article nominees.
• Triplemanía appeared on the Did You Know? column on the main page On February 26.
• History of World Wrestling Federation was merged back into History of World Wrestling Entertainment.
• Based on the members list, there are currently 212 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
• There are currently 581 articles in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still 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.
• The WP:PW Cleanup listing was updated this week by the bot for the first time since October. A number of Featured lists, Featured articles, and Good articles are listed as having problems. Anyone who fixes an problem with an article should remove it from the listing, so we can accurately keep track of it. All members are encouraged to help out.
• There is an ongoing discussion here regarding what constitutes a "World Championship". All members are encouraged to particpate in the discussion.

This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of vandalism and speculation: professional wrestling events from major promotions for the month of March.

• 8 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling presents Destination X

• At No Way Out

• Triple H won his record eighth WWE Championship by winning the SmackDown Elimination Chamber match; this win surpassed The Rock's original record of seven reigns.
• Edge won the World Heavyweight Championship by winning the Raw Elimination Chamber match.

• It was announced on the February 16 episode of Raw that Terry and Dory Funk, Jr. will be the second and third inductees, into the WWE Hall of Fame as a part of the Class of 2009; they will be inducted by Dusty Rhodes.
• World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) announced on February 19 that their February 16 broadcast of Raw had gained a 4.1 television rating, the largest since the February 26, 2007 episode of Raw.
• On February 20:

• HDNet announced that episode airings of Ring of Honor would begin on March 31.
• It was reported by a Nielsen Media Research ratings report that the February 19 broadcast of TNA's Impact earned a 1.3 television rating, the highest rounded number the promotion has ever drawn.
• WWE announced the release of Scotty Goldman from the company.
• On an episode of Friday Night SmackDown, WWE announced the return of Gail Kim to the promotion via a video promo.

• It was reported on February 21 that Sonjay Dutt had been released from his TNA contract, and this was confirmed with the removal of his profile from TNA's official website.
• On February 20, it was reported that Freddie Prinze, Jr., a scriptwriter for Friday Night SmackDown, had been released from his contract with WWE.
• On February 23:

• Afa Anoa'i, Jr., known by his ring name "Manu", was released from his WWE contract.
• On Raw, it was announced that Ricky Steamboat will be the fourth inductee into the WWE Hall of Fame as a part of the Class of 2009; he will be inducted by Ric Flair.

• WWE confirmed on February 24 that WrestleMania XXVI would be held in Glendale, Arizona at the University of Phoenix Stadium on March 28, 2010.
• On February 25, WWE announced that they had discontinued the WWE One Night Stand name, and that their 2009 event would be replaced with the name 'Extreme Rules'.
• ROH taped the first episode airings of their television series for HDNet on February 28 from the The Arena.

This is a section in the newsletter devoted to help familiarize project members with the Manual of Style and general editing tips.

1. All Knowledge (XXG) articles should be written from a neutral point-of-view.
2. Do not overlink terms in an article, only make links where they are relevant to the context, and only link each item once. Tables are the exception to this rule, e.g. the results table in pay-per-view articles.
3. When editing an article, use the edit summary to provide a brief summary of your edits; this helps users understand what was changed in the article.
4. Avoid using dirtsheets as sources. Adhere to WP:RS when adding information with a source to articles. For a list of reliable and unreliable wrestling-related sources see Knowledge (XXG):WikiProject Professional wrestling/Style guide#Sources.
5. Per WP:MOSCAPS, television shows, such as RAW and iMPACT!, should be written as Raw and Impact!.

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As of February 2009:

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA			7	4		11
	FL			12	15		27
	GA		6	37	82		125
	B	1	18	74	211		304
	C		3	25	119		147
	Start	2	53	240	1858		2153
	Stub		2	22	535		559
	List		3	31	591	1	624
	Future			4	15		19
	Assessed	3	85	448	3415	1	3948
	Total	3	85	448	3415	1	3952

• List of Mexican National Heavyweight Champions (review page) is a current Featured list candidate.
• Blond Bombers, John Hennigan, John Morrison and The Miz, Mike Mizanin, and Turning Point (2004) are current Good article nominees.
• Darren Matthews (review page) failed its Good article nomination.
• The following articles appeared on the Did You Know? column on the main page:
  • March 10: Robert Bruce (wrestler)
  • March 14: Octagón
• Deletion Discussions
  • Articles for Deletion
    • Deleted: Local Championship Wrestling and Original ECW
  • Templates for Deletion.
    • Current: Template:World Champions in TNA and Template:X Division.
    • Deleted: Template:Hardy Boyz and Template:John Morrison and The Miz.
• Based on the members list, there are currently 214 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
• There are currently 559 articles in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still 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.

This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of vandalism and speculation: professional wrestling events from major promotions for the month of March.

• 15 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling presents Destination X

• On March 1, Pro Wrestling Noah announced that they had signed a new television deal with Samurai Television.
• On March 2:

• World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) announced that they had signed an agreement with Fox Turkey to broadcast Friday Night SmackDown across Turkey.
• On Raw:

• Randy Orton announced that he would use his opportunity to challenge for a World Championship that he won at the Royal Rumble to face Triple H for his WWE Championship at WrestleMania XXV.
• Shawn Michaels defeated Vladimir Kozlov in a singles match to face The Undertaker at WrestleMania XXV, in the process ending the near-eleven-month undefeated streak of Kozlov in televised singles competition.
• Bill Watts was announced as the fifth inductee into the WWE Hall of Fame as a part of the Class of 2009.

• "The Boogeyman" Marty Wright was released from his WWE contract on March 4.
• On March 6, Sonjay Dutt officially announced his contract release from TNA.
• It was reported on March 7 that Kaleb O'Neal had been released from his WWE developmental contract.
• On March 9:

• "Ryan Braddock" Brad Bradley and "Kizarny" Nick Cvjetkovich were released from their WWE contracts.
• On Raw:

• John "Bradshaw" Layfield defeated WWE Intercontinental Champion CM Punk to win the title; this win also made Layfield the tenth Grand Slam Champion and twentieth Triple Crown Champion.
• Koko B. Ware was announced as the sixth inductee into the WWE Hall of Fame as a part of the Class of 2009.

• On March 13:

• Andrew "Test" Martin was found dead in his apartment in Tampa, Florida. His cause of death is currently unknown.
• Ric Flair made his Ring of Honor debut at a live event in St. Louis, Missouri.

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2. When creating a new article, use one of the templates found here to help, if it's applicable.
3. Our project has a cleanup listing. Please help by adding sources or expanding any articles listed here.
4. Dates should be unlinked in all articles per WP:MOSNUM.
5. If a sentence seems like it may not be true or is partially controversial, remove it or add {{fact}} directly after it.

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As of March 2009:

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA			8	3		11
	FL			12	15		27
	GA		6	38	81		125
	B	1	19	76	213		309
	C		4	26	129		159
	Start	2	53	248	1850		2153
	Stub		2	21	543		566
	List		3	35	606	1	645
	Future			4	13		17
	Assessed	3	87	468	3453	1	4012
Total	3	87	468	3453	1	4012

• List of former championships in World Wrestling Entertainment (review page), List of Mexican National Heavyweight Champions (review page), and List of TNA X Division Champions (review page) are current Featured list candidates.
• IWGP Heavyweight Championship (review page) is a current Featured list removal candidate.
• Against All Odds (2005), Ashley Massaro, Blond Bombers, Final Resolution (2005), John Hennigan, John Morrison and The Miz, Mike Mizanin, Paul London and Brian Kendrick, Stephanie McMahon, and Turning Point (2004) are current Good article nominees.
• The following articles appeared in the Did You Know? column on the main page:
  • March 20: List of former championships in World Wrestling Entertainment
  • March 24: Mark Starr
  • March 25: Against All Odds (2005)
  • March 28: Johnny Valentine
• Deletion Discussions
  • Templates for Deletion.
    • Kept: Template:X Division
    • Deleted: Template:World Champions in TNA
• Based on the members list, there are currently 216 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
• There are currently 564 articles in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still 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.
• The Article alerts for WP:PW is now up and running. This page lists recent changes that affect the status of an article in a variety of categories. Please use this in maintaining the articles of the project.

This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of vandalism and speculation: professional wrestling events from major promotions for the month of April.

• 5 - World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) presents WrestleMania XXV
• 19 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) presents Lockdown

• On March 15 at Destination X
  • A.J. Styles won the TNA Legends Championship by defeating defending champion Booker T, and by doing so becoming TNA's first ever Grand Slam Champion.
  • Suicide defeated defending TNA X Division Champion Alex Shelley, Chris Sabin, Consequences Creed and Jay Lethal in an Ultimate X match to win the title.
• On March 17:

• It was confirmed via WWE.com that The Von Erichs were the sixth inductees into the WWE Hall of Fame as a part of the Class of 2009.
• At a set of Friday Night SmackDown tapings:

• Montel Vontavious Porter defeated Shelton Benjamin to win the WWE United States Championship; this match aired on March 20.
• Gail Kim made her return to WWE by attacking Maryse and Michelle McCool; this segment aired on March 27.

• It was reported by a Nielsen Media Research ratings report that the March 19 broadcast of TNA Impact! earned a 1.34 television rating, the highest number the promotion has ever drawn.
• On March 21
  • Elizabeth Miklosi (Lizzy Valentine) announced that she had quit the Asistencia Asesoría y Administración promotion.
  • Ring of Honor aired their first television show, Ring of Honor Wrestling, on HDNet.
• On March 22:

• "Abismo Negro" Andrés González was found dead in a river in El Rosario, Mexico.
• Steve Doll died from heart and kidney failure caused by a blood clot in his lung.

• Howard Finkel was announced as the seventh inductee into the WWE Hall of Fame as a part of the Class of 2009 via WWE's official website.

This is a section in the newsletter devoted to help familiarize project members with the Manual of Style and general editing tips.

1. Consider expanding an article from the project's list of stub articles and nominating it at Did You Know?. The project's goal is to have 100 total DYKs by the end of the year, and we are currently on 74.
2. Avoid using dirtsheets as sources. Adhere to WP:RS when adding information with a source to articles. For a list of reliable and unreliable wrestling-related sources see Knowledge (XXG):WikiProject Professional wrestling/Style guide#Sources.
3. When editing an article, use the edit summary to provide a brief summary of your edits; this helps users understand what was changed in the article.
4. All Knowledge (XXG) articles should be written from a neutral point-of-view, representing fairly, and as far as possible without bias, all significant views that have been published by reliable sources.
5. The project's New Year's Resolutions are listed here, and a list of topics that are close to Good topic status is listed here. Consider helping by achieving an aim listed or by improving an article on the Topics list to Good Article status.

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As of April 2009:

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA			8	3		11
	FL			14	16		30
	GA		6	39	85		130
	B	1	20	75	217		313
	C		4	29	142		175
	Start	2	53	252	1875		2182
	Stub		1	22	513		536
	List		4	35	627	1	667
	Future			3	14		17
	Assessed	3	88	477	3492	1	4061
	Total	3	88	477	3492	1	4061

• List of CMLL World Heavyweight Champions (review page), List of ROH World Champions (review page), and List of TNA World Tag Team Champions (review page) are current Featured list candidates.
• IWGP Heavyweight Championship (review page) is a current Featured list removal candidate.
• Against All Odds (2005), Ashley Massaro, The Bella Twins, Final Resolution (2005), Paul London and Brian Kendrick, and Stephanie McMahon are current Good article nominees.
• The following article appeared in the Did You Know? column on the main page:
  • April 3: Aurelian Smith
  • April 4: Jonny Storm
  • April 7: Jimmy Cicero
• Deletion Discussions:
  • Articles for Deletion:
    • Kept: The American Males
  • Categories for discussion:
    • Deleted: Category:WrestleCrap
  • Templates for Deletion
    • Current: Template:Paul London and Brian Kendrick
• Based on the members list, there are currently 217 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
• There is a current discussion to move WrestleMania XXV to 25th Anniversary of WrestleMania.
• Percy Pringle was moved to Paul Bearer as a result of this discussion.
• From April 10 to May 10, WP:PW will be hosting the first Professional Wrestling Stub Reduction Drive. Details can be found here and all memebers are encouraged to get involved.

This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of vandalism and speculation: professional wrestling events from major promotions for the month of April.

• 19 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) presents Lockdown
• 26 - World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) presents Backlash

• On April 1, World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) announced that it had signed a television agreement with Cablevision to broadcast the very-first WWE pay-per-view in Mexico City: WrestleMania XXV.
• The April 2 episode of Impact! drew a Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) record attendance rating for the program, with 1.97 million viewers.
• Tazz's departure from WWE was confirmed on April 3, when his profile on the official website was moved to the alumni section.
• On April 4, Jerry Lynn won the ROH World Championship at Supercard of Honor IV, by defeating Nigel McGuinness.
• At WrestleMania XXV on April 5:

• WWE Tag Team Champions The Colóns (Carlito and Primo) defeated World Tag Team Champions John Morrison and The Miz in a tag team lumberjack match to unify both titles.
• Santino Marella, competing in drag as "Santina", won the 25 Diva battle royal to become the first Miss WrestleMania.
• Rey Mysterio defeated John Layfield to win the WWE Intercontinental Championship and become the 21st WWE Triple Crown Champion. After the match, Layfield retired from wrestling.
• The Undertaker defeated Shawn Michaels to elevate his "WrestleMania winning streak" to 17-0.
• John Cena defeated Big Show and Edge in a triple threat match to win the World Heavyweight Championship.

• On the April 6 episode of Raw

• Vickie Guerrero announced her resignation as SmackDown general manager, and her permanent position as Raw general manager. It was later announced that Theodore Long would replace her on SmackDown, while Tiffany became the new interim ECW general manager.
• Batista made his WWE television return from a legitimate hamstring injury.

• Ayako Hamada announced on April 9 that she had signed a deal with TNA.

This is a section in the newsletter devoted to help familiarize project members with the Manual of Style and general editing tips.

1. Consider expanding an article from Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles as part of the Stub Reduction Drive and nominating it at Did You Know?.
2. Per WP:MOSCAPS, television shows, such as RAW and iMPACT!, should be written as Raw and Impact!.
3. Avoid using bolding to emphasize text. See MOS:BOLD for appropriate uses of bold text.

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As of April 2009:

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA			8	3	11
	FL			16	17	33
	GA		6	39	86	131
	B	1	22	74	219	316
	C		4	30	144	178
	Start	2	53	254	1902	2211
	Stub		1	22	491	514
	List		4	34	632	671
	Future			2	13	15
	Assessed	3	90	479	3507	4080
	Total	3	90	479	3507	4080

—Articles

• Over the Edge (1999) (review page) has been requested as Today's Featured Article for May 23.
• 2009 WWE Draft (review page) and List of ROH World Tag Team Champions (review page) are current Featured list candidates.
• List of Mexican National Trios Champions (review page) has failed its Featured list nomination.
• IWGP Heavyweight Championship (review page) is a current Featured list removal candidate.
• Adam Birch, Against All Odds (2005), Armageddon (2008), Ashley Massaro, Final Resolution (2005), MNM, Paul London and Brian Kendrick, Stephanie McMahon, and the TNA X Division Championship are current Good article nominees.
• John Morrison and The Miz (review page) is a current Good topic candidate.
• Abismo Negro (review page) is currently under Peer Review.
• The following article appeared in the Did You Know? column on the main page:

• Deletion Discussions:

• Articles for Deletion

• Current: UK Kid
• Deleted: Dave Scherer, Scott Van Raven, Sean Kustom, and World Tag Fighting Society.

• Templates for Deletion

• Deleted: Template:Paul London and Brian Kendrick

• A discussion to move WrestleMania XXV to 25th Anniversary of WrestleMania had no result. A discussion resulted in Matt Sydal being moved to Evan Bourne.

—Project

• WP:PW is currently hosting the first Professional Wrestling Stub Reduction Drive. Details can be found here and all members are encouraged to get involved, with two weeks left to go.
• Based on the members list, there are currently 220 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.

This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of vandalism and speculation: professional wrestling events from major promotions for the months of April and May.

• April:
  • 26 - World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) presents Backlash
• May:
  • 17 - WWE presents Judgment Day
  • 24 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) presents Sacrifice

• WWE held it's seventh annual draft on the April 13 episode of Raw, in which 12 wrestlers were drafted to different brands.
• On April 15, the Japanese based promotion Dragon Gate announced it was expanding into the United States, with it's first show scheduled for July 25 in Philadelphia, Pennsylannia.
• On April 15, WWE held it's Supplemental Draft in which 24 wrestlers were drafted to different brands.
• On April 16:

• Daniel Covell returned to TNA television under his "Fallen Angel" Christopher Daniels character on Impact!.
• Superstars, a new WWE television series, debuted on WGN America in the United States.

• At Lockdown on April 19:

• Angelina Love defeated Taylor Wilde and defending champion Awesome Kong in a three way six sides of steel cage match to win the TNA Women's Knockout Championship.
• Team 3D (Brother Ray and Brother Devon) defeated Beer Money, Inc. (Robert Roode and James Storm) to win the TNA World Tag Team Championship and retain the IWGP Tag Team Championship in a Philadelphia Street Fight.
• Mick Foley defeated defending champion Sting in a six sides of steel cage match to win the TNA World Heavyweight Championship.
• Bobby Lashley made his TNA debut.

• On the April 23 episode of Impact!, William Mueller made his TNA debut as "Jethro Holliday".

This is a section in the newsletter devoted to help familiarize project members with the Manual of Style and general editing tips.

1. Avoid using dirtsheets as sources. Adhere to WP:RS when adding information with a source to articles. For a list of reliable and unreliable wrestling-related sources see Knowledge (XXG):WikiProject Professional wrestling/Style guide#Sources.
2. Refer to WP:NC during the process of renaming an article, if a name does not adhere to these guidelines, be bold and move the article to the correct target name. If there is a naming conflict, follow the steps to a resolution or discuss the move on the project's talk page.
3. Avoid overlinking in an article. If a subject has been linked once already in the body paragraphs, there is no need to link it again. Lists are the only exceptions to this policy.
4. The lead section of an article should introduce the subject and summarize the entire article's contents. The size of the lead will depend on the size of the article.
5. Adhere strictly to the Biographies of living persons policy when adding to information to biography articles.

1. Only add controversial, possibly contentious or libellous information if it comes from a reliable source and is verifiable.
2. Make sure that all information contained in biographies of living persons is written from a non-point of view perspective.

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As of May 2009:

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA			8	3	11
	FL			17	17	34
	GA		6	42	85	133
	B	1	22	72	218	313
	C		5	34	145	184
	Start	2	53	259	1944	2258
	Stub		1	22	455	478
	List		4	32	637	674
	Future			2	11	13
	Assessed	3	91	488	3515	4098
	Total	3	91	488	3515	4098

—Articles

• Over the Edge (1999) (review page) has been requested as Today's Featured Article for May 23.
• IWGP Heavyweight Championship (review page) is a current Featured list removal candidate.
• Adam Birch, Against All Odds (2005), Armageddon (2008), Bruno Lauer, The Fabulous Moolah, Final Resolution (2005), MNM, Paul London and Brian Kendrick, and the TNA X Division Championship are current Good article nominees.
• The following article appeared in the Did You Know? column on the main page:

• Deletion Discussions:

• Articles for Deletion

• Current: HWF
• Deleted: John Green (professional wrestler) and Matthew Granahan.
• Kept: UK Kid

—Project

• Over the past month, WP:PW hosted the first Professional Wrestling Stub Reduction Drive. In one month, the number of stub-class articles was reduced from 562 (13.84% of the project's total articles) to 477 (11.64%). More work expanding stubs is always appreciated. See here for more information.
• Based on the members list, there are currently 221 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.

This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of vandalism and speculation: professional wrestling events from major promotions for the month of May.

• 17 - World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) presents Judgment Day
• 24 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) presents Sacrifice

• At Backlash on April 26:

• Christian defeated the defending champion Jack Swagger to win the ECW Championship in a singles match.
• Randy Orton won the WWE Championship in a six-man tag team match, as a result of his team, including Cody Rhodes and Ted DiBiase, defeating the team of defending champion Triple H, Batista and Shane McMahon.
• Edge won the World Heavyweight Championship in a Last Man Standing match by defeating defending champion John Cena.

• On April 28, "Playboy" Buddy Rose was found dead in his home in Vancouver, Washington. His death was later attributed to natural causes.
• On the April 30 episode of Impact!, Hernandez was written off television to undergo neck surgery.
• On May 2, Davey Richards won the Full Impact Pro World Heavyweight Championship, after the defending champion, Tyler Black, forfeited the title match due to an injury.
• On May 3, The Canadian Ninjas (Nicole Matthews and Portia Perez) won the Shimmer Tag Team Championship by defeating Ashley Lane and Nevaeh; this match will be released on Shimmer Volume 26.
• On May 5:
  • Manabu Nakanishi won the IWGP Heavyweight Championship, defeating the defending champion Hiroshi Tanahashi.
  • WWE signed April Jeanette, better known by her ring name Miss April, to a developmental contract.
• On May 8, WWE signed Fred Sampson to a developmental contract.
• TNA announced a new television show, TNA Epics, that will broadcast its inaugural show on May 15 on Bravo in the United Kingdom.

This is a section in the newsletter devoted to help familiarize project members with the Manual of Style and general editing tips.

1. The project's New Year's Resolutions are listed here, and a list of topics that are close to Good topic status is listed here. Consider helping by achieving an aim listed or by improving an article on the Topics list to Good Article status.
2. Please familiarize yourself with the general notability policy of Knowledge (XXG). Avoid creating new articles that do not satisfy the requirements.
3. When the title of an refers to several things, it is necessary to provide links or disambiguate the page so that readers typing in that title can quickly navigate to the article that interests them. For example: World Heavyweight Championship (WWE).
4. Please avoid adding rumors to articles. Most rumors cannot be sourced with a reliable source and go against the Biographies of living persons policy.
5. Be aware of words to avoid. Certain words, if chosen poorly, can subtly promote a point of view.

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Professional wrestling articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA			8	3	11
	FL			17	18	35
	GA		6	43	86	135
	B	1	22	74	221	318
	C		5	33	145	183
	Start	2	53	260	1947	2262
	Stub		1	22	455	478
	List		4	32	638	675
	Future			2	10	12
	Assessed	3	91	491	3523	4109
	Total	3	91	491	3523	4109

—Articles

• Over the Edge (1999) appeared on the main page as Today's Featured Article for May 23.
• List of PWG World Champions (review page) is a current Featured list candidates.
• Adam Birch, Armageddon (2008), Beth Phoenix, Bruno Lauer, Debra Miceli, The Fabulous Moolah, Jillian Hall, Keiko Nakano, MNM, TNA World Heavyweight Championship, and TNA X Division Championship are current Good article nominees.
• Paul London and Brian Kendrick (review page) is a current Good topic candiate.
• The following article appeared in the Did You Know? column on the main page:
  • May 12: John McMahon (wrestler)
• Deletion Discussions:
  • Articles for Deletion
    • Current: Ryu Lee
    • Deleted: Brian Cannon and HWF.

—Project

• As part of the project's New Year's Reolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 10%. As of May 10, we are at 11.64%, with 483 articles currently in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if members would expand, source an improve stub articles, and a list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve.
• Based on the members list, there are currently 222 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.

This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of vandalism and speculation: professional wrestling events from major promotions for the months of May and June.

• May:
  • 24 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) presents Sacrifice
• June:
  • 7 - World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) presents Extreme Rules
  • 21 - TNA presents Slammiversary
  • 28 - WWE presents The Great American Bash

• On the May 12 episode of ECW on Sci Fi, Harry Smith made his ECW debut, using the ring name "David Hart Smith".
• On May 17:
  • Ric Flair returned to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) at Judgment Day.
  • Tyler Black defeated Jimmy Jacobs to become the Mr. Chainsaw Production Wrestling World Champion.
  • Lacey Von Erich was diagnosed with meningitis, after being taken to hospital with a constant migraine.
• On May 18:
  • WWE confirmed the rebranding of The Great American Bash to simply The Bash.
  • El Hijo del Santo returned to Asistencia Asesoría y Administración at their television tapings for the first time since 1995.
• Florida Championship Wrestling wrestler Fifi suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament.
• Due to a double booking of the Pepsi Center in Denver with a game from the NBA Playoffs, WWE announced on May 20 that the May 25 episode of Raw was to be moved to to the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
• On May 22
  • Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) announced that Shane Sewell had been released from his contract.
  • Chikara announced that the Young Lions Cup champion Equinox had suffered an ankle injury; he will be sidelined for approximately four weeks.

This is a section in the newsletter devoted to help familiarize project members with the Manual of Style and general editing tips.

1. Trivia sections are discouraged in wikipedia articles. Information from such sections, if notable, should be merged into the main body of the article.
2. Avoid adding statements that will date quickly, for example "soon" and "now".
3. Avoid using dirtsheets as sources. Adhere to WP:RS when adding information with a source to articles. For a list of reliable and unreliable wrestling-related sources see Knowledge (XXG):WikiProject Professional wrestling/Style guide#Sources.
4. The lead section of an article should introduce the subject and summarize the entire article's contents. The size of the lead will depend on the size of the article.
5. Avoid using bolding to emphasize text. See MOS:BOLD for appropriate uses of bold text.

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Professional wrestling articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA			8	3		11
	FL			17	20		37
	GA		6	44	86		136
	B	1	22	80	226		329
	C		5	33	147		185
	Start	2	54	260	1958		2274
	Stub			21	467		488
	List		4	31	642	1	678
	Future			2	10		12
	Assessed	3	91	496	3559	1	4150
	Unassessed					1	1
	Total	3	91	496	3559	2	4151

—Articles

• List of CZW World Heavyweight Champions (review page), List of Mexican National Trios Champions (review page), and List of PWG World Tag Team Champions (review page) are current Featured list candidates.
• Adam Birch, Armageddon (2008), Beth Phoenix, Bruno Lauer, Debra Miceli, The Fabulous Moolah, Jillian Hall, Keiko Nakano, Leilani Kai, MNM, TNA World Heavyweight Championship, TNA World Tag Team Championship, and TNA X Division Championship are current Good article nominees.
• Paul London and Brian Kendrick (review page) is a current Good topic candiate.
• The following article appeared in the Did You Know? column on the main page:
  • May 28: List of PWG World Champions
  • May 29: PWG World Tag Team Championship
  • May 30: List of PWG World Tag Team Champions
  • June 5: List of CZW World Heavyweight Champions
• Deletion Discussions:
  • Articles for Deletion
    • Current: III (professional wrestling), Just Close Your Eyes, Melanie Cruise, and Pro Wrestling Entertainment.
    • Deleted: All Out Mayhem, Edgar Meyer (Wrestler), Kimberley Kash, and Ryu Lee.
    • Merged: May 2009 Pepsi Center double-booking controversy

—Project

• As part of the project's New Year's Reolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 10%. As of June 7, we are at 11.76%, with 488 articles currently in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if members would expand, source and improve stub articles, and a list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve.
• Based on the members list, there are currently 222 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.

This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of vandalism and speculation: professional wrestling events from major promotions for the month of June.

• 7 - World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) presents Extreme Rules
• 12 - Ring of Honor (ROH) presents Take No Prisoners
• 21 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) presents Slammiversary
• 28 - WWE presents The Bash

• At Sacrifice on May 24, Sting defeated Mick Foley, Jeff Jarrett, and Kurt Angle in an Ultimate Sacrifice match by pinning Angle, which meant that he took over Angle's position as the leader of The Main Event Mafia.
• Mr. Kennedy made his return to WWE television on the May 25 episode of Raw, but was released four days later on May 29.
• On May 26, Ephesto defeated Rey Bucanero to win the CMLL World Light Heavyweight Championship, after Bucanero suffered a legitimate knee injury.
• On May 28:
  • John Tolos died in Los Angeles aged 78.
  • Lisa Marie Varon made her TNA debut, and Shane Douglas and Raven returned to TNA.
• On June 1:
  • WWE, THQ, and Yuke's announced that the development of WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2010 had started.
  • On WWE Raw:
    • Kofi Kingston won the WWE United States Championship by defeating defending champion Montel Vontavious Porter.
• On June 2, Samoa Joe was diagnosed with a torn triceps and broken fingers.
• On May 5, it was announced that WWE had released developmental talents Dakota Darsow, Jon Cutler, and Lupe Santiago.
• On May 6:

• It was announced that WWE had also released developmental wrestler Kafu.
• Combat Zone Wrestling wrestler Nick Gage was injured in a match after taking a bump onto a light tube, suffering a severed artery and being airflifted to hospital.

This is a section in the newsletter devoted to help familiarize project members with the Manual of Style and general editing tips.

1. Our project has a cleanup listing. Please help by adding sources or expanding any articles listed here.
2. Be aware of words to avoid. Certain words, if chosen poorly, can subtly promote a point of view.
3. All Knowledge (XXG) articles should be written from a neutral point-of-view.

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Professional wrestling articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA		1	7	3	11
	FL			23	16	39
	GA		6	45	86	137
	B	1	22	81	225	329
	C		5	35	153	193
	Start	2	54	262	1957	2275
	Stub			22	466	488
	List		4	30	640	675
	Future			3	9	12
	Assessed	3	92	508	3555	4159
	Total	3	92	508	3555	4159

—Articles

• The TNA X Division Championship (review page) was withdrawn as a Featured article candidate.
• List of CZW World Heavyweight Champions (review page) and List of CZW World Tag Team Champions (review page) are current Featured list candidates.
• Adam Birch, Armageddon (2008), Beth Phoenix, Bruno Lauer, Debra Miceli, The Fabulous Moolah, Jillian Hall, Keiko Nakano, Leilani Kai, MNM, TNA Legends Championship, TNA World Heavyweight Championship, and TNA World Tag Team Championship are current Good article nominees.
• The following article appeared in the Did You Know? column on the main page:
  • June 7: List of FIP Tag Team Champions
• Deletion Discussions:
  • Articles for Deletion
    • Current: IPW New Zealand Heavyweight Championship, Jessie McKay, Kellie Skater, Madison Eagles, Pink Ladies (professional wrestling) and Tennille Tayla.
    • Deleted: III (professional wrestling), Dingo (wrestler), Evan Evans (Pro Wrestler), IPW Armageddon Championship, Just Close Your Eyes, Melanie Cruise, Melisschif, Peter Stilsbury, Pro Wrestling Entertainment, Pro Wrestling Superstars, Suicide Blondes (professional wrestling) and The Experience (Wrestling)

—Project

• As part of the project's New Year's Resolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 10%. As of June 21, we are at 11.73%, with 488 articles currently in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if members would expand, source and improve stub articles, and a list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve.
• Based on the members list, there are currently 224 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
• The WP:PW cleanup listing was updated for the first time in three months. Please help out with fixing any of the problems listed, and removing them from the list.
• There is an on-going discussion here regarding the "In wrestling" section of biographies, and what should and should not be included. All opinions are welcome.

This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of vandalism and speculation: professional wrestling events from major promotions for the month of June.

• 21 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) presents Slammiversary
• 28 - World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) presents The Bash

• At WWE's Extreme Rules pay-per-view on June 7:

• Chris Jericho won the WWE Intercontinental Championship for a record ninth time by defeating Rey Mysterio in a No Holds Barred match.
• Tommy Dreamer won the ECW Championship by defeating the defending champion Christian and Jack Swagger in a Triple Threat Hardcore match.
• Batista won the WWE Championship by defeating Randy Orton in a steel cage match.
• Jeff Hardy defeated World Heavyweight Champion Edge in a Ladder match to win the title.
• Following the Ladder match, CM Punk cashed in his Money in the Bank briefcase and defeated Hardy to win the World Heavyweight Championship.

• On June 8:

• "Umaga" Eddie Fatu was released from his WWE contract for violating the WWE Wellness Program, and refusing to seek drug rehabilitation.
• On WWE Raw:

• Vickie Guerrero quit WWE, and thus, her position as the Raw brand's General Manager.
• Triple H returned to WWE television after a two-month hiatus.

• On June 9, WWE reported that Batista had suffered a complete torn left bicep. He underwent surgery to repair it the followingday, and is expected to have at least four months of rehabilitation.
• On June 13:

• Mitsuharu Misawa died at the age of 46, after becoming unconscious in the ring while wrestling during a Pro Wrestling Noah live event.
• Austin Aries defeated Jerry Lynn to win the ROH World Championship, making Aries the only person to hold the title more than once.
• At AAA's Triplemania XVII pay-per-view :

• Extreme Tiger defeated Alex Koslov, Crazy Boy and Alan Stone in a Four-Way Elimination Hardcore match for the AAA Cruiserweight Championship.
• Dr. Wagner, Jr. defeated El Mesias for the AAA World Heavyweight Championship.

• Gerald Brisco suffered a series of strokes before and during June 13 and 14, and is scheduled for surgery.
• On June 14:

• Jun Akiyama vacated Pro Wrestling Noah's GHC Heavyweight Championship due to being diagnosed with spinal disc herniation in his lower back.
• Go Shiozaki defeated Takeshi Rikio to win the vacant GHC Heavyweight Championship.

• On June 15

• Referee Ted Tanabe died at the age of 46, after suffering a heart attack in the ring the previous night while officiating a match at a live event for Osaka Pro Wrestling.
• On Raw:

• Randy Orton defeated Big Show, John Cena, and Triple H in a Fatal-Four Way match to win the WWE Championship.
• WWE Chairman Vince McMahon announced Donald Trump as the new scripted owner of the Raw franchise.

• On June 17, Dos Caras, Jr. confirmed that he signed a three-year contract with WWE.
• On June 19, WWE released Candice Michelle and Jimmy Reiher, Jr. (Sim Snuka).
• On June 20, Hiroshi Tanahashi defeated Manabu Nakanishi in Osaka, Japan to win the IWGP Heavyweight Championship.

This is a section in the newsletter devoted to help familiarize project members with the Manual of Style and general editing tips.

1. If you come across an article that fails notability requirements, tou can tag it for speedy deletion if the criteria apply, propose it for deletion, or nominate it at WP:AFD.
2. Do not give undue weight to recent events in articles.
3. If making a controversial change, or one that will affect a wide range of article, please gain consensus from the project first.
4. Avoid adding statements that will date quickly, for example "soon" and "now".
5. Avoid using dirtsheets as sources. Adhere to WP:RS when adding information with a source to articles. For a list of reliable and unreliable wrestling-related sources see Knowledge (XXG):WikiProject Professional wrestling/Style guide#Sources.

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As of July 2009:

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA		1	7	3	11
	FL			23	18	41
	GA		6	49	84	139
	B	1	23	88	222	335
	C		5	41	158	204
	Start	2	54	286	1931	2273
	Stub			25	471	496
	List		4	31	629	665
	Future			4	11	15
	Assessed	3	93	554	3527	4179
	Total	3	93	554	3527	4179

—Articles

• The TNA X Division Championship (review page) is a Featured article candidate.
• List of CMLL World Light Heavyweight Champions (review page), List of CMLL World Middleweight Champions (review page), Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame (review page) and WWE Backlash (review page) are current Featured list candidates.
• List of FIP World Heavyweight Champions (review page) was withdrawn as a Featured list candidate.
• Adam Birch (review page), Beth Phoenix, Bruno Lauer (review page), Debra Miceli, The Fabulous Moolah (review page), Jillian Hall, Keiko Nakano (review page), Leilani Kai, Mark Henry , Ted DiBiase, Jr., TNA Bound for Glory, TNA Legends Championship, TNA World Heavyweight Championship (review page), and TNA World Tag Team Championship are current Good article nominees.
• Abismo Negro (review page) is currently under Peer Review.
• The following articles appeared in the Did You Know? column on the main page:
  • June 22: Ephesto
  • June 25: Dos Caras, Jr.
  • June 27: Mascara Dorada
  • July 1: Billy Red Lyons
• Deletion Discussions:
  • Articles for Deletion
    • Current: Neo (wrestler), and Unified WWE Tag Team Championship
    • Deleted: Ashley Lane and Nevaeh, Bill Verna, IPW New Zealand Heavyweight Championship, Jessie McKay, Kellie Skater, Madison Eagles, Pink Ladies (professional wrestling), Tennille Tayla, and Ultimate World Championship.
    • Kept: Pete Stilsbury (2nd nomination)

—Project

• As part of the project's New Year's Resolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 10%. As of July 5, we are at 11.97%, with 499 articles currently in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if members would expand, source and improve stub articles, and a list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve.
• Based on the members list, there are currently 225 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
• The WP:PW cleanup listing was updated again on June 21. Please help out with fixing any of the problems listed, and removing them from the list.

This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of vandalism and speculation: professional wrestling events from major promotions for the month of July.

• 19 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) presents Victory Road
• 26 - World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) presents Night of Champions

• At TNA's Slammiversary pay-per-view on June 21:
  • Beer Money, Inc. (Robert Roode and James Storm) defeated Team 3D (Brother Ray and Brother Devon) to win the TNA World Tag Team Championship.
  • Kurt Angle won the TNA World Heavyweight Championship by defeating defending champion Mick Foley, Samoa Joe, Jeff Jarrett, and A.J. Styles in a King of the Mountain match.
• On June 22:
  • WWE Chairman Vince McMahon bought back the WWE Raw franchise from the storyline owner Donald Trump.
  • Matt Hardy suffered a torn abdominal muscle, and is scheduled for surgery.
  • Billy Red Lyons died from cancer at the age of 77.
• On June 24, it was announced that Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) would be releasing a video game in the United States entitled AAA El Videojuego.
• On June 25, Fuerza and Juventud Guerrera announced that they were starting their own promotion called Super X GPCW.
• At WWE's The Bash pay-per-view on June 27:

• Rey Mysterio defeated Chris Jericho in a Mask vs. Title match to keep his mask and win the WWE Intercontinental Championship.
• Edge and Chris Jericho defeated Unified WWE Tag Team Champions The Colóns (Carlito and Primo) and The Legacy (Ted DiBiase and Cody Rhodes) in a Triple Threat tag team match to win the titles.
• Michelle McCool defeated Melina to win the WWE Women's Championship; she became the first Diva to hold the WWE Diva's and Women's Titles.

• It was announced on June 29 on WWE Raw that 15 wrestlers had been traded among the three WWE brands as a result of Donald Trump's storyline purchase.
• On June 30 on ECW on Sci Fi, four wrestlers made their debut for the ECW brand: Yoshi Tatsu, Tyler Reks, Sheamus and Abraham Washington.
• On July 1:

• Two midget professional wrestlers, La Parkita and Espectrito Jr, were killed in a hotel room in Mexico, allegedly overdosing on a drug used to spike their beverages.
• Dave Prazak announced that Serena Deeb had signed with WWE.

This is a section in the newsletter devoted to help familiarize project members with the Manual of Style and general editing tips.

1. Trivia sections are discouraged in wikipedia articles. Information from such sections, if notable, should be merged into the main body of the article.
2. The project's New Year's Resolutions are listed here, and a list of topics that are close to Good topic status is listed here. Consider helping by achieving an aim listed or by improving an article on the Topics list to Good Article status.
3. Please familiarize yourself with the general notability policy of Knowledge (XXG). Avoid creating new articles that do not satisfy the requirements.
4. Refer to WP:NC during the process of renaming an article, if a name does not adhere to these guidelines, be bold and move the article to the correct target name. If there is a naming conflict, follow the steps to a resolution or discuss the move on the project's talk page.
5. Avoid overlinking in an article. If a subject has been linked once already in the body paragraphs, there is no need to link it again. Lists are the only exceptions to this policy.

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As of July 2009:

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA		1	7	3	11
	FL			23	19	42
	GA		7	49	84	140
	B	1	22	88	231	342
	C		5	45	165	215
	Start	3	53	283	1935	2274
	Stub			25	473	498
	List		4	30	626	661
	Future			4	10	14
	Assessed	4	92	554	3546	4197
	Total	4	92	554	3546	4197

—Articles

• The TNA X Division Championship (review page) is a Featured article candidate.
• List of CMLL World Tag Team Champions (review page), List of CMLL World Welterweight Champions (review page), MCW Heavyweight Championship (review page), and NWA Wrestling Legends Hall of Heroes (review page) are current Featured list candidates.
• WWE Backlash (review page) was withdrawn as a featured list candidate.
• Abismo Negro (review page), Beth Phoenix, Cody Rhodes, Debra Miceli, Jillian Hall, The Legacy (professional wrestling), Leilani Kai, Mark Henry , Ted DiBiase, Jr., TNA Bound for Glory, TNA Legends Championship, and TNA World Tag Team Championship are current Good article nominees.
• Keiko Nakano (review page), Bruno Lauer (review page), and TNA World Heavyweight Championship (review page) failed their Good aricle nominations.
• TNA World Heavyweight Championship (discussion) has been nominated for Good article reassessment after failing its Good article nomination.
• MNM (review page) is a current Good topic candidate.
• The following articles appeared in the Did You Know? column on the main page:

• Deletion Discussions:
  • Articles for Deletion
    • Current: All Premier, American Luchacore Championship, Bill Verna (2nd nomination), The Canadian NINJAS, Irish Whip Wrestling (2nd nomination), and NWA Charlotte.
    • Deleted: Anarchy Championship Wrestling and Wrestlicious.
    • Kept: Melissa Coates and Unified WWE Tag Team Championship.
    • Merged: British Under 23's Championship
    • Redirected: Neo (wrestler)
  • Files for Deletion
    • Deleted: File:Summerslam (2009) Poster.jpg
• A requested move has been submitted, proposing that WWE SmackDown be moved to WWE Friday Night SmackDown; the discussion can be found here.

—Project

• As part of the project's New Year's Resolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 10%. As of July 5, we are at 11.72%, with 492 articles currently in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if members would expand, source and improve stub articles, and a list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve.
• Based on the members list, there are currently 225 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
• A discussion is currently ongoing regarding the "In wrestling" sections of biographies. Please join in here.

This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of vandalism and speculation: professional wrestling events from major promotions for the month of July.

• 19 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) presents Victory Road
• 26 - World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) presents Night of Champions

• On July 3, during a WWE live event in San Diego, California, Edge suffered a torn Achilles tendon while wrestling in a match. He underwent surgery on July 7, and will require rehabilitation which will sideline him from in-ring competition.
• On July 5, Waldo Von Erich (real name Wally Sieber) died at Grand River Hospital in Kitchener, Ontario at the age of 75.
• On July 6, Prince Devitt and Ryusuke Taguchi defeated The Motor City Machineguns (Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin) to win the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship.
• On July 7, Vampiro suffered four cracked vertebrae in his spine, and is expected to be sidelined for approximately three months.
• Eddie Fatu missed a scheduled autograph signing on July 9, after he was hospitalized with circulation problems in one of his legs.
• On July 11, Takashi Matsunaga, the founder of All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling died at the age of 73 from pneumonia.
• On July 13:
  • It was revealed that WWE had signed Nick Dinsmore to a contract.
  • Brian Lawler was jailed for 30 days after failing to attend an in-patient treatment center as part of his plea agreement, following his arrest for public intoxication on June 26.
• Jeremy Borash announced on July 14 that TNA had signed Ayako Hamada to a contract.
• On June 15, Bobby Lashley announced that he had signed a contract with TNA.
• On the July 16 episode of Impact!, Homicide won the TNA X Division Championship by defeating Suicide.

This is a section in the newsletter devoted to help familiarize project members with the Manual of Style and general editing tips.

1. Adhere strictly to the Biographies of living persons policy when adding to information to biography articles.

1. Only add controversial, possibly contentious or libellous information if it comes from a reliable source and is verifiable.
2. Make sure that all information contained in biographies of living persons is written from a non-point of view perspective and is neutral.

1. Avoid using dirtsheets as sources. Adhere to WP:RS when adding information with a source to articles. For a list of reliable and unreliable wrestling-related sources see Knowledge (XXG):WikiProject Professional wrestling/Style guide#Sources.
2. If a sentence seems to be untrue or does not have a source, add a {{fact}} tag directly after it. In the case of biographies of living persons, if the material is contentious and either unsourced or poorly sourced, it should be removed immediately.
3. Please remember that fair use images and media can be only be used if no free equivalent is available or could be created. Fair use images uploaded when a free equivalent exists will be deleted.
4. If making a controversial change, or one that will affect a wide range of article, please gain consensus from the project first.

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Project Navigation

As of August 2009:

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA		1	7	3	11
	FL			23	22	45
	GA		9	49	87	145
	B	5	19	86	226	336
	C		5	45	178	228
	Start	5	51	285	1951	2292
	Stub			25	478	503
	List		3	29	619	652
	Future			5	6	11
	Assessed	10	88	554	3570	4224
	Total	10	88	554	3570	4224

—Articles

• TNA X Division Championship (review page) was not promoted to Featured article status.
• CMLL World Mini-Estrella Championship (review page), List of CMLL World Tag Team Champions (review page), List of CMLL World Trios Champions (review page), NWA Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Championship (review page), and WCW United States Tag Team Championship (review page) are current Featured list candidates.
• Cliff Compton, Cody Rhodes, Debra Miceli (review page), Jimmy Reiher, Jr., The Legacy (professional wrestling), Leilani Kai, Mark Henry , Ted DiBiase, Jr., TNA Bound for Glory, TNA Legends Championship, TNA World Tag Team Championship, and Well Dunn are current Good article nominees.
• TNA World Heavyweight Championship (discussion) has been nominated for Good article reassessment after failing its Good article nomination.
• The following articles appeared in the Did You Know? column on the main page:

• Deletion Discussions:
  • Articles for Deletion
    • Current: Mark Vartanian and Osaka Pro Wrestling Championship.
    • Kept: Bill Verna (2nd nomination) and Irish Whip Wrestling (2nd nomination) both were closed as no consensus
    • Deleted: All Premier, The Canadian NINJAS, New Omega Wrestling Tag Team Championship, NWA Charlotte, and Real Championship Wrestling.
    • Merged: American Luchacore Championship

—Project

• As part of the project's New Year's Resolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 10%. As of August 2, we are at 11.96%, with 505 articles currently in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if members would expand, source and improve stub articles, and a list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve.
• Based on the members list, there are currently 225 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
• The style guide has been updated to reflect the new consensus on the formatting in the "In wrestling" sections of biographies, and the new format can be found at WP:PW/SG#In wrestling. Please help out in converting all biographies to the new format.

This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of vandalism and speculation: professional wrestling events from major promotions for the month of August.

• 16 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) presents Hard Justice
• 16 - Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) presents Verano de Escandalo
• 23 - World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) presents SummerSlam

• At TNA's Victory Road pay-per-view:
  • Angelina Love defeated Tara to win the TNA Women's Knockout Championship.
  • Kevin Nash defeated A.J. Styles to win the TNA Legends Championship.
  • Scott Steiner and Booker T won the TNA World Tag Team Championship by defeating Beer Money, Inc. (Robert Roode and James Storm).
  • Taz made his TNA debut.
• On July 21, Hijo del Fantasma defeated Averno to win the CMLL World Middleweight Championship.
• Damien Steele, a former WWE developmental wrestler, died on July 22. The cause of death was determined as a brain aneurysm.
• Dragon Gate USA held its inaugural pay-per-view event on July 25 at The Arena.
• At WWE's Night of Champions pay-per-view on July 26:
  • Christian defeated Tommy Dreamer to win the ECW Championship.
  • Mickie James won the WWE Divas Championship by defeating Maryse.
  • Jeff Hardy defeated CM Punk to win the World Heavyweight Championship.
• Chris Mordetzky returned to WWE under his "Chris Masters" gimmick on the July 27 episode of WWE Raw.
• On July 29, the Wrestling Observer Newsletter reported that Elijah Burke had signed a contract with TNA.
• On July 30:
  • The Brian Kendrick was released from WWE.
  • On TNA Impact!:
    • Mick Foley won the TNA Legends Championship from Kevin Nash.
    • Brutus Magnus and Doug Williams won the IWGP Tag Team Championship by defeating Team 3D (Brother Ray and Brother Deon) in a Tables match; it is unknown whether New Japan Pro Wrestling will recognize this title change.