Knowledge (XXG)

As of January 2010:

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA		2	5	4		11
	FL			25	31		56
	GA		11	61	103		175
	B	6	21	83	246		356
	C	1	8	66	295		370
	Start	7	51	286	2160		2504
	Stub			15	451		466
	List		3	30	644	1	678
	Future			4	8		12
	Assessed	14	96	575	3942	1	4628
	Unassessed					2	2
	Total	14	96	575	3942	3	4630

—Articles

• IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship (review page) is a current Featured list candidate.
• Derick Neikirk, Nick Nemeth, and Spirit Squad are current Good article nominees.
• Bobby Kay (review page) has failed its Good article nomination but has been nominated for a Good article reassessment here.
• The following article appeared on the main page in the Did You Know? column:
  • January 7: Billy Sandow
  • January 16: Jim White (wrestler)
• Deletion discussions:
  • Articles for deletion:
    • Deleted: Dynamite Chris Hart

—Project

• As part of the project's New Year's Resolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 5%. As of January 17, we are at 10.06%, with 466 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 of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve is included on the stub article subpage.
• Based on the members list, there are currently 235 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 January.

• 17 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) presents Genesis
• 22 - Dragon Gate USA (DGUSA) presents Freedom Fight
• 31 - World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) presents Royal Rumble

• On January 4:
  • WWE confirmed Tommy Dreamer's departure from the company, after his final match and farewell speech on the December 29 episode of ECW.
  • WWE announced that Melina had vacated the WWE Divas Championship due to injury, and set up a tournament to determine the new champion.
  • TNA held their first live edition of Impact! to compete against Raw, which featured:
    • Returns from wrestlers including Jeff Hardy, Shannon Moore, Scott Hall, and Sean Waltman, as well as the debuts of Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, and Eric Bischoff.
    • ODB defeating Tara to win the TNA Women's Knockout Championship.
    • Hamada and Awesome Kong defeating Talyor Wilde and Sarita to win the TNA Knockout Tag Team Championship.
  • At Wrestle Kingdom IV:
    • No Limit (Tetsuya Naito and Yujiro) won the IWGP Tag Team Championship by defeating the former champions, Team 3D (Brother Devon and Brother Ray), and Bad Intentions (Karl Anderson and Giant Bernard) in a three-way hardcore match.
    • Naomichi Marufuji defeated Tiger Mask IV to win the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship.
• On January 6, Mascara Dorada, Metro, and Stuka, Jr. defeated Dragón Rojo, Jr., Misterioso II, and Sangre Azteca in a tournament final to win the vacant Mexican National Trios Championship.
• On January 8, Steven Lewington was released from his WWE contract.
• On January 9:
  • It was reported that WWE had signed Asher Knight to a developmental contract.
  • It was reported that WWE had released developmental wrestler Sweet Papi Sanchez.
• On January 10:
  • It was reported that WWE had released several developmental workers, including Dino Carter, Chris the BambiKiller, Lennox, Lift Swayner, Leroy Morgan, Max McGuirk, and Dylan Klein.
  • Former wrestler Tony Halme was found dead at the age of 47, in his apartment in Helsinki. No cause of death has been announced.
  • Dr. Cerebro defeated Tetsuya Bushi to win the IWRG Intercontinental Lightweight Championship.
• K-Ness defeated Naoki Tanisaki to win the Dragon Gate Open the Brave Gate Championship on January 11.
• On January 14, The Fortunate Sons (Brett DiBiase and Joe Hennig defeated The Dudebusters (Caylen Croft, Trent Barreta, and Curt Hawkins) to win the FCW Florida Tag Team Championship.
• The Evolve promotion held their first show on January 16.

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

1. Help out with the project's cleanup listing by fixing problems listed and removing the article from the listing.
2. The lead section of an article should introduce the subject and summarize the entire article.
3. Adhere strictly to the Biographies of living persons policy when adding to information to biography articles.

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

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As of January 2010:

Professional wrestling articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		2	3	7			12
FL		1	26	44			71
GA		10	109	217		1	337
B	11	41	140	350		6	548
C	9	50	304	1,790		63	2,216
Start	2	48	339	5,166		164	5,719
Stub			2	283	1	38	324
List		1	65	1,184		41	1,291
Category			3	22	2,292		2,317
Disambig				1	21		22
File		1	1		1,685		1,687
Redirect		1	11	105	647		764
Template		2	7	112	805		926
NA				6	115		121
Draft				1	13		14
Assessed	22	157	1,010	9,288	5,579	313	16,369
Unassessed				1		1	2
Total	22	157	1,010	9,289	5,579	314	16,371
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 41,716			Ω = 4.56

—Articles

• List of TNA Women's Knockout Champions (review page) is a current Featured list candidate.
• Derick Neikirk, Johnny Jeter, Kenny Dykstra, Nick Nemeth, ROH World Television Championship, and Spirit Squad are current Good article nominees.
• Bobby Kay is undergoing a Good article reassessment here.
• Rated-RKO (review page) is a current Good topic candidate.
• The following articles appeared in the Did You Know? section of the main page:
  • January 19: Metro (wrestler)
  • January 21: Eric Holmback
  • January 24: Dr. Wagner and Ángel Blanco
  • January 28: Ida Mae Martinez
• Deletion discussions:
  • Articles for deletion:
    • Current: Bobby Cruise, Herbert Hudson Taylor IV, Knowledge (XXG):Articles for deletion/Mustang Mike, and Pamela Paulshock.
    • Deleted: The Straight Edge Society

—Project

• As part of the project's New Year's Resolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 5%. As of January 31, we are at 10.09%, with 470 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 of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve is included on the stub article subpage.
• Based on the members list, there are currently 235 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 January and February.

• January:
  • 31 - World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) presents Royal Rumble
• February:
  • 14 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) presents Against All Odds
  • 21 - WWE presents Elimination Chamber

• On January 17:
  • WWE announced the release of Eric Escobar from his contract.
  • At TNA's Genesis pay-per-view event on January 17:
    • TNA discontinued their six-sided wrestling ring and reintroduced their four-sided ring.
    • Tara won the TNA Women's Knockout Championship by defeating ODB in a two out of three falls match.
    • Matt Morgan and Hernandez defeated The British Invasion (Brutus Magnus and Doug Williams) to win the TNA World Tag Team Championship.
    • Brian Kendrick and Mr. Anderson made their return and debut, respectively, to TNA.
• Ida Mae Martinez died on January 19 at the age of 78.
• On January 20:
  • Ring of Honor announced the creation of the ROH World Television Championship. A tournament will be held to determine the inaugural champion at the Ring of Honor Wrestling tapings on February 5 and 6.
  • The all-female promotion, Wrestlicious, announced that they had signed a deal to air their television show Takedown with BiteTV in Canada and MavTV in the United States.
• On January 22, it was reported that Alissa Flash had left TNA.
• On January 23:
  • Da Heavy Hitters (Monsta Mack and Havok) won the JAPW Tag Team Championship in a three-way tag team match.
  • Davey Richards won the FIP World Heavyweight Championship by defeating Masaaki Mochizuki at the DGUSA Fearless pay-per-view taping.
• On January 27:
  • Rob Terry defeated Eric Young to win the TNA Global Championship at a house show in Cardiff, Wales, in TNA's first championship change at a house show. His win also made him the first Welsh champion in a major wrestling organisation, and was the first time a TNA championship had changed hands outside of the United States.
  • It was reported that former Stampede Wrestling mainstay, Nick Pacchiano had died.
  • On January 28, Doug Williams defeated Amazing Red to win the TNA X Division Championship.

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 2010 New Year's Reolutions have been announced. Please help out by achieving a goal listed.
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 WP:PW/SG#Sources.
3. Knowledge (XXG) is not a crystal ball, so please do not add speculation about future events to articles.

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As of February 2010:

Professional wrestling articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		2	3	7			12
FL		1	26	44			71
GA		10	109	217		1	337
B	11	41	140	350		6	548
C	9	50	304	1,790		63	2,216
Start	2	48	339	5,166		164	5,719
Stub			2	283	1	38	324
List		1	65	1,184		41	1,291
Category			3	22	2,292		2,317
Disambig				1	21		22
File		1	1		1,685		1,687
Redirect		1	11	105	647		764
Template		2	7	112	805		926
NA				6	115		121
Draft				1	13		14
Assessed	22	157	1,010	9,288	5,579	313	16,369
Unassessed				1		1	2
Total	22	157	1,010	9,289	5,579	314	16,371
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 41,716			Ω = 4.56

—Articles

• List of TNA Women's Knockout Champions (review page) is a current Featured list candidate.
• Derick Neikirk, Johnny Jeter, Kenny Dykstra, Nick Mitchell, Nick Nemeth, and ROH World Television Championship are current Good article nominees.
• Bobby Kay (review page) was not promoted to Good article status after a Good article reassessment, and was renominated as a Good article nominee. It has since passed.
• The following articles appeared on the main page as part of the Did You Know? section:
  • January 31: Mascarita Dorada
  • February 5: OVW Heavyweight Championship
  • February 8: ROH World Television Championship
  • February 13: Frankie Arion
• Deletion discussions:
  • Articles for deletion:
    • Current: WWE NXT
    • Deleted: AWS Heavyweight Championship, Bobby Cruise, Herbert Hudson Taylor IV, Mustang Mike, and Pamela Paulshock.
  • Templates for discussion:
    • Deleted: Template:List of WWE Raw Guest Hosts
• Requested moves:
  • Moved:
    • Demonio Azul to Blue Demon (discussion)
    • Demonio Azul, Jr. to Blue Demon, Jr. (discussion)

—Project

• As part of the project's New Year's Resolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 5%. As of February 14, we are at 10.07%, with 472 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 of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve is included on the stub article subpage.
• Based on the members list, there are currently 236 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 February.

• 14 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) presents Against All Odds
• 21 - World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) presents Elimination Chamber

• On January 31:
  • Tim Donst defeated Player Dos to win the Chikara Young Lions Cup.
  • At the Royal Rumble pay-per-view on January 31:
    • Mickie James won the WWE Women's Championship by defeating Michelle McCool.
    • Edge made his return after injury to win the Royal Rumble match.
    • Beth Phoenix became only the second woman in history to enter the Royal Rumble match.
• Jack Brisco died on February 1 at the age of 68.
• On the February 2 episode of ECW, Vince McMahon announced that ECW will be coming to an end. It will be replaced with a program called WWE NXT, which will debut on March 2.
• In early february it was announced that Canadian indepedent promotions Border City Wrestling and BSE Pro have merged to form Maximum Pro Wrestling.
• Independent wrestler Human Tornado announced his retirement on February 4.
• On the February 8 episode of Raw, The Miz and The Big Show won the WWE Unified Tag Team Championship by defeating the reigning champions D-Generation X and CM Punk and Luke Gallows in a triple threat match.
• Retired Canadian professional wrestler Charles Baillargeon died on February 10 following a stroke at the age of 92.
• On February 11, ROH announced that their television program, Ring of Honor Wrestling, would begin airing on Dahlia TV in Italy.
• Tyler Black won the ROH World Championship for the first time at ROH's 8th Anniversary Show on February 13 by defeating Austin Aries.

This section is devoted to helping project members become familiar with the Manual of Style and general editing tips.

1. The Biographies of living persons policy should be strictly adhered to when adding to information to biography articles.

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

1. 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.
2. Please familiarize yourself with the general notability policy of Knowledge (XXG). Avoid creating new articles that do not satisfy the requirements.
3. If you come across an article that fails notability requirements, you can tag it for speedy deletion if the criteria apply, propose it for deletion, or nominate it at WP:AFD.
4. When adding headers to articles, do not add wikilinks to them and only capitalize the first letter of the first word and any proper nouns.

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As of February 2010:

Professional wrestling articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		2	3	7			12
FL		1	26	44			71
GA		10	109	217		1	337
B	11	41	140	350		6	548
C	9	50	304	1,790		63	2,216
Start	2	48	339	5,166		164	5,719
Stub			2	283	1	38	324
List		1	65	1,184		41	1,291
Category			3	22	2,292		2,317
Disambig				1	21		22
File		1	1		1,685		1,687
Redirect		1	11	105	647		764
Template		2	7	112	805		926
NA				6	115		121
Draft				1	13		14
Assessed	22	157	1,010	9,288	5,579	313	16,369
Unassessed				1		1	2
Total	22	157	1,010	9,289	5,579	314	16,371
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 41,716			Ω = 4.56

—Articles

• NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship (review page) is a current Featured list candidate.
• Debra Marshall, Derick Neikirk (review page), Johnny Jeter, Kenny Dykstra, Nick Mitchell, and ROH World Television Championship are current Good article nominees.
• Deletion discussions:
  • Articles for deletion:
    • Current: Scott Hudson (announcer)
    • Deleted: Monster Mack (2nd nomination) and Mountain Wrestling Association.
    • Kept: Naoki Sano and WWE NXT.
  • Categories for discussion:
    • Current: Professional wrestlers by century
    • Renamed: Pay-per-views and Wrestling navboxes.
  • Templates for discussion:
    • Deleted: Template:Mr. Money in the Bank
• Requested moves:
  • Current: WWE The Bash to WWE The Great American Bash (discussion)

—Project

• As part of the project's New Year's Resolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 5%. As of February 28, we have dipped below 10% for the first time at 9.93%, with 469 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 of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve is included on the stub article subpage.
• Based on the members list, there are currently 238 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 March.

• 5 - Dragon Gate USA presents Fearless
• 12 - Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) presents Rey de Reyes
• 21 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) presents Destination X
• 28 - World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) presents WrestleMania XXVI

• Negro Casas defeated Hijo del Fantasma to win the CMLL World Middleweight Championship on February 14.
• On February 15, TNA announced that TNA Impact! will be moving to a Monday night timeslot to compete against WWE Raw.
• On February 16:
  • Dave Taylor was announced as the new TNA agent.
  • On the final episode of ECW:
    • Ezekiel Jackson won the ECW Championship by defeating Christian in an Extreme Rules match.
    • The eight FCW wrestlers who will be competing on WWE NXT were announced as Daniel Bryan, Justin Gabriel, Wade Barrett, Heath Slater, Darren Young, David Otunga, and Michael Tarver.
• On February 17, it was announced that New Japan Pro Wrestling competitor, Kazuchika Okada had begun working for TNA.
• At the Elimination Chamber pay-per-view on February 21:
  • Chris Jericho won the World Heavyweight Championship by winning an Elimination Chamber match.
  • John Cena won an Elimination Chamber match to win the WWE Championship. Immediately after the match, however, he was defeated by Batista for the championship.
  • Sheamus O'Shaunessy suffered a concussion during his WWE championship defense in an Elimination Chamber match.
• On the February 22 episode of Raw, Maryse defeated Gail Kim in the finals of a tournament to win the WWE Divas Championship.
• The inaugural episode of NXT aired on Syfy on February 23.
• TNA announced a pay-per-view deal with the Extreme Sports Channel in the United Kingdom on February 25. The first pay-per-view to be broadcast as part of the deal will be Destination X.
• On February 26:
  • World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) announced they had released wrestlers Gregory Helms, Paul Burchill, and Maria from their contracts, along with referee, Scott Armstrong.
  • On SmackDown, Michelle McCool defeated Mickie James to win the WWE Women's Championship.
• Davey Richards defeated Kenny Omega on February 27 to win the PWG World Championship.

This section is devoted to helping project members become familiar with the Manual of Style and general editing tips.

1. Please consider helping out with the project's 2010 New Year's Resolutions, and help achieve one of the goals listed.
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 WP:PW/SG#Sources.
3. Trivia sections are discouraged in wikipedia articles. Information from such sections, if notable, should be merged into the main body of the article.
4. Knowledge (XXG) is not a crystal ball, so please do not add speculation about future events to articles.
5. Do not give undue weight to recent events in articles.

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As of March 2010:

Professional wrestling articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		2	3	7			12
FL		1	26	44			71
GA		10	109	217		1	337
B	11	41	140	350		6	548
C	9	50	304	1,790		63	2,216
Start	2	48	339	5,166		164	5,719
Stub			2	283	1	38	324
List		1	65	1,184		41	1,291
Category			3	22	2,292		2,317
Disambig				1	21		22
File		1	1		1,685		1,687
Redirect		1	11	105	647		764
Template		2	7	112	805		926
NA				6	115		121
Draft				1	13		14
Assessed	22	157	1,010	9,288	5,579	313	16,369
Unassessed				1		1	2
Total	22	157	1,010	9,289	5,579	314	16,371
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 41,716			Ω = 4.56

—Articles

• IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship (review page) and NWA World Middleweight Championship (review page) are current Featured list candidates.
• Debra Marshall, Kenny Dykstra, Nick Mitchell, and ROH World Television Championship are current Good article nominees.
• Deletion discussions:
  • Articles for deletion:
    • Current: High-flyer wrestler, List of CZW events, MXW Pro Wrestling, Sarona Snuka, T-bone Funk, and Tiger Raj Singh.
    • Deleted: Johnny Rich, Lutta corsa, and Scott Hudson (announcer).
  • Categories for discussion:
    • Current: Category:Flagship professional wrestling pay-per-view events by promotion
    • Deleted: Professional wrestlers by century
• Requested moves:
  • Current: Matthew Kaye to Matt Striker (discussion).
  • Moved: WWE The Bash to WWE The Great American Bash (discussion)

—Project

• As part of the project's New Year's Resolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 5%. As of March 14, we are at 9.78%, with 463 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 of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve is included on the stub article subpage.
• Based on the members list, there are currently 241 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 March.

• 21 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) presents Destination X
• 28 - World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) presents WrestleMania XXVI

• On February 28, WWE announced that Charlie Haas had been released from his contract.
• The inaugural episode of Wrestlicious Takedown aired on March 1.
• On March 4:
  • Angelo Poffo died at the age of 84.
  • TNA released Traci Brooks from her contract.
• On March 5:
  • Eddie Edwards became the inaugural ROH World Television Champion at the Ring of Honor Wrestling tapings, by defeating his tag team partner Davey Richards in a tournament final.
  • It was reported that Sean Morley and Roxxi had been released from their TNA contracts.
• Tigre Cota and Tito Santana II defeated Angel Dorado, Jr. and Sky (c) to win the AAA Northern Tag Team Championship on March 7.
• On March 8:
  • On TNA Impact!:
    • The TNA Knockout Tag Team Championship was vacated. The Beautiful People (Madison Rayne and Velvet Sky) defeated Sarita and Taylor Wilde and Angelina Love and Tara in a triple threat tag team match to win the vacant championship.
    • Rob Van Dam made his debut.
  • Jillian Beyor was released from her World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) developmental contract.
• On March 10, Ring of Honor (ROH) announced the creation of a downloadable DVD website, which will allow fans to download out-of-stock DVD titles.
• On March 11:
  • John Hill, better known as Jerry Valiant, died,
  • Sandy Scott died at the age of 75 due to pancreatic cancer.
• On March 12, Women Superstars Uncensored announced a television deal with with The Fight Network and InASecTV.

This section is devoted to helping project members become familiar with the Manual of Style and general editing tips.

1. When adding headers to articles, do not add wikilinks to them and only capitalize the first letter of the first word and any proper nouns.
2. 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.
3. If you come across an article that fails notability requirements, you can tag it for speedy deletion if the criteria apply, propose it for deletion, or nominate it at WP:AFD.
4. The lead section of an article should introduce the subject and summarize the entire article.
5. Avoid adding statements that will date quickly, for example "soon" and "now".

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As of March 2010:

Professional wrestling articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		2	3	7			12
FL		1	26	44			71
GA		10	109	217		1	337
B	11	41	140	350		6	548
C	9	50	304	1,790		63	2,216
Start	2	48	339	5,166		164	5,719
Stub			2	283	1	38	324
List		1	65	1,184		41	1,291
Category			3	22	2,292		2,317
Disambig				1	21		22
File		1	1		1,685		1,687
Redirect		1	11	105	647		764
Template		2	7	112	805		926
NA				6	115		121
Draft				1	13		14
Assessed	22	157	1,010	9,288	5,579	313	16,369
Unassessed				1		1	2
Total	22	157	1,010	9,289	5,579	314	16,371
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 41,716			Ω = 4.56

—Articles

• IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship (review page) and NWA World Middleweight Championship (review page) are current Featured list candidates.
• Debra Marshall and Nick Mitchell are current Good article nominees.
• ROH World Television Championship (review page) was not promoted to Good article status.
• The following article appeared on the main page in the Did You Know? column:
  • Tiger Raj Singh March 21, 2010
• Deletion discussions:
  • Articles for deletion:
    • Current: Mike Senica
    • Kept: Edward Chastain and Tiger Raj Singh.
    • Deleted: Alternative Wrestling Show, List of CZW events, Sarona Snuka, and T-bone Funk.
    • No consensus: MXW Pro Wrestling
    • Redirected: High-flyer wrestler
  • Categories for discussion:
    • Deleted: Category:Flagship professional wrestling pay-per-view events by promotion
• Requested moves:
  • Moved: Matthew Kaye to Matt Striker (discussion).

—Project

• As part of the project's New Year's Resolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 5%. As of March 28, we are at 7.85%, with 373 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 of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve is included on the stub article subpage.
• Based on the members list, there are currently 242 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 March and April.

• March:
  • 28 - World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) presents WrestleMania XXVI
• April:
  • 3 - Ring of Honor (ROH) presents The Big Bang!
  • 18 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) presents Lockdown
  • 25 - WWE presents Extreme Rules

• On March 14:
  • Adam Pearce won the NWA World Heavyweight Championship by defeating the reigning champion Blue Demon, Jr. and Phil Shatter in a three-way elimination match.
  • Corsica Joe died at the age of 90 in Nashville, Tennessee.
• On March 19:
  • At Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre's Homenaje a Dos Leyendas show, La Sombra defeated El Felino in a Mask vs. Mask match, forcing El Felino to unmask.
  • Takeshi Morishima and Taiji Ishimori won the AAA World Tag Team Championship from La Hermandad 187 (Nicho el Milionario and Joe Lider) at a television taping.
• On March 20:
  • Mikel Scicluna died at the age of 80 due to cancer.
  • Charlie Haas won the JAPW New Jersey State Championship by defeating Devon Moore.
  • Bruderschaft des Kreuzes (Claudio Castagnoli and Ares) won the Chikara Campeonatos de Parejas by defeating The Colony (Fire Ant and Soldier Ant).
• On March 21:
  • Shingo Takagi and Cyber Kong defeated Cima and Gamma to win the Dragon Gate Open the Twin Gate Championship.
  • Yamato defeated Naruki Doi to become the new Open the Dream Gate Champion.
• On March 22:
  • Wade Barrett broken his nose at the NXT tapings.
  • Dixie Carter officially confirmed Awesome Kong's release from TNA.
• It was reported on March 24 that Florida Championship Wrestling competitor Richie Steamboat had suffered a torn PCL.
• On March 26, it was reported that Marco Corleone had officially left AAA.

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As of March 2010:

Professional wrestling articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		2	3	7			12
FL		1	26	44			71
GA		10	109	217		1	337
B	11	41	140	350		6	548
C	9	50	304	1,790		63	2,216
Start	2	48	339	5,166		164	5,719
Stub			2	283	1	38	324
List		1	65	1,184		41	1,291
Category			3	22	2,292		2,317
Disambig				1	21		22
File		1	1		1,685		1,687
Redirect		1	11	105	647		764
Template		2	7	112	805		926
NA				6	115		121
Draft				1	13		14
Assessed	22	157	1,010	9,288	5,579	313	16,369
Unassessed				1		1	2
Total	22	157	1,010	9,289	5,579	314	16,371
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 41,716			Ω = 4.56

—Articles

• FIP World Heavyweight Championship (review page) and IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship (review page) are current Featured list candidates.
• NWA World Middleweight Championship (review page) was not promoted to Featured list status.
• Michael Brendli and ROH World Television Championship (review page) are current Good article nominees.
• Deletion discussions:
  • Articles for deletion:
    • Current: Brimstone (wrestler) (2nd nomination) and Derek Allen.
    • Deleted: Mike Senica and WrestleMania XXVIII.
• Requested moves
  • Current: Several requested moves are being discussed at WP:TW#Proposed moves and WP:TW#More proposed moves.
  • Moved: Chris Mordetzky to Chris Masters, Terry Gerin to Rhino (wrestler), Jason Reso to Christian (wrestler), Oleg Prudius to Vladimir Kozlov, Adam Copeland to Edge (wrestler), Sheamus O'Shaunessy to Sheamus, Angel Williams to Angelina Love, Leonardo Carrera to Damián 666, Erick Casas to Heavy Metal (wrestler), Jake Hager to Jack Swagger, Rafael García to Super Caló, and José Luis Jair Soria to Shocker (wrestler).

—Project

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• Based on the members list, there are currently 243 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 April.

• 18 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) presents Lockdown
• 25 - World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) presents Extreme Rules

• At WrestleMania XXVI:
  • John Cena won the WWE Championship by defeating Batista.
  • Jack Swagger won the Money in the Bank ladder match.
  • The Undertaker defeated Shawn Michaels in a "Streak vs. Career" match, forcing Michaels to retire.
• On March 29:
  • It was reported that Consequences Creed and the Nasty Boys (Brian Knobbs and Jerry Sags) had been released from their TNA contracts.
  • Brooke Adams made her TNA debut on Impact! as Eric Bischoff's assistant, Ms. Tessmacher.
• Jack Swagger cashed in his Money in the Bank contract at the SmackDown taping on March 30 and defeated Chris Jericho to win the World Heavyweight Championship for the first time. The match aired on the April 2 episode of SmackDown.
• Christopher Daniels was released from his TNA contract on March 31.
• Chris Kanyon died on April 2 at the age of 40 due to a drug overdose in an apparent suicide.
• On April 3:
  • Lance Cade was released from his WWE contract.
  • At ROH's The Big Bang! pay-per-view:
    • Christopher Daniels made his return to Ring of Honor (ROH).
    • The Kings of Wrestling (Chris Hero and Claudio Castagnoli) defeated the Briscoe Brothers (Mark and Jay) to win the ROH World Tag Team Championship for the second time.
• On April 5 on Impact!, Angelina Love won the TNA Women's Knockout Championship by defeating Tara, Velvet Sky, and Daffney, and opening the correct lockbox with the key she won as a result.

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As of April 2010:

Professional wrestling articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		2	3	7			12
FL		1	26	44			71
GA		10	109	217		1	337
B	11	41	140	350		6	548
C	9	50	304	1,790		63	2,216
Start	2	48	339	5,166		164	5,719
Stub			2	283	1	38	324
List		1	65	1,184		41	1,291
Category			3	22	2,292		2,317
Disambig				1	21		22
File		1	1		1,685		1,687
Redirect		1	11	105	647		764
Template		2	7	112	805		926
NA				6	115		121
Draft				1	13		14
Assessed	22	157	1,010	9,288	5,579	313	16,369
Unassessed				1		1	2
Total	22	157	1,010	9,289	5,579	314	16,371
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 41,716			Ω = 4.56

—Articles

• FIP World Heavyweight Championship (review page) is a current Featured list candidate.
• Sherri Martel is a current Good article nominee.
• Spirit Squad (review page) is a current Good topic candidate.
• Deletion discussions:
  • Articles for deletion:
    • Current: Peter Maivia, Jr., Ricky Vega, and Team Lay-Cool.
    • Deleted: Derek Allen, Madison Eagles (2nd nomination), and Massachusetts wrestling.
    • Kept: Brimstone (wrestler) (2nd nomination)
  • Templates for deletion:
    • Deleted: Template:Wrestling PPVs
• Requested moves
  • Current: Several requested moves are being discussed at WT:PW#Proposed moves.
  • Moved: Nelson Erazo to Homicide (wrestler), Scott Levy to Raven (wrestler), Jessica Kresa to ODB (wrestler), and Harry Fujiwara to Mr. Fuji.

—Project

• As part of the project's New Year's Resolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 5%. As of April 25, we are at 7.54%, with 361 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 of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve is included on the stub article subpage.
• Based on the members list, there are currently 244 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
  • If you are actively editing and contributing to articles under the scope of WP:PW, it is suggested that you add your name to the list of active members.

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 and May.

• April:
  • 25 - World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) presents Extreme Rules
  • 26 - WWE presents the 2010 WWE Draft
• May:
  • 16 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) presents Sacrifice
  • 23 - WWE presents Over the Limit

• Madison Eagles defeated MsChif on April 11 to win the Shimmer Championship.
• On April 12:
  • Eve Torres won the WWE Divas Championship for the first time by defeating Maryse on Raw.
  • TNA debuted a new television show, ReAction.
  • It was reported that SmackDown will be moving to the Syfy channel in late 2010.
• On April 14:
  • Wrestlicious announced a television deal with The Fight Network in Canada to air Wrestlicious Takedown, beginning in May.
  • Gene Kiniski died at the age of 82 after a battle with cancer.
  • It was reported that WWE had released Beverly Mullins from her contract.
  • Bison Smith and Keith Walker won the GHC Tag Team Championship from Takeshi Rikioh and Muhammad Yone.
• On April 17:
  • Jon Moxley won a "Florida Rumble" tournament to win the vacated FIP World Heavyweight Championship for the first time, by last defeating Roderick Strong. The championship was vacated by Davey Richards due to contractual issues in March.
  • Tyler Veritas suffered a broken foot at an MBA event in South Philadelphia, and is expected to be rehabilitating the injury for up to six weeks.
  • Cindy Rogers and Jana won the WSU Tag Team Championship by defeating Angel Orsini and Mercedes Martinez.
  • LuFisto suffered a minor stroke shortly after a match, but is not expected to need time off.
• On April 18:
  • Tigers Mask defeated Super Shisa to win the Dragon Gate Open the Brave Gate Championship.
  • Máscara Año 2000, Jr. defeated El Canek to win the IWRG Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship.
  • At Total Nonstop Action Wrestling's Lockdown pay-per-view:
    • Doug Williams was stripped of the TNA X Division Championship due to no-showing the event because of a volcano eruption in Iceland, which disrupted flights in Europe.
    • Frankie Kazarian went on to win the vacant X Division Championship by defeating Homicide and Shannon Moore in a three-way steel cage match.
    • Madison Rayne won the TNA Women's Knockout Championship in a tag team steel cage match, making her the first person to hold the Knockouts Championship and the TNA Knockout Tag Team Championships simultanously.
• Rob Van Dam won the TNA World Heavyweight Championship on April 19 by defeating A.J. Styles on Impact!.
• On April 20:
  • Adam Birch made his WWE return as Joey Mercury, losing a dark match to Shelton Benjamin prior to the SmackDown television tapings.
  • Daffney suffered a stinger and a bruised sternum during a dark match prior to the Impact! tapings.
  • Angelina Love partially tore her bicep muscle and suffered a complete ulnar collateral ligament tear at the Impact! tapings, and is expected to miss several weeks.
  • Former Southwest Championship Wrestling announcer Steve Stack died after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease.
  • Katsuji Adachi, better known as Mr. Hito, died in Calgary at the age of 67. His death was related to diabetes.
• On April 21:
  • Prince Devitt and Ryusuke Taguchi were stripped of the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship.
  • "Gorgeous" George Grant died at the age of 85.
• WWE announced the release of seven wrestlers from their contracts: Mickie James, Katie Lea, Shelton Benjamin, Slam Mater J, Jimmy Wang Yang, Kung Fu Naki, and Mike Knox on April 22.

This section is devoted to helping project members become familiar with the Manual of Style and general editing tips.

1. Please consider helping out with the project's 2010 Resolutions, and help achieve one of the goals listed.
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 WP:PW/SG#Sources.
3. Knowledge (XXG) is not a crystal ball, so please do not add speculation about future events to articles.
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As of May 2010:

Professional wrestling articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		2	3	7			12
FL		1	26	44			71
GA		10	109	217		1	337
B	11	41	140	350		6	548
C	9	50	304	1,790		63	2,216
Start	2	48	339	5,166		164	5,719
Stub			2	283	1	38	324
List		1	65	1,184		41	1,291
Category			3	22	2,292		2,317
Disambig				1	21		22
File		1	1		1,685		1,687
Redirect		1	11	105	647		764
Template		2	7	112	805		926
NA				6	115		121
Draft				1	13		14
Assessed	22	157	1,010	9,288	5,579	313	16,369
Unassessed				1		1	2
Total	22	157	1,010	9,289	5,579	314	16,371
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 41,716			Ω = 4.56

—Articles

• FIP World Heavyweight Championship (review page) is a current Featured list candidate.
• Kevin Fertig, Kia Stevens, Matt Striker, Shelly Martinez, and Sherri Martel is a current Good article nominee.
• The following articles appeared on the main page as part of the Did You Know? column:
  • April 28: Eddie Quinn
  • May 7: Cueball Carmichael
• Deletion discussions:
  • Articles for deletion:
    • Current: JT Southern, Larry Stephens (wrestler), and Powerhouse Wrestler.
    • Deleted: Peter Maivia, Jr. and Team Lay-Cool.
    • Kept: Ricky Vega (no consensus)
• Requested moves"
  • Current: Several requested moves are being discussed at WT:PW#Proposed moves.
  • Moved: César Cuauhtémoc González to Silver King (wrestler), Chris Parks to Abyss (wrestler), Bill Martinez to Bill Martínez, Manuel Ortiz to Halloween (wrestler), Carly Colón to Carlito (wrestler) and Rodney Anoa'i to Yokozuna (wrestler).

—Project

• As part of the project's New Year's Resolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 5%. As of May 9, we are at 7.70%, with 370 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 of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve is included on the stub article subpage.
• Based on the members list, there are currently 244 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
  • If you are actively editing and contributing to articles under the scope of WP:PW, it is suggested that you add your name to the list of active members.
• A recall is ongoing to see which active members of WP:PW still wish to receive the full newsletter fortnightly. Those that do should add their name to Knowledge (XXG):WikiProject Professional wrestling/Newsletter/Active before May 16.

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.

• 16 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) presents Sacrifice
• 23 - World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) presents Over the Limit

• At WWE's Extreme Rules pay-per-view on April 25, Beth Phoenix won the WWE Women's Championship by defeating Michelle McCool in an "Extreme Makeover" match.
• During the annual 2010 WWE Draft on the April 26 episode of Raw:
  • The Hart Dynasty (Tyson Kid and David Hart Smith) won the Unified WWE Tag Team Championship by defeating ShoMiz (The Miz and The Big Show).
  • Eight wrestlers were drafted to different brands as a result of the draft.
• On April 27, WWE held the annual Supplemental Draft.
• On April 29 Brett DiBiase suffered a knee injury at a Florida Championship Wrestling event, and requires surgery.
• On April 30:
  • TNA released Bubba the Love Sponge from his contract.
  • WWE announced that Tony Atlas had been released from his contract.
• On May 3:
  • Togi Makabe won the IWGP Heavyweight Championship by defeating Shinsuke Nakamura.
  • Jushin Liger defeated Negro Casas to win the CMLL World Middleweight Championship in Fukuoka, Japan.
  • TNA announced that Impact! will moving back to its original Thursday night timeslot on May 13.
  • Robert Shibuya died at the age of 88.
• On May 4:
  • Kevin Nash and Scott Hall won the TNA World Tag Team Championship at the Impact! tapings.
  • Drew McIntyre was stripped of the WWE Intercontinental Championship at the SmackDown tapings, and a tournament was set up to determine the next champion.
  • El Supremo died at the age 59 due to a heart attack.
• On May 5, Takuya Sugawara, Yasushi Kanda, and Kzy won the Dragon Gate Open the Triangle Gate Championship by defeating Masaaki Mochizuki, Don Fujii, and Akebono.
• El Samurai and Koji Kanemoto won a tournament to win the vacant IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship, by defeating Prince Devitt and Ryusuke Taguchi in the final on May 8.

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1. A list of unreferenced wrestling-related BLPs is generated here. Please help out by sourcing these articles.
2. Be aware of words to avoid. Certain words, if chosen poorly, can subtly promote a point of view.
3. Please consider helping out with the project's 2010 New Year's Resolutions, and help achieve one of the goals listed.
4. 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.
5. The Biographies of living persons policy should be strictly adhered to 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.
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As of May 2010:

Professional wrestling articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		2	3	7			12
FL		1	26	44			71
GA		10	109	217		1	337
B	11	41	140	350		6	548
C	9	50	304	1,790		63	2,216
Start	2	48	339	5,166		164	5,719
Stub			2	283	1	38	324
List		1	65	1,184		41	1,291
Category			3	22	2,292		2,317
Disambig				1	21		22
File		1	1		1,685		1,687
Redirect		1	11	105	647		764
Template		2	7	112	805		926
NA				6	115		121
Draft				1	13		14
Assessed	22	157	1,010	9,288	5,579	313	16,369
Unassessed				1		1	2
Total	22	157	1,010	9,289	5,579	314	16,371
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 41,716			Ω = 4.56

—Articles

• FIP World Heavyweight Championship (review page) was not promoted to Featured list status.
• Kevin Fertig, Kia Stevens, Matt Striker, and Shelly Martinez are current Good article nominees.
• Deletion discussions:
  • Articles for deletion:
    • Current: Damien Kane (2nd nomination), Jimmy Noonan, Johnny Midnight, JT Southern, Miss Natural.
    • Deleted: Mar-Ian and Powerhouse Wrestler.
    • Kept: George South and Larry Stephens (wrestler).
• Requested moves
  • Current: Several requested moves are being discussed at WT:PW#Proposed moves.

—Project

• As part of the project's New Year's Resolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 5%. As of May 23, we are at 7.66%, with 370 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 of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve is included on the stub article subpage.
• Based on the members list, there are currently 244 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
  • If you are actively editing and contributing to articles under the scope of WP:PW, it is suggested that you add your name to the list of active members.
• A recall is ongoing to see which active members of WP:PW still wish to receive the full newsletter fortnightly. Those that do should add their name to Knowledge (XXG):WikiProject Professional wrestling/Newsletter/Active before May 30.

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:
  • 23 - World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) presents Over the Limit
• June:
  • 6 - Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) presents TripleMania XVIII
  • 6 - Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) presents Sin Salida
  • 13 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) presents Slammiversary
  • 19 - Ring of Honor present Death Before Dishonor VIII
  • 20 - WWE presents Fatal 4 Way

• Layla won the WWE Women's Championship on May 11 by defeating Beth Phoenix in a handicap match also involving Michelle McCool. Her win made her the first British woman to hold the championship. The match aired on the May 14 episode of SmackDown.
• It was reported on May 12 that TNA had signed Betsy Ruth to a contract.
• On May 13, CIMA, Gamma, and Genki Horiguchi won the Dragon Gate Open the Triangle Gate Championship by defeating Takuya Sugawara, Kzy, and Yasushi Kanda.
• On May 14:
  • It was announced that the Championship Wrestling Alliance had signed a deal with GoFightLive to air pay-per-views online.
  • Chikara announced that production on their video game, Rudo Resurrection, had begun.
• British wrestler and promoter Andre Baker died at the age of 45 during the weekend of May 15, by apparent suicide.
• On May 16:
  • It was reported that TNA had released ring announcer David Penzer.
  • At Sacrifice, Douglas Williams won the TNA X Division Championship by defeating Kazarian.
• On May 17, Bret Hart defeated The Miz to win the WWE United States Championship for the fifth time, his first championship in WWE since 1997.
• On May 21:
  • WWE announced that Carlito had been released from his contract for a Wellness Policy violation and subsequent refusal to attend rehab.
  • Máscara Dorada, La Máscara and La Sombra won the CMLL World Trios Championship from Okumura, Hiroshi Tanahashi and Taichi on CMLL Super Viernes.