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colspan="2" style="vertical-align:middle;width: 60%; border: 3px #039 solid; background-color: #FFFFFF; padding: 1em;" \| Image:Barnstar-pro-wrestling.png The WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter Issue XXVIII — October 26, 2008
width="50%" style="vertical-align:top;border:1px solid #009; -moz-border-radius: 10px; background-color:#FFF;"\| Recent Project News Featured news No Way Out (2004) {{small\|(review page)}} is a current Featured article candidate. Armageddon (2006) {{small\|(review page)}} and Lockdown (2008) {{small\|(review page)}} were not promoted as Featured Articles. AJPW Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship has been nominated for removal as a Featured list. The discussion can be found here. Good article news Antonio Pugliese, Hard Justice (2008), Hardy Boyz, Hornswoggle, King of the Ring (1993), Lisa Moretti, Mike Lockwood, No Mercy (2003), No Mercy (2007), Rhonda Sing, Royal Rumble (1995), WrestleMania XI, and WrestleMania XXIV are currently Good article nominees. Other project news TNA Bound for Glory {{small\|(review page)}} is currently under Peer Review. McMahon (documentary) has been proposed to be merged with Vince McMahon, the discussion can be found here. This Fortnight in Wrestling History October 15, 2003 - Mark Magnus (Mark Copani) defeated Johnny Jeter to win the OVW Heavyweight Championship. October 16, 1997 - Bam Bam Bigelow (Scott Bigelow) defeated Shane Douglas (Troy Martin) for the ECW Heavyweight title. October 16, 2003 - Stu Hart died of pneumonia at the age of 88. October 19, 2003 - Road Warrior Hawk (Michael Hegstrand) died of a heart attack at the age of 46. October 20, 1964 - Mad Dog Vachon (Maurice Vachon) defeated Verne Gagne for the AWA World Heavyweight Championship. October 20, 2000 - World Championship Wrestling, in storyline, fired Bret Hart due to his incapacitating injury and his announced retirement. October 20, 2002 - Triple H (Paul Levesque) defeated Kane (Glen Jacobs) to unify the WWE and Intercontinental titles. October 21, 2001 - Chris Jericho defeated The Rock (Dwayne Johnson) to win the WCW World Heavyweight Championship. October 22, 2000 - Kurt Angle defeated The Rock to win the WWF Championship. October 23, 2000 - Yokozuna (Rodney Anoa'i) died of a heart attack at the age of 34. Professional Wrestling Article Stats We have now reached our goal of getting the number of Stub-Class articles below 600. The current count is 591. 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. {\| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
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The WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletter
Issue XXVIII — October 26, 2008

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Recent Project News

Featured news
No Way Out (2004) {{small|(review page)}} is a current Featured article candidate.
Armageddon (2006) {{small|(review page)}} and Lockdown (2008) {{small|(review page)}} were not promoted as Featured Articles.
AJPW Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship has been nominated for removal as a Featured list. The discussion can be found here.

Good article news
Antonio Pugliese, Hard Justice (2008), Hardy Boyz, Hornswoggle, King of the Ring (1993), Lisa Moretti, Mike Lockwood, No Mercy (2003), No Mercy (2007), Rhonda Sing, Royal Rumble (1995), WrestleMania XI, and WrestleMania XXIV are currently Good article nominees.

Other project news
TNA Bound for Glory {{small|(review page)}} is currently under Peer Review.
McMahon (documentary) has been proposed to be merged with Vince McMahon, the discussion can be found here.

This Fortnight in Wrestling History

October 15, 2003 - Mark Magnus (Mark Copani) defeated Johnny Jeter to win the OVW Heavyweight Championship.
October 16, 1997 - Bam Bam Bigelow (Scott Bigelow) defeated Shane Douglas (Troy Martin) for the ECW Heavyweight title.
October 16, 2003 - Stu Hart died of pneumonia at the age of 88.
October 19, 2003 - Road Warrior Hawk (Michael Hegstrand) died of a heart attack at the age of 46.
October 20, 1964 - Mad Dog Vachon (Maurice Vachon) defeated Verne Gagne for the AWA World Heavyweight Championship.
October 20, 2000 - World Championship Wrestling, in storyline, fired Bret Hart due to his incapacitating injury and his announced retirement.
October 20, 2002 - Triple H (Paul Levesque) defeated Kane (Glen Jacobs) to unify the WWE and Intercontinental titles.
October 21, 2001 - Chris Jericho defeated The Rock (Dwayne Johnson) to win the WCW World Heavyweight Championship.
October 22, 2000 - Kurt Angle defeated The Rock to win the WWF Championship.
October 23, 2000 - Yokozuna (Rodney Anoa'i) died of a heart attack at the age of 34.

Professional Wrestling Article Stats

We have now reached our goal of getting the number of Stub-Class articles below 600. The current count is 591. 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.

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colspan="2" rowspan="2" | Professional wrestling articles

colspan="6" | Importance

{{Top-Class|category=Category:Top-importance Professional wrestling articles|Top}}

{{High-Class|category=Category:High-importance Professional wrestling articles|High}}

{{Mid-Class|category=Category:Mid-importance Professional wrestling articles|Mid}}

{{Low-Class|category=Category:Low-importance Professional wrestling articles|Low}}

Total

rowspan="13" | Quality

{{FA-Class|category=Category:FA-Class Professional wrestling articles|FA}}

| || || 3 || 5 || 8

{{FL-Class|category=Category:FL-Class Professional wrestling articles|FL}}

| || 1 || 12 || 10 || 23

{{GA-Class|category=Category:GA-Class Professional wrestling articles|GA}}

| || 6 || 27 || 60 || 93

{{B-Class|category=Category:B-Class Professional wrestling articles|B}}

| 1 || 16 || 64 || 207 || 288

{{C-Class|category=Category:C-Class Professional wrestling articles|C}}

| || 1 || 14 || 96 || 111

{{Start-Class|category=Category:Start-Class Professional wrestling articles|Start}}

| 2 || 50 || 219 || 1759 || 2030

{{Stub-Class|category=Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles|Stub}}

| || 1 || 20 || 565 || 586

{{List-Class|category=Category:List-Class Professional wrestling articles|List}}

| || 2 || 21 || 580 || 603

{{Future-Class|category=Category:Future-Class Professional wrestling articles|Future}}

| || || 2 || 16 || 18

| 3 || 77 || 382 || 3297 || 3760

Total

| 3 || 77 || 382 || 3297 || 3760

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Member Updates

Based on the members list, there are currently 194 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
On the calendar:
For the month of October:
1 - Derrty2033's birthday
5 - WWE presents No Mercy
6 - Gwalla's birthday
7 - Nikki311's birthday
10 - Edraf's birthday
12 - TNA presents Bound for Glory IV
17 - Hardcore Hak's birthday
18 - mrMASO's birthday
24 - Kaiba's birthday
26 - WWE presents Cyber Sunday

Recent Wrestling News

On October 12 at Bound for Glory IV, Sting (Steve Borden) won the TNA World Heavyweight Championship in Chicago, Illinois.
On October 13, Johnny Devine (John Parsonage) was released from his Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) contract.
On October 14, Lance Cade (Lance McNaught) was released from his World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) contract.
On October 21, High Chief Peter Maivia's widow, Leah, died aged 81.
On October 23:
TNA broadcasted Impact! live in high definition; it also held Impact! in a different arena other than the TNA Impact! Zone.
Also on Impact!, Booker T (Robert Huffman) debuted the newly established Legends Championship into TNA and, in storyline, awarded himself the title.
Awesome Kong (Kia Stevens) defeated Taylor Wilde (Shantelle Malawski) to win the TNA Women's Knockout Championship on Impact!.

Collaboration

The Collaboration has recently been revamped, and we will now have 6 collaborations at a time. The current collaborations will stand until they reach a certain goal, e.g. Good article status.
Wrestling Legend: Kamala (wrestler)
Current wrestler: Samoa Joe
Tag team or stable: Dudley Boyz
Stub article: Gino Brito
Pay-per-view: WrestleMania 23
List: List of professional wrestling terms

{{small|Cast your vote to select the next collaborations — Nominate an article that could be greatly improved!}}

Recent Deletion Debates

Articles for Deletion
Current:
Kept:
Redirected/Merged:
Deleted: Eurocontinental champion, List of Pro Wrestling Unplugged employees, PWF Light Heavyweight Championship, Republic pro wrestling, SPRY Wrestling, and World Stars of Wrestling.
Images for Deletion
Current: TNAlegendschampionship.jpg
Deleted:

Contributors to this Issue

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{{User|SRX}}
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