SmackDown - Dolph Ziggler vs Rusev

On WWE Smackdown on October 15th, 2015, Dolph Ziggler defeated Rusev, with a special guest referee, Summer Rae.
Yeah the match was weighted since Summer Rae was jilted by Rusev.
And Dolph Ziggler won via the "Zig Zag".

WWE - Kane and AJ

Throughout his entire career in the WWE, Kane has been no stranger to dysfunctional relationships.
Tori (Terri Poch), Katie Vick (ugh) and Lita spring to mind.
And now we have Kane and AJ.

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Aksana and Antonio Cesaro

Here is WWE Diva Aksana and WWE Superstar Antonio Cesaro (Claudio Castagnoli).
You know back in the "Old Days" they would say a wrestler was from another country (in this case Switzerland) and he would actually be from Newark, New Jersey.
But Antonio really was born in Lucerne, Switzerland.
Add to that the fact that Aksana really was born in Alytus, Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union and these days, wrestling really IS international.

WWE Smackdown! : Curt Hawkins

Brian Myers was born in 1985 in Glen Cove, New York.
He is better known by his ring names Brian Major or now on WWE Smackdown!, Curt Hawkins.
Curt is one half of a tag team with Zack Ryder currently known as Curt Hawkins and Zack Ryder or The Edgeheads.
Before this they were called the Major Brothers.
Curt was trained by Mikey Whipwreck at his wrestling school in Long Island NY called "New York Wrestling Connection".
Mainly a tag team performer, Curt has been one half of the NYWC (New York Wrestling Connection) Tag Team Champions, DSW (Deep South Wrestling) Tag Team Champions twice,
OVW (Ohio Valley Wrestling) Tag Team Champions and the WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment) Tag Team Champions.
The Edgeheads lost the WWE Tag Team belts to lost the titles to Carlito and Primo Colón in September 2008.

Hardcore Holly, part 2

In 1999, Bob Holly entered the race for the WWF's new Hardcore Division Title, billing himself as Hardcore Holly. As part of his new gimmick, he formed an alliance/rivalry with The Big Show, a real super heavyweight embarrassed by Holly's delusions of grandeur. He then teamed up with an on-screen cousin Crash Holly, with whom he won the WWF Tag Team Championships. In 2000, Hardcore Holly challenged Chyna for a shot at the disputed Intercontinental title on Raw is War. He lost the match due to interference from Chris Jericho, and later lost a Triple Threat Match against Chyna and Jericho for the Intercontinental Championship at the 2000 Royal Rumble. Jericho became the sole Intercontinental Champion. Later in 2000, another on-screen "cousin", Molly Holly was introduced. Earlier that same year, Holly missed several months of ring time due to a legitimate broken arm, suffered at the hands of an errant moonsault from Kurt Angle.

Michael "Mike" Mizanin, " The Miz" part 3

On March 8, 2006, WWE.com featured a video of "The Miz" stating that he was headed to Friday Night SmackDown! and throughout April, SmackDown! aired vignettes hyping his debut. However, when Mizanin actually attempted to make his debut on the April 21, 2006 edition of SmackDown! he was barred from entering the arena by "network executive" Palmer Cannon who told him that he had been "canceled" before having security escort him from the premises.

In May 31, 2006, WWE.com announced that he would serve as SmackDown!'s "host" on May 31.

Miz debuted as the "host" on June 2, 2006, announcing the planned card at the top of the show and attempting to hype up the crowd. Other "host" duties included backstage interviews and hosting a bikini contest. The hosting duties seemed sporadic at best, with some weeks having little to no Miz at all.

Starting in July, Miz, along with Ashley Massaro, became host of the annual Diva Search competition appearing on both RAW and SmackDown!. At the start of his new hosting duties, in front of the live RAW crowd, Miz was noticeably nervous and flubbed his lines, including calling contestants by the wrong name. Though he seemed to get better as the weeks went on, he quickly became the butt of on-air jokes by other WWE Superstars.

After the end of the Diva Search competition, The Miz returned exclusively to SmackDown! and adopted a cocky heel persona, starting his in-ring competition with a win over Tatanka on September 1, 2006. After this win he, along with commentator Michael Cole, began to note whenever possible that he was "undefeated", though he only wrestled five matches over the next two months, defeating such superstars as Matt Hardy, and Scotty 2 Hotty At the same time he began a feud with Diva Search winner Layla El, who spurned his advances on more than one occasion, leading to Miz helping Kristal defeat her in various competitions. Soon, however, Miz and Kristal found themselves being stalked by the returning Boogeyman, beginning a feud during which The Boogeyman handed Miz his first defeat at Armageddon.

Following a brief absence from TV, Miz returned to SmackDown! to host an interview segment called Miz TV. After the segment went nowhere, Mizanin returned to wrestling with a more intense style and began to pick up wins once again. On the June 11, 2007 edition of RAW, Mizanin faced off against Snitsky in a match to determine a draft pick for SmackDown!. Snitsky easily squashed Mizanin to give ECW the pick, but after constantly attacking The Miz after the match, the referee reversed the decision and awarded the match to Mizanin, thus allowing SmackDown! a draft pick. SmackDown!'s pick was then revealed to be Chris Masters.

Miz was drafted from SmackDown! to ECW on June 17, 2007 as part of the 2007 Supplemental Draft. He was absent from the first few weeks of ECW, though he was the subject of backstage mentions between matches and had several short Miz TV Crashes ECW video segments. He made his debut on the July 10 edition of ECW in a match against Nunzio, which he won. Following this match, Extreme Exposé began expressing admiration in him and gave him a lap-dance, starting a new gimmick for him of a self-proclaimed "chick magnet". Extreme Expose then became managers for The Miz. He then began a feud with Balls Mahoney, after Kelly Kelly began to kayfabe fall in love with Balls. On the October 2 edition of ECW, it was revealed that Miz kayfabe owned the contracts of Kelly Kelly, Layla El and Brooke Adams, and used this excuse to stop Kelly from going out with Mahoney. He was voted at Cyber Sunday to face CM Punk, for the ECW Championship but lost the match.

On November 16, 2007 on Friday Night Smackdown, Miz became one half of the WWE Tag Team Champions with John Morrison when they defeated Matt Hardy and MVP in a title match, which marks Miz's first taste of WWE gold.




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John Hennigan, John Morrison, Johnny Nitro, part 3

MNM continued on and off as a unit until Mercury was released from WWE in March 2007. Without Mercury, Nitro was paired up with Kenny Dykstra until the annual WWE draft, during which Nitro was sent to the ECW brand and Dykstra to SmackDown!.
He made his ECW debut on June 19 with a win over Nunzio. The very next week, at the Vengeance pay-per-view , he replaced Chris Benoit in a match against CM Punk; for the vacant ECW World Championship, which he won,.
A few weeks after winning the title, Nitro's name was changed to John Morrison and his character was tweaked to be more even more conceited and self-aggrandizing. After defeating CM Punk again at the Great American Bash, he began taking part in a "15 Minutes Of Fame" segment on the weekly ECW on Sci Fi television program, where if a wrestler could either defeat Morrison, or last 15 minutes without being defeated by Morrison, they would be granted a title shot. The first wrestler to do so turned out to be CM Punk, setting up another match between the two at SummerSlam, which Morrison won when he used the ring ropes for leverage.
The next week, Punk again became #1 contender,this time taking the Championship at a September 1 television taping in Cincinnati, Ohio. Hennigan was then suspended for 30 days following a violation of the WWE's Talent Wellness Policy after returning from his suspension, he renewed his feud with Punk, this time also fending off The Miz who was also after the title. Though enemies, The Miz and Morrison teamed on the November 16 (taped November 13) episode of SmackDown! to take the WWE Tag Team Championship from Matt Hardy and Montel Vontavious Porter.
At Survivor Series, Morrison and The Miz were both defeated by CM Punk in a triple threat match for the ECW Championship.

Hennigan was in a long term relationship with Melina Perez, his former on screen manager, but they have since broken up. The pair met during auditions for Tough Enough III, although she didn't make the show.

Articles posted by Sports Illustrated, the New York Daily News, and the Washington Post during the weekend of August 30, 2007, named Hennigan as one of a number of WWE superstars to have purchased pharmaceuticals from an online pharmacy, a violation of the WWE "Talent Wellness" program. Specifically, Hennigan received somatropin, anastrozole, testosterone, stanozolol and chorionic gonadotropin between June 2006 and February 2007, which is after the "no drugs from online sources" rule was instituted. As a result of the infraction, Hennigan was suspended for 30 days.



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Nelson Frazier, Jr. / Big Daddy V / King Mabel / Mabel / Nelson Knight / Viscera, part 2

On July 6, 1998 Mabel made a one time, surprise return to the World Wrestling Federation to challenge, and lose to, the new King of the Ring: Ken Shamrock.

He made an official return in 1999, first appearing at the pre-show for the Royal Rumble, before appearing on the show itself, on which he was "kidnapped" by The Undertaker, his Acolytes (Bradshaw and Faarooq) and Mideon. The next night he was re-christened Viscera and began acting as the Ministry of Darkness' enforcer, adopting a more gothic look in the process; including white out contact lenses, a white mohawk, and a black bodysuit.

After the July 1999 break up of the Ministry, the Viscera character floated around the mid-card, frequently teaming with fellow former Ministry member Mideon, and becoming part of the burgeoning hardcore division -- winning the Hardcore Championship once before he parted ways with the company again in 2000.

In March 2003, Frazier, using his Nelson Knight name, made a surprise appearance at a weekly NWA: Total Nonstop Action pay-per-view at the side of Ron Killings. He appeared again the next week, but didn't stay with the company beyond that.

He made a number of other independent appearances, including returning to the Memphis area and winning the Memphis Championship Wrestling Southern Heavyweight Championship.

Frazier, returning to the Viscera name, returned to the World Wrestling Federation — now renamed World Wrestling Entertainment — in September 2004. His first appearance had him and fellow former Ministry of Darkness member Gangrel surprise and attack the one-time stable leader, The Undertaker, on behalf of John "Bradshaw" Layfield. After just two weeks on SmackDown!, however, he was moved to the RAW brand.

In his first three months on the RAW brand, Viscera mainly wrestled on RAW's sister show HEAT, only making sporadic appearances on the actual RAW show. He had his first major angle on the brand in April 2005 when he was aligned with Trish Stratus to take part in a feud against Lita and her (kayfabe) husband Kane. While they were working together, Viscera and Stratus were featured in a segment during which he attempted to "seduce" her, only to be rebuffed until he "took care of" Kane. That segment began a gimmick change for Viscera, who transformed in to "The World's Largest Love Machine"; he started wrestling his matches wearing pajamas and making overtly sexual gestures in the ring. He was also put into an angle where he was smitten with RAW ring announcer Lilian Garcia, and tried different tactics to seduce her every week. At the June Vengeance pay-per-view Garcia reciprocated, proposing to him in the center of the ring, only to get turned down and left in the ring crying when The Godfather arrived with a number of his "hos" to show Viscera what he would "be leaving behind" if he got married.

After the Lilian Garcia storyline ended, Viscera was paired with the like minded "ladies man" Val Venis to form the tag team V-Squared. They teamed together for nearly nine months, mainly on HEAT, and though their record could be considered respectable — they even challenged for the Tag Team Title on a few occasions — they never held the title. When Venis was put out of action with a (legitimate) injury in April 2006, Viscera went back to singles wrestling. His first storyline back on his own was an attempt to reconcile with Lilian Garcia, only to be interrupted and attacked by Umaga during his proposal. Two weeks later, when Garcia was (legitimately - accidentally) knocked from the ring apron by Charlie Haas, spraining her wrist the incident was worked into a storyline. Haas and Viscera began fighting over Garcia — after Haas apologized — and then both men turned on her and formed a tag team when she declared she only wanted to be friends. The team was split when Haas was put back together with Shelton Benjamin to reform The World's Greatest Tag Team.

On June 17, 2007, Frazier was sent from the RAW brand to ECW in the supplemental section of WWE's draft. Three weeks later he debuted on ECW's weekly television program completely repackaged as Big Daddy V, a powerhouse "hired gun" character in the employ of Matt Striker.

Update:
August 9th, 2008: Big Daddy V has been released from the WWE.