2023 The former WWF and AWA star was born in Baghdad, Iraq. Adnan attended high school with the future Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein before becoming a soccer player and amateur wrestler ...

For decades, sitting on top of the wrestling mountain were the NWA, AWA, and the WWF. But that all was about to changed in the early 90s. It was running four successful Pay-Per-Views (Royal Rumble ...

Gagne learned how ruthless Vince McMahon could be when he was approached about retiring and selling the AWA to the WWF. According to the book Sex, Lies, and Headlocks, when Verne tried to ...

Wrestlers weren’t allowed to hold two titles and Backlund was already holding the WWF World Heavyweight Championship. Bob Backlund debuted in 1973 in the AWA. He wrestled throughout the ...

and by 1985 his company was clearly a distant third in America while the NWA and WWF battled it out. Verne’s solution had been to try Rick Martel as AWA World champion to capture a younger ...

The AWA ran a couple of shows as late as the spring ... He nearly had a deal with Vince and Linda McMahon to create the WWF line, but instead found his business partner in the Gagne family.

On Wednesday we were heartbroken to find out that legendary AWA, WWF, and WCW announcer ‘Mean’ Gene Okerlund had passed away at the age of 76. Gene felt like one of those guys who might just ...

Goulet’s career spanned 30 years in the AWA, WWWF, and WWF. Sad news to pass along. We learned that Rene Goulet passed away back on May 25th of this year, but it wasn’t made public until this ...

He found his calling in life when the American Wrestling Association (AWA) hired him as a ring announcer ... He attempted a return to the WWF in 1997, but the company declined.

He wrestled primarily for the AWA, WWF, and for promoter Don Owen in NWA Pacific Northwest Wrestling.