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Wrestling is a form of combat sport involving grappling type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. A wrestling bout is a physical competition, between two (occasionally more) competitors or sparring partners, who attempt to gain and maintain a superior position. There are a wide range of styles with varying rules with both traditional historic and modern styles. Wrestling techniques have been incorporated into other martial arts as well as military hand-to-hand combat systems.
The term wrestling is attested in late Old English, as wræstlunge (glossing palestram).
Wrestling is one of the oldest forms of combat with references to it as early as the Iliad, in which Homer recounts the Trojan War in the 13th or 12th century BC. The origins of wrestling can be traced back 15,000 years through cave drawings in France. Babylonian and Egyptian relief's show wrestlers using most of the holds known to the present-day sport. In ancient Greece, wrestling occupied a prominent place in legend and literature; wrestling competition, brutal in many aspects, was the number one sport of the Olympic Games. The ancient Romans borrowed heavily from Greek wrestling, but eliminated much of its brutality.
Wayne Mark Rooney (born 24 October 1985) is an English footballer who plays as a striker for Premier League club Manchester United and the England national team.
Rooney made his senior international debut in 2003 becoming the youngest player to represent England (a record later broken by Theo Walcott). He is England's youngest ever goalscorer. He played at UEFA Euro 2004 and scored four goals, briefly becoming the competition's youngest goalscorer. Rooney featured at the 2006 and 2010 World Cups and is widely regarded as his country's best player. He has won the England Player of the Year award twice, in 2008 and 2009. As of September 2011, he has won 73 international caps and scored 28 goals. Along with David Beckham, Rooney is the most red carded player for England, having been sent off twice.
Aged nine, Rooney joined the youth team of Everton, for whom he made his professional debut in 2002. He spent two seasons at the Merseyside club, before moving to Manchester United for £25.6 million in the 2004 summer transfer window. The same year, Rooney acquired the nickname "Wazza". Since then, with Rooney in the team, United have won the Premier League four times, the 2007–08 UEFA Champions League and two League Cups. He also holds two runner-up medals from both the Premier League and the Champions League. In April of the 2011–12 season Rooney scored his 180th goal, making him United's fourth highest goal-scorer of all time.
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949), nicknamed "The Boss," is an American singer-songwriter-performer who records and tours with the E Street Band. Springsteen is widely known for his brand of heartland rock, poetic lyrics, and Americana sentiments centered on his native New Jersey.
Springsteen's recordings have included both commercially accessible rock albums and more somber folk-oriented works. His most successful studio albums, Born in the U.S.A. and Born to Run, showcase a talent for finding grandeur in the struggles of daily American life; he has sold more than 65 million albums in the United States and more than 120 million worldwide and he has earned numerous awards for his work, including 21 Grammy Awards, two Golden Globes and an Academy Award. He is widely regarded by many as one of the most influential songwriters of the 20th century, and in 2004, Rolling Stone ranked him as the 23rd Greatest Artist of all time.
Springsteen was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and spent his childhood and high school years in Freehold Borough. He lived on South Street in Freehold Borough and attended Freehold Borough High School. His father, Douglas Frederick Springsteen, was of Dutch and Irish ancestry and worked, among other vocations, as a bus driver, although he was frequently unemployed; his surname is Dutch for jump stone. His mother, Adele Ann (née Zerilli), was a legal secretary and was of Italian ancestry. His maternal grandfather was born in Vico Equense, a city near Naples. He has two younger sisters, Virginia and Pamela. Pamela had a brief film career, but left acting to pursue still photography full time; she took photos for the Human Touch and Lucky Town albums.
Actors: Mariana Flores (miscellaneous crew), Mariana Flores (editor), Kimberly Jürgen (actress), M. Hasna M. (writer), Matt MacDonald (director), Matt MacDonald (producer), BJ Lange (actor), Mitch L. Guy (actor), Terri J. Freedman (actress), Ryan Patrick McGuffey (actor), Michael Greischar (director), Barb Steele (miscellaneous crew), Shaw Jones (actor), Ty Strickler (producer), Alexander Rudd (composer),
Plot: Rose Lee is just a typical high school student trying to figure things out. Her dream is to join the boy's wrestling team, but no one is making it easy for her. Along the way, she'll discover that her most difficult opponent may be herself.
Keywords: asian, asian-american, asian-american-woman, asian-culture, asian-teenager, asian-woman, bare-chested-male, best-friend, coming-of-age, dysfunctional-familyActors: Tyrone Scott (actor), Dylan Keith Summers (actor), Charles Renner (actor), Ajay Naidu (actor), David John Markland (actor), Mickey Rourke (actor), Judah Friedlander (actor), Brian Heffron (actor), Darnell Kittiell (actor), Brandon Dicamillo (actor), Kevin Cannon (actor), Ron Killings (actor), Mark Margolis (actor), Evan Rachel Wood (actress), Marisa Tomei (actress),
Plot: This is a drama about an aging professional wrestler, decades past his prime, who now barely gets by working small wrestling shows in VFW halls and as a part-time grocery store employee. As he faces health problems that may end his wrestling career for good he attempts to come to terms with his life outside the ring: by working full time at the grocery store, trying to reconcile with the daughter he abandoned in childhood and forming a closer bond with a stripper he has romantic feelings for. He struggles with his new life and an offer of a high-profile rematch with his 1980s arch-nemesis, The Ayatollah, which may be his ticket back to stardom.
Keywords: action-figure, ambiguous-ending, american-legion, artificial-leg, athlete, audience, bar, barbed-wire, bare-breasts, bloodActors: Tyrone Scott (actor), Dylan Keith Summers (actor), Charles Renner (actor), Ajay Naidu (actor), David John Markland (actor), Mickey Rourke (actor), Judah Friedlander (actor), Brian Heffron (actor), Darnell Kittiell (actor), Brandon Dicamillo (actor), Kevin Cannon (actor), Ron Killings (actor), Mark Margolis (actor), Evan Rachel Wood (actress), Marisa Tomei (actress),
Plot: This is a drama about an aging professional wrestler, decades past his prime, who now barely gets by working small wrestling shows in VFW halls and as a part-time grocery store employee. As he faces health problems that may end his wrestling career for good he attempts to come to terms with his life outside the ring: by working full time at the grocery store, trying to reconcile with the daughter he abandoned in childhood and forming a closer bond with a stripper he has romantic feelings for. He struggles with his new life and an offer of a high-profile rematch with his 1980s arch-nemesis, The Ayatollah, which may be his ticket back to stardom.
Keywords: action-figure, ambiguous-ending, american-legion, artificial-leg, athlete, audience, bar, barbed-wire, bare-breasts, bloodActors: Terry M. West (writer), John Paul Fedele (writer), Terry M. West (actor), Suzi Lorraine (actress), John Bacchus (producer), Michael Raso (producer), John Bacchus (actor), John Paul Fedele (actor), Darian Caine (actress), Ruby Larocca (actress), John Bacchus (actor), Erin Brown (actress), Emily Booth (actress), Terry M. West (miscellaneous crew), John Paul Fedele (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi,Actors: Arcelia Ramírez (actress), Ulrich Noethen (actor), Ulrich Noethen (actor), Carlos Lucas (actor), Héctor Ortega (actor), Juan Carlos Colombo (actor), Gustavo Sánchez Parra (actor), Octavio Maya (producer), Jorge Goldenberg (writer), Julio Bracho (actor), Sigfrido Barjau (editor), Pedro Altamirano (actor), Pierre Salvadori (writer), Jacobo Lieberman (composer), José María Lara (producer),
Plot: A former East Germany secret agent runs away fron his past and lands in Mexico under a fake identity. However he's caught by the Mexican secret police and forced to infiltrate a political activist group in the movement of 68. Helmut Busch (now Bruno) meets Adela, one of the activists, and he then faces dilemma.
Keywords: communist, fake-identity, informer, mexico, one-word-title, secret-agent, spyActors: Phil Proctor (actor), James Gammon (actor), Jerry Fielding (composer), Peter Bergman (actor), Lou Albano (actor), Dolph Sweet (actor), Ric Mancini (actor), Steven Zaillian (editor), Clarence Felder (actor), Shirley Stoler (actress), Dale Tate (miscellaneous crew), Tiger Joe Marsh (actor), Philip Austin (actor), Mario Ernesto Sánchez (actor), Lenny Montana (actor),
Plot: Rosa Rubinsky is floundering in her life both personally and professionally. Small time radio talk show host Terry Glantz is the latest in the long line of her steady but not really committed boyfriends. And she works in a dead end job as a waitress in a sports arena. Bobby Fox, who sees her physically handle the unwanted advances of a co-worker, is a professional wrestling promoter who thinks she looks like a natural for the sport despite she being diminutive in size. Mutually parting ways with both her current job and with Terry, Rosa decides to give it a try. She is sent to professional wrestling school, and then on the road with Bobby's stable of wrestlers to watch and learn. In both situations, what Rosa also learns is that there is much camaraderie amongst the wrestlers out of emotional need as it is a lonely life. While some look for their soul mate within their traveling partners, others just want a body - any body - to keep them warm at night. She also learns the pros and cons of the sport itself. Rosa's professional wrestling career may be short lived as Bobby wants her first bout to be with Terrible Tommy J., the queen of the sport. Although professional wrestling is acting more than anything, Tommy, who has forty pounds over Rosa, often treats it like real life to exert her power and superiority over her colleagues, who she sees more as competitors wanting to dethrone her.
Keywords: athletic-woman, based-on-novel, female-wrestling, independent-film, travelogue, wrestlingActors: Antonio Padilla 'Pícoro' (actor), Sergio Guerrero (composer), Joselito Rodríguez (director), Juan Garza (actor), Carlos Bravo y Fernández (actor), Tere Velázquez (actress), Joselito Rodríguez (writer), Queta Carrasco (actress), Roberto Meyer (actor), Carlos Savage (editor), Carlos Nieto (actor), Pepe Romay (actor), Titina Romay (actress), Jean Safont (actor), Carmen Manzano (actress),
Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime,Actors: Rogelio Agrasánchez (producer), Federico Curiel (writer), Victorio Blanco (actor), Federico Curiel (director), Eduardo Mendoza (miscellaneous crew), Federico Curiel (actor), Rogelio Agrasánchez (writer), Rafael Rosales Durán (producer), Rafael Lanuza (producer), Ricardo Fuentes (actor), Julio César Agrasánchez (actor), Claudio Lanuza (actor), Myron Levine (actor), Johnny Laboriel (actor), Tinieblas (actor),
Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi,Actors: Rogelio Agrasánchez (producer), Federico Curiel (writer), Victorio Blanco (actor), Federico Curiel (director), Eduardo Mendoza (miscellaneous crew), Federico Curiel (actor), Rogelio Agrasánchez (writer), Rafael Rosales Durán (producer), Rafael Lanuza (producer), Ricardo Fuentes (actor), Julio César Agrasánchez (actor), Claudio Lanuza (actor), Myron Levine (actor), Johnny Laboriel (actor), Tinieblas (actor),
Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi,Actors: Miguel Ángel Fuentes (actor), Rafael Pérez Grovas (writer), Carlos Suárez (actor), Federico Falcón (actor), Rafael Pérez Grovas (director), Santo (actor), Carlos Suárez (writer), Rafael Pérez Grovas (producer), Carmen del Valle (actress), Fernando Yapur (actor), Gerardo Reyes (actor), Guillermo Inclán (actor), Guillermo Ayala (actor), Jean Safont (actor), Abel Casillas (actor),
Genres: Action, Adventure, Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi,