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Jorge González (wrestler)

Index Jorge González (wrestler)

Jorge González (January 31, 1966 – September 22, 2010) was an Argentine basketball player, professional wrestler and actor, better known for his appearances in World Championship Wrestling under the ring name El Gigante between 1989 and 1992 and in the World Wrestling Federation under the ring name Giant González in 1993. [1]

82 relations: Actor, Akio Sato (wrestler), Andes, Argentina, Argentina national basketball team, Argentine austral, Atlanta Hawks, Bam Bam Bigelow, Basketball, Baywatch, Big Show, Bryan Clark, Capital Combat, Chaco Province, Chloroform, Chokehold, Chokeslam, Clarín (Argentine newspaper), Diabetes mellitus, El Colorado, Face (professional wrestling), Formosa Province, Fred Ottman, General José de San Martín, Chaco, Gigantism, Halloween Havoc (1995), Harvey Wippleman, Heel (professional wrestling), Hercules in the Underworld, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Hernán Montenegro, Hulk Hogan, Japan, Jim Johnston (composer), Kōji Kitao, Keiji Mutoh, Kevin Nash, Kevin Sullivan (wrestler), León Najnudel, Liga Nacional de Básquet, List of NWA/WCW closed-circuit events and pay-per-view events, List of premature professional wrestling deaths, List of tallest people, Manager (professional wrestling), Marty Jannetty, Mike Shaw, Missy Hyatt, Music in professional wrestling, National Basketball Association, New Japan Pro-Wrestling, ..., Olé (sports newspaper), One Man Gang, Pro Wrestling Illustrated, Professional wrestling, Professional wrestling attacks, Professional wrestling match types, Randy Savage, Ric Flair, Ring name, Ron Reis, Royal Rumble (1993), Sean Waltman, Sid Eudy, South American Basketball Championship, SummerSlam (1993), TBS (U.S. TV channel), Ted Turner, The Streak (wrestling), The Undertaker, Thunder in Paradise, WAR (wrestling promotion), WCW Power Plant, WCW World Heavyweight Championship, World Championship Wrestling, World War 3 (1995), WrestleMania IX, Wrestling Observer Newsletter, WWE, WWE Intercontinental Championship, WWE Raw, 1988 NBA draft, 1988 Tournament of the Americas. Expand index (32 more) »

Actor

An actor (often actress for women; see terminology) is a person who portrays a character in a performance.

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Akio Sato (wrestler)

is a retired professional wrestler, best known for his appearances in the World Wrestling Federation as Sato, a member of The Orient Express.

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Andes

The Andes or Andean Mountains (Cordillera de los Andes) are the longest continental mountain range in the world.

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Argentina

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic (República Argentina), is a federal republic located mostly in the southern half of South America.

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Argentina national basketball team

The Argentina national basketball team, officially nicknamed El Alma Argentina (Spanish: The Argentine Soul), is controlled by the Argentine Basketball Federation.

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Argentine austral

The austral was the currency of Argentina between June 15, 1985 and December 31, 1991.

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Atlanta Hawks

The Atlanta Hawks are an American professional basketball team based in Atlanta, Georgia. The Hawks compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Eastern Conference Southeast Division. The team plays its home games at Philips Arena. The team's origins can be traced to the establishment of the Buffalo Bisons in 1946 in Buffalo, New York, a member of the National Basketball League (NBL) owned by Ben Kerner and Leo Ferris. After 38 days in Buffalo, the team moved to Moline, Illinois, where they were renamed the Tri-Cities Blackhawks. In 1949, they joined the NBA as part of the merger between the NBL and the Basketball Association of America (BAA), and briefly had Red Auerbach as coach. In 1951, Kerner moved the team to Milwaukee, where they changed their name to the Hawks. Kerner and the team moved again in 1955 to St. Louis, where they won their only NBA championship in 1958 and qualified to play in the NBA Finals in 1957, 1960 and 1961. The Hawks played the Boston Celtics in all four of their trips to the NBA Finals. The St. Louis Hawks moved to Atlanta in 1968, when Kerner sold the franchise to Thomas Cousins and former Georgia Governor Carl Sanders. The Hawks currently own the second-longest drought (behind the Sacramento Kings) of not winning an NBA championship at 60 seasons. The franchise's lone NBA championship, as well as all four NBA Finals appearances, occurred when the team was based in St. Louis. Meanwhile, they went 48 years without advancing past the second round of the playoffs in any format, until finally breaking through in 2015. Much of the failure they have experienced in the postseason can be traced back to their poor history in the NBA draft. Since 1980, the Hawks have drafted only four players who have been chosen to play in an NBA All-Star Game (Doc Rivers, Kevin Willis, Al Horford, and Jeff Teague). Dominique Wilkins was actually selected by the Utah Jazz and traded to the Hawks a few months after the draft. Horford and Teague are the only All-Star Hawks to have been drafted since Willis was selected in 1984, and Horford is also the only first-rounder the Hawks selected in their nine-year playoff drought to play in an NBA All-Star Game.

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Bam Bam Bigelow

Scott Charles Bigelow (September 1, 1961 – January 19, 2007) was an American professional wrestler, better known by the ring name Bam Bam Bigelow.

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Basketball

Basketball is a team sport played on a rectangular court.

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Baywatch

Baywatch is an American action drama series about the Los Angeles County lifeguards who patrol the beaches of Los Angeles County, California, starring David Hasselhoff.

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Big Show

Paul Donald Wight II (born February 8, 1972), better known by the ring name Big Show, is an American professional wrestler and actor, currently signed to WWE on the Raw brand.

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Bryan Clark

Bryan Emmett Clark (born March 14, 1964) is an American retired professional wrestler.

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Capital Combat

Capital Combat: Return of RoboCop was a one-time professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event from the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) held under the World Championship Wrestling (WCW) name.

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Chaco Province

The Province of Chaco (provincia del Chaco) is a province in north-eastern Argentina.

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Chloroform

Chloroform, or trichloromethane, is an organic compound with formula CHCl3.

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Chokehold

A chokehold, choke, stranglehold or, in Judo, shime-waza (絞技; constriction technique) is a general term for a grappling hold that critically reduces or prevents either air (choking)The New Oxford Dictionary of English (1999).

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Chokeslam

A chokeslam is a type of body slam in professional wrestling, in which a wrestler grasps an opponent's neck, lifts them up, and slams them to the mat.

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Clarín (Argentine newspaper)

Clarín (meaning "Bugle") is the largest newspaper in Argentina, published by the Grupo Clarín media group.

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Diabetes mellitus

Diabetes mellitus (DM), commonly referred to as diabetes, is a group of metabolic disorders in which there are high blood sugar levels over a prolonged period.

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El Colorado

El Colorado is a settlement in northern Argentina.

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Face (professional wrestling)

In professional wrestling, a face (babyface) is a heroic or a "good guy" wrestler, booked (scripted) by the promotion with the aim of being cheered by fans.

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Formosa Province

Formosa Province is a province in northeastern Argentina, part of the Gran Chaco Region.

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Fred Ottman

Fred Alex Ottman (born August 10, 1956) is an American retired professional wrestler.

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General José de San Martín, Chaco

General José de San Martín is a city in the north-east of the.

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Gigantism

Gigantism, also known as giantism (from Greek γίγας gigas, "giant", plural γίγαντες gigantes), is a condition characterized by excessive growth and height significantly above average.

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Halloween Havoc (1995)

Halloween Havoc (1995) was the seventh Halloween Havoc professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by World Championship Wrestling (WCW).

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Harvey Wippleman

Bruno Lauer (born October 27, 1965) is an American professional wrestling manager, referee, and occasional wrestler, better known by his ring names, Harvey Wippleman and Downtown Bruno.

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Heel (professional wrestling)

In professional wrestling, a heel (also known as a rudo in lucha libre) is a wrestler who portrays a villain or a "bad guy" and acts as an antagonist.

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Hercules in the Underworld

Hercules in the Underworld is the fourth made for TV movie in the series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys.

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Hercules: The Legendary Journeys

Hercules: The Legendary Journeys is an American television series filmed in New Zealand, based on the tales of the classical Greek culture hero Heracles (Hercules was his Roman analogue).

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Hernán Montenegro

Hernán Abel Montenegro (born August 8, 1966), is a retired Argentine basketball player.

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Hulk Hogan

Terry Gene Bollea (born August 11, 1953), better known by his ring name Hulk Hogan, is an American retired professional wrestler, actor, television personality, entrepreneur and musician.

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Japan

Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.

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Jim Johnston (composer)

James Alan "Jim" Johnston (born 1959) is an American music composer and musician best known for his time in WWE.

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Kōji Kitao

Kōji Kitao (born August 12, 1963) is a former sumo wrestler and professional wrestler, born in Mie, Japan.

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Keiji Mutoh

is a Japanese professional wrestler who first gained international fame in the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA).

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Kevin Nash

Kevin Scott Nash (born July 9, 1959) is an American actor and semi-retired professional wrestler, currently signed to WWE under their Legends program.

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Kevin Sullivan (wrestler)

Kevin Francis Sullivan (born October 26, 1949) is an American professional wrestler and booker, perhaps best known for his role in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) as "The Taskmaster" and his leading of the "Dungeon of Doom".

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León Najnudel

León David Najnudel (14 July 1941 – 22 April 1998) was an Argentine professional basketball player and basketball coach, and the main driving force in the creation of the Liga Nacional de Básquet, the first nationwide yearly professional basketball league in Argentina.

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Liga Nacional de Básquet

The Liga Nacional de Básquet (abbreviated LNB, and literally in English, "National Basketball League"), also commonly referred to as "La Liga" ("The League"), is the top-tier level of the Argentine basketball league system.

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List of NWA/WCW closed-circuit events and pay-per-view events

This is a list of all closed-circuit television and pay-per-view events held by World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and its predecessor Jim Crockett Promotions (JCP).

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List of premature professional wrestling deaths

According to a study by Eastern Michigan University, mortality rates for professional wrestlers are 2.9 times greater than the rate for men in the wider United States population.

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List of tallest people

This is a list of the tallest people to be measured and verified, living and dead, See also List of humans with gigantism.

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Manager (professional wrestling)

In professional wrestling, a manager is a supporting character paired with a wrestler (or wrestlers) for a variety of reasons.

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Marty Jannetty

Marty Jannetty (born Fredrick Martin Jannetty; February 3, 1960) is an American professional wrestler.

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Mike Shaw

Michael Paul Shaw (May 9, 1957 – September 11, 2010) was an American professional wrestler who was best known for his stint in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) as Norman the Lunatic, and as Bastion Booger in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF).

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Missy Hyatt

Melissa Ann Hiatt (born October 16, 1963) is an American professional wrestling valet, better known by her ring name, Missy Hyatt.

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Music in professional wrestling

Music in professional wrestling serves a variety of purposes.

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National Basketball Association

The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a men's professional basketball league in North America; composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada).

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New Japan Pro-Wrestling

, operating as, is a Japanese professional wrestling promotion based in Nakano, Tokyo.

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Olé (sports newspaper)

Olé is an Argentine national daily sports newspaper published in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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One Man Gang

George Gray (born February 12, 1960) is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, (The) One Man Gang.

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Pro Wrestling Illustrated

Pro Wrestling Illustrated (PWI) is an American produced, internationally sold professional wrestling magazine that was founded in 1979.

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Professional wrestling

Professional wrestling (often shortened to pro wrestling or simply wrestling) is a form of sports entertainment which combines athletics with theatrical performance.

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Professional wrestling attacks

Attacking maneuvers are offensive moves in professional wrestling, used to set up an opponent for a submission hold or for a throw.

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Professional wrestling match types

Many types of wrestling matches, sometimes called "concept" or "gimmick matches" in the jargon of the business, are performed in professional wrestling.

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Randy Savage

Randall Mario Poffo (November 15, 1952 – May 20, 2011), better known by his ring name "Macho Man" Randy Savage, was an American professional wrestler and color commentator best known for his time in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) and later World Championship Wrestling (WCW).

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Ric Flair

Richard Morgan Fliehr (born February 25, 1949), better known as Ric Flair, is an American professional wrestling manager and retired professional wrestler signed to WWE under its Legends program.

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Ring name

A ring name is a name assumed for professional purposes by a professional wrestler, martial artist or boxer.

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Ron Reis

Ronald Allen Reis is an American professional wrestler.

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Royal Rumble (1993)

Royal Rumble (1993) was the sixth annual Royal Rumble professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF).

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Sean Waltman

Sean Michael Waltman (born July 13, 1972) is an American professional wrestler.

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Sid Eudy

Sidney Raymond Eudy (born December 16, 1960) is an American retired professional wrestler.

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South American Basketball Championship

The South American Basketball Championship was first played in 1930.

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SummerSlam (1993)

SummerSlam (1993) was the sixth annual SummerSlam professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF).

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TBS (U.S. TV channel)

TBS is an American basic cable and satellite television channel owned by Turner Broadcasting System.

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Ted Turner

Robert Edward "Ted" Turner III (born November 19, 1938) is an American media mogul and philanthropist.

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The Streak (wrestling)

The Streak was a series of 21 straight victories for professional wrestler The Undertaker (Mark Calaway) at WWE's premier annual event, WrestleMania.

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The Undertaker

Mark William Calaway (born March 24, 1965), better known by the ring name The Undertaker, is an American professional wrestler currently signed to WWE as a free agent.

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Thunder in Paradise

Thunder in Paradise is an American action-adventure TV series from the creators of Baywatch, which stars Hulk Hogan, Chris Lemmon, and Carol Alt.

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WAR (wrestling promotion)

Wrestle and Romance, and later Wrestle Association R, was a Japanese professional wrestling promotion founded and run by Genichiro Tenryu as the successor to Super World of Sports, and which lasted from 1992 to 2000.

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WCW Power Plant

The WCW Power Plant was a former professional wrestling school located at 1530 Carrol Drive in Atlanta, Georgia.

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WCW World Heavyweight Championship

The WCW World Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship originally used in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and later, the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE).

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World Championship Wrestling

World Championship Wrestling, Inc. (WCW) was an American professional wrestling promotion, historically based in Atlanta, Georgia.

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World War 3 (1995)

World War 3 (1995) was the inaugural World War 3 professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by World Championship Wrestling (WCW).

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WrestleMania IX

WrestleMania IX was the ninth annual WrestleMania professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF).

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Wrestling Observer Newsletter

The Wrestling Observer Newsletter (WON) is a newsletter that covers professional wrestling and mixed martial arts.

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WWE

World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc., d/b/a WWE, is an American integrated media and entertainment company that primarily is known for professional wrestling.

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WWE Intercontinental Championship

The WWE Intercontinental Championship is a professional wrestling championship created and promoted by the American professional wrestling promotion WWE on the Raw brand.

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WWE Raw

WWE Raw, also known as Monday Night Raw or simply Raw, is a professional wrestling television program that currently airs live on Monday evenings at 8 pm EST on the USA Network in the United States.

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1988 NBA draft

The 1988 NBA draft took place on June 28, 1988, in New York City, New York.

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1988 Tournament of the Americas

The 1988 Tournament of the Americas, later known as the FIBA Americas Championship and the FIBA AmeriCup, was a basketball championship hosted by Uruguay from 22 to 31 May 1988.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_González_(wrestler)

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