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Kavita Devi

On 13 July, 2017, she was announced as one of the participants for the Mae Young Classic tournament. On 28 August, Kavita was eliminated in the first round by Dakota Kai.

On 15 October 2017, WWE announced that Devi had signed a contract, and would start training at their Performance Center in January 2018. On April 8, 2018, Devi made her first appearance as part of the company while also making her WrestleMania debut at WrestleMania 34 competing during the inaugural WrestleMania women's battle royal in which she was eliminated by Sarah Logan. On April 19, Devi made her *NXT* live event debut as a heel, teaming with Aliyah against Dakota Kai and Steffanie Newell in a losing effort. She participated in the Mae Young Classic 2018 but lost in the first round against a returning Kaitlyn. On May 19, 2021, it was announced that Devi was released from WWE.
L.O.D. 2005

Road Warrior Animal would return to WWE in 2005, teaming with Heidenreich in a feud against the tag team MNM. At The Great American Bash on July 24, 2005, Animal and Heidenreich defeated MNM to win the WWE Tag Team Championship in a match personally dedicated by Animal to Hawk. After winning the titles, Heidenreich changed his appearance to a look that better suited the Legion of Doom image by shaving his hair into a mohawk and wearing face paint.

On August 18, 2005, Heidenreich was officially made part of LOD and was presented with his own "Road Warrior spikes". Shortly after winning the tag team titles, Animal paid tribute to his late partner and friend by looking up to the heavens above and saying, "Hawk, this one's for you, brother!". During their feud with MNM, LOD were joined by Christy Hemme, who acted as a valet/manager for a short while.

On the October 28, 2005 edition of *SmackDown!*, LOD lost the tag team titles to MNM in a fatal four-way tag match that also featured Paul Burchill and William Regal and The Mexicools (Super Crazy and Psicosis). A few months later, on January 17, 2006, Heidenreich was released from WWE. Animal continued to perform for WWE under his old persona, The Road Warrior, for a few months before he was also released.
Key

Key made his televised World Wrestling Federation (WWF) debut on the July 26, 1999 episode of *Raw*. He portrayed a drug dealer character along with Droz and Prince Albert and feuded with The Godfather. The Godfather suffered an injury just as the feud between the two was developing, leading to Key being taken off television.

The WWF soon sent Key to work for the Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) promotion to further develop his skills. There, Key, under his real name **Vic Grimes**, joined Tony DeVito and Spanish Angel, replacing P.N. News, in Da Baldies. The highlights of his ECW tenure were a fast-paced match against Kid Kash, an ECW World Heavyweight Title shot against Mike Awesome, and a Danbury Street Fight with Tommy Dreamer.

During Living Dangerously in March 2000, a breakdown in communication between New Jack and Grimes led to both men tumbling off a 20-foot high scaffolding rig onto concrete. Grimes departed ECW not long after this incident.
La Parka

In 1995, La Parka would make an appearance for Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), teaming with Psicosis, losing a tag team match against Konnan and Rey Misterio Jr..

In mid-1996, La Parka began appearing on WCW's weekly television shows and pay-per-views. La Parka often wrestled against Juventud Guerrera or Super Caló and often teamed with Psicosis. Due to La Parka's more comedic style he stood out from the rest of the Luchadores, who were generally high fliers. He was nicknamed "the chairman of WCW" due to the fact that he often carried a chair to the ring, played air guitar on it during his entrances and generally used it both in matches and in post match celebrations. At one point he and Psychosis were managed by Sonny Onoo, although the team failed to achieve much success as a unit. He later dropped Onoo as a manager and begin to feud with Psychosis and Disco Inferno. While La Parka often wrestled on WCW's *Monday Nitro* show, his pay-per-view appearances were rare. On July 13, he teamed with Psychosis and Villano IV on the undercard of WCW's Bash at the Beach pay-per-view, losing to Héctor Garza, Juventud Guerrera and Lizmark Jr.. He also wrestled at SuperBrawl VIII, losing to Disco Inferno.

One night in a match against Randy Savage, La Parka suddenly executed Diamond Dallas Page's finisher, the Diamond Cutter on Savage and gained the pinfall. After the match "La Parka" unmasked to show that it was Savage's rival Diamond Dallas Page under the mask, using the ruse to get back at Savage. A couple of weeks later, Savage wrestled against the real La Parka defeating him to gain a small measure of revenge. In October 1998, La Parka became part of Eddie Guerrero's Latino World Order (LWO), a group that also included Psychosis, Juventud Guerrera, Villano IV, Villano V, El Dandy, Silver King, Héctor Garza, Damián, and a reluctant Rey Mysterio Jr.. The group feuded mainly with Konnan and Perry Saturn. In January 1999, Guerrero was injured and the LWO group was subsequently abandoned.

In late 1999, he teamed with Kaz Hayashi, a Japanese wrestler who used a "Comedic voiceover" gimmick and referred to La Parka as "Skull Captain". La Parka left WCW in 2000.
Kristal Marshall

Marshall first entered WWE as a contestant in the 2005 *Raw* Diva Search, in which she eventually finished fourth. Despite not winning the Diva Search contract, Marshall was signed to a deal soon after the contest finished. In December 2005, she joined the *SmackDown!* roster as a backstage correspondent, interviewing the brand's superstars during the shows.

Her first actual feud on the brand came against Jillian Hall. Marshall defeated Hall in her debut match—a "Divas Uncovered" match—on the March 10, 2006 *SmackDown!*. Kristal was defeated by Jillian Hall but was later comforted by Michelle McCool. When Diva Search winner Ashley Massaro joined the *SmackDown!* brand, Marshall was turned heel and put into an angle where she was jealous of Massaro's Diva Search win. She was aligned with Michelle McCool and the two feuded with Massaro and then-babyface, Jillian Hall, leading to a fatal four-way Bra and Panties match at The Great American Bash, during which Marshall was legitimately injured, though she did not miss any time. In September, the next year's Diva Search winner, then-babyface, Layla El, arrived on the brand, and Marshall was put into a feud with her. This feud had Marshall aligned with Mike "The Miz" Mizanin against Layla and the Boogeyman.

In February 2007, Marshall became a face again and began a storyline which had her as a close friend of then-babyface, Vickie Guerrero, who was mysteriously planning something, and then flirting with *SmackDown* General Manager Theodore Long. After Marshall confessed her love for Long, she convinced him to hire Guerrero as his assistant, leaving her in charge of the show on occasion. Eventually Long proposed marriage, only to suffer a heart attack during the in-ring wedding on September 21. She was released from her WWE contract a few weeks later.
Magnificent Maurice

Maurice wrestled for the American Wrestling Association from 1960-1963.

In 1963, Maurice and Johnny Barend went to the World Wide Wrestling Federation, where they sometimes teamed with Buddy Rogers feuding with Bobo Brazil, Dory Dixon, and Pedro Morales. Maurice had a few singles matches feuding against Bruno Sammartino for the WWWF Heavyweight Title. From 1964-1965, he feuded with Bill Watts and Wahoo McDaniel. By 1969, he left the company.

Maurice passed away on March 13, 1974.
Killer Kowalski

Kowalski became the main antagonist of Bruno Sammartino in the World Wide Wrestling Federation in the 1960's and 1970's. Kowalski formed a tag team with fellow heel Gorilla Monsoon and took Red Berry as his manager; Monsoon and Kowalski held the WWWF United States Tag Team Championship, winning the belts in two straight falls from Skull Murphy and Brute Bernard on Washington, D.C. television, and later losing to The Tolos Brothers in two straight falls in Teaneck, New Jersey in December 1963. On May 11, 1976, Kowalski won the WWF World Tag Team Championship with Big John Studd. Both men wore black masks and tights and called themselves "The Executioners". However, they were stripped of the championship, following the interference of a third Executioner during a title defense against Chief Jay Strongbow and Billy White Wolf. The Executioners lost a match for the vacant title on December 6 to Strongbow and White Wolf and never regained the championship. In 1977, Kowalski retired and left the WWF.

In 1996, Kowalski was inducted into the WWF Hall of Fame.

Kowalski passed away on August 30, 2008.
Louis Cerdan

Cerdan won the WWWF Tag Team Championship in 1975 with his partner Tony Parisi, from Blackjack Mulligan and Blackjack Lanza. They later lost the title to The Executioners.

Cerdan appeared in the WWF old-timers battle royal in November 1987 (the first eliminated in a match won by Lou Thesz that featured several former world champions).
King Kaluha

On May 15, 1985, Kaluha took part in an American Wrestling Association television taping in Atlantic City, New Jersey. His first bout was against Sgt. Slaughter, which he lost, as well as a tag team match with Mark Pole against Steve Olsonoski and Buck Zumhofe, and with Lou Fabiano versus The High Flyers (Greg Gagne and Jim Brunzell).

On March 31, 1986, Kaluha wrestled Tom Brandi for a World Championship Wrestling (WCW) show at the Baltimore Civic Center.

Kaluha made his Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) debut at ECW's second-ever event on March 24, 1992, defeating Max Thrasher. On July 14, Kaluha and Scott Summers beat J.T. Smith and Hurricane Curry. He lost to Smith the following night. On August 22, he won a battle royal in Philadelphia. He also received a title shot against then-ECW Heavyweight Champion Jimmy Snuka. On September 12, 1992, Kaluha and Summers lost to Larry Winters and Jimmy Jannetty. In early 1993, he wrestled Tommy Cairo.
Logan Paul

On the April 2, 2021 episode of *WWE SmackDown*, Paul would make his WWE debut, as a guest of Sami Zayn for his red carpet premiere of his documentary, with Zayn later inviting Paul to be at ringside for his match at WrestleMania 37 against Kevin Owens. At the event, after Owens defeated Zayn, Paul would celebrate with Owens, before being hit with a *Stunner* by Owens. On the September 3 episode of *SmackDown*, Paul would return to WWE as a special guest of Happy Corbin on *The KO Show*, where Paul would help Corbin attack Kevin Owens.

On the February 21, 2022 episode of *WWE Raw*, Paul would be revealed as the tag team partner of The Miz to take on Rey Mysterio and Dominik Mysterio at WrestleMania 38. At the event, Paul and Miz would defeat the Mysterios, however, after the match, Miz would attack Paul.

On June 30, 2022, Paul signed a multi-year contract with WWE. At SummerSlam on July 30, Paul would defeated The Miz in a singles match after putting Miz through the announce table with a *Frog Splash*.

After Paul appeared on the September 16 episode of *SmackDown* to challenge Roman Reigns, it was announced during a press conference the following day that Paul would face Reigns at Crown Jewel on November 5 for Reigns' Undisputed WWE Universal Championship. Paul was unsuccessful in defeating Reigns, despite interference from his entourage and his brother Jake, marking his first loss in WWE in what was only his third match. It was later revealed that Paul had suffered a torn meniscus, MCL, and ACL. On January 28, 2023, Paul made his return from injury at the Royal Rumble at number twenty-nine, eliminating Seth "Freakin" Rollins before he was eliminated by the eventual winner Cody Rhodes. At Elimination Chamber on February 18, Paul cost Rollins the United States Championship match inside the Elimination Chamber to Austin Theory. On the March 6 episode of *Raw*, a match between Paul and Rollins was scheduled for WrestleMania 39. On WrestleMania Night One, Paul lost to Rollins. Paul returned on the June 19 episode of *Raw*, where he announced that he had been added to the men's Money in the Bank ladder match at the namesake event. Paul would be unsuccessful in winning the match. The next month at SummerSlam, Paul defeated Ricochet after using brass knuckles.

On October 14, Paul called out United States Champion Rey Mysterio. This led to Mysterio appearing on the October 20 episode of *SmackDown* to accept his challenge, with the match taking place at Crown Jewel. At the event, Paul became the new United States Champion after using brass knuckles to win the match.
Len Montana

On October 4, 1960, in the American Wrestling Association (AWA), and with Hard Boiled Haggerty, he won the AWA World Tag Team Championship on October 4, 1960, defeating Stan Kowalski and Tiny Mills in Minneapolis. However, in a match against Verne Gagne, Montana suffered a broken leg, forcing Haggerty to choose a new partner. After he picked Gene Kiniski, Montana left the AWA.

On May 12, 1992, Montana passed away.
Kota Ibushi

On June 13, 2016, Ibushi was announced as a participant in WWE's Cruiserweight Classic tournament. The tournament kicked off on June 23 with Ibushi defeating Sean Maluta in his first round match. On July 13, Ibushi made his *NXT* in-ring debut, defeating Buddy Murphy at the *WWE NXT* tapings. The following day, Ibushi defeated Cedric Alexander in his second round match in the Cruiserweight Classic in a critically acclaimed match. On August 26, Ibushi defeated Brian Kendrick to advance to the semifinals of the Cruiserweight Classic. On September 14, Ibushi was eliminated from the tournament in the semifinals by eventual winner T.J. Perkins. On September 29, WWE announced that Ibushi would be teaming up with *NXT*'s Hideo Itami in the upcoming Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic. When Itami was injured, Ibushi was paired up with T.J. Perkins. The two entered the tournament on October 13, defeating Lince Dorado and Mustafa Ali in their first round match. Later that same day, they were eliminated from the tournament in the second round by Sanity (Alexander Wolfe and Sawyer Fulton).
Jeremy Borash

In late 1999, Borash debuted for the first time on World Championship Wrestling (WCW) television, co-hosting the year end special for WCW. Borash went on to make several appearances on WCW television as a play-by-play announcer for *Nitro* and *Thunder*. His role eventually led to an on-air character as Vince Russo's stooge, including a memorable episode where Borash was attacked by Goldberg while driving Russo in his own pope-mobile vehicle in San Francisco.

On January 30, 2018, Borash officially signed with WWE, where he began working as a producer.
Mace

Dio Maddin

On February 11, 2016, Mace participated in a WWE try-out at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida. On August 1, 2016, WWE officially announced the signing of Mace, who started training at the Performance Center the same day. He made his in-ring debut for the company at an *NXT* live event in Orlando, Florida on September 30, 2016, competing in a battle royal.

On September 10, 2019, Mace, as **Dio Maddin**, joined the commentary team for *205 Live*, replacing Nigel McGuinness.

On September 26, 2019, WWE announced as part of their "Premiere Week" that the commentary teams would be changed, with Maddin becoming an analyst for the *Raw* commentary team with Vic Joseph andJerry Lawler. On the November 4, 2019 edition of Monday Night Raw, Maddin was attacked by Brock Lesnar who performed an F5 on Maddin through the announcer's table. Maddin was defending fellow commentator Jerry Lawler after being threatened by Lesnar's advocate, Paul Heyman. He would then leave the announce team and go back to NXT to pursue a return to the ring, being replaced by Samoa Joe.

He would make his return to *Raw* on September 21, 2020, as part of the recently created faction known as Retribution, under the new ring name **Mace**. On the October 5 episode of *Raw*, Mustafa Ali was revealed as the stable's leader. At Fastlane on March 21, 2021, Mace and T-Bar attacked Ali, disbanding the stable.

On the April 12 episode of *Raw*, Mace and T-Bar attacked Drew McIntyre. The following week on *Raw*, Mace was finally unmasked along with T-Bar in a tag team match against McIntyre and Braun Strowman, in which Mace and T-Bar won by disqualification. Later in an interview, they confirmed the start of their tag team run.

On October 2, during the 2021 WWE Draft, Mace was drafted to the *SmackDown* brand while T-Bar remained on *Raw*, thus disbanding the team. On the November 26 episode of *SmackDown*, he competed in a "Black Friday Invitational" battle royal, where the winner would become the number one contender for the Universal Championship, but was eliminated by Madcap Moss.

On the April 15, 2022 episode of *SmackDown*, Mace returned in a dark segment as LA Knight's first acquisition under Knight Model Management. Following the announcement, Mace defeated Erik of The Viking Raiders in a dark match. On the July 1 episode of *SmackDown*, Knight, now known as Max Dupri, announced Mace and Mansoor, under the tweaked names "**ma.çé**" and "mån.sôör", as his new tag team, Maximum Male Models. Maximum Male Models later welcomed Maxxine Dupri, Max's sister, to manage the team. Maximum Male Models joined the *Raw* brand on February 6, 2023 and remained on *Raw* following the 2023 WWE Draft. After weeks of spending time with Otis of Alpha Academy, Maxxine left Maximum Male Models to join Otis and Chad Gable on the May 15 episode of *Raw* when she cheered them on after eliminating ma.çé and mån.sôör in an Intercontinental Championship number one contender's battle royal. On September 21, both ma.çé and mån.sôör were released from their WWE contracts.
Kenneth Cameron

Cameron teamed up with Chris Chaos to take on Snitsky and Tyson Tomko on *WWE Heat* on November 21, 2005.

When *NXT* became WWE's developmental brand, Cameron and Conor O'Brian (wrestling as the Ascension) debuted on the 20 June 2012 episode of the rebooted of *NXT* taped at Full Sail University, where they defeated Mike Dalton and CJ Parker. The Ascension then started a feud with The Usos, defeating them on the 5 September *NXT*, and also scored a win over Justin Gabriel and Tyson Kidd on the 3 October *NXT*. Two weeks later, the Ascension teamed up with Kassius Ohno to defeat Richie Steamboat and The Usos.

Cameron was officially released from his *NXT* contract by the WWE on 30 November 2012.
Kevin Kelly

Kelly was hired by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) in June 1996. In 1997, Kelly, alongside Michael Cole and Jim Ross, served as the commentator for *Raw is War*, the flagship television program of the WWF. In 1999, Kelly began serving as an interviewer on *Raw is War* and *SmackDown!*.

As an interviewer, Kelly was involved in numerous angles. The most publicized was the controversial "Pillman's got a gun" angle, which took place on the November 4, 1996 episode of *Monday Night Raw*, which was filmed in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The angle was set against the backdrop of an ongoing feud between Brian Pillman and Stone Cold Steve Austin. Throughout the broadcast of *Monday Night Raw*, live footage was shown of Kelly interviewing Pillman in his home in Walton, Kentucky alongside Pillman's wife Melanie. After Dok Hendrix informed *Monday Night Raw* announcer Vince McMahon that Austin was supposedly traveling to Pillman's home, Pillman, upon being apprised of this development, produced and loaded a 9 mm Glock pistol. A frightened Kelly delivered the line "Pillman's got a gun!"

In the course of the interview, Austin arrived at Pillman's home and, after fighting off several of Pillman's friends who had surrounded the house to protect him, broke into the house and advanced on Pillman. Pillman responded by pointing his pistol at Austin, with the live camera feed subsequently fading to black as Kelly and Melanie Pillman screamed. When the camera feed returned, Pillman was being restrained by his friends, and Kelly informed McMahon that there had been two explosions, but no-one had been injured. At that point, Austin re-entered the house, with Pillman's friends forcing him out again as Pillman pointed his pistol at Austin while screaming obscenities and threats. Kelly shouted for someone to "call the police" as *Monday Night Raw* color commentator Jerry Lawler instructed him to "get the gun". The broadcast ended with Austin being driven from the house as Melanie Pillman cried.

In the late 1990's and early 2000's, Kelly would frequently be mocked by The Rock during interviews, with The Rock labeling him an "ugly hermaphrodite" and nicknaming him "Hermie". At Unforgiven on September 24, 2000, Kelly was attacked by the returning Stone Cold Steve Austin while attempting to interview him.

Kelly would later begin hosting the weekly WWF webcast *Byte This!*. In addition, Kelly produced *WWE Confidential*.

On March 21, 2003, Kelly was released by WWE as part of a series of budget cuts.
Keith Hart

As part of the feud between Bret Hart and Jerry Lawler, at the 1993 Survivor Series in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), Bret and his brothers Keith, Bruce and Owen faced Shawn Michaels and his three masked knights. Though Owen was eliminated and Keith's shoulder was injured by a prolonged assault at the hands of Michaels, the Hart brothers were victorious.

In April 2010, Hart was present on the stage together with all his living siblings when his father Stu Hart was posthumously inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame.
Kelani Jordan

Jordan made her *NXT* debut on June 20, 2023, as the protege of Dana Brooke at NXT Gold Rush. However, the storyline was dropped when Brooke was released on September 21. At NXT No Mercy, Jordan fought against Blair Davenport on the kick-off show in a losing effort. On the November 28 episode of *NXT*, Jordan beat Kiana James to advance for the Iron Survivor Challenge match at NXT Deadline on December 9. At the event, Jordan was unsuccessful, as the match was won by Davenport.
Leslie Nielsen

Nielsen briefly appeared on the World Wrestling Federation program in the summer of 1994 on *WWF Monday Night Raw*. Nielsen (and George Kennedy) were hired as sleuths to unravel the mystery of the Undertaker, who had disappeared at January's Royal Rumble event. At SummerSlam 1994, they were hot on the case (in fact, they were standing on a case). Although they did not find the Undertaker, the case had been closed (the literal case had been shut), thus they solved the mystery.

On November 28, 2010, Nielsen passed away.
Kareem Muhammad

Muhammad, along with Elijah Akeem, debuted in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in the summer of 1984. The team sided with Paul Jones and became part of Paul Jones' Army as they fought against Jimmy Valiant and Valiant's friends. The team competed on the 1984 edition of Starrcade, where they lost to the team of Buzz Tyler and The Masked Assassin #1. The loss to Tyler and the Assassin was one of the last matches the team worked together, splitting up a short time later and leaving the territory. Muhammad's last major match was at the 1988 Starrcade, where he was a part of a Bunkhouse battle royal.

Muhammad passed away on May 23, 1994.
Kendall Windham

In 1987, Windham ventured to World Championship Wrestling (WCW), where he teamed with The Italian Stallion. He never got above preliminary status and went to WCCW briefly at the end of 1988. In January 1989, he was back in WCW teaming with another second generation wrestler, Dustin Rhodes, as the "Texas Broncos". In a match aired on January 28, 1989, Kendall teamed with Eddie Gilbert against his brother Barry and James J. Dillon of the Four Horsemen. Kendall turned on Gilbert and joined Barry and held up the four fingers to the camera. Before the next show, Dillon left the promotion and the Horsemen name was dropped. The Windhams and Ric Flair were given a new manager, Hiro Matsuda, and a new stable name, "Yamasaki Corporation". Kendall stayed with the stable (which grew to include Butch Reed and Michael Hayes) until the summer, when he left WCW.

Windham returned to WCW in 1997 with his head shaved and feuded with Chris Adams and Jim Duggan. In 1999, when WCW created a hardcore division, he entered it briefly and feuded with Hardcore Hak. In June, Windham joined The West Texas Rednecks in what would be the biggest push of his career. The Rednecks were his brother Barry, Curt Hennig and Bobby Duncum, Jr.. They were supposed to be heels feuding with Master P's rappers, the "No Limit Soldiers", but the southern fans of WCW cheered the Rednecks instead. The angle was quickly dropped and they moved on to a feud with Harlem Heat (Booker T and Stevie Ray). Kendall and Barry defeated Harlem Heat for the WCW World Tag Team Title's but lost them back to Harlem Heat three weeks later. By the end of 1999, Windham once again left WCW.
Kevin Greene

Greene had a couple of short stints in World Championship Wrestling. He debuted in WCW as a tag team partner for Steve McMichael in 1996, but McMichael turned on him in favor of joining the Four Horsemen. Greene disappeared from WCW for several months before returning to get revenge on McMichael in a singles match, where he defeated McMichael when the latter's ally Jeff Jarrett accidentally nailed McMichael with a briefcase.

In May 1997, he teamed with Roddy Piper and Ric Flair to take on the nWo team of Kevin Nash, Scott Hall and Syxx in a winning effort at Slamboree.

He then made a final return in mid-1998, teaming with Bill Goldberg against the nWo Black and White. Greene left WCW soon thereafter.

Greene passed away on December 21, 2020.
Kayla Braxton

In October 2016, Braxton signed with WWE. She debuted on the October 20, 2016 episode of *NXT* held in Lakeland, Florida as a host and ring announcer. She appeared on her first pay-per-view as a backstage interviewer during Backlash on May 21, 2017 and followed it up with appearances at Battleground 2017, SummerSlam 2017, Hell in a Cell 2017 and others. While working as a ring announcer on *NXT*, Braxton appeared on *Raw*, *205 Live* and *SmackDown*, where she would act as ring announcer and backstage interviewer. She permanently left *NXT* on August 17, 2019 to the main roster and was replaced by Alicia Taylor the following week. Braxton became a backstage interviewer on *SmackDown* and co-host of *The Bump* in late 2019. Beginning on August 22, 2020, she became the host of *Talking Smack* alongside Paul Heyman.
Kyle Busch

Busch appeared on WWE programming several times, including guest hosting *Monday Night Raw* in 2009, and ten years later on the same program on December 2, 2019. During the latter appearance, he won the WWE 24/7 Championship, pinning R-Truth with Michael Waltrip as special guest referee; R-Truth reclaimed the title later in the show.
Luther Biggs

Although he had appeared in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) several years before as **"Big Sexy" Luther Biggs**, losing a match to Ice Train on *WCW Saturday Night* on December 14, 1996 and *WCW Pro* on December 29, 1996, he was later introduced by wrestler turned manager Coach Buzz Stern as his new "protege" during *WCW Thunder,* selecting him as part of his "Winners Club" on September 2, 1999.

After appearing in subsequent vignettes as a somewhat clumsy varsity wrestler training with Stern, he made his debut on *WCW Thunder* losing to Bobby Eaton on September 30. After losing to Eaton, Stern attacked Eaton applying a full nelson hold on Eaton and then applying the hold on Biggs.

Regularly appearing on *WCW Thunder* and *WCW WorldWide* while he continued to lose to mid-card wrestlers such as Meng, he also had some success against the Blacktop Bully on October 23 although his victory was due only to his manager's interference. He was released along with Stern and many other WCW wrestlers at the end of 1999.
Kash

Cassius

In 1999, Kash, under the ring name **4x4**, debuted in World Championship Wrestling as a member of Master P's No Limit Soldiers along with BA, Chase Tatum, Konnan, Rey Mysterio, Jr. and Swoll. They later feuded with The West Texas Rednecks due to the Rednecks hatred of rap music. After the soldiers broke up, 4x4 changed his name to **Cassius** by joining a heel stable called Harlem Heat 2000 and acted as a bodyguard for the group, consisting of the leader Stevie Ray, Big T and manager J. Biggs. They then began feuding with Booker T. although the feud didn't last long and Harlem Heat 2000 began to split up.
Little Tokyo

In December 1982, Little Tokyo appeared at WCCW's *Christmas Star Wars*, losing to Lone Eagle.

On September 28, 1985, at the American Wrestling Association's SuperClash event, Little Tokyo defeated Midget Mr. T.

Little Tokyo's most notable match took place on March 29, 1987, when he worked for the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) at their WrestleMania III show. At the event, he teamed with Lord Littlebrook and King Kong Bundy against Hillbilly Jim, the Haiti Kid and Little Beaver. The match ended when all four midget wrestlers attacked King Kong Bundy after he attacked Little Beaver.

On September 6, 2011, Tokyo passed away.
Joe Gacy

On August 31, 2020, it was reported that Gacy had signed a contract with WWE. On the July 2, 2021 episode of *205 Live*, Gacy made his television debut, defeating Desmond Troy to qualify for the 2021 *NXT* Breakout Tournament. On the August 3 episode of *NXT*, Gacy was eliminated in the first round by Trey Baxter. On the September 21 episode of *NXT*, Gacy began a new gimmick, portraying a politically correct spokesperson. He was later defeated by Cameron Grimes. On the October 5 episode of *NXT*, he defeated Ikemen Jiro and proceeded to give him a hug afterwards. The following week, he fought Tommaso Ciampa in a match where had he won, he would've been added to the NXT Championship match between Ciampa and Bron Breakker at NXT Halloween Havoc, but he was unsuccessful. On the November 23 episode of *NXT 2.0*, he convinced Cruiserweight Champion Roderick Strong to grant him a match for the title at NXT WarGames, despite not weighing 205 pounds or below. The following week, he welcomed everybody to his All-Inclusive Invitational, an open challenge for people of all shapes, sizes and genders, but was interrupted by Roderick Strong and Diamond Mine, who attacked him. At WarGames, Gacy was unsuccessful at capturing the title.

In April 2022, Gacy began feuding with the NXT Champion Bron Breakker after he and Harland kidnapped Breakker's father, Rick Steiner. Gacy's character began to morph into a dark and sadistic cult-like leader, who demanded Steiner's Hall of Fame ring in exchange for his safe return. A title match between Gacy and Breakker was later made official for NXT Spring Breakin'. On April 29, Harland was released from his WWE contract, thus ending his and Gacy's partnership. At Spring Breakin', Gacy was ultimately unsuccessful in capturing the NXT Championship. After the match, Bron Breakker would be attacked and carried out of the arena by druids. These druids would accompany Gacy and would sometimes attack Breakker. Gacy eventually challenged Breakker for a rematch at NXT In Your House, with the stipulation that if Breakker was disqualified, he would lose the NXT Championship; Gacy would fail to capture the championship yet again.

On the July 19 episode of *NXT 2.0*, Gacy revealed the druids' identities as the Dyad, consisting of Jagger Reed and Rip Fowler, formerly known as the Grizzled Young Veterans. Collectively, Gacy and the Dyad became known as the Schism, and they began a feud with Cameron Grimes. During this rivalry, the debuting Ava Raine would join Schism and cost Grimes in his final match with Gacy on the November 8 episode of *NXT*, ending the feud. Gacy competed in the men's Iron Survivor Challenge match at NXT Deadline in December, but was unsuccessful in becoming number one contender.

The Schism would slowly begin to disband in September 2023, beginning with The Dyad leaving the company on September 14, and culminating in a backstage segment during NXT No Mercy, where Gacy declared the Schism to be "dead".
Leia Meow

Meow made her debut in Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) on January 27, 1996 as Raven's new valet under the name **Kimona Wanalaya** and she managed Raven to win the ECW World Heavyweight Championship on the same night. According to the storyline, Raven used her to replace Beulah McGillicutty, his former girlfriend and valet, who had announced that she was pregnant with Tommy Dreamer's child on January 7 at ECW's House Party event. On April 20, 1996 at Hostile City Showdown, Shane Douglas, with Kimona by his side, called out Dreamer to inform him that Beulah had been cheating on him. While Dreamer was wondering who the person could be, in which Douglas replied “it's not a he”, Kimona snatched the microphone from Douglas's hand and shouted "It's me!" Moments later, Beulah made her way to the ring and she and Kimona shared a racy kiss and fell to the mat together before Dreamer decided to date both women. A career highlight came when she danced atop the ECW Arena.

She was signed by World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in 1999, and she eventually debuted alongside The Varsity Club (Kevin Sullivan, Mike Rotunda and Rick Steiner) as the cheerleader, **Leia Meow**.

This angle soon ended and she became the manager for The Jung Dragons (Jamie-San, Yun Yang, and Kaz Hayashi), thus turning heel. She would interfere in matches with a flying bodypress off of the top rope onto their opponents. She attacked Pamela Paulshock after Paulshock had won the "Miss WCW" contest that Meow participated in on September 25, 2000. She was then attacked by Midajah and had a brief rivalry with her leading to a fight on the following *Thunder* during Mike Awesome's *Lava Lamp Lounge* segment. She also had a short feud with Tygress and threatened to cut her hair off. By the time WCW was sold to Vince McMahon, she had been fired from WCW along with the majority of the other on-air female talent due to roster cuts.
Kenny Jay

In 1962, Jay joined the American Wrestling Association (AWA). Whenever a new name would come in, they would face Jay. He used his mat-based scientific wrestling style with the likes of Mad Dog Vachon, The Crusher, Verne Gagne, Jesse "The Body" Ventura, Jerry Blackwell, Bobby Heenan, Mr. Saito, and Bruiser Brody. In 1984, Jay, nicknamed "The Sodbuster", also appeared as a tag team partner with legendary wrestler Baron Von Raschke. He retired the following year, but stayed in the AWA until 1991.
Kelly Kiniski

In early 1984, Kelly Kiniski signed for World Class Championship Wrestling. He defeated Iceman King Parsons on February 20, 1984 to win the WCCW Television Championship. On May 7, 1984, Kiniski, who had previously been injured, gave the title to Killer Khan to defend in a match against Johnny Mantell. At WCCW's *Christmas Star Wars* event on December 25, 1984, he defeated Buck Zumhofe. He wrestled for WCCW, as well as later competing in the American Wrestling Association, until 1987.
Leilani Kai

On July 23, 1984, Wendi Richter defeated The Fabulous Moolah at the World Wrestling Federation's *The Brawl to End it All* for the WWF Women's Championship, ending what was billed as the longest championship reign in professional wrestling history. As a result, in early 1985, Kai—who had been trained by Moolah—wrestled Richter and defeated her for the title at *The War to Settle the Score*, with Moolah in her corner and singer Cyndi Lauper in Richter's corner. Richter, however, regained the title at the first-ever WrestleMania one month later.

Kai was then paired with Judy Martin, and the duo won the WWF Women's Tag Team Championship from the champions Velvet McIntyre and Desiree Petersen in Egypt in August 1985, although this match's existence has been disputed.

In November 1987, Kai and Martin became known as The Glamour Girls, and she underwent an image change that involved bleaching her dark hair platinum blonde at the suggestion of their manager Jimmy Hart. The duo appeared at the first Survivor Series in 1987 as part of then-champion Sherri Martel's team to face the Fabulous Moolah's team. Martel's team—Martel, the Glamour Girls, Dawn Marie, and Donna Christanello—lost to The Fabulous Moolah's team—Moolah, Velvet McIntyre, Rockin' Robin, and the Jumping Bomb Angels (Noriyo Tateno and Itzuki Yamazaki). Kai and Martin feuded in 1988 with Japanese imports the Jumping Bomb Angels for the Women's Tag Team Championship. The two teams staged a two out of three falls match at the first Royal Rumble event in 1988, with the Jumping Bomb Angels capturing the gold. Kai and Martin recaptured the title months later in June 1988 before the belts were once again abandoned in 1989 when the company lost interest in the women's division.

Leilani Kai appeared on the November 10, 1991 episode of *WCW Main Event*, losing to Madusa.

Kai returned to the WWF on March 20, 1994 at WrestleMania X to unsuccessfully challenge Alundra Blayze in a Women's Championship match.

On October 20, 1996, she wrestled Madusa in a losing effort during *WCW WorldWide*. In the late 1990's, Kai returned to World Championship Wrestling under the name **Patty Stonegrinder**, usually wrestling against Madusa.
Kaientai

In early 1997, Taka Michinoku, Dick Togo and Terry Boy had a short stint in Extreme Championship Wrestling as BWO Japan (also known as "BWO International") and feuded with the fellow Japanese team of The Great Sasuke, Gran Hamada and Gran Naniwa. The rivalry culminated at ECW's first ever pay-per-view event Barely Legal 1997, where the team of Sasuke, Hamada and Masato Yakushiji (filling in for an injured Gran Naniwa) came out victorious. Following the match, Kaientai would permanently adopt the bWo colors of blue and white as their own.

Kaientaimade their first appearance in the WWF the night after WrestleMania XIV on the March 30, 1998 episode of *Raw is War*. They attacked Taka Michinoku — who signed with the WWF much earlier — because they felt he had become Americanized since joining the WWE until he later rejoined them. Kaientai was originally referred to by the announcers as Club Kamikaze, but their new manager Yamaguchi-San announced their actual name upon his arrival shortly afterwards.

Their most infamous WWF feud was with Val Venis, who had a porn star gimmick at the time. Yamaguchi was enraged when he was shown a pornographic video of his wife, sleeping with Venis, and threatened to punish both of them. Mrs. Yamaguchi-San was brought to the ring for what was going to be a spanking by Yamaguchi-San using a wooden paddle, but she was rescued by Venis. A week later, just as Venis had finished a match, Yamaguchi and Kaientai showed up with a salami on a table. Yamaguchi proceeded to chop the salami while shouting at Venis, "I choppy choppy your pee pee!". The following week, Venis teamed up with Taka Michinoku to take on Togo and Funaki in a tag team match. Taka made a swerve, however, by turning against Venis, proclaiming that Mrs. Yamaguchi-San was his sister. Venis was dragged backstage by Kaientai to have his member amputated, though the audience did not see what happened next. Venis returned after a week, explained that Yamaguchi's sword narrowly missed his genitalia, due to the lights being turned off by John Wayne Bobbitt, broke off his relationship with Mrs. Yamaguchi-San and thus ended the feud.

After Togo, Teioh and both Yamaguchis left the WWF, Michinoku and Funaki began wrestling as a tag team using the name Kaientai. They were primarily jobbers, best known for their "Evil! Indeed!" skits in which English voices were dubbed into their promos while they badly lip-synced, with Taka ending his "comments" with "Evil!" and Funaki "saying" only "Indeed!". Funaki and Taka's last ever tag team partnership as Kaientai in the WWF was a win over Raven and Justin Credible on the October 20, 2001 edition of *WWF Jakked*.
Lio Rush

On July 9, 2017, it was reported that Rush had been offered an *NXT* contract and that his signing was imminent. WWE confirmed the signing in August. Rush made his first televised appearance on the October 4 episode of *NXT*, where he was attacked by Velveteen Dream. On the October 11 episode of *NXT*, Rush was defeated by Dream in a match.] He would make one additional appearance on NXT television, losing a squash match to Lars Sullivan. He was then off television until April 2018.

In June 2018, Rush was moved to WWE's main roster as part of the cruiserweight division, appearing on *205 Live*. Upon his debut, he went on a winning streak, defeating Noam Dar, Akira Tozawa and three jobbers. He suffered his first loss in a 5-way number one contendership match for the WWE Cruiserweight Championship, that was won by Tony Nese. He suffered his first pinfall loss to Cedric Alexander a few weeks later.

On the September 17 episode of *Raw*, Rush became the hype man and manager of Bobby Lashley and was responsible for turning Lashley heel when he encouraged him to attack Kevin Owens multiple times after their match on October 8. Rush then would later help Bobby Lashley capture his first Intercontinental Championship in a triple threat match against Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose, when Rush distraced Rollins, allowing Lashley to spear Ambrose and pin him for the title.

Following the Royal Rumble, Rush and Lashley began feuding with Finn Bálor. His last match on 205 Live would be a number one contendership fatal four way on February 5, 2019, that was won by Akira Tozowa. Lashley's feud with Balor lead to a 2-on-1 handicap match at Elimination Chamber for Lashley's title, where Rush was ultimately pinned by Bálor, resulting in Lashley losing the Intercontinental Championship. After the match Lashley attacked Rush, leaving him laying in the ring. The next day, Rush and Lashley were defeated by Finn Balor and the debuting Ricochet. The next week, Rush unsuccessfully challenged Balor for the Intercontinental Championship. However, on the March 11 episode of Raw, Rush helped Lashley to regain the Intercontinental Championship from Balor. The following week, Braun Strowman and Balor defeated Lashley and Rush in a tag team match. Near the end of the match, Lashley fled the ring, leaving Rush to get pinned by Strowman. Following that, he did not wrestle for the company and stopped appearing alongside Lashley after WrestleMania 35 in April.

On September 18th edition of *NXT*, he made his televised return, defeating Oney Lorcan to earn #1 contendership for Drew Gulak's Cruiserweight title, in which he successfully captured the title (which was now renamed to NXT Cruiserweight Championship) for the first time in his WWE career on the October 9 episode on NXT. At Survivor Series, Rush successfully defended the title in an inter-brand triple threat match against *Raw*’s Akira Tozawa and *SmackDown*’s Kalisto. On the December 11 episode of *NXT*, he lost his title to Angel Garza, ending his reign at 63 days. On April 15, 2020, Rush was released from his WWE contract.
NXT The Great American Bash 2023

**NXT The Great American Bash 2023** was the eleventh Great American Bash event produced by WWE, and twenty-fifth Great American Bash event overall. It was held exclusively for superstars from the promotion's *NXT* brand division. Unlike the previous three years, which aired as television specials of *NXT*, the 2023 event aired as a livestreaming event. It took place on July 30, 2023 in the Austin suburb of Cedar Park, Texas.

## Kickoff Show:

* Nathan Frazer, Dragon Lee, Yulisa León, and Valentina Feroz defeated The Meta-Four (Noam Dar, Oro Mensah, Lash Legend, and Jakara Jackson) in an eight-man mixed tag team match.

## Results:

* The Family (Tony D'Angelo and Channing "Stacks" Lorenzo) defeated Gallus (Wolfgang and Mark Coffey) (with Joe Coffey) to win the NXT Tag Team Championships.
* Roxanne Perez defeated Blair Davenport in a Weapons Wild match.
* Gable Steveson versus Baron Corbin ended in a double countout.
* Dominik Mysterio (with Rhea Ripley) defeated Mustafa Ali and Wes Lee in a triple threat match to retain the NXT North American Championship.
* Tiffany Stratton defeated Thea Hail (with Andre Chase and Duke Hudson) in a submission match to retain the NXT Women's Championship.

## Main Event

* Carmelo Hayes (with Trick Williams) defeated Ilja Dragunov to retain the NXT Championship.
Little Beaver

Beaver competed at WrestleMania III in Pontiac, Michigan in 1987. He teamed with Hillbilly Jim and fellow midget wrestler the Haiti Kid, defeating King Kong Bundy and his midget tag-team partners Little Tokyo and Lord Littlebrook, after Bundy was disqualified for attacking Little Beaver. During the match, Beaver suffered a back injury at the hands of Bundy after he was bodyslammed and had an elbow dropped on him by Bundy.

A few months after Wrestlemania III, during a match that aired on *WWF Prime Time Wrestling*, Beaver was in Hillbilly Jim's corner for a match against the One Man Gang. In a comical match eventually won by Hillbilly via countout, Beaver got involved on several occasions, including antagonizing Gang's manager, Slick, throughout the match and hitting the back of Gang's head with a broom after the match was finished. Gang finally caught Little Beaver in the ring and after delivering a blow that sent him sprawling, he followed Slick's orders to hit Beaver with his *747 Splash*.

On December 4, 1995, Beaver passed away.
NXT Deadline 2022

**NXT Deadline 2022** was a livestreaming event produced by WWE. It was held primarily for superstars from the promotion's *NXT* brand division. The event took place on December 10, 2022 at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida.

## Results:

* Roxanne Perez defeated Zoey Stark, Cora Jade, Kiana James, and Indi Hartwell in a women's Iron Survivor Challenge match to become the number one contender to the NXT Women's Championship.
* Isla Dawn defeated Alba Fyre.
* The New Day (Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods) defeated Pretty Deadly (Kit Wilson and Elton Prince) to win the NXT Tag Team Championships.
* Grayson Waller defeated Carmelo Hayes, JD McDonagh, Joe Gacy, and Axiom in a men's Iron Survivor Challenge match to become the number one contender to the NXT Championship.

## Main Event

* Bron Breakker defeated Apollo Crews to retain the NXT Championship.
MSG Incident

In April 1996, Kevin Nash and Scott Hall, whom competed for the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), signed contracts with World Championship Wrestling (WCW), the WWF's top competitor, with whom the company was embroiled in a bitter rivalry.

Nash and Hall's last contracted match for the WWF took place on May 19, 1996 at Madison Square Garden. At the time, Nash and Kliq member Hunter Hearst Helmsley were wrestling as heels, while Hall and Kliq member Shawn Michaels were fan favorites. At the end of the night, Michaels wrestled Nash in a steel cage match. Immediately after the match, Hall entered the ring and hugged Michaels; this was not seen as unusual, as both wrestlers were fan favorites. However, Helmsley then entered the ring and hugged Hall, followed by Nash. The four wrestlers then group hugged for several seconds before they turned to face the crowd with their arms raised together. Their actions – dubbed the "**Curtain Call**" – scandalized the WWF.
Katrina Cortez

Catalina

Cortez made her WWE television debut on the November 4, 2019 episode of *Monday Night Raw*. Wearing a luchador mask and appearing under the name **Carolina**, she teamed with Sin Cara in a mixed tag match won by Andrade and Zelina Vega. The following year in 2020, Garcia returned to television simply as **Catalina** during the April 22 episode of *Main Event*, losing to Asuka. She returned to *Main Event* on the April 29 episode, losing to Bianca Belair.

She made her *NXT* television debut in 2020 on the January 15 episode, competing in a number one contender's battle royal won by Bianca Belair. She returned on the September 23 episode of *NXT* to compete in another number one contender's battle royal won by Candice LeRae.

In January 2021, during the NXT New Year's Evil special episode, she returned, debuting both a new appearance and name as **Katrina Cortez**. During this episode, Cortez lost to Xia Li. She wrestled a modest number of matches during the months of August and September, appearing on *205 Live* and *NXT*. Cortez wrestled her final match on the October 29 episode of *205 Live*, in a loss to Sarray. She was released on November 4.