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As of June 2010:

—Articles

• 2010 WWE Draft (review page) is a current Featured list candidate.
• Ashley Lane, Jack Swagger, Kevin Fertig, Kia Stevens, Matt Striker (review page), and Shelly Martinez are current Good article nominees.
• The following articles appeared on the main page as part of the Did You Know? section:
  • May 24: Doug Yasinsky
  • May 26: Rocky Iaukea
  • June 1: WWE Over the Limit
  • June 2: Ricky Blues
• Deletion discussions:
  • Articles for deletion:
    • Current: Ric Converse and Summerslam 2010.
    • Deleted: Jimmy Noonan, Johnny Midnight, and Miss Natural.
    • Kept: Damien Kane (2nd nomination), George South, and JT Southern.
• Requested moves
  • Current: Several requested moves are still being discussed at WT:PW#Proposed moves.

—Project

• As part of the project's New Year's Resolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 5%. As of June 6, we are at 7.67%, with 375 articles currently in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if members would expand, source and improve stub articles, and a list of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve is included on the stub article subpage.
• Based on the members list, there are currently 246 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
  • If you are currently participating actively in WP:PW, it is recommended that you add your name to the active members list.
• You can see the progress that we have made so far this year in our 2010 Resolutions at Wikipedia:WikiProject Professional wrestling/Resolutions 2010. Please feel free to help out with an aim listed.
• There is a proposal at WT:PW#Revamping television show articles to revamp the articles of wrestling television shows, such as Raw, SmackDown, Ring of Honor Wrestling, and Impact!, to make them conform with MOS:TV.

This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of vandalism and speculation: professional wrestling events from major promotions for the month of June.

• 6 - Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) presents TripleMania XVIII
• 6 - Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) presents Sin Salida
• 13 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) presents Slammiversary
• 19 - Ring of Honor (ROH) presents Death Before Dishonor VIII
• 20 - World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) presents Fatal 4-Way

• On May 23:
  • Dr. Cerebro defeated Fuerza Guerrera to win the IWRG Intercontinental Welterweight Championship.
  • Atsushi Aoki and Go Shiozaki defeated Takeshi Morishima and Taiji Ishimori at a Pro Wrestling Noah show to win the AAA World Tag Team Championship.
  • At Over the Limit:
    • Kofi Kingston defeated Drew McIntyre to win the WWE Intercontinental Championship.
    • Randy Orton suffered a separated shoulder during his match with Edge.
    • Ted DiBiase, Jr. suffered a concussion during his match with R-Truth.
• On May 24:
  • Rusher Kimura died of pneumonia, after complications of kidney failure, at the age of 68.
  • Glory won the Wrestlicious Championship on Wrestlicious Takedown.
  • Bret Hart vacated the WWE United States Championship after being named the new Raw General Manager. R-Truth went on to win the vacated championship by defeating The Miz.
• At the SmackDown tapings on May 25, The Undertaker made his SmackDown return, defeating Rey Mysterio. During the match, however, The Undertaker suffered a concussion, broken orbital bone and broken nose.
• Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) announed the creation of a new championship, the AAA Parejas Increibles Tag Team Championship, and a tournament to determine the inaugural champions will take place on June 12.
• During an interview with The Sun on May 28, Ric Flair revealed that his youngest son Reid had signed a contract with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA).
• On May 29 at All or Nothing, Mike Mondo won the OVW Heavyweight Championship by defeating Beef Wellington.
• On the May 31 episode of New England Championship Wrestling's television show, Rican Havoc (Jose Perez and Don Vega) defeated the Crown Jewels (Darling Damon and Bad Boy Jason) in a no disqualification match to win the NECW Tag Team Championship.
• On June 1:
  • The season finale of WWE NXT aired, with Wade Barrett being declared the winner.
  • The Rookies and Pros for the second season of NXT were announced.
• The Independent Wrestling Federation announced that one of their wrestlers, Fady the Arabian Bull, had signed a contract with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) on June 2.
• On June 3, Los Aviadores (Hunico and Don Equis) won the FCW Florida Tag Team Championship by defeating The Usos (Jimmy and Jules).

This section is devoted to helping project members become familiar with the Manual of Style and general editing tips.

1. A list of unreferenced wrestling-related BLPs is generated here. Please help out by sourcing these articles.
2. Be aware of words to avoid. Certain words, if chosen poorly, can subtly promote a point of view.
3. Please consider helping out with the project's 2010 Resolutions, and help achieve one of the goals listed.
4. Please remember that fair use images and media can be only be used if no free equivalent is available or could be created. Fair use images uploaded when a free equivalent exists will be deleted.
5. Avoid using dirtsheets as sources. Adhere to WP:RS when adding information with a source to articles. For a list of reliable and unreliable wrestling-related sources see WP:PW/SG#Sources.

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As of June 2010:

—Articles

• 2010 WWE Draft (review page) is a current Featured list candidate.
• Ashley Lane, Jack Swagger, Matt Striker (review page), Professional wrestling in New Zealand, Shelly Martinez, and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling are current Good article nominees.
• The following articles appeared on the main page as part of the Did You Know? section:
  • June 7: Scotty Summers
  • June 7: List of current champions in TNA Wrestling
  • June 17: Professional wrestling in New Zealand
• Deletion discussions:
  • Articles for deletion:
    • Current: Jessie McKay (2nd nomination), List of professional wrestling promotions in Mexico, List of independent wrestling promotions in the United States, and Madison Eagles (3rd nomination).
    • Deleted: IPWA Netanya Havoc, List of professional wrestling promotions in Australia, Los Chupacabra, Nick Brooks (2nd nomination), Professional wrestling promotions in New Zealand, and Ric Converse.
    • Redirected: Summerslam 2010
• Templates for discussion:
  • Current: Template:World Wrestling Entertainment Divas
• Requested moves
  • Moved: John Hennigan to John Morrison (wrestler), Darren Matthews to William Regal, and The Bash (2009) to WWE The Bash.
  • Not moved: Rey Mysterio, Jr. to Rey Mysterio and Rey Misterio, Sr. to Rey Misterio.

—Project

• As part of the project's New Year's Resolutions, there is an ongoing effort to decrease the number of stubs to 5%. As of June 20, we are at 7.52%, with 369 articles currently in Category:Stub-Class Professional wrestling articles. It still would be greatly appreciated if members would expand, source and improve stub articles, and a list of well-known wrestlers and tag teams that should be fairly easy to improve is included on the stub article subpage.
• Based on the members list, there are currently 247 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
  • If you are currently participating actively in WP:PW, it is suggested that you add your name to the active members list.
• You can see the progress that we have made so far this year in our 2010 Resolutions at Wikipedia:WikiProject Professional wrestling/Resolutions 2010. Please feel free to help out with an aim listed.

This section is intended to warn users about potential targets of vandalism and speculation: professional wrestling events from major promotions for the month of June and July.

• June:
  • 20 - World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) presents Fatal 4-Way

• July:
  • 11 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) presents Victory Road
  • 18 - World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) presents Money in the Bank

• On June 6:
  • CIMA won the IWRG Intercontinental Welterweight Championship by defeating Dr. Cerebro.
  • At Asistencia Asesoría y Administración's TripleMania XVIII pay-per-view:
    • Octagóncito defeated reigning champion Mini Abismo Negro, and Mini Charly Manson, Mascarita Divina, Mini Histeria, Mascarita Sagrada, La Parkita, Mini Chessman, and Mini Psicosis to win the AAA World Mini-Estrella Championship in a Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match.
    • Silver King and Último Gladiador won the AAA World Tag Team Championship by defeating reigning champions Atsushi Aoki and Go Shiozaki in a four-way elimination match, alos involving Nicho el Millionario and Joe Lider and Beer Money, Inc. (Robert Roode and James Storm).
    • Jack Evans won the AAA Cruiserweight Championship by winning a four-way elimination match against Christopher Daniels, NOSAWA, and defending champion Extreme Tiger.
    • Dr. Wagner, Jr. defeated Electroshock to win the AAA World Heavyweight Championship.
• Maury High, better known as the second Rocket Monroe, died on June 7.
• On June 11, WWE announced that Bryan Danielson (Daniel Bryan) had been released from his contract.
• On June 12, Grizzly Smith died at the age of 77.
• On June 13:
  • Roxxi was released from TNA, losing to Madison Rayne in her final match at the Slammiversary pay-per-view.
  • Prince Devitt won the 2010 Best of the Super Juniors tournament, by defeating Kota Ibushi in the final.
• On June 14;
  • ODB announced that she had left Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA).
  • Scott Hall and Kevin Nash were stripped of the TNA World Tag Team Championship at the Impact! tapings, due to Hall leaving TNA.
  • The Miz won the WWE United States Championship for the second time by winning a fatal four-way match on Raw.
  • Zack Ryder suffered a concussion during the fatal four-way match for the WWE United States Championship.
  • Princesa Sujei defeated Lady Apache to win the PWR Women's Championship at a Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre show.
• On June 18, Trent Acid (real name Michael Verdi) was found dead. The cause of death is currently unknown.
• On June 19:
  • Bad Intentions (Giant Bernard and Karl Anderson) won the IWGP Tag Team Championship by defeating the defending champions, Yuji Nagata and Wataru Inoue, and Yujiro Takahashi and Tetsuya Naitō in a three-way elimination match.
  • Prince Devitt won the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship for the first time by defeating Naomichi Marufuji.

This section is devoted to helping project members become familiar with the Manual of Style and general editing tips.

1. Trivia sections are discouraged in wikipedia articles. Information from such sections, if notable, should be merged into the main body of the article.
2. The lead section of an article should introduce the subject and summarize the entire article.
3. Please consider helping out with the project's cleanup listing by fixing problems listed and removing the article from the listing.
4. Please familiarize yourself with the general notability policy of Wikipedia. Avoid creating new articles that do not satisfy the requirements.
5. Avoid adding statements that will date quickly, for example "soon" and "now".

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