Wiki143:WikiProject Professional wrestling/Newsletter/Issue 061

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 January 31, we are at 10.09%, with 470 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.
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Events Calendar

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

January:
- 31 - World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) presents Royal Rumble
February:
- 14 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) presents Against All Odds
- 21 - WWE presents Elimination Chamber

Recent Professional Wrestling News

On January 17:
- WWE announced the release of Eric Escobar from his contract.
- At TNA's Genesis pay-per-view event on January 17:
  - TNA discontinued their six-sided wrestling ring and reintroduced their four-sided ring.
  - Tara won the TNA Women's Knockout Championship by defeating ODB in a two out of three falls match.
  - Matt Morgan and Hernandez defeated The British Invasion (Brutus Magnus and Doug Williams) to win the TNA World Tag Team Championship.
  - Brian Kendrick and Mr. Anderson made their return and debut, respectively, to TNA.
Ida Mae Martinez died on January 19 at the age of 78.
On January 20:
- Ring of Honor announced the creation of the ROH World Television Championship. A tournament will be held to determine the inaugural champion at the Ring of Honor Wrestling tapings on February 5 and 6.
- The all-female promotion, Wrestlicious, announced that they had signed a deal to air their television show Takedown with BiteTV in Canada and MavTV in the United States.
On January 22, it was reported that Alissa Flash had left TNA.
On January 23:
- Da Heavy Hitters (Monsta Mack and Havok) won the JAPW Tag Team Championship in a three-way tag team match.
- Davey Richards won the FIP World Heavyweight Championship by defeating Masaaki Mochizuki at the DGUSA Fearless pay-per-view taping.
On January 27:
- Rob Terry defeated Eric Young to win the TNA Global Championship at a house show in Cardiff, Wales, in TNA's first championship change at a house show. His win also made him the first Welsh champion in a major wrestling organisation, and was the first time a TNA championship had changed hands outside of the United States.
- It was reported that former Stampede Wrestling mainstay, Nick Pacchiano had died.
- On January 28, Doug Williams defeated Amazing Red to win the TNA X Division Championship.

Editing Tips

This is a section in the newsletter devoted to help familiarize project members with the Manual of Style and general editing tips.

The project's 2010 New Year's Reolutions have been announced. Please help out by achieving a goal listed.
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.
Wikipedia is not a crystal ball, so please do not add speculation about future events to articles.

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