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Jim Powers
An image of Jim Powers.
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Ring name(s) James Manley
Jim Powers
Billed height 5 ft 11 in (1. 80 m)
Billed weight 235 lb (107 kg)
Born January 4, 1958 (1958-01-04) (age 50)
Resides East Rutherford, New Jersey
Billed from New York City, New York
Trained by Big John Studd
Debut 1984

James Manley (born January 4, 1958), better known by his ring name Jim Powers is an American professional wrestler. The pound or pound-mass (abbreviation lb, lbm, or sometimes in the United States #) is a unit of Mass Events 46 BC - Titus Labienus defeats Julius Caesar in the Battle of Ruspina. Year 1958 ( MCMLVIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. John William Minton ( February 19, 1948 – March 20, 1995) was an American professional wrestler and Actor, Events 46 BC - Titus Labienus defeats Julius Caesar in the Battle of Ruspina. Year 1958 ( MCMLVIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Professional wrestling, or pro wrestling, is a non-competitive professional Sport, where all matches are scripted by the promotion's booking staff He most notably wrestled for the World Wrestling Federation in the mid-to-late 1980s and early 1990s. World Wrestling Entertainment Inc ( WWE) is a publicly traded privately controlled integrated media (focusing in Television, Internet, The high point of his career was teaming with Paul Roma as The Young Stallions. Paul Roma (born Paul Centopani April 29 1960 is a Professional wrestler who is most known for his work in the World Wrestling Federation and World The Young Stallions was the team of Paul Roma & Jim Powers who competed in the World Wrestling Federation as a team from 1987 to 1989

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Career

Powers was discovered and brought into the WWF in late 1984 by Big John Studd who also had a hand in training him[1]. World Wrestling Entertainment Inc ( WWE) is a publicly traded privately controlled integrated media (focusing in Television, Internet, Year 1984 ( MCMLXXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1984 Gregorian calendar) John William Minton ( February 19, 1948 – March 20, 1995) was an American professional wrestler and Actor, In 1985, Powers ventured outside the WWF to gain more experience. Most notably, he worked for two Texas based promotions: Texas All-Star Wrestling and World Class Championship Wrestling where he appeared at a couple of the federation’s featured "Star Wars" events[2] [3]. Texas ( is a state geographically located in the South Central United States and is also known as the Lone Star State. World Class Championship Wrestling (WCCW was a popular regional Professional wrestling promotion run out of Dallas and Fort Worth Texas. After gaining more experience, Powers returned to the WWF and resumed the role he had for most of his career, being used as a jobber. In professional wrestling slang, the term job describes a losing performance in a wrestling match

Young Stallions

He arguably reached the peak of his career in the WWF when Powers, on March 11, 1987, along with fellow preliminary wrestler Paul Roma, formed a tag team called The Young Stallions [4]. Events 1425 BC - Thutmose III, Pharaoh of Egypt, dies (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th Dynasty Year 1987 ( MCMLXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar) Paul Roma (born Paul Centopani April 29 1960 is a Professional wrestler who is most known for his work in the World Wrestling Federation and World The Young Stallions was the team of Paul Roma & Jim Powers who competed in the World Wrestling Federation as a team from 1987 to 1989 The team seemingly received their name by accident when color commentator Bruno Sammartino referred to them once as "a couple of young stallions" thus naming the team. Bruno Leopoldo Francesco Sammartino (born October 6 1935 is an Italian former professional wrestler, best known for being the longest-running champion of the The statement was fitting as Powers possessed huge biceps and a chiseled torso, while Roma's physique resembled that of a Greek God. Powers and Roma were still viewed as enhancement talent when, during the August 8, 1987 episode of Superstars (taped August 4, they scored an upset disqualification victory over WWF Tag Team Champions The Hart Foundation [5]. Events 1220 - Sweden is defeated by Estonian tribes in the Battle of Lihula. WWF Superstars of Wrestling was a Professional wrestling program that debuted on September 6, 1986 and was aired until 2001. Events 70 - The Destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans. The World Tag Team Championship is a Professional wrestling world tag team championship in World Wrestling Entertainment. This article is about the Hart Foundation in professional wrestling The victory launched the team into a run as featured performers in the WWF. Along with The Killer Bees, they were the only survivors in the elimination tag team match at the first annual Survivor Series pay-per-view on November 26, 1987[1]. The Killer Bees was a tag team comprised of "Jumpin" Jim Brunzell and B Survivor Series (1987 was the first Survivor Series Pay-per-view (PPV event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF

The team was placed in featured matches on television and at house shows, but most times ended up on the losing end. A house show is a short Professional wrestling show run by a major promotion (such as WWE or TNA) that is not televised or taped Following yet another loss, this time to Demolition on the March 19, 1989 episode of Wrestling Challenge, the team began arguing after the match. Demolition is a Professional wrestling Tag team most prominent during the late 1980s / early 1990s in World Wrestling Federation (WWF made up of Year 1989 ( MCMLXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar) WWF Wrestling Challenge was a syndicated weekly World Wrestling Federation show that aired from 1986 to 1996. Soon, they were split up off camera without an official announcement. Roma and Powers went their separate ways and both floundered on the undercard afterwards; while Roma would later team up with Hercules to form the team of Power and Glory, Powers would continue to work as an “Enhancement talent". Raymond Fernandez ( May 7, 1956 - March 6, 2004) was a professional wrestler who primarily wrestled in Florida and Power & Glory was a tag-team in the World Wrestling Federation that existed from 1990 to 1991 During this time, he most notably became the first WWF wrestler to lose to Ric Flair when the "Nature Boy" made his Federation debut on the September 30, 1991 episode of Prime Time Wrestling [6]. Richard Morgan Fliehr According to WWE and PWI Flair is an eight-time National Wrestling Alliance (NWA Champion, six-time WCW Champion WWF Prime Time Wrestling (also known to fans as simply Prime Time or PTW) was a TV wrestling program that aired on the USA Network In 1994, Jim Powers left the WWF a full decade after first signing with the company.

Having failed to achieve real success in the WWF, Powers resurfaced in World Championship Wrestling in the spring of 1995 hoping to shed his “Jobber" image. Year 1995 ( MCMXCV) was a Common year starting on Sunday. Events of 1995 He was scouted and then managed for a brief time by Teddy Long as well as being scheduled to form a mid card stable with “Desperado" Joe Gomez and The Renegade but nothing ever came of it. Theodore Long (born September 15 1947 is a former American Professional wrestling referee and manager, who is currently working for Joe Gomez is an American professional wrestler who competes in Southeastern independent promotions including Florida Championship Wrestling, Maximum Pro Wrestling Richard "Rick" C Williams ( October 16, 1965 - February 23, 1999) was an American professional wrestler The “highlight" of his WCW run so to speak was when he was attacked and spray painted during a mid-1996 match by the emerging New World Order. Spray painting is a Painting technique where a device sprays a coating (paint ink varnish etc The New World Order (commonly known as the nWo, the official typeset in the Logo) was a Professional wrestling stable that originally wrestled The reason for the attack was simply that the NWO wanted to address the crowd; it didn't really have anything to do with Jim Powers as he was just an expendable body. Just like in the WWF, WCW saw nothing but “Enhancement Talent" work for Jim Powers who finally left the company in early 1999 without doing anything more significant than being one of the sixty competitors in the annual WCW World War 3 Pay Per View in 1996[7]. World War 3 was an annual Professional wrestling Pay-per-view event produced by World Championship Wrestling.

After spending several years in semi-retirement and rehabbing a neck injury that forced him out of the squared circle in the first place, Jim Powers returned to wrestling for an independent promoter on March 9, 2007. In Professional wrestling, the independent circuit or indy circuit refers to the many independent promotions which are much smaller than major televised

In wrestling

References

  1. ^ a b Brian Shields (4th Edition 2006). A Powerslam is a Professional wrestling body slam move in which the wrestler performing the slam falls face-down on top of his/her opponent Not to be confused with Drop kick, a maneuver in the Football codes Not to be confused with Drop kick, a maneuver in the Football codes Attacking maneuvers are offensive moves in Professional wrestling, used to set up an opponent for a submission hold or for a throw. Main event – WWE in the raging 80s. Pocket Books. ISBN 978-1-4165-3257-6.  
  2. ^ prowrestlinghistory. com. WCCW Holiday Star Wars Results. Retrieved on 04-03, 2007.  “Brian Adias NC Jim Powers. ”
  3. ^ prowrestlinghistory. com. WCCW Holiday Star Wars Results. Retrieved on 04-03, 2007.  “Kelly Kinsiki pinned Jim Powers. . ”
  4. ^ Graham Cawthon. WWF Show Results 1987. Retrieved on 04-03, 2007.  “Bret Hart & Jim Neidhart (w/ Jimmy Hart & Danny Davis) defeated Paul Roma & Jim Powers”
  5. ^ Graham Cawthon. WWF Show Results 1987. Retrieved on 04-07, 2007.  “Roma & Jim Powers defeated WWF Tag Team Champions Bret Hart & Jim Neidhart (w/ Jimmy Hart) via disqualification when the champions illegally double teamed the challengers”
  6. ^ Graham Cawthon. WWF Show Results 1991. Retrieved on 04-03, 2007.
  7. ^ prowrestlinghistory. com. WCW World War III (1996). Retrieved on 04-03, 2007.

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Persondata
NAME Powers, Jim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Manley, James
SHORT DESCRIPTION professional wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH East Rutherford, New Jersey
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH
Events 46 BC - Titus Labienus defeats Julius Caesar in the Battle of Ruspina. Year 1958 ( MCMLVIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
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