• 1925-1992 (as Don Owen Sports)
• 1992-1997 (as Championship Wrestling USA)

A

• Brian Adams / Demolition Crush
  Brian Adams (wrestler)
  Brian Keith Adams was an American professional wrestler. Adams gained fame in the 1990s while performing for the World Wrestling Federation , under the name Crush, and for World Championship Wrestling under his given name.Trained in Japan by Antonio Inoki, Adams was a two time WCW World Tag Team...
  
  
• Chris Adams
• Adrian Adonis (Keith Franke)
  Adrian Adonis
  Keith A. Franke was an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, "Adorable" Adrian Adonis.-Career:Franke trained under Fred Atkins and debuted in 1974, wrestling under his own name...
  
  
• André the Giant (André Roussimoff)
  André the Giant
  André René Roussimoff , best known as André the Giant, was a French professional wrestler and actor. His best remembered acting role was that of Fezzik, the giant in the film The Princess Bride...
  
  
• Bryan Alvarez
  Bryan Alvarez
  Bryan Alki Alvarez is a semi-retired American professional wrestler and the editor and publisher of Figure Four Weekly, a newsletter that has covered professional wrestling since 1995. Alvarez credits a portion of his pro wrestling training to pro wrestler Buddy Wayne, and is credited in training...
  
  
• The Assassin / Top Gun / Cuban Assassin (David Sierra)
  David Sierra
  Fidel Sierra David Cannell is a professional wrestler, better known as David Sierra, who is best known as a longtime veteran of the Puerto Rico-based World Wrestling Council as well as for his appearances in World Championship Wrestling and Pacific Northwest Wrestling during the 1980s and 90s...
  
  

B

• Art Barr (aka Beetlejuice)
  Art Barr
  Arthur Leon "Art" Barr was an American professional wrestler. While he wrestled briefly for World Championship Wrestling, he found his greatest success in Mexico's Asistencia Asesoría y Administración promotion....
  
  
• Jesse Barr
• Sandy Barr
  Sandy Barr
  Ferrin Charles Barr was an American professional wrestler, referee, promoter and trainer who spent his career mostly in the Western United States and Canada...
  
  
• C.W. Bergstrom
  C.W. Bergstrom
  C.W. Bergstrom is a semi-retired American professional wrestler who was active in North American regional promotions during the early 1990s including a memorable stint in the United States Wrestling Association as Principal Bergstrom...
  
  
• Brady Boone (Dean Peters)
• Tony Borne (Tony Osborne)
  Tony Osborne
  Anthony "Tony" Osborne was an American professional wrestler who wrestled under the name "Tough" Tony Borne.-Professional wrestling career:...
  
  
• Matt Borne (Matt Osborne)
  Matt Osborne
  Matthew "Matt" Wade Osborne is an American semi-retired professional wrestler. Osborne is a second generation wrestler, being son of "Tough" Tony Borne, but he is best known as the first wrestler to portray the character of Doink the Clown, which he still uses to this day.-Independent...
  
  
• Johnathan Boyd (Barry Boyle)
  Jonathan Boyd
  Jonathan Barry Boyle was an Australian professional wrestler who is known worldwide under the name "Lord" Jonathan Boyd. Initially Boyd competed both in North American and international promotions as part of the Royal Kangaroos with his cousin Norman Frederick Charles III...
  
  
• Bruiser Brody (Frank Goodish)
  Frank Goodish
  Frank Donald Goodish was an American professional wrestler who earned his greatest fame under the name Bruiser Brody. Goodish was an All-State football and basketball player at Warren High School, Michigan, and played football at West Texas A&M University...
  
  
• Killer Brooks (Tim Brooks)
  Killer Tim Brooks
  Timothy Paul Brooks is a retired American professional wrestler, better-known by his ring name "Killer Tim Brooks". He competed in North American regional promotions including the National Wrestling Alliance, Pacific Northwest Wrestling and World Class Championship Wrestling during the 1970s and...
  
  

D

• Colonel DeBeers / Mega Maharishi (Edward Wiskowski)
• The Destroyer (Dick Beyer)
  Dick Beyer
  Dick Beyer is a retired professional wrestler who is best known by his ring names, The Destroyer or Doctor X.-Early life:...
  
  
• Steve Doll
  Steve Doll
  Steve Doll was an American professional wrestler, best known for his tenure in the World Wrestling Federation as Steven Dunn in the tag team Well Dunn.-Professional wrestling career:...
  
  
• The Dynamite Kid (Thomas Billington)
  Dynamite Kid
  Thomas Wilton Billington , best known by the ring name Dynamite Kid, is a retired British professional wrestler who competed in the World Wrestling Federation, Stampede Wrestling, All Japan Pro Wrestling and New Japan Pro Wrestling in the mid- to late-1980s...
  
  

G

• Terry Gibbs
• Mike Golden
• "Superstar" Billy Graham
• The Grappler (Len Denton)
  Len Denton
  Len Denton is a semi-retired professional wrestler, best known by his ring name The Grappler.While wrestling as The Grappler in Pacific Northwest Wrestling , his gimmick was a loaded boot, and later a loaded mask, which he had started wearing earlier in his career after losing a hair match and...
  
  
• Chavo Guerrero (Salvádor Guerrero Llanes)
  Chavo Guerrero
  Salvador Guerrero III , better known as Chavo Guerrero or Chavo Guerrero, Sr., is a former professional wrestler. He is known for his work in Universal Wrestling Federation , American Wrestling Association and World Wrestling Entertainment and for being the father of third generation wrestler...
  
  
• Gory Guerrero (Salvádor Guerrero Quésada)
  Gory Guerrero
  Salvador Guerrero Quesada , better known as Gory Guerrero, was one of the premier Hispanic professional wrestlers in the early days of Lucha Libre when most wrestlers were imported from outside of Mexico. He wrestled primarily in Empresa Mexicana de la Lucha Libre between the 1940s and 1960s...
  
  
• Mando Guerrero
  Mando Guerrero
  Armando Guerrero Llanes , better known as Mando Guerrero, is a retired professional wrestler. He also was the trainer for the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, an all female professional wrestling promotion.-Movie stuntman career:...
  
  

H

• Billy Jack Haynes (William Haynes, Jr.)
  Billy Jack Haynes
  William Albert Haynes, III is a retired American professional wrestler better known as Billy Jack Haynes.-Early career :...
  
  
• Curt Hennig
  Curt Hennig
  Curtis Michael "Curt" Hennig , also known by the ring name Mr. Perfect, was an American professional wrestler, manager and color commentator who worked for, among other promotions, Total Nonstop Action Wrestling , the American Wrestling Association , World Championship Wrestling and the World...
  
  
• Larry Hennig
  Larry Hennig
  Larry "The Axe" Hennig is an American retired professional wrestler. He is the father of the late "Mr. Perfect" Curt Hennig, the grandfather of Joe Hennig, and is best known for his work in the American Wrestling Association, National Wrestling Alliance and World Wide Wrestling Federation...
  
  
• Dizzy Hogan (Edward Leslie)
  Edward Leslie
  Edward Harrison "Ed" Leslie is an American professional wrestler, best known for his work in the World Wrestling Federation under the ring name Brutus The Barber Beefcake. He later worked for World Championship Wrestling under a variety of names, mainly as "The Disciple" of real-life best friend...
  
  

J

• Don Leo Jonathan (Don Heaton)
  Don Leo Jonathan
  Don Heaton , also known as Don Leo Jonathan, is an American former professional wrestler.-Professional wrestling career:...
  
  
• Rocky Johnson (Wayde Bowles)
  Rocky Johnson
  Rocky Johnson is a retired Canadian professional wrestler. Quite popular in his own right in the 1970s and 1980s, he is also known for being the father of actor and professional wrestler Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson...
  
  
• Tom Jones

L

• Tiger Chung Lee (Masanori Toguchi)
• Scott Levy
  Scott Levy
  Scott Anthony Levy , better known by his ring name Raven, is an American professional wrestler, wrestling producer, wrestling writer, and occasional author and actor currently working for Juggalo Championship Wrestling , where he is co-holder of the JCW Tag Team Championship, as well as other...
  
    Raven
• Dick Beyer Jr.Rick Lee aka DR. X2

M

• Taylor Made (Terri Poch)
  Terri Poch
  Terri Poch is an American bodybuilder and former professional wrestler, best known for her appearances with the World Wrestling Federation as Tori...
  
  
• Al Madril
• Magnum T.A. (Terry Allen)
  Magnum T.A.
  Terry Wayne Allen is a retired American professional wrestler, best known under the ring name Magnum T.A..-Early years:...
  
  
• Rick Martel (Richard Vigneault)
  Rick Martel
  Richard Vigneault is a retired Canadian professional wrestler, best known for his appearances with the World Wrestling Federation between 1980 and 1995 under the ring name Rick Martel...
  
  
• Mil Máscaras
  Mil Máscaras
  Aaron Rodríguez , best known as Mil Máscaras , is a semi-retired Mexican professional wrestler and actor, who has starred in several films with fellow luchadores...
  
  
• Moondog Mayne
  Lonnie Mayne
  Ronald Doyle "Lonnie" Mayne was an American professional wrestler in the 1960s and 1970s who frequently went by the name Moondog Mayne. Mayne wrestled in various NWA territories as well as the WWWF...
  
  
• Bugsy McGraw (Michael Davis)
  Bugsy McGraw
  Bugsy McGraw is the ring name of former professional wrestler Michael Davis. He also wrestled under the name "The Skull." He is not to be confused with the other wrestler named Mike Davis.-Total Nonstop Action Wrestling :...
  
  
• Velvet McIntyre
  Velvet Mykietowich
  Velvet McIntyre is a retired Irish-Canadian professional wrestler. After beginning her career in 1980, she wrestled in North American independent promotions, before joining the World Wrestling Federation . She had rivalries with both The Fabulous Moolah and Sherri Martel and held the WWF Women's...
  
  
• Tex McKenzie (Hugh McKenzie)
• Butch Miller (Robert Miller)
  Butch Miller (wrestler)
  Butch Miller is a retired professional wrestler best known as one half of the tag team known as "The Sheepherders" on the independent scene and in the National Wrestling Alliance and as one half of The Bushwhackers in the WWF.-Career:Butch Miller started wrestling for NWA New Zealand in 1964 where...
  
  
• "Mean" Mike Miller
• Gorilla Monsoon
  Gorilla Monsoon
  Robert James "Gino" Marella , better known by his ring name of Gorilla Monsoon, was an American professional wrestler, play-by-play announcer, and booker...
  
  
• Pedro Morales
  Pedro Morales
  Pedro Morales is a retired Puerto Rican professional wrestler. He began his wrestling career as a teenager in 1959 and continued through to the late 1980s...
  
  
• Ed Moretti (Edward Giovannetti)

N

• Kendo Nagasaki
  Kazuo Sakurada
  , better known as Mr. Sakurada and as the Japanese version of , is a retired Japanese professional wrestler. He is best known, under various monikers, for his work in Stampede Wrestling, National Wrestling Alliance, and World Championship Wrestling. Sakurada is also highly regarded by Bret Hart as...
  
  
• Nord The Barbarian (John Nord)
  John Nord
  John Nord is a retired American professional wrestler. He lives in Bozeman, Montana.-Career:John Nord started wrestling in late 1984 as "The Barbarian" for Mid-South Wrestling under manager Skandor Akbar...
  
  
• Scott Norton
  Scott Norton
  Scott Michael Norton is an American semi-retired professional wrestler. He is best known for his tenures in World Championship Wrestling and New Japan Pro Wrestling.-Before wrestling:...
  
  

P

• Iceman Parsons (King Parsons)
  King Parsons
  King Parsons is a former professional wrestler better know by his ringname Iceman King Parsons. King was called the Iceman from Jimmy Valiant after he saw him lying on a ice machine at a hotel.-Professional wrestling career:...
  
  
• Pat Patterson
• Scott Peterson
• Roddy Piper (Roderick Toombs)
  Roddy Piper
  Roderick George Toombs , better known by his ring name "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, is a Canadian semi-retired professional wrestler and film actor who is currently signed to WWE. In professional wrestling, he is best known for his work with WWE...
  
  
• The Polynesian Kid (wrestler) (Fia Naea)
• Mike Popovich
• Tom Prichard
  Tom Prichard
  Thomas Prichard is an American professional wrestler currently signed to WWE, working in their developmental territory, Florida Championship Wrestling as a trainer using his ring name Tom Prichard...
  
  

R

• Harley Race
  Harley Race
  Harley Leland Race is a retired American professional wrestler and current promoter and trainer. During his career as a wrestler, he held the NWA World Heavyweight Championship 7 times...
  
  
• Bull Ramos
• Steve Regal
  Steve Regal
  Steve Regal is a former professional wrestler, better known as "Mr. Electricity" Steve Regal, who competed in North American regional promotions including the National Wrestling Alliance and the American Wrestling Association during the early 1970s and 1980s.-Professional wrestling career:Born in Ft...
  
  
• Rip Rogers (Mark Sciarra)
  Rip Rogers
  Mark Sciarra whose professional name is Rip Rogers is a former professional wrestler and trainer for Ohio Valley Wrestling. He is currently a trainer for Derby City Wrestling in Louisville, Kentucky.-Career:...
  
  
• Tommy Rogers (Thomas Couch)
  Thomas Couch
  Thomas R. Couch is a professional wrestler better known as Tommy Rogers of The Fantastics.-Career:Couch started wrestling in 1980 as Tommy Rogers in North Carolina...
  
  
• Buddy Rose (Paul Perschmann)
  Buddy Rose
  Paul Perschmann was an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, "Playboy" Buddy Rose.-Career:Paul Perschmann was trained by Verne Gagne and Billy Robinson in the early 1970s...
  
  
• Irish Paddy Ryan (Earl Patrick Freeman)
• Don Running Bear

S

• Coco Samoa
• Tama Samoa
• Haru Sasaki
• Dutch Savage (Frank Stewart)
  Dutch Savage
  Frank Stewart is a former professional wrestler and wrestling promoter, best known for his time spent competing in Pacific Northwest Wrestling under the ring name Dutch Savage.-Career:...
  
  
• Joe Savoldi
  Joseph Savoldi
  Joseph Fornini, known by his ring name "Jumping" Joe Savoldi is an American professional wrestler and the son of wrestler Angelo Savoldi...
  
  
• Bart Sawyer (Steven Stewart)
  Steven Stewart
  Steven Stewart , known by his ring name Bart Sawyer, is an American professional wrestler who has competed North American independent promotions including Pacific Northwest Wrestling and the United States Wrestling Association...
  
  
• Brett Sawyer (Brett Woyan)
  Brett Woyan
  Brett Woyan was a professional wrestler and is the brother of wrestler Buzz Sawyer.-Career:Brett Sawyer started wrestling in 1981...
  
  
• Buzz Sawyer (Bruce Woyan)
  Buzz Sawyer
  Bruce Woyan was a professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Buzz Sawyer. Throughout his career, he was also known by the nickname "Mad Dog". He was characterized by his crazy antics inside the ring and out.-Career:Sawyer started wrestling in 1979 in the National Wrestling Alliance 's...
  
  
• David Schultz
  David Schultz (professional wrestler)
  David Schultz is an American retired professional wrestler. Although he is known for competing in North American regional promotions such as Stampede Wrestling, the National Wrestling Alliance and the American Wrestling Association during the late 1970s and 1980s, he is perhaps best remembered for...
  
  
• Scotty The Body (Scott Levy)
  Scott Levy
  Scott Anthony Levy , better known by his ring name Raven, is an American professional wrestler, wrestling producer, wrestling writer, and occasional author and actor currently working for Juggalo Championship Wrestling , where he is co-holder of the JCW Tag Team Championship, as well as other...
  
  
• Steve Simpson (Steve Cohen)
  Steve Cohen (wrestler)
  Stephan Simpson was a professional wrestler from South Africa better known as Steve Simpson.-Career:Steve Simpson was the son of wrestler Sammy Cohen. Sammy Cohen was the stage name for father Alec Simpson...
  
  
• Tiger Jeet Singh (Jagjit Singh)
  Tiger Jeet Singh
  Jagjit Singh Hans is a semi-retired professional wrestler, known better by his ring name Tiger Jeet Singh. He wrestled as a crazed heel, coming to the ring with a sword in his mouth . Singh wrestled in Japan for 22 years...
  
  
• Sgt. Slaughter (Robert Remus)
  Sgt. Slaughter
  Robert Remus , better known by his ring name Sgt. Slaughter, is an American former WWE personality and semi-retired professional wrestler. From the late 1970s to the early 1990s, Slaughter had success in the National Wrestling Alliance, American Wrestling Association, and World Wrestling...
  
  
• Jimmy Snuka (James Reiher)
  Jimmy Snuka
  James William "Jimmy" Reiher is a semi-retired Fijian professional wrestler and actor, better known by his ring name Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka. Originally from the Fiji Islands, Snuka wrestled for several promotions in the 1970s and 1980s. Snuka is a two-time world heavyweight champion, having been a...
  
  
• Doug Somers
  Doug Somers
  Doug Somers is an American retired professional wrestler known by his ring name "Pretty Boy" Doug Somers...
  
  
• Stan Stasiak (George Stipich)
  Stan Stasiak
  George Stipich , better known by his ring name Stan Stasiak, was a Canadian professional wrestler and fifth World Wide Wrestling Federation Champion. He is the father of professional wrestler Shawn Stasiak.-Career:...
  
  
• Jules Strongbow (Frank Hill)
  Jules strongbow
  Frank Hill is a former professional wrestler, who is best known for his tenure in World Wrestling Federation , where he used to wrestle as Chief Jules Strongbow or simply Jules Strongbow, the brother of Chief Jay Strongbow.-World Wrestling Federation :Jules made his wrestling debut in the 1970s...
  
  

V

• Greg Valentine (John Wisniski, Jr.)
  Greg Valentine
  John Wisniski, Jr. is an American professional wrestler, better known as Greg "The Hammer" Valentine. He is the son of wrestler Johnny Valentine.-Training:...
  
  
• Vinnie Valentino (Vince Billotto)
• Jesse Ventura (James Janos)
  Jesse Ventura
  James George Janos , better known as Jesse Ventura, is an American politician, the 38th Governor of Minnesota from 1999 to 2003, Navy UDT veteran, former SEAL reservist, actor, and former radio and television talk show host...
  
  

W

• Luke Williams (Brian Wickens)
  Brian Wickens
  Brian Wickens is a professional wrestler best known as Luke Williams, one half of the tag team known as "The Sheepherders" on the independent scene and in the National Wrestling Alliance and as The Bushwhackers in the WWF.-Career:Luke Williams started wrestling for NWA New Zealand in 1964...
  
  
• Bearcat Wright (Edward Wright)
  Bearcat Wright
  Edward "Bearcat" Wright was an African-American professional wrestler who became popular in the late 1950s and 1960s. He wrestled during the time of Bobo Brazil, and despite racial tension in the United States became wildly popular as both a heel and a babyface...
  
  

Tag teams

• Jesse & Art Barr
  Art Barr
  Arthur Leon "Art" Barr was an American professional wrestler. While he wrestled briefly for World Championship Wrestling, he found his greatest success in Mexico's Asistencia Asesoría y Administración promotion....
  
  
• Billy Two Eagles & Don Running Bear
• Bruise Brothers
• Buzz
  Buzz Sawyer
  Bruce Woyan was a professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Buzz Sawyer. Throughout his career, he was also known by the nickname "Mad Dog". He was characterized by his crazy antics inside the ring and out.-Career:Sawyer started wrestling in 1979 in the National Wrestling Alliance 's...
  
   & Brett Sawyer
• Larry
  Larry Hennig
  Larry "The Axe" Hennig is an American retired professional wrestler. He is the father of the late "Mr. Perfect" Curt Hennig, the grandfather of Joe Hennig, and is best known for his work in the American Wrestling Association, National Wrestling Alliance and World Wide Wrestling Federation...
  
   & Curt Hennig
  Curt Hennig
  Curtis Michael "Curt" Hennig , also known by the ring name Mr. Perfect, was an American professional wrestler, manager and color commentator who worked for, among other promotions, Total Nonstop Action Wrestling , the American Wrestling Association , World Championship Wrestling and the World...
  
  
• Latin Connection (Ricky Santana & Al Madril)
• Juice Patrol (Beatlejuice
  Art Barr
  Arthur Leon "Art" Barr was an American professional wrestler. While he wrestled briefly for World Championship Wrestling, he found his greatest success in Mexico's Asistencia Asesoría y Administración promotion....
  
   & Big Juice
  Jeff Warner
  Jeff Warner is an American professional wrestler, best known under the ringname J.W. Storm. Jeff competed in World Championship Wrestling most notably as a member of the jobber tag team Magnum Force with Tim Hunt....
  
  )
• Kiwi Sheepherders
• Matt Borne & Steve Regal
  Steve Regal
  Steve Regal is a former professional wrestler, better known as "Mr. Electricity" Steve Regal, who competed in North American regional promotions including the National Wrestling Alliance and the American Wrestling Association during the early 1970s and 1980s.-Professional wrestling career:Born in Ft...
  
  
• The Clan
  The Clan
  The Clan Softball Club is a Scottish co-ed slow pitch softball touring team. They have entered tournaments in Canada, England, France, Ireland and the United States.In 2005 the Clan won the International Softball Federation’s II Slow Pitch World Cup....
  
   (wrestling stable led by Rip Oliver
  Rip Oliver
  Lawrence Oliver is a former professional wrestler, known as "Crippler" Rip Oliver, who had great success in Pacific Northwest Wrestling. He is the son of Ray Oliver, Sr., known as Rip "the Crippler" Oliver, and the brother of Ray Oliver, Jr., who also portrayed the masked Super Ninja character from...
  
  )
• Southern Rockers (Steve Doll
  Steve Doll
  Steve Doll was an American professional wrestler, best known for his tenure in the World Wrestling Federation as Steven Dunn in the tag team Well Dunn.-Professional wrestling career:...
  
   & Rex King)
• S&S Express (Steve Simpson
  Steve Cohen (wrestler)
  Stephan Simpson was a professional wrestler from South Africa better known as Steve Simpson.-Career:Steve Simpson was the son of wrestler Sammy Cohen. Sammy Cohen was the stage name for father Alec Simpson...
  
   & Joe Savoldi
  Joseph Savoldi
  Joseph Fornini, known by his ring name "Jumping" Joe Savoldi is an American professional wrestler and the son of wrestler Angelo Savoldi...
  
  )
• U.S. Male (Ricky Santana & Curtis Thompson
  Curtis Thompson
  Curtis Thompson is an American professional wrestler best known for his time in World Championship Wrestling as Firebreaker Chip.-Professional wrestling career:Curtis Thompson started wrestling in 1987...
  
  )