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Women's Wrestling: Aksana
Real name: Zivile Raudoniene
Billed height: 5ft. 5in.
Billed weight: 128lbs.
Born: April 29, 1982
Billed from: Alytus, Lithuania
Trained by: Florida Championship Wrestling staff
Debut: October 5th, 2009
Finishing moves: Spinebuster, Jumping Roundhouse Kick (FCW), Spear (WWE)
Favorite moves: Snapmare
Notable feuds: Goldust
Zivile is a former bodybuilder, fitness model and personal trainer who signed on with the WWE. She made her debut in FCW under the ring name "Olga" which she changed a month later to "Aksana". She managed Eli Cottonwood and was involved in a kidnapping storyline with Sweet Papi Sanchez. On January 15, 2010 she defeated Serena Mancini, Naomi Night, Courtney Taylor and Liviana with AJ Lee, Savannah and Eve Torres. She wrestled in several multi-Diva tag team matches and teamed with Hunico and Tito Nieves in a mixed tag team match on April 15, 2010 to defeat The Usos and Tamina Snuka. When it was announced that the FCW was going to create a Divas Championship title, a tournament was created to determine who would be the inaugural champion. Aksana participated in this and was defeated in the first round by Serena on April 29, 2010. Aksana managed Johnny Curtis for two months and began hosting her own in-ring show, The Aksana Show. On February 3rd, 2011, Aksana became the new Queen of FCW by defeating Rosa Mendes. Aksana then joined a heel stable formed by FCW General Manager Maxine, the FCW Florida Heavyweight Champion Lucky Cannon, FCW Divas Champion AJ Lee and Damien Sandow. On April 7th, 2011, Aksana became Divas champion after defeating AJ Lee, making her the first to hold the Queen of FCW and FCW Divas Championship titles simultaneously. Aksana then proceeded to lose the Divas Championship to Audrey Marie on September 1st, 2011.
On August 31st, 2010, Aksana joined the third season of WWE's NXT with Goldust as her mentor. On the first episode (Sept. 7th, 2010), she and Goldust participated in a mixed tag team match against AJ Lee and Primo, which they lost. Aksana participated in a singles match the following week against Jamie Keyes and lost. Aksana began to develop a storyline in which she was in danger of facing deportation from the United States. On October 5th, 2010, she defeated Maxine in a singles match after winning a mechanical bull-riding competition. The following week, Goldust proposed to Aksana so she could stay in the country, which Aksana agreed to. On November 2nd, 2010, the wedding took place and just as Goldust was about to kiss his bride, Aksana turned heel by slapping him and walking off. On the following NXT, Goldust confronted Aksana about what had transpired and she said that she never loved him and only married him to stay in the country. Goldust responded to this by putting Aksana in a match against Naomi, which she (Aksana) lost. On November 16th, 2010, Aksana was eliminated from NXT. She returned on November 30th, 2010 for the season finale in which she teamed with Alicia Fox and Maxine against AJ Lee and The Bella Twins. She lost the match.
Aksana made her debut on August 5th as a face and introduced herself to General Manager Theodore Long. She made several backstage segments with him and formed a storyline relationship with him. Aksana joined the Raw roster on October 3rd on giving Triple H a vote of no confidence and walked out with them. On October 31st, Aksana competed in a Divas Halloween Costume battle royal match to become the number one contender for the WWE Divas Championship at the 2011 Survivor Series pay per view. She was eliminated by The Bella Twins. At the PPV itself, Aksana was one of the lumberjills in the WWE Divas Championship match between Beth Phoenix and Eve Torres. On January 27th, 2012, Aksana defeated Natalya Neidhart in a singles match and was subsequently attacked by Natalya (Tamina Snuka saved her). Aksana participated in a tag team match the following week with Tamina Snuka, going up against The Divas of Doom (Natalya and Beth). On February 16th, Aksana defeated Maxine in a pinfall. The week after that, she teamed with Kelly Kelly in a tag team match against The Bella Twins and lost. On March 19th on Raw, Aksana showed up at ringside to support R-Truth and Kofi Kingston in their match against Dolph Ziggler and Jack Swagger. She would have a confrontation with Vickie Guerrero and the two would brawl inside the ring, having to be separated by Truth, Kingston, Ziggler and Swagger. In April, Aksana started managing Antonio Cesaro and forming a storyline relationship with him, kissing him passionately in front of Theodore Long, effectively ending their relationship and turning her heel.
Here is a video of Aksana wrestling against Rosa Mendes for the Queen of FCW title:
Friday, May 11, 2012
Women's Wrestling: Akira Hokuto
Real name: Hisako Uno Sasaki
Billed height: 5ft. 6in.
Billed weight: 130lbs.
Born: July 13, 1967
Billed from: Kitakatsushika (present Yoshikawa City), Japan
Trained by: All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling
Debut: May 28, 1985
Finishing Move: Dangerous Queen Bomb
Favorite Moves: Spin Kick, Missile Kick, Strangle Hold Gamma
Notable Feuds: Shinobu Kandori, Madusa
Akira got into professional wrestling following the popularity of the tag team the Crush Gals and was the one responsible for the creation of the Bull Nakano fanclub. She entered the All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (AJW) dojo after dropping out of high school. She won the AJW Rookie of the Year shortly after her debut and won the AJW Junior Championship the following year. That same year, she participated in the AJW's Match of the Year and then teamed up with Yukari Omari losing against Chigusa Nagayo and Yumiko Hotta in the final of the annual Tag League Tournament. In 1987, Akira won both the AJW's tag team title and the World Women's Wrestling Association (WWWA) Tag Team Championship with Yumiko Hotta only to lose the titles twelve days later to the Red Typhoons in a 2 out of 3 falls match. Akira took a tombstone piledriver off the top rope during the finish of the second fall which caused her to break her neck. She kept wrestling during the whole third fall, holding her head in place with her hands, causing her to gain a reputation for being tough. She then took a year off for recovery and came back with bleach blonde hair and had given herself the moniker "Akira Hokuto" after the wrestler Akira Maeda. She teamed with Suzuka Minami to win the WWWA Tag Team belts twice more.
Akira suffered a severe knee injury in 1990 when she was booked to win the Japan Grand Prix, a tournament that determined who would be the top contender for the WWWA World Heavyweight Championship. The injury occurred during a Grand Prix match against Manami Toyota in which she (Akira) did a plancha and crashed her knee into the ringside metal barrier. Her knee was torn open and she couldn't walk. She tied a bandage around her leg (while crying) and pulled herself into the ring to try and finish the match. She couldn't do it and had to be removed from the tournament. Hokuto went back into singles tournaments in the early 90s, winning the All Pacific Championship in 1991 and 1992, sustaining many more injuries during the process. She earned the nickname "the Mummy" because she often came to the ring wrapped in bandages. In 1993, she feuded with Shinobu Kandori of the LLPW promotion during the inter-promotional period*. The two had a match at Dreamslam I in April 1993 in which Kandori lost. Dave Meltzer rated the match a five and is considered to be the greatest women's match in history. Akira was defeated nine days later by Kandori at Dreamslam II in a tag team match and also in a singles match in December 1993. That same year, she won the Japan Grand Prix and was given another shot at the WWWA Championship against Aja Kong on October 9th. Akira was injured again in August of that year and, thus, requested that the match be changed to a non-title match since she felt that competing in her condition would ruin the prestige of the belt. 1993 is considered to be the best year of Akira's career.
Akira then married Mexican wrestler Antonio Gomez Medina in 1993 and moved to Mexico to live with him. There, she continued her career by adopting the moniker "Reina Jabuki". On July 30, 1994, she won the Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) World Women's Championship by defeating La Diabolica and carried the title for over two years. That same year, she divorced Antonio and returned to Japan, where she defeated Aja Kong in the final of the V*Top Woman Tournament at the Big Egg Wrestling Universe event. Akira had one of her last great matches for AJW on September 5th, 1995, losing against Manami Toyota in an exciting 21-minute match. Akira made her U.S. debut at the World Championship Wrestling (WCW) pay per view event WCW World War 3 on November 26, 1995. She teamed with Bull Nakano to defeat wrestlers Cutie Suzuki and Mayumi Ozaki. The same teams competed in a match the following night on Monday Night Nitro, with Akira and Bull winning again. Her and several other GAEA wrestlers came to the United States to compete in a tournament to crown the first WCW Women's Champion. Using both the "Akira Hokuto" and "Reina Jabuki" gimmicks, Akira managed to participate in the first round of the tournament twice. Akira lost to Madusa Miceli in the first round as Reina, which caused her to be stripped of her CMLL title. As Akira Hokuto, she won the tournament and defeated Madusa in the finals. This occurred at WCW's Starrcade on December 29, 1996. Akira once again defeated Madusa at WCW's Great American Bash on June 15, 1997, causing Madusa to retire. This was Akira's last WCW appearance and the only person to hold the WCW Women's Championship as the title was eventually dropped.
In 1996, Akira left AJW and joined GAEA Japan, a new promotion started by Chigusa Nagayo. During this time, Akira had gotten married (to Kensuke Sasaki) and was starting her family. For most female wrestlers, this would be the time to retire but not for Akira! She came back to the ring in 1999 and in 2000, she won the GAEA's AAAW Tag Team Championship with Mayumi Ozaki. That same year, she was inducted into the Wrestling Observer Newsletter's Hall of Fame in recognition of her skills and contributions as a wrestler. She retired on April 7th, 2002 by teaming up with Meiko Satomura in a tag team match against Ayako Hamada and Chigusa Nagayo. Just as she's done several times before, Akira wrestled with an injury (broken rig) and managed to pin Hamada with a Northern Lights Bomb. During the post-match retirement ceremony, several of Akira's colleagues entered the ring to hug her, give her flowers and bow down to her. She even slapped a few of them as a way to transfer part of her fighting spirit. A ten-gong salute followed and then Akira was showered with streamers before she officially left the building. After retirement, Akira has stayed busy raising her family, helping her husband with his business and has made several media and wrestling-related appearances, including several squash matches and becoming the first female wrestler to appear in a All Japan Pro Wrestling match.
Here's a video of the epic match between Akira Hokuto and Shinobu Kandori at Dreamslam I:
Sudanese Woman Gets Sexual Solicitation from Orthodox Jewish Man
“This one is very serious, guys:
I came upon these two on the sidewalk. They were having a conversation. “Excuse me,” I said, addressing the girl: “I’m sorry to interrupt, but is there anyway I can take your photo?”
“Why would you want my photo?” she asked.
“Because you look beautiful,” I said. And she did. She was Sudanese. There is a very distinct beauty among people from the Sudan, and she was filled up with it. Suddenly the man cut in:
“I was just telling her she was beautiful,” he said.
Naively, I assumed I had just walked up on one stranger giving a compliment to another. I wanted to capture the moment. “Let me take your photograph together,” I said. The man seemed reluctant, he started smiling nervously and inching away. But the girl called him back.
“Come take a picture with me,” she said. Encouraged by her attention, he returned. She put her arm around him, and I took the photo.
As I examined the photos on my camera, the man started whispering to the girl. She answered him in a loud voice: “I told you! I’m not that kind of girl.” She seemed agitated now. Finally sensing that I had misread the situation, I stepped between them. The man began hurrying down the sidewalk.
When the man left, the girl’s demeanor changed completely. She seemed shaken. Her eyes were tearing up. “He just offered me five hundred dollars to go out with him,” she said. “And then when I said ‘no,’ he offered me one thousand. Why does this always happen to me?”
“It happens a lot?” I asked.
“All the time,” she said. “I’m sorry I’m getting emotional. I just can’t go out of my house without this kind of thing happening. I have a son. I’m a mother. I would never degrade myself like that. I just don’t understand why this keeps happening.”
“Do you mind if I tell this story?” I asked.
“Please,” she said. “Tell it.”
Let’s hope this man, and all men, realize the emotional damage they are inflicting on the women they try to buy. In the meantime, feel free to SHARE.*
(posting this here from Tumblr because it keeps getting deleted. The reason? It makes HONY look bad. Me and several other people have backed this up on our computers in case the post gets deleted again. I'm blogging this here.)
Thursday, May 10, 2012
San Benito teacher tells classroom she can speak to God
San Benito teacher tells classroom she can speak to God: A YouTube video reportedly of a San Benito teacher at Veteran's Academy had parents and students talking about how she can speak to God and is carrying His child.
All I can say to this is "WTF?!"
All I can say to this is "WTF?!"
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