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<mask> (August 23, 1883 – September 2, 1953) was a career American army officer and the Commander of Allied forces in the Philippines at the time Japan surrendered to the United States, during World War II. <mask> was a recipient of the Medal of Honor for his courageous leadership during the fall of the Philippines. Early life and training
<mask>, nicknamed "Skinny" and "Jim", was born at Fort Walla Walla, an Army post now in Walla Walla, Washington, and was the son of <mask>, a U.S. Army officer who was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the 1st Cavalry in 1875, commanded a squadron at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba during the Spanish–American War, and in 1902 was killed in action in the Philippines. His grandfather was Lieutenant <mask>, USN, who was killed in action during the Civil War. Congressman J<mask> was a cousin. He graduated from Highland Park High School in Illinois in 1901, and from West Point in 1906. He served as First Captain of the Corps of Cadets.<mask> was commissioned in the cavalry. He served with the 1st Cavalry Regiment (United States) in Texas from 1906 to 1908 and in the Philippines from 1908 to 1910, where he saw combat on Jolo, during the Moro Rebellion. <mask> graduated from the Mounted Service School, Fort Riley, Kansas, in 1916 and was promoted to Captain. By 1917, he was on the staff of the first officer training camp at Plattsburgh, New York. World War I

In February 1918, during World War I, <mask> was ordered to France. In June, he became assistant chief of staff of the U.S. 82nd Infantry Division, with which he took part in the Saint Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne Offensives. As a temporary lieutenant colonel, he was assigned to occupation duty in Germany with the 3rd Army at Koblenz, Germany, from October 1918 until 1920.Having reverted to the rank of captain, he was then promoted to major. Inter-war period

After a year as an instructor at the Cavalry School at Fort Riley, <mask> was attached to the general staff from 1921 to 1923 and assigned to the 3rd US Cavalry Regiment, Fort Myer, Virginia, from 1923–25. In 1929, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and graduated from the Command and General Staff School, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, in 1931, and from the Army War College in 1934. <mask> was promoted to colonel in 1935, and served as commander of the 3rd US Cavalry Regiment until 1938, when he was promoted to brigadier general in command of the 1st Cavalry Brigade at Fort Clark, Texas. World War II

In September 1940, <mask> was promoted to major general (temporary) and returned to the Philippines, in December, as commander of the Philippine Department. As the senior field commander of Filipino and US forces under General <mask>, <mask> was responsible for resisting the Japanese invasion of the Philippines, which began in December 1941. On December 8, 1941, he commanded the North Luzon Force, comprising three reserve Filipino divisions and the 26th Cavalry Regiment (Philippine Scouts).Retreating from the Japanese beachhead of Lingayen Gulf, Allied forces had withdrawn onto the Bataan Peninsula and Corregidor by January 1942, where they defended the entrance to Manila Bay. Following the evacuation of <mask> to Australia in March to serve as Allied Supreme Commander, South West Pacific Area, <mask> inherited the unenviable position of Allied commander in the Philippines. Also that March, <mask> was promoted to lieutenant general (temporary). On April 9, the 70,000 troops on Bataan surrendered under the command of Major General Edward P. King. On May 5, the Japanese attacked Corregidor. Due to lack of supplies (mainly food and ammunition) and in the interest of minimizing casualties, <mask> notified Japanese General <mask> Homma he was surrendering on May 6. <mask> at the same time sent a coded message to Maj. Gen. William F. Sharp, in charge of forces on Mindanao naming him as commander of all forces in the Philippines, excepting those on Corregidor and three other islands in Manila Bay.Sharp was now to report to Gen<mask>, now stationed in Australia. This was to cause as few troops as possible to be surrendered. Homma refused to allow the surrender of any less than all the troops in the Philippines and considered the troops on and around Corregidor to be hostages to ensure other forces in the Philippines would lay down their arms. <mask> then agreed to surrender Sharp's men. General Sharp was placed in a difficult position. He knew if he ignored <mask>'s wish for him to surrender that the hostage troops and civilians at Corregidor could be massacred. Though his troops were badly mauled, they could still put up a fight.It had been expected they would fight on as a guerrilla force. In the end, on May 10 Sharp decided to surrender. Sharp's surrender proved problematic for the Japanese. For although Sharp and many of his men surrendered and suffered as prisoners of war until liberated in 1945, a large number of Sharp's men--the vast majority of them Filipino--refused to surrender. Some soldiers considered <mask>'s surrender to have been made under duress, and ultimately decided to join the guerrilla movement led by Colonel Wendell Fertig. By June 9, Allied forces had completely surrendered. <mask> was then held in prison camps in northern Luzon, Formosa, and Liaoyuan (then called Xi'an and a county within Manchukuo) until he was rescued by the Red Army in August 1945.<mask> was the highest-ranking American POW, and, despite his rank, his treatment at the hands of the Japanese was no less unpleasant than that of most of his men. When he met General <mask> in August 1945 shortly after his liberation, he had become thin and malnourished from three years of mistreatment during captivity. After witnessing the Japanese surrender aboard the  on September 2, together with Lieutenant-General Arthur Percival, he returned to the Philippines to receive the surrender of the local Japanese commander, Lieutenant-General Tomoyuki Yamashita. Dubbed by his men a "fighting" general who was willing to get down in the foxholes, <mask> won the respect of all who were imprisoned with him. He agonized over his decision to surrender Corregidor throughout his captivity, feeling that he had let his country down. Upon release, the first question he asked was how people back in the U.S. thought of him, and he was amazed when told he was considered a hero. He later received the Medal of Honor, an honor which had first been proposed early in his captivity, in 1942, but was rejected due to the vehement opposition of General <mask>, who felt that Corregidor should not have been surrendered.<mask> did not oppose the renewed proposal in 1945. Medal of Honor citation
Rank and Organization: General, Commanding U.S. Army Forces in the Philippines. Place and date: Philippine Islands, 12 March to 7 May 1942. Entered Service at: Skaneateles, N.Y. Birth: Walla Walla, Wash. G.O. No. : 80, 19 September 1945.Citation:
Distinguished himself by intrepid and determined leadership against greatly superior enemy forces. At the repeated risk of life above and beyond the call of duty in his position, he frequented the firing line of his troops where his presence provided the example and incentive that helped make the gallant efforts of these men possible. The final stand on beleaguered Corregidor, for which he was in an important measure personally responsible, commanded the admiration of the Nation's allies. It reflected the high morale of American arms in the face of overwhelming odds. His courage and resolution were a vitally needed inspiration to the then sorely pressed freedom-loving peoples of the world. General <mask> was presented the Medal of Honor in an impromptu ceremony when he visited the White House 10 September 1945 – he was not aware that he was there to be decorated by President Truman. Post-war years and retirement
On September 5, 1945, shortly after the Japanese surrender, <mask> was promoted to four-star General.On September 13, a ticker-tape parade in New York City was held in his honor. On September 28, 1945, he was named commander of the Second Service Command and the Eastern Defense Command at Fort Jay, Governors Island, New York. On January 11, 1946, he was named commander of the Fourth Army at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, filling the vacancy left by the November 21, 1945 death of Lt. General Alexander Patch. Patch, formerly commander of Seventh Army in the closing days of World War II, had returned in poor health to head Fourth Army in August 1945. <mask> reluctantly ended his army career on August 31, 1947 upon reaching the mandatory retirement age of 64. In an emotional military review at Fort Sam Houston, he remarked with a touch of sadness, "This is not an occasion at which I can open my brief remarks with the somewhat stereotyped statement that I am happy to be here. For the generous tribute you have paid me here today I am deeply grateful."He went on to say, "For an old soldier to say that it is a pleasure to take his last review, to address his troops for the last time, and to make his last public appearance as a commander, is in my mind at least a  stretch of the imagination and a far cry from the truth." He became a Freemason in May 1946 at Union Lodge No. 7. in Junction City, Kansas, and a Shriner soon after. About 1935, <mask> was elected a Hereditary Companion of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States (insignia number 19087) by right of his grandfather's service in the Union Navy during the Civil War. He was also a Compatriot of the Empire State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (national number 66232 and state number 7762). His membership application for the SAR was endorsed by General <mask>. He served on the board of directors for several corporations after his retirement.He made himself available to speak before veterans' groups and filled almost every request to do so. He never felt any bitterness toward <mask> for his actions in the Philippines or <mask>'s attempt to deny him the Medal of Honor. In fact, when it appeared that <mask> might be nominated for president at the 1948 Republican National Convention, <mask> stood ready to make the nominating speech. He died of a stroke in San Antonio, Texas on September 2, 1953, aged 70. <mask> was buried in Section 1 of Arlington National Cemetery, next to his wife and near his parents, with a Masonic service and is one of the few people to have had their funeral held in the lower level of the Memorial Amphitheater. Awards

Other official awards
Army General Staff Badge
Conspicuous Service Cross, State of New York
Distinguished Service Medal, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Mexican Medal of Military Virtue, 1st Class
Polish Order of Virtuti Militari

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 Knights Commander of the Court of Honour (K.C.C.H.) (Freemasonry)
 Grand Lodge of New York's Masonic Achievement Medal

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Fort Wainwright in Alaska is named for him.U.S. Army Wainwright Station, Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas
A street, <mask> Drive, was named after him in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. There is a street, <mask> Drive, in El Paso, Texas named after <mask>, as was also an elementary school in the El Paso Independent School District; Wainwright Elementary School opened in 1949 and was closed and placed on reserve status in 2005 in light of the expansion of Fort Bliss through BRAC. It currently serves as a science education resource center; until November 2009; it also served as a student health center. The Veterans Hospital in Walla Walla, Washington is the <mask> M. <mask> IV Medical Center. There is a memorial to <mask> on Corregidor Island. There is a Wainwright Drive located in Skaneateles, New York, serving as the entrance to American Legion Post 239. There is a Wainwright Street located in the Twinbrook section of Rockville, Maryland.There is a Wainwright Drive in San Jose, California. There is a Wainwright Avenue in Closter, New Jersey. There is a Wainwright Court at California State University, Monterey Bay at the former Fort Ord
The <mask><mask> Heights.There is a Wainwright Street in Benicia, California (1942 residential subdivision)
<mask> Elementary School in the Houston Independent School District is named after him. Film
In the film <mask> (1977), <mask> was portrayed by Sandy Kenyon. Works

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 List of Medal of Honor recipients for World War II
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<mask> (December 5, 1817  – September 16, 1895) was an American surveyor, lawyer, and politician of the Gilded Age. Born in Kentucky, he moved to Texas to join its war for independence against Mexico. <mask> stayed in Texas after its independence and annexation by the United States, earning a living as a surveyor and farmer in Johnson County. In the American Civil War, he served briefly in the Confederate army, then returned to his farming and business interests, becoming part-owner of a bank in his hometown of Cleburne. In the 1870s, <mask> became concerned with farming and monetary issues in politics, eventually joining the nascent Greenback Party in 1877. He ran unsuccessfully for Vice President on the Greenback ticket with presidential nominee <mask>. Weaver of Iowa in 1880. The Greenback nominees finished in a distant third place, receiving only 3.3% of the popular vote and no electoral votes.After the election, <mask> remained active in Greenback politics in Texas until the party's demise in the late 1880s. He died at his home in Cleburne in 1895. Early life
<mask> <mask> was born in 1817 in Montgomery County, Kentucky, the son of <mask> and Talitha Cumi Mothershead <mask>. <mask> lived on his father's Kentucky farm for the first twenty years of his life. In 1837, he followed his uncle, <mask> <mask>, to Texas. The elder <mask>, who had lived in Texas since 1830, had raised a regiment to join the Texas Revolution and commissioned his nephew as a captain and his aide-de-camp. After helping his uncle to recruit soldiers in Kentucky, the two departed for Texas but arrived too late to see action.<mask> was discharged from the Texas army in 1838 and remained in the state, becoming a surveyor in the southern part of the state. The next year, he was appointed deputy surveyor for north central Texas, between the Brazos and Trinity rivers. The area had little white settlement at the time, and <mask> "narrowly escaped Indian attacks on several occasions." <mask> continued to work as a surveyor in the 1840s while also engaging in land speculation. By 1850, he was promoted to district surveyor; he had, by then, acquired 10,000 acres of land in Navarro and Johnson counties. He devoted some of the land to farming, but also donated some lots to Johnson County for the erection of the county seat, in Cleburne. He became a lawyer in 1860, but never developed a sizable law practice.<mask> married three times: first in 1852 to Susan Wood, who died the next year; secondly in 1854 to Emma Montgomery, who died in childbirth the next year; and finally in 1861 to Harriet Killough. <mask> had no children who survived infancy with the first two wives, but with his third wife he had three children: Mary, Patrick, and Isabella. Business and political career
After the election of Republican Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States in 1860, <mask>, a Democrat, served on two committees in Navarro County that drafted resolutions opposed to Lincoln and racial equality. He supported Texas's secession from the Union in 1861 and adhesion to the newly formed Confederacy, but, being 44 years old at the subsequent outbreak of the Civil War, did not immediately enlist. Although he was exempted from the Confederacy's military draft, <mask> thought the exemption unjust, and wrote to Confederate President <mask> to protest it. In 1864, he did enlist for six months in the 1st Regiment of Texas State Troops, but saw no action. After the war, <mask> returned to farming but also became a half-owner of Cleburne's only bank from 1871 to 1875.By that time, <mask> had the largest land holdings in Johnson County. He also actively promoted the Dallas and Cleburne Railroad, working unsuccessfully to get the railroad to make its stock available to all local citizens. <mask>'s political opinions after the war were at first concerned with government debt. In an 1868 article in the Cleburne Chronicle, <mask> argued against all interest-bearing national debts, and for a general policy of inflationism. Running as a Democrat, he was elected an alderman of Cleburne and was a delegate to Texas's constitutional convention of 1875. The proposed constitution that emerged was primarily an attempt to reverse the changes made by Republicans during Reconstruction. <mask> opposed its adoption, not for that reason, but because "while taxation was unequally thrown upon property alone, unqualified suffrage was given to every man".He also opposed the homestead exemption, "which protect[s] the debtor class from the just demands of the creditor class." Nevertheless, the constitution was adopted by a two-to-one majority. Greenback party

When the Democratic Party's platform did not endorse his inflationist views in 1876, <mask> quit the party. The new Greenback Party (sometimes called the Greenback-Labor Party,) had not yet begun to organize in Texas, but its positions better suited <mask> and he joined in 1877. The Greenbackers, in the words of one author, "anticipated by almost fifty years the progressive legislation of the first quarter of the twentieth century." Their platform advocated an eight-hour work day, safety regulations in factories, and prohibition of child labor. Their most prominent position, however, and the one from which their name was derived, was support for the continued issuance of the greenback dollar.During the Civil War, Congress had authorized "greenbacks," a new form of fiat money that was redeemable not in gold but in government bonds. The greenbacks had helped to finance the war when the government's gold supply did not keep pace with the expanding costs of maintaining the armies. When the crisis had passed, many in both parties, especially in the East, wanted to return the nation's currency to a gold standard as soon as possible. The Specie Payment Resumption Act, passed in 1875, ordered that greenbacks be gradually withdrawn and replaced with gold-backed currency beginning in 1879. At the same time, economic depression had made it more expensive for debtors to pay debts they had contracted when currency was less valuable. Farmers and laborers, especially, clamored for the return of coinage in both gold and silver, believing the increased money supply would restore wages and property values. With neither major party willing to endorse inflation, some partisans of loose money joined the new Greenback faction.<mask> rose quickly in the new party's leadership, serving as a delegate to their state convention in July 1878. Initially a candidate for state land commissioner, <mask> withdrew his name in August of that year to allow former Republican <mask> to win a unanimous nomination; he was nominated instead for a seat in the state legislature. Ten Greenbackers were elected to the legislature that year, but <mask> was not among them. During the campaign, <mask> published a pamphlet attacking the Democratic candidates and calling for Congress to create "a sufficient amount of paper money, making it equal to gold and silver, and full legal tender for all debts". While it did not help his own election, the pamphlet was widely circulated within the party and raised <mask>'s profile among Greenbackers. 1880 election

By 1879, the Greenback coalition had splintered, and <mask> became affiliated with the faction most prominent in the South and West, called the "Union Greenback Labor Party," led by Marcus M. "Brick" Pomeroy. Pomeroy's faction was more radical and emphasized its independence, suggesting that Eastern Greenbackers were likely to "sell out the party at any time to the Democrats."<mask> was chosen as a delegate to the Pomeroy faction's 1880 national convention in St. Louis. The 212 delegates nominated Stephen D. Dillaye of New York for President and <mask> for Vice President. Accepting the nomination, <mask> called for unity between the Greenback factions and restated his belief in the party's goals, and attacked bankers as "Huns and Vandals." To further promote his views, he purchased a small newspaper, the Cleburne Avalanche, and spoke at the state convention in Texas in May 1880. The more Eastern-oriented faction of the Greenbacks, called the "National Greenback Party," held its convention in Chicago that June, and <mask> attended along with others from the Pomeroy faction, hoping to heal the party split. The two factions resolved their differences and wrote a joint platform. The Greenbackers also agreed to admit forty-four delegates of the Socialist Labor Party.Dillaye stepped aside to allow the nomination of <mask>. Weaver of Iowa, a Civil War general and Congressman. <mask> was proposed for Vice President by the reunited party, as was Absolom M. West of Mississippi; <mask> was victorious on the first ballot, by 403 votes to 311. West moved that the nomination be made unanimous, which it was. <mask> gave speeches on his way back to Texas, castigating the banks and defending the admission of socialists to the convention as "simply a body of men enlisted in the cause of human rights." In his official acceptance letter, he called for expansion of the currency, immigration restriction to help workingmen compete "with Chinese serf labor," and the forfeiture of all unfulfilled railroad grants. On July 8, before reaching home, <mask> fell as he exited his train in Kosse, Texas, and broke two ribs. He was confined to bed for several weeks and considered withdrawing from the race, but decided against it.His efforts, however, were limited by his injuries, and his only contribution to the campaign was to publish his newspaper, renamed the Cleburne Greenbacker. Greenbackers had high hopes for the 1880 election, but were disappointed with the result: Weaver and <mask> won just over 300,000 votes (3.3% of the popular vote) and did not carry a single state in the electoral college. Post-election life
<mask> remained active in politics after the 1880 election. He served as chairman of the Texas Greenback Party in 1882 as George Washington <mask> received the party's endorsement for governor. He was unsuccessful, and <mask> worried that the party was becoming "disorganized and disintegrated beyond the hope of a successful rally." In 1884, <mask> ran again for governor and <mask> broke with him on the question of whether the state should lease public lands or let cattlemen use them without payment (<mask> favored the former option). He also criticized the party's presidential nominee that year, Benjamin Butler of Massachusetts, for attacking monopolies without offering any suggestions on how to reform them.After the 1884 election, <mask> had little involvement in politics. The Greenback Party fell apart by 1888, but many of its ideas and members found a home in the People's Party, which arose in the early 1890s. <mask> made his last foray into politics in 1890 in two letters to the Southern Mercury, a newspaper of the Farmers' Alliance, in which he again condemned monopolies and corporations, and suggested that all laws creating them be repealed. He was encouraged by the growth of the People's Party, but old age and ill health kept him from being an active member. <mask> died at his home on September 16, 1895, and was buried in Cleburne Memorial Cemetery. Notes

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<mask> (born April 14, 1960), known professionally as <mask>, is an American actor and stand-up comedian. He has appeared in numerous television and film roles. <mask> was initially successful as a stand-up comedian in the early 1980s. Taking advantage of that success in the late 1980s, <mask> began appearing in television and film, in minor and guest roles. His first major role was Robert Barone on the CBS sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond. The series debuted September 13, 1996, and ran for nine seasons. In 2002, he gave an Emmy-nominated and critically lauded performance as Jackie Gleason in the television film Gleason.<mask>'s film roles include Casper (1995), A Bug's Life (1998), An Extremely Goofy Movie (2000), Stuart Little 2 (2002), Finding Nemo (2003),  Garfield (2004), The Pacifier (2005), Ratatouille (2007), Tangled (2010), Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil (2011), The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016), and Christopher Robin (2018). <mask> also played the leading role of Eddie Stark on the Fox sitcom 'Til Death from 2006 to 2010. From 2018 to 2020, he starred in the ABC sitcom Single Parents. In 2021, <mask> also helped create Disney+'s Big Shot with David E. Kelley and Dean Lorey. He is also known for voicing the Big Dog on Two Stupid Dogs.<mask> has won three Primetime Emmy Awards, with three other nominations. He is still prominent within stand-up comedy and owns a comedy club at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, called <mask>'s Comedy Club, where he performs regularly. Early life
<mask> <mask> was born to Barbara and Alvin "Al" Gerstenfeld. He is Jewish. <mask> has two older brothers, Jeff and Paul. He attended George Ellery Hale Middle School and graduated from El Camino Real High School, both in Woodland Hills. <mask> attended UCLA for less than two months before dropping out to pursue his comedy career.Career
<mask> started out at various comedy clubs in Los Angeles, including The Improv in Hollywood and The Ice House in Pasadena. In 1984, he became the first $100,000 grand champion winner in the comedy category of the TV show Star Search. This led to his first appearance, at age 23, on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, making him one of the youngest comedians ever to perform on the show. His appearance with Carson brought <mask> more national attention, and soon he was appearing as an opening act for such headliners as Diana Ross and Liza Minnelli. He also opened in Las Vegas for Frank Sinatra, David Copperfield, Smokey Robinson, Sammy Davis, Jr., the Beach Boys, The Righteous Brothers and Julio Iglesias. After achieving a strong measure of success with stand-up comedy, <mask> began performing on TV. From 1985 to 1986, he was the voice of Hulk Hogan (in a voice similar to Rodney Dangerfield) for the cartoon series Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n Wrestling, He was featured on Family Feud during Ray Combs's tenure in a "Funny Men vs.Funny Women Week" during November sweeps. He also appeared for a week on the game show Super Password in 1987. He also appeared on Hollywood Squares including a moment when he impersonated Bill Cosby during a question about Jell-o. He then appeared in the short-lived summer comedy First Impressions (CBS, 1988), in which he was a divorced father who makes a living doing impressions, in a one-time spot as a bank loan officer on Roseanne (ABC), and The Pursuit of Happiness (NBC, 1995–96), in which he was the hero's gay best friend. Though prior to these roles, <mask> had also had a minor part on Transformers, voicing the Decepticon base Trypticon in season three and as an ill-fated thug in Suicide Kings. He soon won the role of Ray Romano's brother Robert Barone on the long-running family-oriented comedy hit Everybody Loves Raymond, and in 1998, he and Romano appeared together in their respective roles on a Season 1 episode of The King of Queens, titled "Road Rayge", in which Robert is jealous of his brother spending so much time with Doug Heffernan (the main character played by Kevin James). <mask> has also made an appearance on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air playing a hitman who attempts to kill Will Smith's character.<mask>'s worked as a voice actor, such as on Mighty Ducks: The Animated Series, 2 Stupid Dogs, The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper, Project Geeker, Biker Mice from Mars, Steven Spielberg Presents: Toonsylvania, A Bug's Life, Finding Nemo, Ratatouille, Asterix and the Vikings, Superman: The Animated Series,  and Justice League as Lobo. His role on Everybody Loves Raymond won him five Emmy Award nominations, and the 2002, 2003 and 2005 Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. In 1990, <mask> appeared as a semi-regular panelist on the revival of Match Game. On the May 2, 1996 episode of the sitcom Seinfeld, called "The Bottle Deposit", <mask> played a rogue auto mechanic who steals Jerry Seinfeld's car. In 2003, he was also nominated for the Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Movie for Gleason. With his Raymond castmates, he won the 2003 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series. He won the fifth season championship of Celebrity Poker Showdown, and played in the 2005, 2006 and 2007 World Series of Poker.<mask> was hoping to do a spin-off with his character Robert Barone from Everybody Loves Raymond when the show ended its nine-year run in 2005, but he withdrew in October 2005 due to inaction from CBS that led to a number of the writers from Raymond leaving and taking other jobs. In 2005, <mask> appeared on Broadway playing Murray the Cop in the revival of Neil Simon's The Odd Couple with Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick. He understudied Lane in the role of Oscar Madison, and substituted for him in January 2006, during Mr. Lane's illness. That same year, he starred in The Pacifier opposite Vin Diesel. In 2006, Fox network announced they would pick up a new sitcom called 'Til Death starring <mask> in the lead role. The plot revolves around a long married couple whose new next door neighbors are a pair of feisty newlyweds. Joely Fisher plays <mask>'s wife in the series.He also appeared onstage on American Idol season six (2007) during judging on week 11, to which Ryan Seacrest said, "And the next person off American Idol is—<mask>, you're out." In the fall of 2008, <mask> starred in, and was the executive producer for, an online reality show called Dating <mask>. In 2008, <mask> hosted a celebrity roast of Cheech & Chong, which was aired on TBS. In 2009, <mask> entered the main event at the World Series of Poker, losing on the second day of the event. <mask> has starred in commercials for 7-Up, where he portrays a more happy, cheerful version of himself because of the soda. In June 2010, he opened <mask>'s Comedy Club in the Tropicana Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. In December 2010, he was one of the narrators during performances of the Candlelight Processional at Epcot.In June 2011, I Kid with <mask>, a candid kids show, premiered on TLC. On December 12, 2011, <mask> closed his club at the Tropicana. He started a new club with the same name across the street at the MGM Grand, and is active as of April 2016. In the summer of 2013, <mask> played Chug in the movie Planes. Planes marked the 4th time he starred in a movie with John Ratzenberger. In the fall of 2013, <mask> played a recurring character in The Crazy Ones. On May 19, 2016, he was confirmed to appear as the voice of Krang, in the sci-fi action comedy film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows.In November 2016, <mask> portrayed Frankenstein's monster in a Christmas commercial for Apple's iPhone 7. As of 2017, the ad has received over seven million views. In 2018, <mask> voiced the character Eeyore in the live-action film Christopher Robin, based on Disney's Winnie the Pooh franchise, and in a cameo in the animated film Ralph Breaks the Internet. He previously voiced the character in the 1995 video game Disney's Animated Storybook: Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree. As of 2021, he portrays a character named Tony Bolognavich in Jimmy John's commercials. When asked whether he would do a revival of Everybody Loves Raymond, he stated:You know. There's no show without the parents.That's really the bottom line. Doris and Peter were such a huge part of the show. I miss them but some things you don't go back to, you know. We could never recreate that. Personal life

In 1998, <mask> proposed to his then-girlfriend, Jill Diven, on the set of Everybody Loves Raymond, and they were married on May 18, 1999; together they have two children, a son and a daughter. <mask> and Diven separated in 2005, and Diven filed for divorce in July 2006. The divorce was finalized in November 2007.In 2008, he began dating actress IsaBeall Quella, whom he met at a Vose art gallery in Boston. They were engaged in December 2015, and the couple married on November 11, 2021. In 2007, <mask> struck a TMZ photographer's camera, which the photographer claimed hit him in the face. The Los Angeles District Attorney declined to file assault charges against <mask> because the DA felt <mask> was provoked. Filmography

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Venerable <mask>s (16 June 1793 in Soyhières, Canton of Bern (now Jura), Switzerland – 7 October 1875 in Troyes, Aube, France) was a Roman Catholic nun and a spiritual leader in the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary. She also co-founded the congregation of the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales along with Blessed Father Louis Brisson. Life

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<mask>hérèse Chappuis was born in Soyhières, at that time in the Département du Mont-Terrible in France, on 16 June 1793, to innkeepers, Pierre-<mask> (1752–1822) and <mask> (died 1837). Her father served in the Cent-Suisses, corps d'infanterie Suisse, attached to the personal guard of the king of France. Her mother was the daughter of François Fleury, Mayor of Soyhières and innkeeper of the village. She was also the niece of Joseph Fleury (1723–1812), the curate of Soyhières. Out of eleven children born of this union, seven entered religion life.As <mask>-Thérèse appeared frail at birth, her mother wished her baptized, but due to the French Revolution there was no priest in Soyhières. An uncle carried the newborn in a market basket two miles over the mountain to the village of Petit-Lucelle, outside the jurisdiction of Revolutionary forces. <mask>-Thérèse received her sacrament of First Communion in 1802. At the age of fourteen, she entered the Visitation Convent at Fribourg as an boarding student. She remained two years. Although the Visitandines were a cloistered order, the nuns provided an excellent education for girls at the schools attached to their monasteries. Religious Vows
In June 1811, she returned to the convent as a postulant, but left it again in three months after a severe bout of home sickness.Three years later she came back and received the religious habit on 3 June 1815. <mask>-Thérèse took the religious name of <mask> <mask> at her profession on 9 June 1816. She steeped herself in the writings of St. <mask> <mask> and later exclaimed that she found everything she needed and wanted in his writings. From reading <mask>, <mask>-Thérèse Chappuis came to see no necessary contradiction between the active and contemplative life. A year after taking her vows she was sent to Metz, but reasons of health compelled her to return to Fribourg. At a relatively young age, she was appointed Novice Mistress at Fribourg. In 1826, she was elected superior of the monastery at Troyes, where she initiated the practice of the "Spiritual Directory of St. Francis de Sales", which counseled living in the present moment and doing all that is pleasing to God.In 1833, she spent six months in the second monastery in Paris, where she was superior (1838–44). Here, a Father Beaussier wished to establish clubs or meeting places for young men entering the work force, in order to provide a healthy Christian environment. Mother Chappuis assisted with material and financial resources. She set up similar places for young women in Troyes. Foundress
As it became increasingly difficult to staff these facilities with only volunteers, Chappuis and Brisson decided to found a religious community. Leonie Aviat, and Lucie Canuet, graduates of the Visitation School in Troyes, were the first candidates. The greater part of Chappuis' life was spent at Troyes, where she was elected superior eleven times, and where she celebrated, in 1866, the golden anniversary of her religious profession.While superior at Troyes, she encouraged the monastery chaplain, Louis Brisson to start a religious order of men to follow the spiritual legacy of <mask> <mask>. "What you are doing is, of course, very good, but what you are going to do will have much greater results." Chappuis became ill in September 1875 and died at the monastery of the Visitation of Holy Mary in Troyes on 7 October 1875. Teaching
Mother <mask> <mask> is celebrated chiefly for her zeal in spreading a certain kind of spirituality which she called "The Way" (La Voie). This is a reference to John 14:6, "Jesus saith unto him,  I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one cometh unto the Father, but by me." Her principal biographer, Louis Brisson, who had been for thirty years confessor to the Visitandines of Troyes, and was her spiritual director, writes that by this expression – La Voie – "she understood a state of soul which consisted in depending upon the actual will of God, relishing whatever was His good pleasure, and imitating the life of the Saviour externally". The English edition of her life (London, 1900), in translating this sentence, overlooks the word actuelle (actual): "What did the good Mother mean by this Word, 'The Way'?She meant a state of soul which consists in an entire dependence on the Will of God, by an interior consent to all that is according to His good pleasure, and an exterior imitation of our Saviour." Veneration
The cause for her canonization was introduced at Rome in 1897. References

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 Pensées de la ven. Mère <mask> <mask> (Paris, 1897);
 FRAGNIÈRE, La Voie: sermon preached at Fribourg, 19 November 1897 (Paris, 1898);
 WATRIGANT, Une nouvelle école de spiritualité in Etudes religieuses (Paris, June, 1899);
 FRAGNIÈRE, Réponse au Rd. Watrigant et justification de la voie de charité de la vénérée Mère <mask> <mask>uis (Fribourg, 1900);
 WATRIGANT, Les deux méthodes de spiritualité (Lille, 1900);
 HAGEN, Die ehw. Mutter <mask> <mask>ppuis in Sendbote des gottlichen Herzens Jesu (Cincinnati, 1900); Méthodes de spiritualité in Ami du clergé (6 February 1902);
 GORTET, Lettre sur les vies de la V. Mère Chappuis (12 January 1887), see Revue des sciences ecclésiastigues (Lille, September, 1900), 260;
 CHOLLET, La cause de béatification de la Mère <mask> <mask>ppuis (on the decision concerning the Writings of the venerable mother) in the same review (July, 1902);
 WATRIGANT, L'Ecole de la spiritualité simplifiée (Lille, 1903);
 Il modernismo ascetico in Civiltà Cattolica (8 May 1908);
 CHOLLET, L'ascétique moderniste in Questions ecclésiastiques (Lille, June, July, August, 1909). 1793 births
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<mask> (born July 9, 1959) is an American actor and former professional wrestler, signed to WWE under a legends contract. He is best known for his tenure with World Championship Wrestling (WCW) where he performed under his real name, <mask>. He also performed under his real name in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). From 1993 through early 1996, <mask> performed for the WWF under an alpha male, biker thug gimmick named Big Daddy Cool Diesel (also known as "Big Daddy Cool" or simply "Diesel" for short). During this time, he won the WWF World, Intercontinental and Tag Team Championships (the WWF Triple Crown) and at that year's Slammy Awards won the MVP (now Superstar of the Year) and Best Tag Team (now Tag Team of the Year) with Shawn Michaels. Between WWF, WCW, and TNA, <mask> has won a total of 21 championships, including being a six-time world champion (five-time WCW World Heavyweight Champion and one-time WWF Champion) and a 12-time world tag team champion between the three promotions. <mask>'s 358-day WWF Championship reign is the longest of the 1990s.During his time in WCW, <mask> became the first wrestler to defeat Goldberg and in the process ended his undefeated streak of 173–0 at Starrcade in 1998. <mask> was a member of The Kliq, an influential backstage group that included Shawn Michaels, Triple H, Scott Hall, and X-Pac. At a most noteworthy period of his career, <mask> reached the peak of his wrestling career success in WCW when he became one of the three founding members of the New World Order (nWo), along with Hulk Hogan and Scott Hall. <mask> was inducted individually into the WWE Hall of Fame class of 2015 and in 2020 as a member of the New World Order alongside Hogan, Hall, and X-Pac. Early life
<mask> was born on July 9, 1959, to a devout Christian family in southwest Detroit, Michigan. <mask>'s father, Robert, died of a heart attack on April 4, 1968, aged 36, when <mask> was nine years old. On December 27, 1994, <mask>'s mother, Wanda, died after a four-year struggle against breast cancer.He attended Aquinas High School and the University of Tennessee, where he majored in psychology and minored in educational philosophy. At the University of Tennessee, <mask> was a center for the Tennessee Volunteers basketball team. He remained on the team from 1977 to 1980, during which time the team made it to the NCAA Sweet 16. Following a physical altercation with head coach Don DeVoe and a series of other on-campus incidents, <mask> did not play a fourth year for the Volunteers, and he attempted to transfer to Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. <mask> reconsidered his options and instead moved to Europe, where he played basketball professionally for various teams. His career ended in 1981 in Germany (while playing for the Gießen 46ers) when he tore his anterior cruciate ligament. With his basketball career over, <mask> enlisted in the U.S. Army and was assigned to the 202nd Military Police Company in Giessen, West Germany.He served in a secure NATO facility for two years, during which time he was promoted to the rank of specialist. After the Army, he worked on an assembly line at Ford Motor Company and as the floor manager of a strip club in Atlanta, Georgia, he decided to try professional wrestling. Professional wrestling career

World Championship Wrestling

The Master Blasters (1990–1991)

<mask> debuted in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) as the orange-mohawked "Steel," one half of the tag team known as The Master Blasters. He was initially partnered with Master Blaster Iron, with whom he made his debut at the Clash of the Champions XII on September 5, 1990, defeating Brad Armstrong and Tim Horner. At the following Worldwide taping on September 7, the Masters Blasters began a feud with Tim Horner and Mike Rotunda. They would defeat Horner and Rotunda on several house shows. On September 22, <mask>'s partner Master Blaster Iron was replaced by "Blade."The reconstituted Master Blasters continued their undefeated streak in October. Meanwhile, <mask> would have his first singles match on September 28 by defeating Tom Zenk. At Halloween Havoc on October 27, 1990, the Blasters upended The Southern Boys and began to move up the WCW tag team ratings. However, their winning streak would finally come to an end on November 22, when Tom Zenk and Brian Pillman handed them their first defeat with Pillman pinning Blade. They rebounded to go on another undefeated streak by defeating The Southern Boys as well as Alan Iron Eagle and Tim Horner, and earning a NWA United States Tag Team Championship title shot against then champions The Steiner Brothers, but were defeated in two occasions. They were squashed on television in 52 seconds by the Steiners in a match that aired on Worldwide on February 2, 1991. Following this loss, their momentum began to dissipate as the Blasters would suffer follow-up losses to The Southern Boys and Ricky Morton and Tommy Rich.The tag team disbanded at the end of the month. <mask> was then rebranded as simply The Master Blaster in February 1991 and suffered his first singles defeat on February 27, 1991, when he was pinned by The Junkyard Dog. He also lost to Brian Pillman in house show matches, while appearing in tag team matches with Stan Hansen and Arn Anderson. His final match in this guise was against Pillman at a house show on May 12. Oz (1991)
A week later, <mask> reappeared under his new gimmick, having been repackaged as the silver-haired Oz, a character based on the Wizard of Oz from the 1900 children's book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Oz, managed by The Great Wizard, was pushed strongly for about a month, he squashed several wrestlers before losing to Ron Simmons at The Great American Bash on July 14. In reality, all plans for Oz were immediately scrapped when <mask> refused to sign a $300/night guarantee as WCW was cutting costs.A decision was made to retain <mask> until a new gimmick could be developed. On October 27, he lost to Bill Kazmaier at Halloween Havoc. <mask> wrestled as Oz throughout the remainder of 1991 and went on a lengthy losing streak, suffering defeats by Kazmaier, Rick Steiner, Dustin Rhodes, and Arachnaman. Vinnie Vegas; departure (1992–1993)

On January 21, 1992, at Clash of the Champions XVIII, he was repackaged as Vinnie Vegas, a wisecracking pseudo-mobster based on Steve Martin's character in the 1990 film My Blue Heaven. Vegas was quickly recruited into "A Half-Ton of Holy Hell", a stable of large wrestlers created by Harley Race which included WCW World Champion Lex Luger, Big Van Vader and Mr. Hughes. The stable separated in February 1992 after Luger left, and Vegas joined The Diamond Mine, a stable led by Diamond Dallas Page that also included The Diamond Studd and Scotty Flamingo. After Studd and Flamingo left the stable (Studd leaving for the WWF and Flamingo striking out on his own), Page and Vegas began teaming together as The Vegas Connection.The tag team split in late 1992 after Page was fired by Bill Watts. <mask> spent the first half of 1993 teaming with Big Sky. In June, he decided to depart for the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) and had his final WCW match was on June 3, teaming with Big Sky in a losing effort against The Cole Twins, this match would air on Worldwide after his WWF debut. World Wrestling Federation

Two Dudes with Attitudes (1993–1994)

In June 1993, <mask> left WCW, signing a contract with the WWF at the request of Shawn Michaels. He was given the stage name of "Big Daddy Cool Diesel" ("Diesel" or "Big Daddy Cool" for short), with a alpha-male gimmick. For the role, <mask> grew long hair, taking on the appearance and took the demeanor of typical cocky biker thug from Detroit, sporting black sunglasses and leather garments. The name of Diesel, suggested by Shane McMahon, was a play on the fact that <mask> was from Detroit, known famously as "The Motor City."To play-off of his character's name, <mask>'s initial entrance music was a simple series of truck engine noises along with loud horns beeping. Diesel started out as the bodyguard/best friend of Shawn Michaels, with the two being known as Two Dudes with Attitudes. He made his WWF debut at a house show on June 6, 1993, by assisting Michaels in defeating Marty Jannetty for the WWF Intercontinental Championship. He first appeared on television the next night on Raw, June 7, as he was introduced as Michaels's bodyguard. In January 1994, Diesel appeared at the Royal Rumble, first as one of the many wrestlers who assisted WWF Champion Yokozuna in defeating The Undertaker in their casket match and then in the Royal Rumble match, eliminating seven men in under 18 minutes of in-ring time. Diesel won the Intercontinental Championship from Razor Ramon, following interference from Michaels on the April 30, 1994 episode (taped April 13, 1994) of Superstars. The duo of Diesel and Michaels defeated The Headshrinkers to win the WWF Tag Team Championship on August 28, making <mask> a double champion.However, Diesel lost the Intercontinental Championship back to Ramon the following night at SummerSlam. The alliance between Diesel and Michaels dissolved after Survivor Series, when Michaels accidentally performed a superkick on Diesel. Diesel then chased Michaels, and despite failing to catch him, the reaction from the crowd turned him babyface. However, <mask> was no longer a tag team champion, as Michaels' actions resulted in the team being forced to vacate the titles. WWF Champion (1994–1995)

On November 26, 1994, Diesel faced Bob Backlund for the WWF Championship he had won from Bret Hart three days prior at Survivor Series. In the match at Madison Square Garden, Diesel defeated Backlund in an eight-second squash match in the same fashion Hulk Hogan won the title from The Iron Sheik in 1984. Diesel then promised Hart a match for his title, which they had the next month at the Royal Rumble.The match ended in a draw due to interference from several wrestlers, including Shawn Michaels. Michaels was irate about his former bodyguard having beaten him to the WWF Championship and was sufficiently motivated to win the Royal Rumble match later that evening, earning himself a title shot at WrestleMania XI. At WrestleMania XI on April 2, <mask>, accompanied to ringside by actress Pamela Anderson (who was supposed to valet for Michaels), defeated Michaels to retain the title. After the match, he left the ring with both Anderson and Michaels' replacement for her, Jenny McCarthy. The next night on Monday Night Raw, Michaels was betrayed by his new bodyguard, Sycho Sid, prompting Diesel to come to his rescue and thus reunited the tag team. Diesel successfully defended the WWF Championship against Sycho Sid at the inaugural In Your House pay-per-view on May 14, and at the In Your House 2: The Lumberjacks on July 23. At SummerSlam, Diesel retained the WWF Championship by defeating King Mabel, who had won the King of the Ring tournament.On September 24 at In Your House 3 in Saginaw, Michigan, Diesel and Michaels challenged the reigning WWF Tag Team Champions Owen Hart and Yokozuna. The match had a winner-take-all stipulation, as in addition to the tag belts, Diesel's WWF Championship and Michaels' recently won Intercontinental Championship were also on the line. When Hart did not show up at the event, he was replaced by Davey Boy Smith. In the course of the match, Hart arrived at ringside, entered the ring and was pinned by Diesel for the win and the title, making him and Michaels holders of all three major WWF championships. The reign did not last long, however, as Hart and Yokozuna had the titles returned to them the next night on Raw due to Hart not being an official part of the match when he was pinned. Diesel's WWF Championship reign continued until November 19, when he was defeated by Bret Hart at Survivor Series. Following the loss, Diesel attacked Hart.Final feuds; departure (1995–1996)
At In Your House 5 in December 1995, Diesel defeated Owen Hart, who had injured Diesel's ally Shawn Michaels in a match the prior month. In January 1996, Diesel competed in the Royal Rumble, entering at number 22. Diesel was the last man to be eliminated from the Royal Rumble, being superkicked over the top rope by the winner, Shawn Michaels. Following the match, Diesel teased attacking Michaels before instead giving him a high five. Diesel went on to interfere in the main event between The Undertaker and WWF Champion Bret Hart, costing The Undertaker the title. At In Your House 6 on February 18, Diesel attempted to regain the WWF Championship from Hart in a steel cage match, losing after The Undertaker attacked him in retaliation for his actions at the Royal Rumble. Shortly before WrestleMania XII, <mask>'s contract status was in a state of flux.At the time, WCW was offering large amounts of money to the WWF's talent by Eric Bischoff, WCW Executive Vice President, to jump ship. In fact, Bischoff had succeeded in convincing several high-profile WWF stars to sign with WCW over the previous two years, including five-time former WWF Champion Hulk Hogan and his on-again, off-again friend and two-time former WWF Champion Randy Savage, and was in the process at the time of talking to <mask>'s friend Scott "Razor Ramon" Hall about a contract as Hall's too was set to expire. <mask> explained on the WWE Classics on Demand exclusive series Legends of Wrestling that Hall had been the first to sign with the company and was offered a contract that paid him "above Sting money" (at the time, Sting was one of the highest paid wrestlers in the company and although Ric Flair, Hulk Hogan, and Randy Savage had been making more, Sting's contract was used as a measuring stick). Hall also informed <mask> that he had been given "most favored nation" status, which meant that if someone new was hired for more money, Hall's contract would increase to match that contract. Bischoff ended up offering <mask> a three-year guaranteed contract with a $1.2 million annual salary. <mask> said to Vince McMahon that he did not want to leave the WWF and that if McMahon was willing to match the offer, he would stay. McMahon said no because, according to <mask>, he would have had to offer matching contracts to other wrestlers and with the promotion in a bad financial situation, he simply could not afford it.<mask> signed his contract shortly thereafter. Diesel lost to The Undertaker at WrestleMania XII on March 31, after which he finally turned heel and went on to feud with Shawn Michaels once again after he turned on him at a Madison Square Garden live event. In his last televised WWF appearance until 2002, Diesel challenged Michaels for the WWF Championship (which he had won from Hart at WrestleMania XII) at In Your House: Good Friends, Better Enemies on April 28. He wrestled Michaels for the title once again in a steel cage match at a house show on May 19, but was again defeated. After the match, Diesel, Michaels, Razor Ramon and Hunter Hearst Helmsley, a group of off-screen friends known collectively as "The Kliq", hugged one another in the ring and wished each other farewell. This incident, later referred to as the "Curtain Call" or "MSG Incident", was a serious breach of character, as it showed heels and babyfaces consorting with one another. Shortly thereafter, with his obligations to the WWF now completely fulfilled, <mask> left for WCW.Return to WCW

New World Order (1996–1999)

After two weeks of Scott Hall returning on WCW programming and taunting announcers, wrestlers, and the company, <mask> also returned alongside his friend on June 10, 1996, after Hall interrupted Eric Bischoff. The duo were known as The Outsiders, and the storyline originally pushed them as "invaders" from the WWF (which WCW eventually had to scale back due to legal concerns from the WWF). At Bash at the Beach, Hall and <mask> fought the team of Lex Luger, Sting, and Randy Savage and promised to add one more man to their entourage. After Luger was taken out of the match, Hulk Hogan came out to make the save, only to turn on Savage and reveal himself as <mask> and Hall's third man. Immediately after this, they began cutting promos calling themselves the New World Order (nWo). During his return, he had dyed his hair blonde. Through late 1996 and into 1997, <mask> normally teamed with Hall as the Outsiders, and they held the WCW World Tag Team Championship.<mask> also began to show his leadership qualities in the nWo, and became a sort of "second in command" alongside Hogan. <mask>, Hall, and Sean Waltman distinguished themselves from the rest of the nWo, calling themselves the "Wolfpac" in 1997. After a while, however, the nWo began to fight within its ranks, with Hogan and <mask> battling for control. The situation came to a head on April 20, 1998, during a match between Hogan and recent nWo inductee (and rival) Randy Savage for Savage's recently won WCW World Heavyweight Championship. During the match, <mask> interfered on Savage's behalf and jackknifed Hogan to the mat, signaling the breakup of the nWo into two separate factions (<mask>'s interference was not enough to prevent Hogan from regaining

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In May 1999, <mask> won the WCW World Heavyweight Championship for the second time by defeating Diamond Dallas Page at Slamboree. He then appeared on The Tonight Show and put up a $250,000 challenge to Bret Hart for its May 24 program.However, Bret's brother, Owen, died in a wrestling stunt just as Bret was flying to Los Angeles; this immediately canceled their match and the feud. <mask> then entered a feud with the returning Randy Savage, who was later joined by a returning Sid Vicious at The Great American Bash in June when he powerbombed <mask> during the match, thus giving <mask> a disqualification victory (as the signature move of both men, the Jackknife Powerbomb, had been ruled an "illegal" move by WCW leadership due to its high potential for injury). This rivalry culminated in a tag team match at Bash at the Beach in July 1999 which pitted <mask> and Sting against Savage and Sid. A stipulation was added that whoever got the pin in the match would become WCW World Heavyweight Champion. <mask> was pinned by Savage and lost his championship, but would get his revenge the next night on Nitro in a title match between Savage and a returning Hulk Hogan, and in a similar situation to Savage's first title defense from the previous year, he used a Jackknife Powerbomb on Savage, preserving the victory for Hogan. The following week, however, <mask> attacked Hogan during a match pitting Hogan against Vicious. <mask>, Sid, and Rick Steiner then feuded with Hogan, Sting, and a returning Goldberg until Road Wild, where Hogan defeated <mask> in a "retirement" match.On October 4, 1999, <mask> returned to WCW along with Scott Hall, which was later revealed to be a new version of the nWo involving <mask>, Hall, Bret Hart, and Jeff Jarrett called 'nWo 2000'. This would not last long either due to the injury of Hart, and <mask> spent most of 2000 feuding with the likes of Terry Funk, Mike Awesome, Scott Steiner, and Booker T.

<mask> won the WCW World Heavyweight Championship again from Booker T on the August 28, 2000 episode of Monday Nitro in Las Cruces, New Mexico. He eventually lost it to Booker T later on at Fall Brawl. He even had a stint as WCW Commissioner, and he served as a coach/mentor to The Natural Born Thrillers, who would eventually turn on <mask>. <mask> aligned himself with Diamond Dallas Page, reuniting the Vegas Connection, but renamed The Insiders. They feuded with the Perfect Event (Shawn Stasiak and Chuck Palumbo) and won the WCW World Tag Team Championship at Mayhem on November 26, 2000. Shortly after, they were stripped of the title by Commissioner Mike Sanders in mid-December.Weeks later, they won the title back at Starrcade. In 2001 (WCW's final months), the Insiders continued their feud with the Natural Born Thrillers. <mask> lost another "retirement" match to Scott Steiner at SuperBrawl Revenge, but it would not be long before WCW announced the sale of the company to the World Wrestling Federation. As he had a guaranteed contract with AOL Time Warner, <mask> chose to wait out the remainder of his contract, which expired on December 31, 2001. Return to WWF/E (2002–2004)

New World Order (2002–2003)
Following the expiration of his AOL Time Warner contract, <mask>, along with Scott Hall and Hulk Hogan, were rehired by the WWF. Their rehiring was announced several weeks before their debut, with Vince McMahon claiming to have hired the nWo in order to destroy the WWF – of which Ric Flair was now a co-owner, which McMahon could not tolerate. Billed as the original nWo, <mask>, Hall, and Hogan returned to the WWF at No Way Out on February 17, 2002.In the course of the evening, the nWo delivered an interview in which they claimed to have reformed, gave a six pack of beer to Stone Cold Steve Austin (which he refused), and traded insults with The Rock. They interfered in the main event of the evening, helping Chris Jericho retain his Undisputed WWF Championship against Austin. At WrestleMania X8, <mask> continually interfered in the match between Hall and Austin to the point where he was forced to return backstage. Later that night, he and Hall turned on Hogan after he had offered congratulations to The Rock for defeating him. In March, <mask> suffered a biceps injury that put him out of action for several weeks and almost immediately upon returning, suffered a quadriceps tear in a tag match on the July 8 episode of Raw. On the July 15 episode of Raw, the nWo was officially disbanded by Vince McMahon as Eric Bischoff became Raw general manager. Feud with Triple H and departure (2003–2004)
After a nine-month injury, <mask> returned as a face on the April 7, 2003 episode of Raw, much to the delight of both Shawn Michaels and Triple H, who were feuding with each other.As part of the storyline, <mask> was given a choice to remain friends with either Michaels or Triple H. After <mask> would not make the decision, Triple H made the decision for him and turned on him with a low blow. This led to <mask> and Triple H feuding with one another. <mask> teamed up with Michaels and Booker T against Triple H, Ric Flair and Chris Jericho in a six-man tag team match at Backlash which ended with Triple H picking up the win for his team, pinning <mask> after hitting him with a sledgehammer. Following Backlash, <mask> was granted a shot at Triple H's World Heavyweight Championship, and the two squared off at Judgment Day with Michaels and Flair in their respective corners. Triple H would get himself disqualified and kept the title as a result, but this did not stop <mask> from attacking Triple H following the match, putting him through the announcer's table with a Jackknife Powerbomb. The next month, they fought again in a Hell in a Cell match at Bad Blood with Mick Foley as the special guest referee, but <mask> lost the match. In August 2003, <mask> feuded with Chris Jericho and was forced to cut his hair after losing a hair vs. hair match against Jericho on the August 18 episode of Raw.This was made to cover for <mask> having to cut his hair for his role as "The Russian" for the 2004 Punisher film. His last match in WWE was at SummerSlam in an Elimination Chamber match for the World Heavyweight Championship against Triple H, Shawn Michaels, Goldberg, Chris Jericho, and Randy Orton. He was the first to be eliminated after Jericho pinned him following Sweet Chin Music from Michaels. Before leaving, however, he executed a Jackknife Powerbomb on Jericho and Orton. <mask> then stepped away from in-ring action and underwent neck surgery. Total Nonstop Action Wrestling

Kings of Wrestling (2004–2005)

<mask> debuted in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling alongside the returning Scott Hall on November 7, 2004, at the inaugural monthly TNA pay-per-view, Victory Road, with the duo helping NWA World Heavyweight Champion Jeff Jarrett retain his title in a ladder match with Jeff Hardy. In subsequent weeks, the trio identified themselves as the Kings of Wrestling and began feuding with Hardy and A.J.Styles. At Turning Point on December 5, the Kings of Wrestling were defeated by Hardy, Styles, and Randy Savage. Hall left TNA in early 2005, and <mask> and Jarrett separated after <mask> made clear his desire to win the NWA World Heavyweight Championship. <mask> received a title shot against Jarrett on February 13, 2005, at Against All Odds, but lost following interference from the debuting Outlaw. Following the defeat, <mask> joined forces with Sean Waltman and began feuding with the newly formed Planet Jarrett. At Destination X on March 13, <mask> lost to The Outlaw in a First Blood match following interference from Jarrett, who struck <mask> with his title belt. The rivalry between Planet Jarrett and <mask> and his allies culminated in a scheduled Lethal Lockdown match at Lockdown on April 24 pitting <mask>, Waltman, and Diamond Dallas Page against Jarrett, The Outlaw, and "The Alpha Male" Monty Brown.<mask>, however, was removed from the card and replaced with B.G. James after contracting a staph infection, which left him sidelined for much of 2005. <mask> returned to TNA on October 1 for the first episode of Impact! on Spike TV, attacking and powerbombing Jarrett. <mask> went on to challenge Jarrett to a match for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship at Bound for Glory on October 23. In the weeks preceding the event, <mask> and Jarrett had several heated confrontations, on one occasion brawling with one another and with guest referee Tito Ortiz. On October 22, one day before Bound for Glory, <mask> was hospitalized with chest pains.At Bound for Glory, a battle royal was held to determine the number one contender; Rhino won and then defeated Jarrett for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship. <mask> was later discharged from the hospital, having suffered a mild cardiac episode. He made a partial return to the ring in December 2005, wrestling several matches on a tour of South Africa. Paparazzi Productions (2006–2007)

<mask> returned to TNA once more on the April 27, 2006 episode of Impact!, announcing in a pre-taped segment that he would give a private interview to Alex Shelley one week later. The interview saw <mask> claim to be the most profitable WWF World Heavyweight Champion of all time and describe the X Division as "basically filler". <mask> went on to announce that he intended to destroy the X Division in order to reassert his position within TNA. He began his campaign at Sacrifice on May 14, powerbombing Puma and continued his campaign on the May 19 episode of Impact!by attacking Chris Sabin shortly after he had defeated Petey Williams to win the TNA 2006 World X Cup Tournament for Team USA. <mask> continued to attack X Division wrestlers over subsequent weeks, leading to Sabin challenging him to a match at Slammiversary. <mask>'s attacks were also coupled with pre-taped segments with Shelley (some appearing only on the internet website YouTube) and his "X Division debut" on the June 15 episode of Impact!, where <mask> wrestled a comedy match against a midget Shelley dubbed a "Sabin-type wrestler". <mask> defeated Sabin at Slammiversary in his second televised match in almost a year, albeit with the assistance of Shelley. Around this time, <mask> and Shelley formed a stable known as Paparazzi Productions, with Johnny Devine as a cameraman. <mask> then decided to go for the X Division championship. He got penciled into a Number One Contendership match for the title against Sabin at Hard Justice.He claimed that he had developed an 840° somersault splash that he would unveil in the match. However, over the weekend, he suffered a mysterious neck injury, supposedly while practicing it with Tito Ortiz, and named Alex Shelley as his replacement in the match. From a wheelchair, <mask> was helpless as he watched Shelley lose the match to Sabin. <mask> remained out of action due to the injury, but returned prior to Bound for Glory, and announced The <mask> Open Invitational X Division Gauntlet Battle Royal. Austin Starr won the match. <mask> took an interest in Starr, which seemed to be at the behest of Shelley. <mask> then worked with the X Division stars in a weekly segment known as the Paparazzi Championship Series (a play on the "Bowl Championship Series").He also began continuing these skits along with Sonjay Dutt and Jay Lethal, in a segment called "Paparazzi Idol". <mask> became a manager of sorts for Lethal, helping him adopt a gimmick where he impersonated "Macho Man" Randy Savage. At Sacrifice, Lethal and Dutt had an altercation. <mask> broke it up, but Sonjay kicked him. Sonjay apologized, and <mask> forgave him. Dutt then became the Guru with <mask> humming mantras backstage. He then began managing The Motor City Machine Guns, but this was short-lived before he next appeared in the role of Dr. <mask>, psychiatrist and adviser to Kurt and Karen Angle.<mask> then engaged in a brief program with TNA Heavyweight Champion Kurt Angle, which eventually culminated in <mask> aiding Angle. <mask> warned the Angles about how dangerous Sting can be based on <mask>'s experience feuding with Sting in WCW. At Bound for Glory, <mask> interfered on Angle's behalf during his World Title defense against Sting. However, it was for naught, as Sting captured the title from Angle via Scorpion Death Drop after fending off <mask> and Angle's wife, Karen. The following Thursday on Impact!, <mask> and Angle had an altercation because Angle blamed <mask> for him losing the World Title. Angle eventually attacked <mask>, who retaliated by Jackknife Powerbombing Angle in the middle of the ring. The following week, Sting defended the TNA World Title against Angle in a rematch from Bound for Glory, and <mask> had a ringside seat.After the match went on a bit, Angle and Sting were out of the ring and when Angle pushed Sting onto <mask>, Sting turned around and hit <mask> in the face with a right hand shot, leading to <mask> interfering on Angle's behalf, even though earlier he said he wasn't going to help Angle. Following the match, which Angle won, <mask> offered a hand shake to Angle only to be "flipped off" by the new champ. An enraged <mask> demanded a match with Angle, but TNA Management's public face, Jim Cornette, instead booked <mask> into a tag team match as Angle's partner against Sting and a partner of his choosing, with the stipulation being that the person gaining the pinfall or submission would be crowned the new TNA World Heavyweight Champion. After a red herring that Scott Hall was the mystery partner, it was revealed to be Booker T.

The Main Event Mafia (2008–2009)

At Final Resolution, <mask> and his partner Samoa Joe lost in a title match to TNA World Tag Team Champions A.J. Styles and Tomko after <mask> abandoned and seemingly betrayed Joe. Yet on the following Impact, when Joe stormed into <mask>'s locker room looking for a fight, <mask> was actually able to persuade Joe into accepting his Machiavellian mentorship. <mask> lost to Kurt Angle in a one-on-one match on Impact!with the winner qualifying for the Three Ways to Glory match at No Surrender. On the September 11 episode of Impact, prior to No Surrender, he seemingly parted ways with Joe on good terms. One month later, <mask> returned at Bound for Glory IV and in a swerve, struck Joe in the back with Sting's bat, helping Sting win the TNA World Heavyweight Championship, turning heel once again in the process. On October 23, he formally

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On the January 4, 2010, special live, three-hour Monday night edition of Impact! Hogan made his debut in TNA, and Scott Hall and Sean Waltman made their return to the company to greet him. <mask>, Hall and Waltman quickly reformed their alliance, but Hogan kept himself out of the group, claiming that times have changed. At Genesis in their first match back together <mask> and Syxx-Pac, who replaced Scott Hall in the match, were defeated by Beer Money, Inc. On the February 4 episode of Impact!, Hall and Syxx-Pac turned on <mask>. At Destination X <mask> and Young faced Hall and Syxx-Pac in a tag team match, where The Band's TNA futures were on the line.<mask> turned on Young and helped the Band pick up the victory, which finally gave them contracts with the company. On the March 29 episode of Impact!, <mask> offered Young a spot in the Band, claiming that what happened in Destination X was just business and nothing personal. Young refused the offer and in the main event of the evening, teamed up with Rob Van Dam and Jeff Hardy to defeat the Band in a six-man tag team steel cage match. <mask> gained a measure of revenge on Young by defeating him in a steel cage match at Lockdown. Later in the night, <mask> replaced Syxx-Pac, who no-showed the event, and teamed up with Hall in a St. Louis Street Fight, where they were defeated by Team 3D. On the May 3 episode of Impact!, Eric Young turned on Team 3D and joined The Band. On May 4, at the tapings of the May 13 episode of Impact!, after TNA World Tag Team Champion Matt Morgan had been attacked by Samoa Joe, <mask> cashed in his "Feast or Fired" contract, teaming with Hall, and pinned him to win the TNA World Tag Team Championship.<mask> later named Young one third of the champions under the Freebird Rule. At the June 14 tapings of the June 17 episode of Impact!, The Band was stripped of the Tag Team Championship, due to Scott Hall's legal problems. The following day it was reported that Hall had been released from his contract with TNA. On the June 24 episode of Impact!, <mask> and Young decided to part ways, as <mask> intended to go after Hogan, whom he blamed for what had happened to Hall and Waltman, and didn't want Young to get into trouble for it. After <mask> was unable to convince Hogan to re–hire Hall and Waltman and failed to secure a meeting with Eric Bischoff, he set his sights on renewing his feud with Jeff Jarrett, who claimed that <mask> had tried to hurt TNA by bringing Hall and Waltman in. On the August 5 episode of Impact!, Sting, who had feuded with Jarrett prior to his 30-day suspension, returned to TNA and, together with <mask>, beat down Jarrett, Bischoff and Hogan. On the August 26 episode of Impact!, <mask> defeated Jarrett in a singles match, after an interference from Sting.The following week <mask> helped Sting defeat Jarrett. After the match Samoa Joe aligned himself with Jarrett and Hogan and drove <mask> and Sting away. At No Surrender Jarrett and Joe defeated <mask> and Sting in a tag team match, after Jarrett hit Sting with a baseball bat. On the September 16 episode of Reaction, <mask> and Sting were joined by D'Angelo Dinero, who claimed to have gotten inside information from Bischoff's secretary Miss Tessmacher, that would suggest that <mask> and Sting were right about Hogan and Bischoff being up to something. At Bound for Glory Nash, Sting and Dinero faced Jeff Jarrett and Samoa Joe in a handicap match, after Hulk Hogan, who was scheduled to team with Jarrett and Joe, was forced to pull out due to back surgery. At the end of the match Jarrett abandoned Joe and left him to be pinned by <mask>. At the end of the event it was revealed that <mask> and Sting had been right about Hogan and Bischoff all along, as they aligned themselves with Jarrett, Abyss and Jeff Hardy.On October 13, 2010, <mask>'s contract with TNA expired and he announced his retirement from professional wrestling. His last TNA appearance was a taped broadcast on October 14, 2010, when <mask> and Sting both announced they were walking away from TNA rather than being a part of Hogan and Bischoff's regime. In January 2011 <mask> signed a new contract with TNA, but was granted a release before reappearing on television, after being contacted by WWE. Independent circuit (2011–2018)

<mask> along with Hall and Waltman made an appearance at the 2011 Gathering of the Juggalos. <mask> teamed with Waltman for a win against Road Dogg and Billy Gunn. On September 23, 2012, <mask> made his debut for All Japan Pro Wrestling, teaming with Keiji Mutoh in a tag team match, where they defeated Seiya Sanada and Taiyō Kea with <mask> pinning Sanada with the Jackknife Powerbomb for the win. <mask> briefly signed with Global Force Wrestling as a "Legend" to help promote events and tours, making appearances at two GFW events on August 28 and 29, 2015.On August 10, 2018, <mask> defeated Flex Armstrong for the Big Time Wrestling Heavyweight Championship. This would become his last match, confirming his retirement on January 5, 2020, to heal his body. Second return to WWE

Feuds with CM Punk and Triple H (2011–2012)
On January 30, 2011, at the Royal Rumble, <mask>, billed as Diesel for the first time since 1996, returned to the promotion, taking part in the Royal Rumble Match. He entered the match at number 32, but was eliminated by Wade Barrett. It was announced that he had signed a five-year WWE Legends contract. On April 2, <mask>, along with Sean Waltman, was on hand to celebrate the induction of Shawn Michaels into the WWE Hall of Fame class of 2011. Triple H inducted Michaels, and after Michaels gave his speech, <mask> and Waltman joined the two on stage to celebrate.<mask>, no longer billed as Diesel, returned at SummerSlam in August, attacking CM Punk after he became WWE Champion, which allowed Alberto Del Rio to cash in his Money in the Bank briefcase and win the title, thus turning heel. The following night on Raw, <mask> claimed Triple H, on-screen chief operating officer of WWE, had instructed him by text to attack the winner. Punk verbally berated <mask> on the microphone, so <mask> attacked him the next week. He also distracted Punk in a match, making him miss out on a championship match. <mask> was signed to an on-screen contract the next week by John Laurinaitis and demanded a match against Punk. After Triple H booked himself in the match against Punk instead, <mask> attacked them both at a contract signing and was fired on screen. At Night of Champions, <mask> interfered in their match, alongside The Miz and R-Truth.Triple H then attacked <mask> with a sledgehammer before winning the match. <mask> returned at the following pay-per-view, Vengeance to help Miz and Truth defeat Punk and Triple H. After the match, he attacked Triple H with a Jackknife Powerbomb and attacked him again the following night with his sledgehammer, preventing him from receiving medical attention and taking him off television. The following Monday, on October 31, Laurinaitis again signed <mask> to a new contract. He continued to appear on Raw, attacking Santino Marella with a Jackknife Powerbomb and cutting promos about how Triple H was more of a boss than a friend. On the December 5 episode of Raw, <mask> competed in his first televised WWE match in eight years, defeating Santino Marella. <mask> went on to face Triple H at TLC: Tables, Ladders and Chairs in a ladder match with a sledgehammer hanging above the ring which he lost by pinfall after a sledgehammer shot to the face, ending the feud in the process. Sporadic appearances and WWE Hall of Famer (2012–present)
In late 2012 and early 2013, <mask> began appearing on WWE's developmental training show, NXT.<mask> initially appeared as the guest Match Commissioner for the night, a title given to him at the request of Dusty Rhodes. After announcing this to the crowd, <mask> was interrupted by Heath Slater to whom he promptly delivered his finisher, effectively turning face. <mask> later again appeared on RAW 1000 to reunite with members of The Kliq, allowing him to effectively settle all issues with Triple H, embracing him once again. The reunion also turned into a reunion of D-Generation-X and <mask> was awarded the title of being an honorary member of the stable. <mask> then helped DX take down Damien Sandow. <mask> competed in the 2014 Royal Rumble match as the 14th entrant, eliminating Jack Swagger before being eliminated by Roman Reigns. He inducted his real-life close friend and former tag team partner, Scott Hall, into the WWE Hall of Fame class of 2014.<mask> appeared on the August 11 episode of Raw to reunite the nWo with Hulk Hogan and Scott Hall as part of Hogan's birthday celebration. <mask> was suspended by WWE on December 24, 2014, following his arrest, but was quickly reinstated when the charges were dropped. On the January 19, 2015 episode of Raw, <mask> appeared with X-Pac and Scott Hall to reunite the nWo, and along with The Acolytes Protection Agency and The New Age Outlaws, they beat down The Ascension, who had been insulting legends from past weeks. On March 23, 2015, it was announced that <mask> would be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame class of 2015. On March 28, he was inducted by long-time friend and Kliq member, Shawn Michaels. On March 29, <mask> appeared at WrestleMania 31 alongside Hulk Hogan and Scott Hall, in their attempt to even the odds in favor of Sting in his match against Triple H, who had D-Generation X (Billy Gunn, Road Dogg, Shawn Michaels, and X-Pac) in his corner. However, Sting lost the match after Triple H hit him with a sledgehammer as he was attempting a Stinger splash.<mask> made a return to WWE for the Raw Reunion show on July 22, 2019. On December 9, 2019, it was announced that <mask> would be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame (2020 Class) for a second time as a member of nWo, together with Hogan, Hall, and Sean Waltman. Personal life
<mask> and his wife Tamara wed in 1988, but separated in 2000, although they later reconciled. Together, they have a son named Tristen who was born on June 12, 1996, Tristen is a solo musician and poet. The family resides near Daytona Beach, Florida. <mask> is part Native American. On March 2, 2016, <mask> announced he will donate his brain to the CTE Center at Boston University and the Concussion Legacy Foundation after his death.The announcement came on the same day that women's soccer star Brandi Chastain said she was doing the same thing. <mask> has been outspoken about supporting gay wrestlers in the business. Legal troubles
In May 2011, <mask> was arrested for battery by assaulting a drunk man in a parking lot of a restaurant in Florida, while he and his wife Tamara were leaving. In June 2011, it was announced by prosecutors that <mask> was clear of all charges against him, stating that he was only acting in self-defense, as the drunk man was trying to flirt with <mask>'s wife. On December 24, 2014, just after midnight, <mask> was arrested for battery against his 18-year-old son, Tristen. Two hours later, police were called back and Tristen was arrested for battery against <mask>'s wife, Tamara. On January 15, 2015, prosecutors announced that <mask> would not face charges.<mask>'s lawyer maintains that <mask> was only defending his wife the night he was arrested. Legacy
During his time as WWF Champion, his power as a draw has been questioned, usually being labeled as one of the lowest drawing champions of WWF. <mask> however has stated that in the mid-1990s, nobody drew because professional wrestling was in a major recession due to the Steroid Scandal. <mask> jumping ship to WCW in 1996 along with Scott Hall has often been cited as the main reason behind Vince McMahon's decision to start offering downside guaranteed contracts to all of his talent in order to avoid a mass exodus of his talent roster and compete with WCW. The decision proved to be a boon since it changed the salary structure for the WWF wrestlers and helped increase the pay scale for the industry. McMahon also acknowledged in 1998 that letting them defect to WCW made him start offering guaranteed contracts. In his autobiography Controversy Creates Ca$h, former WCW President Eric Bischoff praised <mask> and Scott Hall for contributing to the key elements of the nWo's feel and attitude, while others have said that many of the booking ideas that propelled WCW's rise came from <mask> and Hall.Veteran wrestler "Macho Man" Randy Savage credited <mask> for spearheading the nWo Wolfpac faction in 1998 which grew in popularity with the fans and became the company's hottest selling merchandise. Other media
In 1991, <mask> made his acting debut in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze as the genetically enhanced version of the villain, Shredder, called the Super Shredder. He also had a very minor role as a jackhammer worker in the 1998 movie Family Plan. In 1999, <mask> created and co-wrote a comic book titled <mask>, set in a dystopian future and featuring himself as the primary character. Image Comics published an ashcan preview edition and two regular issues. He was the first choice for the role of Sabretooth in X-Men, but the role ultimately went to his former tag team partner Tyler Mane. <mask> appeared in a fight scene as The Russian in the 2004 film The Punisher.While filming the scene, <mask> was accidentally stabbed with a real knife by actor Thomas Jane. He made guest appearances in three different TV shows. He appeared on one episode each of The Love Boat: The Next Wave (episode "Captains Courageous") and Sabrina, the Teenage Witch (episode "The Crucible") and in two episodes of Nikki as The Big Easy (episodes "Gimme Shelter" and "Stealing Nikki"). In 2009, he appeared on Fox's show Brothers, in which he came to get his stolen championship belt back. In 2012, he played a male stripper in Magic Mike and reprised the role in the 2015 sequel Magic Mike XXL. In 2017, he appeared as Big Hank Cramblin on Detroiters. Filmography

Video games
<mask> has appeared in numerous video games, including WWF Raw, WCW vs. nWo: World Tour, Virtual Pro Wrestling 64, WCW Nitro, WCW/nWo Revenge, WCW/nWo Thunder, WCW Mayhem, WCW Backstage Assault, WWE Road to WrestleMania X8, WWE WrestleMania X8, WWE SmackDown!Shut Your Mouth, WWE Crush Hour, WWE Raw 2, WWE SmackDown! Here Comes the Pain, TNA Impact!, TNA Wrestling, TNA Wrestling Impact!, WWE '12, WWE '13, WWE 2K14, WWE SuperCard, WWE 2K15, WWE 2K16, WWE 2K17, WWE 2K18, WWE Champions, WWE Mayhem, WWE 2K19, and WWE 2K20. Championships and accomplishments

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 BTW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
 Covey Promotions
 CP World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
 Pro Wrestling Illustrated Match of the Year (1995)
 Most Improved Wrestler of the Year (1994)
 Tag Team of the Year (1997)
 Wrestler of the Year (1995)
 Ranked No. 1 of the top 500 singles wrestlers of the year in the PWI 500 in 1995
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