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Wang Xu
Wang Xu (王旭), born 1985 in Beijing, Chinese freestyle wrestler; won gold in women's 72 kg freestyle at the 2004 Athens Olympics, plus 2006 Doha Asian Games gold and world championship medals.
War Machine (mixed martial artist)
War Machine, born Jonathan Paul Koppenhaver (1981), American welterweight MMA fighter for UFC and Bellator, record 14-5; sentenced in 2017 to life with parole after 36 years for the 2014 kidnapping and sexual assault of Christy Mack.
War Raiders
War Raiders (formerly War Machine, The Viking Raiders): American tag team of Erik (Raymond Rowe) and Ivar (Hanson). Champions in ROH, NJPW, NXT, WWE Raw/World Tag Team, and AAA; known for the Viking Experience finisher.
Wardlow (wrestler)
Wardlow (Michael Austin Wardlow, born 1988) is an American professional wrestler signed to AEW, a former MJF enforcer, three-time AEW TNT Champion known for the Powerbomb Symphony.
WarGames match
WarGames match: team wrestling match in a double-ring steel cage, created by Dusty Rhodes for Jim Crockett Promotions in 1987, an annual WCW Fall Brawl staple, revived by NXT in 2017 and headlining WWE Survivor Series since 2022; AEW's version is Blood & Guts.
Warlley Alves
Warlley Alves (Warlley Alves De Andrade), Brazilian MMA fighter, TUF Brazil 3 middleweight winner, UFC record 8-8, pro 14-8, four-fight losing streak through May 2024.
Warrior (TV series)
Warrior (2019-2023) is a Cinemax/Max martial arts crime drama created by Jonathan Tropper from Bruce Lee's 1971 treatment, starring Andrew Koji as Ah Sahm in 1870s San Francisco's Tong Wars; canceled after 3 seasons, streamed on Netflix.
Wayne Wells
Wayne Wells (Wayne Alton Wells, born 1946, Abilene, Texas) is an American freestyle wrestler and attorney who won 1972 Munich Olympic welterweight gold after placing fourth in 1968, with 1970 world title.
WCW Monday Nitro
WCW Monday Nitro (Nitro) was World Championship Wrestling's live Monday-night TNT wrestling show, September 4, 1995 to March 26, 2001, created by Eric Bischoff and Ted Turner, which beat WWF Raw for 83 straight weeks in the Monday Night Wars before WCW's sale to WWE.
WCW World Heavyweight Championship
WCW World Heavyweight Championship: WCW's top singles wrestling title, January 11, 1991 to December 9, 2001. First champion Ric Flair, final champion Chris Jericho; associated with the Big Gold Belt and unified into the Undisputed WWE Championship.
WCW World Tag Team Championship
The WCW World Tag Team Championship was a professional wrestling tag team title contested from 1975 to 2001 and retired by the WWF in 2001.
Wednesday Night Wars
Wednesday Night Wars: 2019-2021 TV ratings rivalry between AEW Dynamite (TNT) and WWE NXT (USA Network) in the Wednesday 8 p.m. slot; ended when NXT moved to Tuesdays in April 2021.
Weight class (boxing)
Weight class (boxing): divisions limiting maximum body weight for competition. Eight traditional classes set by London's National Sporting Club in 1909; 17 professional men's divisions today under WBA, WBC, IBF, and WBO, from 105 lbs to unlimited.
Weljon Mindoro
Weljon "Triggerman" Mindoro (Weljon Sandag Mindoro, born 2000), Filipino professional middleweight boxer from Dumingag, Zamboanga del Sur; record 17-1-1 with 16 knockouts, drew with Takeshi Inoue, lost first fight to Carlos Ocampo.
Welterweight
Welterweight is a combat sports weight class: 147 lb (66.7 kg) limit in professional boxing, 170 lb in UFC, over 170–185 lb in ONE Championship. Established 1909 by the National Sporting Club, standardized 1920.
Wendi Richter
Wendi Richter (born 1961) is a retired American professional wrestler, two-time WWF Women's Champion who dethroned Fabulous Moolah on MTV in 1984, regained the title at the first WrestleMania, and lost it in the 1985 Spider Lady screwjob.
Wes Lee
Wes Lee (Deveon Everhart Aikens, b. 1994), also Dezmond Xavier, American wrestler; NXT North American Champion 269 days, MSK tag champion, released by WWE October 2025, now in TNA/AEW as Dezmond Xavier.
Wesley Blake
Wesley Blake (Cory James Weston, born 1987) is an American wrestler, now Westin Blake; NXT Tag Team Champion with Buddy Murphy (2015, ~7 months), later The Forgotten Sons; released by WWE April 2021.
Wijan Ponlid
Wijan Ponlid (วิจารณ์•พลฤทธิ์), born 1976, Thai boxer; won flyweight gold at Sydney 2000, beating Bolat Zhumadilov 19-12; second Thai Olympic champion after Somluck Kamsing.
Wilbert Mcclure
Wilbert "Skeeter" McClure (1938-2020), American light middleweight boxer, 1960 Rome Olympic gold medalist, roommate of Cassius Clay; later a psychologist, Northeastern professor, and Massachusetts boxing commissioner.
Wilfred Benítez
Wilfred Benítez (Wilfredo Benítez), born 1958, Bronx, is a Puerto Rican boxer, the youngest world champion ever at 17 years 176 days, and a three-division titlist (WBA 140, WBC 147, WBC 154) who beat Cervantes, Palomino, and Durán.
Wilfried Dietrich
Wilfried Dietrich (1933-1992), the 'Kran von Schifferstadt', West German heavyweight wrestler who won a record five Olympic medals 1956-1968, took 1960 freestyle gold, and threw Chris Taylor in the 1972 'Jahrhundertwurf'.
Will Brooks
Will "Ill" Brooks, American lightweight MMA fighter, former Bellator lightweight champion who beat Michael Chandler twice and defended the belt twice before a 1-3 UFC run; retired with a 26-5-1 record.
Will Fleury
Will Fleury (born 1989) is an Irish MMA fighter, SBG Ireland, two-division Oktagon MMA heavyweight and light heavyweight champion, record 17-4-1 NC, ex-Bellator and PFL.
Will Kroos
Will Kroos, real name William Walker (born 1996, Worksop, England), is an English wrestler, formerly a PROGRESS Atlas Champion and NOAH competitor, now WWE NXT's Mason Rook after his April 28, 2026 debut.
Will Ospreay
Will Ospreay, "The Aerial Assassin," is an English professional wrestler from Essex who wrestled for NJPW and, since 2024, AEW, where he is the reigning AEW World Champion.
Willi Kaiser
Willi Kaiser (Wilhelm Gustav Kaiser, 1912–1986), German flyweight boxer from Gladbeck; won gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Germany's first Olympic boxing gold, beating Gavino Matta in the final.
William Regal
William Regal (Darren Kenneth Matthews), English technical wrestler from Blackpool; WCW and WWE champion, 2008 King of the Ring, NXT General Manager and WWE talent-development executive.
William Scull (boxer)
William Scull (William Scull Yero, "El Indomable"), Cuban boxer born 1992 in Matanzas, based in Berlin. IBF super middleweight champion Oct 2024–May 2025; lost undisputed title to Canelo Alvarez in Riyadh in a record-low 445-punch fight.
Willie Pep
Willie Pep (Guglielmo Papaleo, 1922-2006), American featherweight boxing champion 1942-48 and 1949-50, nicknamed Will o' the Wisp; 230-11-1 with 65 KOs, famed for defense and four-fight Sandy Saddler rivalry.