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Beulah McGillicutty
Beulah McGillicutty, ring name of Trisa Laughlin, ECW valet and wrestler 1995-1998, central to the Raven-Tommy Dreamer feud, later married Dreamer, returned at One Night Stand 2006, and wrote Gertrude the Great.
Beyond the Mat
Beyond the Mat (1999) is Barry W. Blaustein's documentary on professional wrestling, following Terry Funk, Jake Roberts, and Mick Foley; produced by Imagine Entertainment, released widely in 2000.
Bianca Belair
Bianca Belair (Bianca Crawford, b. April 9, 1989), WWE wrestler "The EST of WWE" from Knoxville. Former collegiate hurdler and CrossFit athlete; 2021 Women's Royal Rumble winner, WrestleMania 37 main-eventer, 419-day Raw Women's Champion, PWI 2024 top tag team with Jade Cargill.
Big Boss Man
Big Boss Man, real name Ray Washington Traylor Jr. (1963-2004), American pro wrestler and former Cobb County corrections officer; WWF lawman gimmick, Twin Towers, Hardcore Champion, WWE Hall of Fame 2016.
Big E (wrestler)
Big E (Ettore Ewen, born 1986) is an American WWE wrestler, former WWE Champion (Sept 2021), and New Day member with Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods; a March 2022 broken neck ended his in-ring career, and he is now retired, working as a WWE commentator.
Big George Foreman
Big George Foreman is a 2023 American biographical sports drama directed by George Tillman Jr., starring Khris Davis as boxer George Foreman alongside Forest Whitaker as his trainer, Doc Broadus.
Big Gold Belt
Big Gold Belt: championship wrestling belt debuted by Ric Flair on February 14, 1986 in Jim Crockett Promotions; made by Crumrine/Crumline Silversmiths; represented the NWA, WCW, WCW International, and WWE World Heavyweight titles until its 2014 retirement.
Big John Studd
Big John Studd (John William Minton, 1948–1995) was a 6'10", 364-pound American pro wrestler, Killer Kowalski trainee, Andre the Giant's WrestleMania I Bodyslam Challenge opponent, 1989 Royal Rumble winner, and 2004 WWE Hall of Fame inductee.
Big Show
Big Show (Paul Donald Wight II, born 1972), also The Giant and Paul Wight, American wrestler, 7 ft 0 in. Won WCW title in 1995 debut match; 7-time world champion, 23 titles; only holder of WCW, WWE, World Heavyweight, and ECW titles; now AEW commentator.
Big Van Vader
Big Van Vader (real name Leon Allen White, also Bull Power) was an American professional wrestler and former NFL lineman, a three-time WCW World Heavyweight Champion.
Bill DeMott
Bill DeMott is a retired American professional wrestler and trainer known in WCW and WWE as Hugh Morrus and General Rection, later head coach of the WWE Performance Center.
Bill Goldberg
Bill Goldberg (William Scott Goldberg, born 1966), American wrestler and former NFL defensive tackle; 173-0 WCW streak, WCW and WWE world champion, 2018 WWE Hall of Famer, retired against Gunther in July 2025.
Bill Watts
Bill Watts ("Cowboy" Bill Watts, born May 5, 1939) is an American retired wrestler, promoter, and executive, founder of Mid-South Wrestling/UWF and WCW executive vice president 1992-1993, WWE Hall of Fame 2009.
Billy Collins Jr.
Billy Collins Jr., American junior middleweight boxer, 14-0 (11 KOs), career ended by Luis Resto's tampered, plaster-hardened gloves at Madison Square Garden, June 16, 1983; died March 1984; Resto and Panama Lewis convicted and banned.
Billy Gunn
Billy Gunn (Monty Sopp), American pro wrestler, WWE Hall of Famer (2019, D-Generation X), New Age Outlaws tag team with Road Dogg, 1999 King of the Ring, 11 WWE tag title reigns; now AEW wrestler and coach, AEW World Trios Champion with The Acclaimed.
Billy Jack Haynes
Billy Jack Haynes (William Albert Haynes III, born 1953), Portland wrestler of Stu Hart's Dungeon training; five-time PNW Heavyweight Champion, WWF 1986–88, WrestleMania III full nelson match, later founder of the Oregon Wrestling Federation and 2024 murder defendant.
Billy Joe Saunders
Billy Joe Saunders (born 1989, Welwyn Garden City) is a British southpaw boxer, two-weight WBO world champion at middleweight (2015-2018) and super middleweight (2019-2021), retired 30-1 (14 KOs), losing only to Canelo Alvarez in 2021.
Billy Kidman
Billy Kidman, ring name of Peter Gruner, is an American retired professional wrestler and WWE producer. A seven-time Cruiserweight Champion across WCW and WWE, he used the Shooting Star Press and later trained talent at FCW.
Bilyal Makhov
Bilyal Makhov (Билял Махов), Russian super-heavyweight wrestler born 1987 in Nalchik; three-time freestyle world champion (2007, 2009, 2010), 2015 double-style Worlds bronze medalist, London 2012 upgraded gold, later doping-disqualified, signed but never fought in UFC.
Bino Bini
Bino Bini (1900–1974), Italian sabre fencer from Livorno, club C. S. Fides. Won team sabre gold at Paris 1924, team silver and individual bronze at Amsterdam 1928, and 1926 European sabre bronze.
Birth of the Dragon
Birth of the Dragon is a 2017 George Nolfi martial arts drama, also known as a Bruce Lee origin film, dramatizing his disputed 1964 Oakland fight with Wong Jack Man; Philip Ng, Yu Xia, and Billy Magnussen star, premiered at TIFF 2016.
Black belt (martial arts)
Black belt (martial arts): dan-grade rank marker from Jigoro Kano's Kodokan judo (1880s), with colored intermediate belts added by Koizumi (1926) and Kawaishi (1935); adopted by karate, taekwondo, and BJJ.
Blackjack Mulligan
Blackjack Mulligan, the ring name of Robert Deroy Windham (1941/1942–2016), was an American professional wrestler, a 6-foot-9 outlaw-style heavyweight best known as half, with Blackjack Lanza, of The Blackjacks.
Blading (professional wrestling)
Blading (also juicing, gigging, getting color) is the pro-wrestling practice of cutting oneself with a concealed razor blade, usually on the forehead, to bleed in a scripted match; attributed to Kirby "Sailor" Watkins in the 1930s and now restricted or banned by WWE, AEW protocols, TNA, and several state commissions.
Blagoy Ivanov (Благой Иванов)
Blagoy Ivanov (Благой Иванов), "Bagata", Bulgarian heavyweight MMA fighter born 1986 in Sofia; 2008 world combat sambo champion who beat Fedor Emelianenko, survived a 2012 stabbing and 86-day coma, and held the WSOF heavyweight title.
Blood & Guts (2025)
AEW Blood & Guts (2025), November 12, 2025 Dynamite from Greensboro, NC: first-ever Women's Blood & Guts (Storm surrenders), O'Reilly taps Moxley in the men's match, Page beats Hobbs, cage match with Joe set for Full Gear.
Bloodsport (film)
Bloodsport (1988), directed by Newt Arnold for Cannon Films, stars Jean-Claude Van Damme as Frank Dux, a Marine who enters the secret Hong Kong Kumite tournament; a cult martial-arts classic that inspired Mortal Kombat's Johnny Cage.
Bō
The bō (棒), also called rokushakubō, is a wooden staff used as a weapon in Japanese and Okinawan martial arts, wielded through the art of bōjutsu.
Bo Bassett
Bo Bassett, or Bowen Bassett, is an American freestyle wrestler from Johnstown, Pennsylvania, who wrestled undefeated in high school and won the 2026 U20 world title.
Bo Dallas
Bo Dallas (Taylor Michael Rotunda, born May 25) is an American WWE wrestler from Brooksville, Florida; NXT Champion 2013, Raw Tag Team Champion with The B-Team, and since 2024 the masked Uncle Howdy leading The Wyatt Sicks.