On various occasions in professional wrestling , a single-elimination tournament of varying match types are held, often to determine a champion for a vacant or newly-created championship, to determine the number-one contender for a championship, or is held with no championship or #1 championship contendorship attached to winning such as most editions of the King of the Ring tournament . Sometimes promotion (especially in earlier eras of wrestling) may use a title tournament that are fictitious in nature (that is, the title may have been simply awarded under the pretext of winning a tournament elsewhere) - notable ones include the tournaments that established the WWE World Heavyweight Championship , the WWE Intercontinental Championship , and the WWE United States Championship (the latter when it was the NWA United States Championship).
34-470: Lucha Libre AAA World Wide tournament The Lucha Libre World Cup is an annual professional wrestling tournament and event organized by Mexican professional wrestling promotion Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA) since 2015. The first two tournaments, which featured three-man tag teams, referred to as trios in lucha libre , were held in Mexico City , while
68-573: A "yahoo" (used by college students in David Filo's native Louisiana in the late 1980s and early 1990s to refer to an unsophisticated, rural Southerner): "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth." This meaning derives from the Yahoo race of fictional beings from Gulliver's Travels . Yahoo was incorporated on March 2, 1995. In 1995, a search engine function, called Yahoo Search, was introduced. This allowed users to search Yahoo Directory. Yahoo soon became
102-616: A collaboration with BetMGM. BuzzFeed acquired HuffPost from Yahoo in November 2020, in a stock deal with Yahoo as a minority shareholder. The NFL partnered with Yahoo in 2020, to introduce a new "Watch Together" function on the Yahoo Sports app for interactive co-viewing through a synchronized livestream of local and primetime NFL games. The Paley Center for Media collaborated with Verizon Media to exclusively stream programs on Yahoo platforms beginning in 2020. Yahoo became
136-628: A final distribution in October 2020. In September 2021, investment funds managed by Apollo Global Management acquired 90% of Yahoo. In November 2021, Yahoo announced that it was ending operations in mainland China due to the increasingly challenging business and legal environment. Previously, the company discontinued China Yahoo Mail on August 20, 2013. In 2023, Yahoo announced that it would cut 20% of its workforce. The move followed mass layoffs from other tech giants including Google , Microsoft , Twitter, Inc , Meta , and Amazon . The company
170-551: A hierarchy, as opposed to a searchable index of pages. In March 1994, "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web" was renamed "Yahoo!" and became known as the Yahoo Directory . The "yahoo.com" domain was registered on January 18, 1995. The word "yahoo" is a backronym for " Yet Another Hierarchically Organized Oracle" or "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle". The term "hierarchical" described how
204-405: A website affiliated with Occupy Wall Street protests were raised, Yahoo responded with an apology and explained it as an accident. On September 11, 2001, Yahoo announced its partnership with FIFA for the 2002 FIFA World Cup and 2006 FIFA World Cup tournaments. It was one of FIFA's 15 partners at the tournaments. The deal included co-branding the organization's websites. Yahoo sponsored
238-463: Is 90% owned by investment funds managed by Apollo Global Management and 10% by Verizon . It provides a web portal , search engine Yahoo Search , and related services, including My Yahoo , Yahoo Mail , Yahoo News , Yahoo Finance , Yahoo Sports and its advertising platform, Yahoo Native . Yahoo was established by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was one of the pioneers of
272-2475: Is a Vampire: NWA vs. AAA Lucha Libre World Cup Triplemanía Verano de Escándalo Héroes Inmortales (2007–2021, 2023–present) Noche de Campeones Guerra de Titanes (1997–2019, 2023–present) Former When Worlds Collide (1994) World Wrestling Peace Festival (1996) TripleSEM (2007) AAA vs. Elite (2018) Lucha Invades NY (2019) Super Series 2020 2022 2023 AAA Invades WrestleCon (2022) v t e Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide Championships Active Primary Mega reigns Secondary Latin American reigns Cruiserweight reigns Mini-Estrella reigns Women's Reina de Reinas reigns Tag team World Tag reigns Mixed Tag reigns Trios Trios reigns Inactive Americas Trios (1996–1997) Campeón de Campeones (1996–2001) Americas Heavyweight (1996–2004) IWC World Heavyweight (1993–2007) Mascot Tag (2002–2009) Fusión (2012–2014) Northern Tag (2004–2017) Tournaments Alas de Oro Copa Antonio Peña Rey de Reyes Lucha Capital Lucha Libre World Cup Miscellaneous List of major Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide events Lucha Libre AAA: Héroes del Ring Triple Crown TripleSEM Personnel Roster Alumni Hall of Fame Partnerships Current Gleat National Wrestling Alliance Total Nonstop Action Wrestling Former All Elite Wrestling International Wrestling Revolution Group International Wrestling Syndicate Game Changer Wrestling Global Force Wrestling Lucha Libre Elite Lucha Underground Major League Wrestling National Wrestling Alliance Pro Wrestling Noah Ring of Honor The Crash Lucha Libre World Championship Wrestling World Wrestling Council World Wrestling Federation [REDACTED] Category v t e Lucha Underground Championships Primary Lucha Underground Championship reigns Secondary Gift of
306-476: Is different from Wikidata Professional wrestling tournament In tournaments with a fixed bracket, a multiple-disqualification or a multiple-countout eliminates all parties involved, and those who are slated to face the winner of such a match simply partakes in a match with one less opponent (or simply does not wrestle, if no opponents remain). Tournaments, however, rarely have a final match where only one such finalist remain, with no others qualifying for
340-499: Is set to lay off roughly 1,000 staff members of their 8,600 workers. Eleven chief executives and interim leaders have led the Yahoo companies since 1995. They are: For a list of all current and defunct services offered by Yahoo, see List of Yahoo-owned sites and services . On September 22, 2016, Yahoo disclosed a data breach that occurred in late 2014, in which information associated with at least 500 million user accounts, one of
374-679: The 2012 Sundance Film Festival . NBC Sports Group aligned with Yahoo Sports the same year with content and program offerings on mobile and desktop platforms. Yahoo announced television video partnerships in 2013 with Condé Nast , WWE , ABC NEWS , and CNBC . Yahoo entered into a 10-year collaboration in 2014, as a founding partner of Levi's Stadium , home of the San Francisco 49ers . The National Basketball Association partnered with Yahoo Sports to stream games, offer virtual and augmented-reality fan experiences, and in 2018 NBA League Pass . Yahoo Sportsbook launched in November 2019,
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#1732790485268408-684: The ECCW Pacific Cup, considered to be the Canadian equivalent of such American tournaments as the East Coast Wrestling Association's Super 8 Tournament. The first edition of the tournament took place on November 24, 2000, in New Westminster, with Asian Cougar defeating Havoc and Tony Kozina in the final; beginning with the 2002 edition (it was not held in 2001), the event was moved closer to the start of
442-1121: The Gods Championship reigns Trios Trios Championship reigns Other AAA Mega Championship reigns Seasons Season 1 Season 2 Season 3 Season 4 Events Lucha Libre World Cup 2015 2016 2017 Ultima Lucha Ultima Lucha 1 Ultima Lucha Dos Ultima Lucha Tres Ultima Lucha Cuatro Other Impact Wrestling vs. Lucha Underground Miscellaneous Alumni Dario Cueto Tournaments Triple Crown Partnerships Impact Wrestling International Wrestling Syndicate Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lucha_Libre_World_Cup&oldid=1235950488 " Categories : Lucha Libre World Cup Recurring events established in 2015 Hidden categories: CS1 Spanish-language sources (es) Articles with short description Short description
476-525: The WWE Championship by defeating John Cena at WWE Money in the Bank and walked out of the company with the title, Vince McMahon set up a tournament to decide a new champion the following night on Raw. A week later in the final, Rey Mysterio defeated The Miz in the opening match of the broadcast to become WWE Champion. However, Mysterio would lose the title later that night to Cena, who would win
510-406: The Yahoo database was arranged in layers of subcategories. The term "oracle" was intended to mean "source of truth and wisdom", and the term "officious", rather than being related to the word's normal meaning, described the many office workers who would use the Yahoo database while surfing from work. However, Filo and Yang insist they mainly selected the name because they liked the slang definition of
544-544: The Yahoo workforce. On July 25, 2016, Verizon Communications announced the acquisition of Yahoo's core Internet business for $ 4.83 billion. The deal excluded Yahoo's 15% stake in Alibaba Group and 35.5% stake in Yahoo Japan . On February 21, 2017, as a result of the Yahoo data breaches , Verizon lowered its purchase price for Yahoo by $ 350 million and reached an agreement to share liabilities regarding
578-543: The bid, claiming that it "substantially undervalues" the company and was not in the interest of its shareholders. Although Microsoft increased its bid to $ 47 billion, Yahoo insisted on another 10%+ increase to the offer and Microsoft cancelled the offer in May 2008. Carol Bartz , who had no previous experience in Internet advertising, replaced Yang as CEO in January 2009. In September 2011, after failing to meet targets, she
612-585: The company stated that all 3 billion of its user accounts were affected by the August 2013 theft. On November 30, 2009, Yahoo was criticized by the Electronic Frontier Foundation for sending a DMCA notice to whistleblower website " Cryptome " for publicly posting details, prices, and procedures on obtaining private information pertaining to Yahoo's subscribers. After some concerns over censorship of private emails regarding
646-411: The company. On May 13, 2012, Thompson was fired and was replaced on an interim basis by Ross Levinsohn , recently appointed head of Yahoo's new Media group. Several associates of Third Point Management , including Daniel S. Loeb were nominated to the board of directors . Thompson's total compensation for his 130-day tenure with Yahoo was at least $ 7.3 million. On July 15, 2012, Marissa Mayer
680-590: The crawler-based search engine underlying the Directory with Inktomi . Yahoo's two biggest acquisitions were made in 1999: Geocities for $ 3.6 billion and Broadcast.com for $ 5.7 billion. Its stock price skyrocketed during the dot-com bubble , closing at an all-time high of $ 118.75/share on January 3, 2000. However, after the dot-com bubble burst, it reached a post-bubble low of $ 8.11 on September 26, 2001. Yahoo began using Google for search in June 2000. Over
714-425: The data breaches. On June 13, 2017, Verizon completed the acquisition of Yahoo and Marissa Mayer resigned. Yahoo, AOL, and HuffPost were to continue operating under their own names, under the umbrella of a new company, Oath Inc., later called Verizon Media . The parts of the original Yahoo! Inc. which were not purchased by Verizon Communications were renamed Altaba , which was later liquidated, making
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#1732790485268748-440: The early Internet era in the 1990s. However, its use declined in the 2010s as some of its services were discontinued, and it lost market share to Facebook and Google . In January 1994, Jerry Yang and David Filo were electrical engineering graduate students at Stanford University , when they created a website named "Jerry and David's guide to the World Wide Web". The site was a human-edited web directory , organized in
782-549: The final round. Tournaments may employ a single match type throughout, or may vary match by match or round by round. When Drew Mcintyre was fired from the WWE, the title became vacant, so the WWE organized an Intercontinental Championship tournament. Kofi Kingston was the winner, but Drew returned and was reinstated as the Intercontinental Champion, so Kingston became the number one contender. After CM Punk won
816-543: The first popular online directory and search engine on the World Wide Web . Yahoo grew rapidly throughout the 1990s. Yahoo became a public company via an initial public offering in April 1996 and its stock price rose 600% within two years. Like many search engines and web directories, Yahoo added a web portal, putting it in competition with services including Excite , Lycos , and America Online . By 1998, Yahoo
850-520: The largest breaches reported to date. The United States indicted four men, including two employees of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB), for their involvement in the hack. On December 14, 2016, the company revealed that another separate data breach had occurred in 2014, with hackers obtaining sensitive account information, including security questions, to at least one billion accounts. The company stated that hackers had utilized stolen internal software to forge HTTP cookies . On October 3, 2017,
884-599: The month, more people in the U.S. visited Yahoo websites than Google; the first time that Yahoo outperformed Google since 2011. The data did not count mobile usage, nor Tumblr. Mayer also hired Katie Couric to be the anchor of a new online news operation and started an online food magazine. However, by January 2014, doubts about Mayer's progress emerged when Mayer fired her own first major hire, Henrique de Castro. On December 12, 2014, Yahoo acquired video advertising provider BrightRoll for $ 583 million. On November 21, 2014, Yahoo acquired Cooliris . In August 2023, it
918-450: The next four years, it developed its own search technologies, which it began using in 2004 partly using technology from its $ 280 million acquisition of Inktomi in 2002. In response to Google's Gmail , Yahoo began to offer unlimited email storage in 2007. In 2008, the company laid off hundreds of people as it struggled from competition. In February 2008, Microsoft made an unsolicited bid to acquire Yahoo for $ 44.6 billion. Yahoo rejected
952-2607: The third tournament, which featured traditional two-man tag teams , was held in Tokyo , Japan. Tournaments [ edit ] # Event First date Final date Winners Ref(s) 1 Lucha Libre World Cup (2015) May 24, 2015 May 24, 2015 Dream Team ( El Patrón Alberto , Myzteziz and Rey Mysterio Jr. ) 2 Lucha Libre World Cup (2016) June 3, 2016 June 5, 2016 Men : Team Lucha Underground ( Brian Cage , Chavo Guerrero Jr. and Johnny Mundo ) Women : Team Mexico ( Faby Apache , Mari Apache and Lady Apache ) 3 Lucha Libre World Cup (2017) October 9, 2017 October 10, 2017 Team Mexico AAA ( Pagano and Psycho Clown ) 4 Lucha Libre World Cup (2023) March 19, 2023 March 19, 2023 Men : Team Mexico ( Taurus , Pentagón Jr. , and Laredo Kid ) Women : Team United States ( Deonna Purrazzo , Kamille , and Jordynne Grace ) References [ edit ] ^ Caldwell, James (May 24, 2015). "Show results - 5/24 AAA "Lucha Libre World Cup" in Mexico City: AAA Dream Team of Rey & Alberto & Sin Cara in finals, plus teams from TNA, ROH, Lucha Underground, Japan" . Pro Wrestling Torch . Retrieved April 30, 2016 . ^ Zellner, Kris (May 24, 2015). "Lucha Libre Cup iPPV results and more: The Lucha Report" . Pro Wrestling Insider . Retrieved April 30, 2016 . ^ "6/3 & 6/5 AAA "Lucha World Cup" Results – USA/Lucha Underground vs. Team AAA finals, TNA represented in men's & women's tournament, Noah, Mysterio, more" . Pro Wrestling Torch . June 5, 2016 . Retrieved June 6, 2016 . ^ Valdés, Apolo (June 5, 2016). "Estados Unidos, Campeón de Lucha Libre World Cup" . MedioTiempo (in Spanish) . Retrieved June 6, 2016 . ^ "Pagano y Psycho Clown, campeones de Lucha Libre World Cup" . MedioTiempo (in Spanish). October 10, 2017 . Retrieved October 10, 2017 . ^ Tessier, Colin (March 19, 2023). "AAA Lucha Libre World Cup Results (3/19): Josh Alexander, Vikingo, More" . Yahoo! . Retrieved March 19, 2023 . v t e Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide events Current Rey de Reyes The World
986-454: The title for a WWE record ninth time. CM Punk then returned to the WWE with the title he won, meaning that, for the first time in WWE history, two men had a claim to the championship. The issue was settled at SummerSlam where Punk won a controversial rematch with Cena to become Undisputed Champion, though he would lose the title to Raw Money In The Bank winner Alberto Del Rio seconds later. Since 2000, ECCW has held an annual tournament called
1020-522: The year and alternated between Surrey and Vancouver in later years. As well, in 2004 ECCW held the first, and so far only, tag version of the Pacific Cup. Yahoo! Yahoo ( / ˈ j ɑː h uː / , styled yahoo ! in its logo ) is an American web services provider. It is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California , and operated by the namesake company Yahoo! Inc. , which
1054-447: Was announced Yahoo had acquired the San Francisco -headquartered social investing platform, Commonstock. In April 2024, it was announced Yahoo had acquired the AI -driven news aggregator app, Artifact . By December 2015, Mayer was criticized as performance declined. Mayer was ranked as the least likable CEO in tech. On February 2, 2016, Mayer announced layoffs amounting to 15% of
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1088-551: Was appointed president and CEO of Yahoo, effective July 17, 2012. In June 2013, Yahoo acquired blogging site Tumblr for $ 1.1 billion in cash, with Tumblr's CEO and founder David Karp continuing to run the site. In July 2013, Yahoo announced plans to open an office in San Francisco. On August 2, 2013, Yahoo acquired Rockmelt ; its staff was retained, but all of its existing products were terminated. Data collated by comScore during July 2013 revealed that, during
1122-551: Was fired by chairman Roy J. Bostock ; CFO Tim Morse was named as Interim CEO of the company. In April 2012, after the appointment of Scott Thompson as CEO, several key executives resigned, including chief product officer Blake Irving . On April 4, 2012, Yahoo announced 2,000 layoffs, or about 14% of its 14,100 workers by the end of year, expected to save around $ 375 million annually. In an email sent to employees in April 2012, Thompson reiterated his view that customers should come first at Yahoo. He also completely reorganized
1156-407: Was the most popular starting point for web users, and the human-edited Yahoo Directory the most popular search engine, receiving 95 million page views per day, triple that of rival Excite. It also made many high-profile acquisitions. Yahoo began offering free e-mail from October 1997 after the acquisition of RocketMail , which was then renamed to Yahoo Mail. In 1998, Yahoo replaced AltaVista as
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