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• Featured news
  • SummerSlam (2003) (link) is a current Featured Article candidate
  • December to Dismember (2006) (link) is currently under Featured Article review.
  • WWE No Way Out (link) has been elevated to Featured List status.
  • 2008 WWE Draft (link) was not promoted to Featured List status, though it has been renominated as a Featured List candidate, here
  • IWGP Tag Team Championship (link) is a current Featured List removal candidate.

• Good article news
  • Armageddon (2006), Dark Angel (wrestler), Juggernaut (wrestler), and Lockdown (2008) are currently Good article candidates.
  • Cyber Sunday (2007) (link), Lipstick and Dynamite, Piss and Vinegar: The First Ladies of Wrestling (link), Royal Rumble (2007) (link), Stacy Carter (link), SummerSlam (1988) (link), The Great American Bash (2004) (link) and Vengeance: Night of Champions (link) have been elevated to Good Article status.
  • SummerSlam (2004) (link) failed its Good Article nomination.

• Other project news
  • Sacrifice (2008) (link) and The Great American Bash (2005) (link) are currently under Peer Review.
  • A fact from Lipstick and Dynamite, Piss and Vinegar: The First Ladies of Wrestling (July 20), The Great American Bash (2004) (July 21), C.W. Bergstrom (July 22), Survivor Series (1993) (July 23), The Great American Bash (2005) (July 25), No Mercy (2005) (July 30) and New Year's Revolution (2005) (August 1) were featured on the Main Page in the Did you know? column.
  • Hell in a Cell has been proposed to be merged into Professional wrestling match types, the discussion can be found here.
  • WWE World Tag Team chamiopship, a current redirect to World Tag Team Championship (WWE) is currently a RfD. It's deletion page can be found here.

• July 23, 1984 - Wendi Richter defeated The Fabulous Moolah for the WWF Women's Championship.
• June 26, 1992 - Buddy Rogers died of a stroke aged 71.
• July 27, 1963 - Fritz Von Erich defeated Verne Gagne for the AWA World Heavyweight Championship.
• July 27, 2002 - Low-Ki defeated Christopher Daniels, Spanky, and Doug Williams to become the inaugural ROH World Heavyweight Champion.
• July 27, 2002 - Eddie Guerrero defeated Chris Benoit in a tournament final to win the reinstated WWE United States Championship.
• August 3, 1997 - Bret Hart defeated The Undertaker for the WWF Heavyweight title.

• Our goal is to get the number of Stub-Class articles below 600. The current count is 625. It would be greatly appreciated if anyone could help expand and/or source an article or two. A list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve.

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA			2	3	5
	FL		1	6	15	22
	GA		5	20	56	81
	B	1	15	67	203	286
	C		1	10	60	71
	Start	2	49	203	1735	1989
	Stub		1	23	601	625
	List		2	20	573	595
	Assessed	3	74	351	3246	3674
	Total	3	74	351	3246	3674

• Based on the members list, there are currently 406 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
• On the calendar:
  • For the month of July:
    • 1 - D.M.N.'s birthday
    • 7 - Alex Roggio's and The Hybrid's birthdays
    • 13 - TNA presents Victory Road
    • 19 - ProtoWolf's and The Founders Intent's birthday
    • 20 - WWE presents The Great American Bash
    • 22 - Darrenhusted's birthday
    • 27 - Sundogs' birthday
    • 29 - Kris Classic's birthday
    • 31 - Normy's birthday
  • For the month of August:
    • 10 - TNA presents Hard Justice
    • 12 - NickSentowski's birthday
    • 16 - Lakers244805's birthday
    • 17 - iMatthew's birthday; WWE presents SummerSlam
    • 18 - Crash Underride's and Wrestlinglover's birthdays
    • 19 - Darren Jowalsen's birthday
    • 22 - HeartBurn Kid's birthday

• At The Great American Bash:
  • Curt Hawkins and Zach Ryder won the WWE Tag Team Championship in a Fatal Four-Way match.
  • Shelton Benjamin won the WWE United States Championship, defeating Matt Hardy.
  • Michelle McCool defeated Natalya to become the inaugural WWE Divas Champion.
• TNA has posted a notice on their official website detailing a release of wrestler Kaz. This has been reported to be kayfabe by numerous other sites, but be prepared to revert edits to Kaz's article regarding this as well as List of Total Nonstop Action Wrestling alumni
• A redesigned ECW Championship belt was introduced on July 22 during an episode of ECW.
• Mike Adamle was appointed the new General Manager of Raw. Todd Grisham has now taken over as the commentator for ECW.

• The article collaborations for August 3 through August 16 are Gail Kim and The Kliq.
• Please help to improve these articles to match the quality of an ideal Misplaced Pages professional wrestling related article.

• The next articles for collaboration will be chosen on August 17.
  

• Current: Between the Ropes, Rycklon Stephens, Taryn Terrell (wrestler), and Ted DiBiase and Cody Rhodes.
• Kept: Mark Madden.
• Redirected/Merged: List of wrestling championships, Ranjin Singh.
• Deleted: Anastacia Rose McPherson, Dollar Store Wrestling, Jake Hardy, List of Current World Champions, and Simply Pricelss.

Contributors to this Issue:

• IMatthew (talk · contribs)
• NiciVampireHeart (talk · contribs)
• SRX (talk · contribs)

• Featured news
  • SummerSlam (2003) (link) is a current Featured Article candidate.
  • December to Dismember (2006) (link) is currently under Featured Article review.
  • 2008 WWE Draft (link). has been elevated to Featured List status.
  • IWGP Tag Team Championship (link) is a current Featured List removal candidate.

• Good article news
  • Armageddon (2006) (link), Bad Blood (2003), Chyna, In Your House 2: The Lumberjacks, Juggernaut (wrestler) (link), Lockdown (2008) (link), No Mercy (2005), SummerSlam (1992) and The Great American Bash (2005) are currently Good article candidates.
  • Sarah Stock (link) has been elevated to good article status.

• Other project news
  • Matt Sydal (link) is currently under Peer Review.
  • A fact from SummerSlam (1992)‎, Armageddon (2003), and Bad Blood (2003) were featured on the Main Page in the Did you know? column on August 9, 11, and 14 respectively.
  • Hell in a Cell has been proposed to be merged into Professional wrestling match types, the discussion can be found here.
  • The guidelines for writing pay-per-view articles has been updated, see here. The new guidelines should be followed in order for an article to be nominated for Good article or Featured article status.
  • The project has had a cleanup listing generated here. It details all the article within the project that are tagged as having problems. Please help to fix the problems outlined.

• August 3, 1997 - Bret Hart defeated The Undertaker for the WWF Heavyweight championship.
• August 4, 1997 - Lex Luger defeated Hulk Hogan to win the WCW Heavyweight title.
• August 7, 2002 - Ron Killings defeated Ken Shamrock for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship.
• August 8, 1963 - Verne Gagne defeated Fritz Von Erich for the AWA World Heavyweight Championship.
• August 9, 1999 - Jackie Sato died of stomach cancer at age 41.
• August 12, 1995 - Brad Armstrong defeated Buddy Landel for the Smokey Mountain Heavyweight Championship.
• August 15, 2004 - Randy Orton defeated Chris Benoit to win the World Heavyweight Championship and become the youngest World Champion in WWE history.
• August 16, 1992 - The Great Muta defeated Riki Chōshū for the IWGP Heavyweight title.

• Our goal is to get the number of Stub-Class articles below 600. The current count is 625. It would be greatly appreciated if anyone could help expand and/or source an article or two. A list has been placed on the stub article subpage of stub articles of well-known wrestlers that should be fairly easy to improve.

Professional wrestling articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA			2	3	5
	FL		1	7	15	23
	GA		5	20	57	82
	B	1	15	68	203	287
	C		1	10	63	74
	Start	2	49	203	1751	2005
	Stub		1	23	595	619
	List		2	20	573	595
	Assessed	3	74	353	3260	3690
	Total	3	74	353	3260	3690

• Based on the members list, there are currently 414 members participating in WikiProject Professional wrestling.
• On the calendar:
  • For the month of August:
    • 10 - TNA presents Hard Justice
    • 12 - NickSentowski's birthday
    • 16 - Lakers244805's birthday
    • 17 - iMatthew's birthday; WWE presents SummerSlam
    • 18 - Crash Underride's and Wrestlinglover's birthdays
    • 19 - Darren Jowalsen's birthday
    • 22 - HeartBurn Kid's birthday

• At WWE Saturday Night's Main Event, Jenny McCarthy appeared on the television program to promote funding for the prevention of autism in children.
• On August 3, World Wrestling Entertainment's official website announced that Ric Flair and the WWE would part ways.
• On the August 4 edition of Raw, Batista and John Cena defeated Cody Rhodes and Ted DiBiase to win the World Tag Team Championship; however, the following week DiBiase and Rhodes regained the titles.
• Braden Wlker was released from WWE on August 7.
• On August 8, WWE released Shannon Moore, Nick Patrick, James Curtis, Domino, Nunzio and Big Daddy V.
• On August 10, Randy Orton reinjured his shoulder in a motorcycle accident.
• Beer Money Inc (James Storm and Robert Roode) won the TNA World Tag Team Championship at Hard Justice, defeating the Latin American Xchange.
• WWE released Cherry, Colin Delaney, Stevie Richards, The Highlanders and referee Wes Adams on August 15.

• The article collaboration for August 17 through August 29 is A.J. Styles. The featured article collaboration is Randy Orton.
• Please help to improve these articles to match the quality of an ideal Misplaced Pages professional wrestling related article.

• The next articles for collaboration will be chosen on August 30.
  

• Current: National Wrestling Coalition and Yogeshwar Dutt.
• Kept: Rycklon Stephens and WWE Saturday Night's Main Event results.
• Redirected/Merged:
• Deleted: Bad Guys (professional wrestling), Beer Money (professsional wrestling), Between the Ropes, Finlay and Horsnwoggle, Taryn Terrell (wrestler), and Ted DiBiase and Cody Rhodes.
• Redirects for Deletion: WWE World Tag Team chamiopship (kept).

My apologies for the late newsletter delivery. -- iMatthew _T.C.

Contributors to this Issue:

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• SRX (talk · contribs)