When Vincent McMahon Jr., owner of the World Wrestling Federation, appears tomorrow before a Federal judge in Uniondale, L.I., he will doubtless be more soft-spoken but every bit as determined.

Halac made his WWE (then known as the World Wrestling Federation) debut in 1995 as Mantaur. The character was based on a minotaur, a creature from Greek mythology that was part man and part bull.

The nephew of WWE Hall of Famer Ed "The Sheik" Farhat, Brunk wrestled on several circuits, including a handful of appearances with WWE (then known as World Wrestling Federation, or WWF ...

which was then known as World Wrestling Federation. He also had a big feud with comedian Andy Kaufman in between those years. Lawler would later reveal the two were actually good friends and the ...

In 1994, Titan Sports, WWF's parent company at the time, had entered in an agreement with the World Wildlife Fund. Both companies had been using the WWF name since March 1979. Under that agreement ...

WWE stands for World Wrestling Entertainment. Previously the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), the name was officially changed to WWE in 2002 after a legal dispute with the World Wildlife Fund ...

Steve Austin played both roles to perfection across 1997 and 1998, all but saving the World Wrestling Federation. The extent to which the New World Order - stylised as the nWo - radically changed ...

It started as Capitol Wrestling Corporation and then went from World Wide Wrestling Federation, World Wrestling Federation to what we know today. The most popular of the names was WWF, which is ...

WWE, formerly known as World Wrestling Federation (WWF), was founded by Vince McMahon in 1980 after he purchased Capitol Wrestling from his father. He took the regional wrestling business to a ...