Since 2008 he is head of the Belarusian national wrestling federation.

He stopped donating money to the wrestling federation in June 1995.

The wrestling federation won the right to switch cable networks early last summer after a long court battle.

Cornette later said that he chose the wrong time to start a wrestling federation because the business as a whole was in a recession.

He was a very successful wrestler, becoming a national champion and heading the country's wrestling federation.

But the fund got a Swiss injunction against the wrestling federation in 1993, "and threatened to take it around the world," she added.

Even if New 42d Street now wanted to reconsider the wrestling federation's offer, the federation may no longer be interested.

Until 2005, Stigsson was also president of the Swedish wrestling federation.

Many girls in Japan have dreamt for fighting in a professional wrestling federation.

Between 1996 and 2000, he served as the president of the Turkish Wrestling Federation.