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In August 1908, a white mob attacked Springfield, Illinois’s Black community, destroying homes and businesses and lynching two Black men. National outrage over the violence helped spur the movement that created the NAACP the following year.
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This is a personal recollection on the Move fire on May 13, 1985
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | Samuel Stoker 21 November 1994 |
| Spouse | |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Kit Wilson Sam Stoker Sammy Smooth |
| Billed height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) |
| Billed weight | 200 lb (91 kg) |
| Billed from | Buckinghamshire, England |
| Trained by | IPW: UK Wrestling School James Davis Zack Sabre Jr. |
| Debut | 2015 |
Samuel Stoker (born 21 November 1994) is an English professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown brand under the ring name Kit Wilson.[1] He is also known for his tag team tenure alongside Elton Prince, known as Pretty Deadly.
Smooth trained with International Pro Wrestling: United Kingdom (IPW:UK). On 10 January 2015, wrestling under the name Sammy Smooth, he had his first tag match together with Lighting Lewis, under the name Greased Lightning at the IPW:UK Weekend of Champions event.[2]
Stoker, along with Lewis Howley, began their WWE career making sporadic appearances for NXT UK as the tag team Pretty Deadly starting in 2019. Stoker and Howley signed contracts with WWE in January 2020.[3] In February 2021, Stoker won his first title in WWE when Pretty Deadly defeated Gallus for the NXT UK Tag Team Championship, holding the titles until December of that year.
On 5 April 2022, Stoker made his NXT debut alongside Howley, under the new ring names Elton Prince and Kit Wilson.[4] Throughout their appearances for NXT, Wilson became a two-time NXT Tag Team Champion alongside Prince.[5] As part of the 2023 WWE Draft, Pretty Deadly were drafted to the SmackDown brand.[6][7] Pretty Deadly made their SmackDown debut on 19 May, defeating The Brawling Brutes' Butch and Ridge Holland.[8]
On 2 May 2025, Prince suffered a neck injury requiring surgery putting Pretty Deadly on hiatus.[9] After a brief hiatus, Wilson began to appear as a singles competitor on SmackDown and Main Event. Beginning in 2026, Wilson debuted a new theme, and flamboyant gimmick in which he claims to be on a mission to eliminate toxic masculinity.[10][11] On the 6 February episode of SmackDown, Wilson issued an open challenge to any Royal Rumble competitor. The challenge was accepted by Oba Femi, who quickly defeated Wilson.[12] On the 20 February episode of SmackDown, he attempted to make amends with Femi by reading him poetry, but once again lost in an impromptu match.[13]
In March, Wilson entered into a program with The Miz after they were both "cursed" by newcomer Danhausen. Wilson wrestled his first tag team match since 2025 after he and The Miz were offered a title match against new WWE Tag Team Champions R-Truth and Damian Priest on the 3 April episode of SmackDown, but lost after interference from Danhausen.[14] Wilson would face Danhausen in the latter's in-ring debut on the 10 April episode of SmackDown with The Miz at ringside, losing after being knocked off the top turnbuckle (after receiving a curse from Danhausen) by a blast of pyro.[15] At Backlash, Wilson and The Miz were defeated by Danhausen and "Minihausen" (portrayed by AAA wrestler Mascarita Dorada).[16]
On 22 September 2024, Stoker married fellow professional wrestler Lucy Bridge, who performed in WWE under the ring name Stevie Turner.[17]
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Samuel Stoker (born 21 November 1994) is an English professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown brand under the ring name Kit Wilson. He is also known for his tag team tenure alongside Elton Prince, known as Pretty Deadly.
Steve Wilson is an American musician and voice actor who plays drums in the Dead Kennedys and Against All Will. Wilson played drums for D. H. Peligro's solo project, Peligro, and became a touring member of the Dead Kennedys after Peligro's death in 2022. Wilson also played on East Bay Ray's solo project East Bay Ray and The Killer Smiles. He played drums with t.A.T.u. from 2006 through 2011 as Steve "Boomstick" Wilson and appeared on a few of Lena Katina's solo albums. He plays a Pearl drum kit. Wilson lives in the Nashville area and does voice acting in addition to his drumming work.
Pretty Deadly are a professional wrestling tag team consisting of Lewis Howley (born 21 May 1997) and Sam Stoker (born 21 November 1994). They are signed to WWE, where they perform on the SmackDown brand under the respective ring names Elton Prince and Kit Wilson, although Prince is currently inactive due to a neck injury. In WWE, they are former two-time NXT Tag Team Champions and one-time NXT UK Tag Team Champions.
"Man Up" is a song by the American professional wrestling promotion company WWE and Def Rebel. It was released on January 16, 2026, through WWE Music Group, under their distributor TuneCore. It was written by Ali Theodore, Anthony Mirabella III, and James Keith Petrie, and produced by Def Rebel. The song has been described as bubblegum pop, dance-pop, and hip-hop and it is a entrance theme song of WWE wrestler Kit Wilson.
Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.
MORE →Brown v. Board of Education in 1954.
