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Former WWE and WCW star James Yun aka Jimmy Wang Yang and Akio on camera is also backstage at today's WWE Friday Night Smackdown taping, PWInsider.com has confirmed.
We are told that like Petey Williams, Yun, 40, is getting a look as a producer for the company.
Originally trained at the old WCW Power Plant in Georgia, Yun initially broke into the business working as Jimmy Yang for World Championship Wrestling, including being part of one of the last great WCW PPV bouts, a ladder match featuring Three Count vs. The Jung Dragons vs. Jamie Noble & Evan Karagias at Starrcade 2000 in Washington, DC. After the closure of WCW, Yun was one of the talents absorbed into WWE, working as a heel under the ring name Akio. He would later return to the company as Jimmy Wang Yang, playing up a Southern Cowboy persona.
Yun departed WWE back in 2010 and over the course of his career, has also wrestled for Ring of Honor, All Japan Pro Wrestling and was even part of the first-ever TNA PPV bout as one of the Flying Elvises. In recent years, he has launched and operated a party bus company and has teamed with his daughter Jazzie Yang on independent events.
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