How about going surgical instead of clinical? suppose you got 150 wrestlers names, and that you're supposed to sort them alphabetically and you wanted to treat the combination of the wrestler's name, the cheer, the killer move as well as any other additional parameters as a unified data structure that can be expanded to contain other information about the same wrestler, examples of these data can be descriptions about his age, weight in pounds, winning matches, lost games, the association he's member of, a yes/no thingy if he was kicked in the butt by the Undertaker...etc.

Consider getting an insight into References, they're so powerful. Not belittling the other solutions here by toolic and ww for they are far more readable and constructed and these guys are more experienced than humble me, but I am showing you a TIMTOWTDI thing cuz a surgeon needs to know what there in the guts is :p

Here we go:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
my %hash;
while(<DATA>){
        chomp;
        my ($name,$crowdReaction,$killerMove)=split /\|/;
        $hash{$name}=[] unless exists $hash{$name}; #to skip duplicate
+ wrestlers names just in case.
        push @{$hash{$name}}, $crowdReaction,$killerMove;
        }
print "WRESTLER\tCrowd Reaction\tKiller Move\n";
print "_" x 50, "\n";

foreach my $name (sort keys %hash){
        for(my $i=0;$i< length(@{$hash{$name}});$i++){
                print "$name\t@{$hash{$name}}[$i]\t\t@{$hash{$name}}[+
++$i]\n";
                }

        }


__DATA__
The Rock|Cheer|Rock Bottom
Triple H|Boo|Pedigree
Stone Cold|Cheer|Stone Cold Stunner

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WRESTLER    Crowd Reaction    Killer Move
__________________________________________________
Stone Cold    Cheer        Stone Cold Stunner
The Rock      Cheer        Rock Bottom
Triple H      Boo          Pedigree

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N.B: The way you used the open function to open a file, you haven't provided arguments specifying if the file has been opened in modes of input, output, append...
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