He held both the NWA and AWA World Heavyweight titles simultaneously and was revered for his astounding wrestling skills. Born in New Zealand, O'Connor enlisted in the Air Force just as World War ...
The 1980s are considered the Golden Age of professional wrestling. The decade would watch as the WWE, NWA and AWA battled for sports entertainment supremacy. Throughout the decade, the muscleman ...
As the first family of wrestling, Jess McMahon and his son ... Larry "The Axe" Hennig found tag team success in the AWA, and later, his son Curt, known as "Mr. Perfect," had a successful WWF ...
Here then are ten examples of tag teams that teamed under multiple gimmicks. Former AWA Tag Team Champions They Were Managed ...
A former AWA World Heavyweight Champion ... Hennig is the perfect (pardon the pun) example of a wrestler being in the wrong era. His style simply wasn't suited to the big, brash main event ...
Jesse "The Body" Ventura, iconic wrestler, movie star, and former Governor of Minnesota has confirmed that he's officially back at WWE.
Robert Remus in the American Wrestling Association (AWA), working for and being trained by WWE Hall of Famer Verne Gagne. Four years later, Remus donned a mask as Super Destroyer Mark II ...
On June 28, 1986, Martel would win the AWA Women's Championship for a third ... leaving Sherri to focus on managing the male wrestlers. Her first client was "Macho Man" Randy Savage.