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AWA

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AWA

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Logo for the American Wrestling Association...

AWA

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Ring mat with a small AWA logo in the center. Mat: 24,56,154; AWA Posts: 0,0,150; 0,0,150; 150,0,0; 150,0,0 Ropes: 200,0,0; 0,0,200; 200,0,0 Corners: AWA Apron: AWA...

AWA

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Corner mats, blue/red/blue Mat: 24,56,154; AWA Posts: 0,0,150; 0,0,150; 150,0,0; 150,0,0 Ropes: 200,0,0; 0,0,200; 200,0,0 Corners: AWA Apron: AWA...

AWA

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Ring apron with a small AWA logo Mat: 24,56,154; AWA Posts: 0,0,150; 0,0,150; 150,0,0; 150,0,0 Ropes: 200,0,0; 0,0,200; 200,0,0 Corners: AWA Apron: AWA...

Adrian Adonis

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Adrian Adonis wrestled for the WWF from 1980 until 1987, initially as part of the East-West Connection and later, the North-South Connection. After teaming up with Bobby Heenan, he became "Adorable" Adrian Adonis, an effeminate gimmick meant to enrage fans...

Animal

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Animal is one half of the legendary Road Warriors tag team, also known as the Legion of Doom, alongside Hawk. The Road Warriors became incredibly popular in the NWA and WCW in the late 80's, and were accompanied by their manager Paul Ellering. In 1990, the...

B. Brian Blair

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B. Brian Blair started wrestling in 1977 and worked across several NWA territories, including the WWF. During the mid-80's, Blair teamed up with Jim Brunzell as The Killer Bee's, a team that feuded with the Hart Foundation and the Funk's, among others. He ...

Billy Graham

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"Superstar" Billy Graham beat Bruno Sammartino for the WWWF Heavyweight Championship in 1977, and held the title until dropping the championship to Bob Backlund in early 1978. Graham worked for the AWA, WWF, and NWA throughout the 70's and 80's, and was in...

Blackjack Lanza

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Blackjack Lanza is most well-known as one-half of The Blackjacks alongside Blackjack Mulligan, although Lanza also captured tag team gold in the AWA with Bobby Duncum. The Blackjacks were inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2006. This edit uses 160 point...

Bob Backlund

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Bob Backlund is a WWE Hall of Famer who has had several distinct eras in his career. When Backlund began wrestling in the 70's, he was a fresh-faced good guy that took advantage of his wrestling ability. Backlund won the WWF Title in 1978 and held the titl...

Bob Orton

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"Cowboy" Bob Orton, the father of WWE Superstar Randy Orton, is a second generation wrestler who worked for the NWA and WWF during the 70's and 80's. Orton is known for using a cast on his arm to deliver brutal forearms, and was involved in the main event ...

Bobby Fulton

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Bobby Fulton wrestled for multiple NWA territories in the 70's and 80's. He formed The Fantasics with Tommy Rogers in the mid-80's, and the team worked for WCCW, the UWF, JCP, WCW, and NJPW over the course of 12 years together. Fulton remained active on th...

Brian Knobbs

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Former WWF, WCW, and TNA tag team The Nasty Boys, Brian Knobbs and Jerry Sags (http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1084793649). Includes four attires, moves, and AI logic. Uses 121 points. Music: Nasty_Boys.mp3...

Bruiser Brody

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Bruiser Brody was a major draw in the 80's, and made appearances for the WWWF, multiple NWA territories, NJPW and the WWC after a brief NFL career. Brody had a reputation for being difficult to work with, and he would refuse to sell for others at times for...

Buddy Landel

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"Nature Boy" Buddy Landel wrestled throughout much of the South during a career that spanned from the late 70's until 2010. He was a former SMW World Heavyweight and Beat the Champ Television champion in addition to holding the USWA Heavyweight Championshi...

Buddy Roberts

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Former Hollywood Blond Buddy Roberts joined up with Michael Hayes and Terry Gordy in the late 70's to form The Fabulous Freebirds, initially to team with Gordy and allow Hayes to serve as the group's mouthpiece. The trio would go on to win tag titles all a...

Buddy Rose

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"Playboy" Buddy Rose started wrestling for the AWA in 1973 and wrestled over the next two decades, moving a few times between the AWA, NWA, WWF, and WCW. The 8-time NWA Pacific Northwest Heavyweight Champion gained a significant amount of weight before a W...

Curt Hennig (AWA)

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Curt Hennig got his start wrestling in the AWA in 1980 following in the footsteps of his father, Larry "The Axe" Hennig. He briefly worked for the WWF before rejoining the AWA in 1983. Curt became an AWA World Tag Team Champion alongside "Big" Scott Hall a...

David Schultz

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"Dr. D" David Schultz seemed like he was on the rise in the WWF before his infamous encounter with 20/20 reporter John Stossel. Schultz felt insulted by Stossel's question that asked if that wrestling was fake and slapped the reporter multiple times on the...

Dennis Condrey

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"Loverboy" Dennis Condrey wrestled mostly for the NWA throughout his career, which spanned from the early 70's until 1989, although he began wrestling again on the indies for a few years in the 2000's. In 1980, Condrey began teaming with Randy Rose as The ...

Dick Murdoch

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"Captain Redneck" Dick Murdoch wrestled from 1965-1996, and wrestled for multiple NWA territories in addition to working briefly for the WWF from 1984-1985. Murdoch captured tag titles in multiple territories with Dusty Rhodes as The Texas Outlaws in the 7...

Dick the Bruiser

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Dick the Bruiser was a former AWA World Heavyweight Champion and 13-time WWA World Heavyweight Champion who also held numerous regional titles as well as tag team gold with several partners, notably The Crusher. The former Green Bay Packer got into wrestli...

Dusty Rhodes

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"The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes, the son of a plumber, was an everyman hero who wrestled for the NWA, Jim Crockett Promotions, WCW, ECW, and the WWF. Outside of the ring, Dusty was an accomplished and well regarded booker and agent. Dusty didn't look lik...

Harley Race

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Harley Race is a Hall of Fame wrestler by any standard. The legendary Race worked for the AWA, the NWA, the WWF, and WCW over the course of an in-ring career that lasted over 30 years. Race got his start in the early 60's, and his career was nearly ended w...

Hawk

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Hawk is one half of the legendary Road Warriors tag team, also known as the Legion of Doom, alongside Animal. The Road Warriors became incredibly popular in the NWA and WCW in the late 80's, and were accompanied by their manager Paul Ellering. In 1990, the...

Ivan Putski

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"Polish Power" Ivan Putski is a former WWF World Tag Team Champion who wrestled for the WWWF/WWF from 1974-1987. After wrestling for other NWA territories and the AWA for several years, the powerful Putski made his WWWF debut in 1974, and captured tag team...

Jerry Lawler

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Jerry "The King" Lawler is a legend in Memphis, and was one of the biggest stars in wrestling in the 70's and 80's. Lawler eventually made his way to WWF in 1992, initially feuding with Bret Hart after Hart won the King of the Ring tournament. Lawler has b...

Jerry Lynn

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Jerry Lynn has made stops in ECW, WCW, WWF/WWE, ROH, and TNA during his in-ring career. Lynn became well known during his time in ECW, where he first debuted in 1997. His feud with Rob Van Dam began with a battle over the ECW World Television Championship ...

Jerry Sags

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Former WWF, WCW, and TNA tag team The Nasty Boys, Jerry Sags and Brian Knobbs (http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1084793512). Includes four attires, moves, and AI logic. Uses 121 points. Music: Nasty_Boys.mp3...

Jesse Ventura

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Jesse "The Body" Ventura is a WWE Hall of Famer who served previously as the Governor of Minnesota and has appeared in multiple films. Ventura adopted a gimmick similar to "Superstar" Billy Graham in the 70's, and spent much of the decade working for NWA t...

Jim Brunzell

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"Jumping" Jim Brunzell got into wrestling thanks to former college football teammate Greg Gagne in the early 70's. He wrestled alongside the Gagne's in the AWA, winning the AWA World Tag Team Titles with Greg in 1977. Known as the High Flyers, the duo held...

Jimmy Garvin

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Jimmy "Jam" Garvin, originally "Gorgeous" Jimmy Garvin, began wrestling in the late 60's, and made his way through the territories throughout the 70's and 80's. In 1989, Garvin officially joined The Fabulous Freebirds in WCW, although he had been aligned w...

Jimmy Snuka

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Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka was a WWF legend who was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 1996. Snuka's career spanned several decades, and one of his enduring moments was Superfly leaping off the top of a steel cage in 1982 at Madison Square Garden onto Bob B...

Ken Patera

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Ken Patera became a pro wrestler a highly decorated athletic career that included represnting the United States in weightlifting at the 1972 Olympic Games. The powerful Patera wrestled for the AWA, WWWF/WWF, and NWA during the 70's and 80's. Patera challen...

Larry Hennig

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Larry "The Axe" Hennig is the father of "Mr. Perfect" Curt Hennig and Curtis Axel, both former WWF/WWE Intercontinental Champions. The Axe wrestled for the AWA for the majority of his career and is a four-time AWA World Tag Team Champion, notably with Harl...

Larry Zbyszko

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Larry Zbyszko wrestled for the WWF, NWA, AWA, WCW, and TNA over a lengthy career that started in 1972. Zbyszko got off to a strong start in the WWWF and ended his run with the company with a feud against former mentor Bruno Sammartino. Zbyszko turned on Br...

Marty Jannetty

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Marty Jannetty, one half of the Rockers alongside Shawn Michaels, is perhaps most known today for getting tossed through a window on The Barbershop by Michaels in 1992, breaking up the tag team. Before the Rockers broke up, Jannetty and Michaels were a pop...

Masa Saito

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Masa Saito wrestled in the US for the NWA, WWF, AWA, and WCW in addition to AJPW and NJPW in Japan. Saito held tag team gold in the WWF alongside Mr. Fuji as well as in the NWA with multiple tag team partners. He captured the AWA World Heavyweight Champion...

Michael P.S. Hayes

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Michael "P.S." Hayes, the leader of The Fabulous Freebirds, formed the stable in Mid South Wrestling in 1979. The original trio of Hayes, Terry Gordy, and Buddy Roberts worked throughout the NWA territories for the next severla years, and although the grou...

Mike Enos

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Mike Enos wrestled for WCW during the late 90's, serving mostly as an enhancement talent. During the late 90's, he formed teams with Dick Slater and Bobby Duncum, Jr. This edit uses 40 points and has four attires, moves, and logic. Music: Mike_Enos.mp3...

Mr. Hughes

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Mr. Hughes wrestled for WCW, the WWF, and ECW during the 90's. In WCW, Mr. Hughes worked as a heel enforcer and bodyguard. He helped Lex Luger win the WCW World Heavyweight Title at Starrcade 1991 and helped Luger defend the belt several times. Hughes made...

Nick Bockwinkel

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Nick Bockwinkel was a four-time AWA World Heavyweight Champion who started wrestling in 1955 after training under the legendary Lou Thesz. Bockwinkel wrestled alongside his father, Warren Bockwinkel, for NWA territories during his early days before breakin...

Nikita Koloff

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Nikita Koloff was brought into Jim Crockett Promotions in 1984 by his kayfabe uncle, Ivan Koloff, and the two formed a formidable tag team in the NWA. In 1986, Koloff began a feud with Magnum T.A. over the United States Heavyweight Championship. The two fo...

Ox Baker

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Ox Baker was one of the most terrifying men to ever step inside of the square circle. His Heart Punch was said to have resulted in the death of two of Baker's opponents. Two men - "Cowboy" Bob Ellis and Ray Gunkel - both died after matches with Baker. Elli...

Ric Flair

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"The Nature Boy" Ric Flair is a legend in the wrestling business who has held world championships for a record 16 times. Flair debuted for the AWA in 1972, and begn wrestling for Jim Crockett Promotions / WCW a few years later. Flair won his first World Ti...

Rick Martel

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Rick "The Model" Martel started his career in the early 70's, working for promotions like Stampede Wrestling and Pacific Northwest Wrestling. He signed with the WWF in 1980 and began tagging with Tony Garea. The duo won the WWF Tag Team Titles twice before...

Ricky Morton

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Ricky Morton, one-half of the Rock 'n' Roll Express, is a WWE Hall of Famer who spent his career working for multiple territries in the late 80's and early 90's in addition to spending time with the WWF and WCW. Morton and Robert Gibson have held tag team ...

Robert Gibson

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Robert Gibson, one-half of the Rock 'n' Roll Express, is a WWE Hall of Famer who spent his career working for multiple territries in the late 80's and early 90's in addition to spending time with the WWF and WCW. Gibson and Ricky Morton have held tag team ...

Ronnie Garvin

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Ronnie Garvin is a former NWA World Heavyweight Champion who wrestled from 1962 until 1992, although he competed occasionally in matches for more than decade after. The stepfather of Jimmy "Jam" Garvin worked for multiple promotions across the US and Canad...

Scott Norton

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Scott Norton got into professional wrestling after initially competing on the professional arm wrestling circuit. Norton trained with former Olympian Brad Rheingans before making his debut wrestling for Verne Gagne's AWA in 1989, then worked in the Pacific...

Sgt. Slaughter

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Sgt. Slaughter started wrestling in the early 70's for the NWA after a military career in which he was a United States Marine and drill instructor. Slaughter was popular in the WWF in the 80's and early 90's, reaching his peak as a babyface in 1984 as he b...

Shawn Michaels (The Rockers)

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Shawn Michaels eventually became a Hall of Famer by any standard, but before he was a singles star, he was one half of The Rockers (initially The Midnight Rockers) alongside Marty Jannetty. After superkicking Jannetty and throwing him through a window on T...

Stan Hansen

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Stan Hansen was more well-known in Japan than he was in the US, and he is recognized as one of, if not the most successful gaijin wrestlers ever to compete in Japan. Hansen spent the bulk of his time in Japan wrestling for AJPW, although he did make severa...

Stan Lane

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"Sweet" Stan Lane is most known for being part of three successful tag teams - The Fabulous Ones, The Midnight Express, and The Heavenly Bodies. Over the course of his career, Lane held tag titles in multiple NWA territories, including Jim Crockett Promoti...

Terry Gordy

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Terry "Bam Bam" Gordy is well known for his time with The Fabulous Freebirds throughout the 80's, but was also a major star in as half of the Miracle Violence Connection and as a two-time Triple Crown Heavyweight Champion. In addition to singles gold, Gord...

The Crusher

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The Crusher was a three-time AWA World Heavyweight Champion who also held tag team gold across the Great Lakes area with several partners, notably Dick the Bruiser. The Milwaukee cult hero was immortalized with a statue in his hometown in 2019. This edit u...

The Nightstalker

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Before joining the WWF as Adam Bomb, Bryan Clark worked for the AWA, WCW and SMW as The Nightstalker. He was managed by Ox Baker for a short time and at one point held the SMW Beat the Champ Television Championship. This edit uses 110 points and has four a...

Tom Zenk

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"Z Man" Tom Zenk started wrestling in 1984 after a bodybuilding career. Zenk worked for WWF, AJPW, the AWA, and WCW over the course of his career, and at one point, held the WCW World Television Championship. This edit uses 120 points and has four attires,...

Tommy Rich

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Tommy Rich was a great babyface in the South during the 70's, 80's, and 90's, working for Georgia Championship Wrestling, the AWA, WCW, and Smoky Mountain Wrestling. He wrestled in ECW in the late 90's as well. Rich is a former NWA World Heavyweight Champi...

Tully Blanchard

Created by TheAvenger3

Tully Blanchard, one of the original Four Horsemen, was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame along with the rest of the stable in 2012. Blanchard got his start in Southwest Championship Wrestling in the 70's, and he held the Southwest Heavyweight Championshi...

Verne Gagne

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Verne Gagne was a former 10-time AWA World Heavyweight Champion who has been inducted into the WWE, WCW, and Professional Wrestling Halls of Fame. Gagne had an amateur background - he was an alternate on the US freestyle wrestling team at the 1948 Summer O...

Wahoo McDaniel

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Former pro football player Wahoo McDaniel transitioned into wrestling a few years after retiring from the game. Wahoo notably feuded with Johnny Valentine in JCP before moving on to a feud with Johnny's son, Greg Valentine. Greg started the feud off on a h...

Scott Hall (AWA, NWA)

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Before joining WCW and the WWF, Scott Hall wrestled for the NWA and the AWA as "Big" Scott Hall. Hall teamed up with Curt Hennig to win the AWA World Tag Team Championships and was rumored to be in line for a major singles push before Hall left the promoti...

Baron von Raschke

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Baron von Raschke got his start as a referee in the AWA before wrestling under his real name (James Raschke). He adoped the Baron von Raschke persona and added the Brain Claw shortly after, becoming an effective heel in the AWA and NWA territories. Von Ras...

Colonel DeBeers

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Colonel DeBeers wrestled in the Pacific Northwest and for NWA Central-States as Ed Wiskoski before working for the AWA under his South African mercenary gimmick. The pro-Apartheid DeBeers was overtly racist and had notable feuds with "Superfly" Jimmy Snuka...

Jackie Fulton

Created by TheAvenger3

Jackie Fulton wrestled for the AWA, NWA, WCW, and SMW during an in-ring career that spanned nearly 20 years. He also wrestled in Japan, sometimes under a mask as The Eagle. Jackie won tag team gold in SMW alongside his brother, Bobby Fulton. This edit uses...

Peggy Lee Leather

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Peggy Lee Leather wrestled for the WWF, AWA, SMW, and WCW. She teamed with Wendi Richter in the WWF in the 80's, falling short on several occasions challenging for the WWF Women's Tag Team titles. This edit uses 40 points and has four attires, moves, and l...

Bambi

Created by TheAvenger3

Bambi wrestled for the AWA, CWF, SMW, and WCW during the 80's and 90's, and she continued to wrestle into the 2000's under her real name, Selina Majors. This edit uses 60 points and has four attires, moves, and logic. Music: Bambi.mp3 ...

Candi Devine

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Candi Devine is a four-time AWA Women's Champion who made appearances for SMW and the WWF in the mid-90's. This edit uses 40 points and has four attires, moves, and logic. Music: Candi_Devine.mp3 ...

Debbie Combs

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Former NWA Women's World Champion Debbie Combs, the daughter of WWE Hall of Famer Cora Combs, began wrestling at the age of 16 for Angelo Poffo's International Championship Wrestling. She began dating the promoter's son, Randy Savage, while working for ICW...

Héctor Guerrero

Created by TheAvenger3

Héctor Guerrero is the brother of Eddie, Chavo, and Mando Guerrero and the uncle of Chavo Guerrero Jr. Héctor got his start in 70's and wrestled for the NWA and the AWA during the 80's. He has won tag team gold in NWA territories with his brothers Chavo an...

Doug Somers

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"Pretty Boy" Doug Somers formed a tag team with "Playboy" Buddy Rose in the 80's that led to two runs with the AWA World Tag Team belts with Sherri Martel as their manager. Later in his career, Somers served as an enhancement talent in WCW and the WWF. Thi...

Randy Rose

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Randy Rose began teaming up with Dennis Condrey and Norvell Austin in 1980 as The Midnight Express in Southeast Championship Wrestling. Condrey would later reform the team without Rose elsewhere, but Rose rejoined Condrey in the AWA in 1987 to put their ve...

Greg Gagne

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Greg Gagne is the son of the legendary Verne Gagne. Many considered his push in the AWA an act of nepotism, but Greg was nevertheless a capable worker. The former AWA International Television Champion held the AWA World Tag Team titles twice with Jim Brunz...

Billy Robinson

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Billy Robinson was an elite technician proficient in catch wrestling who competed in Europe, Japan, Canada, and the US throughout his lengthy wrestling career. Robinson got his start in his native England in 1955 and trained at Billy Riley's Snake Pit. He ...

Bobby Duncum

Created by TheAvenger3

Bobby Duncum played football for West Texas A&M before getting drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals. He only played a few games for the Cardinals on the gridiron before transitioning into pro wrestling. Duncum competed in the AWA and NWA and won the AWA Worl...

Brad Rheingans

Created by TheAvenger3

Brad Rheingans is a former Olympic wrestler who competed in the AWA, WWF, and WCW during the 80's as well as in Japan for NJPW during the early 90's. After retiring in 1995, Rheingans began working as a trainer and booker. This edit uses 140 points and has...

Bill Watts

Created by TheAvenger3

"Cowboy" Bill Watts is a former wrestler, booker, and executive who got his in-ring start in 1962. The former offensive lineman for the Oklahoma Sooners feuded with Bruno Sammartino over the WWWF Championship and wrestled for the NWA, AWA, and AJPW. In 197...

Mad Dog Vachon

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Maurice "Mad Dog" Vachon wrestled in the 1948 Summer Olympics before transitioning to pro wrestling a few years later. Mad Dog became a feared heel and captured the AWA World Heavyweight Championship on five occasions in addition to winning tag team gold w...

Butcher Vachon

Created by TheAvenger3

Paul "Butcher" Vachon is a former AWA World Tag Team champion alongside his brother, Maurice "Mad Dog" Vachon. He competed in the AWA, WWF, NWA, and more as a vicious heel. Vachon is the adoptive father of Luna Vachon. This edit uses 100 points and has fou...

Jimmy Golden

Created by TheAvenger3

Jimmy Golden wrestled for several territories in the 70's and 80's in addition to working for SMW, the AWA, NWA, and WCW. He joined Ron Fuller's Stud Stable in the 70's and ofter teamed with Robert Fuller. In WCW, he was managed by Fuller (then Col. Robert...

Ray Stevens

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Ray "The Crippler" Stevens was a feared heel during a lengthy career that spanned parts of five decades. Stevens laid out multiple opponents with his piledriver en route to winning gold in the AWA, WWWF, Big Time Wrestling, and mutliple NWA territories. He...

Bill Dundee

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"Superstar" Bill Dundee began his wrestling career in 1962 and competed in the ring across parts of six decades. Dundee wrestled for Jerry Lawler in Memphis in addition to competing for multiple NWA territories, the AWA, JCP, and the USWA. This edit uses 1...

Steve Regal

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"Mr. Electricity" Steve Regal wrestled for the AWA in the 80's in addition to working briefly for JCP and the WWF. The former AWA World Light Heavyweight Championship also held AWA World Tag Team fold with Jimmy Garvin in addition to two runs with the NWA ...

Boris Zhukov

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Boris Zhukov (sometimes spelled Zukhov) wrestled for JCP, Mid-South, WCCW, and the AWA before joining Nikolai Volkoff in the WWF as The Bolsheviks. Zhukov held the AWA World Tag Team Championship at one time alongside Soldat Ustinov. This edit uses 100 poi...

Robert Fuller

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Robert Fuller competed mostly in the south during the 70's and 80's. He tagged often with his cousin, Jimmy Golden, and the two won tag team gold in several NWA territories in addition to wrestling together for a short time in the AWA. Fuller also won tag ...

Jerry Blackwell

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"Crusher" Jerry Blackwell was an agile super-heavyweight who wrestled in the territories before settling in with the AWA in the late 70's. Blackwell was one the best selling big men of his generation and generally considered to be ahead of his time for his...

Mando Guerrero

Created by TheAvenger3

Mando Guerrero started wrestling in the 70's for a few NWA territories and often team throughout his career with his brothers Chavo, Hector, and Eddie. Mando also worked as a stuntman in the film industry and served as the trainer for the Gorgeous Ladies o...

Buck Zumhofe

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"Rock 'n' Roll" Buck Zumhofe is a three-time AWA World Light Heavyweight champion who worked mostly as an enhancement talent everywhere else. Zumhofe served jail time in 1986 for sexual misconduct involving a minor and in 1989 for fourth degree sexual cond...

Bill Irwin

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"Wild" Bill Irwin wrestled as one-half of The Long Riders with his brother Scott in Mid South Wrestling and the AWA. He competed in WCCW as well, winning the NWA Texas Heavyweight Championship and seven WCCW Television titles. In the mid 90's, Irwin portra...

Scott Irwin

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Scott "Hog" Irwin wrestled as one-half of The Long Riders with his brother Bill in Mid South Wrestling and the AWA. The two-time WCCW Television champion prematurely passed away from a brain tumor in 1987. This edit uses 90 points and has four attires, mov...

JT Southern

Created by TheAvenger3

JT Southern wrestled for WCW, the AWA, and the CWA during the mid-late 80's and early 90's. In the early 90's, he feuded with Van Hammer, another wrestler with a rock-inspired gimmick. This edit uses 100 points and has four attires, moves, and logic. Music...

Wayne Bloom

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Wayne Bloom wrestled in the AWA and WCW before signing with the WWF in 1991 to become Beau Beverly. He returned to WCW in the late 90's. As Bloom, he teamed with Mike Enos (Blake Beverly) as the Destruction Crew. This edit uses 100 points and has four atti...

Steve Olsonoski

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Steve Olsonoski, also known simply as Steve O, wrestled in the 70's and 80's for the AWA and NWA. Olsonoski wrestled often as a junior heavyweight, although he once held the NWA National Heavyweight Championship. This edit uses 100 points and has four atti...

Leon White

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"Baby Bull" Leon White made his pro wrestling debut in 1985 for the AWA. The former offensive lineman had been drafted by the LA Rams in 1978, but had his football career cut short due to injuries. White gained momentum and once challenged Stan Hansen for ...

Hulk Hogan (early 80's)

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Hulk Hogan became a household name while working for the WWF in the mid-80's, but prior to his run as Vince McMahon's top babyface, Hogan wrestled for NJPW and the AWA in the early 80's. He started off his AWA career as a villain, fresh off his appearance ...

D.J. Peterson

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D.J. Peterson wrestled for the NWA and AWA during the 80's. The former WCCW Television champ was one-half of the final AWA World Tag Team champions alongside The Trooper. This edit uses 110 points and has four attires, moves, and logic. Music: DJ_Peterson....

Ricky Rice

Created by TheAvenger3

Ricky Rice wrestled for the AWA in the late 80's, often as a tag team competitor. Rice wrestled alongside Jon Paul as the Top Guns and later teamed up with Derrick Dukes. This edit uses 100 points and has four attires, moves, and logic. Music: Ricky_Rice.m...

Soldat Ustinov

Created by TheAvenger3

Soldat Ustinov wrestled in the AWA in the late 80's. He teamed up with Boris Zukhov under the watch of Sheik Adnan Al-Kaissie. Ustinov and Zukhov won the AWA World Tag Team titles in 1987 and held the belts for a few months. This edit uses 90 points and ha...

Dr. X

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While working for the AWA in the 60's and 70's, Dick Beyer (The Destroyer) wrestled as Dr. X. In August 1968, Dr. X defeated Verne Gagne for the AWA World Heavyweight Championship, only to lose the title back to Gagne two weeks later. This edit uses 120 po...

Nord the Barbarian

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Nord the Barbarian wrestled for the AWA and WCCW during the 80's before signing with the WWF in 1991. In the WWF, Nord was better known as The Berzerker. This edit uses 110 points and has four attires, moves, and logic. Music: Nord_the_Barbarian.mp3...

Pat Tanaka

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Pat Tanaka wrestled for the AWA as one-half of Badd Company before moving on to the WWF to become part of the Orient Express. As a singles competitor, Tanaka has mostly been used as an enhancement talent under a martial arts gimmick. Tanaka wrestled for th...

Paul Diamond

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Paul Diamond wrestled in the AWA as one-half of Badd Company before working under a mask in the WWF as Kato of the Orient Express and later as Max Moon. After the Max Moon gimmick ended in 1993, Diamond bounced around the indy scene in addition to brief ru...

Akio Sato

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Akio Sato got his start in the Japan Pro Wrestling Alliance in 1970 before gaining experience in the US for multiple NWA territories and establishing himself in AJPW. In the late 80's, Sato worked for the AWA, where he was known as the "Asian Assassin." Du...

Derrick Dukes

Created by TheAvenger3

Derrick Dukes wrestled for the AWA in the late 80's and spent several years on the indy circuit both before and after his AWA run. In the AWA, Dukes tagged with Ricky Rice as The Top Guns, a team that notably feuded with Badd Company over the AWA World Tag...

The Super Destroyer

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The Super Destroyer, known as The Spoiler for the bulk of his career, wrestled for the AWA as well as in the Carolina territory in the late 70's. This edit uses 100 points and has four attires, moves, and logic. Music: The_Super_Destroyer.mp3...

The Trooper

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The Trooper, better known as The Patriot later in his career, got his start in the AWA in the late 80's after a collegiate football career. He would write tickets for opponents while wearing a state trooper uniform and pass out plastic badges to fans. Alon...

Teijo Khan

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Teijo Khan was billed as hailing from Mongolia or Singapore throughout his career despite being a Caucasian man. Khan wrestled in the AWA and multiple NWA territories during a career that lasted from 1986-1994. This edit uses 70 points and has one attire, ...

Kevin Kelly

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"Mr. Magnificent" Kevin Kelly wrestled for the AWA, WCCW, NJPW, FMW, and multiple territories in the 80's. He would later sign with the WWF full time and portray Nailz, a former inmate who held a grudge against The Big Boss Man. This edit uses 100 points a...

Tommy Jammer

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Tommy Jammer wrestled for the AWA from 1989-1990 and continued to work on the Minnesota indy scene after the AWA closed. This edit uses 80 points and has four attires, moves, and logic. Music: Tommy_Jammer.mp3 ...

Steve Keirn

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Steve Keirn wrestled for NWA territories during the 70's and 80's in addition to working for the AWA during the mid-80's. Throughout his career, Keirn had success as a singles competitor as well as in tag teams. He teamed up with Mike Graham to multiple ta...

Kenny Jay

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"Sodbuster" Kenny Jay wrestled for the AWA as an enhancement talent during the 60's, 70's, and 80's. Jay notably faced off with Muhammad Ali in a boxer vs. wrestler match in 1976. This edit uses 30 points and has four attires, moves, and logic. Music: Kenn...

Jake Milliman

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Jake "The Milkman" Milliman wrestled for the AWA in the 80's as a jobber, often teaming up with "Sodbuster" Kenny Jay. This edit uses 20 points and has two attires, moves, and logic. Music: Jake_Milliman.mp3...

Sheik Adnan El-Kaissey

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Sheik Adnan El-Kaissey wrestled in the AWA throughout the 80's. He feuded with Nick Bockwinkel over the promotion's top belt while fallign short repeatedly before enlisting the help of Jerry Blackwell in several failed attempts to win tag gold. El-Kaissey ...

Tim Woods

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Tim Woods wrestled for multiple NWA territories and the AWA during his career, sometimes working as the masked Mr. Wrestling. Woods worked for the AWA without a mask during the 70's. In 1975, Woods was involved in a plane crash that included fellow wrestle...

Pat O'Connor

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Pat O'Connor is a former NWA World Heavyweight Champion and two-time AWA World Heavyweight Champion who started his wrestling career in 1950. When the AWA broke away from the NWA in 1960, O'Connor, then the NWA champ, was recognized as the inaugural AWA Wo...

Édouard Carpentier

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The acrobatic Édouard Carpentier, known as "The Flying Frenchman" is a former World Champion in the NWA and AWA. Carpentier dazzled fans with moves and flips off the top rope throughout a career that started in the 50's and spanned over three decades. In 1...

Otto Wanz

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Otto Wanz was an Austrian pro wrestler who held World Heavyweight titles in the Catch Wresting Association, which he also founded, and the AWA. Wanz was recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records for his prowess in tearing phonebooks. This edit uses ...

Mr. M

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While working for th AWA in the early 60's, Bill Miller worked as Mr. M. He captured the AWA World Heavyweight Championship from Verne Gagne in early 1962 and held the belt for over seven months before dropping the title back to Gagne. This edit uses 120 p...

Mighty Igor

Created by TheAvenger3

Mighty Igor is a former AWA World Heavyweight Champion who wrestled from the late 50's into the 70's. Igor's gimmick was that of a friendly Polish strongman. He sometimes brought kielbasa to share with fans at ringside. This edit uses 120 points and has fo...

Gene Kiniski

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Gene Kiniski played defensive line for the University of Arizona as well as the Edmonton Eskimos before training to become a pro wrestler. Kiniski won the AWA World Heavyweight Championship from Verne Gagne in 1961 but lost the title back to Gagne a month ...

Nick Kiniski

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Nick Kiniski is the son of former AWA and NWA champ Gene Kiniski. Nick wrestled for the WWF, AWA, and WCCW in addition to several smaller promotions during the 80's. He teamed with Kevin Kelly as The Perfect Tag Team for a short time in the AWA. This edit ...

Kelly Kiniski

Created by TheAvenger3

Kelly Kiniski is the son of former AWA and NWA champ Gene Kiniski. Kelly wrestled for Mid-Atlantic and Mid South in the early 80's before competing in WCCW for a few years. He had a short stint in the AWA at the end of his career. For a few months in 1984,...

Billy Red Lyons

Created by TheAvenger3

Billy Red Lyons wrestled across multiple NWA territories in the 50's, 60's, and 70's. He won tag gold in the USA, Canada, and Japan in addition to holding the NWA Texas Heavyweight, NWA American Heavyweight, and AWA British Empire Heavyweight titles on his...

Kokina Maximus

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Before becoming famous as the WWF's Yokozuna, Rodney Anoa'i wrestled as Kokina Maximus and Great Kokina. He wrestled for the AWA as Kokina Maximus in the late 80's and notably broke Greg Gagne's leg, leading to Gagne's retirement. This edit uses 110 points...

Pepper Gomez

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"The Man with the Cast Iron Stomach" Pepper Gomez was a multi-sport athlete and bodybuilder before getting into pro wrestling in the early 50's. He wrestled for multiple NWA territories and was a 15-time NWA Texas Heavyweight champ. Gomez won tag gold as w...

Reggie Parks

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Reggie Parks wrestled for over 25 years for the NWA, AWA, and WWF before becoming a legendary belt designer. Parks notable designed the "Winged Eagle" belt for the WWF among many other titles in addition to making belts for WCW, the NWA, the AWA, and UFC. ...

Pampero Firpo

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Argentinian pro wrestler Pampero Firpo transitioned into pro wrestling after an amateur career that nearly led to the Olympic Games. Firpo's rough, brawling style led to bloody matches in the NWA and AWA. The three-time NWA Americas Heavyweight Champion re...

Chris Taylor

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Chris Taylor was a former Olympic Greco-Roman wrestler who turned to pro wrestling in 1973. At the time, Taylor was the heaviest Olympic athlete in the history of the Games. Taylor competed in the AWA for several years before retiring for health reasons in...

Roger Kirby

Created by TheAvenger3

Roger Kirby is a former NWA World Junior Heavyweight Champion who wrestled for the NWA, AWA, and WWF during a career that spanned parts of three decades. This edit uses 120 points and has four attires, moves, and logic. Music: Roger_Kirby.mp3...

Big John Studd

Created by TheAvenger3

Big John Studd wrestled for the WWF (going back to the WWWF days), the AWA, and Mid-Atlantic Wrestling throughout his career, spanning much of the 70's and 80's. Studd was a giant in the ring, and along with his manager Freddie Blassie, he famously issues ...

Bobby Heenan

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Bobby "The Brain" Heenan was considered by many to be the greatest manager of all-time, as well as one of the best color commentators in wrestling history. Heenan got his start in 1965 with the World Wrestling Association, and he worked for the AWA and Geo...

Bull Pain

Created by TheAvenger3

Bull Pain began wrestling in 1984 and joined the AWA shortly after as an enhancement talent, working as Rick Golden and Rick Gantner in his early days. After a brief run in the WWF as a jobber, he bounced around the indies in addition to wrestling in Puert...

David Sammartino

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David Sammartino, the son of the legendary Bruno Sammartino, followed in his father's footsteps into the squared circle. However, David never achieved anywhere near the level of success his father had in wrestling. David started wrestling in his early 20's...

Fritz Von Erich

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Fritz Von Erich, the patriarch of the Von Erich clan, is a legendary wrestler and innovater of the Iron Claw. Von Erich trained under Stu Hart in the 50's and started his career tagging with his kayfabe brother Waldo Von Erich. On his own, Fritz was an AWA...

Jeff Jarrett

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Jeff Jarrett started wrestling in the mid-80's for his father's CWA before working for the AWA, CWF, and the WCCW merger with the CWA, the USWA. In the early 90's, Jarrett made the jump to the WWF. He portrayed a country music singer, "Double J" Jeff Jarre...

King Kong Bundy

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King Kong Bundy was imposing figure in the ring, and his menacing snarl struck fear in those watching. Bundy made a major impact early on in his career, highlighted by a main event match against Hulk Hogan at WrestleMania 2. Bundy, as part of The Heenan Fa...

Man Mountain Mike

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Man Mountain Mike got his start in wrestling in 1967 for the AWA. He wrestled for several NWA territories and occasionally teamed up with Haystacks Calhoun (at a combined weight of over 1200 pounds!). This edit uses 100 points and has four attires, moves, ...

Silo Sam

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Silo Sam towered over anyone else he encountered at 7'8". His limited time in pro wrestling involved a few battle royals in the AWA as well as several appearances in the CWA as Big John Harris and in WCCW as Little John. Outside the ring, he notably played...

The Super Ninja

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Shunji Takano portrayed The Super Ninja in the AWA. He teamed up with Larry Zbyszko and later, Mister Go. This edit uses 90 points and has three attires, moves, and logic. Music: Super_Ninja.mp3...

Mister Go

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The masked Mister Go wrestled for the AWA in the mid-80's, often teaming with Super Ninja. Outside the AWA, Ryuma Go is a former WWF Junior Heavyweight Champion. This edit uses 70 points and has two attires, moves, and logic. Music: Mister_Go.mp3...

Tiny Mills

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Tiny Mills is most known for his work as a tag team wrestler, first with his brother, Al Mills, and later with Stan "Krusher" Kowalski as Murder Inc. Mills and Kowalski were the inaugural AWA World Tag Team Champions. This edit uses 60 points and has four ...

Stan Kowalski

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Stan "Krusher" Kowalski joined Tiny Mills in Murder Inc., and the duo won tag titles in NWA Minneapolis before becoming the first-ever AWA World Tag Team champions. This edit uses 60 points and has four attires, moves, and logic. Music: Stan_Kowalski.mp3...

Mike DiBiase

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"Iron" Mike DiBiase was the adoptive father of Ted DiBiase and grandfather of Ted DiBiase Jr., Brett DiBiase, and Mike DiBiase. He married Helen Hild, Ted DiBiase's mother and fellow professional wrestler, when the future "Million Dollar Man" was a young c...

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