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Gagne won both the AWA Championship and the Omaha Championship. [5] [6] 9 Fritz Von Erich: July 27, 1963: House show: Omaha, Nebraska: 1 12 Von Erich won both the AWA Championship and the Omaha Championship. [5] 10 Verne Gagne: August 8, 1963: House show: Amarillo, Texas: 5 100 Fritz Von Erich's Omaha Championship was not at stake. On September ...
The following year, he defeated Bob Orton to win the AWA Midwest Heavyweight Championship. [8] In the 1970s, Garza wrestled as "The Mighty Igor" in the "Big Time Wrestling" circuit from Detroit, Michigan, performing with the likes of Bobo Brazil, The Sheik, Pampero Firpo, "Big" Tex McKenzie, The Stomper, Flying Fred Curry, and The Fabulous ...
SuperClash – Night of Champions was one of the co-promotional efforts by the AWA, and National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), to compete with the WWF's increasing national presence and popularity. The jointly promoted venture was known as Pro Wrestling USA . [ 2 ]
In March 1975, Heiniemi announced he was retiring from the ring, and after losing his last match to England's Billy Robinson, Larry left the AWA. However in 1977, he was back to using the Lars Anderson handle and briefly feuded with his kayfabe brothers Gene and Ole in Atlanta in 1977.
The bushy-haired Firpo packed a powerful punch with his stocky, 5–8, 230-pound frame, engaging in bloody feuds with stars such as The Sheik, Bobo Brazil, Johnny Valentine, Wild Bull Curry, The Crusher and The Mighty Igor, with most of his victories coming from a crushing bear hug or a dreaded claw hold that he called "El Garfio", a trademark ...
After David McLane left Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling (GLOW), he returned to Indianapolis and created Powerful Women of Wrestling (POWW). Many wrestlers left GLOW due to pay disputes and joined McLane's new POWW promotion under altered ring names. [1]
The Mighty is a 1998 American coming of age buddy comedy-drama film directed by Peter Chelsom and written by Charles Leavitt. Based on the book Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick , the film stars Sharon Stone , Gena Rowlands , Gillian Anderson , Harry Dean Stanton , Kieran Culkin , James Gandolfini and Elden Henson .
Shunji Takano, in AWA, SCW, NCW, and WWE; Keiji Mutoh; Rip Oliver; Ron Reis, briefly known as Super Giant Ninja in WCW; Others. The Super Ninja, a 1984 film starring Alexander Lou; Super Ninja, a villain in the Chuck Norris: Karate Kommandos television series “Super Ninja” the Ellipse Technical Admins AKA Amundson duo