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On May 11, 1976, Kowalski won the WWF World Tag Team Championship with Big John Studd. [15] Both men wore black masks and tights and called themselves "The Executioners". However, they were stripped of the championship, following the interference of a third Executioner during a title defense against Chief Jay Strongbow and Billy White Wolf. The ...
[10] [12] Rose wrestled twenty two matches at television tapings between June and August, which served to keep him in the public eye until he finished his PNW commitments and began the WWF house show loop. [12] On August 30, 1982, he worked a main event against Bob Backlund for the WWF World Heavyweight Title, but was unsuccessful. [2]
The first version of Executioners was founded by Executioner #1, who was a masked wrestler, wrestling for World Wide Wrestling Federation. In 1976 he trained Executioner #2, and the two became a tag team in WWWF. Together, the Executioners captured the WWWF Tag Team Championship on May 11, 1976 by defeating Louis Cerdan and Tony Parisi.
In the 1970s, Peruzović was Bepo of the Mongols tag team, one of the masked Executioners and feuded with Bruno Sammartino over the WWWF World Heavyweight Championship as Volkoff. In the 1980s, he tag teamed with the Iron Sheik and won the WWF Tag Team Championship at the inaugural WrestleMania event, and then with Boris Zhukov as The Bolsheviks .
Terry Ray Gordy Sr. [3] (April 23, 1961 – July 16, 2001) was an American professional wrestler from Soddy-Daisy, TN. Gordy appeared in the United States with promotions such as Mid-South Wrestling, Georgia Championship Wrestling, World Class Championship Wrestling, Jim Crockett Promotions/World Championship Wrestling and the Universal Wrestling Federation as a member of The Fabulous Freebirds.
William Reid "Bill" Eadie (born December 27, 1947) is an American retired professional wrestler who has competed under the names of Ax as part of Demolition and The Masked Superstar. He was a high school teacher and coach at Cambridge High School in Cambridge, Ohio , and at East Liverpool, Ohio .
The Masked Crusader was unmasked by The Sheik in 1973. He continued wrestling under a mask as one-half of The Crusaders with Crusader#2 until again being unmasked by The Sheik a year later. [5] The Masked Destroyer: Championship Wrestling from Florida: 1975 Canada: The Masked Marvel (original) National Wrestling Association: 1915–1916 United ...
WrestleMania (sequentially known as WrestleMania I) was the inaugural WrestleMania and inaugural professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event (only in selected areas), [1] [2] produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE).