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Patterson was born into an impoverished French-speaking family in the Ville-Marie borough of Montreal, Quebec, Canada on January 19, 1941. [1] [3] He began training to wrestle at the age of 14 at Loisirs Saint Jean Baptiste. [1] [8] He was raised Roman Catholic, and was an altar boy. He expressed an interest to a priest in becoming one himself ...
The ring boy scandal was a sex scandal in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF; now known as WWE) centered around allegations that in the late 1980s and early 1990s ring announcer Mel Phillips (1941–2012) had recruited teenage boys for the purposes of sexual exploitation.
The inaugural champion was Pat Patterson who, as the WWF North American Heavyweight Champion in September 1979 was also declared "South American Heavyweight Champion" after allegedly winning a tournament in Rio de Janeiro. Patterson unified the two championships into the Intercontinental Championship. Since then, there have been 187 reigns ...
Pat Patterson, WWE Hall of Famer who spent decades in the ring and as Vince McMahon’s right-hand man, died at the age of 79. WWE announced the wrestling superstar's death on Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020.
1 126 Awarded the title when he signed with the World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF). The following month, the WWWF was renamed to World Wrestling Federation (WWF), and the title was renamed accordingly. [5] World Wrestling Federation (WWF) 2 Pat Patterson: June 19, 1979: Championship Wrestling tapings: Allentown, PA: 1 158 [5] 3 Seiji Sakaguchi
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The match begins with the two wrestlers who have drawn entry numbers one and two, with the remaining wrestlers entering the ring at regular timed intervals, either 90 seconds or two minutes (60 seconds for the 1995 event), according to their entry number. [1] This format is credited to Pat Patterson. [6]
It was later used by Pat Patterson and Ray Stevens, who began teaming in 1965. Larry Latham and Wayne Farris used the name in the late 1970s in the Continental Wrestling Association and, from 1979 to 1980, Stanley Lane and Bryan St. John competed as the Blonde Bombers while wrestling in Championship Wrestling from Florida .