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Bobby Davis 1937-2021 1956–1969 World Wide Wrestling Federation: Buddy Rogers, Johnny Valentine, Johnny Barend, Magnificent Maurice, The Graham Brothers [4] Bobby Heenan (Raymond Heenan) 1944–2017 1960–1993 American Wrestling Association, World Wrestling Federation: The Heenan Family: Boogaloo Brown 1980s-1990s
Supposedly born on an isolated farm, "Monsoon" traveled across the countryside with a gypsy caravan wrestling bears, spoke no English, ate raw meat, and drank his victims' blood. The story given on WWWF television was a bit different: his first manager, Bobby Davis, claimed to have discovered Monsoon in Manchuria wading nude in a mountain stream.
In 1966–1967, Rogers wrestled in 18 short matches in Canada. In 1969, Rogers appeared in 19 quick matches in an Ohio-based promotion called Wrestling Show Classics before he realized his health was not getting better to the point where he could wrestle. He spent time on television talking with his former manager Bobby Davis.
Berry was also the manager of Gorilla Monsoon, after Bobby Davis, from 1967 to 1969 during Monsoon's heel days. He would speak for Monsoon in promos, because Monsoon's character was a mute from Manchuria and took Monsoon and Killer Kowalski to the World Wide Wrestling Federation's (WWWF, now WWE) United States Tag Team Championship.
She officially debuted her wrestling career at Sunshine Wrestling Federation in Florida in 1995, then at Future of Wrestling She later publicly fired one of her charges, "Playboy" Bobby Davis, leaving for Florida Championship Wrestling and resulting in a promotional dispute between the two promotions. [1]
Central States Wrestling was a professional wrestling promotion based in Kansas City, Missouri from 1948 to 1988. Former employees in NWA Central States consisted of professional wrestlers , managers , play-by-play and color commentators , announcers , interviewers and referees .
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Hart receiving a Manager of the Year Award in 1984. Jimmy Hart was born in Jackson, Mississippi. He was brought into wrestling by Jerry "the King" Lawler, who knew of Hart because both had attended Memphis Treadwell High School. Having been asked to sing back-up with Lawler, Hart later became Lawler's manager.