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Richard John "Dick" Beyer (July 11, 1930 – March 7, 2019) was an American professional wrestler is best known by his ring names, The Destroyer and Doctor X.Among other places, he worked extensively in Japan and in 2017 he was awarded one of the country's highest honors, the Order of the Rising Sun.
Steven Franklin Williams (May 14, 1960 – December 29, 2009), best known under the ring name "Dr. Death" Steve Williams, was an American collegiate and professional wrestler and collegiate football player.
Clemente Marcelino Valencia Nájera [6] (17 July 1968 – 11 October 2011) [2] was a Mexican luchador enmascarado, or masked professional wrestler, better known by the ring name Doctor X, under which he worked for the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) for most of his career, winning the Mexican National Welterweight Championship and the Mexican ...
Doctor "X" Mr. M The Crimson Knight ... He was an all-american heavyweight wrestler, ... leading to a death match between the two on June 21, 1969, at the Cow Palace, ...
The team reunited in All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) in February 1990 and quickly became a top tag team for the next several years under the name the Miracle Violence Connection. The two quickly found success when they defeated Genichiro Tenryu and Stan Hansen to win the World Tag Team Championship on March 6, 1990. [ 2 ]
Doctor X may refer to: Doctor X, a 1932 Technicolor film starring Lee Tracy, Fay Wray and Lionel Atwill; Alan E. Nourse, who used "Doctor X" as the pseudonym of his 1965 journal Intern; Doctor X (wrestler), ring name of Mexican professional wrestler Clemente Valencia "Doctor X", a ring name of professional wrestler Dick Beyer
[2] [3] [4] Experts suggest that a combination of the physical nature of the business, no off-season, and potentially high work load (with some wrestlers fighting more than 100 and even 200 matches per year), along with the drug culture in wrestling during the 1970s, 1980s, and early 1990s contributes to high mortality rates among wrestlers.
This resulted in the "breaking" of Doctor X's leg (which allowed Beyer to leave the area to work with a wrestling tour in Japan as "The Destroyer") and also led to the outlawing of the Bombs Away maneuver by the AWA. It was shortly after that match when Ray Stevens was no longer called the Blond Bomber and became known as "The Crippler."