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Don Welch was trained by Al "Spider" Galento and started wrestling in 1968. Bass found early success as a tag team wrestler, teaming up with his brother, Ron Bass as a member of the heel stable The Bass Family.
Bonnie Lee Boyette (June 17, 1915 – January 6, 1989) was an American actor and professional wrestler [4] who worked as Mario Galento mainly in Tennessee, Georgia and the Gulf Coast during the 1950s and 1960s.
Galento, he avows, "did no roadwork and let his considerable appetite run free." [56] In 1937, Eddie Brietz, a sportswriter with the Associated Press, noted that "[u]sually reliable sources" swore that the night before he "kayoed Al Ettore in Philly" Galento "made away with 24 hot dogs, six shots of booze and... a dozen beers". [57]
Continental Championship Wrestling was a professional wrestling promotion based in Knoxville, Tennessee, and Dothan, Alabama, from 1985 until 1989, owned by Ron Fuller.The promotion evolved out of the NWA-affiliated Southeastern Championship Wrestling and Gulf Coast Championship Wrestling territories owned by Fuller, who purchased the Knoxville territory from John Cazana in 1974 and the ...
Championship vacated when McCarthy is stripped of the title for refusing to accept a challenge by Al Galento. 13 Al Galento 1 March 22, 1960: 13 Laurel, MS: Live event: Defeated Jack Curtis, Jr. to win the vacant title. 14 Lee Fields 5 April 4, 1960: 281 Laurel, MS: Live event 15 Pancho Villa 3 January 10, 1961: N/A: Laurel, MS: Live event
The Tulsa Coliseum was an indoor arena built in Tulsa, Oklahoma at the corner of Fifth Street and Elgin Avenue. It hosted the Tulsa Oilers ice hockey team from 1929 to 1951. . Many other sporting events were held at the facility including rodeos, track meets, professional wrestling, and boxing mat
The NWA Southern Tag Team Championship was the primary professional wrestling tag team title of the National Wrestling Alliance-affiliated Georgia Championship Wrestling.It was originally won by Chris and Babe Zaharias in Atlanta, Georgia in March 1949, and defended for almost twenty years until it was replaced by the NWA Georgia Tag Team Championship in 1968.
Tony Galento: PTS 6 Jun 22, 1937: Comiskey Park, Chicago, Illinois, US: 57 Loss 45–6–6 Roscoe Toles PTS 10 May 21, 1937 Olympia Stadium, Detroit, Michigan, US: 56 Win 45–5–6 Tony Galento: PTS 10 Apr 28, 1937 Hippodrome, New York City, New York, US: 55 Draw 44–5–6 Maurice Strickland PTS 10 Mar 10, 1937 Hippodrome, New York City, New ...