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In 1972, Rossi was injured in a car accident and retired. Brown would teamed up with Rossi's son Joey. In 1977, Brown left Alabama and went to Tennessee to work for Continental Wrestling Association. He would retire around 1981.
Rossi was born to Italian migrant parents in 1929 in Utica, New York. [4] He worked out at a local YMCA in his teenage years where a coach goaded him into wrestling. Rositano stated that "he mopped the floor with me, but I took it as a challenge" and from the age of 14, he wrestled for the YMCA.
Len Rossi (13) and Bearcat Brown September 1970: GCCW show [Note 2] 1 [Note 42] 97 The Continental Warriors (Bobby Hart and Lorenzo Parente) October 1, 1970: GCCW show Chattanooga, Tennessee 1 4 98 Len Rossi (14) and Bearcat Brown October 15, 1970: GCCW show Chattanooga, Tennessee 2 [Note 43] 99 Big Bad John and Pepe Lopez
Len Rossi and Bearcat Brown January 27, 1971 Live event: Nashville, Tennessee 1 [Note 13] [1] [2] Championship history is unrecorded from January 27, 1971 to February 28, 1975. 19 Dutch Mantell and John Foley February 28, 1975 Live event [Note 2] 1 [Note 14] Still Champions on March 14, 1975 [1] [2] 20 Les Thatcher and Nelson Royal
The AWA Southern Tag Team Championship was a professional wrestling tag team title in the Tennessee area from the 1940s through the late 1980s. It was originally named the NWA Southern Tag Team Championship (Mid-America version) from its inception through 1977, when it was renamed (as was the Southern Heavyweight Championship, also previously an NWA title) the AWA Southern Tag Team ...
Len Rossi and Bearcat Brown: June 4, 1971: Mid-Am Show Knoxville, Tennessee 1 56 22 Ron Wright (7) and Don Wright July 30, 1971: Mid-Am Show Knoxville, Tennessee 5 35 Ron defeated Rossi on July 16 for one half of the titles and Don defeated Brown on July 30 for the other half of the titles 23 The Alaskans: September 3, 1971: Mid-Am Show ...
Bearcat Brown and Joey Rossi: 1 ¤N/A Bill Ash and David Schultz: 1 ¤N/A Bobby Eaton and Great Togo: 1 ¤N/A Duke Myers and Blue Scorpion: 1 ¤N/A Frank Monte and Nick DeCarlo: 1 ¤N/A Frank Morrell and Charles Morrell: 1 ¤N/A George Gulas and Gorgeous George Jr. 1 ¤N/A Great Fuji and Steve Kyle: 1 ¤N/A Gypsy Joe and Dutch Mantell: 1 ¤N/A ...
The Heavenly Bodies was a professional wrestling tag team that wrestled in the Tennessee area. The team consisted of Al Greene (real name Al Denney) and Don Greene. They were 7 time NWA Southern Tag Team Champions and wrestled as a tag team from October 6, 1955 to June 28, 1973.