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In 1966, Brown made his debut in for NWA Mid-America in Alabama working for Nick Gulas. In 1969, he became one of the most popular wrestlers to ever appear in Birmingham when he formed a tag-team with Len Rossi and broke the color barrier on Boutwell Auditorium wrestling cards.
Edward M. Wright (January 13, 1932 – August 28, 1982) better known by his ring name "Bearcat" Wright was an American professional wrestler who became popular in the late 1950s and 1960s. Despite racial tension in the United States, he became wildly popular as a babyface .
Winning the tag team gold was far from the only achievement Austin and Monroe had while in Mid-America, in what was a reversal of an infamous angle that saw "The Interns" paint Bearcat Brown with white paint the heel duo dropped black paint on white wrestler Robert Fuller.
The Boogeyman (wrestler) Booker T (wrestler) Botswana Beast; Anthony Bowens; Bobo Brazil; Demitrius Bronson; Bearcat Brown; Brickhouse Brown; D'Lo Brown; Leroy Brown (wrestler) Monty Brown; Slyck Wagner Brown; Elijah Burke
Johnny Walker (2) and Bearcat Brown June 21, 1969: GCCW show Chattanooga, Tennessee 1 7 88 The Great Mephisto and Dante June 28, 1969: GCCW show Chattanooga, Tennessee 3 7 89 Johnny Walker (3) and Bearcat Brown July 5, 1969: GCCW show Chattanooga, Tennessee 2 [Note 36] — N/A — — 90 The Spoilers (Spoiler #1 and Spoiler #2)
The promotion also had a third tag team championship at its peak, a testament to the popularity of tag team wrestling in the territory, as they promoted the NWA Mid-America Tag Team Championship as well. The championship was established around March 6, 1962, when Yoshinosato and Taro Sakuro were named champions upon arrival by NWA Mid-America ...
The NWA Mid-America Tag Team championship was a tag team title promoted by the American professional wrestling promotion NWA Mid-America that ran more or less exclusively in Alabama, Tennessee, and Kentucky, United States, from the 1940s until 1980. [1]
In the early 1970s, Nelson wrestled in the Continental Wrestling Association based in Tennessee. He teamed with Bearcat Brown and Charlie Cook and had a series of matches against Jerry Lawler, Jim White, and Sam Bass. [4] In the middle of the decade, he competed in the Tennessee-based Gulf Coast Championship Wrestling. [5]