Great Moments in Pro Wrestling

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I just picked this up. Do you recognize the other wrestlers who signed besides Piper and DiBiase?

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Cora Combs, Danny Hodge, former NWA World Champion Pat O'Connor (defeated by Buddy Rogers at Comiskey Park in Chicago), mostly California-based (like Fred Blassie) John & Chris Tolos (John challenged Sammartino for the WWWF belt during Both of his reigns), former early WWWF tag-team champion (with Rene Goulet) Karl Gotch, who beat the first "WWWF" champions Tarzan Tyler & Crazy Luke Graham then lost to Baron Mikel Scicluna & King Curtis Iuakea... Jack Pfefer might've been an early mover & shaker in either the NWA or later the AWA or WWWF, forget which off the top of my head...

 

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Now THAT'S what I'm talking about!

 

[LordSensei1958]

Cora Combs, Danny Hodge, former NWA World Champion Pat O'Connor, mostly California-based (like Fred Blassie) John & Chris Tolos, former early WWWF tag-team champion (with Rene Goulet) Karl Gotch... Jack Pfefer might've been an early mover & shaker in either the NWA or later the AWA or WWWF, forget which off the top of my head...

Thanks!!

 

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Thanks!!

Cora Combs, Danny Hodge, former NWA World Champion Pat O'Connor (defeated by Buddy Rogers at Comiskey Park in Chicago), mostly California-based (like Fred Blassie) John & Chris Tolos (John challenged Sammartino for the WWWF belt during Both of his reigns), former early WWWF tag-team champion (with Rene Goulet) Karl Gotch, who beat the first "WWWF" champions Tarzan Tyler & Crazy Luke Graham then lost to Baron Mikel Scicluna & King Curtis Iuakea... Jack Pfefer might've been an early mover & shaker in either the NWA or later the AWA or WWWF, forget which off the top of my head...

A little extra knowledge in this edited version...

 

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Cora Combs (a contemporary of The Fabulous Moolah and whose daughter Debbie was a very successful pro wrestler in her own right);

Danny Hodge (who wrestled mostly as a Junior Heavyweight and was a Multiple-time champion in that division during the 1960s - early '70s);

former NWA World Champion Pat O'Connor (defeated by Buddy Rogers at Comiskey Park in Chicago);

mostly California-based (like Fred Blassie) John & Chris Tolos (John challenged Sammartino for the WWWF belt during Both of his reigns);

former early WWWF tag-team champion (with Rene Goulet) Karl Gotch, who beat the first "WWWF" champions Tarzan Tyler & Crazy Luke Graham then lost to Baron Mikel Scicluna & King Curtis Iuakea...

Jack Pfefer might've been an early mover & shaker in either the NWA or later the AWA or WWWF, forget which off the top of my head...

A little extra knowledge in this edited version...

A couple of extra tidbits about Combs & Hodge...