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- Kris Zellner This month
we will look at wrestlers who were names elsewhere, but didn’t make a
big impact in the Mid-Atlantic area. Tito
Santana- Tito started wrestling in the Mid-Atlantic area in 1978 as
a lowcard babyface. In fact, Tito went by the name of Richard Blood
which was the real name of Ricky Steamboat. Tito didn’t last but about
a year and eventually went on to the WWF, where he became half of the
WWF Tag champs with Ivan Putski. Larry
Zbyszko- Larry wrestled also as a lowcard babyface for almost a year
in 1975-76. Zbyszko was best remembered from his tenure as being a
whipping boy for the heel team of Ric Flair and Greg Valentine. Zbyszko
left the area in late 1976 and returned to the WWWF where two years
later he became half of the WWWF Tag champs with Tony Garea. Brutus
Beefcake-
Good 'ol Ed Leslie made a stop in the Carolinas in the Winter of 1982
going by the name of Dizzy Ed Hogan. Dizzy was most remembered in his
three month stint for trying to slam the One Man Gang and win the $7,500
that Sir Oliver Humperdink had put up to anyone who could slam him.
Dizzy Hogan would soon leave the area for the AWA and then a year later
he went to the WWF and become Brutus Beefcake. John
Tatum-
“Hollywood” John made his entrance in the Carolinas in late 1984 as
a lowcard heel, then he moved his way up to midcard in 1985 where he
stayed until he left later in the year. John moved on to the World Class
area and got hooked up with a young lady named Missy Hyatt and the rest
is history. Len
Denton-
Len worked in JCP twice in his career, once in 1978-79 as a lowcard
babyface and then in 1981, with his new found gimmick “The
Grappler”. The Grappler only stayed in the area for a couple of months
teaming with the Super Destroyer (Scott Irwin) and they were pretty
good, but Super D went on to a full time gig in Atlanta and Len went on
to Mid-South where he became a high midcard heel. Austin
Idol- Austin had a stint in JCP as a high midcard heel between late
81-early 82. Austin was mostly used in singles but had some mild success
with Ivan Koloff as his tag team partner. Then, Austin started going
around the matches on TV with a video camera
to tape future opponents, but before that angle could go through,
he left the area, which he is famous for. Austin would’ve been a
bigger star in the business if he hadn’t burned the promoters all the
time.
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