Thursday, April 30, 2009

Alan Funk - Pro Wrestling

Alan Funk - Pro Wrestling
Alan had a unique look...

Alan Funk was born July 7, 1971.
He is a professional wrestler who has worked for World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA).
Alan was trained at the WCW Power Plant and made his pro wrestling debut in September 1998.
He has wrestled under many ring names including Kwee Wee, Miss TNA, Rave, Funkster, Triple A, 'Angry' Alan Funk, Bruce and Queen Herod.
Alan was seriously injured in a match in Helsinki, Finland, when Sonny Siaki messed up a split-legged moonsault and landed knee first on Funk's face.
He suffered a broken eardrum, nose, and jaw and also cracked his orbital bone, but Alan went on to make a full recovery.

In TNA he was Miss TNA (don't ask) and he also held the BTW Ohio Tag Team Championship in Big Time Wrestling.

Alan Funk - Pro Wrestling
Alan and Paisley (Sharmell Sullivan)

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Bobby Fulton - Pro Wrestling

Bobby Fulton of The Fantastics was born James Hines on October 4, 1961 in Chillicothe, Ohio.


Bobby made his pro wrestling debut in 1977 using the ring name Jimmy Hines.
He was 16 years old at the time.
Bobby spent most of his early years in Ohio, wrestling and training with wrestlers like Lord Zoltan (Ken Jugan), Fred Curry, Bull Curry and Charlie Fulton.
He then moved north and started working in the Hart's Calgary territory.
There he was able to work with wrestlers like Bret Hart, The Dynamite Kid, The Cuban Assassin, Bobby Bass, Ross Hart, Bruce Hart, Giant Haystacks and Davey Boy Smith.
After his time there, he moved on to Jerry Jarrett's Memphis territory there he met Tommy Rogers and they moved to "Cowboy"Bill Watts' Mid South Wrestling, where the Fantasics (Fulton and Rogers) were born.
It was also there that the feud with the Midnight Express started.

The feud went from there to World Class Championship Wrestling.
The Fantastics also had a feud with The Sheepherders (the "Bushwackers") in the Universal Wrestling Federation.
They went to NWA's Jim Crockett Promotions, continued their feud with The Midnight Express, and won the NWA United States Tag Team Titles.

You can find out more about Bobby here at his website:
http://www.bobbyfulton.4t.com/

Friday, April 10, 2009

"Big" Rick Fuller - Pro Wrestling

Rick Fuller-wrestling-wcw

"Big" Rick Fuller was born Richard Fuller in 1969, in Middleboro, Massachusetts.
Rick trained under "Superfly" Jimmy Snuka and "Mr. USA" Tony Atlas at their wrestling school in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
He made his pro wrestling debut in 1990, and made his debut in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in 1997 in a match against Lex Luger.
Rick wrestled (and lost to) some of the greats in the WCW.
Besides Luger, he went up against Chris Benoit, Diamond Dallas Page, The Giant (Big Show), Booker T, Jeff Jarrett, Meng, Buff Bagwell, "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan and he was one of the first victims of Goldberg's winning streak in early 1998.

After WCW closed, Rick went to the Indy circuit where he has been successful and still wrestles today.
In the independent circuit he has wrestled for promotions like Chaotic Wrestling, Eastern Wrestling Alliance (EWA), Lethal Pro Wrestling (LPW), NWA New England, NWA Southwest and New England Championship Wrestling among others.

Rick also appeared as a prison inmate in the 2008 crime drama "What Doesn't Kill You" with Ethan Hawke and Mark Ruffalo.

He also appeared in the video games WCW Nitro and WCW/NWO Thunder.

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