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Pez Whatley, the Glossary

Pezavan Whatley (January 10, 1951 – January 18, 2005) was an American professional wrestler best known for his time with NWA Mid-America.^[1]

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Abe Jacobs

Abner Robert Jacobs (18 June 1928 – 21 August 2023) was a New Zealand professional wrestler.

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Alabama

Alabama is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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Angelo Poffo

Angelo John Poffo (April 10, 1925 – March 4, 2010) was an American professional wrestler and wrestling promoter. Pez Whatley and Angelo Poffo are professional wrestling trainers.

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Baron von Raschke

James Donald Raschke (born July 30, 1940) is an American retired professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Baron von Raschke.

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Paul E. Perschmann (November 27, 1952 – April 28, 2009) was an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Playboy Buddy Rose. Pez Whatley and Buddy Rose are WWE Hall of Fame Legacy inductees.

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Bull Buchanan

Barry Buchanan (born January 15, 1968) is an American professional wrestler.

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Butch Reed

Bruce Franklin Reed (July 11, 1954 – February 5, 2021) was an American professional wrestler and football player, better known by the ring name Butch Reed. Pez Whatley and Butch Reed are African-American professional wrestlers.

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Canoe.com

Canoe.com is an English-language Canadian portal site and website network, and is a subsidiary of Postmedia Network.

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Championship Wrestling from Florida

Championship Wrestling from Florida (CWF) was the corporate and brand name of the Tampa, Florida wrestling office existing from 1961, when Eddie Graham first bought into the promotion, until 1987, when it closed down.

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Chattanooga, Tennessee

Chattanooga is a city in and the county seat of Hamilton County, Tennessee, United States.

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Continental Championship Wrestling

Continental Championship Wrestling was a professional wrestling promotion based in Knoxville, Tennessee, and Dothan, Alabama, from 1985 until 1989, owned by Ron Fuller.

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DK (publisher)

Dorling Kindersley Limited (branded as DK) is a British multinational publishing company specialising in illustrated reference books for adults and children in 63 languages.

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Dusty Rhodes

Virgil Riley Runnels Jr. (October 12, 1945 – June 11, 2015), better known as "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes, was an American professional wrestler, booker, and trainer who worked for the National Wrestling Alliance and the World Wrestling Federation, later known as WWE. Pez Whatley and Dusty Rhodes are NWA Southern Heavyweight Champions (Florida version) and professional wrestling trainers.

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Face (professional wrestling)

In professional wrestling, a face (babyface) is a heroic, "good guy", "do-gooder", or "fan favorite" wrestler, booked (scripted) by the promotion with the aim of being cheered by fans.

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Florida

Florida is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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Gary Royal

Gary Rowell, known as "Gorgeous" Gary Royal, is an American professional wrestler.

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Georgia Championship Wrestling

Georgia Championship Wrestling is an American professional wrestling promotion based in Atlanta, Georgia.

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House show

A house show is a professional wrestling event produced by a major promotion that is not televised, though they can be recorded.

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ICW United States Heavyweight Championship

The ICW United States Heavyweight Championship was a secondary singles championship in International Championship Wrestling.

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ICW United States Tag Team Championship

The ICW United States Tag Team Championship was the top tag team championship in International Championship Wrestling.

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International Championship Wrestling

International Championship Wrestling was an independent professional wrestling promotion based in Lexington, Kentucky, which operated from 1978 until 1984.

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Jim Crockett Promotions is a family-owned professional wrestling promotion headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States.

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Jimmy Valiant

James Harold Fanning (born August 6, 1942) is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name "Handsome" Jimmy Valiant. Pez Whatley and Jimmy Valiant are professional wrestlers from Tennessee.

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Job (professional wrestling)

In professional wrestling slang, a job is a losing performance in a wrestling match.

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Kevin Sullivan (wrestler)

Kevin Francis Sullivan (born October 26, 1949) is an American retired professional wrestler and booker, perhaps best known for his role in World Championship Wrestling. Pez Whatley and Kevin Sullivan (wrestler) are NWA Southern Heavyweight Champions (Florida version).

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Lanny Poffo

Lanny Mark Poffo (December 28, 1954 – February 2, 2023) better known by his ring names "Leaping" Lanny Poffo and the Genius, was a Canadian-American professional wrestler, motivational speaker, poet, and actor.

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Myocardial infarction

A myocardial infarction (MI), commonly known as a heart attack, occurs when blood flow decreases or stops in one of the coronary arteries of the heart, causing infarction (tissue death) to the heart muscle.

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National Wrestling Alliance

The National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) is an American professional wrestling promotion and governing body owned by Billy Corgan and operated by its parent company Lightning One, Inc.

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Notre Dame High School (Chattanooga, Tennessee)

Notre Dame High School is a private, Roman Catholic college-preparatory day school in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

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NWA Mid-America

NWA Mid-America was a professional wrestling promotion territory under the umbrella of the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) that promoted shows in Tennessee, Kentucky and Alabama from the 1940s until 1981.

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NWA Southern Heavyweight Championship (Florida version)

The Florida version of the NWA Southern Heavyweight Championship was the major singles professional wrestling championship in the National Wrestling Alliance's Florida territory, Championship Wrestling Florida.

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NWA Western States Tag Team Championship

The NWA International Tag Team Championship is a professional wrestling title, originally created as the NWA Western States Tag Team Championship in the National Wrestling Alliance's Amarillo, Texas territory, Western States Sports.

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Paul Diamond

Thomas Boric (born May 11, 1961) is a Croatian-Canadian retired professional wrestler better known by his ring name Paul Diamond.

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Paul Jones (wrestler)

Paul Frederick (June 16, 1942 – c. April 18, 2018) was an American professional wrestler and professional wrestling manager, better known by his ring name, Paul Jones. Pez Whatley and Paul Jones (wrestler) are NWA Southern Heavyweight Champions (Florida version).

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Pro Wrestling Illustrated

Pro Wrestling Illustrated (PWI) is an American professional wrestling magazine that was founded in 1979 by publisher Stanley Weston.

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Professional wrestling

Professional wrestling (often referred to as pro wrestling, or simply, wrestling) is a form of athletic theater that combines mock combat with drama, under the premise (known colloquially as kayfabe), that the performers are competitive wrestlers.

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Ray Candy

Ray Canty (December 3, 1951 – May 23, 1994), better known by the ring name Ray Candy, was an American professional wrestler who worked for a variety of different wrestling promotions in the United States, Japan and Puerto Rico such as Jim Crockett Promotions, All Japan Pro Wrestling, World Wrestling Council and others. Pez Whatley and Ray Candy are 20th-century African-American sportspeople, African-American professional wrestlers and professional wrestling trainers.

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Rip Rogers

Mark Sciarra (born February 7, 1954), better known by his ring name Rip Rogers, is an American retired professional wrestler. Pez Whatley and rip Rogers are professional wrestling trainers.

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Ron Garvin

Roger Barnes (born March 30, 1945) is a Canadian former professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, "Rugged" Ronnie Garvin.

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Saul Weingeroff

Solomon "Saul" Weingeroff (March 6, 1916 – March 14, 1988) was an American professional wrestling manager, known by his ringname "Gentleman" Saul Weingeroff, who led several tag teams to the NWA World Tag Team Championship during the 1960s and 70s such as The Islanders (Afa and Sika) and Kurt and Karl Von Brauner.

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Tag team

Tag team wrestling is a type of professional wrestling in which matches are contested between teams of multiple wrestlers.

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Tennessee

Tennessee, officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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The Barbarian (wrestler)

Sione Havea Vailahi (born 6 September 1958) is a Tongan professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, The Barbarian.

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The Post and Courier

The Post and Courier is the main daily newspaper in Charleston, South Carolina.

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Tiger Conway Jr.

Plasee Dennis Conway Jr. (May 18, 1953) is a retired American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Tiger Conway Jr.. Pez Whatley and Tiger Conway Jr. are 20th-century African-American sportspeople and African-American professional wrestlers.

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University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UT Chattanooga, UTC, or Chattanooga) is a public university in Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States.

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UWF International

Union of Wrestling Forces International, better known as UWF International, U-Inter, or simply UWFi, was a shoot style professional wrestling promotion in Japan from 1991 to 1996.

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WCW Power Plant

The WCW Power Plant was a professional wrestling school in Atlanta, Georgia, owned and operated by World Championship Wrestling (WCW).

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Western States Sports

Western States Sports (also known as the Amarillo Territory) was a professional wrestling promotion headquartered in Amarillo, Texas in the United States.

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World Championship Wrestling

World Championship Wrestling (WCW) was an American professional wrestling promotion founded by Ted Turner in 1988, after Turner Broadcasting System, through a subsidiary named Universal Wrestling Corporation, purchased the assets of National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) territory Jim Crockett Promotions (JCP) (which had aired its programming on TBS).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pez_Whatley

Also known as "Pistol" Pez Whatley, Peter Whatley, Pezavan Whatley, Pistol Pez, Pistol Pez Whatley, Shaska Whatley, Willie B. Hert.

, World War 3 (1995), World War 3 (1996), WWE, WWE Encyclopedia, WWE Hall of Fame, WWE Hall of Fame (2021).

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