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Skull Murphy, the Glossary

John Joseph Murphy (December 7, 1930 – March 23, 1970) was a Canadian professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Skull Murphy.^[1]

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1970 suicides
Drug-related suicides in North Carolina
IWA World Heavyweight Champions (Australia)
IWA World Tag Team Champions (Australia)
NWA World Tag Team Champions (Florida version)
WWWF United States Tag Team Champions

All Japan Pro Wrestling

(AJPW/AJP) or simply All Japan is a Japanese professional wrestling promotion established on October 21, 1972, when Giant Baba split away from the Japanese Wrestling Association and created his own promotion.

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Anderson family

The Anderson family is a family of professional wrestlers, largely consisting of brothers, cousins and children.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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AWA Southern Tag Team Championship

The AWA Southern Tag Team Championship was a professional wrestling tag team title in the Tennessee area from the 1940s through the late 1980s.

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British Light Heavyweight Championship

The British Light Heavyweight Championship was a top British wrestling championship found throughout the country's circuit.

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Brute Bernard

James Prudhomme (June 6, 1921 – July 14, 1984), was a Canadian professional wrestler, better known by the ring names Brute Bernard or Jim 'Brute' Bernhard. Skull Murphy and Brute Bernard are Canadian male professional wrestlers, IWA World Tag Team Champions (Australia), NWA World Tag Team Champions (Florida version) and WWWF United States Tag Team Champions.

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Buddy Austin

Austin Wesley Rogers (born Austin Wesley Rapes; February 27, 1929 – August 13, 1981) was an American professional wrestler, better known by the ring name "Killer" Buddy Austin. Skull Murphy and Buddy Austin are all Asia Tag Team Champions, IWA World Tag Team Champions (Australia) and WWWF United States Tag Team Champions.

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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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Charlotte, North Carolina

Charlotte is the most populous city in the U.S. state of North Carolina and the county seat of Mecklenburg County.

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Continental Wrestling Association

Continental Wrestling Association (later the Championship Wrestling Association) was a wrestling promotion managed by Jerry Jarrett.

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Detroit

Detroit is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan.

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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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ECW Press

ECW Press is a Canadian book publisher located in Toronto, Ontario.

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Feud (professional wrestling)

In professional wrestling, a feud is a staged rivalry between multiple wrestlers or groups of wrestlers.

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Fit Finlay

David John Finlay Jr. (Daithi Eoin Fionnalaigh, born 31 January, 1958) is a Northern Irish retired professional wrestler.

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Gene Anderson (wrestler)

Eugene Avon Anderson (October 4, 1939 – October 31, 1991) was an American professional wrestler and professional wrestling manager. Skull Murphy and Gene Anderson (wrestler) are Stampede Wrestling alumni.

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George Scott (wrestler)

George Scott (August 27, 1929 – January 20, 2014) was a Canadian professional wrestler, booker and promoter. Skull Murphy and George Scott (wrestler) are Canadian male professional wrestlers, IWA World Tag Team Champions (Australia), Stampede Wrestling alumni and WWWF United States Tag Team Champions.

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Georgia Championship Wrestling

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

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Gorilla Monsoon

Robert James "Gino" Marella (June 4, 1937 – October 6, 1999), better known by his ring name of Gorilla Monsoon, was an American professional wrestler, play-by-play commentator, and booker. Skull Murphy and Gorilla Monsoon are IWA World Heavyweight Champions (Australia), Stampede Wrestling alumni and WWWF United States Tag Team Champions.

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Gypsy Joe

Gilberto Meléndez (December 2, 1933 – June 15, 2016) was a Puerto Rican professional wrestler better known under the ring name Gypsy Joe. Skull Murphy and Gypsy Joe are Stampede Wrestling alumni.

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Hamilton, Ontario

Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario.

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Heel (professional wrestling)

In professional wrestling, a heel (also known as a rudo in lucha libre) is a wrestler who portrays a villain, "bad guy", "evil-doer", or "rulebreaker", and acts as an antagonist to the faces, who are the heroic protagonist or "good guy" characters.

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Ireland

Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in north-western Europe.

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IWA World Heavyweight Championship (Australia)

The IWA World Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship in the Australian World Championship Wrestling promotion from its founding in 1964 until 1971.

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IWA World Tag Team Championship (Australia)

The IWA World Tag Team Championship was the top tag team professional wrestling title in the Australian World Championship Wrestling promotion from 1966 through 1971.

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Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.

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Japan Pro Wrestling Alliance

The, also known as the Japan Pro Wrestling Association and the Japanese Wrestling Association (JWA), was the first professional wrestling promotion to be based in Japan.

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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 Hart

James Ray Hart (born January 1, 1944) is an American professional wrestling manager, executive, composer, and musician.

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Joey Maxim

Giuseppe Antonio Berardinelli (March 28, 1922 – June 2, 2001) was an American professional boxer.

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Killer Karl Kox

Herbert Alan Gerwig (April 26, 1931 – November 10, 2011) was an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Killer Karl Kox. Skull Murphy and Killer Karl Kox are all Asia Tag Team Champions, IWA World Heavyweight Champions (Australia) and IWA World Tag Team Champions (Australia).

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Killer Kowalski

Wladek Kowalski (born Edward Władysław Spulnik; October 13, 1926 – August 30, 2008), known by the ring name as Killer Kowalski, was a Polish-Canadian professional wrestler. Skull Murphy and Killer Kowalski are Canadian male professional wrestlers, IWA World Heavyweight Champions (Australia), Stampede Wrestling alumni and WWWF United States Tag Team Champions.

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Klondike Bill

William Soloweyko (December 1, 1931 – October 3, 2000), better known by his ring name Klondike Bill, was a Canadian professional wrestler. Skull Murphy and Klondike Bill are all Asia Tag Team Champions, Canadian male professional wrestlers and Stampede Wrestling alumni.

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List of premature professional wrestling deaths

According to a 2014 study by Eastern Michigan University examining professional wrestlers who were active between 1985 and 2011, mortality rates for professional wrestlers are up to 2.9 times greater than the rate for men in the wider United States population.

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A professional wrestling promotion is a company or business that regularly performs shows involving professional wrestling.

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Mario Milano

Mario Bulfone (15 May 1935 – 9 December 2016), better known by his ring name Mario Milano, was a professional wrestler. Skull Murphy and Mario Milano are IWA World Heavyweight Champions (Australia) and IWA World Tag Team Champions (Australia).

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McFarland & Company

McFarland & Company, Inc., is an American independent book publisher based in Jefferson, North Carolina, that specializes in academic and reference works, as well as general-interest adult nonfiction.

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Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis is a city in the U.S. state of Tennessee.

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Mineral oil

Mineral oil is any of various colorless, odorless, light mixtures of higher alkanes from a mineral source, particularly a distillate of petroleum, as distinct from usually edible vegetable oils.

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Mordecai Richler

Mordecai Richler (January 27, 1931 – July 3, 2001) was a Canadian writer.

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Mr. Wrestling

George Burrell Woodin (July 28, 1934 – November 30, 2002) was an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring names, Mr.

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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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NWA International Tag Team Championship (Georgia version)

The NWA International Tag Team Championship was a professional wrestling tag team championship in Georgia Championship Wrestling (GCW).

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NWA Southern Heavyweight Championship (Georgia version)

The Georgia version of the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) Southern Heavyweight Championship was a secondary singles championship used in Georgia Championship Wrestling off-and-on from 1948 to 1972.

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NWA Southern Tag Team Championship (Georgia version)

The NWA Southern Tag Team Championship was the primary professional wrestling tag team title of the National Wrestling Alliance-affiliated Georgia Championship Wrestling.

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NWA World Tag Team Championship (Florida version)

The Florida version of the NWA World Tag Team Championship was the primary professional wrestling championship for tag teams in Championship Wrestling from Florida (CWF) that was used between 1961 and 1969.

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Ole Anderson

Alan Robert Rogowski (September 22, 1942 – February 26, 2024), better known by the ring name Ole Anderson, was an American professional wrestler, booker, and promoter.

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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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Professor Tanaka

Charles J. Kalani Jr. (January 6, 1930 – August 22, 2000) was an American professional wrestler, professional boxer, martial artist and actor. Skull Murphy and Professor Tanaka are IWA World Heavyweight Champions (Australia) and IWA World Tag Team Champions (Australia).

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Red Bastien

Rolland "Red" Bastien (January 27, 1931 – August 11, 2012) was an American professional wrestler best known for his time in Capital Wrestling Corporation where he was a three-time WWWF United States Tag Team Champion with his kayfabe brother, Lou Bastien. Skull Murphy and Red Bastien are IWA World Tag Team Champions (Australia), Stampede Wrestling alumni and WWWF United States Tag Team Champions.

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Ring name

A ring name is a type of stage name used by an athlete such as a professional wrestler, mixed martial artist, or boxer whose real name is considered unattractive, dull, difficult to pronounce or spell, amusing for the wrong reasons, or projecting the wrong image.

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Rip Hawk

Harvey Maurice Evers (June 6, 1930 – December 22, 2012) was an American professional wrestler best known by his ring name, Rip Hawk. Skull Murphy and rip Hawk are IWA World Tag Team Champions (Australia) and NWA World Tag Team Champions (Florida version).

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Suicide

Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death.

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Swede Hanson (wrestler)

Robert Fort Hanson (March 27, 1933 – February 19, 2002) was an American professional wrestler best known by his ring name Swede Hanson. Skull Murphy and Swede Hanson (wrestler) are IWA World Tag Team Champions (Australia) and NWA World Tag Team Champions (Florida version).

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References

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

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See also

1970 suicides

IWA World Heavyweight Champions (Australia)

IWA World Tag Team Champions (Australia)

NWA World Tag Team Champions (Florida version)

WWWF United States Tag Team Champions

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