| Dale Veasey | |
|---|---|
| Statistics | |
| Ring name(s) | Lt. James Earl Wright The Hunter The Alaskan Hunter |
| Billed height | 5 ft 5 in (1. 65 m) |
| Billed weight | 235 lb (107 kg) |
| Debut | 1982 |
| Retired | 1996 |
Dale Veasey is a retired American professional wrestler, best known by his ringname Lt. The pound or pound-mass (abbreviation lb, lbm, or sometimes in the United States #) is a unit of Mass James Earl Wright, who competed in North American regional promotions including the Mid-South region and the National Wrestling Alliance, particularly the Georgia and Florida territories, as well as brief stints in the World Wrestling Federation and World Championship Wrestling, most notably as one half of the tag team State Patrol with Buddy Lee Parker during the 1990s. The Universal Wrestling Federation was owner Bill Watts ' attempt at taking his Mid-South Wrestling promotion to a national level in 1986 The National Wrestling Alliance ( NWA) is the largest governing body for a group of independent Professional wrestling promotions and sanctions various NWA Georgia Championship Wrestling was a Professional wrestling promotion whose self-titled TV program aired in the 1970s and 1980s on Atlanta Georgia superstation Championship Wrestling from Florida (CWF was the corporate and brand name of the Tampa Florida wrestling office existing from 1961 when Eddie Graham World Wrestling Entertainment Inc ( WWE) is a publicly traded privately controlled integrated media (focusing in Television, Internet, Dwayne Bruce born May 14, 1960) is a professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Sgt
He would also have a successful career teaming with Bob Brown in international promotions including Stampede Wrestling and the World Wrestling Council. Stampede Wrestling is a Canadian Professional wrestling promotion based in Calgary Alberta and was for nearly 50 years one of the main promotions The World Wrestling Council (WWC is one of Puerto Rico 's two main Professional wrestling promotions the other one being the International Wrestling Association
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Making his professional debut in early 1982, Veasey's wrestling career began in Georgia and Florida. Later that year however, he disappeared from the scene and did not reappear until February 1984, in Georgia Championship Wrestling. The on-air reason given for his hiatus was that he had been in a serious automobile accident, breaking his ankle, jaw, right arm, and also suffering two skull fractures. On his return he was heavier than when last seen in 1982, but spent the next few months trimming down to a typical 1980s wrestler's bodybuilder physique. Veasey was still with the promotion when Black Saturday occurred, at which point he transition to other territories, losing several singles matches to Tim Horner, Shawn Michaels, Terry Taylor and Iceman Parsons while in the Mid-South territory in January 1985 and spending most of the year wrestling in Florida Championship Wrestling facing veterans such as Wahoo McDaniel, Rip Rogers and Hector Guerrero. Black Saturday is the name given by wrestling fans on July 14, 1984, when Vince McMahon and his World Wrestling Federation (WWF Tim Horner is a Professional wrestler best known for his " Lightning Express " tag team with Brad Armstrong. Michael Shawn Hickenbottom (born July 22 1965 better known by his Ring name Shawn Michaels, is an American professional wrestler. Terry Taylor (born Paul W Taylor III on August 12 1955) is an American retired professional wrestler Iceman Parsons (born King Parsons in 1949 is a former Professional wrestler who sometimes went by Iceman King Parsons. Edward "Wahoo" McDaniel ( June 19, 1938 - April 18, 2002) was a Choctaw - Chickasaw Native American Mark Sciarra (Born February 14, 1955) whose professional name is Rip Rogers is a former Professional wrestler and was a trainer for Hector Manuel Guerrero Llanes (born October 11, 1954) is a Mexican - American professional wrestler, better known simply by his
While in Texas All-Star Wrestling, he also defeated Terry Daniels in a tournament final to win the vacant TASW Junior Heavyweight Championship in San Antonio, Texas on September 2, 1985 holding the title for four months before leaving the area. [1]
The following year, Veasey underwent another physical transformation into the Road Warriors inspired, The Hunter. The Road Warriors were a Professional wrestling Tag team famously composed of Michael "Hawk" Hegstrand and Joseph "Animal" Laurinaitis He spent most of 1986/1987 wrestling as either The Hunter in singles competition or with tag-team partner Bob Brown as The Alaskan Hunters, going on to win the WWC North American Tag Team Championship with Brown defeating Miguelito Perez & Tony Atlas in San Juan, Puerto Rico in June 20, 1987. Miguel Perez Jr is a professional wrestler who competed as a member of the Los Boricuas stable led by Savio Vega from June of 1997 to October of 1998 in Anthony White After losing the titles to Adrian Adonis and Dick Murdoch Johnson soon departed and Atlas was used as a jobber to the stars in the WWF San Juan (saŋ hwaŋ (from the Spanish San Juan Bautista, " Saint John the Baptist " is the Capital and largest municipality in After defeating WWC World Tag Team Champions Mark & Chris Youngblood on August 26, the two would briefly hold both the World and North American tag team titles before losing the World titles back to the Youngbloods September 20, 1987. Mark Romero is a retired second generation Professional wrestler better known as Mark Youngblood. Chris Romero is a semi-retired second generation Professional wrestler who is better known as Chris Youngblood. After the North American titles were abandoned by the promotion in November, Veasey and Brown would leave the promotion by the end of the year.
Early in 1989, Veasey and Brown spent some time in the World Wrestling Federation and, later, a very short spell in Stampede Wrestling, but by the end of 1989 Veasey was in World Championship Wrestling as 'Lieutenant James Earl Wright' along with 'Sergeant Buddy Lee Parker', his tag team partner in the State Patrol (which first formed while both were in Stampede).
Making their debut in late 1989, the State Patrol substituted for the Samoan Swat Team and were defeated by the NWA/WCW US Tag Team Champions the Steiner Brothers at Chicago’s UIC Pavilion on September 30 and also faced Ricky Morton & Tommy Rich on December 14, 1990. The Headshrinkers were a Professional wrestling Tag team in the World Wrestling Federation that consisted of Fatu and Samu. The Steiner Brothers are the Professional wrestling Tag team of American brothers Robert "Rick Steiner" Rechsteiner and Scott Richard Wendell "Ricky" Morton (born September 21, 1956) is an American professional wrestler. Thomas Richardson (born July 26 1956) better known by his Ring name, "Wildfire" Tommy Rich, is a professional wrestler [2]
During 1991, Wright and Parker regularly appeared on televised shows including WCW Power Hour and WCW Saturday Night. WCW Power Hour was the original Friday night wrestling show for World Championship Wrestling, airing on TBS. WCW Saturday Night was the weekly Saturday night TV show on TBS produced by World Championship Wrestling. After losing to ”Flyin’” Brian Pillman in a singles match on WCW Power Hour on January 26, both he and Parker brawled with Pillman afterwards with Pillman getting the upper hand. "The Yellow Dog" redirects here but "The Yellow Dog" is also a novel by Georges Simenon. [3] This would lead to a brief feud which resulted in a rematch at Clash of the Champions XIV on January 30 with Wright again losing to Pillman. The Clash of the Champions were a series of professional wrestling television specials aired by World Championship Wrestling. [4]
Although having success against preliminary wrestlers in early 1991, [5] Veasey and Parker teamed with Big Cat in a losing effort against the then WCW World Six-Man Tag Team Champions Junkyard Dog, Ricky Morton & Tommy Rich at Wrestle War ‘91 on February 24, 1991. The term big cat is used to distinguish the larger cat species from smaller ones The WCW World Six-Man Tag Team Championship was a short-lived championship contested in World Championship Wrestling throughout 1991 The nicknames "Junkyard Dog" & "JYD" may also refer to former pro-basketball player Jerome Williams, or Australian Football coach [6] He would also lose a series of single matches to Junkyard Dog and Dustin Rhodes during the next two months, before losing to Big Van Vader in a handicap match with Joe Cazana on April 24, 1991. [7]
The following year, Veasey lost to "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan in a match for the WCW United States Heavyweight Championship on November 20 and, with Sgt. James Stuart Duggan (born January 14, 1954) and in WCW he was a 1 time WCW United States Heavyweight Champion and a 1 time The World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE United States Championship is a Professional wrestling championship in World Wrestling Entertainment. Buddy Lee Parker, lost to then WCW World Tag Team Champions The American Males on December 7, 1994. The American Males were a Professional wrestling Tag team in World Championship Wrestling comprised of Marcus Bagwell and Scott Riggs [8]
Appearing on WCW Saturday Night during early 1995, he lost singles matches against Sting, Brian Pillman and Renegade. Richard "Rick" C Williams ( October 16, 1965 - February 23, 1999) was an American professional wrestler Although losing to the American Males on August 21, they would later defeat Col. Parker's Stud Stable (Bunkhouse Buck & "Dirty" Dick Slater) during Monday Night Nitro on September 18. "Colonel" Tom Parker (born Andreas Cornelis (Dries van Kuijk on June 26, 1909 &ndash January 21, 1997) was Richard Van Slater (born May 19 1951 better known by his ring name "Dirty" Dick Slater, was an American professional wrestler who wrestled WCW Monday Nitro was a weekly Professional wrestling program produced by World Championship Wrestling. Losing to the Nasty Boys on October 11 and Sting & Ric Flair on October 25, he and Parker would later appear in a 60-man Battle Royal where both he and his partner were eliminated by Cobra at World War Three '95 on November 11, 1995. The Nasty Boys, sometimes referred to incorrectly as the Nasty Boyz, are a group of Supervillain mutants who have appeared in various Comic book Richard Morgan Fliehr According to WWE and PWI Flair is an eight-time National Wrestling Alliance (NWA Champion, six-time WCW Champion Jeff Farmer (born August 14, 1962) is a Professional wrestler best known as The nWo Sting, Stink, or Imposter Sting. World War 3 was an annual Professional wrestling Pay-per-view event produced by World Championship Wrestling. Events 308 - The Congress of Carnuntum: Attempting to keep peace within the Roman Empire, the leaders of the Tetrarchy declare Year 1995 ( MCMXCV) was a Common year starting on Sunday. Events of 1995 After being eliminated, Veasey/Wright pulled Cobra out of the ring eliminating him from the battle royal as well, however nothing came from this. [9]
The following year, the State Patrol lost a match against Harlem Heat on WCW Saturday Night in Rome, Georgia on March 30, 1996. Harlem Heat was a Professional wrestling Tag team made up of two real-life brothers Booker and Lane Huffman. Nestled in the Foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, Rome is the largest City and the County seat of Floyd County Georgia, [10]
The State Patrol also toured Japan several times during the 1990s, and in the late 1990s Veasey retired from active competition although he has since wrestled in the Georgia-based Columbus Championship Wrestling in January 2002. [11]