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Kevin Von Erich
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Ring name(s) Kevin Von Erich
Cosmic Cowboy #1
Billed height 6 ft 2 in (188 cm)
Billed weight 235 lb (108 kg)
Born May 15, 1957 (1957-05-15) (age 51)
Belleville, Illinois
Trained by Fritz Von Erich
Debut 1976
Retired 1995

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Career

Football career

Kevin Adkisson played football at North Texas State University as a fullback, second string to Garry Smith, until an injury ended his football career and dream of playing in the National Football League. The National Football League ( NFL) is the largest professional American football league.

World Class Championship Wrestling

Kevin started wrestling as Kevin Von Erich in 1976. He spent most of his career wrestling for his father's promotion, World Class Championship Wrestling. World Class Championship Wrestling (WCCW was a popular regional Professional wrestling promotion run out of Dallas and Fort Worth Texas. He teamed with his brothers and had a huge feud against the Fabulous Freebirds (Michael Hayes, Terry Gordy and Buddy Roberts), where they had many six-man tag matches. The Fabulous Freebirds were a groundbreaking Professional wrestling Tag team that attained fame in the 1980s performing into the 1990s Michael Seitz In 2002 Hayes hit the wrestling headlines after an incident took place during a UK tour which was dubbed the "plane ride from hell Terry 'Bam Bam' Gordy ( April 23 1961 - July 16 2001) was a Professional wrestler who was most famous in the United States for Dale Hey (born May 16, 1945) is a retired Professional wrestler better known as Buddy Roberts

Kevin also had a long feud with Chris Adams that lasted for months and had many violent matches. This article is about the Wrestler, for the Cricketer, see Christopher Adams (cricketer Christopher Adams ( February 10 Kevin would also tag-team with Adams on numerous occasions before and after their feud. Away from the ring, Kevin and Chris were close friends; Kevin served as a pallbearer during Adams' funeral in 2001 and traveled to England to visit Adams' family afterwards.

A longtime friend of the Hart family away from the ring, Kevin also represented the Von Erich family in 1999 during the funeral of Owen Hart. Owen James Hart (May 7 1965 – May 23 1999 As those attempts were unsuccessful he decided to give wrestling a chance and see where it took him

Kevin was also known for wrestling barefoot, highly unusual in a sport where almost all wrestlers wear high-topped boots. For people with the name Barefoot see Barefoot (surname Going barefoot (also barefoot ed) means for a person not to use or Kevin later admitted in an interview that he never set out to wrestle barefoot, but that before his debut match, someone hid his boots as a rib, and he wasn't able to find them before his match, so just went out barefoot to wrestle, and it later became his trademark. Kevin was also a huge fan of Jimmy Snuka, who also wrestled barefoot, and like Snuka, Kevin often performed a flying body splash from the top rope, which Snuka calls The Superfly. James Reiher (born May 18 1943 is an American professional wrestler, and Actor, better known by his ring name of Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka

Kevin had several close matches with NWA World Champ Ric Flair, including the main event of the 2nd Memorial show at Texas Stadium, but never won the title. Richard Morgan Fliehr According to WWE and PWI Flair is an eight-time National Wrestling Alliance (NWA Champion, six-time WCW Champion Texas Stadium is a football Stadium in Irving Texas, a Suburb of Dallas.

After the failure of SuperClash III, in 1989, Kevin became very dispondant over his father's decision to sell the promotion to Jerry Jarrett, who owned the Memphis-based CWA, despite his brother Kerry welcoming Jarrett into the mix; the merged promotions became the USWA. Jerry W Jarrett (born September 4, 1942 in Nashville Tennessee) is an American promoter and former professional wrestler However, because of disputes, including suing Jarrett himself, he pulled WCCW out of the USWA in 1990, but he couldn't resurrect the promotion his father built and shut down that November.

WWE Homecoming

On October 3, 2005, Kevin made an appearance on the WWE Homecoming show alongside many WWE Hall of Famers. Events 42 BC - First Battle of Philippi: Triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian fight an indecisive battle with Caesar's Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. This article is about the television program You may be looking for the 1994 video game or the 2002 video game WWE Raw is Later that night, as Dusty Rhodes and the WWE Hall of Famers were gathered in the ring, Rob Conway came out and interrupted Rhodes. Virgil Riley Runnels Jr (born on October 12 1945) better known as "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes, is a semi-retired American This eventually led to Conway's beatdown by several Hall of Famers, in which Kevin used the legendary Iron Claw on Conway, to the raves of the partisan Dallas, Texas crowd. Announcer Jim Ross said afterwards that he never thought he would live to see the Iron Claw again. James William "Jim" Ross (born January 3 1952 in Fort Bragg California He is known affectionately as "good ol'" J

Independent circuit

On January 20, 2006, Kevin and his son Ross Adkisson (billed as Ross Von Erich) appeared on a local wrestling card in Longview, Texas as guests of Roddy Piper's Piper's Pit. Events 250 - Emperor Decius begins a widespread persecution of Christians in Rome. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. The Von Erich family is a Professional wrestling family Their actual birth names are "Adkisson" but every member of the family that went into the wrestling Roderick George Toombs (born April 17, 1954) Career After being expelled from junior high and having a falling out with his father Piper hit the Piper's Pit was an interview segment featuring Roddy Piper which was a mainstay of WWF/WWE television from 1984 to 1987, and then returned During the segment, in which Kevin and Piper talked about going to the Sportatorium as teenagers, Skandor Akbar interrupted the interview to berate both Kevin and Ross. Jim Whebbe (born September 29 1934) is a former Professional wrestler and manager better known by his ring name Skandor Akbar which translated At one point, Akbar pushed Ross, which prompted Kevin to apply the iron claw on Akbar. Greg Valentine then pulled Akbar away, with Kevin, Ross, Piper and The Grappler taking in the cheers of the crowd. John Anthony Wisniski Jr (born September 20, 1950) is a retired American professional wrestler, better known as Greg "The Hammer" Len Denton (real name - Edward Lynn Denton) is a Professional wrestler, best known by his ring name The Grappler.

In wrestling

Championships and accomplishments

Retirement and personal life

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Kevin and his wife of over 25 years live in Hawaii and run a family investment business together. Kevin also dabbles in commercial real estate, and owns the rights to Southwest Sports (the distributor of World Class Championship Wrestling), which was later renamed K. R. Adkisson Enterprises. Together they have four children; Kristen, Jill, David Ross, and Kerry Marshall, and one grandchild, Adeline Clair. [14] Kevin is also the uncle of Lacey and Hollie Adkisson, Kerry's two daughters.

In 2006, Kevin, and a number of others from World Class Championship Wrestling's heyday, participated in Heroes of World Class Wrestling, an independently produced retrospective documentary about the promotion and the Von Erich family. World Class Championship Wrestling (WCCW was a popular regional Professional wrestling promotion run out of Dallas and Fort Worth Texas. [15] The documentary featured comments from Adkisson, Gary Hart, Skandor Akbar, Bill Mercer, Mickey Grant, David Manning, Marc Lowrance and via earlier interviews, Chris Adams.

Later that October he sold the rights to the (pre-1988) WCCW name and tape archives to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). The World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE video library is currently the largest collection of Professional wrestling videos and copyrights in the World Wrestling Entertainment Inc ( WWE) is a publicly traded privately controlled integrated media (focusing in Television, Internet, [16] WWE has since been broadcasting WCCW's syndicated programming on their subscription video on demand service WWE 24/7 with Kevin and Michael "P.S." Hayes acting as hosts. Michael Seitz In 2002 Hayes hit the wrestling headlines after an incident took place during a UK tour which was dubbed the "plane ride from hell WWE has produced The Triumph and Tragedy of World Class, their own documentary on the territory. [17] Kevin was also featured in the 2007 WWE produced DVD The Most Powerful Families in Wrestling in a segment on the Von Erich family.

References

  1. ^ All Asia Tag Team Title history At wrestling-titles. com
  2. ^ NWA American Heavyweight Title history At wrestling-titles. com
  3. ^ NWA American Tag Team Title history At wrestling-titles. com
  4. ^ Texas Heavyweight Title history At wrestling-titles. com
  5. ^ Texas Tag Team Title history At wrestling-titles. com
  6. ^ World 6-Man Tag Team Title (World Class) history At wrestling-titles. com
  7. ^ National Wrestling Alliance World Tag Team Title (Texas) history At wrestling-titles. com
  8. ^ World Class Television Title history At wrestling-titles. com
  9. ^ World Class Wrestling Association World Heavyweight Title history At wrestling-titles. com
  10. ^ World 6-Man Tag Team Title (World Class) history At wrestling-titles. com
  11. ^ World Class Wrestling Association World Tag Team Title history At wrestling-titles. com
  12. ^ NWA North American Heavyweight Title history At wrestling-titles. com
  13. ^ NWA Missouri Heavyweight Title history At wrestling-titles. com
  14. ^ Kevin Von Erich. Bios. VonErich. com. Retrieved on 2007-11-25. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1034 - Máel Coluim mac Cináeda, King of Scots dies Donnchad, the
  15. ^ Heroes of World Class Wrestling. Right Here Pictures. Retrieved on 2007-12-19. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 324 - Licinius abdicates his position as Roman Emperor.
  16. ^ WCCW FAQ. World Class Memories. Retrieved on 2007-11-25. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1034 - Máel Coluim mac Cináeda, King of Scots dies Donnchad, the
  17. ^ The Triumph and Tragedy of World Class product information page. WWEShop. com. Retrieved on 2007-11-25. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1034 - Máel Coluim mac Cináeda, King of Scots dies Donnchad, the

See also

External links

The Von Erich family is a Professional wrestling family Their actual birth names are "Adkisson" but every member of the family that went into the wrestling
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