| Theodore James "Ted" Petty | |
|---|---|
| Statistics | |
| Ring name(s) | The Cheetah Kid Colonel DeKlerk Rocco Rock Flyboy Rocco The Rock The Executioner |
| Billed height | 6 ft 2 in (1. 88 m) |
| Billed weight | 251 lb (114 kg/17. The pound or pound-mass (abbreviation lb, lbm, or sometimes in the United States #) is a unit of Mass 9 st) |
| Born | September 1, 1953[1] Woodbridge Township, New Jersey, United States[1] |
| Died | September 21, 2002 (aged 49)[2] Philadelphia, PA |
| Resides | Middlesex, New Jersey |
| Billed from | Compton, California |
| Trained by | Afa Anoa'i[1] |
| Debut | 1979 |
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Ted Petty started wrestling in 1978 as The Cheetah Kid after graduating from Rutgers University with a degree in nutrition and a brief boxing career. Rutgers The State University of New Jersey (also known as Rutgers University) is the largest institution for higher education in the state of New Jersey Boxing (sometimes also known as English boxing or pugilism) is a Combat sport in which two participants generally of similar weight, [2]
Petty wrestled in the National Wrestling Alliance in 1990, appearing at Starrcade as Colonel DeKlerk. The National Wrestling Alliance ( NWA) is the largest governing body for a group of independent Professional wrestling promotions and sanctions various NWA Starrcade '90 Collision Course was the eighth annual Starrcade Professional wrestling Pay-per-view event produced under the National Wrestling Alliance Along with Sergeant Krueger, he represented Africa in a tag team match, but the team lost to The Steiner Brothers. The Steiner Brothers are the Professional wrestling Tag team of American brothers Robert "Rick Steiner" Rechsteiner and Scott [3]
In 1993, he used the name Rocco Rock and formed a tag team named The Public Enemy with Johnny Grunge, with a gimmick of inner city criminals, or "hoodies". Year 1993 ( MCMXCIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar) This article refers to the band For the wrestling term see Tag team. The Public Enemy was the Tag team of Rocco Rock and Johnny Grunge in Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW World Championship Wrestling Michael "Mike" Durham ( July 10, 1966 – February 16, 2006) was an American professional wrestler, better The inner city is the central area of a major city or metropolis The team first wrestled in the Universal Wrestling Federation and Extreme Championship Wrestling. The Universal Wrestling Federation (UWF was an American Professional wrestling promotion founded by Herb Abrams. Extreme Championship Wrestling ( ECW) was a Professional wrestling promotion that was founded in Philadelphia Pennsylvania in 1992 by [2][1] In ECW, the team feuded with Terry Funk and The Gangstas and won the ECW Tag Team Championship four times. Terrence "Terry" Funk (born June 30 1944) is an American professional wrestler and Actor known chiefly for the The Gangstas was the Tag team of New Jack and Mustapha Saed in ECW and Smoky Mountain Wrestling. The Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW World Tag Team Championship was the Tag team championship contested in Eastern Championship Wrestling and Extreme [4] Petty's success in 1995 earned him his highest placement in the annual PWI 500, in which he was ranked #90. [5]
In 1996, The Public Enemy signed with World Championship Wrestling, where they won the tag team titles and feuded with The Nasty Boys. Year 1996 ( MCMXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar) The Nasty Boys were a Professional wrestling Tag team consisting of Brian Knobbs and Jerry Sags, active in the mid to late 1980s and throughout [2] They continued to use some of the "extreme" tactics that had made them famous in ECW, including the frequent use of tables in match. [1]
They were briefly in the World Wrestling Federation in 1999 and competed in the short-lived Xtreme Wrestling Federation as the "South Philly Posse" with Jasmin St. Claire as their manager. World Wrestling Entertainment Inc ( WWE) is a publicly traded privately controlled integrated media (focusing in Television, Internet, Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) X Wrestling Federation (XWF was a short lived American Professional wrestling promotion from late 2001 to early 2002 Jasmin St Claire is a former Pornographic actress who is best known for starring in " Gang bang " pornographic movies in which she has sex with large [2]
Petty was competing as a singles wrestler in the independents when he died of a heart attack on September 21, 2002. In Professional wrestling, the independent circuit or indy circuit refers to the many independent promotions which are much smaller than major televised Myocardial infarction ( MI or AMI for acute myocardial infarction) also known as a heart attack, occurs when the blood supply Events 1217 - The Estonian tribal leader Lembitu of Lehola was killed in a battle against Teutonic Knights. See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. [2]
Every year the IWA-Mid South professional wrestling promotion memorializes him by holding the Ted Petty Invitational tournament. Independent Wrestling Association Mid-South (also known as IWA Mid-South IWA-MS and IWA Mid South Wrestling is an independent Professional wrestling promotion A professional wrestling promotion (also federation or fed) is a company or Business that performs regular shows involving Professional The Ted Petty Invitational tournament (the TPI is an Independent wrestling tournament in North America, run and promoted by IWA Mid-South. Previous winners include AJ Styles, Matt Sydal, Low Ki, Danny Daniels and Mike Quackenbush. Alan Jones (born June 2 1978 (TNA where he is a three-time TNA Triple Crown Champion. Matthew Joseph Korklan (born March 19 1983 is an American professional wrestler best known as Matt Sydal Brandon Silvestry (born September 6 1979) better known by his Ring name, Low Ki, is an American professional wrestler Danny Daniels is an American Choreographer, Tap dancer, and Teacher.