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Dances with Dudley
Birth nameAdolfo Bermudez
BornOklahoma, US
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)
Chucky
Chief Dudley[1]
Dances with Dudley
White Wolf
White Cloud[1]
D.W. Dudley[2]
La Raza Adolpho
Billed height5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Billed weight290 lb (130 kg)
Debut1992

Adolfo Bermudez is an American

Dudley family under the ring name Dances with Dudley (sometimes abbreviated to D.W. Dudley).[3]

Professional wrestling career

Early career (1992–1995)

Bermudez made his professional wrestling debut in 1992 with Angelo Savoldi's Pennsylvania-based International World Class Championship Wrestling promotion. Wrestling as "White Cloud", Bermudez formed a tag team with Dancing Wolf (Al Farat) dubbed The Sioux War Party. In May 1992, The Sioux War Party won a tournament for the vacant IWCCW Tag Team Championship. The duo held the titles for over a year, finally losing to Jimmy Deo and L.A. Gore in June 1993, only to regain the championship that same day. In 1994, The Sioux War Party vacated the titles upon leaving the IWCCW.

After a brief stay in the AWF, he and White Wolf won the AWF tag team titles before Burmudez was brought into Extreme Championship Wrestling to replace Snot Dudley who had been injured at ECW Hardcore Heaven earlier that year.

Extreme Championship Wrestling (1995–1996)

See also:
The Dudley Brothers

Bermudez debuted in the

stable. Dances with Dudley was said to be the child of Big Daddy Dudley - the patriarch of the Dudley family - and a Native American woman from Cheyenne, Oklahoma.[4][5]

Dances with Dudley formed a

J.T. Smith and Hack Meyers in singles matches.[6]

After losing to ECW World Tag Team Champions

The Bad Crew on December 9, he and Buh Buh Ray Dudley also defeated Bad Crew on December 28 although they lost to them in a rematch two days later that month.[7]

In early-1996, Bermudez suffered a leg injury during an ECW event. At

chair shots. Following the attacks by D-Von Dudley, Bermudez and the other members of the Dudleys feuded with the renegade D-Von Dudley. He and Chubby Dudley soon left the promotion however, allegedly in a dispute with promoter Paul Heyman.[8]

Big Japan Pro Wrestling (1996)

In 1996, Dances with Dudley toured Japan with the Big Japan Pro Wrestling promotion. He teamed with other Americans such as Bull Pain and Ian Rotten and faced wrestlers such as Yoshiaki Yatsu and Sabu.

Independent circuit

From 1997 to 1999, he wrestled with several tag partners as Laraza as featured in Pro Wrestling Illustrated. He had several matches with such workers as Spanish Angel, Kid USA, Lucifer, Homicide and Low Life Louie. He had great feedback from promoter Bobby Lombardi but left when the Long Island Wrestling Federation did shows further east on Long Island.

In the mid-2000s, Dances with Dudley adopted the ring name "Chief Dudley.[1]

Championships and accomplishments

References

  1. ^ a b c McGrath, Jess (August 21, 2010). "Indy Kingdom". PWInsider.com. Retrieved December 30, 2014.
  2. ^ Johnson, Mike; Goldstein, John (August 21, 2010). "Forgotten Championship Wrestling in Brooklyn, NY live report". PWInsider.com. Retrieved December 30, 2014.
  3. Canadian Online Explorer. Archived from the original on July 20, 2012. Retrieved 2007-10-01.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link
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  4. ^ Koenen, Frank (2004-02-24). "ECW Hardcore TV: September 17, 1995". Graham Cawthon's History of the WWE.
  5. ^ Szanto-Nicodemus, Scotty (2004-01-14). "ECW's Finest in Five Categories: The #5s and #4s!". OnlineOnslaught.com. Archived from the original on 2011-10-03.
  6. ^ "Extreme Championship Wrestling: July - September 1995". ProWrestlingHistory.com. June 2003.
  7. ^ "Extreme Championship Wrestling: October - December 1995". ProWrestlingHistory.com. April 2003.
  8. ISBN 1-4165-1058-3
  9. ^ "I.C.W./I.W.C.C.W. Tag Team Title". Puroresu Dojo. June 2003.
  10. ^ "PWI 500 1996". The Turnbuckle Post. Retrieved 2012-08-27.

External links

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