Talk:"Superstar" Billy Graham

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it could be argued that, before the nWo and the Rock, the FOUR HORSEMEN were the most popular cool heels, dating back to the late 80s.

It should be popular heels, not cool heels. 76.110.82.251 (talk) 02:19, 17 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I know that Billy is married to Valerie but I haven't heard anything about them having children.Does anyone know if they have children since I haven't had a chance to read his book yet? Thanks. (MgTurtle 00:17, 16 July 2007 (UTC)).[reply]

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His twenty-two inch arms were called "pythons."

Er...pro wrestling commentators often call huge arm muscles "pythons". It has nothing to do uniquely with this character... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.243.195.136 (talk) 11:53, 26 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• • • • Correction -- wrestling commentators TODAY routinely refer to "huge arm muscles" as pythons. But in 1976-1977-1978 it indeed was unusual -- both the reference and the arms were unusual. It is indeed linked to Superstar Billy Graham as a character. Chesspride216.144.161.51 (talk) 21:53, 18 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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At about 3 p.m. today someone changed infobox to reflect a date of death of today (January 28, 2009). No verification was given. Could not find any confirmation online. Malicious edit or foretelling of the future? Davemackey (talk) 00:35, 29 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Billy Graham was never WORLD Heavyweight Champion. The WWWF Title was a regional championship at that point(1971-1983). —Preceding unsigned comment added by John Pallin (talk • contribs) 08:18, 1 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The WWE/WWf/WWWF title was always a splinter from the NWA World Heavyweight title from the original Buddy Rogers/Lou Thesz controversy in 1963. It was always generally regarded as a legitimate version of the World Heavyweight title and was recognised as a world title by Pro Wrestling Illustrated and its sister publications except for a two year period 1983-1985 which the publishing company has since renounced as a mistake. The night Graham won the title, the defending champion he dethroned, Bruno Sammartino, was announced as "the World Wrestling Champion" by the MC. A title versus title match between Graham and NWA champion Harley Race in January 1978 was heavily promoted as a unification match between two rival World Heavyweight Championship claims, as were subsequent such matchups between Race and Bob Backlund in 1979 and Backlund and Ric Flair in 1982. 62.190.154.115 (talk) 13:35, 12 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• • • let me add weight to this -- yes, WWWF/WWF, NWA and AWA all had "world heavyweight" titles. In each promotion -- the world heavyweight title is the top title. It is not true that NWA was somehow superior to AWA or WWWF in this regard...in other words, there is no such hierarchy. Thus, AWA and WWWF are not simply regional promotions. They are different wrestling universes in a territory-style multi-verse. Both THE Wrestler and Inside Wrestling magazine (and others) referred to all three promotions equally -- giving the three "heavyweight champion" titles equal weight. Thus, Superstar Billy Graham is indeed the 6th heavyweight champion of the WWWF universe (1. Rogers, 2. Sammartino 3. Koloff 4. Morales 5. Stasiak 2. Sammartino 6. SB Graham). Chesspride216.144.161.51 (talk) 21:58, 18 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This article is a little biased and very-pro Graham. I had to remove a bit that was an editorial, but it seems that this article is covered with positive editorial about Graham's career. A call for neutrality is recommended. 71.193.123.19 (talk) 23:18, 2 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed that too. I've been cleaning the article up a bit. One length section in particular was written almost as an advertisement.LM2000 (talk) 09:40, 20 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

As of this date, http://www.superstarbillygraham.net/ contains no original or substantive content regarding this subject. It appears that the website URL is for sale and this page is a placeholder. Kathon (talk) 19:00, 25 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]