Talk:Mr. Wrestling

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Mr Wrestling II came into being during a terrority dispute with the Atlanta NWA booking office, where Mr Wrestling was the featured performer. After Mr Wrestling left the NWA booking office with most of the other local NWA's wrestlers to work for Ray Gunkel, the NWA took "Rubberman" Johnny Walker and put him into the character of Mr Wrestling II, there was no ceremony, they later became partners and held titles all throughout the 70's in the Deep South including in Georgia. They were not close friends but working partners.

4 Time Tag Team Champion [Georgia Championship Wrestling] Tim Woods & Mr. Wrestling II, 74/08/02, Atlanta, GA [wrestling without his mask] Mr. Wrestling & Mr. Wrestling II 74/09/06, Atlanta, GA Mr. Wrestling & Mr. Wrestling II 77/01/14 Mr. Wrestling & Mr. Wrestling II 80/09/19 Griffin, GA

Cleaned up the timeline and listed additional titles - The OldTimer 05/01/06

No, that's not right. Tim Woods was wrestling in Florida for Eddie Graham when the split ocurred. The actual cause of the split of Ray Gunkel's sudden death and his partners trying to shut out his widow. Tim Woods came back to reinforce the NWA's promotion because he was still a draw there but he could only work the tv tapings and not the house shows so they created Mr. Wrestling II for house show business.--Darren Jowalsen 04:56, 7 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps this was to benefit from the character during an injury or just a convenient contract measure however the popular Johnny Weaver at least on one occasion in Madison Square Garden was "Mr. Wrestling". He won against a major opponent, might have been a non-title match against the champion of the time, at the conclusion he removed the mask to reveal who he was. Sadly I don't think Weaver got a title match out of it. 2600:8805:4310:B900:1566:33A1:F60A:2BC1 (talk) 20:22, 23 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]