Ernie Ladd

, Usually called Ernest Ladd Ernie Ladd, ( born November 28, 1938 in Rayville, Louisiana, † March 10, 2007 in Franklin, Louisiana) was an US- American football player and wrestler.

Career

American Football

Ladd graduated from Grambling College ( since 1974 Gramling State University), where he already played college football, and was in the Entry Draft, selected in 1961 as the fifteenth player from the AFL team San Diego Chargers. Ladd, whose position was that of defensive tackles, played four seasons for the Chargers, where he was a member of the defensive line known as the " Fearsome Foursome". With Ladd, the Chargers were three times in the final of the AFL, winning the 1963 title. The seasons 1966 and 1967 Ladd played for the AFL Team Houston Oilers before he moved to the Kansas City Chiefs, where he in 1968 after another winning the AFL title ended his career. Ladd, whose maneuverability despite its conformation (143 kg at 2.06 m) earned him the nickname "The Big Cat" earned, was 1962-1965 interruption in the All- Star team of the AFL.

Wrestling

Ladd started wrestling in 1961 with the first outside of the American football season. He initially joined in local wrestling promotions in the Los Angeles area at. Ladd, one of the first African American who took over the role of the villainous heels in wrestling, quickly developed in the crowds. One of Ladd's methods, the present Heel, was to leave at a looming defeat the ring and the hall to intentionally lose by counting. Since wrestling title usually could change only by pinfall, " cheated " Ladd as the audience about being able to cheer for a new Facebook title holder. Ladd also used a fixed taped due to a football injury thumb for Cheap- Shots.

1968, after completing his illustrious football career, Ladd debuted in the World Wide Wrestling Federation, a predecessor of today's World Wrestling Entertainment, where he remained until 1980. Ladd played many matches against the champions of the league as Bruno Sammartino, Pedro Morales and Bob Backlund and feuded extensively with André René Roussimoff, who competed under the ring name " Andre the Giant" and one of the few wrestlers, was the "Big Cat" Ernie Ladd surpassed in height and weight.

From 1980, Ladd has predominantly been on for Mid-South Wrestling Association, a territorial promotion of the National Wrestling Alliance, where he remained active until 1986, and even picked up some wrestling title. Overall, Ladd won during his career twenty-eight wrestling title as a single or tag team wrestler. The two major wrestling promotions World Championship Wrestling and World Wrestling Federation, who competed in the 1990s to win the favor of the fans and audience, Ladd took on in their leagues Halls of Fame, the WCW in 1994, the WWF a year later.

After wrestling

Ladd, who was married forty-five years and had four children, operated a restaurant in New Orleans that was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005, after the end of his career. Ladd, who was suffering from colon cancer since 2004, died on 10 March 2007.