Don Muraco

Don Morrow ( born September 10, 1949 in Pūpūkea, Hawaii, USA) is a former American professional wrestler, best known as Don Muraco. Morrow embodied in his ring role usually the imaginary villain. His greatest successes were the two-time receipt of WWF Intercontinental Champion title, as well as the original NWA Eastern Championship Wrestling Champion title. Morrow is a member of the WWE Hall of Fame since 2004.

Career

After a period as a successful amateur wrestler, Morrow began his career in 1970. Initially, he was for the American Wrestling Association, National Wrestling Alliance, NWA All- Star Wrestling, Georgia Championship Wrestling, Jim Crockett Promotions and Championship Wrestling from Florida worked. In the latter Don Morrow was best known for his feud with Barry Windham.

1980 Morrow began in the World Wrestling Federation ( WWF shortly, now WWE), where he was able to celebrate the greatest achievements of his career. Between June 20, 1981 and 11 February 1984, he held two-time WWE Intercontinental Championship, which results in a total time of almost 18 months later showed. On October 17, 1983, however, Morrow had to defend in a steel cage match his title against Jimmy Snuka. He won the match though, but had a running of Snuka " Superfly Splash" from the Insert cage roof. The former wrestling fans and today's superstars Mick Foley and Thomas Laughlin took this match as inspiration for their future wrestling career.

Then Don Morrow had bloody feuds with Pedro Morales, Bob Backlund and Rocky Johnson. He now embodied a character of an arrogant heels who carried out the piledriver as a finisher. During his career, Morrow had several managers that occurred at his side, among them were such as The Grand Wizard, Captain Lou Albano, Mr. Fuji and Billy Graham. Together with Fuji he formed two soap operas, the Fuji Vice ( parody of Miami Vice ) and Fuji General Hospital ( parody of the ABC soap opera General Hospital ). In 1987, we Morrow to a face after he fell out with his tag team partner Cowboy Bob Orton.

1988 Don Morrow was fired from the WWF, while making appearances in the league Stampede Wrestling (where he won the North American Heavyweight title ), AWA and UWF, where he feuded young Mick Foley.

In the early 1990s, Morrow went on for promotion NWA Tri-State wrestling and one of the first wrestlers who were allowed to keep the consequential League NWA Eastern Championship Wrestling ECW Heavyweight Title. Morrow now fought often as heel and led feud with Ric Flair, Jake Roberts, Roddy Piper and Randy Savage. He was the first wrestler who became known as The Rock, which originally only as his nickname and name of his new finishing maneuver, the Reverse Piledriver ( Tombstone Piledriver Later ) served.

After a preliminary resignation of his wrestling career, Don Morrow made ​​his comeback in Hawaii. In 2003 he founded together with the local TV producer Linda bathing the Wrestling Association of Hawai'i Championship Wrestling. In 2004 he was introduced by Mick Foley in the WWE Hall of Fame.

Title and Awards

  • Championship Wrestling from Florida 1x NWA Florida Heavyweight Championship
  • 1x NWA Florida Television Championship
  • 1x NWA Florida United States Tag Team Championship - with Jos LeDuc
  • Eastern Championship Wrestling 2x ECW Heavyweight Championship
  • NWA regions 1x NWA Americas Heavyweight Championship
  • 1x NWA Pacific International Championship
  • 1x NWA British Empire / Commonwealth Heavyweight Championship
  • 1x NWA United States Heavyweight Championship
  • 1x NWA World Tag Team Championship - with Invader # 1
  • Stampede Wrestling 1x Stampede North American Heavyweight Championship
  • World Wrestling Federation / World Wrestling Entertainment WWE Hall of Fame (Class of 2004)
  • 2x WWF Intercontinental Championship
  • 1st WWF King of the Ring (1985 )
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