Dick Murdoch

Hoyt Richard Murdoch
Data
Ring name	Big Daddy Murdoch Black Ace Dick Murdoch The Invader Ron Carson Super Rodeo Machine The Texan
height	191
Fighting weight	125
birth	August 16, 1946 Waxahachie , Texas
death	June 15, 1996 Amarillo , Texas
Announced from	Waxahachie, Texas
Trained by	Killer Karl Kox Bog Geigel Pat O'Connor
debut	1965

Hoyt Richard "Dick" Murdoch (born August 16, 1946 in Waxahachie , Texas , † June 15, 1996 in Amarillo ) was an American wrestler .

Life

Murdoch was born in 1946 as the son of wrestler Frankie Hill Murdoch. His friends also included the two brothers Dory Funk, Jr. and Terry Funk , who later became second generation wrestlers, who accompanied their fathers to numerous wrestling events in Texas and thus grew into the family business. Richard's father Frank Murdoch was well known in Texas and received the NWA Southwest Junior Heavyweight Championship three times. Dick Murdoch attended Caprock High School in Amarillo, where he learned to wrestle and competed.

He made his debut as a wrestler in 1965 as "Ron Carson". He played the brother of his tag team mate Don Carson, but soon began wrestling under his real name. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, he was on a tag team with Dusty Rhodes as The Texas Outlaws. He then wrestled as a single wrestler for Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW), the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) and Mid-South Wrestling.

In the early 1980s he tagged Junkyard Dog . While he played the " redneck " in this team , Junkyard Dog should inspire the audience. The feud between her team and The Fabulous Freebirds became a classic in the Midwest. Racist stereotypes were a common motif in wrestling in the 1980s and fueled the show fights.

Like his partner Junkyard Dog, Dick Murdoch moved to the emerging World Wrestling Federation (WWF), but unlike Junkyard Dog, who became a crowd- pleaser in the mid-1980s, he only stayed for a year. During this time he was able to win the tag team belt together with Adrian Adonis . After the two lost their titles to The US Express ( Mike Rotundo and Barry Windham ), he went back to Mid South Wrestling, but joined Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling shortly afterwards . As a single wrestler, he competed against Ric Flair for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship .

In 1987 he feuded with Ivan Koloff against his "nephews" Nikita Koloff and Dusty Rhodes for the NWA United States Tag Team Championship , which they eventually won. However, the title was stripped of them when Murdoch performed a brainbuster on Nikita Koloff and injured his neck. In truth, Murdoch was wrestling for the World Wrestling Council at the time and only returned after MACW was converted to World Championship Wrestling (WCW). There he began to compete with Dick Slater against the Steiner Brothers . He then ended his active wrestling time and only returned for special shows.

In 1995 he appeared as a surprise guest at the Royal Rumble . He had another match against Wahoo McDaniel at WCW Slamboree. He then appeared in Malaysia and finally had his last appearance on May 23, 1996 at Pro Wrestling Fujiwara Gumi , where he faced Yoshiaki Fujiwara . He died unexpectedly of a myocardial infarction on June 15, 1996 at the age of 49.

Murdoch appeared in a total of four films: The Wrestler (1974), Vorhof zum Paradies (1978), Grunt! The Wrestling Movie (1985) and Manhattan Merengue! (1995).

Private life

Murdoch was married from 1966 to 1973. The marriage resulted in a child.

Throughout his career there have been rumors that Dick Murdoch might be a member of the Ku Klux Klan . Bad News Brown claimed this in a shoot interview and Tito Santana also stated this in his biography Tales from the Ring . Alex Greenfield, long-time chief scribe of WWE SmackDown, told a story of Dusty Rhodes who said he had attended a clan party with Murdoch, but Murdoch withheld that detail from him. Also, Rocky Johnson , father of Dwayne Johnson stated during a fight to have had with him a controversy when he tackled him harder than was usual. Then Johnson k. o. beaten.

successes

title

• All Japan Pro Wrestling
  • NWA United National Championship (1 ×)
• Central States Wrestling
  • NWA Central States Heavyweight Championship (2 ×)
  • NWA Central States Tag Team Championship (1 ×) - with Bob Brown
  • NWA North American Tag Team Championship (Central States version) (3 ×) with Dusty Rhodes (1 ×) and Bob Sweetan (2 ×)
• Championship Wrestling from Florida
  • NWA Florida Tag Team Championship (2 ×) - with Dusty Rhodes (1) and Bobby Duncum (1 ×)
  • NWA Southern Heavyweight Championship (Florida version) (1 ×)
• Gulf Coast Championship Wrestling
  • NWA Gulf Coast Tag Team Championship (1 ×) - with Don Carson
• Jim Crockett Promotions
  • NWA United States Tag Team Championship (1 ×) - with Ivan Koloff
• NWA Big Time Wrestling
  • NWA American Tag Team Championship (1 ×) - with Dusty Rhodes
• NWA Detroit
  • NWA World Tag Team Championship (Detroit version) (1 ×) - with Dusty Rhodes
• NWA Mid-America
  • NWA World Tag Team Championship (Mid-America version) (1 ×) - with Don Carson
• NWA Tri-State / Mid-South Wrestling Association
  • Mid-South North American Championship (2 ×)
  • Mid-South Tag Team Championship (3 ×) - with Junkyard Dog
  • NWA North American Heavyweight Championship (Tri-State version) (3 ×)
  • NWA Tri-State Brass Knuckles Championship (1 ×)
  • NWA United States Tag Team Championship (Tri-State version) (2 ×) - with Killer Karl Kox (1 ×) and Ted DiBiase (1 ×)
• NWA Western States Sports
  • NWA Brass Knuckles Championship (Amarillo version) (3 ×)
  • NWA International Heavyweight Championship (Amarillo version) (3 ×)
  • NWA Western States Heavyweight Championship (1 ×)
  • NWA Western States Tag Team Championship (3 ×) - with Bobby Duncum (1 ×) and Black Jack Mulligan (2 ×)
• National Wrestling Federation
  • NWF World Tag Team Championship (1 ×) - with Dusty Rhodes
• St. Louis Wrestling Club
  • NWA Missouri Heavyweight Championship (3 ×)
• World Championship Wrestling (Australia)
  • IWA World Tag Team Championship (2 ×) - with Lars Anderson (1 ×) and Dusty Rhodes (1 ×)
• World Wrestling Council
  • WWC Universal Heavyweight Championship (1 ×)
  • WWC World Television Championship (2 ×)
• World Wrestling Federation
  • WWF Tag Team Championship (1 ×) - with Adrian Adonis

Honors

• Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame
  • Class of 2013
• Pro Wrestling Illustrated
  • PWI Most Inspirational Wrestler of the Year (1974)
  • # 96 of the Top 500 Individual Wrestlers of the PWI Years (2003)
  • St. Louis Wrestling Hall of Fame

Filmography

• 1995: Manhattan Merengue!
• 1985: Grunt! - The Wrestling Movie (Grunt! The Wrestling Movie)
• 1978: Forecourt to Paradise (Paradise Alley)
• 1974: The Wrestler

Web links

• Dick Murdoch in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

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3. ↑ Jim Ross, Jan Ross, Dennis Brent: JR's Cookbook: True Ringside Tales, BBQ, and Down-Home Recipes . Simon and Schuster, April 1, 2004, ISBN 978-0-7434-8310-0 , p. 258.
4. ↑ David Shoemaker: The Squarred Circle. Life, Death, and Professional Wrestling . Avery (Penguin Random House), 2013, ISBN 978-1-59240-881-8 , pp. 146 .
5. ↑ Irv Muchnick: Wrestling Babylon: Piledriving Tales of Drugs, Sex, Death, and Scandal . ECW Press, 2007, ISBN 978-1-55490-286-6 , p. 145.
6. ↑ Terry Funk, Scott E. Williams: Terry Funk: More Than Just Hardcore . Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated, December 13, 2013, ISBN 978-1-61321-308-7 , p. 55.
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12. ^ NWA Central States Heavyweight Title history At wrestling-titles.com
13. ↑ NWA Central States Tag Team Title history At wrestling-titles.com
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16. ^ NWA Southern Heavyweight Title (Florida) history At wrestling-titles.com
17. ^ NWA Gulf Coast Tag Team Title history At wrestling-titles.com
18. ↑ NWA / WCW United States Tag Team Title history At wrestling-titles.com
19. ^ NWA American Tag Team Title history At wrestling-titles.com
20. ^ NWA World Tag Team Title (Detroit) history At wrestling-titles.com
21. ↑ George Schire: Minnesota's Golden Age of Wrestling: From Verne Gagne to the Road Warriors . Minnesota Historical Society, 2010, ISBN 978-0-87351-620-4 , p. 96.
22. ^ NWA World Tag Team Title (Mid-America) history At wrestling-titles.com
23. ^ North American Heavyweight Title (Mid-South) history At wrestling-titles.com
24. ↑ Mis-South Tag Team Title history At wrestling-titles.com
25. ↑ Chad Bonham: Wrestling with God . David C Cook, 2001, ISBN 978-1-58919-935-4 , p. 43.
26. ^ NWA Tri-State Brass Knuckles Title history At wrestling-titles.com
27. ^ NWA United States Tag Team Title (Tri-State) history At wrestling-titles.com
28. ^ NWA Brass Knuckles Title (Amarillo) history At wrestling-titles.com
29. ^ NWA International Heavyweight Title (Amarillo) history At wrestling-titles.com
30. ^ NWA Western States Heavyweight Title history at wrestling-titles.com
31. ^ NWA Western States Tag Team Title history At wrestling-titles.com
32. ^ NWA Missouri Heavyweight Title history At wrestling-titles.com
33. ↑ IWA World Tag Team Title history At wrestling-titles.com
34. ↑ WWC Universal Heavyweight Title history At wrestling-titles.com
35. ↑ WWC World Television Title history At wrestling-titles.com
36. ↑ Dave Meltzer : Mon. update: Major Spike announcement tomorrow, Aces & 8s identity, TNA injury updates, Hall of Fame inductions announced, WWE two PPVs this weekend, Jericho schedule, Amateur wrestling hits MSG first time ever . In: Wrestling Observer Newsletter . December 10, 2012. Retrieved December 10, 2012.
37. ^ Pro Wrestling Illustrated Award Winners Inspirational Wrestler of the Year . Wrestling Information Archive. Archived from the original on June 16, 2008. Retrieved July 27, 2008.
38. ^ Pro Wrestling Illustrated's Top 500 Wrestlers of the PWI Years . Wrestling Information Archive. Archived from the original on March 15, 2008. Retrieved September 15, 2010.