Lanny Poffo

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Lanny Poffo
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Data
Ring name The Genius
Lanny Poffo
height 183 cm
Fighting weight 103 kg
birth December 28, 1954
Calgary , Alberta , Canada
Announced from Downers Grove , Illinois
Trained by Angelo Poffo
debut 1973

Lanny Mark Poffo (born December 28, 1954 in Calgary , Alberta ), better known as "Leaping" Lanny and The Genius is a Canadian-born American wrestler and poet. He has an adult daughter with his ex-wife and currently lives in Largo , Florida .

Career

Youth / beginnings

Poffo was born the son of the Italian-American wrestler Angelo Poffo and Judy, a US-American Jew. He grew up in Downers Grove , Illinois and is the brother of "Macho Man" Randy Savage .

Lanny Poffo made his debut in 1972. He first appeared in various territories of the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) and was allowed to win some titles there.

International Championship Wrestling / World Wrestling Federation

In the late 1970s / early 1980s he competed for his father in International Championship Wrestling (ICW), which at the time also belonged to the NWA. In the World Wrestling Federation he was used as a jobber until he played the manager of Curt Hennig and the Beverly Brothers as "The Genius" . He and Curt Hennig had a feud against Hulk Hogan and Brutus Beefcake . In this context he was allowed to defeat Hulk Hogan. He then appeared on the talk shows Live with Regis and Kathie Lee and The Jonathan Ross Show . After moving to World Championship Wrestling in 1995, where he was never used, however, he ended his active wrestling career.

Both as "Leaping" Lanny Poffo and as "The Genius" he wrote and quoted poems before the match. Lanny Poffo is still active as an independent wrestler today. In 2005 he appeared at a wrestle reunion show in Tampa , Florida , where he defeated "The Royal Stud" Adam Windsor .

After the wrestling career

Poffo has published several volumes of poetry and limericks , most of which deal with drug and alcohol addiction , which are primarily aimed at children and adolescents. Poffo is also an anti-smoker and has a book called Limericks from the Heart and Lungs! published on this topic. He now works as a debt advisor and motivational speaker .

In contrast to his brother Randy Savage, Poffo has a good relationship with World Wrestling Entertainment to this day . In 2007 he wrote a poem for the "Battle of the Billionaires" between Vince McMahon and Donald Trump at WrestleMania 23 .

successes

title

  • Atlantic Grand Prix Wrestling
  • 1 × AGPW International Heavyweight Champions

Awards

  • 350th place of the best individual wrestlers of the "PWI Years" 1993

1 The ICW United States Tag Team Championship is also referred to as the ICW World Tag Team Championship in some publications

Web links

Commons : Lanny Poffo  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Lanny Poffo profile . Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved November 16, 2009.
  2. ↑ James Walsh: "The Genius" Lanny Poffo. wrestlingepicenter.com, March 12, 2005, accessed April 28, 2011 .
  3. ↑ Floridian: A wrestling dynasty
  4. ↑ a b profile. Genickbruch.com, accessed April 28, 2011 .
  5. ↑ Amazon.com: Limericks from the Heart (and Lungs!)
  6. ^ Lanny "The Genius" Poffo
  7. ^ NWA Gulf Coast Tag Team Title history At wrestling-titles.com
  8. ^ ICW Southeastern Heavyweight Title history At wrestling-titles.com
  9. ^ ICW World Heavyweight Title history At wrestling-titles.com
  10. ↑ ICW World Tag Team Title history At wrestling-titles.com
  11. ^ NWA World Tag Team Title (Detroit) history At wrestling-titles.com
  12. ^ NWA Mid-America Heavyweight Title history At wrestling-titles.com
  13. ^ NWA Mid-America Tag Team Title history At wrestling-titles.com
  14. ↑ AGPW International Heavyweight Title history At wrestling-titles.com
personal data
SURNAME Poffo, Lanny
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leaping Lanny; The genius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American wrestler and poet
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Calgary , Alberta , Canada