Tony Atlas

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Anthony White United StatesUnited States
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Data
Ring name Tony Atlas
Saba Simba
height 188 cm
Fighting weight 113 - 121 kg
birth April 23, 1954
Roanoke , Virginia
Trained by Larry Sharpe
debut 1974

Anthony White (born April 23, 1954 in Roanoke , Virginia , United States , ring name Tony Atlas ) is a retired American wrestler , bodybuilder and powerlifter . He has been a member of the WWE Hall of Fame since 2006 .

Career

Anthony White (r.) With Mark Henry

White was very successful in his early days, becoming Mr. Teenage Virginia in bodybuilding, Virginia champion in powerlifting and Virginia State champion in wrestling in 1974 . In the same year he also began to wrestle professionally, but still did bodybuilding and powerlifting.

In his wrestling career he competed for both the wrestling umbrella organization NWA , the WCW and the then World Wrestling Federation .

His greatest achievement here was winning the WWF Tag Team title with Rocky Johnson and the fact that he was the first to legally defeat Hulk Hogan in the WWF. But he was also successful in other sports. Including the titles Mr. USA and AAU Mr. Universe in bodybuilding, as well as several powerlifting titles. White was after his engagement as Saba Simba in 1991 in the WWF, as well as a short guest appearance at the WCW a year later, still occasionally active as a wrestler in the independent leagues of the United States, but mainly focused on his job as a fitness and Wrestling trainer.

He has been a member of the WWE Hall of Fame since 2006 . Since July 8, 2008 he has appeared regularly at World Wrestling Entertainment as a companion to Mark Henry , occasionally playing matches himself. After joining RAW, Henry became an announcer for the Abraham Washington Show . After the dissolution of the ECW , he was no longer seen on television. On April 30, 2010, White was fired from the WWE.

Since April 17, 2014, White can be seen as a participant in the show "WWE Legends'House" on the WWE Network.

successes

title

Continental Wrestling Association Memphis
  • CWA Heavyweight Title
European Wrestling Association
  • EWA Heavyweight Title
International Wrestling Cartel
  • IWC Heavyweight Title
National Wrestling Alliance
  • NWA Georgia Heavyweight Title
  • NWA Georgia Tag Team Title
  • NWA West Virginia / Ohio Heavyweight Title
Pro Wrestling Xplosion
  • PWX Tag Team Title
UWS
  • UWS Heavyweight Title
  • UWS Tag Team Title
World Class Wrestling Association
  • WCWA Television Title
  • WCWA Texas Tag Team Title
World Wrestling Council
  • WWC Caribbean Title
World Wrestling Entertainment
World Wide Wrestling Association
  • WWWA Intercontinental Title

Awards

World Wrestling Entertainment
  • 2006: Induction into the WWE Hall of Fame

Web links

Commons : Tony Atlas  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ tonyatlas.com: Tony Atlas' biography
  2. ^ Message about dismissal on wrestling-infos.de , accessed on May 1, 2010
  3. ↑ WWE Legends´House on wwe.com
personal data
SURNAME Atlas, Tony
ALTERNATIVE NAMES White, Anthony (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American wrestler, bodybuilder, and powerlifter
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Roanoke , Virginia, USA