The Executioners (professional wrestling)

The Executioners is the name of several tag teams and single masked wrestlers who wrestled in the BYWA, TWA, AWF and the World Wide Wrestling Federation.

The Executioners (1970s)

The Executioners
Tag team
MembersExecutioner #1
Executioner #2
Executioner #3
Name(s)The Executioners
Billed heightsExecutioner #1:
6 ft 7 in (2.01 m)
Executioner #2:
6 ft 10 in (2.08 m)
Executioner #3:
6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Combined
billed weight
758 lb (344 kg)[1]
Debut1976
Disbanded1977
Years active1976-1977

The first version of Executioners was founded by Executioner #1, who was a masked wrestler, wrestling for World Wide Wrestling Federation. In 1976 he trained Executioner #2, and the two became a tag team in WWWF.

Together, the Executioners captured the WWWF Tag Team Championship on May 11, 1976 by defeating Louis Cerdan and Tony Parisi. Later, they were joined by a third masked wrestler who called himself Executioner #3.

The Executioners were stripped of their titles on December 7 because Executioner #3 was used in a title defense against Chief Jay Strongbow and Billy White Wolf. A three-team tournament was announced after Executioner #3 was unmasked as Nikolai Volkoff.

Volkoff selected Tor Kamata as his partner and then The Executioners & Nikolai Volkoff and Tor Kamata were defeated by Chief Jay Strongbow and Billy White Wolf in the three-team tournament.

Championships and accomplishments

List of wrestlers who wrestled as an Executioner

1976-1977

1982

  • Ron Shaw
  • Charley Rhoads

1985

1986

  • Jerry Fazio
  • Terry Manton

1988

  • Van Van Horne (Memphis)

1988-1994

1996

References

  1. Shields, Brian; Sullivan, Kevin (2012). WWE Encyclopedia: Updated & Expanded. DK. p. 118. ISBN 978-0-7566-9159-2.
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