Buffalo Jim
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Buffalo Jim Barrier is a professional wrestler from Las Vegas, Nevada.
He owns a wrestling school and has a local wrestling cable show Jim Wars every Friday night as well as a weekly[1] on auto repair. He has met or knows many of the icons of the boxing and wrestling world including Hulk Hogan and Mohamed Ali.[citation needed] He also has a wrestling museum, and owns one of the largest and most varied collections of boxing, wrestling, and general sports memorabilia in the world, with nearly 30,000 pieces in his collection.[citation needed] There are over a thousand pairs of signed boxing gloves alone.
Since he has met and knows many of the celebrities who have frequented Las Vegas, he also has a large collection of celebrity memorabilia, from vehicles to a lock of Elvis's hair. Included in this collection are over 150 cars, from a Jensen Interceptor, presented to him by Wayne Newton, to the pink Cadillac Kid Rock used in proposing to Pamela Anderson.
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He is also well known in Las Vegas for standing firm for his rights as a business man, winning a twenty year[2] with his neighbor and landlord, Frederick "Rick" Rizzolo, owner of the Crazy Horse Too gentlemen's club, located on the same property as Buffalo Jim's repair shop. The dispute wound its way in and out of court several times. Mr. Rizzolo has since sold the club, and is currently in prison, convicted of racketeering and tax evasion in Federal court.
Voted "Las Vegas' Most Colorful Character" in 2005 by the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Nevada's largest newspaper, iconic James "Buffalo Jim" Barrier is one of Las Vegas' best-known citizens. Arriving alone in Las Vegas in 1971 at age eighteen from Cleveland, Ohio with $200 in his pocket, Buffalo Jim opened an auto repair shop which he still operates today. Born in March of 1953, he is a single father with four daughters.
