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| Ruben Cain Jr. | |
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| Statistics | |
| Ring name(s) | Robert Gibson Robert Fuller Jr. |
| Billed height | 5 ft 11 in (180 cm) |
| Billed weight | 225 lb (102 kg) |
| Born | July 19, 1958 Pensacola, Florida |
| Trained by | Rick Gibson |
| Debut | 1977 |
Ruben Cain Jr. (born July 19, 1958) is a professional wrestler best known by his ring name of Robert Gibson. He is famous as half of the Rock 'N Roll Express with Ricky Morton.
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[edit] Career
Ruben Cain Jr. started wrestling as Robert Gibson in 1977. He was trained by his brother Ricky Gibson and teamed with Ricky in the southern independents when he started.
In 1983, he formed the Rock 'N Roll Express with Ricky Morton. They feuded with The Midnight Express, Bobby Eaton and Dennis Condrey in the Mid-South and the feud carried over into the NWA's Jim Crockett Promotions in 1985. They won the NWA Tag Titles four times while there and feuded with the Four Horsemen, Ivan and Nikita Koloff and the team of Rick Rude and Manny Fernandez. Even though he and Morton were of similar build and wrestled a similar style, Gibson was always booked as the stronger and more powerful of the two. He was most often the recipient of the hot tag as Morton rallied the crowd by taking punishment as the Face in Peril.
Gibson was injured in 1991 and when he returned to WCW, Morton turned on him to join the "York Foundation". They feuded and Gibson teamed with Tom Zenk, but had no success and soon left WCW.
He rejoined Morton in Smoky Mountain Wrestling and they feuded with the "Heavenly Bodies" led by Jim Cornette. Shortly before SMW's demise, Gibson turned heel and joined "Cornette's Army".
The team came back briefly to WCW in 1996.
In 1998, they were part of the "NWA" angle in the WWF for a brief period.
Their last run in a big federation was with TNA Wrestling when they were part of Vince Russo's Sports Entertainment Xtreme faction.
On September 15, 2006, his brother, Ricky Gibson, died.
In December 2006, Gibson was hired by WWE as a producer.
[edit] Wrestling Facts
[edit] Managers
[edit] Finishing and Signature Moves
- Gibson Leglock
[edit] Trivia
- He knows sign language and would often speak with his hands in the ring before his matches.
- His nephew, Jason Gibson, is a wrestler.
- He is part owner of Zeke's Deep Sea Fishing tours in Orange Beach, Alabama.
- Has a wandering eye. Wrestling manager Jim Cornette would often make fun of it in his interviews when the Rock 'N Roll Express feuded with The Midnight Express. It also led to the false belief among wrestling fans that the eye was artificial.
[edit] Championships and accomplishments
- All-Pro Championship Wrestling
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- APCW Tag Team Championship (3 times) - with Jason Gibson and Mike Youngblood (2)
- All-Pro Wrestling
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- APW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
- APW Tag Team Championship (1 time)
- All-Star Wrestling
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- ASW Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Ricky Morton
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- CWA Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Ricky Morton
- CWA World Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Ricky Morton
- Mid-Southern Tag Team Championship (5 times) - with Ricky Gibson (3), Bill Dundee (1), and Ricky Morton (1)
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- Mid-South Tag Team Championship (3 times) - with Ricky Morton
- World
- NWA World Tag Team Championship (4 times) - with Ricky Morton
- National
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- NWA Americas Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Ricky Gibson
- Regional
- NWA Mid-America Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
- NWA Mid-America Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Don Fargo
- NWA PWX Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with former NWA World Jr. Heavyweight Champion Vince Kaplack
- NWA Southeast United States Junior Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
- NWA Southeastern Tag Team Championship (Southern division) (1 time) - with Ricky Gibson
- NWA Wildside Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Ricky Morton
- NWA World Tag Team Championship (Mid-Atlantic version) (4 times) - with Ricky Morton
- New Age Championship Wrestling
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- NACW Tag Team Championship (1 time)
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- 1986 PWI Tag Team of the Year - with Ricky Morton
- PWI ranked him # 99 of the 500 best singles wrestlers during the "PWI Years" in 2003
- PWI also ranked him # 4 of the best tag teams of the "PWI Years" - with Ricky Morton
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- SMW Tag Team Championship (10 times) - with Ricky Morton
- SMW Television Championship (1 time)
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- USWA Tag Team Championship (2 times) - with Ricky Morton
- World Organization of Wrestling
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- WOW Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Ricky Morton
