Beauregarde

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Beauregarde
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Ring name(s)	Eric the Golden Boy Beautiful Beauregarde
Billed weight	200 lb (91 kg/14 st)
Born	Portland, Oregon
Billed from	The Sensation of the Nation
Trained by	Dean Higuchi Mr.Fuji
Debut	1963 vs. Nick Bockwinkel

Beauregarde, (off-stage name Larry Pitchford,^[1] born c. early 1940s)^[2] is a former pro wrestler and musician from Portland in the United States.

[edit] Career

His wrestling career began in 1963 and by 1970 he had become one of the biggest names on the Pacific Northwest Wrestling circuit. He was renowned for his unique wrestling moves (and finishing move The Thumb) and crazy on-stage characters he created for himself. On match days he would find a historic figure whose date of birth fell on that day and pretend to be them during the match and in interviews.^[3]

In 1971, he released an album bearing his stage name, "Beauregarde" featuring Greg Sage of the Wipers on guitar. Beauregarde enlisted Sage (then 17) after overhearing him playing guitar for a friend's band at Sound Productions studio in Portland.^[3]

In 1973, he managed the tag team of Brute Bernard and Jay York in Jim Crockett's "Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling" promotion.

After retiring from wrestling, he bought a sheet-rock company in Florida where he lives and spends most of his time fishing.^[4]

On February 4th, 2006, Beauregarde made his first wrestling related appearance in many, many years at HCW's Incredible 8 Tournament in South Florida. There, promoter Nick Mayberry presented him with an HCW HCW Award, along with wrestlers Rusty Brooks, Stephen "Big Daddy" DiBlasio, and "Outlaw" JR James.