Cauliflower Alley Club

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Cauliflower Alley Club

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CAC logo

Formation 1965
Type Professional wrestling
Website http://www.caulifloweralleyclub.org/

The Cauliflower Alley Club is a non-profit fraternal organization, which includes a newsletter and website, comprised of both retired and active professional wrestlers and boxers in North America.

Established in 1965 by Mike Mazurki and Art Abrams, the organization hosts an annual reunion dinner which has traditionally been attended by celebrities and other professional athletes. Several historical Hollywood locations have been home to the reunion banquets such as the Masquer’s Club, the Hollywood Legion Stadium, the Hotel Roosevelt and the Old Spaghetti Factory as well as The Riviera and the RMS Queen Mary.

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[edit] Awards

[edit] 1992

Other honorees included Maurice Vachon, Hard Boiled Haggerty, Rey Urbano, Johnny James, Gene Kiniski, Pepper Gomez, Penny Banner, Debbie Combs, Belle Starr, Donna Christantello and Katie Glass.

[edit] 1993

Other honorees included Verne Gagne, "Cowboy" Bob Ellis, Kinji Shibuya, Wendi Richter, Barbi Dahl and Peggy Patterson.

[edit] 1994

Other honorees included:

[edit] 1995

Other honorees included:

[edit] 1996

Other honorees included:

[edit] 1997

Other honorees included:

[edit] 1998

  • Iron Mike Mazurki Award: Lou Thesz
  • Art Abrams Lifetime Achievement Award: William Papas
  • Scholarship Award Winners: Billy Pappas

Other honorees included Danny Hodge, Fred Blassie, Dory Funk, Jr. and Dan Severn

[edit] 1999

Other honorees included Ken Patera, Jack Donovan and Bob Geigel.

[edit] 2000

Other honorees included Gene Stanlee, The Crusher, Titi Paris, Ethel Brown, Billy Andersen, Natasha the Hatchet Lady, Beverly Shade, Stan Kowalski, Stan Pulaski and Fritz Von Goering.

[edit] 2001

Other honorees included Rita Cortez, George Scott, Reggie Parks, Norman Fredrick Charles III, Kay Noble, Marie & Ann LaVerne, Pampero Firpo, Bill Watts and Jack Laskin.

[edit] 2002

  • Iron Mike Mazurki Award: Walter "Killer" Kowalski
  • Art Abrams Lifetime Achievement Award: Mike Chapman
  • Posthumous Award: Nell Stewart and Hercules Cortez
  • Future Legend Award: Chris Benoit
  • Scholarship Award Winners: Nick Ackerman
  • Gulf Coast/CAC Honorees: The Fields Brothers
  • Reel Member Inductees: Alan Koss
  • Martial Arts Honorees: Juan Hernandez

Other honorees included Ox Baker, B. Brian Blair, Judy Grable, Maria DeLeon, Mr. Wrestling, Jimmy Valiant and Fray Tormenta.

[edit] 2003

Other honorees included Verne Bottoms, Bill Moody, Percival Pringle III, Tom Andrews, Buddy Colt, Buddy Roberts, Tito Montez, Bruce Swayze, Moose Morowski and Don Leo Jonathan.

[edit] 2004

Other honorees included Bill Melby, Billy Darnell, Sandy Parker, "Playboy" Buddy Rose, Ed Wiskoski, Margaret Garcia, George Steele, Baron Von Raschke, Ann Casey, Percival Friend, Moondog Ed Moretti, Paul Jones, Lester Welch, Charlie Smith and Omar Atlas.

[edit] 2005

Other honorees included Ernie Ladd, Kenny Jay, Paul Christy & Miss Bunny Love and Sir Oliver Humperdink.

[edit] 2006

Other honorees included Killer Tim Brooks, Scott Casey, Mil Mascaras, Pepper Martin and Bill White.

[edit] 2007

  • Iron Mike Mazurki Award: Don Leo Jonathan
  • Lou Thesz Award: Danny Hodge
  • Art Abrams Lifetime Achievement Award: Bob Geigel
  • Posthumous Award: Yukon Eric and Betty Joe Hawkins
  • Future Legend Award: Takeshi Morishima
  • Scholarship Award Winners: Frankie Buenafuente
  • Reel Member Inductees: Rock Riddle

Other honorees included J.J. Dillon, Tito Carreon, Duke Myers, Bob Leonard, Bob Kelly and Laura Martinez.

[edit] Further reading

  • Blassie, Fred and Keith Elliot Greenberg. "Classy" Freddie Blassie: Listen, You Pencil Neck Geeks. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2003. ISBN 0-7434-6316-1
  • Funk, Terry and Scott E. Williams. Terry Funk: The Hardcore Legend. Champaigne, Illinois: Sports Publishing LLC, 2005. ISBN 1-58261-991-3
  • LeBelle, Gene. Gene Lebell's Grappling World: The Encyclopedia of Finishing Holds. Champaigne, Illinois: Sports Publishing LLC, 2005. ISBN 0-9676543-1-9
  • Loeffler, Carl E. and Darlene Tong. Performance Anthology: Source Book of California Performance Art. San Francisco: Last Gasp Press, 1989. ISBN 0-87619-366-2
  • Meltzer, Dave. Tributes II: Remembering the World's Greatest Wrestlers. Champaigne, Illinois: Sports Publishing LLC, 2004. ISBN 1-58261-817-8

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