Charlie Norris

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Charles Norris
An image of Charles Norris.
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Ring name(s) Charlie Norris
Billed height 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m)
Billed weight 285 lb (129 kg/20.4 st)
Born October 21, 1965 (1965-10-21) (age 42)
Red Lake Indian Reservation
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Debut 1989
For the American author, see Charles Gilman Norris.

Charlie Norris (b. October 21, 1965) is an American professional wrestler who competed in North American promotions as well as the World Championship Wrestling during the early 1990s.

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[edit] Career

Shortly after his debut in 1989, Norris began training with Eddie Sharkey and later wrestled for Sharkey's Pro Wrestling America promotion winning the PWA Heavyweight title as well as the Tag Team titles with Sam Houston and Derrick Dukes. [1]

In April 1993, he teamed with Masa Saito to defeat The Hater and Nailz at NWA Grandslam, in an interpromotional event between W*ING and the National Wrestling Alliance [2] , before signing with WCW in mid-1993.

Initially successful against mid-card opponents such as Bobby Eaton and others, he later defeated Big Sky at Fall Brawl 93' as well as teaming with Shockmaster and Ice Train to defeat Harlem Heat and The Equalizer at Halloween Havoc 93'. However, he left the promotion on bad terms shortly after losing to Cactus Jack & Vader in the opening rounds of the "Lethal Lottery" tag team tournament at WCW Battle Bowl on November 20, 1993. He subsequently filed a racial discrimination lawsuit against World Championship Wrestling the following year.

After leaving WCW, he briefly appeared in the American Wrestling Federation during 1996 teaming with Tito Santana in his feud against Bob Orton, Sr. and the Blacktop Bully [3].

[edit] Championships and accomplishments

  • Pro Wrestling America
  • PWA Heavyweight Championship (5 times)
  • PWA Tag Team Championship (2 times) with (1) Sam Houston and (1) Derrek Dukes
  • Wrestle America 2000
  • WA2K Tag Team Championship (1 time)
  • PWI ranked him # 475 of the 500 best singles wrestlers of the PWI Years in 2003

[edit] References

  1. ^ Royal Duncan & Gary Will (4th Edition 2006). Wrestling Title Histories. Archeus Communications. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4. 
  2. ^ NWA Grandslam. Prowrestlinghistory.com. Retrieved on 2007-04-20.
  3. ^ Independents (1993-Present). Titosantana.com. Retrieved on 2007-04-20.

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