Manny Fernandez (wrestler)
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| Manny Fernandez | |
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| Ring name(s) | Manny Fernandez
The Raging Bull |
| Billed height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) |
| Billed weight | 240 lb (110 kg/17 st) |
| Born | July 27, 1954 El Paso, Texas |
Manny Fernandez (born July 27, 1954) is a professional wrestler currently wrestling for different independent promotions.
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[edit] Before Wrestling
Emanuel Fernandez was born in Lovelady, Texas, but moved to San Jose, California at an early age.
[edit] Career
Early in his career, he formed a tag team with Dusty Rhodes and they won the NWA World Tag Team Titles from Ivan Koloff and Don Kernodle. They feuded with them and Ivan's "nephew" Nikita Koloff until losing the titles to the Koloffs in early 1985.
Manny soon became involved in a feud with Arn Anderson after being attacked by Anderson and laid out. He teamed with Thunderbolt Patterson to feud with Arn and Ole Anderson.
In late 1985, he started helping Jimmy Valiant in his war against Paul Jones and his "Army". He formed a team with Valiant called the B and B Connection ("Boogie Woogie" & "Bull"). He had some matches against Abdullah the Butcher and The Barbarian. He also formed a tag team with Hector Guerrero in 1986 called The Latin Connection. In the summer of 1986, Manny accepted Jones' money and turned on Valiant starting a feud between the two. Later in the year, Jones also brought in Rick Rude and he paired them together and they won the NWA World Tag Team Titles from the Rock 'N Roll Express. They feuded with the Express and kept the titles until June 1987 when Rude left the promotion, which was resolved with a "phantom title change".
Manny teamed with Ivan Koloff for the rest of the summer and left for the Mid-Southern promotion in late 1987. He was soon in the American Wrestling Association feuding with Wahoo McDaniel after he attacked Wahoo and destroyed his headdress. The two veterans, who had feuded briefly in the NWA, engaged in an "Indian Strap Match" at the AWA Pay Per View Super Clash III. The match was so bloody and violent that ESPN, who had the AWA TV contract at the time, would not air the match, and has not to this day. After that feud ended in late 1988, Manny headed to Puerto Rico's WWC where he stayed through 1991 and then he headed to the independent circuit.
As of 2005, he wrestles primarily in the Texas independents.
[edit] In wrestling
- Finishing and signature moves
- Flying Burrito (flying forearm)
- Managers and valets
- Paul Jones
- El Profe
- Natasha
- Skandor Akbar
[edit] Championships and accomplishments
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- NWA Mid-Atlantic Brass Knuckles Championship (1 time)
- NWA World Tag Team Championship (Mid-Atlantic version) (2 times) - with Dusty Rhodes (1) and Rick Rude (1)
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- SCW Southwest Brass Knuckles Championship (1 time)
- SCW Southwest Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
- SCW Southwest Tag Team Championship (2 times) - with Chavo Guerrero (1) and Al Perez (1)
- SCW World Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Chavo Guerrero
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- PWI ranked him # 188 of the 500 best singles wrestlers during the "PWI Years" in 2003.
- PWI ranked him # 88 of the 100 best tag teams during the "PWI Years" with Dusty Rhodes.
- PWI ranked him # 95 of the 100 best tag teams during the "PWI Years" with Rick Rude.
