Roland Daniels

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Roland Daniels
Statistics
Ring name(s)	Leroy Brown Elijah Akeem
Billed height	6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Billed weight	310 lb (140 kg/22 st)
Born	1950 Savannah, Georgia, United States
Debut	1978

Roland Daniels (1950-September 6, 1988), best known under the ring names of Leroy Brown and Elijah Akeem, was an American professional wrestler for the American Wrestling Association, Mid-South Wrestling and Jim Crockett Promotions during the 1980s.

Daniels was the first wrestler to enter the ring with a Jim Croce song from the early 1970s, "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown", a tune that also gave birth to the late wrestler Leroy Brown's ring name. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown was "badder than old King Kong, meaner than a junkyard dog".

He died on September 6, 1988 due to the result of a heart attack.^[1]

[edit] Championships and accomplishments

• Championship Wrestling from Florida

• NWA Florida Southern Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
• NWA Florida United States Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Kareem Muhammad

• Continental Wrestling Association

• AWA Southern Tag Team Championship (2 times) - with Kareem Muhammad

• Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling

• NWA Mid-Atlantic Television Championship (1 time)

• Mid-South Wrestling Association | Universal Wrestling Federation

• Mid-South Tag Team Championship (2 times) - with Ernie Ladd
• UWF World Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Bill Irwin

• NWA Big Time Wrestling

• NWA Texas Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Killer Tim Brooks

• NWA Hollywood Wrestling

• NWA Americas Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Allen Coage

• Pro Wrestling Illustrated

• PWI ranked him # 484 of the 500 best singles wrestlers of the PWI Years in 2003.

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