| The Blackjacks | |
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| Tag team | |
| Members | Blackjack Mulligan Blackjack Lanza |
| Heights | Mulligan: 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m) Lanza: 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) |
| Combined weight |
585 lb (265 kg; 41.8 st) |
| Billed from | Texas |
| Promotions | WWWF WCCW WWA AWA |
The Blackjacks were a heel professional wrestling tag team. The team consisted of Blackjack Mulligan and Blackjack Lanza. After forming in the 1970s, they wrestled in a variety of professional wrestling promotions, including the American Wrestling Association and World Wide Wrestling Federation. They were inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2006.
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The duo first joined forces in the 1970s. They were managed by Bobby Heenan.[1]
The Blackjacks won multiple tag team titles, including the WWA Tag Team Championship and two tag-team championships in WCCW. They, however, are most known for winning the WWWF Tag Team Championship (with Lou Albano as their manager) on August 26, 1975 by defeating Dominic DeNucci and Victor Rivera.[2]
On April 1, 2006, The Blackjacks were inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame by Heenan.[1]
In early 1997, Mulligan’s son, Barry Windham, and Lanza’s nephew, Justin "Hawk" Bradshaw, formed The New Blackjacks in the WWF. They were known as Blackjack Windham and Blackjack Bradshaw, and competed as babyfaces.[3] The team never reached the success of their predecessors and disbanded by early 1998.
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