Robert Fuller

This article is about Robert Fuller the wrestler. For other individuals by the name Robert Fuller, see Robert Fuller (disambiguation).
Robert Fuller
Birth name Robert Welch
Born (1949-05-14) May 14, 1949
Memphis, Tennessee
Residence Tampa, Florida[1]
Children 3
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s) Robert Fuller[1]
Tennessee Stud II[1]
Tennessee Lee[1]
Col. Robert Parker[1]
Billed height 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)
Billed weight 240 lb (110 kg; 17 st)
Billed from Memphis, Tennessee[1]
Trained by Buddy Fuller
Debut 1970

Robert Welch[2] (born May 14, 1949) is a professional wrestler and manager better known by his ring names Robert Fuller and Col. Robert Parker. Robert and his brother Ron co-owned Continental Championship Wrestling for a time.[3]

Career

Fuller started wrestling in 1970 in the Alabama and Tennessee regions. He often teamed with his cousin Jimmy Golden and they won many tag team titles.

In the 1980s, he took his brother Ron's idea and made a stable called The Stud Stable.[1][4] Among the members in the independent versions of this stable were Golden, Sid Vicious, Cactus Jack,[5] Dutch Mantel, Gary Young,[6] and Brian Lee.

He spent some time in the American Wrestling Association with Golden in 1988, and they feuded with The Rock 'n' Roll Express (Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson). He also wrestled in the Texas area where he teamed with Jeff Jarrett.

In 1993, Fuller went to World Championship Wrestling as manager Col. Robert Parker, a takeoff of Col. Tom Parker of Elvis Presley fame. He managed Sid Vicious and teamed with manager Harley Race and his protege, Vader to form "The Masters of the Powerbomb". They feuded with Sting and Davey Boy Smith. In 1994, he managed "Stunning Steve" Austin before reforming his "Stud Stable" with Golden as "Bunkhouse Buck", Meng, Dick Slater, Terry Funk and Arn Anderson.[1] They feuded heavily with Dusty and Dustin Rhodes. In 1995, Col. Parker courted Sherri Martel to the dismay of both the Stud Stable and Sherri's charges, Harlem Heat. Parker and Sherri went to get married and Sherri was attacked by Madusa, who was supposed to be Parker's wife. Parker and Sherri split and feuded and then made up again, with Parker leaving the Stud Stable to help Sherri manage Harlem Heat. While with Harlem Heat, Parker's official title was "promoter," while Sherri retained the "manager" designation. One trademark of Parker's managing would be his fanning himself during matches. In October 1996, Harlem Heat fired Parker after he helped to cost them the WCW World Tag Team Championships. He quickly started to manage The Amazing French Canadians (Jacques Rougeau and Carl Ouellet), trading in his gray suit for a French Foreign Legion uniform.[1] Harlem Heat and The Amazing French-Canadians immediately began feuding.

Fuller was released from WCW in 1998 and in March 1998, he resurfaced in the WWF as Tennessee Lee, a character similar to his Col. Parker character, and began managing Jeff Jarrett. His time in the WWF was short-lived; he would be released in May 1998 and went back to wrestling with Golden on the independent circuit in Alabama.

On June 2, 2006 in Irondale, Alabama, Fuller managed Shannon Spruill against El Mexico for the NWA Wrestle Birmingham Junior Heavyweight Championship. With the help of Fuller (who referred to Spruill as his "Million Dollar Baby"), Spruill defeated El Mexico to win her third wrestling title.

On September 14, 2006, Fuller was seen, once again as Col. Parker, being interviewed by Robert Roode on TNA iMPACT!.

Personal life

Robert Fuller comes from a wrestling family: his father Buddy Fuller and his grandfather Roy Welch were wrestlers, as were his brother Ron Fuller[3] and his cousin Jimmy Golden.[7]

He has been married four times. Joyce Logan, who he has his oldest daughter Kimberly by, Sylvia Wilson (Miss Sylvia), who he has Katie and Charlotte by, Susan Lostraglio, who he had no children with, and his current wife Laverne Stewart. He has 7 grandchildren. Fuller currently resides in Seminole, Florida.

In wrestling

Championships and accomplishments

  • CWA Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
  • CWA Television Championship (1 time)
  • PWI ranked him #102 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 1991[13]
  • PWI ranked him #332 of the top 500 singles wrestlers of the "PWI Years" in 2003[14]
  • PWI ranked him #80 of the top 100 tag teams of the "PWI Years" with Jimmy Golden in 2003[14]

*Records aren't clear as to which NWA affiliated promotion Fuller wrestled for when 4 of his 6 total reigns with it began. While the title was usually defended only in the Southeastern Championship Wrestling promotion, it was occasionally used in others such as Georgia Championship Wrestling.

  • NAWA World Heavyweight Championship (2 times)

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 "Stud Stable". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2009-09-08.
  2. ↑ "Robert Fuller profile". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2009-08-07.
  3. 1 2 Foley, Mick. Have A Nice Day: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks (p.119)
  4. ↑ Foley, Mick. Have A Nice Day: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks (p.116)
  5. ↑ Foley, Mick. Have A Nice Day: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks (p.117)
  6. ↑ Foley, Mick. Have A Nice Day: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks (p.120)
  7. ↑ "Jimmy Golden profile". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2009-08-03.
  8. ↑ "Bruno Lauer's profile". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2009-08-03.
  9. ↑ "Miss Sylvia profile". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2009-09-08.
  10. ↑ "NWA Wrestle-Bitmingham result". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2009-08-07.
  11. ↑ Royal Duncan and Gary Will (2000). "Tennessee: U.S. Tag Team Title". Wrestling Title Histories. Archeus Communications. p. 194. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.
  12. ↑ "NWA United States Tag Team Title (Mid-America)". wrestling-titles.com. Retrieved April 23, 2015.
  13. ↑ "PWI 500 1991". The Turnbuckle Post. Retrieved 2012-08-26.
  14. 1 2 "PWI 500 of the PWI Years". Willy Wrestlefest. Retrieved 2012-08-26.
  15. ↑ Royal Duncan & Gary Will (2000). Wrestling Title Histories (4th ed.). Archeus Communications. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.

References

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