Jerry Stubbs (born September 13, 1951) is a retired
professional wrestler
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. Stubbs wrestled as Mr. Olympia in
Bill Watts
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's Mid-South wrestling area (Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas) and as the
villainous Jerry "Mr. Perfect" Stubbs in Southeast/Continental wrestling promotions. Stubbs won multiple versions of the areas' singles and tag team titles as a member of the
Stud Stable.
Professional wrestling career
In the spring of 1976, Stubbs began wrestling matches for
Georgia Championship Wrestling
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.
[ In one match he put over ]Bob Backlund
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in the opening match on April 2 of that year at the Atlanta City Auditorium. Stubbs also wrestled such notables as Ricky Steamboat
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, Dean Ho, and Rick Martel
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that year in Georgia with modest success.
In 1977 and 1978, Stubbs continued spending his Georgia time helping put over Stan Hansen
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Hansen is known for his Glossary of professional wrestling terms#S, stiff wrestling style, which he attributes to his poor eyesigh ...
, "Dirty" Dick Slater
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, Randy Savage
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, and Abdullah the Butcher
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. Also, in 1978, Stubbs began taking more matches in the Mid-Atlantic territory. Although Stubbs won most his matches for Mid-Atlantic, they were usually against lower card wrestlers, such as Bill White, Bob Marcus, and Frank Monte.
In 1980–81 he was back in the Southeast/Continental area again this time wrestling as the masked Matador and winning the NWA Southeastern Continental Tag Team Championship with Mike Stallings.[ He also won the ]NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship
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History
The first NWA World Junior ...
from Les Thornton
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in January 1981.[ Mid-year he wrestled as the masked Olympian and won the ]NWA Southeastern Heavyweight Championship
The NWA Southeastern Heavyweight Championship or ''Gulf Coast Heavyweight Championship'' was one of two identically named regional championship titles, a Southern and Northern division promoted by Southeast Championship Wrestling. The Southern d ...
.[
Stubbs then returned to the Mid-South promotion in 1982 and began wrestling there as Mr. Olympia. He became a baby face and the regular tag team partner of the ]Junkyard Dog
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. Olympia and JYD won the area’s tag team title by defeating The Wild Samoans
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Gimmick
The Wild Samoans ra ...
(Afa and Sika) in May 1982.[ The tandem lost the title to a team known as "The Rat Pack" (]Ted DiBiase
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and Matt Borne
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) in late October 1982.where ether JYD or DiBiase would leave the Mid South territory [ Olympia turned on JYD and joined DiBiase as a heel to win the Mid-South tag team title from ]Mr. Wrestling II
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and Tiger Conway Jr.
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Early life
Born and raised i ...
in April 83 in Shreveport, Louisiana
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.[
In 1984 he teamed regularly with ]Arn Anderson
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as Super Olympia who was there for seasoning before moving to Georgia Championship Wrestling. Together they won the area’s tag team title in a tournament on January 15, 1984 wrestling as Mr. Olympia and Super Olympia.[ They were managed by Sonny King at the time. Stubbs and Anderson also joined and wrestled for the Stud Stable as themselves. Soon Anderson and Stubbs had a falling out leading to a series of mask versus mask matches. A loss in the first match caused Mr Olympia to unmask revealing himself to be Stubbs. In the next match Super Olympia lost his mask to reveal Anderson, a third match ended in a draw. The pair would make their peace and wrestle as a pair again this time wearing trademark matching Panama hats.]
In 1986, Stubbs won the area’s most prestigious title, the new Continental Championship. He traded the title back and forth with Brad Armstrong throughout much of the year leading to a hot feud with all of the Armstrong brothers during this time.[ During 1986, Stubbs lost a Mask vs Mask match with "The Bullet" ]Bob Armstrong
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. He also teamed regularly with Tony Anthony
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(later the Dirty White Boy). Together they defeated The Nightmares ( Danny Davis and Ken Wayne
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) on February 23, 1987. They lost and regained the straps against Robert Fuller and Jimmy Golden
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A member of t ...
, members of the Stud Stable.[ Fuller and Golden turned heel again immediately following the title win, and Stubbs resumed his Mr. Olympia persona and feuded with Anthony.
Also, in 1986 and 1987, Stubbs spent time overseas wrestling for All Japan. There he again donned the mask as Mr. Olympia.][ He teamed with the AWA's ]Brad Rheingans
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and they won a number of matches together. Another regular partner was Paul Diamond
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. Stubbs also wrestled occasionally under the name "A Sheik" during that time (not to be confused with The Sheik). Curt Hennig
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and Stubbs would meet in Japan where Stubbs explained the "Mr. Perfect" gimmick to Hennig and gave his OK for Hennig using the gimmick in the WWF.
Championships and accomplishments
* NWA Tri-State / Mid-South Wrestling Association
** NWA Louisiana Heavyweight Championship ( 1 time)
**NWA Mississippi Heavyweight Championship (3 times)
**Mid-South Tag Team Championship
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(2 times
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) – with Junkyard Dog
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(1) and Ted DiBiase
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(1)
* Southeastern Championship Wrestling / Continental Championship Wrestling / Continental Wrestling Federation
**NWA Continental Championship (2 times
**CWF Tag Team Championship
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(2 times
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) – with Tony Anthony
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**NWA Alabama Heavyweight Championship
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Initially, the title was a part of Gulf Coast Championship Wrestl ...
( 4 times)
**NWA Continental Tag Team Championship
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( 6 times) – with Tony Anthony
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[
** NWA Southeastern Heavyweight Championship ''(Northern Division)'' ( 5 times)]
**NWA Southeastern Tag Team Championship
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( 4 times) – with Mike Stallings (1), Arn Anderson
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(3)
**NWA Southeastern Television Championship
The NWA Southeast Television Championship was a minor title in the National Wrestling Alliance's Alabama territory known as Southeast Championship Wrestling. It existed from 1977 until 1985.
Title history
See also
*National Wrestling Allianc ...
( 1 time)
** ( 4 times)
**NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship
The NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship is a professional wrestling world championship in the National Wrestling Alliance. Created in 1945, the title is competed for by junior heavyweight wrestlers.
History
The first NWA World Junior ...
( 1 time)
*World Wrestling Organization
**WWO United States Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
References
External links
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1951 births
20th-century professional wrestlers
American male professional wrestlers
Living people
Masked wrestlers
NWA World Junior Heavyweight Champions
Professional wrestlers from Georgia (U.S. state)
The Stud Stable members