Ray Canty (December 3, 1951 – May 23, 1994), better known by the
ring name
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Ray Candy, was an American
professional wrestler
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who worked for a variety of different wrestling promotions in the United States, Japan and Puerto Rico such as
Jim Crockett Promotions
Jim Crockett Promotions Inc. is a family-owned professional wrestling promotion headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States, restarted by Jim Crockett's son and Jim Crockett Jr's brother, David Crockett. Founded in 1931, the promot ...
,
All Japan Pro Wrestling
(AJPW/AJP) or simply All Japan is a Japanese professional wrestling promotion established on October 21, 1972 when Giant Baba split away from the Japanese Wrestling Association and created his own promotion. Many wrestlers had left with Baba, ...
,
World Wrestling Council
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and others. He also competed as Blackstud Williams, Super Mario Man, Commando Ray, Masked Superfly and Kareem Muhammad.
As Kareem Muhammad he formed a tag team with
Elijah Akeem as the
tag team
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"The Zambuie Express". He also spent time as part of
Skandor Akbar
Jimmy Saied Wehba (September 29, 1934 – August 19, 2010) was an American professional wrestler and manager better known by his ring name Skandor Akbar, which translates as "Alexander the Great". Akbar led the villainous stable Devastation, Inc. ...
's Devastation Inc. group as well as a team known as "The Shock Troops" with
Ed Gantner
Edward James Gantner Jr. (February 4, 1959 – December 31, 1990) was an American professional wrestler and American football player.
Early life
Edward James Ganter Jr. was born in Orlando, Florida, the youngest of four children. Ed was the only ...
and "The Commandos" with Commando Boone. Canty was responsible for training
New Jack
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for his professional wrestling career.
Professional wrestling career
Ray Canty was trained for his professional wrestling career by former
NWA World Heavyweight Championship
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holder
Dory Funk Jr.
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before making his in-ring debut in 1973.
[ Starting out he adopted the ]ring name
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"Ray Candy", a modified version of his birth name. To start with Candy worked for the local All-South Wrestling Alliance (ASWA) based out of Atlanta, Georgia
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. In the ASWA he won the ASWA United States Championship early in his career.[ He later worked for ]Dory Funk Sr.
Dorrance Wilhelm Funk (May 4, 1919 – June 3, 1973) was an American professional wrestler. He is the father of wrestlers Dory Funk Jr. and Terry Funk, and was a promoter of the Amarillo, Texas-based Western States Sports promotion.
Early li ...
's National Wrestling Alliance
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Founded in 1948, the NWA ...
Western States Sports
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(WWS) promotion. In WWS he won both the NWA Western States Heavyweight Championship
The NWA Western States Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling title in the National Wrestling Alliance's Amarillo, Texas territory, Western States Sports.
The title was in use from 1969, when it replaced Amarillo's version of the ...
and the NWA Western States Tag Team Championship
The NWA International Tag Team Championship is a professional wrestling title, originally created as the NWA Western States Tag Team Championship in the National Wrestling Alliance's Amarillo, Texas territory, Western States Sports. The title wa ...
, teaming with his mentor Dory Funk Jr.[ By 1976 he was a regular worker for ]Championship Wrestling from Florida
Championship Wrestling from Florida (CWF) was the corporate and brand name of the Tampa, Florida wrestling office existing from 1961, when Eddie Graham first bought into the promotion, until 1987, when it closed down. It is also referred to as ...
(CWF), but also worked for the nearby NWA Mid-America
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promotion where he held the NWA Mid-America Tag Team Championship
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twice while teaming with Pez Whatley
Pezavan Whatley (January 10, 1951 – January 18, 2005) was an American professional wrestler best known for his time with NWA Mid-America.
Professional wrestling career
Whatley played football and wrestled for Notre Dame High School in Chatta ...
.[ In 1979 Candy was invited to work for ]All Japan Pro Wrestling
(AJPW/AJP) or simply All Japan is a Japanese professional wrestling promotion established on October 21, 1972 when Giant Baba split away from the Japanese Wrestling Association and created his own promotion. Many wrestlers had left with Baba, ...
(AJPW), touring Japan several times. On October 12, 1979 Candy and Abdullah the Butcher
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won the NWA International Tag Team Championship
''This was a regional NWA championship based in Japan. For the version of this title that was promoted in NWA All Star Wrestling in Canada, see NWA International Tag Team Championship (Vancouver version).''
The NWA International Tag Team Champio ...
, defeating Giant Baba
, best known by his ring name , was a Japanese professional wrestler, promoter, and professional baseball player. He is best known as a co-founder of All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW), a promotion he founded in 1972 along with Mitsuo Momota ...
and Jumbo Tsuruta
, better known by his ring name , was a Japanese professional wrestler who wrestled for All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) for most of his career, and is well known for being the first ever Triple Crown Heavyweight Champion, having won the PWF Heavyw ...
. The duo only held the championship for a week before Baba and Tsuruta regained them.[ Candy competed in the 1980 ]Champion Carnival
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, where he defeated Motoshi Okumura, Carl Fergie, the Mysterious Assassin and Rocky Hata to earn a total of eight points, enough for eight place.
Zambuie Express/Muslim Connection
In 1983 the Florida bookers came up with the idea to team up Candy with the , , Leroy Brown. Candy took the Muslim
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name "Kareem Muhammad" while Brown was billed as "Elijah Akeem". Together they formed "the Zambuie Express", which was at times billed as "The Muslim Connection" in some promotions. The duo began to wear camouflage pants and shirts to the ring, adopting militaristic Muslim in ring characters, based to some extent on the Black Panther Party
The Black Panther Party (BPP), originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, was a Marxist-Leninist and black power political organization founded by college students Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton in October 1966 in Oakland, Califo ...
. The two toured mainly in the southern parts of the United States where their racially charged characters made them very hated. The team was often managed by Sir Oliver Humperdink and was part of the "House of Humperdink". In Florida the duo defeated Mike Graham and Scott McGhee to win the NWA Florida Global Tag Team Championship
The NWA Florida Global Tag Team Championship was a major tag team title in Florida Championship Wrestling from 1982 until fall 1983, when it was replaced by the NWA Florida United States Tag Team Championship.
Title history
See also
* List o ...
on July 31, 1983.[ The duo held the championship until September of that year, when it was replaced by the Florida version of the ]NWA United States Tag Team Championship
The NWA United States Tag Team Championship is a name used for several secondary tag team championship used by various National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) members since 1958. There are eleven different versions of the NWA United States Tag Team Champ ...
. The Zambuie Express were declared the United States Champions, with the storyline being that they won a tournament.[ Two months later the Zambuie Express lost the championship to the team of ]Dusty Rhodes
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and Blackjack Mulligan
Robert Deroy Windham (November 25, 1942 – April 7, 2016), better known by his ring name Blackjack Mulligan, was an American professional wrestler and American football player. He was the father of wrestlers Barry and Kendall Windham, father-in ...
on November 5, 1983[
From Florida the team traveled to Memphis to compete for the ]Continental Wrestling Association
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(CWA) where they were immediately pitted against the top face team of the territory The Fabulous Ones
The Fabulous Ones were a professional wrestling tag team consisting of Stan Lane and Steve Keirn that was active between 1982 and 1991 with brief reunions during the 1990s. The Fabulous Ones competed primarily in North American territories such as ...
(Stan Lane
Wallace Stanfield "Stan" Lane (born August 5, 1953) is an American retired professional wrestler and color commentator. He is best known for his appearances with the Continental Wrestling Association (CWA), Jim Crockett Promotions and World Champi ...
and Steve Keirn). On January 24, 1984, the Zambuie Express were awarded the AWA Southern Tag Team Championship
The AWA Southern Tag Team Championship was a professional wrestling tag team title in the Tennessee area from the 1940s through the late 1980s. It was originally named the NWA Southern Tag Team Championship ''(Mid-America version)'' from its ince ...
when the Fabulous Ones failed to show up for a match, but the titles were declared vacant instead of giving them to Akeem and Muhammad.[ The CWA held a tournament for the vacant championship, a tournament won by the Zambuie Express as they defeated the Pretty Young Things (]Koko B. Ware
James W. Ware, Jr. (born June 20, 1958), better known by his ring name Koko B. Ware is an American retired professional wrestler. He debuted in 1978 and became widely popular in 1986. He later went on to the World Wrestling Federation, where he ...
and Norvell Austin
Norvell Austin (born March 9, 1951) is a retired American professional wrestler. Austin worked for most of his career in the Southern United States, most often in tag team competition. Norvell Austin is most famous for teaming with Sputnik Monro ...
) in the final match.[ The Pretty Young Things won the championship only a week later, defeating the Zambuie Express on CWA's weekly show at the Mid-South Coliseum. Eight days later the Zambuie Express regained the championship. The duo held on to the belts until March 12, 1984 when they lost to ]Jerry Lawler
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and Jos LeDuc
Michel Pigeon (August 31, 1944 – May 1, 1999) was a Canadian professional wrestler better known by his ring name, Jos LeDuc.
Wrestling with a lumberjack gimmick, he debuted in Stampede Wrestling with his kayfabe brother, Paul LeDuc. The pair ...
.[ The team toured with New Japan Pro-Wrestling in the spring of 1984 and then ended up working for ]Jim Crockett Promotions
Jim Crockett Promotions Inc. is a family-owned professional wrestling promotion headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States, restarted by Jim Crockett's son and Jim Crockett Jr's brother, David Crockett. Founded in 1931, the promot ...
based in the Carolinas by the summer of 1984. The team sided with Paul Jones and became part of Paul Jones' Army
Paul Jones' Army was a professional wrestling heel stable in the NWA's Jim Crockett Promotions in the mid-1980s led by manager Paul Jones. The group's primary storyline was against "The Boogie Woogie Man" Jimmy Valiant in a long running storyli ...
as they fought against Jimmy Valiant
James Harold Fanning (born August 6, 1942) is an American professional wrestler better known by his ring name Jimmy Valiant.
Early life
Fanning was born in Tullahoma as the youngest of five children of James and Effie Fanning. He later incorpo ...
and Valiant's friends. The Express competed on the 1984 version of Starrcade
Starrcade was a recurring professional wrestling event, originally broadcast via closed-circuit television and eventually broadcast via pay-per-view. It was originally held from 1983 to 2000, first by the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) from 1 ...
, where they lost to the team of Buzz Tyler
Buzz Tyler (November 4, 1948 – November 11, 2021) was an American professional wrestler who competed in North American regional promotions during the 1970s and 1980s including the National Wrestling Alliance, most notably teaming with J. J. Di ...
and The Masked Assassin #1. The loss to Tyler and the Assassin was one of the last matches the Zambuie Express worked together, splitting up a short time later.[
He later formed a duo with ]Ed Gantner
Edward James Gantner Jr. (February 4, 1959 – December 31, 1990) was an American professional wrestler and American football player.
Early life
Edward James Ganter Jr. was born in Orlando, Florida, the youngest of four children. Ed was the only ...
, known as the Shock Troops, working for the CWF.[ On November 25, 1986 Canty, while still working as Kareem Muhammad, defeated ]Barry Windham
Barry Clinton Windham (born July 4, 1960) is an American retired professional wrestler. The son of wrestler Blackjack Mulligan, he is best known for his appearances with the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) and World Championship Wrestling (WCW). ...
to win the NWA Florida Heavyweight Championship
The NWA Florida Heavyweight Championship was a major title in Championship Wrestling from Florida, USA and is now the major title in NWA Florida Wrestling Alliance. It started in 1937 and was abandoned in 1949. It was picked back up in 1966 by C ...
, holding it until December 2 where he lost it to Ron Simmons
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.[ He later teamed up with Hacksaw Higgins to win the NWA United States Tag Team Championship, although the duo only held it for a day.][ In late 1986 Candy worked a tour with ]New Japan Pro-Wrestling
(NJPW) is a Japanese professional wrestling promotion based in Nakano, Tokyo. Founded on January 13, 1972, by Antonio Inoki, the promotion was sold to Yuke's, who later sold it to Bushiroad in 2012. TV Asahi and Amuse, Inc. own minority shares ...
under the ring name "Super Mario Man", a moniker that seemed more appropriate for an Italian plumber than a , African American wrestler. In 1987 he travelled to Puerto Rico
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, working for the World Wrestling Council
The World Wrestling Council (WWC) (Spanish: "Consejo Mundial de Lucha"), is a Puerto-Rican professional wrestling promotion based in Puerto Rico. It was originally established as Capitol Sports Promotions in 1973 by Carlos Colón Sr., Victor J ...
(WWC) where he won the WWC Puerto Rico Heavyweight Championship
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on June 6from Mighty Igor
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, holding it for about six months before losing it to Miguel Perez, Jr.[ In 1988 he took the ring name "Commando Ray", teaming with "Commando Boone" (AKA Grizzly Boone) to for a team known as "The Commandos.][ Candy's last major match was at the 1988 ]Starrcade
Starrcade was a recurring professional wrestling event, originally broadcast via closed-circuit television and eventually broadcast via pay-per-view. It was originally held from 1983 to 2000, first by the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) from 1 ...
, where he was a part of a Bunkhouse Battle royal
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, a match that was only seen by the audience in the Norfolk Scope
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The arena was designed by Italian architect/engin ...
.
Personal life
After his retirement from professional wrestling in 1990, Canty returned to Decatur to work as a dispatcher and supervisor for a local transport firm.[ He was also responsible for training ]Glenn Jacobs
Glenn Thomas Jacobs (born April 26, 1967), better known by the ring name Kane is an American politician and professional wrestler. Jacobs has been signed to WWE since 1995 and was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2021. He has also been t ...
(Kane in WWE
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) and New Jack
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. On May 23, 1994, he died at his home in Decatur, after suffering a heart attack
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.
Championships and accomplishments
*All Japan Pro Wrestling
(AJPW/AJP) or simply All Japan is a Japanese professional wrestling promotion established on October 21, 1972 when Giant Baba split away from the Japanese Wrestling Association and created his own promotion. Many wrestlers had left with Baba, ...
**NWA International Tag Team Championship
''This was a regional NWA championship based in Japan. For the version of this title that was promoted in NWA All Star Wrestling in Canada, see NWA International Tag Team Championship (Vancouver version).''
The NWA International Tag Team Champio ...
( 1 time) – with Abdullah the Butcher
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*All-South Wrestling Alliance
**ASWA Georgia Championship (1 time)[
**ASWA United States Championship (1 time)]
*Championship Wrestling from Florida
Championship Wrestling from Florida (CWF) was the corporate and brand name of the Tampa, Florida wrestling office existing from 1961, when Eddie Graham first bought into the promotion, until 1987, when it closed down. It is also referred to as ...
**NWA Florida Global Tag Team Championship
The NWA Florida Global Tag Team Championship was a major tag team title in Florida Championship Wrestling from 1982 until fall 1983, when it was replaced by the NWA Florida United States Tag Team Championship.
Title history
See also
* List o ...
( 1 time) – with Elijah Akeem
**NWA Florida Heavyweight Championship
The NWA Florida Heavyweight Championship was a major title in Championship Wrestling from Florida, USA and is now the major title in NWA Florida Wrestling Alliance. It started in 1937 and was abandoned in 1949. It was picked back up in 1966 by C ...
( 1 time)
** NWA United States Tag Team Championship ''(Florida version)'' (2 times
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) – with Elijah Akeem (1) and Hacksaw Higgins (1)
*Georgia Championship Wrestling
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** NWA Georgia Television Championship (2 times
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)
*NWA Mid-America
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/ Continental Wrestling Association
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**AWA Southern Tag Team Championship
The AWA Southern Tag Team Championship was a professional wrestling tag team title in the Tennessee area from the 1940s through the late 1980s. It was originally named the NWA Southern Tag Team Championship ''(Mid-America version)'' from its ince ...
( 3 times) – with Elijah Akeem
**NWA Mid-America Tag Team Championship
The NWA Mid-America Tag Team championship was a tag team title promoted by the American professional wrestling promotion NWA Mid-America that ran more or less exclusively in Alabama, Tennessee, and Kentucky, United States, from the 1940s until 1 ...
(2 times
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) – with Pez Whatley
Pezavan Whatley (January 10, 1951 – January 18, 2005) was an American professional wrestler best known for his time with NWA Mid-America.
Professional wrestling career
Whatley played football and wrestled for Notre Dame High School in Chatta ...
*NWA Tri-State
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**NWA Arkansas Heavyweight Championship
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Title history
See also
*National Wrestling Alliance
The National Wres ...
( 1 time)
** NWA North American Heavyweight Championship ''(Tri-State version)'' ( 1 time)
** NWA United States Tag Team Championship ''(Tri-State version)'' (2 times
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) – with Steven Little Bear
*Oregon Wrestling Federation
**OWF Championship (1 time)[
*'']Pro Wrestling Illustrated
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''
**PWI ranked him # 334 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in 1991
*Southeastern Championship Wrestling
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**NWA Alabama Heavyweight Championship
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Initially, the title was a part of Gulf Coast Championship Wrestl ...
( 1 time)
** NWA Southeastern Heavyweight Championship ''(Northern Division)'' ( 1 time)
*Western States Sports
Western States Sports (also known as the Amarillo Territory) was a professional wrestling professional wrestling promotion, promotion headquartered in Amarillo, Texas in the United States. Founded by Dory Detton in 1946, the promotion enjoyed its ...
**NWA Western States Heavyweight Championship
The NWA Western States Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling title in the National Wrestling Alliance's Amarillo, Texas territory, Western States Sports.
The title was in use from 1969, when it replaced Amarillo's version of the ...
( 1 time)
**NWA Western States Tag Team Championship
The NWA International Tag Team Championship is a professional wrestling title, originally created as the NWA Western States Tag Team Championship in the National Wrestling Alliance's Amarillo, Texas territory, Western States Sports. The title wa ...
( 1 time) – with Dory Funk Jr.
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*NWA Tri-State
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**NWA Louisiana Tag Team Championship
The NWA Louisiana Tag Team Championship was a professional wrestling tag team championship in NWA Tri-State. A secondary title after NWA Tri-State Tag Team Championship, and complementing the NWA Louisiana Heavyweight Championship, it was one of ...
(1 time) with Steven Little Bear
*World Wrestling Council
The World Wrestling Council (WWC) (Spanish: "Consejo Mundial de Lucha"), is a Puerto-Rican professional wrestling promotion based in Puerto Rico. It was originally established as Capitol Sports Promotions in 1973 by Carlos Colón Sr., Victor J ...
**WWC Puerto Rico Heavyweight Championship
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( 1 time)
See also
* List of premature professional wrestling deaths
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