William Dee Calhoun (August 3, 1934 - December 7, 1989) is an American professional wrestler, who uses the professional name " Haystack " or " Haystacks " < b> Calhoun .
The giant wrestler was one of the most coveted people during the industrial "Era Kayfabe" of the 1950s and 1960s, wearing a white T-shirt, blue overalls, and horseshoe necklaces. He is recognized as the premier pioneer of super sports super-sporting attractions.
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Born on August 3, 1934, William Dee Calhoun grew up on a farm in McKinney, Texas; a rural suburb located in Collin County about 30 miles (48 km) north of Dallas. William is an extraordinarily large kid with a big appetite. He regularly eats a dozen eggs for breakfast, and by the age of 14, he weighs 300 pounds (140 kg). By the time he was in his 20s, Calhoun had weighed more than 600 pounds (270 kg), prompting his doctors to suggest he did not have long to live unless he reformed his diet.
Calhoun's remarkable physical size and strength enabled him to perform manual labor of several men while working on his family farm. Calhoun first went into wrestling in 1955 and he started competing for local promoters (and the National Wrestling Champion of the Rapture Alliance) Orville Brown. Brown admits that a man of his size who can still move with significant agility can be a major attraction for the sports world that desperately needs additional popularity.
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Careers
Originally appearing under the name Country Boy Calhoun , he soon established himself as a feature attraction, performing in various regional areas, including Houston, Kansas City, and even Canada. However, he first appeared nationally at Art Linkletter's
While Calhoun's size contributes to his wrestling celebrity, he is determined not to become a stereotype as a carnival attraction. He is revolutionary because he is the first super heavyweight sport that regularly trains and has a variety of repertoire of grappling maneuvers. His athletic stance was proven when he was matched with fellow wrestling giant, Happy Humphrey, in a series of highly promoted fights at Madison Square Garden in the early 1960s. At more than  £ 800 (360 kg), Humphrey surpassed Calhoun with over  £ 150 (68 kg), and much slower than Calhoun. Calhoun took most of his decisions on Humphrey, many of which counted because Humphrey often could not get back into the ring with a count of 20 when thrown out.
Throughout the 1960s, Calhoun continued to be the main attraction of the box office being sought. On April 14, 1961, at the Chicago International Amphitheater, he challenged NWA United States Champion "Nature Boy" Buddy Rogers in a second attempt to take the US title. The fight ended in failure as was the first with Rogers at New York's Sunnyside Park on January 28, 1961. Calhoun will not get a chance to wrestle with Rogers for the NWA World Weight Championship that Rogers won from Pat O'Connor a few months later. June 30, 1961. Being the only person who raised Calhoun from his feet contributed to the career and legend of Bruno Sammartino. Although particularly active in the eastern United States, he also wrestled in Australia, on a tour with other American wrestlers in an attack promoted by US promoter Sam Menacker. He also wrestled for the NWA: All-Star Wrestling in Vancouver, where he twice won the Tag Team NWA Canada Championship with Don Leo Jonathan. He formed a tag team with more than 600Ã, lb (270 kg) Mountain Man Mike on the West Coast. With a combined weight of over 1,200 pounds (540 kg), they are the second heaviest tag team in the history of professional wrestling. (The heaviest being The McGuire Twins.) After engaging in an unforgettable feud against the legendary rule-breaker Dick the Bruiser, Calhoun then generally travels from one area to another, never staying in one area for too long so as to retain his status as an infant a famous facial enforcer. As a result, he later proved himself to be one of the most famous wrestlers in North America.
Calhoun excels in the tag team division; and in 1966 he won the NWA Tri-Country Tag Team Championship and the NWA Canada Tag Team Championship while teaming up with Jack Brisco and Don Leo Jonathan, respectively. In addition, he then helped attract fans to the Northeast Federation, the World Wide Wrestling Federation, where he became a consistent tourist attraction at Madison Square Garden. On May 30, 1973, Calhoun paired up with Tony Garea to defeat Japanese duo Mr. Fuji and Prof. Toru Tanaka for WWF Tag Title Tag. However, his weight and declining health eventually forced him to retire, and he was eventually confined to a double trailer after losing his left leg to diabetes in 1986. He died at the age of 55 on December 7, 1989. WWE has since honored him. among the 50 greatest wrestlers of all time. She is buried in Scott Cemetery, Collin County, Texas. Her daughter donated a memento of her wrestling career to the Collin County museum.
Legacy
As one of the premier box office attractions of all time, he laid the foundations for future ring goliaths such as Gorilla Monsoon, AndrÃÆ' Â © the Giant, The One Man Gang and King Kong Bundy, and served as an inspiration to various "countries" "Brawlers" such as Hillbilly Jim, Uncle Elmer, Hacksaw Jim Duggan, and Godwinns.
Calhoun more directly influenced the British superheavyweight wrestler Martin Ruane, best known in America for his job as Loch Ness at WCW. Ruane achieved household fame in his home country as "Giant Haystacks", a modified heel version of the Calhoun gimmick. Ruane first wrestled as "Haystacks Calhoun", a direct copy of Native Americans, while working for Wrestling Enterprises (from Birkenhead) in the early 1970s, before modifying his name and character. Thus adapted, Ruane then moved on to the Joint Promotion where he achieved television exposure and national fame as a tag team partner - and then a mortal enemy - from Big Daddy. Calhoun appears frequently at the Capital Arena in Washington, D.C. while fighting in a television game. A. J. Weberman is the head of Hayshacks fan club Calhoun.
Calhoun is also known for collapsing his opponent's lungs while training early in his career. The lawsuit that followed, in which Calhoun was released from all charges, allegedly had made a name for the upcoming wrestler, as in news for several weeks.
John Sims, the American wrestler will describe the name Haystacks Calhoun Jr. because he was also known as Hornswiglin Hillbilly struggling in the 90s for Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling and indies.
In Stephen King's novel Ben Hanscom was nicknamed "Haystack" because another character (Richie Tozier) said he reminded him of Haystacks Calhoun.
On March 31, 2017, Calhoun has been posthumously posthumously into the WWE Hall of Fame as part of the Legacy wing.
Action
Calhoun appeared briefly at the end of 1962's cinema version of Rod Serling's teleplay Requiem For A Heavyweight . The protagonist, played by Anthony Quinn, is a slipper-falling combatant slipping into oblivion but his manager, played by Jackie Gleason, figured out how to squeeze a few dollars more than his career by lining him up for a "professional wrestling match". The name of the opponent is stated on the poster for the event, and is announced when the Quinn character approaches the ring, but only the top four of the wrestler's body are visible, from behind, on the screen. He scratched his head in response to the behavior of this unknown newcomer. However, the film's credits do not refer to Calhoun's participation.
In wrestling
- End step
- Big splash
- Signature is moving
- Spoon powerslam
- The cover letter
Championships and achievements
- Florida Wrestling Championship
- NWA Florida Tag Team Championship (1st Time) - Kevin Sullivan
- Mid-wrestling The Atlantic Championship
- NWA Southern Tag Team Championship (1 Times) - Amazing Zuma
- NWA: All-Star Wrestling
- NWA Canadian Tag Team Championship ( Vancouver version ) (2 times) - with Don Leo Jonathan
- Tri-State NWA
- NWA United States Tag Team Championship (Tri-State Version) (1 time) - with Jack Brisco
- World Wide Wrestling Federation/WWE
- WWWF World Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Tony Garea
- WWE Hall of Fame
- Worldwide Wrestling Association
- WWA International Television Tag Team Championship (1st time) - with Abe Jacobs
References
External links
- Haystacks Calhoun on WWE.com
- Haystacks Calhoun in Discover Mausoleum
- William 'Haystacks' Calhoun on IMDb
- Photo of Calhoun's straw stack from the Collin County Historical Society, organized by Portal to the History of Texas
- The late Superstars - Haystacks Calhoun
- Haystacks Calhoun at WrestlingMuseum.com
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