Bobby Bold Eagle
{{short description|American professional wrestler and trainer}}
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|birth_name = Robert Cortes
|names=Bobby Bold Eagle
Bobby White Feather
Black Tiger
|weight= {{convert|220|lb|kg|abbr=on|lk=on}}
|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|mf=yes|1948|7|28}}
|death_date =
|birth_place =Window Rock, Arizona, U.S.
|death_place =
|billed= Window Rock, Arizona
|trainer=Argentina Rocca
Ismael Gerena
|debut=September 1968
|website=[https://myspace.com/merseybeat Bobby Bold Eagle] on Myspace
|}}
Robert Cortes (born July 28, 1948) is an American retired professional wrestler and trainer, known by his ring name Bobby Bold Eagle, who wrestled throughout the United States for the National Wrestling Alliance and the World Wide Wrestling Federation during the late 1960s and 1970s.
Career
A protégé of Argentina Rocca, he made his WWWF debut in September 1968.{{cite web|url=http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/profiles/b/bobby-bold-eagle.html|title=Profile|publisher=Online World of Wrestling|accessdate=2010-05-23}}
Cortes wrestled throughout the world during his near 15-year career including countries such as Guatemala, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Africa and most of Europe. While in Joint Promotions in the 1980s, he held the promotion's tag team championship as part of a kayfabe "brother" tag team with former student Al Bold Eagle.{{cite web |url=http://www.oklafan.com/bios/149/profile.html |title=Bios: Al Farat |year=2008 |work=The Oklahoma Fan's Wrestling Resource Center |publisher=OklaFan.com |accessdate=2010-05-23 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100212034706/http://www.oklafan.com/bios/149/profile.html |archivedate=2010-02-12 }} He was also a sometimes ally of Big Daddy in his feud with Wild Angus Campbell and wrestled the likes of Pete LaPaque,{{cite web |url=http://www.carlandtracystewart.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/dwlist2.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110911191335/http://www.carlandtracystewart.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/dwlist2.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=2011-09-11 |title=British Wrestling DVDs: Classic British Wrestling, Vol. 1 |author=Stewart, Carl and Tracy |work=Carl and Tracy Stewart's British Wrestling DVDs |publisher=CarlandTracyStewart.co.uk |accessdate=2010-05-23 }} Rollerball Rocco,{{cite web |url=http://www.johnlisterwriting.com/itvwrestling/87.html |title=1987 |author=Lister, John |date= |work=ITV wrestling listings |publisher=JohnListerWriting.com |accessdate=2010-05-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140326180329/http://www.johnlisterwriting.com/itvwrestling/87.html |archive-date=2014-03-26 |url-status=dead }} Lucky Gordon, "Superstar" Mal Sanders, Dr. Death{{cite web |url=http://www.britishwrestlingarchive.co.uk/1987%20BILLS.htm |title=1987 Bills & Results |author= |date= |work=British Wrestling Results & Bills |publisher=BritishWrestlingArchive.co.uk |accessdate=2010-05-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100405230038/http://www.britishwrestlingarchive.co.uk/1987%20BILLS.htm |archive-date=2010-04-05 |url-status=dead }} and Skull Murphy.{{cite web |url=http://www.britishwrestlingarchive.co.uk/SKULL%20MURPHY.htm |title=Skull Murphy |author= |date= |work=Wrestlers Records |publisher=BritishWrestlingArchive.co.uk |accessdate=2010-05-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090213113028/http://britishwrestlingarchive.co.uk/SKULL%20MURPHY.htm |archive-date=2009-02-13 |url-status=dead }}
=Retirement=
After his retirement in 1991, following a tour of Spain and Germany, Cortes was the head trainer in the Lower East Side Wrestling School, owned and operated by Pete McKay in New York City, New York. Among his former students include Billy Firehawk, Tiger Khan (Marlon Kalkai), Peligro (Abe Guzman), Panther {{cite web|url=http://www.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/2006/06/29/1659522.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120724140802/http://www.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/2006/06/29/1659522.html |url-status=usurped |archive-date=July 24, 2012 |title=SLAM! Wrestling: Stampede stars remember Tiger Khan |author=Oliver, Greg |date=2006-06-29 |publisher=SLAM! Sports |accessdate=2010-05-23}}{{cite web|url=http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/Movies/2008/12/01/7595566.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120731174655/http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/Movies/2008/12/01/7595566.html |url-status=usurped |archive-date=July 31, 2012 |title=SLAM! Wrestling: Associate Producer of The Wrestler documents wrestling's killing fields |author=Chhibber, Ranjan |date=2009-01-20 |publisher=SLAM! Sports |accessdate=2010-05-23}} Chris Kanyon,{{cite web|url=http://www.pro-wrestling.com/displaynews.php?area=4&sid=33844 |title=Kanyon gave all to wrestling |author=Mooneyham, Mike |date=2010-04-18 |publisher=Pro-Wrestling.com |accessdate=2010-05-23}}{{cite web |url=http://www.caulifloweralleyclub.org/2010finishes/ |title=2010 Finishes (RIP): Remembering those we have lost in 2010 |author=Cauliflower Alley Club |authorlink=Cauliflower Alley Club |year=2010 |publisher=CauliflowerAlleyClub.org |accessdate=2010-05-23 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100113105733/http://www.caulifloweralleyclub.org/2010finishes/ |archivedate=2010-01-13 }} Primo Carnera II and The Power Twins (Larry and David Sontag) as well as ECW alumni The Dirt Bike Kid, Rocco Rock, and Jason Knight.
Championships and accomplishments
- Joint Promotions
- Joint Promotions Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Al Bold Eagle
- Three Rivers Wrestling Association
- West Virginia Heavyweight Championship (1 time){{cite web|url=http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/wv/wv-h.html|title=West Virginia Heavyweight Championship|publisher=Wrestling-Titles.com|accessdate=August 1, 2015}}
- Other titles
- AAW Junior Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
- CCW Junior Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
- Canadian Junior Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
References
{{Reflist|2}}
External links
- [https://myspace.com/merseybeat Bobby Bold Eagle] on Myspace
- [http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/profiles/b/bobby-bold-eagle.html Bobby Bold Eagle] at OnlineWorldofWrestling.com
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Category:American male professional wrestlers
Category:People from Window Rock, Arizona
Category:Professional wrestlers from New York City