Bruce Swayze
{{short description|Canadian retired professional wrestler (born 1940)}}
{{Infobox professional wrestler
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Black Baron
Beautiful Bruce
Jack Swayze{{cite web|url=https://www.cagematch.net/?id=2&nr=11965&name=Beautiful+Bruce+|title=Bruce Swayze « Wrestlers Database « CAGEMATCH - The Internet Wrestling Database|first=Philip|last=Kreikenbohm|publisher=}}
Jack Ross
Bruce Heffernan
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|birth_date={{birth date and age|1940|4|7}}
|birth_place=Kirkland Lake, Ontario, Canada
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|billed = Sarasota, Florida
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|trainer= Jack Wentworth
|debut= 1958
|retired= 1978
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Bruce Swayze (born April 7, 1940) is a Canadian retired professional wrestler{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-franklin-favorite/170926946/|newspaper=The Franklin Favorite|via=Newspapers.com|date=January 12, 1989|page=19|title=Pro wrestler makes Franklin his home|author=Carter, Michael}} {{Open access}} and manager who spent his career in Cleveland, Ontario, Florida, Carolinas, Calgary and Memphis.{{cite web|url=https://www.wrestlingdata.com/index.php?befehl=bios&wrestler=7304|title=Profile|publisher=Wrestlingdata|accessdate=2023-12-11}} He is also as The Black Baron when he was a manager in the 1970s.
Career
Swayze made his debut in wrestling in 1958. Little is known. Swayze formerly played hockey.{{cite web |url=https://slamwrestling.net/index.php/2007/10/11/taking-a-chance-paid-off-for-bruce-swayze/|title=Taking a chance paid off for Bruce Swayze|author=Oliver, Greg |date=October 11, 2007 |work=Slam Wrestling |access-date=July 13, 2024}} It wasn't until 1970 that he had his first match in Cleveland for National Wrestling Federation.
He was also known as Black Baron where he managed Abdullah the Butcher, the Love Brothers, Crusher Verdu, and the Samoans.
He was the uncle of actor Patrick Swayze.{{cite web|url=https://www.oklafan.com/bios/view/1928/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240714030603/https://www.oklafan.com/bios/view/1928/ |archive-date=July 14, 2024 |title=Bruce Swayze Bio |work=The Oklahoma Wrestling Fan's Resource Center |access-date=August 13, 2024}}{{cite web | url=https://www.pressreader.com/usa/arkansas-democrat-gazette/20150705/284193694409569 | title=Bonnie Spencer Swayze}}
References
General
- {{cite book|author=Oliver, Greg|title=The Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame: The Canadians|publisher=ECW Press|year=2003|chapter=Roll Call: Hangman Neil Guay|pages=176|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dPJRPgAACAAJ|isbn=1-55022-531-6}}
- {{cite book |last=Nevada |first=Vance |author-link=Vance Nevada |date=2022 |title=(Un)Controlled Chaos: Canada's Remarkable Professional Wrestling Legacy |location= |publisher=FriesenPress |isbn=9781039154797 }}
Specific
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External links
- {{professional wrestling profiles}}
- [https://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/profile/bruce-swayze/ Bruce Swayze at OWW.com]
- [http://www.profightdb.com/wrestlers/bruce-swayze-19548.html Professional wrestling record for Bruce Swayze from The Internet Wrestling Database]
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Category:Canadian male professional wrestlers
Category:Professional wrestlers from Ontario
Category:Stampede Wrestling alumni
Category:20th-century male professional wrestlers