Wahoo McDaniel
{{Short description|American football player and professional wrestler (1938–2002)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Wahoo McDaniel
| image = File:Wahoo McDaniel 1979.jpg
| image_size = 220px
| caption = McDaniel, circa 1979
| birth_name = Edward Hugh McDaniel
| birth_date = {{birth date|1938|6|19}}
| birth_place = Bernice, Louisiana, U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age|2002|4|18|1938|6|19}}
| death_place = Houston, Texas, U.S.
| spouse = Monta Rae (divorced)
| children = 2
| alma_mater = University of Oklahoma
| module = {{Infobox professional wrestler
| child = yes
| names = Wahoo McDaniel
| billed = Midland, Texas
| trainer = Dory Funk
| debut = 1961
| retired = 1996
}}
| module2 = {{Infobox NFL biography
| embed = yes
| image =
| number = 62, 54
| position = Linebacker / Guard
| height_ft = 6
| height_in = 1
| weight_lbs = 235
| high_school = Midland
| college = Oklahoma
| afldraftyear = 1960
| afldraftround = 2
Pick: First Selections
(by the Los Angeles Chargers)
| undraftedyear =
| pastteams = * Houston Oilers (1960)
| highlights =
- AFL champion (1960)
- Second-team All-Big Eight (1959)
| pfr = M/McDaWa20
}}
}}
Edward Hugh McDaniel{{Cite book |last1=Johnson |first1=Steven |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0wxLpfRhZqcC&q=Wahoo+McDaniel |title=The Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame: Heroes and Icons |last2=Oliver |first2=Greg |last3=Mooneyham |first3=Mike |date=January 11, 2013 |publisher=ECW Press |isbn=978-1-77090-269-5 |language=en}} (June 19, 1938 – April 18, 2002) was an American{{Cite magazine |last=Shrake |first=Edwin |date=October 26, 1964 |title=Wahoo! Wahoo! Wahoo! |url=https://vault.si.com/vault/1964/10/26/wahoo-wahoo-wahoo |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200724110529/https://vault.si.com/vault/1964/10/26/wahoo-wahoo-wahoo |archive-date=July 24, 2020 |access-date=December 3, 2022 |magazine=Sports Illustrated}} professional football player and professional wrestler better known by his ring name Wahoo McDaniel. He is notable for having held the NWA United States Heavyweight Championship five times. McDaniel was a major star in the American Wrestling Association and prominent National Wrestling Alliance affiliated promotions such as Championship Wrestling from Florida, Georgia Championship Wrestling, NWA Big Time Wrestling and, most notably, Jim Crockett Promotions.
McDaniel is often compared to his contemporary, Chief Jay Strongbow, due to both portraying similar Native American gimmicks.{{Cite web |last=Eskenazi |first=Gerald |date=April 25, 2002 |title=Wahoo McDaniel, 63, a Wrestler and a Folk Hero for Fans of the Early Jets |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/25/sports/wahoo-mcdaniel-63-a-wrestler-and-a-folk-hero-for-fans-of-the-early-jets.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150527213948/https://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/25/sports/wahoo-mcdaniel-63-a-wrestler-and-a-folk-hero-for-fans-of-the-early-jets.html |archive-date=May 27, 2015 |access-date=December 3, 2022 |work=The New York Times}}
Early life
McDaniel was born in the small town of Bernice, Louisiana, in 1938. His family was Choctaw-Chickasaw,{{cite web|url=https://www.wwe.com/superstars/wahoo-mcdaniel#:~:text=Whether%20in%20the%20ring%20or,in%20the%20American%20Football%20League |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240524133701/https://www.wwe.com/superstars/wahoo-mcdaniel#:~:text=Whether%20in%20the%20ring%20or,in%20the%20American%20Football%20League |archive-date=May 24, 2024 |title=Wahoo McDaniel |work=WWE |access-date=August 21, 2024}} and he was a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. His father Hugh, worked in the oil industry and moved to several towns before settling down in Midland, Texas. He attended Midland High School, where he was a track state champion in the shot put and second in the state in the discus.{{Cite web |last=Mooneyham |first=Mike |date=December 8, 2018 |title=Ric Flair, Wahoo among President George H.W. Bush's ties to pro wrestling |url=https://www.postandcourier.com/sports/wrestling/ric-flair-wahoo-among-president-george-h-w-bush-s-ties-to-pro-wrestling/article_09cac1ac-fa29-11e8-99aa-6f9b15f76299.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221203113328/https://www.postandcourier.com/sports/wrestling/ric-flair-wahoo-among-president-george-h-w-bush-s-ties-to-pro-wrestling/article_09cac1ac-fa29-11e8-99aa-6f9b15f76299.html |archive-date=December 3, 2022 |access-date=December 3, 2022 |publisher=The Post and Courier |language=en}} One of his baseball coaches, particularly for his Pony League team, was George H. W. Bush.{{Cite magazine |last=Shropshire |first=Mike |date=July 2, 2001 |title=WAHOO MCDANIEL HE WAS A FLAMBOYANT FOOTBALLER AND A WACKO WRESTLER. NOW HE JUST HOPES TO STAY ALIVE LONG ENOUGH TO RAISE HIS SON |url=https://vault.si.com/vault/2001/07/02/wahoo-mcdaniel-he-was-a-flamboyant-footballer-and-a-wacko-wrestler-now-he-just-hopes-to-stay-alive-long-enough-to-raise-his-son |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221203115935/https://vault.si.com/vault/2001/07/02/wahoo-mcdaniel-he-was-a-flamboyant-footballer-and-a-wacko-wrestler-now-he-just-hopes-to-stay-alive-long-enough-to-raise-his-son |archive-date=December 3, 2022 |access-date=December 3, 2022 |magazine=Sports Illustrated}} The name "Wahoo" actually came from his father, who was known as "Big Wahoo". Though he was a problematic teenager, he was recruited to the University of Oklahoma by Bud Wilkinson. While attending, he was a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity and also a part of Wilkinson's Sooners football program, where he holds the record for the longest punt at 91 yards.
Professional football career
McDaniel began his career as a professional football player in 1960 in the American Football League (AFL), playing for the Houston Oilers during their inaugural AFL Championship-winning season.{{cite news |title=Wahoo McDaniel |work=NFL |url=https://www.nfl.com/players/wahoo-mcdaniel/stats/ |access-date=November 16, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210501115206/https://www.nfl.com/players/wahoo-mcdaniel/stats/ |archive-date=May 1, 2021}} He then played for the Denver Broncos between 1961 and 1963. After he started playing as a linebacker for the New York Jets in 1964, McDaniel started wearing a custom jersey which had the name "Wahoo" sewn on the back above jersey 54, and whenever he made a tackle as a Jet, the public address announcer would ask the crowd WHO made that tackle, in which the crowd would shout, "Wahoo! Wahoo! Wahoo!"{{Cite web |title=Wahoo McDaniel's Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame bio |url=http://www.pwhf.org/halloffamers/bios/mcdaniel.asp |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604225047if_/http://www.pwhf.org/halloffamers/bios/mcdaniel.asp |archive-date=June 4, 2011 |access-date=June 13, 2023 |publisher=Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum}} After two seasons with the Jets, McDaniel went to the Miami Dolphins in 1966, and played with this team until his retirement after the 1968 season.{{Cite web |last=Russo |first=Ric |date=July 27, 2000 |title=WHATEVER HAPPENED TO . . . WAHOO MCDANIEL? |url=https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-2000-07-28-0007280427-story.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220725092147/https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-2000-07-28-0007280427-story.html |archive-date=July 25, 2022 |access-date=December 3, 2022 |website=Orlando Sentinel |publisher=Tribune Publishing}}
Professional wrestling career
While with the Houston Oilers, McDaniel also trained with NWA Amarillo wrestling promoter Dory Funk Sr. and became a professional wrestler as a way to supplement his income by the time he was traded to the Denver Broncos in 1961. After he was traded to the New York Jets in 1964,{{Cite web |last=Oliver |first=Greg |author-link=Greg Oliver |date=August 9, 2000 |title=Life hitting Wahoo McDaniel hard |url=https://slamwrestling.net/index.php/2000/08/09/life-hitting-wahoo-mcdaniel-hard/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210920132540/https://slamwrestling.net/index.php/2000/08/09/life-hitting-wahoo-mcdaniel-hard/ |archive-date=September 20, 2021 |access-date=December 3, 2022 |website=SLAM! Sports |publisher=Canadian Online Explorer}} McDaniel began wrestling for Vincent J. McMahon's World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF). The promoter wanted him to play off his Native American heritage, thus he was given the moniker "Chief" Wahoo McDaniel. After he was traded to the Miami Dolphins in 1966, McDaniel began wrestling for Eddie Graham's Championship Wrestling from Florida (CWF). When his football career ended in 1969, McDaniel became a full-time wrestler; in his first year, McDaniel became involved in NWA Texas and won the NWA Texas Heavyweight Championship.{{Cite web |title=Wahoo McDaniel profile |url=http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/profiles/w/wahoo-mcdaniel.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080222084151/http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/profiles/w/wahoo-mcdaniel.html |archive-date=February 22, 2008 |access-date=December 3, 2022 |publisher=Online World of Wrestling}}
While wrestling in the American Wrestling Association (AWA), McDaniel engaged in a feud with Superstar Billy Graham. Along with Johnny Valentine, Superstar Billy Graham was regarded as one of McDaniel's earliest and bitter rivals. Between 1973 and 1974, McDaniel and Superstar would engage in numerous wrestling bouts in what was considered one of the AWA's top-drawing feuds of the 1970s. Some of these bouts included Indian Strap Matches and also tag team matches which pitted McDaniel and The Crusher against Superstar and Ivan Koloff. In 1974, McDaniel came to Mid-Atlantic to wrestle for Jim Crockett Promotions and help build up the territory as a singles territory in a feud with a rival from Texas, Johnny Valentine. The feud evolved into a tag feud with McDaniel and Paul Jones taking on Valentine and Ric Flair, who McDaniel met in the AWA.
File:Wahoo McDaniel vs Harley Race (2).jpg
McDaniel and Valentine had a historical feud remembered for the sheer force of their punch/chop exchanges, both men widely known for their hard-hitting style.{{Cite web |last=Mooneyham |first=Mike |date=June 19, 2021 |title=Believability, storytelling made pro wrestling great |url=https://www.postandcourier.com/sports/wrestling/believability-storytelling-made-pro-wrestling-great/article_78551230-ced4-11eb-b89f-db88cfbd7a37.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221203123722/https://www.postandcourier.com/sports/wrestling/believability-storytelling-made-pro-wrestling-great/article_78551230-ced4-11eb-b89f-db88cfbd7a37.html |archive-date=December 3, 2022 |access-date=December 3, 2022 |website= |publisher=Post and Courier |language=en}} On June 29, 1975, McDaniel won the NWA Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Championship by defeating Valentine. In 1977, Johnny Valentine's son Greg Valentine attacked McDaniel and broke his leg in an angle to establish Greg as Johnny's successor. Valentine originally won the title on June 11, 1977, with McDaniel regaining it two months later. On September 7, 1977, Valentine regained the title at the WRAL-TV studio tapings, breaking McDaniel's leg in the process. This angle is particularly remembered for a follow-up interview weeks later with Flair and Valentine throwing change at McDaniel, and Valentine asking him if he needed a custom-made wheelchair for his fat body. Valentine then infuriated fans (thus building up the demand for a rematch) by parading around in T-shirts which read "I Broke Wahoo's Leg" and "No More Wahoo."
McDaniel also worked for World Championship Wrestling's Slamboree 1993: A Legends' Reunion pay-per-view on May 23, 1993, where he teamed with Blackjack Mulligan and Jim Brunzell and fought Dick Murdoch, Don Muraco and Jimmy Snuka to a no-contest.{{Cite web |title=Slamboree 1993 results |url=https://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/results/wcwppv/slamboree93.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220705221221/https://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/results/wcwppv/slamboree93.html |archive-date=July 5, 2022 |access-date=June 13, 2023 |website= |publisher=Online World of Wrestling}} At Slamboree on May 23, 1995, he defeated Murdoch.{{Cite web |title=Slamboree 1995 results |url=https://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/results/wcwppv/slamboree95.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230518012957/https://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/results/wcwppv/slamboree95.html |archive-date=May 18, 2023 |access-date=June 13, 2023 |publisher=Online World of Wrestling}} He also worked in independent shows until retiring in 1996.
Personal life
McDaniel was married four times to three different women. With his first wife, Monta Rae, he had two daughters, Nikki, born in June 1963 and living in Houston and Cindi, born in October 1965 and living in Azle, Texas. He also has four grandchildren, from Nikki Rowe (Dustin and Brittany)and from Cindi Blank (twins Morgan and Taylor as well as four great-grandchildren. Dustin has(Vayda and Bo Wayne), Morgan (Monroe) and Taylor (Rory). He was also an avid golfer and hunter.
McDaniel's health started to deteriorate in the mid-1990s, which led to his retirement in 1996, and he eventually lost both kidneys in 2000. He was awaiting a kidney transplant when he suffered a stroke and died of complications from diabetes and kidney failure on April 18, 2002, in Houston, Texas. His body was cremated and his ashes are with his daughter Nikki in Houston, Texas.
Championships and accomplishments
File:Wahoo McDaniel 1973 Victory Sports.jpg
- American Championship Wrestling
- ACW World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
- ACW United States Championship (1 time){{cite book | author=Royal Duncan & Gary Will | title=Wrestling Title Histories | publisher=Archeus Communications | year=2000|edition=4th | isbn=0-9698161-5-4 }}
- American Wrestling Association
- AWA World Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Crusher Lisowski (1 time){{Cite web |title=AWA World Tag Team Title |url=https://www.wrestling-titles.com/awa/awa-t.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230313075950/https://www.wrestling-titles.com/awa/awa-t.html |archive-date=March 13, 2023 |access-date=June 13, 2023 |website= |publisher=Wrestling Titles}}
- Cauliflower Alley Club
- Other honoree (1996){{Cite web |title=Honorees |url=http://www.caulifloweralleyclub.org/awards/honorees |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200211064111/http://www.caulifloweralleyclub.org/awards/honorees |archive-date=February 11, 2020 |access-date=June 13, 2023 |publisher=Cauliflower Alley Club}}
- Championship Wrestling from Florida
- NWA Florida Heavyweight Championship (1 time){{Cite web |title=Florida Heavyweight Title |url=https://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/fl/fl-h.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221224004202/https://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/fl/fl-h.html |archive-date=December 24, 2022 |access-date=June 13, 2023 |website= |publisher=Wrestling Titles}}
- NWA Florida Television Championship (1 time){{Cite web |title=NWA Florida Television Title |url=https://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/fl/fl-tv.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221225031836/https://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/fl/fl-tv.html |archive-date=December 25, 2022 |access-date=June 13, 2023 |website= |publisher=Wrestling Titles}}
- NWA Southern Heavyweight Championship (Florida version) (2 times){{Cite web |title=Southern Heavyweight Title (Florida) |url=https://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/fl/fl-south-h.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230209062023/https://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/fl/fl-south-h.html |archive-date=February 9, 2023 |access-date=June 13, 2023 |website= |publisher=Wrestling Titles}}
- NWA United States Tag Team Championship (Florida version) (1 time) – with Billy Jack Haynes{{Cite web |title=NWA United States Tag Team Title (Florida) |url=https://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/fl/nwa/fl-us-t.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221225023022/https://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/fl/nwa/fl-us-t.html |archive-date=December 25, 2022 |access-date=June 13, 2023 |website= |publisher=Wrestling Titles}}
- NWA World Tag Team Championship (Florida version) (2 times) – with Jose Lothario{{Cite web |title=NWA World Tag Team Title (Florida) |url=https://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/fl/nwa/fl-nwa-t.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230210134203/https://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/fl/nwa/fl-nwa-t.html |archive-date=February 10, 2023 |access-date=June 13, 2023 |website= |publisher=Wrestling Titles}}
- Georgia Championship Wrestling
- NWA Georgia Heavyweight Championship (2 times){{Cite web |title=Georgia Heavyweight Title |url=https://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/ga/ga-h.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230306075757/https://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/ga/ga-h.html |archive-date=March 6, 2023 |access-date=June 13, 2023 |website= |publisher=Wrestling Titles}}
- NWA Georgia Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Tommy Rich{{Cite web |title=NWA Georgia Tag Team Title |url=https://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/ga/ga-t.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230420175355/https://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/ga/ga-t.html |archive-date=April 20, 2023 |access-date=June 13, 2023 |website= |publisher=Wrestling Titles}}
- NWA Macon Heavyweight Championship (1 time){{Cite web |title=Macon Heavyweight Title (Georgia) |url=https://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/ga/nwa/macon-h.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220119224231/https://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/ga/nwa/macon-h.html |archive-date=January 19, 2022 |access-date=June 13, 2023 |website= |publisher=Wrestling Titles}}
- International Pro Wrestling
- IWA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time){{Cite web |title=IWA World Heavyweight Title (Japan) |url=https://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/iwe/iwe-h.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221019212629/https://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/iwe/iwe-h.html |archive-date=October 19, 2022 |access-date=June 13, 2023 |website= |publisher=Wrestling Titles}}
- Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling / Jim Crockett Promotions / World Championship Wrestling
- NWA Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Championship (7 times){{Cite web |title=NWA Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Title |url=https://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/midatlantic/ma-h.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230406193956/https://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/midatlantic/ma-h.html |archive-date=April 6, 2023 |access-date=June 13, 2023 |website= |publisher=Wrestling Titles}}
- NWA National Heavyweight Championship (1 time){{Cite web |title=NWA National Heavyweight Title |url=https://www.wrestling-titles.com/nwa/others/nat-h.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221012020212/https://www.wrestling-titles.com/nwa/others/nat-h.html |archive-date=October 12, 2022 |access-date=June 13, 2023 |website= |publisher=Wrestling Titles}}
- NWA United States Heavyweight Championship (5 times){{Cite web |title=NWA/WCW United States Heavyweight Title |url=https://www.wrestling-titles.com/wcw/wcw-us-h.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220407232337/https://www.wrestling-titles.com/wcw/wcw-us-h.html |archive-date=April 7, 2022 |access-date=June 13, 2023 |website= |publisher=Wrestling Titles}}
File:Wahoo McDaniel and Mark Youngblood NWA Tag Team Championships 1984.png
- NWA World Tag Team Championship (Mid-Atlantic version) (4 times) – with Mark Youngblood (2), Rufus R. Jones (1), and Paul Jones (1){{Cite web |title=NWA World Tag Team Title (Mid-Atlantic/WCW) |url=https://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/midatlantic/nwa/ma-nwa-t.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221201145304/https://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/midatlantic/nwa/ma-nwa-t.html |archive-date=December 1, 2022 |access-date=June 13, 2023 |website= |publisher=Wrestling Titles}}
- WCW Hall of Fame (Class of 1995){{Cite web |title=WCW Hall of Fame |url=https://www.wrestling-titles.com/wcw/hof.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230423115534/https://www.wrestling-titles.com/wcw/hof.html |archive-date=April 23, 2023 |access-date=June 13, 2023 |website= |publisher=Wrestling Titles}}
- Cadillac Cup (1976)
- NWA United States Championship Tournament (1984)
- Mid-Atlantic Wrestling Alliance
- MAWA Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
- National Wrestling Federation
- NWF World Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Chief White Owl{{Cite web |title=NWF World Tag Team Title (Ohio/Upstate New York) |url=https://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/oh/nwf/nwf-t.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230410045441/https://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/oh/nwf/nwf-t.html |archive-date=April 10, 2023 |access-date=June 13, 2023 |website= |publisher=Wrestling Titles}}
- National Wrestling Alliance
- NWA Hall of Fame (Class of 2011){{cite web |last=Gerweck |first=Steve |date=November 14, 2011 |title=NWA Hall of Fame Class for 2011 announced |url=http://www.wrestleview.com/viewnews.php?id=1321297139 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221010110437/http://www.wrestleview.com/viewnews.php?id=1321297139 |archive-date=October 10, 2022 |access-date=November 14, 2011 |publisher=WrestleView.com}}
- NWA Big Time Wrestling
- NWA American Heavyweight Championship (2 times){{cite web |title=NWA American Heavyweight Title (Texas) |url=http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/tx/wccw/am-h.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221124192546/http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/tx/wccw/am-h.html |archive-date=November 24, 2022 |access-date=December 26, 2019 |publisher=Wrestling Titles}}
- NWA American Tag Team Championship (3 times) – with Johnny Valentine (2), and Thunderbolt Paterson(1){{cite web |title=NWA American Tag Team Title (Texas) |url=http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/tx/wccw/am-t.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220313002739/http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/tx/wccw/am-t.html |archive-date=March 13, 2022 |access-date=January 19, 2020 |publisher=Wrestling Titles}}
- NWA Texas Heavyweight Championship (2 times){{cite web |title=NWA Texas Heavyweight Title |url=http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/tx/tx-h.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220412032707/http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/tx/tx-h.html |archive-date=April 12, 2022 |access-date=March 30, 2017 |publisher=Wrestling Titles}}
- NWA Texas Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Tony Parisi{{cite book| last1=Will | first1=Gary | first2=Royal | last2= Duncan | title=Wrestling Title Histories: professional wrestling champions around the world from the 19th century to the present | publisher=Archeus Communications | year=2000 | location=Pennsylvania | chapter=Texas: NWA Texas Tag Team Title [Von Erich] | isbn=0-9698161-5-4 | pages=275–276}}
- North American Wrestling Alliance
- NAWA Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
- Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum
- Class of 2010
- Pro Wrestling Illustrated
- PWI Most Popular Wrestler of the Year (1976){{Cite web |title=PWI Awards |url=http://www.pwi-online.com/pages/PWIawards.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200610190704/http://www.pwi-online.com/pages/PWIawards.html |archive-date=June 10, 2020 |access-date=June 13, 2023 |website=Pro Wrestling Illustrated |publisher=Kappa Publishing Group}}
- PWI ranked him # 97 of the 500 best singles wrestlers during the "PWI Years" in 2003{{Cite web |title=Pro Wrestling Illustrated's Top 500 Wrestlers of the PWI Years |url=http://www.100megsfree4.com/wiawrestling/pages/pwi/pwi500yr.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090227054535/http://www.100megsfree4.com/wiawrestling/pages/pwi/pwi500yr.htm |archive-date=February 27, 2009 |access-date=June 13, 2023 |publisher=Wrestling Information Archive}}
- Southern Championship Wrestling
- SCW Hall of Fame (Class of 1998){{cite web |url=http://scwprowrestling.com/bios.html |title=SCW Hall of Fame |author=Southern Championship Wrestling |author-link=Southern Championship Wrestling |year=2002 |work=SCW Superstars |publisher=SCWprowrestling.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021005033719/http://scwprowrestling.com/bios.html |archive-date=October 5, 2002 |url-status=usurped |access-date=April 15, 2012}}
- Southern States Wrestling
- Kingsport Wrestling Hall of Fame (Class of 2000)
- Southwest Championship Wrestling
- SCW Southwest Heavyweight Championship (2 times){{Cite web |title=SCW Southwest Heavyweight Title (Texas) |url=https://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/tx/c/scw/scw-sw-h.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220409131547/https://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/tx/c/scw/scw-sw-h.html |archive-date=April 9, 2022 |access-date=June 13, 2023 |website= |publisher=Wrestling Titles}}
- SCW Southwest Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Terry Funk{{Cite web |title=SCW Southwest Tag Team Title (Texas) |url=https://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/tx/c/scw/scw-sw-t.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210629130419/https://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/tx/c/scw/scw-sw-t.html |archive-date=June 29, 2021 |access-date=June 13, 2023 |website= |publisher=Wrestling Titles}}
- SCW World Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Ivan Putski{{Cite web |title=SCW World Tag Team Title (Texas) |url=https://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/tx/c/scw/scw-t.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210921151423/https://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/tx/c/scw/scw-t.html |archive-date=September 21, 2021 |access-date=June 13, 2023 |website= |publisher=Wrestling Titles}}
- Ultimate Championship Wrestling
- UCW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
- WWE
- WWE Hall of Fame (Class of 2019){{Cite web |date=April 6, 2019 |title=Congratulations to the 2019 WWE Hall of Fame Legacy inductees |url=https://www.wwe.com/shows/wwe-hall-of-fame/wwe-hall-of-fame-2019/article/legacy-inductees |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230515130840/https://www.wwe.com/shows/wwe-hall-of-fame/wwe-hall-of-fame-2019/article/legacy-inductees |archive-date=May 15, 2023 |access-date=June 13, 2023 |website= |publisher=WWE}}
- Wrestling Observer Newsletter
- Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame (Class of 2002)
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