Laverne Clarence Gagne ( ; February 26, 1926 - April 27, 2015) is an American professional wrestler, football player, wrestling coach, and wrestling promoter. He is the proprietor and promoter of the Minneapolis-based American Wrestling Association (AWA), a major promotion throughout the Midwest and Manitoba for many years. He remained in this position until 1991, when the company folded.
Gagne is the 16th World Class Champion, who has hosted the AWA Tennis World Championships ten times, the World Class Weight (Omaha) five times, and the IWA World Class Weight Championship once. He holds the record for the longest joint reign as world champion and third (behind Bruno Sammartino and Lou Thesz) for the longest single world title rule. He is one of only six people inducted into each WWE, WCW, and Professional, Wrestling, halls of fame.
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Gagne was born in Corcoran, Minnesota and grew up on a farm in Robbinsdale, Minnesota. He left home at the age of 14 after his mother died. He went to Robbinsdale High School and excelled in soccer, baseball and wrestling, won regional, regional and state championships in high school wrestling, and was named to the Football Team of All Countries. In 1943, he was recruited to play soccer at the University of Minnesota, where he was appointed to the All-Big Ten Team.
After a year at college, Gagne was registered with the Navy Underwater Destroyer Team. He chose to return to the University of Minnesota, where, as an amateur wrestler, he won two NCAA degrees. He was also an alternative to the US free-style wrestling team at the 1948 Olympics; He then said that he may have wrestled at the Olympics, but his coach has found that he has earned money winning wrestling matches at the carnival, thus putting his amateurs in question.
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Soccer career
Gagne joined the National Football League (NFL) soon after being drafted by the Chicago Bears in the 16th round (retrieval 145) of the 1947 NFL Draft. Bearer George Halas prevented Gagne from chasing football and wrestling (possibly due to the former Bears Football Hall of Fame Bronko Nagurski having moonlighted as a professional wrestler during the peak of the NFL career), and forcing Gagne to make a choice. In a 2006 interview for WWE, Gagne Greg's son mentioned that wrestling is a much better paying job at the time than playing football (recently in the 1970s, it was not uncommon for NFL players to have second jobs during the NFL offseason for help meet the needs), and as a result, Verne chose to wrestle with football.
Professional wrestling career
National Wrestling Alliance
In 1949, Gagne decided to wrestle professionally, starting his career in Texas. In his debut, he defeated Abe Kashey, with former world heavyweight boxing champion Jack Dempsey as the referee. On 13 November 1950, Gagne clinched the National Weight National Junior Wrestling (NWA) title in a tournament for an empty championship.
In September 1953 at Fred Kohler Enterprises, Gagne was awarded a newly created Chicago NWA Championship version of the United States. Gagne became one of the most famous stars in wrestling during the golden days of television, thanks to his exposure on the Dumont Network, where he amazed the audience with his technical prowess. He was rumored to be one of the highest-paid wrestlers during the 1950s, reportedly earning a hundred thousand dollars a year.
On June 14, 1957, Edouard Carpentier defeated NWA Champion Lou Thesz in Chicago. The NWA then rejected the referee's decision in Chicago and returned the title to Thesz. However, NWA wrestling areas including Nebraska refused to follow the decision and continue to recognize Carpentier. Carpentier lost his title to Gagne in Omaha on August 9, 1958, making him a recognized NWA world champion in the NWA region that has admitted Carpentier, before dropping a belt three months later to Wilbur Snyder. In the early 1960s, the rich Gagne rarely wrestled and shifted his focus to building his own wrestling campaign.
American Wrestling Association
In 1960, Gagne formed his own promotions, the American Wrestling Alliance (later the Association). Prior to this, the Minneapolis area was under the umbrella of the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA). The setting to withdraw from the NWA, the Minneapolis area (as it is known), gave the "storyline only" decision to the NWA in May 1960 unless their NWA World Champion Pat O'Connor defended his title for Verne Gagne by 90 days, Verne Gagne will be recognized as World Champion by default. There was never any intention of such a match going on. At the end of the 90th period, AWA was formed in August 1960 and it was announced that because NWA champion Pat O'Connor failed to meet Gagne, that AWA recognized Gagne as the first AWA World Champion.
Some of Gagne's biggest hostility against Gene Kiniski, Dr. Bill Miller (under the mask of both Dr. X and later Mr. M), Fritz Von Erich, Dr. X, The Crusher, Ray Stevens, Mad Dog Vachon, Larry Hennig and Nick Bockwinkel. He always wrestles as a face, and takes advantage of the sleeping grip as his finisher.
As promoter of AWA, Gagne is known for putting on an "old school" show. He searched for a wrestler with an amateur background over a vicious giant who dominated wrestling in the 1980s. This caused the problem with his greatest draw, Hulk Hogan, which Gagne had acquired after Hogan was released by the World Wrestling Federation and which Gagne also felt was not a championship material, due to the fact that Hogan was a strong wrestler and not a technical wrestler. Seeing Hogan as the company's main draw, Gagne did, however, allow Hogan to fight with Bockwinkel. Finally, as recorded on the DVD 2006 Spectacular Heritage of AWA, Gagne settled by making Hogan a champion after Hogan's fight with Bockwinkel ran in April 1983, but only on condition that he would receive from Hogan's income made of merchandise sales and matches in Japan. Hogan refused. At the end of 1983, Hogan accepted an offer from Vincent K. McMahon to return to WWF. Iron Sheik, coached by Gagne, alleged that he was offered a bribe of money by AWA owners to inflict damage that threatened his career at Hogan's knee after it became clear that he was going to WWF. This allegation was endorsed by Hogan during the interview for A & amp; E's Biography .
What followed was the cleaning of stars from different regions and promotions, including Gagne's AWA, by Vince McMahon, who wanted to take the "national" WWF and get rid of the traditional territorial system that dominated the North American pro wrestling landscape for decades. Unlike most of his contemporaries, in the mid-1980s, Gagne began promoting AWA beyond the geographical boundaries of the company's traditional territory. In September 1985, ESPN began broadcasting the AWA Championship Wrestling, giving AWA's national exposure similar to what the World Wrestling Federation experienced. However, AWA suffered many setbacks; AWA Championship Wrestling is not treated as a priority by ESPN, the show is sometimes not broadcasted in regular timeslots, sometimes it is triggered by live sporting events and occasional changes in timeslots without change ads resulting in many fans who can not listen regularly. Gagne's ordering strategy for wrestlers themselves continues to be an older school than the one at WWF where Gagne feels that the biggest stars must be the most talented technical wrestlers than wrestlers with charismatic characters and excessive personalities. Throughout the mid to late 1980s, AWA would lose almost all of its top stars while direct ratings and attendance continued to decline. In 1991, damage has occurred, and AWA is closed, after 30 years. Gagne will eventually end up in bankruptcy court.
Hall of Famer
In April 2006, Gagne was elected into the WWE Hall of Fame by his son Greg Gagne. He is one of just six people appointed to WWE, WCW, and Professional, Wrestling, halls of fame.
Helmut Gutmann's death
On January 26, 2009, Gagne engaged in an argument with Helmut Gutmann, a 97-year-old resident of the Bloomington, Minnesota facility where they both lived. According to Gutmann's widow, who was absent during the quarrel, Gagne raised Gutmann and tossed him to the floor, then broke his hip by pulling back. "The attack - which is not wrestling body wrestling - happens quickly when the men are at the table," said Bloomington Police Chief Jeff Potts. "It was more like" encouragement and encouragement "and it caused Gutmann to fall. '"
Both men do not remember the incident. Gutmann was hospitalized, and died on February 14 because of an injury complication. On February 25, 2009, the death of an older man officially decides the murder by the Hennepin County medical examiner's office. On March 12, 2009, the Regional Prosecutor's Office Hennepin formally announced that Gagne would not be subject to criminal charges as a result of death, because, due to Gagne dementia, he lacked the necessary mental capacity to be intended to injure Gutmann.
Disease and death
Gagne was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease (or possibly a chronic traumatic encephalopathy caused by a lifelong head injury) and has lived in the memory loss part of the health care facility of Bloomington, Minnesota. In January 2012 (and possibly since the 2009 dispute), she lives in the home of her daughter Beth and her husband, Will. He continues to make a public appearance in his final years, helped by his son, Greg.
On the night of April 27, 2015, Gagne died in Bloomington at the age of 89.
In wrestling
- End step
- Sleeper hold
- Signature is moving
- Belly to back suplex
- Body slam
- Dropkick
- Headscissors removal
Wrestlers trained
- Gagne trained, in whole or in part, about 93 wrestlers, including:
Championships and achievements
Amateur wrestling
- Amateur Sports Association
- Northwestern AAU Championship (1942)
- AAU National Championships (1948, 1949)
- The Big Ten Conference
- Big Ten Conference Championship (1944, 1947, 1948, 1949)
- Minnesota State Senior High School
- Minnesota State Championship (1943)
- National Collaborative Athletics Association
- NCAA Championship (1948, 1949)
- Olympics
- US Olympic Team Member 1948
Professional wrestling
- Cauliflower Alley Club
- Lou Thesz Award (2006)
- Fred Kohler Enterprises
- NWA United States Heavyweight Championship (Chicago version) (2 times)
- Pro International Wrestling
- IWA World Class Weight Championship (1 time)
- NWA World Tag Team Championship (Chicago version) (1 time) - with Edouard Carpentier
- NWA Minneapolis Wrestling and Boxing Club/American Wrestling Association
- AWA World Class AWA Championships (10 times)
- AWA Team Tag World Championships (4 times) - with Moose Evans (1), The Crusher (1), Billy Robinson (1), and Mad Dog Vachon (1)
- NWA World Tag Team Championship (Minneapolis version) (4 times) - with Bronko Nagurski (1), Leo Nomellini (2), and Butch Levy (1)
- World Heavyweight Championship (Omaha version) (5 times)
- AWA Heavyweight Championship United States (2 times)
- Tri-State NWA
- The World Junior NWA Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
- Pro Wrestling is illustrated
- Stanley Weston Award (1986)
- PWI rated it No. 158 of the 500 best single wrestlers during "PWI Years" in 2003
- Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame
- Class 2004
- Hall of Fame Robbinsdale High School
- Inaugural Class (2013)
- Southwest Sports, Inc.
- NWA Texas Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
- NWA World Tag Team Championship (Texas version) (1 time) - with Wilbur Snyder
- Tokyo Sports
- Match of the Year Award (1981) - vs. Baba giant on January 18
- Wrestling World Championships
- WCW Hall of Fame (Class 1993)
- World Wrestling Entertainment
- WWE Hall of Fame (Class 2006)
- Bulletin Observer Wrestling
- Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame (Class 1996)
References
Further reading
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Dave Meltzer & amp; John F. Molinaro (2002). 100 Best Nomads of All Time . Winding Stair Press. ISBNÃ, 1-55366-305-5.
External links
- Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame Profile Verne Gagne
- WWE Hall of Fame Profile Verne Gagne
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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