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Just having a gander at the Johnny Valentine cards thread, these are a few names that ring the "heel for life" bell for me.
Baron Mikel Scicluna?
Smasher Sloan?
Tarzan Tyler?
Fuzzy Cupid? Sky Low Low? (Figured they'd fit on one line)
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Tyler was a babyface when he was still being billed as Tarzan Tourville. For example...
May 10, 1960 - Stampede; Edmonton Gardens; Edmonton
Gene Kiniski vs. Jim Wright ... Luther Lindsay & Tarzan Tourville b. Gypsy Joe & Mighty Ursus ... Chief Kit Fox vs. Maurice LaPointe ... Alo Pago Pago vs. Don Kindred ... Joe Millich vs. George Grant ... Jackie Hammond vs. Terry Rainier -- women
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I'm late because I haven't read this until now...but Goliath & Gordman were faces vs Kinji Shibuya & Masa Saito...and they were the guys who threw Blassie the Brase Knucks in the Coliseum against Tolos. Both of them could go back & forth pretty easy.--Yohe
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quote:Originally posted by Skorzeny: How bout these who never worked face: Lord Zoltan Dr. Jerry Graham Sr. Sailor White Big K Stan Kowalski Tiny Mills Bulldog Don Kent Ole Sanook ( Old heel Indian Wrestler, not sure if I spelled his last name right).
The first show I ever saw was in Mankato, Minnesota in 1968. It was one of Tiny Mills' last ring appearances. He definitely wrestled face that night -- both in his own match against Blackjack Daniels, and in the concluding battle royal.
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quote:Originally posted by clawmaster64: Hmmm Gordman. There was an angle during the early 70s in Los Angeles where Gordman and Golaith broke apart. One of them was a face for a bit. But for the life of me I can't remember which one had the brief face run.
Breaking out Wrestling Title Histories for some help. There are listings of Gordman and John Tolos trading the Americas title back and forth in 1972. During the same frame, Golaith held the Americas tag straps with Kinji Shibuya. Perhaps this was the period when Gordman was a face. Need more evidence to be conclusive though.
Didn't Louis Tillet manage Gordman and Goliath as a face team around 1975 or so for a short run?
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If we're counting underneath boys seems Paul Kelly and his various masked personas would qualify. Gary Royal too, outside of the few matches with Kelly in JCP. Dusty Wolfe/Woods maybe? Ben Alexander?
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quote:Originally posted by jimmy the riddle: Really not sure but Joe, Boris and Dean Malenko
Dean Malenko was a babyface in his feuds with Eddie Guerrero in 1997 and with Chris Jericho in 1998 over the WCW World Cruiserweight Title and when the Horsemen reunited on the 9/14/98 Nitro.
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quote:Originally posted by jimmy the riddle: Really not sure but Joe, Boris and Dean Malenko
Dean Malenko was a babyface in his feuds with Eddie Guerrero in 1997 and with Chris Jericho in 1998 over the WCW World Cruiserweight Title and when the Horsemen reunited on the 9/14/98 Nitro.
And Great Malenko turned face in Florida.
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I never heard of Lenny Montana, one of the biggest heels in the Georgia area during the mid-60s, working face. I did see a match from Florida that he wrestled against the Great Malenko, but I don't think being the lesser disliked heel in a heel-vs-heel match to make one a face.
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How long did Montana's face turn last? In the Summer of 1963, he lost a loser leaves town match to Chief Little Eagle in Columbus, and a few weeks later the Malenko match was on the Florida TV program. A couple of weeks later he was back as a heel, wrestling in the group running oppostition to Fred Ward when he broke with the Atlanta group. He came back with bleached blond hair and was billed as "the new Lenny Montana" but he was still a heel.
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Not long. He really didn't fit as a face. But it was a turn, the match wasn't a heel vs. heel with him being the face for that night one-off deal.
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A couple of 'Aussie' wrestlers who made it in US would possibly qualify - George Barnes and Lord Jonathan Boyd (yes, I know Boyd was actually from NZ...)
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Boyd worked face as Johnny Boyle for McGuirk in late 1970. Boyd also turned face near the end of his Portland run.
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quote:Originally posted by nbvwes: Bad News Allen Nailz Warlord Ivan Koloff Adnan Al-Kaissie Wayne Farris Steve Lombardi Dewey Robertson aka Missing Link Skandor Akbar Dino Bravo Bobby Heenan Ed 'Strangler' Lewis
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Lombardi was a face pre Bobby Heenan. Honky Tonk Man was a face when he first came to WWF. Bravo was a long-time face before turning heel at WWF.
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