Former NWA World Tag Team Champ Guy Mitchell passed away

John Hill, who wrestled under the names of Guy Mitchell, Mr. X, The Stomper and others passed away yesterday in Franklin, Indiana.

Here is an excellent write-up about John Hill’s career from the Slam! Sports Wrestling Page

John Hill, man of many faces, dies at 68
By STEVEN JOHNSON — SLAM! Wrestling

“There’s another Valiant brother!” the covers of national wrestling magazines screamed in 1979. What they failed to add was that there was another Heenan brother, another Stomper, another Mad Man, and on and on.

All of those characters, and more, were wrapped up in one person, the unassuming John Hill, a character actor of a wrestler, who died March 11 in Indiana at the age of 68.

No matter what role the versatile Hill played, he fit it like a glove, according for former grappler Pat Blake, who called him “fantastic … he could work either way.” Veteran manager Percival A. Friend called him “good wrestler in the ring. He knew his stuff.”

But the quick change artist never left his guises get the best of him, said former wrestler Mike DuPree, who knew him for many years.

“Mitch understood wrestling was a business, and he didn’t live a gimmick,” said DuPree. “Wrestling was just a job he loved, but I don’t think it ever overtook his life. His wife and kid when I was around him always seemed to be his priority, and hence he kept his family and sanity when so many others hit the skids.”

Growing up in a family of 11 children, Hill boxed a little and played hockey as a youth in Hamilton. But like many athletes in the city in the late 1950s, he could scarcely avoid wrestling. “It’s often been called a wrestling factory with streets,” he recalled in one interview. “There were so many wrestlers walking around the city when I was a kid.”

While he worked in the mail room of the Hamilton Spectator at night, he hooked up at Al Spittles’ gym in Hamilton, thanks in part to the prodding of Hurricane Smith. He spent about a year there, and also worked out in Jack Wentworth’s facility before turning pro as a teenager under his real name around 1959.

In a 2005 interview with SLAM! Wrestling, he said he turned to the United States in 1960 because the money was better.

At first, he worked as Guy Hill, to avoid confusion with some other Canadian athletes named John Hill. He wrestled in the Central States area against other future stars like Larry Hennig, while maintaining a toehold in Canada with a handful of matches in Winnipeg.

The following year, he picked up his first alias of Guy Mitchell during a tour of the south. Hill attributed it to a botched promo in an Atlanta newspaper; another Guy Mitchell was a pop singer in the 1950s, who had his own show in the United States on ABC-TV, and played in a TV detective series in 1961.

Regardless, Mitchell the wrestler made a name for himself very quickly. He wrestled as a fan favorite in the Georgia-Alabama area in 1961 and 1962, and made a few appearances on undercards in the Mid-Atlantic area for Jim Crockett Promotions.

The biggest moment of his early career came as a witness, though. In 1962, he was teaming with Happy Humphrey in a tag match in Florence, Ala., when a fan stabbed Pedro Zapata nine times putting him in critical condition.

Hill said the imprint of that incident is a major reason why he generally donned a mask when he was called on to portray a bad guy. In 1965, he teamed with Joe Tomasso as The Assassins in the Indianapolis-based World Wrestling Association. The team was notable for winning the company’s top tag team title three times in 1965 and 1966.

The duo also represented Bobby Heenan’s first run as a manager, though he was hardly the Heenan that wrestling fans came to know and despise. During a TV taping, Tomasso was unavailable, so Dick the Bruiser, who co-owned the promotion, put a mannequin to simulate Tomasso behind the other members of the team.

“Guy did the interview because I didn’t talk. I didn’t know how to back then,” Heenan said in his autobiography, Bobby the Brain. But he bonded with Mitchell as the two became lifelong friends and even wrestled briefly as Bobby and Guy Heenan.

Indianapolis became Hill’s home base for the rest of his career, but he reprised the role of the Assassin in Toronto from 1968 to 1971, where he locked up with Canadian favorites like Lord Athol Layton and Whipper Billy Watson. Al Costello of the Fabulous Kangaroos was an occasional tag team partner in Toronto, which is more remarkable because they simultaneously were part of a hot and heavy feud in Detroit.

There, the Kangaroos broke the Hill’s leg when he was under yet another guise as The Stomper, a moniker Bruiser gave him. The rivalry between the Kangaroos and the team of The Stomper and Ben Justice was red hot in 1971 and 1972. Meanwhile, the Assassin headlined Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto against The Sheik in July 1971 in a classic heel-versus-heel bout.

“I just did what the situation called for,” Hill told SLAM! Wrestling. “You have to remember that this is a business.”

After the run in Detroit, he headed to the Northwest where, as Mr. X, he won the top tag title with Gene Kiniski in Al Tomko’s British Columbia-based promotion. He lost his crown and his mask to Kiniski in October 1974, and, characteristically, became a fan favorite in a feud with the ex-world champion.

DuPree, who now runs rasslinrelics.com as an Indian wrestling archive, Hill helped to pop the 1976-77 when he was WWA champion as the Masked Strangler, during an otherwise slow economic time.

“I never really noticed how over the Strangler character was until late last year, looking at the listed attendance,” DuPree said. “The point behind noting this was how well he could work a hood, which is a unique art that really only a handful of guys really got down. I think it was his best strength.”

Greg Lake also found Hill to be a good influence out of the ring and a mentor in it. “During a match I had with him in Ft. Wayne, Ind., he taught me how to apply a short-arm scissors while in the ring — of course, very discreetly, as to not alert the fans what he was doing.”

His most well-known role came as Jerry Valiant, when he pinch-hit for a hepatitis-riddled Jimmy Valiant in the WWWF. Johnny Valiant, another friend from Indianapolis, persuaded Vincent J. McMahon to bring Hill to the Northeast in 1979 while Jimmy was sidelined.

The Jerry and Johnny show immediately captured the federation’s tag crown and worked in six-man matches after Jimmy recovered later that year. It was the first time Hill wrestled as an unmasked villain and he remembered the vitriol he suffered as a result.

“When I left New York and I moved back west, I actually experienced lifting off a shield,” Hill told SLAM! “I actually felt I was lifting off a shield because you were constantly on guard, no matter where you went.”

With Roger Kirby, he was a share of the WWA tag titles again in 1980, working as Jerry Valiant. Among his other roles were Mad Man Mitchell and The Destroyer, a bad-guy guise that earned him the IWA world title in Australia in 1966. He continued to wrestle through the mid-1980s, and even refereed some WWF shows, but spent most of his time in construction and landscaping work from his home in Franklin, near Indianapolis. He also played Santa Claus for several years at an Indianapolis mall.

Hill is survived by Carolyn, his wife of nearly 40 years; a son, Jonathan; three brothers, and two sisters. Visitation will be Sunday, March 14 from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Swartz Family Community Mortuary and Memorial Center in Franklin, Ind.
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Below is the Title History of John Hill

NWA World Tag Team Title (Detroit Version) (As The Stomper)
01/31/70 NWA World Tag Team Title w/ Ben Justice
07/ /72 NWA World Tag Team Title w/ Ben Justice [2]
07/21/73 NWA World Tag Team Title w/ Bobo Brazil

NWA Canadian Tag Team Title (Vancouver Version) (as Mr. X)
12/17/73 NWA Canadian Tag Team Title w/ Buck Ramstead
04/17/74 NWA Canadian Tag Team Title w/ Gene Kiniski
05/27/74 NWA Canadian Tag Team Title w/ The Brute

NWA Canadian Tag Team Title (Vancouver Version) (as Guy Mitchell)
03/03/75 NWA Canadian Tag Team Title w/ Ormand Malumba
06/16/75 NWA Canadian Tag Team Title w/ Ricky Hunter
08/29/77 NWA Canadian Tag Team Title w/ Eric Froelich

NWA Pacific Coast Heavyweight Title (Vancouver Version) (as Mr. X)
04/01/74 NWA Pacific Coast Heavyweight Title
08/22/77 NWA Pacific Coast Heavyweight Title [2]

NWA Pacific Coast Heavyweight Title (Vancouver Version) (as Guy Mitchell)
01/20/75 NWA Pacific Coast Heavyweight Title
03/14/77 NWA Pacific Coast Heavyweight Title [2]

NWA Central States Tag Team Title (as Guy Mitchell)
01/25/82 NWA Central States Tag Team Title w/ Roger Kirby
03/25/82 NWA Central States Tag Team Title w/ Roger Kirby [2]

NWA Southern Tag Team Title (Georgia Version) (as Guy Mitchell)
05/05/61 NWA Southern Tag Team Title w/ Bob Rasmussen

IWA Heavyweight Title (Australia) (as The Destroyer)
09/03/66 IWA Heavyweight Title

WWA World Heavyweight Title (Indiana) (as Masked Stranger)
05/01/76 WWA World Heavyweight Title

WWA World Tag Team Title (Indiana) (as Assassin #1)
07/17/65 WWA World Tag Team Title w/ Assassin #2 (Joe Tomasso)
03/03/66 WWA World Tag Team Title w/ Assassin #2 [2]

WWA World Tag Team Title (Indiana) (as Guy Mitchell)
04/27/80 WWA World Tag Team Title w/ Roger Kirby)

WWF World Tag Team Title (as Jerry Valiant)
03/06/79 WWF World Tag Team Title w/ Johnny Valiant

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NWA New Beginnings presents: 3 Way for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship

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CHARLOTTE, NC — February 19, 2010 — With a clean pin over Adam Pearce on Valentine’s Day in Charlotte, Phill Shatter secured his spot as Number One contender for the NWA World title. Pearce also maintains he’s never received his rematch since losing the belt to Blue Demon Jr. in 2008. So to resolve all the outstanding issues — once and for all — our main event on Sunday afternoon, March 14 in Charlotte will now be a 3-way elimination for the NWA World Championship: Blue Demon Jr. vs. Phill Shatter vs. Adam Pearce! Three men will enter, but only one will leave victorious — the undisputed NWA World Heavyweight champ!

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01/30/10 NWA ECCW Results

NWA Extreme Canadian Championship Wrestling
January 30, 2010
Russian Community Centre
Vancouver, BC, Canada

RESULTS: Juggernaut Dominates In Vancouver!

After the brutal three-way dance for the NWA Canadian heavyweight title in Surrey, Juggernaut was itching to get another piece of Sid Sylum! Last Saturday night in Vancouver, Juggernaut got everything he wanted and then some – and the fans at the Russian Community Centre also got a reminder of why Juggernaut is one of the sickest and most feared competitors in the history of ECCW! Even The Natural was not immune to Juggernaut’s onslaught, as he was busted open immediately with a vicious chairshot! Sylum and Juggernaut battered and bloodied each other throughout the Russian Community Centre, sending even fans scattering for cover! Juggernaut nearly crushed Sylum with a huge legdrop off the stage through a table, but back inside the ring, Sylum pulled the referee into the way of a sickening chairshot by Juggernaut! A distracted Juggernaut was left open for several vicious lariats by Sylum, who could not knock the monster down! Juggernaut dodged another lariat attempt and scooped Sylum up, dropping him on his head with the K-Driller and scoring the three-count to cap off a victorious return to Extreme Canadian Championship Wrestling!

Before Kenny Lush and “Brilliant” Billy Suede could prepare to face Egos & Icons for the NWA/ECCW tag team championship, both Lush and Suede were attacked not only by Tony Baroni and Jamie Diaz, the two men defending the gold in Vancouver, but by their stablemate Nick Price as well! Lush’s main squeeze, Nicole Matthews, came to ringside to attack Price and even up the sides, as the match broke down into chaos before it could even begin! Suede grabbed the microphone and challenged Egos & Icons to a six-person tag team match – Baroni, Diaz and Price against Suede, Lush and Matthews! NWA Pacific Northwest representative Michael Sweetser made the match official, and the contest was underway! After a fantastic back and forth contest with several spectacular maneuvers, Matthews executed her Roll the Dice maneuver on Price to score the surprising victory for her team! Lush, Suede and Matthews celebrated with the NWA/ECCW tag team championship belts as Egos & Icons screamed at Sweetser in protest. Sweetser then announced that due to Matthews not being on the original contract and the match becoming a six-person tag, the belts would remain with Egos & Icons.. but that on Saturday night, March 6th in Vancouver, Egos & Icons would defend the NWA/ECCW tag team championship against Kenny Lush & “Brilliant” Billy Suede… in TLC V! Tables, ladders and chairs will be the name of the game, and whoever is the best tag team in ECCW will have to prove it by climbing the ladder to claim the gold!

Due to the victory by Rick The Weapon X & El Phantasmo in Surrey over The Divine Prophet & Artemis Spencer, as part of a special Saturday Sermon, Artemis Spencer had no choice but to shave off The Divine Prophet’s beard! That’s not to say that the Church of the Divine Prophecy didn’t try everything they could to get out of it, even offering up the tiny goatee of the Tiny Prophet instead! Michael Sweetser, El Phantasmo and Rick The Weapon X stormed to ringside, demanding that the stipulation be upheld! Snipping off a tiny portion of the Divine Prophet’s beard didn’t count, and even Artemis Spencer faking his own demise didn’t get them out of the stipulation. Finally, after Sweetser threatened indefinite suspension of the entire Church, Artemis Spencer did the deed – removing the Divine Prophet’s beard once and for all! Rick and Phantasmo celebrated in various ways with the remnants of the beard, sending the Prophet and Spencer into a rage-filled attack on the two of them! Spencer went straight for Rick’s leg, nearly snapping it in two with a vicious double-stomp from the top rope onto a chair wrapped around the leg! Rick the Weapon X had obviously suffered a serious injury, but still gutted it out to face Spencer later in the evening. Spencer targeted the leg almost exclusively, and although Rick fought as long as possible with only one good wheel, another double stomp off the top directly onto the knee and a single-leg crab was enough to get the injured Australian to tap out.

Scotty Mac & Dropkick Murphy thought they’d have a fair shot at beating two men they used to look up to, “Rocket” Randy Tyler & Ladies Choice.. but that was before “The Mayor” Austin Spencer stuck his nose in their business! The Mayor announced that the CAC had ordered that due to infringement upon Randy Tyler – who made a “generous contribution” recently – that Scotty Mac could not use either his springboard dropkick or his superkick, and doing so would risk disqualification! The change definitely changed Scotty’s gameplan for the contest, as two of his best weapons were removed from the equation.. but not from Tyler’s, as the Sweet Potato Pie by Tyler on Dropkick sealed the victory for the BBC!

The failed attempt to remove El Phantasmo’s mask in Surrey didn’t stop “Dastardly” Danni Deeds from attempting to complete his mission to unmask the popular Phantasmo, as the two did battle once again in Vancouver! Both the Divine Prophet and Tiny Prophet tried to get involved, sliding a chair to Deeds, but Phantasmo stopped Deeds from using the chair.. then suddenly struck Deeds in the skull with the chair, drawing a disqualification! Deeds won the match, but it appears that Phantasmo won the war, at least on this particular night!

In other action in Vancouver, “The Mayor” Austin Spencer defeated Callos, and AC Zeidel pinned Fast Freddy Funk.

ECCW returns to the Bridgeview Hall in Surrey for our first event in the month of February, on Friday night, February 19th! Already signed is a blockbuster intergender tag team main event, as NWA Canadian heavyweight champion Scotty Mac teams with Tenille Tayla to face the Pop Culture tandem of Bishop and SuperGirls champion Veronika Vice! In addition, Gurv Sihra returns from his recent injury to defend the NWA Canadian junior heavyweight championship against the man he took the title from, Azeem The Dream – and Azeem will try to regain the title by himself, without The Natural in his corner! Tickets are on sale here at ECCW.com right now, so be sure to get your tickets for the next great live event from the top professional wrestling organization in all of Canada, Extreme Canadian Championship Wrestling!

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NWA Supreme Press Release

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The National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) is a governing body for a group of independent professional wrestling promotions and sanctions various NWA championships in the United States. The NWA has been in operation since 1948.

All the member promotions of the NWA recognize the NWA World Heavyweight Championship as their highest title. Wrestlers, like Ric Flair, who held the NWA Title, could also go on tours of member promotions. Many others have held this title including Dusty Rhodes, Harley Race, Kurt Angle, Sting, A.J. Styles, Sabu, and Raven to name a few. Even MMA legends Dan Servern and Ken Shamrock have also been NWA champions. NWA is breeding ground of potential WWE and TNA stars seen on TV. So you never know one month you will see your favorite NWA Supreme wrestler at show in Mattoon then next month they might by on TV on WWE or TNA.

As of Jan. 2010: The National Wrestling Alliance is pleased to announce that it has entered into a licensing agreement with JAKKS Pacific for NWA Legends action figures. The five-year deal also covers other products that the parties might look to market in the future.

SO THE ALTERNATIVE HAS INDEED ARRIVED.

NWA SUPREME (S.L.W.) returns on Jan. 30th to Mattoon for an action packed night of wrestling. A lot has happened since our last show in Mattoon. The Hybrids and Hooligans feud has been spanning all of Illinois including ladder matches, no D.Q. matches, and matches including outside interference. With this said. The only way to settle this feud is in a 10-foot high steel cage. Where no one can interfere or get counted out.

In some high flying action DaCobra will be facing Mike Sydal the Brother of WWE superstar Evan Bourne, whom you can watch every Monday night on RAW. Harker Dirge will be facing Mark Sterling for NWA CENTRAL STATES CHAMPIONSHIP. Also winner will get title shot against the NWA World Heavyweight Champion at afuture show in Mattoon. The return of Bear St.Pierre. Plus many other stars of NWA in action. This epic all out war will be coming to you LIVE ON SATURDAY JANURARY 30th 2010 with 7:00 P.M. bell time and pre show events starting at 6:30P.M. Come and see some of your favorite and not so favorite wrestlers in action at the

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