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John Theodore Wisniski
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Ring name(s)Johnny Valentine
Billed height{}
Billed weight255 lb (0 kg)
BornSeptember 22 1928(1928--)
DiedMarch 24 2001 (aged 74)
Debut1947
Retired1975 |


Johnny Valentine (born John Theodore Wisniski, September 22, 1928 – April 24, 2001) was a professional wrestler with a career spanning almost three decades, ending because of an aircraft accident in 1975 (which Ric Flair was also in) which left him crippled. He is the father of Greg Valentine.

He was approximately 6' 4" tall and weighed 255 pounds, with bleach blonde hair and striking good looks. He was a notorious wrestling villain, reviled by loving fans everywhere.

Wisniski became a professional wrestler in 1947. He held numerous world champion and regional titles, including the NWA United States Championship and the World Heavyweight title. He had long running rivalries with Bobo Brazil, Pat O'Connor, Antonio Rocca, Lou Thesz, Harley Race, The Sheik, Wahoo McDaniel, Fritz von Erich, Bruno Sammartino, Johnny Powers, Antonio Inoki and Jack & Jerry Brisco.

Championships and accomplishments

*NWA International Tag Team Championship (Japan version) (1 time) – with Killer Karl Krupp
*NWA United National Championship (1 time)
  • American Wrestling Alliance
*AWA United States Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
*NWA Florida Brass Knuckles Championship (1 time)
*NWA Florida Heavyweight Championship (3 times)
*NWA Florida Southern Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
*NWA Florida Southern Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Boris Malenko
*NWA Georgia Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
  • International Wrestling Association (Chicago)
*IWA International Heavyweight Championship (Chicago version) (1 time)
  • International Wrestling Association (Montreal)
*IWA International Heavyweight Championship (Montreal version) (1 time)
*NWA International Tag Team Championship (Toronto version) (5 times) – with Bulldog Brower (1), The Beast (1), Jim Hady (1), and Whipper Billy Watson (2)
*NWA United States Heavyweight Championship (Toronto version) (7 times) (First)
*NWA Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
*NWA United States Heavyweight Championship (Mid-Atlantic version) (1 time)
*NWA Hawaii Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Ripper Collins
*NWA United States Tag Team Championship (Northeast version) (3 times) – with Buddy Rogers (1), Bob Ellis (1), and Eddie Graham (1)
*NWA United States Heavyweight Championship (Detroit version) (3 times)
*NWA United States Television Championship (3 times)
*NWA Beat the Champ International Television Championship (1 time)
*NWA World Tag Team Championship (Minneapolis version) (1 time) – with Chet Wallick
*NWA North American Heavyweight Championship (Amarillo version) (1 time)
*NWF Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
*NWF North American Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
*PWI Most Inspirational Wrestler of the Year award in 1973.
*PWI Editor's Award (awarded posthumously) in 2001
*(Class of 2006)
*NWA American Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
*NWA American Tag Team Championship (3 times) – with Wahoo McDaniel (2) and Thunderbolt Patterson (1)
*NWA Texas Brass Knuckles Championship (2 times)
*NWA Texas Heavyweight Championship (8 times)
*NWA Texas Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Rip Rogers
*NWA Missouri Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
*NWA Canadian Heavyweight Championship (Calgary version) (2 times)
*Member of Stampede Wrestling Hall of Fame
*WWWF United States Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Tony Parisi

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John Anthony Wisniski Jr. (born September 20, 1950) is an American professional wrestler, better known as Greg "The Hammer" Valentine. He is the son of wrestler Johnny Valentine.
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Houston Harris (July 10 1924 — January 20 1998) was an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Bobo Brazil. Brazil was credited with breaking down barriers of racial segregation in professional wrestling.
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Antonino Rocca (born Antonino Biasetton, April 13, 1928 – March 15, 1977) was a professional wrestler from Argentina of Italian descent. Rocca was an enormously popular "good guy" with both Italian-American and Hispanic audiences.
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Aloysius Martin Thesz (April 24 1916 - April 28 2002), better known as Lou Thesz, was a legendary professional wrestler and six time NWA World Heavyweight Champion.
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Edward George Farhat (June 9, 1926 - January 18, 2003) was a professional wrestler best known as The Sheik (or The Original Sheik to distinguish him from The Iron Sheik, a wrestler from the 1980s).
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Edward "Wahoo" McDaniel was a Choctaw-Chickasaw Native American who achieved fame as a professional American football player and later as a professional wrestler.

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Wahoo was born in the small town of Bernice, Oklahoma in 1938.
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Jack Barton Adkisson (August 16, 1929 - September 10, 1997) was an American professional wrestler under the ring name Fritz Von Erich, better known today as a wrestling promoter and the patriarch of the Von Erich wrestling family.
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Johnny (JP) Powers- Real Name: Dennis Waters, was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada and attended McMaster University in Hamilton.

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