| "Beautiful" Bobby Eaton |
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| Bobby Eaton Height: 6 ft 0 in Weight: 235 lb Real name: Robert Lee Eaton Hometown: Huntsville, Alabama (resides in Charlotte, North Carolina) Pro debut: 1976 Finishing move: Alabama Jam / Tower of London (Diving leg drop), Spinning Neckbreaker Other aliases: "Earl" Robert Eaton,"Beautiful" Career highlights: WCW World Tag Team Champion (w/Arn Anderson), WCW TV Champion, NWA World Tag Team Champion (2), NWA United States Tag Team Champion (3) (w/Stan Lane), NWA National TV Champion, NWA-Mid Atlantic Tag Team Champion (w/Rikki Nelson), NWA Six-Man Tag Team Champion (4), NWA Bluegrass Tag Team Champion (w/Dennis Condrey), WCCW American Tag Team Champion (w/Dennis Condrey), Mid-South Tag Team Champion (2) (w/Dennis Condrey), SMW TV Champion, CWA Heavyweight Champion, Mid-American Heavyweight Champion (9), Mid-American Tag Team Champion (6), Mid-Southern Tag Team Champion (4), IWC Tag Team Champion (w/Dennis Condrey), UCW Tag Team Champion (w/Dennis Condrey) Trained by: Tojo Yamamoto Bobby Eaton became involved in wrestling at the age of thirteen while going to Chapman Middle School, helping to set up rings in his hometown. In an early age he went to Lincoln Elementary, Chapman Middle, Lee High, and Butler High. He lived in the Lincoln Mills area off of Oakwood Ave. He had a little group of people that the hung with the Osborne brothers Danny and David and a few more. He played childhood sports at the Boy's Club in the Lincoln Mills area with the Osborne brothers. In 1976 at the age of seventeen he wrestled his first match, losing to Bearcat Wright. Eaton trained under Tojo Yamamoto and then began wrestling in the Memphis, Tennessee territories. He formed a regular team with George Gulas as "The Jet Set" that had success in the area. He feuded with Chris Colt, Tojo Yamamoto and Gypsy Joe. In 1984, while working for Mid-South Wrestling, he formed The Midnight Express with Dennis Condrey. He became Beautiful Bobby to Condrey's Loverboy Dennis. They were joined by Manager Jim Cornette and started a feud with who would become their arch-rivals, The Rock 'N Roll Express of Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson. They took their feud to the NWA's Jim Crockett Promotions in 1985 and won the NWA World Tag Team Titles in 1986. They lost the belts back to Morton and Gibson later that year. In 1987, "Sweet" Stan Lane replaced Condrey and the duo won the United States Tag Team Titles twice, continuing to feud with Morton and Gibson and picking up on another old feud from WCCW in 1985, The Fantastics, Bobby Fulton and Tommy Rogers. In 1988, Eaton and Lane won the NWA World Tag Team Titles from Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard, who were going to the WWF. They held them for two months before being destroyed by The Road Warriors. After this, they had a feud with "The Original Midnight Express", Dennis Condrey and Randy Rose, (managed by Paul E. Dangerously), over who the real "Midnight Express" was. In 1990, they feuded with the team of Brian Pillman and Tom Zenk over the U.S. Tag Team Titles and eventually lost them to Rick and Scott Steiner. Lane and Cornette left when Jim Crockett Promotions became WCW in 1991, and Eaton went on to feud with Arn Anderson and Ric Flair and win the Television Title. He lost the title to "Stunning" Steve Austin with whom he briefly feuded. Over the summer, he feuded with Alexandra York's "York Foundation" when he refused to join. In late 1991, Eaton joined Paul E. Dangerously's Dangerous Alliance with Anderson, Rick Rude, Larry Zbyszko and Austin. He teamed with Anderson to win the Tag Team Titles and had some awesome matches with Dustin Rhodes and Ricky Steamboat over the titles. When the Dangerous Alliance disbanded in 1992, Eaton started feuding with Anderson and then he teamed with Steve Keirn as "Bad Attitude". This team went nowhere and he teamed briefly with Chris Benoit. Eaton left WCW for Smoky Mountain Wrestling in 1993 and won the Television title. He made an appearance for Extreme Championship Wrestling at the "When Worlds Collide" show on May 14, 1994, where he teamed with Sabu to lose to Arn Anderson and Terry Funk. Eaton returned to WCW and was taken in by Lord Steven Regal who tried to culture him and renamed him Earl Robert Eaton. They formed the Blue Bloods and were later joined by David Taylor. They feuded with Fit Finlay, "The Nasty Boys" and Dick Slater and Bunkhouse Buck. Eaton limited his wrestling around 1998 and worked backstage as a trainer for WCW and then for the WWF. In 2003, he started working for NWA-Mid-Atlantic as the Midnight Express with Ricky Nelson. In 2004, he started a tour with Dennis Condrey (and sometimes Lane and Cornette) as the Midnight Express and they are still wrestling today. In January 2005, Eaton and Condrey were briefly managed by Terri Runnels in SCW when they wrestled The Fantastics for the vacant tag team titles (they lost). As of 2006, Eaton is still competing on the independent wrestling circuit. He worked two shows in April and one in July for the United Wrestling Association in Knoxville. Although Bobby Eaton wrestled as a heel for most of his career, he is widely regarded as one of the nicest guys in the wrestling business. In his 1999 book "Have a Nice Day" Mick Foley praised Eaton as being at once one of the most underrated superstars in the business and its nicest, quipping that "it was damn near impossible to pay for anything with Bobby around, though I will confess to not trying that hard." This opinion was supported in the Stone Cold truth by Steve Austin. |