| Greg "The Hammer" Valentine |
| Greg Valentine
Height: 6 ft 0 in (183 cm) Weight: 243 lb (113 kg) Real name: John Anthony Wisniski Jr. Hometown: Seattle, Washington Pro debut: 1970 Finishing move: Figure Four Leglock, Hammer Drop (elbow drop) Other aliases: Baby Face Nelson, Johnny Fargo, Johnny Valentine Jr., The Blue Knight Career highlights: AWA Midwest Tag Team Champion (w/Jerry Miller), AWF Tag Team Champion (w/Tommy Rich), IAW Heavyweight Champion (2), IWCCW Heavyweight Champion, IWA Heavyweight Champion (2), MWWF Tag Team Champion, NWA World Tag Team Champion (4), NWA North American Heavyweight Champion (2), NWA United States Champion (3), NWA United States Tag Team Champion (Tri-State version) (2), NWA Americas Heavyweight Champion (2), NWA Beat the Champ TV Champion, NWA Canadian Heavyweight Champion, NWA Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Champion (2), NWA Mid-Atlantic TV Champion (4), NWA Mid-Atlantic Tag Team Champion (w/Ric Flair), NWA Western States Tag Team Champion (w/Don Fargo), NWF Tag Team Champion (2) (w/Don Fargo), NSWA Tag Team Champion (w/The Honky Tonk Man), SCW Heavyweight Champion, WCW League Champion, WCW United States Tag Team Champion (w/Terry Taylor), WWC Universal Heavyweight Champion, WWC Caribbean Heavyweight Champion, WWE Intercontinental Champion, WWE World Tag Team Champion (w/Brutus Beefcake) Trained by: Johnny Valentine, Stu Hart, The Sheik WWE profile: One of the toughest, most rugged competitors ever to come down the pike, Greg Valentine more than carried on the tradition first established by his legendary father, the late Johnny Valentine. A top-ranked Superstar during the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s, his is a career that encompasses several different eras of the sport’s history. In the NWA’s Mid-Atlantic territory, he was a frequent tag-team partner and World Tag Team Champion with Ric Flair, and held the United States Championship as well. In WWE, he captured the World Tag Team Championship in 1985 as part of the Dream Team with Brutus Beefcake, and defended that title at WrestleMania 2. Prior to that, Valentine enjoyed a lengthy reign in 1985 as Intercontinental Champion, defending that title against the late Junkyard Dog at the first WrestleMania and waging countless battles with fellow 2004 inductee Tito Santana. Valentine was a thorn in the side of WWE Champions Bob Backlund and Hogan, and later formed one-half of the Rhythm & Blues tag team with the one and only Honky Tonk Man. Valentine also spent time in WCW, where he held the U.S. Tag Team Championship with Terry Taylor and made frequent appearances on Monday Nitro. His hard-hitting style in the ring will never be forgotten by those who saw him, and along with Flair and Hall of Famer Buddy Rogers, he helped make the figure-four leglock a household word. |
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