| "The King" Harley Race |
| Harley Race
Height: 6’1” Weight: 255 lbs. Real name: Harley Leland Race Hometown: Eldon, Missouri (billed from Kansas City, Missouri) Finishing move: Knee Drop, Belly to Belly Suplex Other aliases: Jack Long, "Handsome" (WWE), "The King" (WWE) Career highlights: - AWA World Tag-Team Champion w/ Larry Hennig (1/30/65 - 7/24/65) - AWA World Tag-Team Champion(2) w/ Larry Hennig (8/07/65 - 5/28/66) - IWA World Tag-Team Champion w/ Larry Hennig (6/66 - 7/01/66) - AWA World Tag-Team Champion(3) w/ Larry Hennig (1/06/67 - 3/15/67) - AWA World Tag-Team Champion(4) w/ Larry Hennig (67 - 10/67) - AWA World Tag-Team Champion(5) w/ Chris Markoff (10/67 - 11/10/67) - NWA Central States Heavyweight Champion (1971) - NWA Central States Heavyweight Champion(2) (6/71 - 71) - NWA Central States Heavyweight Champion(3) (7/07/72 - 11/24/72) - Missouri Heavyweight Champion (9/16/72 - 1/19/73) - NWA Central States Tag-Team Champion w/ Roger Kirby (11/02/72 - 2/01/73) - Missouri Heavyweight Champion(2) (3/16/73 - 5/24/74) - NWA World Heavyweight Champion (5/24/73 - 7/20/73) - NWA Central States Heavyweight Champion(4) (9/22/73 - 10/11/73) - Calgary Stampede North American Heavyweight Champion (1974) - NWA Central States Heavyweight Champion(5) (7/11/74 - 8/01/74) - NWA Georgia Heavyweight Champion (9/13/74 - 10/74) - Missouri Heavyweight Champion(3) (2/21/75 - 4/23/76) - NWA Southern Heavyweight Champion (1975) - NWA Florida Tag-Team Champion w/ Roger Kirby (4/16/75 - 75) - NWA Florida Tag-Team Champion(2) w/ Bob Roop (6/14/75 - 75) - NWA Mid-Atlantic United States Heavyweight Champion (75 - 7/03/75) - NWA Central States Heavyweight Champion(6) (7/08/76 - 9/05/76) - NWA World Heavyweight Champion(2) (2/06/77 - 8/21/79) - NWA World Heavyweight Champion(3) (8/26/79 - 10/31/79) - NWA World Heavyweight Champion(4) (11/07/79 - 9/04/80) - NWA World Heavyweight Champion(5) (9/09/80 - 4/27/81) - NWA World Heavyweight Champion(6) (5/01/81 - 6/21/81) - WWA (Chicago) World Heavyweight Champion (4/24/82 - 7/19/82) - Missouri Heavyweight Champion(4) (9/17/82 - 1/23/83) - NWA United National Heavyweight Champion (8/01/82 - 10/24/82) - PWF World Heavyweight Champion (10/26/82 - 2/11/83) - Missouri Heavyweight Champion(5) (5/13/83 - 6/10/83) - NWA Central States Heavyweight Champion(7) (6/02/83 - 6/10/83) - NWA World Heavyweight Champion(7) (6/10/83 - 11/24/83) - Missouri Heavyweight Champion(6) (1/06/84 - 11/16/84) - NWA World Heavyweight Champion(8) (3/21/84 - 3/23/84) - NWA Central States Heavyweight Champion(8) (10/25/84 - 1/10/85) - Missouri Heavyweight Champion(7) (8/02/85 - 2/86) - NWA Mid-America Heavyweight Champion (10/07/85 - 11/85) - WWC Caribbean Heavyweight Champion (1/06/90 - 91) Trained by: Stanislaus & Wladek Zbyszko, Buddy Austin, Ray Gordon, Gus Karras WWE: A seven-time holder of the NWA World Heavyweight Championship between 1973 and 1983, Harley Race set a record that stood until Ric Flair broke it in 1991. To this day, only a handful of individuals can claim to have won more World Championships than Harley Race. He earned those titles at the expense of such greats as Dory Funk Jr., Giant Baba, Terry Funk, Dusty Rhodes and Flair. During the 1970s and early ’80s, Race was the NWA’s most dominant champion, representing the sport’s oldest World title with pride and defending it with his raw-boned and rugged mat style. His impact was so great that despite having its own World Champion, WWE chose to recognize his title status as well, and he was the first NWA World Champion to engage in title unification matchups against WWE Champions like Superstar Billy Graham and Bob Backlund. He finally joined WWE during the company’s national expansion, and was introduced to a new generation of sports-entertainment fans worldwide as “The King” Harley Race. Clad in regal robes and a crown, he faced the late Junkyard Dog in a memorable encounter at WrestleMania III, and was the one of the earliest King of the Ring winners, years before that event became an annual pay-per-view spectacular. |
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