| The Billy Graham Biography
Eldridge Wayne Coleman was born June 7th
1943 in Paradise Valley, Arizona. Billy Graham is a former body
builder and professional wrestler best known in the WWF.
Billy Graham is a 1 time WWWF World Heavyweight Champion and a 2004
WWE Hall of Famer.
Before Superstar Billy Graham was a
wrestler he was a football player and a bodybuilder.
Billy Graham started his career
for the WWWF in 1975 and feuded with wrestlers such as Bruno
Sammartino,
Nature Boy Buddy Rogers, The Russian Bear Ivan Koloff, Stan The Man
Stasiak, Dick the Bruiser, Billy White Wolf, Tony Garea, Chief Jay
Strongbow, Gorilla Monsoon, Larry Zybszko, Jos LeDuc, Ken Patera, Harley
Race, Haystacks Calhoun, Dominic
DeNucci, Sgt. Slaughter, Portugese Champion Carlos Rocha, Ivan Putski, Jack
Brisco, Dusty Rhodes, Bobo
Brazil, Rocky Johnson, Peter
Maivia, Steve Keirn, Black Angus, Jimmy Valiant, Pedro Morales, Don
Muraco, Mil Mascaras, Raymond Rougeau, Strong Kobayashi, Riki Choshu, Seiji
Sakaguchi, Chavo Guererro, Edouard
Carpentier, Steve King, S. D. Jones, Mike Rivera, Ted Adams, Don Serrano
and Bob Backlund until till left.
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Billy Graham
returned in 1982 to the WWWF, which as of that called WWF, he feuded
with Bob Backlund for a year until he left again.
In 1986, Billy Graham returned to
the WWF. He went on to feud with Butch Reed and One Man Gang until
he became manager for Don Muraco and then retired.
Did you know?
- Billy Graham was trained by Stu Hart and Peter Maivia
- Billy Graham managed wrestlers such as
Don Muraco and Steve Strong
- Superstar Billy Graham has been
managed by The Grand Wizard of Wrestling, Jimmy Hart, Bobby Heenan, Oliver Humperdink,
Paul Jones, Adnan El Kassey and Kevin Sullivan
- Billy Gram and Arnold Schwarzenegger
were weight training partners
- Billy Graham was a world class power lifter
and benched pressed 580 pounds and was within 4 pounds of the 610lbs world record at the
time
- Billy has the longest single title
reign in WWE history of 296-day
- Wrestlers who copied his style are Austin Idol, Paul
Ellering, Scott Steiner, Triple H, Steve
Austin, Hulk Hogan, Ric
Flair and Jesse "The Body" Ventura
- Wrestler who use Billy's attitude are D-Generation
X,
Stone Cold Steve Austin, The
Rock,
the nWo, Edge, Chris
Jericho and Randy Orton
- 95% of Billy Graham's shows were sold
out he highest in company history
- Billy Graham and Vince McMahon Sr. are
enemies, so much so he sold his Hall of Fame ring on ebay
- Billy Graham went to preaching after
his retirement
- Billy presided over the funeral
service for Eddie Guerrero on November
18th 2005
- BillyGraham received a liver transplant in 2002
- Billie Grahams technique was inspired by
Muhammad
Ali
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