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location: "Cocoa Beach, FL (or Montréal, QC)"
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# Professional Experience

## World Championship Wrestling

- Successfully feuded with Booker T, elevating his singles career.
- Defenestrated on national television by Perry Saturn. It was technically a glass door, but I love the term "defenestration" and I don't get to use it much so I'm rolling with that.
- Career effectively ended at Superbrawl VIII (:()

## World Wrestling Federation

- Runner-up in 1993 Intercontinental Championship Battle Royal (to Razor Ramon).
- Wrestled Shawn Michaels to a countout draw in front of 80,000 fans in Wembley Stadium at Summerslam 1992.
- Carried Tito Santana like dead weight to tag team prominence, before [tiring of him at Wrestlemania V](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKnWAxg4R68).
- Had two amazing entrance themes where somehow the least amazing of the two is [the one done by Robbie Dupree](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bNr3144GDI).
- Successfully cultivated "The Model" persona, relocating to Cocoa Beach for a gimmick that was years ahead of its time.
- Launched successful line of cologne, *Arrogance*, and advertised it in [some amazing vignettes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm9AbH7CnBc).
- [Temporarily blinded Jake "The Snake" Roberts](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs7sxJboGWA), incapacitating him for the better part of 1990.
- Successfully teamed with Tony Garea and briefly with Tom Zenk before Tom Zenk got apparently got weird about pay disparities.

## American Wrestling Association

- [Beat Jumbo goddamn Tsuruta for AWA World Heavyweight Championship](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3O_jGZd6EI). 
- I'm going to make that another entry because seriously how cool is Jumbo as a proverbial notch on the belt? Jumbo Tsuruta was *the* Japanese pro-wrestler of the 1980s.
- Wrestled several matches with then-NWA World Champion Ric Flair.

## Other Territories

- Emerged as top talent in the Pacific Northwest territory for the NWA.
- Successfully teamed with Roddy Piper, winning a total of four tag team championships.
- Feature attraction in multiple territories in Canada (e.g. Stampede Wrestling), Puerto Rico (World Wrestling Council), and the United States (e.g. Georgia Championship Wrestling)



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# Education

To continue the theme of this résumé, pro wrestlers of the time were typically not the kind that had university degrees, but you can insert your own here.

## Postgraduate Program

Ph.D. in Boston Crab Studies
 
## Undergraduate Program

B.A. in something or other.

# Technical Skills (or Accomplishments)

Put your technical skills here, or, if you're Rick Martel, list your pro-wrestling accolades.

## Championships

- AWA World Heavyweight Championship (1984)
- WCW World Television Championship (1998)
- NWA Pacific Northwest Heavyweight Championship (1980)
- NWA Pacific International Championship (1978)
- WWF Tag Team Championship (2x with Tony Garea, 1x with dead-weight Tito Santana)
- NWA Pacific Northwest Tag Team Championship (3x, with Roddy Piper in 1980)
- WWC North American Tag Team Championship (with Pierre Martel)

## Awards and Distinctions

- Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame (Class of 2015)
- New England Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame (Class of 2011)
- Ranked #48 of the 500 best singles wrestlers ("PWI Years", 2003)
- Ranked #70 (with dead-weight Tito Santana) of the 100 best tag teams ("PWI Years", 2003)
- World's Strongest Tag Determination League Fighting Spirit Award (1986)

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