Reno Riggins
Reno Riggins | |
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Birth name | Neal Hargrove |
Born | (1967-01-13) January 13, 1967 (age 57) Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. |
Professional wrestling career | |
Ring name(s) | Reno Riggins |
Billed height | 5 ft 11 in (180 cm) |
Billed weight | 229 lb (104 kg) |
Trained by | Tojo Yamamoto |
Debut | 1986 |
Retired | 2011 |
Neal Hargrove, better known by his ring name, Reno Riggins, (born January 13, 1967) is an American retired professional wrestler. Riggins has competed in Southeastern independent promotions including the United States Wrestling Association (USWA) during the 1990s.
Professional wrestling career
Hargrove was the final wrestler to be trained by Tojo Yamamoto before Yamamato's death in 1992.
Hargrove made his World Wrestling Federation (WWF) debut as Reno Riggins in March 1988, spending several years as an enhancement talent, competing against many of the top heels of the time.[1] He also appeared in a dark match losing to Rip Rogers at the NWA's Halloween Havoc in October 1990.[2] Leaving the WWF in 1992, he began competing for the USWA and eventually won the USWA Southern Heavyweight Championship from Brian Christopher in August 1992.[3] After a brief stint in Smoky Mountain Wrestling in early 1993, he returned to the WWF and frequently appeared as an enhancement talent (now as a heel putting over numerous faces) on Monday Night Raw until deciding to retire in early 1995.
Following the close of the USWA in 1997, Hargrove came out of retirement and began teaming with Steven Dunn as "The Tennessee Volunteers" in Music City Wrestling feuding with Flash Flanagan and Wolfie D over the promotion's North American tag team titles (later renamed the NWA North American Tag Team Championship) during the late 1990s.[4] They also made an appearance for the World Wrestling Federation (now World Wrestling Entertainment) on an episode of Shotgun Saturday Night against The Hardy Boyz. Appearing at the first Brian Pillman Memorial Show in 1998, he and Dunn would later compete as "Main Event" in the National Wrestling Alliance eventually winning the NWA World Tag Team titles in Eskan, Saudi Arabia on April 7, 2000. Hargrove now does advertising, commentating and booking for Showtime All-Star Wrestling.[5] He retired from wrestling in 2011.
Championships and accomplishments
- Central Wrestling Federation
- CWF Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Krull the Deathstalker[3]
- Music City Wrestling
- MCW North American Tag Team Championship (3 times) - with Steven Dunn
- National Wrestling Alliance1
- NWA World Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Steven Dunn
- NWA North American Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Steven Dunn
- NWA Nashville
- NWA North American Tag Team Championship (2 times) - with Steven Dunn
- Pro Wrestling Illustrated
- PWI ranked him # 189 of the 500 best singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 1998.
- Showtime All-Star Wrestling
- SAW International Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[6]
- Spectrum Sports
- Spectrum Sports Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[3]
1His reign as NWA World Tag Team Champion began while wrestling on a card in Saudi Arabia. Records are unclear as for what promotion he wrestled at the time, as they are for when he first became NWA North American Tag Team Champion.
References
- ^ "Reno Riggins: Getting the job done". CANOE SLAM! Sports. Archived from the original on July 14, 2012.
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: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ Karlsson, Peter. "Halloween Havoc 1990". American Wrestling Trivia. Retrieved 2007-04-17.
- ^ a b c Royal Duncan & Gary Will (2006). Wrestling Title Histories (4th ed.). Archeus Communications. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.
- ^ "N.W.A. North American Tag Team Titles". Puroresu Dojo. 2003. Retrieved 2007-04-05.
- ^ "N.W.A. World Tag Team Title". Puroresu Dojo. 2003. Retrieved 2007-04-17.
- ^ "SAW International Heavyweight Title History". Wrestling-Titles.com. Retrieved 2010-02-13.
External links
- Reno Riggins's profile at Cagematch.net , Internet Wrestling Database
- Reno Riggins at *WrestleWiki
- Reno Riggins interview at SLAM! Sports[usurped]
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- Mr. Gannosuke and Tarzan Goto
- C. W. Anderson and Pat Anderson
- Border Patrol (Agent Gunn and Agent Maxx)
- Barry Windham and Tully Blanchard
- The Brotherhood (Eric Sbraccia and Knuckles Nelson)
- The Brotherhood (Knuckles Nelson and Rick Fuller)
- Public Enemy (Johnny Grunge and Rocco Rock)
- The Brotherhood (Dukes Dalton and Knuckles Nelson)
- Team Extreme (Khris Germany and Kit Carson)
- Murder, Inc. (Jimmy James and Kevin Northcutt)
- xXx (Curtis Thompson and Drake Dawson)
- The Main Event (Reno Riggins and Steven Dunn)
- Bad Attitude (David Young and Rick Michaels)
- Bad Street Boys (Christian York and Joey Matthews)
- Dan Factor and David Flair
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- Glacier and Jason Sugarman
- Disturbing Behavior (Jeff Daniels and Tim Renesto)
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- Wild Cards (Royce Isaacs and Thomas Latimer)
- Eli Drake and James Storm
- Aron Stevens and J. R. Kratos
- La Rebelión (Bestia 666 and Mecha Wolf 450)
- Commonwealth Connection (Doug Williams and Harry Smith)
- Blunt Force Trauma (Carnage and Damage)
- Knox and Murdoch (Mike Knox and Trevor Murdoch) (current)
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