John Anthony Wisniski, Jr. (Seattle, 20 de setembro de 1950) é um ex-lutador de wrestling profissional norte-americano, mais conhecido pelo seu nome de ringue Greg "The Hammer" Valentine. Ele é filho do wrestler Johnnny Valentine.
Em sua longa carreira, Valentine acumula títulos em diversas promoções, como American Wrestling Association[1], Jim Crockett Promotions, National Wrestling Alliance e World Wrestling Federation. Lá, conquistou por uma vez o WWF Intercontinental Championship[2], por uma vez o WWF Tag Team Championship[3], além de ser introduzido no Hall da Fama em 2004[4]. Greg tembém é conhecido como Valentine "Hammer" (Marreta).
Carreira[]
- National Wrestling Alliance (1976-1978)
- World Wide Wrestling Federation (1978-1981)
- National Wrestling Alliance (1979-1984)
- World Wrestling Federation (1984-1992)
- World Championship Wrestling (1992)
- World Wrestling Federation (1993-1994)
- Circuito independente (1994-presente)
- World Wrestling Entertainment (2004, 2005, 2008)
No wrestling[]
- Finishing moves
- Figure four leglock
- Guitar shot
- Signature moves
- Back elbow smash
- Belly to back suplex
- Bionic elbow
- Knife-edged chop
- Piledriver
- Pointed elbow drop to the opponent's midsecion
- Running elbow drop
- Vertical suplex
- Double belly to back suplex
- Managers
- Skandor Akbar
- Captain Lou Albano
- Grand Wizard
- Jimmy Hart
- Sir Oliver Humperdink
- Luxurious Lynne
- Madusa
- Rico Suave
- Johnny Valiant
- Darren Wise
- "Mr. Terrific" Tim Lawler
- Apelidos
- "The Hammer"
- "Boxcar"
Campeonatos e prêmios[]
- AWA Midwest Tag Team Championship (2 vezes) - com Jerry Miller[5]
- American Wrestling Federation
- AWF Tag Team Championship (1 vez) - com Tommy Rich
- Bad Boys of Wrestling
- BBOW Heavyweight Championship (1 vez)
- International World Class Championship Wrestling
- IWCCW Heavyweight Championship (1 vez)[6]
- International Wrestling Association
- IWA Heavyweight Championship (1 vez)
- Maple Leaf Wrestling
- NWA Canadian Heavyweight Championship (Toronto version) (1 vez)[7]
- NWA Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Championship (2 vezes)[8]
- NWA Mid-Atlantic Tag Team Championship (1 vez) - com Ric Flair[9]
- NWA Mid-Atlantic Television Championship (2 vezes)[10]
- NWA Television Championship (2 vezes)[10]
- NWA United States Heavyweight Championship (3 vezes)1[11]
- NWA World Tag Team Championship (Mid-Atlantic version) (4 vezes) - com Baron von Raschke (1), Ray Stevens (1) e Ric Flair (2)[12]
- WCW United States Tag Team Championship (1 vez) - com Terry Taylor[13]
- NWA Tri-State
- NWA United States Tag Team Championship (Tri-State version) (2 vezes) - com Bill Watts (1) e Gorgeous George, Jr. (1)[18]
- NWA Western States Tag Team Championship (1 vez) - com Don Fargo[19]
- National Wrestling Federation
- NWF World Tag Team Championship (2 vezes) - com Don Fargo[20]
- Portland Wrestling'
- Portland Pacific Northwest Heavyweight Championship (2 vezes)
- Professional Wrestling Federation
- PWF Heavyweight Championship (1 vez)
- PWI Most Hated Wrestler of the Year (1975, 1979, 1983)
- PWI classificou no posição 119 entre os 500 melhores lutadores individuais da "PWI Years" em 2003.
- Pro Wrestling Ohio
- PWO Tag Team Championship (1 vez) - com Jim Neidhart
- Pro Wrestling Revolution
- PWR Heavyweight Championship (1 vez)
- Windy City Pro Wrestling
- WCPW League Heavyweight Championship (1 vez)
- World Wrestling Council
1Valentine na verdade, conquistou o título três vezes, mas a WWE só o reconhece como um campeão duas vezes.
Referências
- ↑ AWA Midwest Tag Team Title history At wrestling-titles.com
- ↑ WWF/WWE Intercontinental Heavyweight Title history At wrestling-titles.com
- ↑ WWWF/WWF/WWE World Tag Team Title history At wrestling-titles.com
- ↑ WWF/WWE Hall of Fame Inductees At wrestling-titles.com
- ↑ AWA Midwest Tag Team Title history At wrestling-titles.com
- ↑ ICW/IWCCW Heavyweight Title history At wrestling-titles.com
- ↑ NWA Canadian Heavyweight Title (Toronto) history At wrestling-titles.com
- ↑ NWA Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Title history At wrestling-titles.com
- ↑ NWA Mid-Atlantic Tag Team Title history At wrestling-titles.com
- ↑ 10,0 10,1 NWA Mid-Atlantic Television Title history At wrestling-titles.com
- ↑ NWA/WCW United States Heavyweight Title history At wrestling-titles.com
- ↑ NWA World Tag Team Title (Mid-Atlantic/WCW) history At wrestling-titles.com
- ↑ NWA/WCW United States Tag Team Title history At wrestling-titles.com
- ↑ NWA North American Heavyweight Title history At wrestling-titles.com
- ↑ NWA Americas Heavyweight Title history At wrestling-titles.com
- ↑ NWA Beat the Champ Television Title (Los Angeles) history At wrestling-titles.com
- ↑ NWA North American Heavyweight Title history At wrestling-titles.com
- ↑ NWA United States Tag Team Title (Tri-State version) history At wrestling-titles.com
- ↑ NWA Western States Tag Team Title history At wrestling-titles.com
- ↑ NWF World Tag Team Title history At wrestling-titles.com
- ↑ Caribbean Heavyweight Title history At wrestling-titles.com
- ↑ WWC Universal Heavyweight Title history At wrestling-titles.com
- ↑ WWF/WWE Intercontinental Heavyweight Title history At wrestling-titles.com
- ↑ WWWF/WWF/WWE World Tag Team Title history At wrestling-titles.com
- ↑ WWF/WWE Hall of Fame Inductees At wrestling-titles.com