Valiant would beat Shaska Whatley in a hair vs hair match, but with outside interference lost a hair vs hair match to Paul Jones only weeks later. Valiant and Colonel Howard on November 14, 2008ĭuring The Great American Bash 1986 summer shows, Paul Jones adopted a military style look in his long feud with Valiant and labeled his stable of wrestlers The Army. In 1985, Valiant and Ragin' Bull Manny Fernandez formed a team called B and B Connection ("Boogie Woogie" and "Bull"). Although Jimmy Valiant would lose a Loser Leaves Town Tuxedo Street Fight to Paul Jones at Starrcade 1984 in Greensboro, North Carolina the feud with many from the Paul Jones stable continued, which would come to include Abdullah The Butcher. During this three-year feud, Valiant received help from Héctor Guerrero and "Raging Bull" Manny Fernandez. This army of wrestlers included The Barbarian, Baron von Raschke, Teijo Khan, and The Assassins. Due to the beard cutting attack, he feuded heavily with Paul Jones and his army of wrestlers, from 1984 through to late 1986. Valiant defeated Assassin II, who was unmasked and revealed as Hercules Hernandez. For this match, Dusty Rhodes was in Valiant's corner and tied by a rope to Paul Jones. This led to a grudge match with hyped supershow called 'Boogie Man Jam '84' in Greensboro, North Carolina. They tied him to the wrestling ring ropes so that Jones could cut his beard off. January 1984, Valiant was attacked by Paul Jones and The Assassins. Charlie Brown was billed as someone other than Valiant, despite "Brown" having Valiant's legendarily prodigious beard. This usually occurred when Valiant was (in kayfabe) banned from wrestling. While in Jim Crockett Promotions, he would sometimes appear in a black bandit-style mask and call himself "Charlie Brown from Outta Town". His theme music around this time was "Boy From New York City", by The Manhattan Transfer. In 1979, Jimmy returned to the In the early 1980s, Valiant returned as a babyface to NWA's Jim Crockett Promotions as "Boogie Woogie Man" Jimmy Valiant and called his fans "the Street People". Valiant also spent a brief amount of time in Jim Crockett Promotions in the late 1970s as the heel "King James Valiant" managed by Lord Alfred Hayes. Despite the Memphis promotion desperately wanting to keep him in Memphis full-time, even offering to buy him a house in Memphis according to Jerry Lawler's biography, Valiant decided to move on after holding the AWA Southern Heavyweight title for roughly a year. He even recorded a song, "The Ballad of Handsome Jimmy", which was used in wrestling arenas as his entry music and became a mainstay on some Memphis radio stations for a few years. He feuded regularly with Jerry Lawler and teamed with Bill Dundee to dominate the tag team matches of that time. Valiant had entered the Jimmy and his kayfabe brother Johnny held the tag belts from 1974 to 1975 and main evented Madison Square Garden against Chief Jay Strongbow and Bruno Sammartino (Strongbow and Sammartino won 2 out of 3 falls, but one fall via disqualification hence the belts didn't change hands).ĭuring the late 1970s – early 1980s, Valiant was a central player in the Memphis, Tennessee wrestling scene. He went to the World Wide Wrestling Federation in the 1970s as "Handsome Jimmy Valiant" and formed a team with Johnny Valiant that would dominate the tag team scene for a while as He later incorporated the names of his four sisters – Louise, Christine, Charlena and Patrica – into the spider web tattoo on his upper arm.įanning started wrestling in 1964 as "Big Jim Vallen". Early life įanning was born in Tullahoma as the youngest of five children of James and Effie Fanning. James Harold Fanning (born August 6, 1942) is an American professional wrestler better known by his ring name Jimmy Valiant. Valiant at the Big Apple Con, November 14, 2008
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