1. Brute Bernard spent much of his career wrestling as part of a tag team with Skull Murphy.
23 Facts About Brute Bernard
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Brute Bernard competed for several wrestling promotions associated with the National Wrestling Alliance.
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Brute Bernard worked for the Australia-based World Championship Wrestling as well as the World Wide Wrestling Federation.
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Brute Bernard died of a gunshot while cleaning a rifle in 1984.
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Brute Bernard made his debut in 1957, competing in Ontario.
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Brute Bernard initially wrestled under his real name, but he later took on the name Brute Bernard.
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Brute Bernard competed as in Detroit for a promotion run by Ed Farhat.
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Brute Bernard teamed up with fellow Canadian wrestler Skull Murphy throughout the 1960s.
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Murphy remained in Australia, while Brute Bernard returned to the United States to compete for World Class Championship Wrestling in Texas.
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Brute Bernard defeated Fritz Von Erich, patriarch of the Von Erich family for the Texas version of the NWA United States Heavyweight Championship in March 1967.
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Brute Bernard took on a new partner, Larry Hamilton, and the pair won the NWA Atlantic Coast Tag Team Championship in October 1971.
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Brute Bernard continued to wrestle in Australia and won the NWA Austra-Asian Heavyweight Championship by defeating Spiros Arion on November 4,1972.
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Brute Bernard held the belt for three weeks before dropping it back to Arion.
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Brute Bernard won the country's World Brass Knuckles Championship twice.
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Brute Bernard wrestled for several promotions in his final years as a wrestler.
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Brute Bernard returned to Detroit, where he competed as The Brute.
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Brute Bernard teamed with Frank Morrell in Texas to win the NWA Western States Tag Team Championship in 1977.
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Brute Bernard returned to the Carolinas and wrestled for Jim Crockett Promotions until he was released due to his age.
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Brute Bernard continued to wrestle occasionally; in his final match, he refused to go along with the scripted finish.
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Brute Bernard got upset in the locker room and attacked Routh.
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Brute Bernard broke Routh's nose and was fired as a result.
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Brute Bernard was married to female professional wrestler Betty Jo Hawkins.
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Brute Bernard died in 1984 of an accidental gunshot wound.