1. Danny McShain was an American professional wrestler.
20 Facts About Danny McShain
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Danny McShain competed in the southern United States from the 1930s to the 1960s.
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Danny McShain made his professional wrestling debut in Little Rock, Arkansas on October 30,1930.
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Danny McShain later joined the United States Navy, where he excelled as a boxer and won several championships.
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Danny McShain's family moved to Glendale, California, where he competed for the National Wrestling Alliance.
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Danny McShain won his first championship, the NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship, on October 11,1937.
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Danny McShain later moved to Alvin, Texas, where he continued to compete for the NWA.
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Danny McShain won the NWA Texas Heavyweight Championship on ten occasions between in 1948 and 1960 by defeating such wrestlers as Antonino Rocca and Verne Gagne.
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In 1954, Danny McShain won the NWA American Tag Team Championship with partner Oyama Kato while competing for the Midwest Wrestling Association in Ohio.
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Danny McShain wrestled as a "tough guy", displaying a scientific yet dirty grappling style with stiff strikes; he proudly advertised his list of injuries to demonstrate the amount of punishment his body could take.
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Danny McShain was known for blading, as he often cut his own forehead during matches to draw blood.
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Danny McShain was a stiff worker, as he put legitimate force behind his punches and made contact with his opponents rather than pretending to hit them.
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Danny McShain used a piledriver as one of his ring moves, in which he would hold his opponents upside-down and then drop them head-first to the ring floor.
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Danny McShain attributed the piledriver to the deaths of two opponents.
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Danny McShain used a cocky strut to anger opponents and spectators.
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Danny McShain was arrested once after starting a riot by spitting tobacco juice from his trademark cigar on an opponent.
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Danny McShain's behavior was considered so inappropriate that he was summoned to appear in front of the Texas Gaming Commission.
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Danny McShain was the subject of another inquiry, as he changed the pre-planned outcome of a bout midway through the match.
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Danny McShain appeared in the 1949 movie The Inspector General, as well as several other films.
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Danny McShain won the title once just briefly before the formation of the National Wrestling Alliance when the title was simply referred to as the Texas Heavyweight Championship.