32 Facts About Dick Slater

Dick Slater attended the University of Tampa with Paul Orndorff.

Dick Slater worked as a booker in Knoxville, Tennessee after Ron Fuller sold his promotion to Jim Barnett.

Dick Slater wrestled in Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling, where he appeared on the first Starrcade.

Dick Slater worked in Mid-South Wrestling Association, where he was managed by Dark Journey.

Dick Slater made some trips to the World Wrestling Council in Puerto Rico.

Dick Slater wrestled briefly in the World Wrestling Federation as a babyface under a "Rebel" gimmick, but soon returned to WCW.

Dick Slater wrestled there until receiving his back injury that ended his career.

Dick Slater was sentenced to one year of house arrest and two years of probation.

Dick Slater began wrestling in 1968 with Mike Graham at Thomas Richard Robinson High School in Tampa, Florida.

Dick Slater wrestled in the Amateur Athletic Union, a program that trained young wrestlers to go to the Olympics.

Dick Slater went to the University of Tampa, where he played football in addition to wrestling.

Dick Slater had a chance to play football for the Miami Dolphins but declined the opportunity, deciding to wrestle instead.

Dick Slater debuted in 1972 with Championship Wrestling from Florida, which was run by Eddie Graham.

Dick Slater stayed there for three years and won the NWA Florida Tag Team Championship and the NWA Florida Television Championship.

Dick Slater then went to Georgia Championship Wrestling, an organization he credits with putting him on the map.

Dick Slater worked there for 8 years, winning the NWA Georgia Heavyweight Championship four times, as well as the NWA Georgia Tag Team Championship and NWA Macon Tag Team Championship with Bob Orton, Jr.

Dick Slater commented that after winning the Missouri Heavyweight Title, he was in the mix to become NWA World Heavyweight Champion, but would attribute his not winning it to "politics".

Dick Slater has said that the move was because he was tired of the promotion and the multiple bookings he did.

Dick Slater wrestled briefly for the World Wrestling Federation as a babyface using a Southern "Rebel" gimmick.

Dick Slater debuted in WWF on the July 26,1986 episode of Championship Wrestling by defeating The Gladiator.

Dick Slater defeated Mike Sharpe at The Big Event and was squashed by Don Muraco in two minutes on the Saturday Night's Main Event VIII.

Dick Slater's last televised appearance in WWF was on the May 4,1987 episode of Prime Time Wrestling, where he lost to Butch Reed.

Dick Slater teamed with Tommy Rich to participate in the 1988 Real World Tag League for the vacant World Tag Team Championship but the duo lost all of their matches in the tournament.

Dick Slater had a brief run in the American Wrestling Association where he was supposedly a bodyguard for AWA champion Curt Hennig.

Dick Slater returned to Jim Crockett Promotions, then renamed World Championship Wrestling on the August 26,1989 episode of World Championship Wrestling as a member of J-Tex Corporation, facing Sting in a match, which he lost by disqualification after his J-Tex teammates Terry Funk and The Great Muta attacked Sting.

Dick Slater replaced an injured Terry Funk to team up with The Great Muta at Clash of the Champions VIII in a losing effort against Ric Flair and Sting.

Dick Slater mainly competed as an enhancement talent for the rest of 1993 and most of 1994.

Dick Slater had four half-sisters, Nancy, Donna, Sandra and Catherine Slater.

Dick Slater claimed that the night before the incident, he had received "a shot of morphine and two forty milligram Oxycontins" at an emergency room, related to his numerous back injuries.

Dick Slater was sentenced to keep away from Halbert and pay more than $18,000 restitution.

Dick Slater told the police that a sniper had shot him; he would return to the ring in just three weeks.

Dick Slater's death was confirmed by on-screen adversary Ric Flair, who paid tribute on YouTube.