1. Gino Hernandez is perhaps best known for his appearances with the Dallas, Texas-based promotion World Class Championship Wrestling between 1976 until his death in 1986.
21 Facts About Gino Hernandez
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Gino Hernandez won Big Time's top title by defeating "Bulldog" Don Kent.
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Gino Hernandez lost the US Title to his real-life boss: The Sheik.
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Gino Hernandez was initially in a tag-team with Lothario, then turned into a singles act via a "protege vs mentor" storyline.
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The highlight was a storyline feud with David Von Erich over the NWA Texas Heavyweight Championship, which Gino Hernandez won and lost back to David.
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Gino Hernandez returned to SCW, forming a hugely popular tag-team with the territory owner's son, Tully Blanchard.
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In 1982, Gino Hernandez instigated a storyline feud with Chavo Guerrero by hitting him over the head with a beer bottle, and later insulting the Guerrero family name.
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Gino Hernandez returned to WCCW in 1984, at different times individually or collectively feuding with the Von Erichs: Mike, Kevin and Kerry Von Erich.
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That summer, Gino Hernandez was paired with Nickla Roberts, who was billed Andrea the Lady Giant.
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Gino Hernandez was put in a tag team with WCCW newcomer Jake "The Snake" Roberts in August 1984.
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Gino Hernandez formed a tag-team with Chris Adams; WCCW called them "The Dynamic Duo", as SCW had Gino Hernandez and Tully.
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Adams and Gino Hernandez lost a "hair" match to Kevin and Kerry Von Erich at a Cotton Bowl show on October 6,1985.
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On January 26,1986, during a grudge match in Fort Worth, Gino Hernandez threw "freebird hair cream" into Adams' face, rendering Adams blind.
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Gino Hernandez was scheduled to perform on a house show the following Thursday, and on a non-televised show at Dallas' Sportatorium the following Friday.
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Gino Hernandez's mother was Patrice Aguirre and his father was Charles Eugene Wolfe Sr.
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Wolfe adopted the Gino Hernandez name after his stepfather, Luis Hernandez, who trained with him when Gino was a child.
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Gino Hernandez had been dead for approximately three to four days.
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The syndicated World Class TV episode scheduled to air the weekend of February 15,1986 originally included a Gino Hernandez match taped on January 24 at the Dallas Sportatorium.
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Gino Hernandez later received a recorded message from a gangland source who was close to Hernandez, claiming that her son was not murdered.
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Wrestler Brutus Beefcake has rejected the murder theory, saying that Gino Hernandez "had a serious drug problem" and was an "intense, crazy partier".
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Gino Hernandez was embarrassed and apologetic afterwards, and Clarke expressed concern for the intensity of his drug use.