22 Facts About Jody Hamilton

Joseph Hamilton was an American professional wrestler, promoter, and trainer.

Jody Hamilton teamed up with Tom Renesto in late 1961 to form the masked heel team known as "The Assassins" and, for over a decade, he and Renesto wrestled all over the world with great success.

Once Renesto retired, Jody Hamilton kept the Assassins team alive by partnering with wrestlers such as Randy Colley and "Hercules" Hernandez under the trademark gold and black masks of the Assassins.

Jody Hamilton started working for "Gust Karras Promotions", a professional wrestling promotion based in Kansas City, Missouri, where he made his debut against Rip Hawk in a 40-minute match.

In May 1958, the Hamilton Brothers faced Rocca and Perez in the main event of a Madison Square Garden show making Jody, age 19 at the time, the youngest man to ever co-star in a main event at Madison Square Garden.

Jody Hamilton has revealed in recent years that the "Silent" moniker was because he was not very good at interviews and promos.

The only place the duo did not work as the Assassins was in the Carolinas where they were billed as "The Great Bolo" and "The Mighty Bolo" because Renesto had worked for Jim Crockett Promotions as The Great Bolo before teaming up with Jody Hamilton, and was more known in that region under the Bolo name.

Renesto retired from the ring and focused more on the booking aspects of GCW while Jody Hamilton started to work as a singles wrestler billed simply as "The Assassin".

When he joined GCW Jody Hamilton started a storyline with Mr Wrestling II that would become the longest running storyline in Georgia wrestling history.

Jody Hamilton would hold the NWA Central States Heavyweight Championship, which was the main title for the promotion.

Jody Hamilton would hold the NWA Southeast Continental Heavyweight Championship on four occasions.

In 1986, Jody Hamilton started a small independent promotion in Georgia called Deep South Championship Wrestling.

Once Jody Hamilton recovered from his back injury, he opened the official training center for World Championship Wrestling, the Power Plant.

Jody Hamilton was inducted into the WCW Hall of Fame as part of the 1994 class on May 22,1994 at The Civic Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

When WCW was bought out by the WWF in March 2001, the Power Plant was closed but Jody Hamilton continued to train wrestlers.

Jody Hamilton ran shows on a regular basis featuring WWE-contracted talent until April 18,2007, when WWE ended its relationship with DSW.

In February 2009, Jody Hamilton officially returned to the business, joining Rampage Pro Wrestling, an independent promotion based out of Warner Robins, Georgia.

Jody Hamilton was the director of their television show that airs locally on multiple channels in the middle Georgia area.

Jody Hamilton's attorney claimed that WWE "fraudulently contrived a reason to end the agreement" without giving the 90-days notice that the contract required.

On January 22,2010, Jody Hamilton settled with WWE out of court.

Jody Hamilton died in hospice care on August 3,2021, at the age of 82.

News of Jody Hamilton's death was broken over social media by his son, Nick.