1. Johnny Weaver's best known run was with partner George Becker in the Mid-Atlantic in the 1960s.
17 Facts About Johnny Weaver
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Johnny Weaver competed as a singles wrestler, winning his first NWA Florida Southern Heavyweight Championship that year by defeating the Missouri Mauler.
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Johnny Weaver dropped it back to the Mauler but regained the belt on October 25,1967.
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Johnny Weaver lost the belt to Hiro Matsuda but then regained it in a rematch in late 1968.
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Johnny Weaver teamed with Becker to win the NWA Mid-Atlantic Tag Team Championship on May 1,1969.
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Johnny Weaver competed in Texas, where he won the Amarillo version of the NWA International Heavyweight Championship in November 1976.
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Johnny Weaver teamed with Dewey Robertson to win the NWA Mid-Atlantic Tag Team Championship in 1981 by defeating Genichiro Tenryu and Mr Fuji.
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Johnny Weaver worked as a booker while Mid Atlantic was partnered with Frank Tunney`s Maple Leaf Wrestling in Toronto and briefly held the North American title during a feud with Leo Burke Leonce Cormier.
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Johnny Weaver helped book the Mid-Atlantic territory for nearly 8 years as well, roughly between 1966 and 1973.
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Johnny Weaver began his broadcasting career in 1979 as color commentator with World Wide Wrestling host Rich Landrum.
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Johnny Weaver became Landrum's permanent sidekick for the early 1980s, where he became famous for singing "Turn out the lights, the party's over" at the end of matches that face wrestlers won.
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When Landrum left the company in 1983, Johnny Weaver then worked briefly with David Crockett, wrestling in a tag team match at Starrcade '83, before becoming paired with the longtime voice of Mid-Atlantic Wrestling Bob Caudle; whom he worked with until leaving the company in 1988.
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Johnny Weaver was in Rhodes' corner at Starrcade '87: Chi-Town Heat, when Rhodes defeated Luger in a steel cage after DDTing Luger onto a steel chair.
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Mr Johnny Weaver was a special guest in attendance to present the trophy to the tournament winner at every Finals Night until his death in 2008.
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Johnny Weaver was a deputy sheriff with Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.
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Johnny Weaver spent most of his nineteen-year career transporting prisoners on the same back roads he had traveled as a wrestler and promoter.
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Johnny Weaver died of natural causes on February 15,2008, aged 72.