Mike Sharpe grew up in California, but moved with his mother back to Canada as a teenager.
21 Facts About Mike Sharpe
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Dewey Robertson trained him for the ring at age 25 and shortly thereafter Mike Sharpe made his mark wrestling for promotions around Canada such as Gene Kiniski's NWA All Star Wrestling.
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Mike Sharpe became a two-time NWA Canadian tag team champion, partnering first with Moose Morowski and later with Salvatore Bellomo, and won the Pacific Coast Heavyweight Title.
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Mike Sharpe's career picked up steam after moving to Louisiana, where he became a fan favorite and won two different Mid-South Wrestling belts - Louisiana champion and the Mississippi title along with a Brass Knucks title in 1979.
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Mike Sharpe worked for Stampede Wrestling in Calgary from 1980 to 1981, where he held the Stampede International Tag Team Championship.
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In February 1983, Mike Sharpe entered the World Wrestling Federation where he would stay until 1995.
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Mike Sharpe was a regular of WWF programming throughout the mid-1980s and early 1990s.
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Mike Sharpe was announced and self-proclaimed as "Canada's greatest athlete".
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Mike Sharpe had a few more memorable moments over his WWF career.
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Mike Sharpe appeared on Piper's Pit in 1984, provided the opposition in Ivan Putski's 1987 comeback match at Madison Square Garden, and pinned Boris Zhukov to reach the second round of the 1988 King Of The Ring tournament.
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Mike Sharpe competed briefly as a fan favorite in late 1988, with televised victories over Steve Lombardi and Barry Horowitz.
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Mike Sharpe wrestled in the New Japan Pro Wrestling and Continental Wrestling Association in Memphis during late 1984 and early 1985, holding their NWA Mid-America Heavyweight Championship.
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In 1991, Mike Sharpe did not wrestle for the WWF; instead he worked in New Jersey and Germany.
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Mike Sharpe's last televised match was on June 6,1995, in a losing tag-team effort with Duane Gill against the Smoking Gunns.
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Mike Sharpe faced against Bam Bam Bigelow on June 2,1996, for New Jack City Wrestling where Bigelow was the winner.
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On December 7,1996, Mike Sharpe was defeated by Ax at USA Pro.
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Mike Sharpe lost to King Kong Bundy on April 20,1997 at New Jack City Wrestling in New Jersey.
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Mike Sharpe was described in at least three books by former wrestling personalities; Dynamite Kid, Hulk Hogan and Gary Michael Cappetta, and by longtime WWF wrestler-commentator Gorilla Monsoon, as having shown characteristics of obsessive-compulsive disorder, as evidenced by a preoccupation with cleanliness that caused him to spend hours washing his hands or showering at arenas and meticulously folding and re-folding his clothing.
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At a televised house show in the Boston Garden in March 1986, Monsoon even joked to fellow commentator Lord Alfred Hayes that Mike Sharpe had the first match of the night at a previous Boston show, and was still in the showers when they locked up later that night forcing him to spend the night in the arena.
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Mike Sharpe began using a wheelchair and ended up living in a basement apartment where he became a recluse.
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Mike Sharpe died on January 17,2016, in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada at the age of 64.