15 Facts About Sonny Fargo

Sonny Fargo is best known for his appearances with NWA Mid-America in the 1960s and 1970s.

Sonny Fargo had two siblings: a brother, Henry, and a sister, Kathleen.

Sonny Fargo wrestled primarily in the Carolinas, Tennessee, and the Gulf Coast.

In 1962, Sonny Fargo briefly held the East Coast Heavyweight Championship in the Massachusetts-based Santos Wrestling Enterprises promotion.

In 1963, Sonny Fargo was brought into Championship Wrestling from Florida as "the Assassins' Valet", the silent masked henchman of the villainous tag team The Assassins.

On one occasion, Sonny Fargo legitimately stunned Eddie Graham by accidentally hitting him too hard with the oxygen tank.

In early 1964, Sonny Fargo began wrestling under a mask as "the Masked Rebel".

In March 1964, he and Jackie Sonny Fargo briefly held the NWA Southern Tag Team Championship.

Sonny Fargo made occasional further in-ring appearances with Jim Crockett Promotions throughout the late-1960s and early-1970s, but by the mid-1960s had largely transitioned to being a referee for the promotion.

From 1972 to 1974, Sonny Fargo held the NWA Southern Tag Team Championship four more times.

Sonny Fargo continued to work as a referee for Jim Crockett Promotions into the 1980s, officiating at major events such as Starrcade 1983, Starrcade 1984, Starrcade 1985, and Starrcade 1986.

Sonny Fargo was posthumously inducted into the NWA Wrestling Legends Hall of Heroes in 2009 alongside Jackie and Don Sonny Fargo.

Sonny Fargo's finishing moves were the atomic drop and the forearm smash.

Sonny Fargo had two children: a son, Obie, and a daughter, Debbie.

Sonny Fargo was the brother of fellow professional wrestler Henry "Jackie Fargo" Faggart.