Who am I? Challenge Game

[Shee]

Not Steiner. Another clue below


1) Beat incredible odds to continue wrestling
2) Returned with a universally acclaimed cover theme
3) Eventually traded selling punches for selling houses
4) Involved in one of Memphis's most memorable feuds

[PEN15v2]

Michael Hayes?

[Team Farrell]

I want to say Lawler, but again I can't think of the theme song.

[Shee]

Hmmm, no 2 might be misleading as its a pun on the name of the wrestler. I'll go one more clue....


1) Beat incredible odds to continue wrestling
2) Returned with a universally acclaimed cover theme
3) Eventually traded selling punches for selling houses
4) Involved in one of Memphis's most memorable feuds
5) My promos inspired a famous Hollywood wrestler/actor

[BK-097]

I'll take a stab at this - Austin Idol

[Shee]

Austin Idol is correct!

1) He survived a plane crash early in his career
2) Became the Universal Hearthrob there after and recorded the below cover on "Wild Thing"

https://youtu.be/MUr49N-lvp8

3) Quit Wrestling and went in to real estate
4) Was one of Jerry Lawler's big feuds in Memphis
5) The Rock has quoted Austin Idol's promos as an influence for his own work.

He's resurfaced in recent years with podcasts and is currently on NWA. I also bought a fitness guide from his website. He tells some great old wrestling, well worth looking up.

[BK-097]

That was a pure shot in the dark. I couldn’t necessarily place all that much. Clue 4 helped for sure!

1) I come from a wrestling family
2) I had a wrestling persona based on a historical pop culture figure
3) Over the course of my career I have had five regular tag team partners and all of those tag partners came from wrestling families.

[Shee]

Rikishi?

[BK-097]

Not Rikishi

1) I come from a wrestling family
2) I had a wrestling persona on the national stage based on a historical pop culture figure
3) Over the course of my career I have had five regular tag team partners and all of those tag partners came from wrestling families.
4) I wrestled almost exclusively in the territory system

[Powder]

Maddog Vachon?

I know he tagged with Bob Orton, his brother Paul, and Verne Gagne....

[BK-097]

Not Maddog Vachon.

Clue three is getting a facelift.

Clue two is really where the "tell" is for this set of clues

1) I come from a wrestling family
2) I had a wrestling persona on the national stage based on a historical pop culture figure
3) I had my greatest successes as a tag team wrestler, switching up partners often and having short reigns, almost as a rule. Of my dozens of tag tile reigns only two lasted more than 100 days and they were with the same partner.
4) According to Cagematch, over the course of my career I have had five regular/recurring tag team partners for any stretch of time and all of those tag partners came from wrestling families. [**note - I held tag gold with more than just these five partners]
5) I wrestled almost exclusively in the territory system

[Shee]

Jimmy Golden?

[BK-097]

That's the closest guess so far.

One last minor tweak:

1) I come from a wrestling family
2) I had a wrestling persona on the national stage based on a historical pop culture figure
3) I had my greatest in ring successes as a tag team wrestler, switching up partners often and having short reigns, almost as a rule. Of my dozens of tag tile reigns only two lasted more than 100 days and they were with the same partner.
4) According to Cagematch, over the course of my career I have had five regular/recurring tag team partners for any stretch of time and all of those tag partners came from wrestling families. [**note - I held tag gold with more than just these five partners]
5) I wrestled almost exclusively in the territory system

[Shee]

Barry Windham?

[BK-097]

Not Windham.

I can tell you that your previous answer plays a part in at least two of my clues above however.