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While touring Texas, Hennig adopted a more brutal style and won the Texas Heavyweight Title. He also crossed paths with Harley Race. The two young wrestlers struck up a friendship and following their mutual commitment in Amarillo, broke out as a new team into the Minneapolis wrestling scene.
Aug 15, 2019 · That wrestler was also an up and comer by the name of Larry Hennig. The two would become close friends and tag team partners, and the newly minted team of “Handsome Harley Race” and “Pretty Boy Larry Hennig” would soon head north to Minneapolis and were about to set the wrestling world en fuego.
In Amarillo, Race met fellow up-and-coming wrestler Larry Hennig (later Larry "the Axe" Hennig and father of "Mr. Perfect" Curt Hennig). The two formed a tag team and moved to the American Wrestling Association (AWA).
Aug 10, 2019 · Known at the time as “Handsome” Harley Race and “Pretty Boy” Larry Hennig, the twosome became one of the top duos in the business, engaging in a bloody series of matches with The Bruiser ...
Aug 6, 2019 · Harley Race, a professional wrestler who overcame serious injuries from a car accident to become a mainstay of the wrestling circuit, winning numerous individual and tag-team titles in the...
Aug 2, 2019 · Gagne recognized Race’s potential and brought him to his American Wrestling Association territory in Minneapolis and paired him with the lumbering Larry “the Axe” Hennig (father of Curt ...
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He and Larry Hennig were AWA world tag team champions in the 1960s, and Harley went on to claim the NWA world heavyweight championship on eight different occasions. He won it for the first time on May 24, 1973, from Dory Funk, Jr. Known as "Handsome Harley Race" for much of his career, the Missouri native was one of the ring's best brawlers ...
