Gary Wolfe

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Gary Wolfe (born March 11, 1967) is a professional wrestler best known as "Pitbull #1" as one half of the tag team called The Pitbulls, with "Pitbull #2" Anthony Durante.

Career

ECW

Wolfe started working originally in Tri-State Wrestling Alliance, which was the predecessor to ECW. After breaking his neck in a match with Shane Douglas, a lengthy feud occurred between Douglas and Gary Wolfe's partner, Anthony Durante, while Wolfe recovered from his injury. Gary Wolfe can be seen on Forever Hardcore, where he talks about how he broke his neck. He said that after he broke his neck he went back stage and tried to click it back into place not knowing it was broken and is lucky to be walking today.

The Pitbulls won the ECW Tag Team Championship on September 16, 1995 from Raven and Stevie Richards, due to interference from their manager, Francine. One month later they would lose the titles back to Raven and Richards.

At Cyberslam 1996 Francine and the Pitbulls defeated The Eliminators and Stevie Richards in a Dog Collar Match when Fournier pinned Richards after Richards was Superbombed by the Pitbulls.

On July 13, 1996 at Heat Wave, Francine turned on The Pitbulls and became the manager of Shane Douglas, who she twice helped become ECW World Heavyweight Champion.

Wolfe appeared at WWE's ECW One Night Stand 2005 to introduce the "ECW Remembers" video honoring "extreme" wrestlers who had died. His own partner Anthony Durante, died on September 25, 2003, from a homemade oxycontin overdose.^[1]

After ECW

Wolfe now appears regularly for Tod Gordon's Pro Wrestling Unplugged promotion as 'The Pitbull' Gary Wolfe, recently winning the honor of representing the company in the King of Europe Cup 2007. He also made many appearances in 3PW, during his time there winning both their Heavyweight Championship (being first to do so), and their Tag Team Championship, with Mike Kruel.

Recently, he has appeared in Pro Wrestling Unplugged, leading a group called Team PIT featuring wrestlers, Aramis and former Women's Champion, Annie Social. after PWU was sold to Atomic Championship Wrestling (ACW) Wolfe became one of the head trainers for the CZW Wrestling Academy replacing the late John Kronus. As a wrestling trainer Wolfe has helped trained many wrestlers. Notable graduates include The Wifebeater and Johnny Kashmere.

In wrestling

• Finishing moves
  • Death Valley driver
  • Superbomb

• Signature moves
  • Powerbomb
  • Vertical suplex

• Managers
  • Francine
  • Lance Wright
  • Terri Runnels
  • Rick Rude
  • Jason Knight
  • Tod Gordon
  • Cassy Strayter
  • Robert Fuller
  • Stevie Richards
  • Angel Williams

• Nicknames
  • "The Pitbull"

Championships and accomplishments

• Eastern Championship Wrestling
  • ECW Television Championship (1 time)
  • ECW World Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Pitbull #2^[2]

• National Wrestling Alliance
• National
  • NWA United States Tag Team Championship (2 times) - with Pitbull #2

• Pro-Pain Pro Wrestling
  • 3PW Heavyweight Championship (2 times)^[3]
  • 3PW Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Mike Kruel^[4]

• Pro Wrestling Illustrated
  • PWI ranked him # 80 of the 500 best singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 1996.^[5]

References

External links

Professional wrestling portal

• The official website of Gary Wolf
• Gary Wolf at the Online World of Wrestling
• December 30th, 2008 Audio Interview with Pitbull #1 Gary Wolf