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| Manny Fernandez | |
|---|---|
| Ring name(s) | Manny Fernandez The Raging Bull |
| Billed height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) |
| Billed weight | 240 lb (110 kg; 17 st) |
| Born | July 27, 1954 El Paso, Texas |
Emanuel "Manny" Fernandez (born July 27, 1954) is an American professional wrestler currently wrestling for different independent promotions. He is best known by the his ring name "The Raging Bull" Manny Fernandez.
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Career
Before wrestling, Fernandez attended Lincoln High School in San Jose, CA. He was an All-League (Santa Teresa Athletic League) linebacker in football and a league champion in wrestling at 191 lbs. Fernandez graduated from Lincoln High in 1973
He was also an All-American offense guard for the San Jose City College Jaguars football team under coach Jim Wheelahan. No records found to confirm Fernandez was an All-American at a community college. Bios on many pro wrestling websites has Fernandez playing football at West Texas A&M University after serving in the military.No records have been found to confirm. Other bios have him playing professional football for the Kansas City Chiefs and the Miami Dolphins The NFL and both teams do not have him as a player recorded anywhere in their respective histories
He was a member of the United States Navy SEALs and served in the Vietnam War. His military record has not been confirmed. It should be noted that he graduated high school in 1973 and entered professional wrestling 4 years later in a 1977 florida show. Also per the Navy history of the Seals: The last SEAL platoon departed Vietnam on 7 December 1971. The last SEAL advisor left Vietnam in March 1973.
Early in his career, he formed a tag team with Dusty Rhodes and they won the NWA World Tag Team Titles from Ivan Koloff and Don Kernodle. They feuded with them and Ivan's "nephew" Nikita Koloff until losing the titles to the Koloffs in early 1985.
Fernandez soon became involved in a feud with Arn Anderson after being attacked by Anderson and laid out. He teamed with Thunderbolt Patterson to feud with Arn and Ole Anderson.
In late 1985, he started helping Jimmy Valiant in his war against Paul Jones and his "Army". He formed a team with Valiant called the B and B Connection ("Boogie Woogie" and "Bull"). He had some matches against Abdullah the Butcher and The Barbarian. He also formed a tag team with Hector Guerrero in 1986 called The Latin Connection. In the summer of 1986, Fernandez accepted Jones' money and turned on Valiant starting a feud between the two. Later in the year, Jones also brought in Rick Rude and he paired them together and they won the NWA World Tag Team Titles from the Rock 'N Roll Express. They feuded with the Express and kept the titles until June 1987 when Rude left the promotion, which was resolved with a "phantom title change".
Fernandez teamed with Ivan Koloff for the rest of the summer and left for the Mid-Southern promotion in late 1987. He was soon in the American Wrestling Association feuding with Wahoo McDaniel after he attacked Wahoo and destroyed his headdress. The two veterans, who had feuded briefly in the NWA, engaged in an "Indian Strap Match" at the AWA pay-per-view Super Clash III. The match was so bloody and violent that ESPN, who had the AWA television contract at the time, would not air the match, and has not to this day. After that feud ended in late 1988, Fernandez headed to Puerto Rico's WWC where he stayed through 1991 and then he headed to the independent circuit.
As of 2005, he wrestles primarily in the Texas independent wrestling promotions.
Fernandez has three brothers; David, Hector, Ricky, and one sister, Joanna.
In wrestling
- Finishing moves
- Flying Burrito (Flying forearm smash)
- Managers and valets
- Paul Jones
- El Profe
- Natasha
- Skandor Akbar
- Nicknames
- "The Raging Bull"
Championships and accomplishments
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- PWI ranked him # 188 of the 500 best singles wrestlers during the "PWI Years" in 2003.
- PWI ranked him # 88 of the 100 best tag teams during the "PWI Years" with Dusty Rhodes.
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