Dory Dixon
Dorrel "Dory" Dixon (born February 1, 1935) is a Jamaican retired professional wrestler. He competed in many different National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) affiliates and Mexican promotions, as well as the World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF). He made his professional wrestling debut in Mexico's Empresa Mexicana de la Lucha Libre (EMLL).
| Dory Dixon | |
|---|---|
| Born | February 1, 1935 Jamaica |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Calypso Kid Dorrel Dixon Dory Dixon |
| Billed height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) |
| Billed weight | 209 lb (95 kg) |
| Trained by | Rafael Salamanca |
| Debut | 1955 |
| Retired | 1980s |
Before becoming a professional wrestler, Dixon was competitive weightlifter and was the winner of the "Mr. Jamaica Body Beautiful" tournament. He was chosen to be a member of the Jamaican weightlifting team in the 1954 Central American and Caribbean Games which was held in Mexico City, Mexico. He fell in love with Mexico and he decided to stay back while the rest of the team left back to Jamaica.[1]
Dixon would also wrestle the WWWF World Heavyweight Champion Buddy Rogers at Madison Square Garden in New York City.[2]
Championships
change- Empresa Mexicana de la Lucha Libre
- NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[3]
- NWA Hollywood
- NWA Americas Tag Team Championship (2 times) (with Earl Maynard (1) and Raúl Mata (1))[3]
- NWA Texas
- NWA Texas Heavyweight Championship (2 times)[4]
- NWA World Tag Team Championship (Texas version) (1 time) (with Rito Romero)[5]
- NWA Texas Tag Team Championship (2 times) (with Pepper Gomez)
- World Class Championship Wrestling
- WCCW Texas Tag Team Championship (1 time) (with Nick Kozak)
References
change- ↑ Various (2005). "Pastor y Luchador / Both a priest and a wrestler". Lucha Libre: Masked Superstars of Mexican Wrestling. Distributed Art Publishers, Inc. pp. 191–194. ISBN 968-6842-48-9.
- ↑ "WWWF MSG Show (Feb '63) results". The Internet Wrestling Database. Retrieved 2015-02-26.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "NWA World Light Heavyweight Title history". Wrestling-Titles.com. Retrieved 2015-02-26.
- ↑ "Texas Heavyweight Title history". Wrestling-Titles.com. Retrieved 2015-02-26.
- ↑ "NWA World Tag Team Title (E. Texas) history". Wrestling-Titles.com. Retrieved 2015-02-26.