Terry Gibbs | |
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Birth name | Manny Saine [1] |
Born | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. | February 20, 1953
Professional wrestling career | |
Ring name(s) | Terry Gibbs George Jawjacker |
Billed height | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) |
Billed weight | 261 lb (118 kg) |
Trained by | Bob Roop [2] |
Debut | 1977 |
Retired | 1989 |
Manny Saine (born February 20, 1953) is a retired American professional wrestler better known by his ring name Terry Gibbs. [3] He wrestled for the World Wrestling Federation in the 1980s, American Wrestling Association, World Wrestling Council, and the National Wrestling Alliance.
Gibbs began his professional wrestling career in 1977 working in Atlanta. He worked in the Southern Territories. He worked for Angelo Poffo's International Championship Wrestling in 1979 where he won the ICW Southeastern Heavyweight Championship winning a tournament.
On September 7, 1980, he won a tournament to win the NWA Tri-State Heavyweight Championship.
In 1981, he did a tour of Japan for International Wrestling Enterprise.
In 1984, he won the WWC Puerto Rico Championship defeating King Tonga on May 12. [4] He dropped the title a month to Hercules Ayala.
In 1984, Gibbs made his debut in the World Wrestling Federation defeating Jose Luis Rivera. [5] The next night he lost to Sgt. Slaughter. Gibbs challenged WWF Heavyweight Champion Hulk Hogan on December 12, 1984, in London, Ontario which Hogan retained the title. On March 30, 1985 Gibbs teamed with Rene Goulet to face WWF World Tag Team Champions Barry Windham and Mike Rotunda. He would lose to Bret Hart, Jake Roberts, Jimmy Snuka, Tony Atlas, Tito Santana, Ricky Steamboat, and Randy Savage. [6] Gibbs would defeat Omar Atlas, Bob Bradley, Steve Lombardi, Guy Lambert, and Tommy Sharpe. [7]
He lost to The Ultimate Warrior in Warrior's television debut on the October 25 episode of Wrestling Challenge . [8]
Gibbs final match was a lost to Owen Hart on July 25, 1988, on a house show in Pulaski, New York. [9]
After WWF, Gibbs worked in Minnesota for the American Wrestling Association in 1989 and retired that year.
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