John Angelo Poffo (born April 10, 1925) is a former professional wrestler and wrestling promoter. He ran International Championship Wrestling for a number of years, holding cards in Tennessee, Kentucky and Arkansas. He is most noted for being the father of "Macho Man" Randy Savage and "Leaping" Lanny Poffo/The Genius. He also held the world sit up record for several years, his total being 6033 in one sitting. April 10 is the 100th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (101st in leap years). ... 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar). ... Wrestling can be: Sport wrestling Professional wrestling Another term for grappling This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Lanny Poffo is an American professional wrestler. ...

Career

Poffo started wrestling in 1948. He sometimes wrestled as The Masked Miser.

He formed a heel tag team with Chris Markoff, called "The Devil's Duo" and "The Graduates." Jeff Sword and Doug Vines teamed as The Devils Duo in Angelo Poffos ICW promotion, holding the ICW World Tag Team Titles from April 25 to June 15, 1981. ...

He made a few appearances in WCW in 1995 managing his son, Randy Savage, Arn Anderson, and Vader. He was once attacked by "The Nature Boy" Ric Flair, who put him in a figure 4 leg lock, . World Championship Wrestling (WCW) was an American professional wrestling promotion which, in its proper form, existed from 1988 to 2001. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Martin Marty Lunde, better known by his ring name of Arn Anderson (born September 20, 1958 in Rome, Georgia), is an American professional wrestler, regarded by some professional wrestling experts as the greatest professional wrestler never to have won a world title. ... Leon Allen White (born May 14, 1956), better known under his ring names Big Van Vader or Vader, is a professional wrestler, and was a top draw around the world in the 1990s. ... Ric Flair (born February 25, 1949 [1] and named Richard Morgan Fliehr upon his adoption several weeks later), is an American professional wrestler currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment wrestling on its RAW brand. ...

In 1995, he was inducted into the WCW Hall of Fame as a favor to his son, Randy Savage.

Personal Life

Angelo Poffo married his wife Judy on June 5, 1949. According to his son Lanny from a 2005 interview on wrestlingepicenter.com, Angelo is 1/2 African-American and 1/2 Italian. In an opening poem that Lanny wrote about his parents celebrating their 56th wedding anniversary, Lanny stated: "Mixed marriages, by nature, never seem to get on track. You know my mother's Jewish, you know my dad is black. But he passes for Italian and we keep his secret well." June 5 is the 156th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (157th in leap years), with 209 days remaining. ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1949 calendar). ... Languages Predominantly American English Religions Christianity (predominantly Baptist), Islam Related ethnic groups Sub-Saharan Africans and other African groups, some with Native American groups. ...

Championships and accomplishments

• International Championship Wrestling

• ICW Television Championship (1 time)

• National Wrestling Alliance
• National

• NWA United States Heavyweight Championship (Chicago version) (1 time)

• Regional

• NWA Midwest Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
• NWA Texas Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Bronco Lubich
• NWA World Tag Team Championship (Detroit version) (1 time) - with Lanny Poffo

• World Championship Wrestling

• WCW Hall of Fame (Class of 1995)

• World Wrestling Association

• WWA World Tag Team Championship (3 times) - with Chris Markoff (2) and Nikolai Volkoff (1)