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Merced Solis (born May 10, 1953, Mission, Texas) better known by his ring name Tito Santana, was a Mexican professional wrestler whose career spanned from the late 70s to the early 90s. Despite his Mexican heritage, he rarely competed in Lucha Libre promotions, being more accustomed to the American style of professional wrestling. He is currently a teacher and hair salon owner, and is married to his wife Leah and has three sons named Matthew, Michael and Mark. Image File history File links File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
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Mission is a city located in Hidalgo County, Texas. ...
Toluca is a city in México State in central Mexico, at 19. ...
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May 10 is the 130th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (131st in leap years). ...
1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1953 calendar). ...
Mission is a city located in Hidalgo County, Texas. ...
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One of Lucha Libres biggest attractions, El Hijo del Santo. ...
A teachers room in a Japanese middle school, 2005. ...
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Before Wrestling
Before becoming a wrestler, Santana played tight end for West Texas State University. The team was quarterbacked by future professional wrestler Tully Blanchard. After he graduated, he tried out with the Kansas City Chiefs but was cut during training camp. He played one season for the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League in 1976, appearing in 13 regular-season games. After one season with the Lions, he became a professional wrestler. West Texas A&M University West Texas A&M University, part of the Texas A&M University System, is a public university located in Canyon, Texas. ...
Tully Blanchard Tully Blanchard is an American second generation professional wrestler, best known as one of the Four Horsemen. ...
City Kansas City, Missouri Other nicknames {{{nicknames}}} Team colors Red, Gold, and White Head Coach Herman Edwards Owner Lamar Hunt Fight song {{{song}}} Mascot K.C. Wolf Local radio Flagship stations: 101. ...
The Canadian Football League (CFL), also known by its French name, Ligue canadienne de football (LCF), is a professional league located entirely in Canada that plays Canadian football. ...
Career He worked briefly in the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) and the American Wrestling Association (AWA), but gained his fame by wrestling in the World Wrestling Federation. On October 22, 1979, he earned the Tag Team Championship with the Polish superstar Ivan Putski. In 1984, he feuded with the Magnificent Don Muraco for the Intercontinental Championship, which he won on February 11. He then entered into a historic and bitterly contested feud over the Intercontinental Championship with Greg Valentine. Valentine captured it from Santana in September, 1984 in London Ontario Canada. The rivalry intensified with Valentine injuring Santana's knee with his dreaded figure four leg lock putting Santana out of action for several months. The National Wrestling Alliance is a group of independent professional wrestling promotions, in operation since 1948. ...
The American Wrestling Association was a professional wrestling organization, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. ...
World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. ...
October 22 is the 295th day of the year (296th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 70 days remaining. ...
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World Wrestling Entertainments World Tag-Team Championship is WWEs original tag team championship and is now exclusive to the RAW brand. ...
Polish Power Ivan Putski (born January 21, 1941) is a WWE Hall of Famer, he was one of the first WWF strongmen with incredible physiques. ...
1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
A professional wrestling feud is a staged disagreement between two wrestlers or factions of wrestlers over a purported slight or insult. ...
Don Muraco, also The Magnificent Muraco, later known as The Rock, was a Hawaiian professional wrestler in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. ...
Originally the second-most important title in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), the WWE Intercontinental Championship (sometimes abbreviated to I.C. Title) is now the secondary championship on its RAW brand. ...
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Tito retuned at Wrestlemania, and in the opening match defeated a masked wrestler known as The Executioner. Tito and Greg Valentine would go on to wrestle a memorable series of singles and tag team matches with neither gaining the upper hand. During these matches they would wrestle in a variety of different type of matches from regular title matches, to no disqualification matches, to lumberjack matches. Official WrestleMania logo. ...
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Tito would also employ a variety of partners in attempt to gain the upper hand. These regular partners included the Junkyard Dog and Ricky Steamboat. In these tag matches Tito would even force Valentine to submit to his own version of the figure four leg lock and this earned Santana another series of title shots at the Intercontinental Title. It is interesting to note that in this series of tag team matches we see the origins of the team of Brutus Beefcake and Greg Valentine. Junkyard Dog Sylvester Ritter was a professional wrestler best known for his work in the World Wrestling Federation as Junkyard Dog. ...
Richard Blood (born February 28, 1953 in West Point, New York), better known by his stage name Ricky The Dragon Steamboat, is a former American professional wrestler. ...
Ed Leslie as Brutus The Barber Beefcake. ...
In July, 1985, Tito Santana regained the Intercontinental Title in a steel cage match in Baltimore. With both men trying to escape the horrors of the cage, Tito over the and Valentine through the door it appeared that the champ would retain his title. However with Tito climbing over the cage, he was in a position to kick the door closed into "the Hammer" as he tried to escape. Valentine smashed the title belt repeately into the cage, destroying it, which led to the creation of a new belt design. Santana held the title for another 7 months before losing it to Randy "Macho Man" Savage. This article is about the year. ...
Macho Man Randy Savage on The Weird Al Show. ...
In late 1987, Tito Santana formed a tag team with former AWA World Champion Rick Martel named Strike Force. The team quickly won the Tag Team championship from the Hart Foundation (Bret Hart & Jim Neidhart) in October, 1987. They successfully defended it until WrestleMania IV (March 1988) where they lost it to Demolition (Ax & Smash). The team disappeared for the rest of 1988 until WrestleMania V in 1989. In a match against the Brain Busters (Tully Blanchard & Arn Anderson), Rick Martel left Tito to face both opponents alone. 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Bret Sergeant Hart (born July 2, 1957 in Calgary, Alberta) is a Canadian former professional wrestler, and part of the famous Hart wrestling family. ...
James Henry (Jim) Neidhart (born February 8, 1956 in Tampa, Florida, United States of America), is a professional wrestler, best known for his appearances in the 1980s and 1990s in the World Wrestling Federation as Jim The Anvil Neidhart. ...
1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
WrestleMania IV Logo WrestleMania IV was the fourth annual pay-per-view event in the World Wrestling Federations annual WrestleMania series. ...
1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Demolition (Left to right: Ax, Smash, & Crush) Demolition was a former professional wrestling stable in World Wrestling Entertainment which consisted of Ax (Bill Eadie), Smash (Barry Darsow), and later, Crush (Bryan Adams). ...
WrestleMania V was the fifth annual WrestleMania professional wrestling pay-per-view event from the World Wrestling Federation. ...
1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Tully Blanchard Tully Blanchard is an American second generation professional wrestler, best known as one of the Four Horsemen. ...
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. ...
Santana remained a singles wrestler and feuded with Martel for a time. After the Ultimate Warrior won the WWF World Title from Hulk Hogan at WrestleMania 6 (effectively vacating the Intercontinental Title) Santana took part in the tornament to name a new Intercontinental Champion. Santana made it to the finals, and lost to Curt Hennig. In an attempt to keep his career going, he later adopted a Spanish bullfighter gimmick and the name El Matador. Tito more or less fell into jobber status over the next few years until leaving in 1993. James Brian Hellwig (born 16 June 1962), is an American professional wrestler known by many as The Ultimate Warrior, who legally changed his name to Warrior in 1991. ...
Terrence Gene Bollea (born August 11, 1953 in Augusta, Georgia), graduated from Camelback High School in Phoenix, Arizona, best known professionally as Hulk Hogan (and occasionally Hollywood Hulk Hogan), is an American professional wrestler and actor. ...
Curt Hennig (March 28, 1958 – February 10, 2003), also known by his ring name Mr. ...
Spanish toreo, corrida de toros or tauromaquia; Portuguese corrida de touros or tauromaquia) is a blood sport that involves, most of the times, professional performers (matadores) who execute various formal moves with the goal of appearing graceful and confident, while masterful over the bull itself; these maneuvers are performed at...
In professional wrestling, a gimmick is slang that refers to a wrestlers on-screen personality. ...
As professional wrestling is not real, inevitably a wrestler will be required to lose to an opponent. ...
1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ...
He won the ECW (Eastern Championship Wrestling) Championship in 1992 by defeating Don Muraco but lost it later that year to Shane Douglas. Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) is a groundbreaking and influential professional wrestling promotion that was founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1992 by Tod Gordon, and closed when his successor, Paul Heyman, declared bankruptcy in April 2001. ...
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Don Muraco, also The Magnificent Muraco, later known as The Rock, was a Hawaiian professional wrestler in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. ...
Troy Martin, better known as Shane Douglas (born November 21, 1964 in New Brighton, Pennsylvania) is an American professional wrestler. ...
Tito's finisher was the "The Flying Forearm Smash." Or as former rival Jesse Ventura affectionately called it "The Flying Burrito" ("The Flying Jalapeno" by Bobby Heenan. Jesse The Body Ventura (born July 15, 1951, as James George Janos) was elected the 38th Governor of Minnesota on November 3, 1998, after a career as Navy SEAL, professional wrestler, actor, mayor, and radio talk show host. ...
Bobby The Brain Heenan Raymond Louis Heenan (born November 1, 1944 in Chicago, Illinois), better known by his ring name of Bobby The Brain Heenan, is an American professional wrestling manager and commentator. ...
Solis is now a Spanish teacher at Eisenhower Middle School in Roxbury Township, New Jersey. He owns Santana's Hair Salon in Succasunna. Roxbury Township is a township located in Morris County, New Jersey. ...
Succasunna-Kenvil is a census-designated place located in Morris County, New Jersey. ...
In 2004, Tito Santana was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame. 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Championships and accomplishments
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Originally the second-most important title in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), the WWE Intercontinental Championship (sometimes abbreviated to I.C. Title) is now the secondary championship on its RAW brand. ...
World Wrestling Entertainments World Tag-Team Championship is WWEs original tag team championship and is now exclusive to the RAW brand. ...
Polish Power Ivan Putski (born January 21, 1941) is a WWE Hall of Famer, he was one of the first WWF strongmen with incredible physiques. ...
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Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) is a groundbreaking and influential professional wrestling promotion that was founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1992 by Tod Gordon, and closed when his successor, Paul Heyman, declared bankruptcy in April 2001. ...
The ECW World Heavyweight Championship The top title of the Extreme Championship Wrestling promotion. ...
- 1-Time NWA Western States Tag Team Champion (with Ted DiBiase)
The National Wrestling Alliance is a group of independent professional wrestling promotions, in operation since 1948. ...
Theodore Marvin (Ted) DiBiase (born January 18, 1954 in Omaha, Nebraska) is an American Christian minister and former professional wrestler, known under the moniker, The Million Dollar Man. // Life Before Wrestling Both of DiBiases parents were wrestlers. ...
Other titles - 1-Time ICCW Heavyweight Champion
- 2-Time ICW Heavyweight Champion
- 2-Time AWF Heavyweight Champion
- 1-Time NWC Heavyweight Champion
- 1-Time UCW Heavyweight Champion
- 1-Time USA Pro Heavyweight Champion
- 1-Time UWF America's Champion
- 1-Time NSWA Heavyweight Champion
- 1-Time EWA Heavyweight Champion
It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into American Wrestling Federation. ...
The UWF Americas Championship was a secondary title in the Universal Wrestling Federation. ...
Pro Wrestling Illustrated - Pro Wrestling Illustrated (PWI) ranked him # 93 of the 500 best singles wrestlers during the "PWI Years" in 2003. He was also ranked twice in the best tag teams during the "PWI Years". He was ranked # 70 with Rick Martel and # 92 with Ivan Putski.
- Tito won the 1979 PWI Tag Team of the Year Award with Ivan Putski.
Hulk Hogan on the cover of the November 1994 issue of Pro Wrestling Illustrated. ...
The neutrality of this article is disputed. ...
Polish Power Ivan Putski (born January 21, 1941) is a WWE Hall of Famer, he was one of the first WWF strongmen with incredible physiques. ...
Polish Power Ivan Putski (born January 21, 1941) is a WWE Hall of Famer, he was one of the first WWF strongmen with incredible physiques. ...
King of the Ring logo (1999-present). ...
Theodore Marvin (Ted) DiBiase (born January 18, 1954 in Omaha, Nebraska) is an American Christian minister and former professional wrestler, known under the moniker, The Million Dollar Man. // Life Before Wrestling Both of DiBiases parents were wrestlers. ...
Bret Sergeant Hart (born July 2, 1957 in Calgary, Alberta) is a Canadian former professional wrestler, and part of the famous Hart wrestling family. ...
External links - Article on Tito Santana's life as a school teacher, coach, and businessman
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