Reuben Cain (born July 19, 1958) is a professional wrestler best known by his ring name of Robert Gibson. He is famous as half of the Rock 'N Roll Express with Ricky Morton. July 19 is the 200th day (201st in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 165 days remaining. ... Year 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Nickname: The City of Five Flags Location of Pensacola (top left) in Florida Country United States State Florida County Escambia  - Mayor John Fogg Area    - City 39. ... For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ... July 19 is the 200th day (201st in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 165 days remaining. ... Year 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... ... Ricky Morton & Robert Gibson The Rock N Roll Express The Rock N Roll Express was a professional wrestling tag team comprised of Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson that was extremely popular in the 1980s. ... Ricky Morton, (born September 21, 1956) is an American professional wrestler famous for competing in tag team matches as one half of The Rock N Roll Express in the 1980s and early 1990s. ...

Career

Reuben Cain started wrestling as Robert Gibson in 1977. He was trained by his brother Ricky Gibson and teamed with Ricky in the southern independents when he started.

In 1983, he formed the Rock 'N Roll Express with Ricky Morton. They feuded with The Midnight Express, Bobby Eaton and Dennis Condrey in the Mid-South and the feud carried over into the NWA's Jim Crockett Promotions in 1985. They won the NWA Tag Titles four times while there and feuded with the Four Horsemen, Ivan and Nikita Koloff and the team of Rick Rude and Manny Fernandez. Even though he and Morton were of similar build and wrestled a similar style, Gibson was always booked as the stronger and more powerful of the two. He was most often the recipient of the hot tag as Morton rallied the crowd by taking punishment as the Face in Peril. Ricky Morton & Robert Gibson The Rock N Roll Express The Rock N Roll Express was a professional wrestling tag team comprised of Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson that was extremely popular in the 1980s. ... Ricky Morton, (born September 21, 1956) is an American professional wrestler famous for competing in tag team matches as one half of The Rock N Roll Express in the 1980s and early 1990s. ... Bobby Eaton & Dennis Condrey in 2005 The Midnight Express is a professional wrestling tag team that has had various members and achieved most of its success in the 1980s. ... Bobby Eaton Bobby Eaton (born Robert Lee Eaton), is a professional wrestler, famous for his days as one half of the Midnight Express. ... Dennis Condrey is a professional wrestler, best known as being one half of the tag team Midnight Express. ... National Wrestling Alliance logo The National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) is the governing body for a group of independent professional wrestling promotions and sanctions various NWA championships. ... Jim Crockett Promotions was the name of a professional wrestling promotion owned by Jim Crockett, Jr. ... The Four Horsemen were a popular professional wrestling stable in the National Wrestling Alliance and later World Championship Wrestling. ... Ivan Koloff Ivan Koloff The Russian Bear is the stage name of a former Canadian professional wrestler Oreal Perras. ... Nikita Koloff is a former American professional wrestler who wrestled throughout the 1980s and early 1990s as The Russian Nightmare Nikita Koloff, which was a play off of the nickname of fan favorite The American Dream Dusty Rhodes (in fact, it was Rhodes that gave him the nickname). ... Richard Erwin Rood (December 7, 1958 – April 20, 1999), better known by his ring name of Ravishing Rick Rude (which Rood would legally change his name to), was a professional wrestler who performed for many promotions, most notably World Championship Wrestling and the World Wrestling Federation, in the 1980s and... Raging Bull Manny Fernandez Manny Fernandez is a professional wrestler. ... In professional wrestling, a face is a character who is portrayed as being moral or approving (that is, faces are good guys or crowd favorites). The vast majority of wrestling storylines (though not all) place a heel (or bad guy) against a face. ...

Gibson was injured in 1991 and when he returned to WCW, Morton turned on him to join the "York Foundation". They feuded and Gibson teamed with Tom Zenk, but had no success and soon left WCW. WCW logo until 1999 World Championship Wrestling or WCW, was a professional wrestling promotion that existed from 1988 to 2001. ... Tom Zenk is a former professional wrestler best known by his stage name Z-Man. ...

He rejoined Morton in Smoky Mountain Wrestling and they feuded with the "Heavenly Bodies" led by Jim Cornette. Shortly before SMW's demise, Gibson turned heel and joined "Cornette's Army". Smoky Mountain Wrestling Logo Smoky Mountain Wrestling was an organization staging professional wrestling in the Appalachian area of the United States from October 1991 to December 1995, when it was run by Jim Cornette. ... James E. (Jim) Cornette (born September 17, 1961) is an American professional wrestling manager, commentator, promoter, and booker. ...

The team came back briefly to WCW in 1996. 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...

In 1998, they were part of the "NWA" angle in the WWF for a brief period. World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. ...

Their last run in a big federation was with TNA Wrestling when they were part of Vince Russo's Sports Entertainment Xtreme faction. // Total Nonstop Action Wrestling is an American professional wrestling promotion founded by Jeff Jarrett and his father Jerry Jarrett in May 2002. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

On September 15, 2006, his brother, Ricky Gibson, died. September 15 is the 258th day of the year (259th in leap years). ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ...

Ricky Morton & Robert Gibson "The Rock 'N Roll Express"

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Wrestling Facts

Managers

• Jimmy King

• Jim Cornette

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Finishing and Signature Moves

• Dropkick

• Gibson Leglock

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Trivia

• He knows sign language and would often speak with his hands in the ring before his matches.
• His nephew, Jason Gibson, is a wrestler.
• He is part owner of Zeke's Deep Sea Fishing tours in Orange Beach, Alabama.
• Has a wandering eye. Wrestling manager Jim Cornette would often make fun of it in his interviews when the Rock 'N Roll Express feuded with The Midnight Express. It also led to the false belief among wrestling fans that the eye was artificial.

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Championships and accomplishments

• All-Pro Championship Wrestling

• APCW Tag Team Championship (3 times) - with Jason Gibson and Mike Youngblood (2)

• All-Pro Wrestling

• APW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
• APW Tag Team Championship (1 time)

• All-Star Wrestling

• ASW Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Ricky Morton

• Continental / Championship Wrestling Association

• CWA Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Ricky Morton
• CWA World Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Ricky Morton
• Mid-Southern Tag Team Championship (5 times) - with Ricky Gibson (3), Bill Dundee (1), and Ricky Morton (1)

• Mid-South Wrestling Association

• Mid-South Tag Team Championship (3 times) - with Ricky Morton

• National Wrestling Alliance

World

• NWA World Tag Team Championship (4 times) - with Ricky Morton

• National

• NWA Americas Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Ricky Gibson

Regional

• NWA Mid-America Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
• NWA Mid-America Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Don Fargo
• NWA PWX Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with former NWA World Jr. Heavyweight Champion Vince Kaplack
• NWA Southeast United States Junior Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
• NWA Southeastern Tag Team Championship (Southern division) (1 time) - with Ricky Gibson
• NWA Wildside Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Ricky Morton
• NWA World Tag Team Championship (Mid-Atlantic version) (4 times) - with Ricky Morton

• New Age Championship Wrestling

• NACW Tag Team Championship (1 time)

• Pro Wrestling Illustrated

• 1986 PWI Tag Team of the Year - with Ricky Morton
• PWI ranked him # 99 of the 500 best singles wrestlers during the "PWI Years" in 2003
• PWI also ranked him # 4 of the best tag teams of the "PWI Years" - with Ricky Morton

• Smoky Mountain Wrestling

• SMW Tag Team Championship (10 times) - with Ricky Morton
• SMW Television Championship (1 time)

• United States Wrestling Association

• USWA Tag Team Championship (2 times) - with Ricky Morton

• World Organization of Wrestling

• WOW Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Ricky Morton

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