Where is billy jack haynes now
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Wrestlemaniac: The Rise and Fall of Billy Jack Haynes and the Oregon Wrestling Federation
On Feb. 9, Billy Jack Haynes, 70, was arrested on suspicion of murdering his wife, Janette Becraft, 85. As of this writing, he has not been charged with a crime.
The arrest is a bleak coda to an unusual life. Haynes was Oregon’s best-known professional wrestler, standing astride two eras: the regional, rickety wrestling promotions that won local allegiance, and the slick, cable-televised World Wrestling Federation.
In 1988, Haynes left the World Wrestling Federation to launch his own circuit, the Oregon Wrestling Federation. He lured big names: Rip “The Crippler” Oliver, Coco Samoa, Tiger Chen Lee and Mr. Magnificent of Minneapolis. Six months later, Katherine Dunn examined what went wrong on the cover of WW.
Dunn, then a WW columnist who answered reader questions and covered boxing, would achieve fame of her own one year later, with the publication of Geek Love. She died in 2016 at the age of 70.
This story was first published in the Sept. 22, 1988, edition of WW
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Billy Jack Haynes
Ring names
Billy Jack
Billy Jack Haynes
Billy Haynes
Black Blood
Height
6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Born
July 10, 1953 (1953-07-10) (age 71)
Billed from
Portland, Oregon
"A Little Town in France"
Career[]
Stampede[]
Billy Jack Haynes (born William Haynes, Jr.) started wrestling on August 10, 1982 after quitting his janitorial job at the age of 28. He trained in Stu Hart's infamous "Dungeon" and briefly wrestled in Hart's Stampede Wrestling under his given name, initially serving in a non-wrestling capacity as a bodyguard for veteran manager JR Foley before breaking away from Foley's Army and forming a tag team with Bruce Hart to battle the Foley Dynasty.
Portland[]
After his wrestling education, Haynes headed home to Portland and began wrestling as Billy Jack. Billy became involved in a long and brutal feud with Rip Oliver and the clan. He became the Northwest champion and one half of the tag team champions with
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Billy Jack Haynes
William Albert Haynes III (Portland, 10 luglio1953) è un ex wrestlerstatunitense, maggiormente conosciuto con il ring nameBilly Jack Haynes.
Carriera
[modifica | modifica wikitesto]Inizi (1982–1984)
[modifica | modifica wikitesto]Haynes esordì come lottatore di wrestling nel 1982 all'età di 29 anni. Si allenò presso il "Dungeon" di Stu Hart e per breve tempo lottò nella Stampede Wrestling di proprietà dello stesso Hart, formando un tag team con Bruce Hart. Iniziò a farsi chiamare "Billy Jack" nella Pacific Northwest ma fu costretto a cambiare nome quando Tom Laughlin (che aveva recitato nel film Billy Jack) minacciò di fargli causa. Aggiunse quindi il suo vero cognome al ring name, diventando "Billy Jack Haynes", muscoloso wrestler "babyface".
Championship Wrestling from Florida e Pacific Northwest Wrestling (1984–1986)
[modifica | modifica wikitesto]Ebbe una forte rivalità con Rip Oliver fino al 1984, quando passò alla Championship Wrestling from Florida dove si imbarcò in un feud con Kendo Nagasaki nel corso del quale vinse il titolo NWA F
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