Bockwinkel faced numerous challengers for the title during the early 1980s including eventual champions Rick Martel and Otto Wanz, former champion Mad Dog Vachon, and perennial contenders Wahoo McDaniel, and Brad Rheingans, but perhaps his most famous opponent would go on to become arguably the greatest superstar in wrestling history.

On December 5, 1991, following an official government function, Martel became involved in a heated discussion about Northern Ontario health care costs with Evelyn Dodds, a Thunder Bay municipal councillor and former Progressive Conservative candidate.

Although, sister of the former King Ladislaus IV, Mary of Hungary, Queen of Naples, wanted her son, Charles Martel as the new King in Hungary.

The Queen of Naples and wife of former King Ladislaus IV, Mary had then decided to put her grandson, son of Charles Martel, Charles Robert as the future King of Hungary.

Elie Walter Martel ( born November 26, 1934 ) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada.

Shelley Martel is married to Howard Hampton, former leader of the Ontario New Democrats.

At WrestleMania V, Martel confronted Miss Elizabeth, which led to a brawl between Elizabeth's ally Hulk Hogan and her former ally Randy Savage.

In 1992, before a match, his former partner Marty Jannetty grabbed the mirror and attempted to hit Michaels with it, but Michaels pulled Martel in front of him.

Race would also wrestle former AWA World Champion Rick Martel at part of WrestleRock ' 86.

Following the death of Theodo, Liutprand turned from his former Agilolfing allies to bind himself to Charles Martel, duke of the Franks, whose son, Pepin the Short, he adopted and girded with arms at his coming of manhood.

A former Air Force pilot, Martel graduated with a law degree from Boalt Hall, the law school of the University of California, Berkeley.

A former college athlete, Martel won the 100 meter hurdles in the U. S. National Masters Track and Field Championships in 1997, running the fastest time in the world for his age group.

Charles Martel at the time held the high office of mayor of the palace in Francia and Odo saw no choice but to seek the help of his former enemy, swear an oath of loyalty to him and join the Frankish military forces, who after a forced march defeated the Muslims at the Battle of Tours ( Poitiers ) in 732.

The first occurred June of that year, when Martel wrote a letter to a quasi-judicial body concerning the billing practices of a doctor in northern Ontario.

Martel was born in Capreol, Ontario, into a French speaking family and was educated at an English-speaking boarding school that forced him to stop speaking his family's native language.

Shortly after his retirement, Martel was named vice-chair of the Environmental Assessment Board by Liberal Premier of Ontario David Peterson.

Shelley Martel, Elie Martel's daughter and Fawcett's granddaughter, won election to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario upon Elie Martel's retirement, and continued to represent the riding of Nickel Belt until her own retirement from politics in 2007.

It is set partly in Peterborough, Ontario, where Martel was a student at Trent University.

Like her father, Martel represented the left-wing of the NDP and often had a fractious relationship with Rae.

Mel Watkins and even Elie Martel have argued that the NDP lost a generation of volunteers and members due to the way the Waffle was handled.

However, in 1999, the provincial ridings of Nickel Belt and Sudbury East were merged for the 1999 provincial election, and Morin declined to run for the NDP nomination rather than competing against Sudbury East's popular incumbent Shelley Martel.

Only after the Steelworkers ' prolonged takeover of Mine, Mill, did the NDP finally have unity between its warring factions, thereby allowing Martel to win the seat.

Early in his career, Martel navigated a motion through an NDP provincial convention supporting full funding for Catholic high schools.

Martel was House Leader of the NDP for seven years, from 1978-1985.

NDP leader Bob Rae thought that Martel was " too much of a lone wolf ," to negotiate the deal.

Martel encouraged Bob Rae to seek the provincial NDP leadership in 1981, but began developing his own organization when Rae delayed his entry.

Martel stood down as a Member of Provincial Parliament ( MPP ) in 1987, and was succeeded in Sudbury East by his daughter Shelley Martel after a bitter battle for the riding's NDP nomination between her and Rev.

The NDP won their first ever majority government in the 1990 provincial election, and Shelley Martel was subsequently named as a prominent cabinet minister.

In 1994, Rodriguez called for provincial NDP cabinet minister Shelley Martel to resign for violating the privacy rights of an Ottawa consultant.

Charles Martel () ( 23 August 686 – 22 October 741 ), also known as Charles the Hammer, was a Frankish military and political leader, who served as Mayor of the Palace under the Merovingian kings and ruled de facto during an interregnum ( 737 – 43 ) at the end of his life, using the title Duke and Prince of the Franks.

* 732 – Battle of Tours: Near Poitiers, France, the leader of the Franks, Charles Martel and his men, defeat a large army of Moors, stopping the Muslims from spreading into Western Europe.

Near Poitiers, France, leader of the Franks Charles Martel and his men defeat a large army of Moors under the governor of Cordoba, Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, who is killed during the battle.

* Charles Martel, Frankish leader until 741 ( Battle of Tours, 732 )

* October 10 – Battle of Tours: Near Poitiers, France, leader of the Franks Charles Martel and his men, defeat a large army of Moors under the governor of Cordoba, Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, who is killed during the battle.

Odo, who despite the heavy losses was reorganizing his troops, gave the Frankish leader notice of the impending danger knocking on the heartland of his realm, and appealed to the Franks for assistance, which Charles Martel only granted after Odo agreed to submit to Frankish authority.

In 723, the Frankish leader Charles Martel bestowed the fortress in Utrecht and the surrounding lands as the base of bishops.

the cognomen of Charles Martel, the 8th century Frankish leader ), in recognition of his ferocity in battle.

In 2003, both Martel and Hampton supported Bill Blaikie's campaign to become leader of the federal New Democratic Party.

This was regarded by some as undue political influence, and Rae considered dismissing Martel before being advised by Liberal leader Robert Nixon that the offence was too minor to warrant punishment.

During the election campaign, Progressive Conservative leader John Tory stated that if elected, he would name Martel to conduct a review of current government medical and social services for children with autism, an issue which Martel had frequently championed in the legislature.

Charles Martel, then leader of the Franks ( Merovingian kings were maintained as puppet kings ), finally preoccupied by the Arab threat moving to his land, mustered an army and met the Arabs near Poitiers.

In the same year, Maestro also appeared in the Argentine film, La Niña Santa ( aka The Holy Girl ), directed by Lucrecia Martel, as well as the Focus Features film The Motorcycle Diaries, ( Golden Globe nominee 2005 Best Foreign Film ) based on the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution.