They split in 1974 and Wisniski went to Florida, where he began performing as Johnny Valentine, Jr., hopeful that he could live up to his father's legacy.

Jerry Graham, who was a co-holder of the Northeast version of the NWA United States Tag Team Championship, selected Wisniski in November 1959 to take over the title from Graham's injured partner.

Initially reluctant to take his father's ring name, Wisniski wrestled as Baby Face Nelson before becoming Johnny Fargo, one half of The Fargo Brothers with Don Fargo between 1971 and 1974.

Wisniski remained in Canada for a year, wrestling his debut match in July 1970 against Angelo " King Kong " Mosca ( he lost in around five minutes ).

Wisniski left the territory without dropping the title.

They were beaten for the title belts the following April, but Wisniski took on a new partner, Buddy Rogers, to regain the championship by defeating The Fabulous Kangaroos on November 19, 1960.

Johnny Valentine ( born John Theodore Wisniski, September 22, 1928 – April 24, 2001 ) was a Polish American professional wrestler with a career spanning almost three decades.

Ric Flair, who wrestled with Wisniski, has described him as a quiet person who kept to himself.

Because Wisniski was also wrestling in Texas at the same time, he got only sporadic main event matches against Sammartino during this feud.

Wisniski & Ellis lost the belts to Buddy Rogers & Handsome Johnny Barend in a match where Arnold Skoaland subbed for Ellis, but the belts were still up, on Washington, DC TV.

Rogers & Barend then defeated the real team of Wisniski & Ellis 2 pins to 1 in a main event at Madison Square Garden.

* Professional wrestler Johnny Valentine ( John Wisniski ), the reigning NWA champion, was paralyzed, and Ric Flair ( Richard Fliehr ) sustained a broken back, when the plane in which they were riding ran out of gas and crashed at Wilmington, North Carolina, killing the pilot.

John Wisniski, Jr. ( born September 20, 1951 ) is an American professional wrestler, better known as Greg " The Hammer " Valentine.

Six months later, Wisniski relocated to Detroit to complete his training under The Sheik.

Wisniski was the father of professional wrestler Greg " The Hammer " Valentine.

Wisniski debuted as a professional wrestler in 1947, wrestling Karl Nowena in Buenos Aires.

On New Year's Day, 1950, Buddy Rogers defeated Wisniski in the finals of a United States title tournament.

In Toronto, Wisniski and three different partners won the International Tag Team title during 1963.

Wisniski also continued to wrestle in the former Capitol Wrestling territory, which had since been renamed the World Wide Wrestling Federation.

Wisniski later turned on Parisi, however.

Wisniski then moved on to the Florida territory, where he won the NWA Florida Heavyweight Championship three times.

In Missouri, Wisniski competed for the Missouri Heavyweight Championship in a tournament to determine the inaugural champion.

In October 1972, Wisniski defeated Jacques Rougeau for the International Heavyweight Championship, but was stripped of the title in January 1973, after he no-showed the rematch.

In the National Wrestling Federation, Wisniski defeated Johnny Powers for the NWF North American Heavyweight Championship on September 1, 1972.

Powers beat Wisniski for the title in October, but Wisniski won the title again from Abdullah the Butcher on October 19.

He stood on the porch and watched him struggling with the heavy harness, and finally went over to help him.

The man went over without sound, falling to the bare floor.

The Nazis knew this, of course, and while their chief quarry was the industrial centers, they let a few drop every time they went over, hoping for a lucky hit.

`` Why, Mick Shann went over and over the report with Alsing Andersen, trying to check them out.

And after all this, Shann went over all that Bang-Jensen had brought up ''.

That night after supper I went back over to 48 Spruce Street -- Ralph and I at that time were living at 168 Chestnut -- and Ralph went with me.

Tom told me about it, how one evening he went over to see the Theatre Guild man.

They went up against an SS unit of comparable size, over a little rise of ground, over an open field.

it took them over an hour to get back to the station where they should have changed, in order to take the line that went to the Place Redoute.

He improvised as he went along, completing a life-size clay figure, then bought yards of an inexpensive material from a draper, wet the lightweight cloth in a basin and covered it over with clay that Argiento brought from the bank of the Tiber, to the consistency of thick mud.

The light supper over, Claire went to him and, slipping an arm about his shoulder, sat on his knee.

Once he went after Hans and dumped his pot over the banister.

She then went over them thoroughly giving each a strenuous test in showmanship.

My host went over and stared out the window at his peacocks ; ;

Moreland went over to stare at his peacocks again, and then came back and sat down, restively.

They got it over the side and clambered aboard only a few minutes before their schooner went under.

Moreover, prudence alone would indicate that, unless the local customs are already ready to fall when pushed, the results of direct economic action everywhere upon national chain stores will likely be simply to give undue advantage to local and state stores which conform to these customs, leading to greater decentralization and local autonomy within the company, or even ( as the final self-defeat of an unjust application of economic pressure to correct injustice ) to its going out of business in certain sections of the country ( as, for that matter, the Quakers, who once had many meetings in the pre-Civil War South, largely went out of business in that part of the country over the slavery issue, never to recover a large number of southern adherents ).

I finally went downstairs to the bar off the main lobby where most of the cast were drowning their sorrows over the untimely passing of Ask Tony.

Then he turned the telephone over to Rourke, and went into the bedroom to change his slippers for dry socks and shoes.

He skimmed over the millions that went to Meeker Park, Medfield Hospital, the civic center, the Public Health Nursing Association, the library, and so on, pausing when he came to the scholarship fund.

I looked back over my shoulder while I went to join him ; ;

We went once more over every point, then triple-checked.