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  • Members: 164
  • Category: Wrestling
  • Founded: Aug 30, 2005
  • Language: English
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This group is dedicated to the wrestler, Rick Hunter.
Rick Hunter was born Charles Sprott in Winnipeg, Manitoba on March 1 1936.
In his late teens, he started wrestling at the Winnipeg YMCA and later at Ole Olsen's Norland Wrestling Club. Around this time he joined the Winnipeg Fire Department.
During the 1960s, he quit his job as a fireman to wrestle full-time. He worked mainly for promoters Don Owen (who changed his name to Rick Hunter) and Roy Shire. He also wrestled as The Gladiator and Super Gladiator.
During his wrestling career, he wrestled all over the world including Australia, New Zealand, Japan and England. From the late 1980s he worked as a jobber in the WWF - both as Rick Hunter and as The Gladiator - before retiring in the early 1990s.
Now a widower, he lives in Clearwater, Florida.
Titles: Atlas Junior Heavyweight (Winnipeg/Atlas '58 as Buddy Sprott)
All-Star Tag (Winnipeg/Madison '61 w/George Eakin)
Florida Heavyweight ('68-'69 2x as The Gladiator)
Brass Knucks (FL '69 as The Gladiator)
Florida Tag ('69 as The Gladiator w/Lester Welch)
Georgia Tag (ASWA '73 as Super Gladiator w/Tommy Seigler)
Georgia TV (ASWA '73)
Canadian Tag (Vancouver '75 w/Guy Mitchel)

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Re: Rick Hunter update
Jimmy Thanks for the update, I hope Ricky is alright. Jeffrey ________________________________ From: jimmy_keary <jimkeary@...> To:
Posted - Fri May 21, 2010 2:18 pm
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Rick Hunter update
This is Jimmy, moderator and creator of this group. I haven't posted in the group for some time. As most of you know I used to be in touch with Rick by phone.
Posted - Thu May 20, 2010 10:51 pm
jimmy_keary
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Re: Thank you!
It was my pleasure. I just remember how different the wrestling program from Tampa was. I had grown up watching overweight men poke each other in the eye, pull
Posted - Wed Apr 14, 2010 8:31 am
warren wright
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Re: Thank you!
Wow..great story thanks for sharing....yes wish he would have been that good in his twilight years to...like in the WWF days...hated seeing him always get
Posted - Tue Apr 13, 2010 1:23 pm
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Thank you!
Thank you for adding me to your group. I grew up in DeFuniak Springs, Florida, a small town in the panhandle. I grew up watching wrestling on TV from Dothan,
Posted - Mon Apr 12, 2010 9:09 am
warren wright
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