The Handsome King of Pro Wrestling Harley Race Quiz

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1. Who trained Harley Race for his career in professional wrestling?

Answer: Stanislaus and Wladek Zbyszko

As a teenager, Harley Race trained to be a professional wrestler on a farm owned and operated by legends professional wrestling Stanislaus and Wladek Zbyszko. Race started his professional wrestling career in the early 1960s under the name Jack Long in Nashville, Tennessee and under the name the Great Mortimer in Chicago, Illinois.

2. Early in Harley Race's professional wrestling career he was part of tragic event which almost ended this career. What was this tragic event?

Answer: an automobile accident

Harley Race was in a major automobile accident early professional wrestling career. Race's pregnant newlywed wife died in the wreck. The doctors told Race that his leg should be amputated. Race's wrestling promoter, Gust Karras, blocked Race's leg amputation. The doctor told Race that he might not be able to walk again and that his professional wrestling career would be over.

3. Harley Race resumed his professional wrestling career in 1964 in the National Wrestling Alliance Southwestern States Enterprises promotion in Amarillo, Texas. While in Texas, Race had many intense matches with a young pair of professional wrestling brothers who Race would battle again in the 1970s. Who were these fighting brothers from Amarillo, Texas?

Answer: Terry Funk and Dory Funk, Junior

During his professional wrestling career in Amarillo, Texas in 1964, Harley Race had many matches with Terry Funk and Dory Funk, Junior. Race would battle the Funk brothers over several professional wrestling championships in the 1970s.

4. During his professional wrestling run in Amarillo, Texas in 1964, Harley Race befriended another young wrestler. "Handsome" Harley Race and this young "Pretty Boy" won the American Wrestling Association World Tag Team Championship on three occasions. Who was this wrestler known as the "Pretty Boy"?

Answer: Larry Hennig

"Pretty Boy" Larry Hennig and "Handsome" Harley Race held the American Wrestling Association World Tag Team Championship on three occasions. During this time the tag team's primary rival was the Crusher and Dick the Bruiser. In 1984, Harley Race returned to the American Wrestling Association to fued Larry Hennig's son, Curt Hennig.

5. Which familiar foes did Harley Race defeat for his first two National Wrestling Alliance Heavyweight Championships?

Answer: Terry Funk and Dory Funk, Junior

Harley Race defeated Dory Funk, Junior on May 24, 1973 in in Kansas City, Kansas for his first National Wrestling Alliance Heavyweight Championship. Harley Race defeated Terry Funk on February 6, 1977 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada for his second National Wrestling Alliance Heavyweight Championship.

6. Harley Race won multiple regional professional wrestling championships between the late-1960s and the mid-1980s. Which professional wrestling championship did he NOT hold?

Answer: National Wrestling Alliance Eastern Championship Wrestling Heavyweight Championship

The National Wrestling Alliance Eastern Championship Wrestling Heavyweight Championship was first won by Jimmy Snuka on April 25, 1992. This title evolved into the Extreme Championship Wrestling World Heavyweight Championship. Harley Race never competed in the National Wrestling Alliance Eastern Championship Wrestling promotion or the Extreme Championship promotion.

Harley Race held the National Wrestling Alliance Missouri Heavyweight Championship on nine occasions from 1968 until 1984. Harley Race held the National Wrestling Alliance Central States Heavyweight Championship on seven occasions from 1972 until 1985. Harley Race held the National Wrestling Alliance Mid-America Heavyweight Championship on two occasions in 1975.

7. In 1978, Harley Race became one of the first professional wrestlers to bodyslam which super heavyweight professional wrestling legend during a match?

Answer: Andr� the Giant

On October 13, 1978 in Houston, Texas, National Wrestling Alliance World Heavyweight Champion Harley Race faced Andr� the Giant in a match. They battled to a double count out. During the match, Harley Race became one of the first wrestlers to perform a bodyslam on Andr� the Giant.

8. After Harley Race's 1983 victory against Ric Flair for the National Wrestling Alliance Heavyweight Championship, Harley Race offered a $25,000 bounty for someone take Ric Flair out of the professional wrestling scene so Race could avoid losing the title Flair. Who accepted Race's bounty?

Answer: Bob Orton, Junior and Dick Slater

On June 10, 1983, Harley Race defeated Ric Flair in Saint Louis, Missouri to win the National Wrestling Alliance Heavyweight Championship for a record seventh occasion. After the victory, Race employed Bob Orton, Junior and Dick Slater as bounty hunters to eliminate Flair from title contention. At first, Race's strategy seemed to work as Flair suffered an injury via a piledriver from Bob Orton, Junior and Dick Slater.

Ric Flair announced his retirement from the sport of professional wrestling after the injury. Flair made a surprise return and attacked Bob Orton, Junior and Dick Slater with a baseball bat. Ric Flair then challenged Harley Race for the National Wrestling Alliance World Heavyweight Championship at the National Wrestling Alliance's Jim Crockett Promotions 1983 "Starrcade" event.

9. On November 24, 1983, the National Wrestling Alliance's Jim Crockett Promotions held its inaugural "Starrcade" event. Harley Race defended his National Wrestling Alliance World Heavyweight Championship against Ric Flair in what kind of match?

Answer: A "steel cage" match

Ric Flair defeated Harley Race for the National Wrestling Alliance World Heavyweight Championship in a "steel cage" match on November 24, 1983. This was the main event for the National Wrestling Alliance's Jim Crockett Promotions held its inaugural "Starrcade" event in Greensboro, North Carolina.

10. In World Wrestling Entertainment, Harley Race was known as "the King". How did he get this nickname?

Answer: He won the 1986 "King of the Ring" tournament

On July 14, 1986 in Foxborough, Massachusetts, Harley Race pinned Pedro Morales to win the 1986 World Wrestling Entertainment's "King of the Ring" tournament. After this victory, Harley Race evolved into the character "King" Harley Race.

11. Who did Harley Race wrestle at the 1987 World Wrestling Entertainment's "Wrestlemania III" event?

Answer: The Junkyard Dog

At at the 1987 World Wrestling Entertainment's "Wrestlemania III" event, Harley Race pinned Junkyard Dog in a "Loser Must Bow and Kneel" match. The Junkyard Dog had to bow to Harley Race after losing the match.

12. In World Wrestling Entertainment, Harley Race had a feud with "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan. At what World Wrestling Entertainment event in 1987 did Harley Race and "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan have a wild brawl?

Answer: The 1987 World Wrestling Entertainment's "Slammy Awards" event

At the 1987 World Wrestling Entertainment's "Slammy Awards" event, "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan presented the "Best Ring Apparel" award which Harley Race won. Duggan refused to read Race's name. Race asked Duggan to bow while presenting the award to Race. Race and Duggan brawled all over the awards facility for around twenty minutes.

13. In 1991, Harley Race joined the World Championship Wrestling promotion as a manager. Which wrestler did Harley Race lead to three reigns as the World Championship Wrestling World Heavyweight Championship?

Answer: Big Van Vadar

Big Van Vadar won the World Championship Wrestling World Heavyweight Championship three times between 1991 and 1993 with Harley Race as his manager. Harley Race also managed Lex Luger during Luger's World Championship Wrestling World Heavyweight Championship victory at the World Championship Wrestling's 1991 "The Great American Bash" event.

14. In 1999, Harley Race's Wrestling Academy was opened in Troy, Missouri to train aspiring professional wrestlers. After completing the professional wrestling training, aspiring professional wrestlers join which professional wrestling promotion?

Answer: World League Wrestling

Beginning in 1999, wrestlers who completed their training in Harley Race's Wrestling Academy started their careers in World League Wrestling promotion. Steve Sharp was the first World League Wrestling Heavyweight Champion.

15. Harley Race has been honored by several professional wrestling Halls of Fame for his contribution to the sport. In which professional wrestling Hall of Fame is Harley Race NOT a member?

Answer: The American Wrestling Association Hall of Fame

Harley Race wrestled in the American Wrestling Association sporadically between 1965 and 1968 and between 1984 and 1990. The American Wrestling Association had no Hall of Fame in which Race could be inducted.

Harley Race was inducted into the World Championship Wrestling Hall of Fame in 1994. Harley Race was inducted into the "Wrestling Observer Newsletter" Hall of Fame in 1996. Harley Race was inducted into the World Wrestling Entertainment Hall of Fame in 2004. Harley Race was inducted into the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum in 2004. Harley Race was inducted into the National Wrestling Alliance Hall of Fame Class of 2005. Harley Race was awarded "Iron Mike Mazurki Award" in 2006 by the Cauliflower Alley Club. Harley Race was awarded the "Pro Wrestling Illustrated" magazine "Stanley Weston Award" in 2006.

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Known as "Handsome" or the "King", Harley Race was legend of professional wrestling who competed in the ring for nearly thirty years.

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