Don Muraco
| Don Muraco | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Donald Muraco |
| Born |
September 10, 1949 Sunset Beach, Hawaii, United States |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Aka Oni Don Muraco Don Morrow Dr. X The Rock The Magnificent M |
| Billed height | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) |
| Billed weight | 275 lb (125 kg) |
| Billed from | Sunset Beach, Hawaii |
| Trained by | Tom Andrews Steve Bolus Bulldog Bob Brown Mr. Fuji Dean Ho Lonnie Mayne Bud Ratelle |
| Debut | 1970 |
| Retired | 1995 |
Donald "Don" Muraco (born September 10, 1949) is an American retired professional wrestler. He is best known for his appearances with the World Wrestling Federation from 1981 to 1988, where he held the WWF Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship on two occasions and was crowned the inaugural King of the Ring in 1985. Muraco was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2004 and the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2014.
Muraco was born at Sunset Beach, Oahu, Hawaii in 1949 of Native Hawaiian heritage. A Hawaii state amateur wrestling champion in 1967, Muraco chose professional wrestling over football. He spent the first year of his career learning the ropes in Vancouver, Portland, Florida and Los Angeles before getting his first big break, for Verne Gagne's American Wrestling Association (AWA). Wrestling as a face, he often tag teamed with Jimmy Snuka, against wrestlers such as Larry Hennig, Ivan Koloff and Dusty Rhodes. In 1973, tired of life in Minneapolis, he left the AWA for Roy Shire's San Francisco NWA territory.
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