George South | |
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South in January 2011
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Birth name | George South |
Born |
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States |
September 7, 1962
Residence | Charlotte, North Carolina, United States |
Website | www.GeorgeSouth.com |
Professional wrestling career | |
Ring name(s) | Cruel Connection #2 George South Gladiator #2 Mr. Florida Mr. No. 1 |
Billed height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) |
Billed weight | 235 lb (107 kg; 16.8 st) |
Trained by | Rusty Roberts |
Debut | December 11, 1982 |
George South (born September 7, 1962) is an American professional wrestler. In the course of his career, South has wrestled for professional wrestling promotions such as Jim Crockett Promotions, World Championship Wrestling and the World Wrestling Federation.
South started wrestling in 1985 in the NWA's Jim Crockett Promotions (JCP). He was used as enhancement talent but he always got in some offense and was very good at getting heel heat with the fans.
He was also Ric Flair's favorite journeyman to wrestle as Flair considered him a great worker. South also worked with Gary Royal in the masked jobber tag teams the Cruel Connection, Mexican Twin Devils and the Gladiators. As the Gladiators, South and Royal jobbed for Bill and Randy Mulkey giving the perennial jobber tag team their only televised win on World Championship Wrestling.
South wrestled in Georgia Championship Wrestling and captured his NWA Georgia Junior Heavyweight Championship in 1986 in between stops for JCP.
For a brief time, South also wrestled as a preliminary wrestler in World Wrestling Federation in the late 1980s.
South was the top heel in the Pro Wrestling Federation that ran from 1992 until 1999 in the Carolinas. He mainly feuded with his arch-rival, The Italian Stallion, who promoted the company with some help from South.