Paul Ellering
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Paul Ellering in 2011
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| Birth name | Paul Ellering |
| Born |
August 22, 1953 Melrose, Minnesota |
| Residence | Grey Eagle, Minnesota |
| Alma mater | South Dakota State University |
| Children | 3 |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) |
Paul Ellering Mr. Dot Com The Body Doc |
| Trained by |
Verne Gagne Eddie Sharkey |
| Debut | December 25, 1977 |
Paul Ellering (born August 22, 1953) is an American professional wrestling manager currently signed with WWE and formerly a weightlifter, professional wrestler and dog musher. Ellering spent most of his wrestling career managing the Road Warriors (Animal and Hawk), working with them from 1983 to 1991 and again on occasions between 1992 and 1997. In addition to being their on screen manager he actually handled the team's affairs outside the ring as well, including contract negotiations and travel arrangements. Ellering and the Road Warriors were inducted into both the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame and the WWE Hall of Fame in 2011. Five years later, in June 2016, he returned to the ring at NXT TakeOver: The End as the manager of The Authors of Pain, a heel tag team making their debut.
Prior to becoming a manager he was a professional wrestler, but due to injuries retired in 1983 to become a full-time manager, only wrestling on special occasions. In the late 1990s he was involved in a storyline where he actually turned on the Road Warriors and managed Disciples of Apocalypse as they fought the Road Warriors. After retiring from full-time activity in wrestling, he raced in the Iditarod and John Beargrease sled dog races.
Before entering the wrestling business, Ellering was an accomplished weightlifter, setting a world record in the deadlift at 745 pounds (338 kg).
Ellering was trained in Minneapolis, Minnesota at a camp run by American Wrestling Association (AWA) owner and promoter Verne Gagne and wrestler/trainer Eddie Sharkey in the mid 1970s. According to Ellering's RF Video shoot interview, of the thirty-plus trainees in the camp, only himself and later AWA mid-card wrestler Steve Olsonoski (a.k.a. Steve O) made it through the camp. Ellering would later go on to wrestle in singles and tag teams for Gagne in the AWA, Bill Watts's Mid-South promotion, and for Jerry Jarrett's Memphis promotion, where he was paired with manager Jimmy Hart. His notable feuds were with Jesse Ventura as a face, and as a heel with Jerry Lawler and Jimmy Valiant, from whom he won the AWA Southern Heavyweight Championship.
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