History Wrestling / DonMuraco

* RedBaron: First "The Magnificent" then "The Rock" ([[NamesTheSame no,]] [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson not him]])

* BerserkButton:
** He did '''NOT''' like it when the fans chanted "Beach bum! Beach bum!"
** He did not care for being called "Don". It's "Magnificent Muraco" to you.

* FinishingMove: ''Tombstone Piledriver'' and ''Asiatic Spike (Thumb Chokehold)''.

* PressurePoint: He used a move where he would thrust his thumb into his opponent's neck to knock him out.

Donald Muraco (born September 10, 1949) is a retired American {{Professional Wrestl|ing}}er from Sunset Beach, UsefulNotes/{{Hawaii}} who competed from the 1970s into the 21st Century. He debuted in 1970 and worked in various territories, particularly UsefulNotes/{{Florida}}, UsefulNotes/LosAngeles, UsefulNotes/{{Portland}} and UsefulNotes/{{Vancouver}} before first catching on in [[Wrestling/AmericanWrestlingAssociation the AWA]]. He left the AWA for UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco and would also compete in Texas and Georgia before going back to San Francisco. While he had been a {{Face}} for the first years of his career, he started working {{Heel}} in San Francisco. He alternated among San Francisco, Florida and Hawaii for a while. He debuted in Wrestling/{{WWE}} in 1981, year in which ''Wrestling/TheWrestlingObserverNewsletter'' named him "Best Heel.".

He would hold the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/ic.html WWE Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship]] twice and had significant feuds with Wrestling/PedroMorales, Wrestling/JimmySnuka and Wrestling/RickySteamboat. He eventually turned face in late 1987 and left in 1988. He would go on to work for various promotions, including Wrestling/{{ECW}}, where he was a 2x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/ecw/ecw-h.html NWA ECW Heavyweight Champion]]. He retired in 2003.

* ArchEnemy: Wrestling/BarryWindham, Wrestling/BobBacklund, Pedro Morales, Jimmy Snuka, Tony Atlas, Wrestling/RockyJohnson, Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat, [[Wrestling/GregValentine Greg "The Hammer" Valentine]] and Dino Bravo.

Donald Muraco (born September 10, 1949) is a retired American {{Professional Wrestl|ing}}er from Sunset Beach, UsefulNotes/{{Hawaii}} who competed from the 1970s into the 21st Century. He debuted in 1970 and worked in various territories, particularly UsefulNotes/{{Florida}}, UsefulNotes/LosAngeles, UsefulNotes/{{Portland}} and UsefulNotes/{{Vancouver}} before first catching on in [[Wrestling/AmericanWrestlingAssociation the AWA]]. He left the AWA for UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco and would also compete in Texas and Georgia before going back to San Francisco. While he had been a {{Face}} for the first years of his career, he started working {{Heel}} in San Francisco. He alternated among San Francisco, Florida and Hawaii for a while. He debuted in Wrestling/{{WWE}} in 1981. He would hold the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/ic.html WWE Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship]] twice and had significant feuds with Pedro Morales, Wrestling/JimmySnuka and Ricky Steamboat. He eventually turned face in late 1987 and left in 1988. He would go on to work for various promotions, including Wrestling/{{ECW}}, where he was a 2x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/ecw/ecw-h.html NWA ECW Heavyweight Champion]]. He retired in 2003. In 1981, ''Wrestling/TheWrestlingObserverNewsletter'' named him "Best Heel."

* ArchEnemy: Wrestling/PedroMorales, Jimmy Snuka, Wrestling/RickySteamboat

* FinishingMove: Tombstone Piledriver, Asiatic Spike (Thumb to the throat).
* HeelFaceTurn: When he got into an argument with then-tag team partner [[Wrestling/BobOrtonJr "Cowboy" Bob Orton]] after a match on national television (following a loss to Tito Santana and Hillbilly Jim). The tag team's split had been teased for weeks on the WWF's programs during the summer of 1987 before a frustrated Orton shoving Muraco over when he thought he was showing him up while attempting to do Orton's suplex on Santana. Muraco was made the face and got the upper hand in matches against Orton, but his turn was not solidified until early that fall, when he saved "Superstar" Billy Graham from a 3-on-1 attack by Slick, the One Man Gang and "The Natural" Butch Reed.

* ALadyOnEachArm: Back in his heel days in WWE, he cut a promo on Hulk Hogan where he was on a beach with a woman in a bikini hanging off of each of his arms.

* PressurePoint: He used the Thumb Chokehold, a move where he would thrust his thumb into his opponent's neck to knock him out.

* RedBaron: First "The Magnificent" then "The Rock" ([[NamesTheSame no]] [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson not him]])

* TheStoner: Was this apparently. Bobby Heenan described him in a shoot interview: "Good man...good weed!"
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