History Wrestling / DonMuraco

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As usual, you can find the basics at [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Muraco The Other Wiki]].

* AlohaHawaii: Of course.

Don Muraco (b. 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."

* 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.

* HeelFaceTurn: When he got into an argument with then-tag team partner "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.

!!! "The Magnificent Tropes":

* BerserkButton: He did '''NOT''' like it when the fans chanted "Beach bum! Beach bum!"
** He did not care for being called "Don" either. It's "Magnificent Muraco" to you.
* FinishingMove: Tombstone Piledriver, Asiatic Spike (Thumb to the throat)

** BaldOfEvil: After he was unmasked.

* UnderwearOfPower

* RealSongThemeTune:
** (in ECW): Music/ElvisPresley's "Blue Hawaii"
** In [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} WWF]] with SuperstarBillyGraham as a manger, he used an instrumental version of the theme to ''Theatre/JesusChristSuperstar''.

** In [[{{WWE}} WWF]] with SuperstarBillyGraham as a manger, he used an instrumental version of the theme to ''Theatre/JesusChristSuperstar''.

'''Don Muraco''' (b. 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."

** In [[{{WWE}} WWF]] with SuperstarBillyGraham as a manger, he used an instrumental version of the theme to ''JesusChristSuperstar''.

* UrExample: The first winner of the King of the Ring.

* HeelFaceTurn: When he got into an argument with then-tag team partner "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 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 where he was on a beach with a woman in a bikini hanging off of each of his arms.

* ArchEnemy: Pedro Morales, Jimmy Snuka, Wrestling/RickySteamboat

* FinishingMove: Piledriver, Asiatic Spike (Thumb to the throat)

'''Don Muraco''' (b. 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, Jimmy Snuka 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."

* UrExample: The first winner of the King of the Ring.