Robert Fuller
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| Robert Fuller | |
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| Ring name(s) | Robert Fuller Col. Robert Parker Tennessee Lee |
| Billed height | 6 ft 5 in (196 cm) |
| Billed weight | 240 lb (109 kg) |
| Born | May 14, 1951 Dyersburg, Tennessee |
| Trained by | Buddy Fuller |
| Debut | 1970 |
Robert Fuller (born Robert Welch on May 14, 1951 in Dyersburg, Tennessee) is a professional wrestler and manager.
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[edit] Career
Robert Fuller is the son of wrestler Buddy Fuller and the grandson of wrestler Roy Welch. He has a brother who wrestled, Ron Fuller, and a cousin that wrestled with him, Jimmy Golden. He was married to Sylvia Fuller, who sometimes managed him.
Fuller started wrestling in 1970 in the Alabama and Tennessee regions. He often teamed with his cousin Jimmy Golden and they won many tag team titles.
In the 1980s, he took his brother Ron's idea and made a stable called The Stud Stable. Among the members in the independent versions of this stable were Golden, Sid Vicious, Cactus Jack, Dutch Mantel, Gary Young and Brian Lee.
He spent some time in the American Wrestling Association with Golden in 1988 and they feuded with the Rock 'N Roll Express (Ricky Morton & Robert Gibson).
He also wrestled in the Texas area where he would team with Jeff Jarrett.
In 1993, Fuller went to World Championship Wrestling as manager Col. Robert Parker, a takeoff of Col. Tom Parker of Elvis Presley fame. He managed Sid Vicious and teamed with manager Harley Race and his protege, Vader, to feud with Sting and Davey Boy Smith.
In 1994, he managed "Stunning" Steve Austin before reforming his "Stud Stable" with Golden as "Bunkhouse Buck", Meng, Dick Slater, Terry Funk and Arn Anderson. They feuded heavily with Dusty and Dustin Rhodes.
In 1995, Col. Parker got the hots for Sherri Martel. He courted her and neither the Stud Stable nor Sherri's charges, Harlem Heat, liked it. Parker and Sherri went to get married and Sherri was attacked by Madusa, who was supposed to be Parker's girlfriend. Parker and Sherri split and feuded and then made up again, with Parker leaving the Stud Stable to help Sherri manage Harlem Heat. While with Harlem Heat, Parker's official title was "promoter," while Sherri retained the "manager" designation.
In 1996, Harlem Heat fired Parker, and he quickly started to manage "The Amazing French Canadians" (Jacques Rougeau, Jr. & Pierre Ouellet). Harlem Heat and The Amazing French-Canadians immediately began feuding.
He left WCW in 1998 and resurfaced in the WWF as Tennessee Lee, manager of Jeff Jarrett. He did not stay for long and went back to wrestling with Golden on the independent circuit in Alabama.
As of 2005, Fuller can still be found wrestling occasionally for NWA-Birmingham.
On June 2, 2006 in Irondale, Alabama, Shannon Spruill faced El Mexico for the NWA Wrestle Birmingham Junior Heavyweight Championship. With the help of her manager, Robert Fuller (who referred to Spruill as his "Million Dollar Baby"), Spruil defeated El Mexico to win her third wrestling title.
On September 14, 2006, Fuller was seen, once again as Col. Parker, being interviewed by Bobby Roode on TNA iMPACT!
[edit] Wrestling facts
[edit] Managers
- Sylvia Fuller
- Ron Slinker
- Jonathan Boyd
- Ronald Gossett
- Eddie Gilbert
- Downtown Bruno
[edit] Championships and accomplishments
Continental Wrestling Association
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- CWA Tag Team Championship (3 times) - with Jimmy Golden (2) and Brian Lee (1)
Mid-Southern Wrestling
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- Mid-Southern Heavyweight Championship (3 times)
- Mid-Southern Tag Team Championship (2 times) - with Toru Tanaka (1) and Bill Dundee (1)
- Regional
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- NWA Florida Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Kendall Windham
- NWA Georgia Tag Team Championship (4 times) - with Tim Woods (1) and Bob Armstrong (3)
- NWA Southeast Continental Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
- NWA Southeast Continental Tag Team Championship (2 times) - with Jimmy Golden
- NWA Southeast Heavyweight Championship (5 times)
- NWA Southeast Tag Team Championship (15 times) - with Ron Fuller (2), Eddie Boulder (1), Jos LeDuc (3), Bob Armstrong (2), and Jimmy Golden (7)
- NWA Southeast Television Championship (2 times)
- NWA World Tag Team Championship (Mid-America Version) (1 time) - with Kevin Sullivan
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- PWI ranked him # 332 of the 500 best singles wrestlers during the "PWI Years" in 2003.
- PWI ranked him # 80 of the best tag teams of the "PWI Years" with Jimmy Golden.
United States Wrestling Association
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- USWA Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Brian Lee
World Class Championship Wrestling
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- WCWA Tag Team Championship (5 times) - with Brian Lee (1), Jimmy Golden (1), and Jeff Jarrett (3)
Other Titles
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- NAWA Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
