Johnny Barend
Johnny Barend was born in Rochester, New York, United States on March 27th, 1929 and is the American Professional Wrestler. At the age of 82, Johnny Barend biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
At 82 years old, Johnny Barend has this physical status:
He was trained to wrestle professionally by Ed Don George and made his professional debut on November 1, 1949, defeating Faro Rinaldi.
In 1956, he started teaming with Gene Dubuque, who was wrestling under the name, Magnificent Maurice. Barend's original manager was Ernie Roth, then using the name Mr. Kleen. Roth would gain fame in the WWWF as the Grand Wizard of Wrestling during the 1970s. Barend and Maurice went on to win many tag-team championships. Barend first appeared in Hawaii with 50th State Big Time Wrestling in September 1955.
In 1962–1963, Barend was a regular tag team partner with NWA/WWWF world champion Buddy Rogers. The duo won the Capital Wrestling Corporation's United States Tag Team Championship on July 5, 1962, holding it for 245 days. Barend would hold the NWA Hawaii Tag Team Championship a number of times with a variety of partners as well as the San Francisco version of the NWA World Tag Team Championship.
Barend left the WWWF in September 1963. The following month, he returned to the New York-based NWA Upstate promotion. Over the following months, his regular opponents included Hans Schmidt, Ilio DiPaolo, Karl Von Hess, and Moose Cholak.
Barend left NWA Upstate in mid-1964 to wrestle for 50th State Big Time Wrestling in Hawaii. He returned to NWA Upstate in January 1965. During 1965, Barend regularly faced Chris and John Tolos, as well as opponents such as Hans Schmidt, Johnny Powers, and The Beast. In December 1965, Barend left NWA Upstate once again to return to Hawaii.
Barend wrestled Dory Funk, Jr. in 1969 for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship. He retired from wrestling in 1972.