Paul Ellering

At 71 years old, Paul Ellering has this physical status:

Paul Ellering (born August 22, 1953) is an American professional wrestling manager, a veteran wrestler, and a dog musher.

He has recently signed WWE to a legends deal.

Ellering spent the majority of his wrestling career with the Road Warriors (Animal and Hawk), working with them from 1983 to 1990 and then occasionally between 1992 and 1997.

He not only acted as the team's on-screen boss, but also handled the team's affairs outside of the ring, including employment discussions and travel arrangements.

In 2011, Ellering and the Road Warriors were inducted into both the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame and the WWE Hall of Fame.

He returned to the ring at NXT Takeover: The End as the boss of The Authors of Pain, a heel tag team making their debut five years later, in June 2016. He was a professional wrestler before becoming a boss but before being a full-time boss, he was only wrestling on rare occasions.

In the late 1990s, he was involved in a storyline in which he eventually turned on the Road Warriors and oversaw Disciples of Apocalypse as they battled the Road Warriors.

He started racing in the Iditarod and John Beargrease Dog Sled Race after retiring from full-time wrestling.

Early life

Ellering was a natural powerlifter before entering the wrestling arena, he set a world record in the deadlift at 745 pounds (338 kg).

Personal life

Since retiring from competitive wrestling, he moved to Alaska to become a sled dog racer, competing in the Iditarod. He came in 54th place in 2000.

Ellering became the owner and operator of the Historic Rock Tavern in Grey Eagle, Minnesota, in 2002. After being on the market for three years, it was sold to new hands in 2020. Rebecca, Rachael, and Saul are three of his children. Rachael's son earned bronze medal at the 2014 World Powerlifting Championships. In December 2015, she made her professional wrestling debut.

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Professional wrestling career

Ellering was raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota, at a camp run by the 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 return to wrestle in singles and tag teams for Gagne in Bill Watts' Mid-South promotion, as well as Jerry Jartt's Memphis promotion, where he was partnered with boss Jimmy Hart. Paul Ellering, now known as "precious" is a tyrant, as a victim and a liar for Jesse Ventura, who defeated Jerry Lawler and Jimmy Valiant, who were both a wrestler and a heel.

Ellering, who suffered his knee in a match with Robert Gibson in 1982, started working with children for Mid South, but his career came to an end.

Ole Anderson, a booker in Georgia, acknowledged his speaking skills, but gave him a job as a boss. Ellering formed the Legion of Doom, which included wrestlers such as King Kong Bundy, Jake Roberts, and The Road Warriors. This was later reduced to just the Warriors who won the NWA National Tag Team Championship three times before transferring to the American Wrestling Association, where the Warriors – and Ellering by association – became a fan favorite.

Ellering has been known for governing the Warriors from 1983 to 1992, including stints in the AWA, several National Wrestling Alliance nations, New Japan Pro Wrestling, All-Japan Pro Wrestling, and the World Wrestling Federation. Ellering was also the team's real-life manager; he arranged their games, lined up their flights, made hotel reservations, and kept track of their expenses.

Ellering and the Warriors made the move to Jim Crockett Promotions, where they competed for the Crockett Cup (1986) and the WCW World Tag Team Championship (1988), where the team and manager briefly turned villains to win the latter.) Ellering, primarily a boss, moved between the ropes as a competitor, particularly at the 1987 NWA Great American Bash, in which he competed with the Road Warriors, Nikita Koloff, and Dusty Rhodes to face the Four Horsemen and their boss J. Dillon in the first ever WarGames match. In a 'Hair vs. Teddy Long' match, Ellering will also face Teddy Long in a 'Hair vs.' In 1990, a hair's match at the World Championship Wrestling Capital Combat event took place, winning the tournament.

Ellering returned as the Hawk and Animal's manager (by now using The Legion Of Doom as their official team name) at Wrestlemania VIII and stayed with them until they left the WWF in 1992. Ellering, the puppeteer and voice of the dummy, was "rediscovered" by Hawk and Animal in a marketing campaign where they had "Rocko" a ventriloquist's dummy.

Ellering and Animal's account of his time with the Disciples of Apocalypse, who were then rivals with the Legion of Doom, had a difficult time dealing with another team against Hawk and Animal, and had a hard time ripping on his former team on the radio. He was back to directing the LOD, most notably during a tag-team match at WrestleMania XV later this evening, although unsuccessful.

Dusty Rhodes and the Road Warriors were inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2011.

Ellering returned to WWE wrestling at NXT TakeOver: The End (Akam and Rezar), a debuting Authors of Pain (Akam and Rezar), on June 8, 2016, after the group's assault on American Alpha, turning Ellering heel for the first time in 18 years. NXT Takeover: Akam and Rezar defeated Akam and Rezar to their first reign as NXT Tag Team Champions on January 28, 2017. On April 9, 2018, Paul Ellering made his debut on Raw with Akam and Rezar as they answered a direct challenge from Heath Slater and Rhyno. Akam and Rezar ended their match by shoving him away and leaving him ringside as they returned backstage.

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