Harley Race | |
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Born | Quitman, Missouri, U.S. | April 11, 1943
Died | August 1, 2019 St. Charles, Missouri, U.S. | (aged 76)
Professional wrestling career | |
Ring name(s) | Harley Race Jack Long The Great Mortimer |
Billed height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) |
Billed weight | 245 lb (111 kg) |
Billed from | Kansas City, Missouri, U.S. |
Trained by | Stanislaus Zbyszko Wladek Zbyszko Buddy Austin Ray Gordon Gus Karras |
Debut | 1960 |
Retired | 1991 |
Harley Leland Race (April 11, 1943 – August 1, 2019) was an American retired professional wrestler. He was best known for wrestling for the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), American Wrestling Association (AWA), World Wrestling Federation (WWF), and World Championship Wrestling (WCW).
He was one of only six people to be inducted into each of the WWE Hall of Fame, the WCW Hall of Fame, the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame and the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame.
On March 1, 2019, Race's close friend Ric Flair announced that Race was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer.[1] He died five months later on August 1 from the disease in St. Charles, Missouri, aged 76.[2]