Black Gordman
| Black Gordman | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Victor Manuel Barajas |
| Born | October 5, 1936[1] Mexico City, Mexico[2] |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Black Gordman Victor Manuel Black Demon |
| Billed height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) |
| Billed weight | 231 lb (105 kg) |
| Debut | 1953 |
| Retired | 1986 |
Victor Manuel Barajas (born October 5, 1936) is a retired Mexican professional wrestler under the name Black Gordman. He teamed up with Great Goliath in Mexico and Los Angeles during most of his career. Gordman won the NWA Americas Tag Team Championship thirty-one times with ten different partners. His finishing move was the original DDT, later made famous by Jake "The Snake" Roberts.
Professional wrestling career
[edit]Barajas made his professional wrestling debut in Mexico in 1953. In 1966, Gordman won his first title, the Mexican National Heavyweight. In 1969, Gordman made his debut in Los Angeles. A year later, in 1970 he teamed up with the Great Goliath as a heel tag team. He and Goliath won the NWA Americas Tag Team Championship twenty times from 1970 to 1982.[3] They also worked in Texas, Japan, World Wide Wrestling Federation, San Francisco and Georgia.
Gordman on his own worked for Southwest Championship Wrestling in Houston, Houston Wrestling, and Mid-South Wrestling in the early 1980s. In 1983, he worked for the World Wrestling Federation. From 1984 to 1985, Gordman went to Puerto Rico where he won the WWC Puerto Rico Championship defeating Konga the Barbarian. He dropped the title to his tag partner Super Medico 1. He retired from wrestling in 1986.
Championships and accomplishments
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- Georgia Championship Wrestling
- NWA Georgia Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Great Goliath[4]
- NWA Hollywood Wrestling
- NWA Americas Heavyweight Championship (4 times)
- NWA Americas Tag Team Championship (31 times) – with Great Goliath (20), Bull Ramos (3), Pepper Gomez (1), Chris Markoff (1), Rocky Montero (1), Adrian Adonis (1), Chavo Guerrero Sr. (1), Hector Guerrero (1), Ryuma Go (1) and Master Lee (1)[5]
- NWA Beat The Champ Television Championship (3 times)
- Pacific Northwest Wrestling
- World Class Championship Wrestling
- NWA Texas Tag Team Championship (1 time) with Great Goliath (1)
- World Wrestling Council
References
[edit]- ^ Saalbach, Axel. "Wrestlingdata.com - The World's Largest Wrestling Database". www.wrestlingdata.com.
- ^ "Black Gordman".
- ^ "Black Gordman".
- ^ "NWA Georgia Tag Team Title". Wrestling-Titles.com. Puroresu Dojo. 2003.
- ^ WWA World Tag Team title history
- ^ "NWA Pacific Northwest Heavyweight Title". Wrestling Titles. Archived from the original on April 20, 2023. Retrieved June 11, 2023.
- ^ Royal Duncan & Gary Will (2006). "Puerto Rico: WWC World Tag Team Title". Wrestling Title Histories (4th ed.). Archeus Communications. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.
- ^ "World Wrestling Council World Tag Team Title". Wrestling-Titles.com. Retrieved April 28, 2015.