Harley Race

Born: 1943-04-11, Quitman, Mississippi, USA

Died: 2019-08-01

Biography

Harley Leland Race is a retired American professional wrestler and is a current promoter and trainer. During his career as a wrestler, he held the NWA World Heavyweight Championship 8 times, and is considered by many to be the greatest wrestler of all time. He worked for all of the major wrestling promotions, including the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), the American Wrestling Association (AWA), WWE, and World Championship Wrestling (WCW). He was the first NWA United States Heavyweight Champion, which is now known as the WWE United States Championship. Race is one of six men 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.

Filmography

• Raw (1993)
• TNA iMPACT! (2004)
• WWE Saturday Night's Main Event (1985)
• WWE: Macho Man - The Randy Savage Story (2014)
• WWE: Best of WWE at Madison Square Garden (2013)
• WWE WrestleMania IV (1988)
• WWE Badd Blood: In Your House (1997)
• WWE Survivor Series 1988 (1988)
• WCW Bash at the Beach 1994 (1994)
• WWE: Top 50 Superstars of All Time (2010)
• WCW WrestleWar 1992 (1992)
• WWE: The Best of Saturday Night's Main Event (2009)
• NWA Battle of the Belts (1985)
• WWE: Greatest Wrestling Stars of the '90s (2009)
• WWE Survivor Series 1987 (1987)
• WCW The Great American Bash 1990 (1990)
• WWE Royal Rumble 1988 (1988)
• George "The Animal" Steele (1987)
• WWE Royal Rumble 1989 (1989)
• WCW Clash of The Champions XVII (1991)
• WCW SuperBrawl II (1992)
• WCW SuperBrawl III (1993)
• WCW Clash of The Champions XXVI (1994)
• WCW The Great American Bash 1992 (1992)
• WCW Starrcade 1993 (1993)
• The Best of the WWF: volume 16 Around the World (1988)
• The WWF's Even More Unusual Matches (1987)
• WWE: Hulk Hogan: The Ultimate Anthology (2006)
• WCW The Great American Bash 1991 (1991)
• WWE The Big Event (1986)