Pat Patterson (wrestler)
Pat Patterson was a Canadian–American professional wrestler. He was the first ever WWE Intercontinental Champion and creator of the Royal Rumble match. He died in a car accident in 2012, at the age of 78. He is survived by his wife, Louie Dondero, and their three children.
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Pat Patterson was a Canadian–American professional wrestler. He was the first ever WWE Intercontinental Champion and creator of the Royal Rumble match. In 2019, Patterson became the oldest person to ever win a title in WWE history, after winning the WWE 247 Championship at 78 years old. Patterson was born into an impoverished French-speaking family in the Ville-Marie borough of Montreal, Quebec, Canada on January 19, 1941. In 1962, Patterson – despite speaking no English – immigrated to the United States to pursue his professional wrestling career. In 1979, Patterson debuted in the World Wrestling Federation, working as a heel, under the tutelage of The Grand Wizard. As a villain, Patterson’s primary feuds were with WWF Champion Bob DiBiase and then American Champion Ted Diase. He died in a car accident in 2012, at the age of 78. He is survived by his wife, Louie Dondero, and their three children. He also leaves behind a wife and two sons. He has a daughter and a son with whom he had a long-term relationship, and a daughter with whom she has two children. Patterson is also the grandfather of two sons, who were born in 2011 and 2013. He retired from professional wrestling in 2014. He currently works as a creative consultant and producer for WWE as a producer and creative consultant for the company’s programming. Patterson has also worked as a director and a producer for several other companies, including WWE, WCW, and TNA.
He won the WWE World Tag Team Championship with Ray Stevens in 1965 and again in 1967. In the late 1960s, Patterson and Stevens formed a tag team, The Blond Bombers, which won the NWA World TagTeam Championship twice. The Blonde Bombers were described by Bret Hart as \”considered by many to be the best tag team of the 1970s\”. In the same year, he undertook a six-week tour of Japan, facing Antonio Inoki in a series of bouts. In 1972, Patterson turned face again, after feuding with Lars Anderson, who was managed by Dr. Ken Ramey. In 1978, he joined Verne Gagne’s Minneapolis, Minnesota-based American Wrestling Association. He later performed intermittently for the AWA until that year. In 1983, Patterson made his professional return to Quebec in a number of bouts for the Montreal-based Lutte International International Wrestling promotion. He held the Canadian International Tag Team championship on five occasions between 1980 and 1983. In 1984, he wrestled for Rocky Johnson and won the tag team championship. In 1985, he won the Cow Palace Battle Royal in San Francisco. In 1986, he teamed with Rocky Johnson to win the American Championship Wrestling from Florida promotion. In 1988, he became the first person to win two NWA Tag Team Championships in one year, as part of a three-way team with Eddie Graham and Rocky Johnson. In 1989, he was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame as a member of the 1996 inductees.
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