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Tito Montez


Title History

  • Arizona Heavyweight title (more times than anyone);
  • Western States title;
  • Western States Tag Team titles w/Arman Hussein
  • (Phoenix) United States title defeating The Spoiler (Mac McFarland) (1977);
  • Arizona Tag Team titles;
  • Texas State Junior Heavyweight title;

Career Highlights

  • In the first half of the 1960s Don Kent went to Arizona and worked in the local wrestling promotion, where he was booked as a sadistic heel. In Arizona, Kent worked a storyline that drew full houses at the Phoenix Madison Square Garden against local face (good guy) Tito Montez.
  • ~~~The two faced off week after week in a variety of specialty matches such as a chain match, “Arizona death match” and falls count anywhere match.
  • ~~~The angle ended with a steel cage match that saw Montez win after overcoming Kent’s cheating ways.
  • ~~~One week after the storyline ended, attendance dropped by half and Don Kent soon left the area.
  • Tito Montez was inducted into the Oregon/Washington Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame.
  • Tito Montez was also inducted into the Western States Wrestling Hall of Fame.
  • 2003: Tito Montrez was honored by the Cauliflower Alley Club for his outstanding career achievements.
  • Tito Montez now owns and operates a successful carpet cleaning business in the Northwest.

 

Updated:

Trained By

Self Trained

Debut

1953

Birthday

Hometown

San Antonio, Texas

Gender

Height

5'7"

Weight

210 lbs

Finishing Move(s)

Favorite Move(s)

Abdominal Stretch
Flying Head Scissors
Drop Kick

Notable Feuds

Don Arnold
Duke Keomuka
Gorgeous George
Jody Arnold
Don Kent
Karl Von Brock
The Von Steigers
Woody farmer
The Comancharos
Danny McShane
Henry Pilusso
Apache Gringo
Jimmy Kent
Fuji - San & Sato - San
Jay Dillon
Apache Gringo
Apache Gringo
Leo Garibaldi
Pat Patterson
Freddie Gomez
The Wasp
Ted Cristy
Bearcat Wright
Sweet Daddy Watts
Bobby Mayne (Jaggers)
Chuck karbo
Fidel Grimo
John Ringer
Maniac Mike Gordon
The Spoiler
John Shane
Sailor Lu Kimm
Karl Von Brock
Maniac Mike Gordon
Killer Kane
Terry Garvin
The Medics
Tony Borne
Marcel Firpo
Ham Lee
Alvaro Velasco
Tarzan Toureville (Tyler)
Gene Vinski

Status