Dick Dunn

Last updated: April 16, 2025

Title History

 

  • NWA Gulf Coast Heavyweight title defeating Jerry Graham (August 23, 1961);
  • NWA Gulf Coast Heavyweight title Awarded (March 18, 1964);
  • NWA Gulf Coast Heavyweight title defeating Mighty Yankee (January 13, 1965);
  • NWA Gulf Coast Heavyweight title defeating Don Carson (September 16, 1965);
  • NWA Gulf Coast Heavyweight title defeating Ramon Torres (July 27, 1966);
  • NWA Gulf Coast Heavyweight title defeating Don Carson (December 14, 1967);
  • NWA (Mid America) Southern Tag Team titles (as Red Shadow) w/Don Carson won a tournament (April ??, 1968);
  • NWA (Mid America) Southern Tag Team titles (as Red Shadow) w/Don Carson beat Dennis Hall & Ken Lucas (May 2, 1968);
  • NWA (Mid America) Southern Tag Team titles (as Red Shadow) w/Don Carson beat Dennis Hall & Ken Lucas (May 13, 1968);
  • NWA (Mid America) Southern Tag Team titles (as Red Shadow) w/Don Carson beat Dennis Hall & Ken Lucas (June 24, 1968);
  • NWA (Mid America) Southern Tag Team titles (as Red Shadow) w/Don Carson beat Lou Thesz & Jackie Fargo (August 20, 1968);
  • NWA (Mid America) Southern Tag Team titles (as Red Shadow) w/Don Carson beat Buddy Fuller & Lester Welch (Sept 30, 1968);
  • NWA Gulf Coast Heavyweight title defeating Flash Monroe (October 28, 1968);
  • NWA Gulf Coast Tag Team titles w/Don Carson defeating Interns (November 8, 1968);
  • NWA Gulf Coast Tag Team titles w/Don Carson defeating Flash & Rocket Monroe (January 15, 1969);
  • NWA (Gulf Coast) Alabama Heavyweight title defeating Rocket Monroe (January 2, 1970);
  • NWA Gulf Coast Tag Team titles w/Ken Lucas defeating Flash & Rocket Monroe (January 16, 1970);
  • NWA Austra Asian Tag Team titles w/Don Carson Awarded (January ??, 1973);
  • NWA Austra Asian Tag Team titles w/Don Carson defeating Medics (March 9, 1973);
  • NWA (Gulf Coast) Alabama Heavyweight title defeating Eddie Sullivan (August 17, 1973);
  • NWA (Gulf Coast) Alabama Heavyweight title defeating Duke Miller (January 4, 1974);
  • NWA (Gulf Coast) Alabama Heavyweight title defeating Randy Tyler (February 22, 1975);
  • NWA (Gulf Coast) Alabama Heavyweight title defeating Rip Tyler (April 11, 1975);
  • NWA (Gulf Coast) Alabama Heavyweight title defeating Mighty Yankee (May 30, 1975);
  • NWA (Gulf Coast) Alabama Heavyweight title defeating Don Duffy (August 15, 1975);
  • NWA (Mid America) World Tag Team titles (as Masked Superstars) w/Leon Baxter defeating Assassins (August ??, 1976);
  • NWA (Gulf Coast) Alabama Heavyweight title defeating Wrestling Pro (November 26, 1976);

 

Career History

 

  • 1960s: Dick Dunn spent worked on the west coast and in the Pacific Northwest and even did a six month tour of Australia..
  • Dick Dunn and Billy Garrett were a version of the Masked Medics in Florida and the Red Demons in the Carolinas..
  • Dick Dunn had the most success in Alabama’s Gulf Coast, where he held the Gulf Coast title on five occassions between 1961 – 68..
  • 1976: Dick Dunn and his biggest rival, the Wrestling Pro (Leon Baxter) went to Tennessee as a team known as the Masked Superstars!
  • Late 1976: Dick Dunn had one last short run in Alabama before retiring from the ring..
  • Dick Dunn was a sheriff of a Dry County in Southern Alabama..
  • June 6, 1995: Richard Demonbreun (known in the wrestling world as Dick Dunn) passed away..

 

nickname: Dynamite
birthday: June 10, 1930
hometown: Nashville, Tennessee
Moved to Lowry, Alabama
debut: 1960
previous names: Red Shadow (Tennessee)
The Good Doctor (Florida)
notable feuds: Terry Garvin
Ronnie Garvin
Pancho Villa
Don Carson
Don Duffy
Bill Malone
The Wrestling Pro
Don Vitelli
Rocket Monroe
Duke Miller
Rip Tyler
Eddie Sullivan
gender: Male
status: Deceased
type: Single
current promotion: Inactive

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