Title History
Career Highlights
- After Happy Humphrey retired from the ring, he lost so much weight that he made the Guinness Book of World Records..
- Happy Humphrey was billed at 750 lbs. once fought Haystacks Calhoun in a match (pictured above)..
- ~~~Haystacks Calhoun won when Happy Humphrey couldn’t get back into the ring by the count of 20..
- June 30, 1960–New Orleans LA: Happy Humphrey defeated Billy Cox & Black Panther (unmasked as Tony Neopolitan)..
- July 7, 1960–New Orleans LA: Happy Humphrey & Adrian Baillargeon beat Tony Neopolitan & Jesse Jiminez & Tony Jiminez..
- Happy Humphrey played the part of “Tiny” in the 1975 motion picture “Moonrunner”..
- March 14, 1989: Happy Humphrey passed away…
Tom Wrote: His total weight loss was about 600 lbs. I read that he gained most of it back prior to his death. Also Harley Race’s first job in the wrestling business was as a driver for Happy as he was too large to drive.