Title History
- NWA Western States Tag Team titles w/Abe Jacobs defeating Davey O` Hannon & Dennis Stamp (July ??, 1976);
- NWA Mid America Tag Team titles w/Ray Candy defeating Samoans (Tio & Tapu) (June ??, 1977);
- NWA Mid America Tag Team titles w/Ray Candy defeating Samoans (Tio & Tapu) (August 6, 1977);
- ICW (Poffo) Tag Team titles w/Rip Rogers defeating ????????? (May ??, 1982);
- NWA (Florida) Southern Heavyweight title defeating Jim Neidhart (August 25, 1984);
- NWA (Florida) Southern Heavyweight title defeating Kevin Sullivan (September 22, 1984);
Career Highlights
- Pez Whatley made his rounds through just about every major promotion in his active days but was most successful in the South..
- 1977: Pez Whatley teamed with Ray Candy to hold Mid-America Team Team titles..
- 1984: Pez Whatley held the NWA Southern title in Florida several times..
- January 16, 1985: Rick Rude defeated “Pistol” Pez Whatley for the Florida version of the NWA Southern Heavyweight title..
- Pez Whatley formed a tag team with Hustler Rip Rogers in ICW (Poffo) as the “Convertible Blonds” (even though Pez wasn’t blonde)..
- Late 80s: Pez Whatley teamed with Tiger Conway as “The Jive Tones” in the NWA..
- Spring 1988: Pez Whatley wrestled in Continental Wrestling Federation under the name “Willie B. Hurt”..
- Pez Whatley also worked behind the scenes for Ted Turner’s World Championship Wrestling in that company’s later years..
- January 15, 2003: Pez Whatley Whatley suffers a heart attack..
- January 16, 2003: Pez Whatley’s problems continue as his kidneys shut down..
- January 18, 2003: Pez was doing better but will be transfered to a Nashville’s Vanderbilt Hospital..
- January 18, 2005: Pez Whatley passed away in a hospital in his native Chattanooga..