WRESTLER PROFILES

	Wrestler: The Black Hand Real Name: Joe Turner Birthday: Hometown: Marital Status: Height & Weight: Trained by: Debut: 1965 Previous Names: Joe "Sky" Turner Finishing Move: The Loaded Glove Top Rope Knee Drop Favorite Moves: Brawling Tactics Foreign Objects Notable Feuds: Ken Lucas Man Mountain Mike Rocket Monroe Lonnie Lee Flash Monroe Jerry Oates
Southern Heavyweight title defeating Man Mountain Mike (????, 1966); NWA Mississippi Tag Team titles w/Bill Bowman (as Interns) defeating ?????? (????, 1968); NWA Gulf Coast Tag Team titles w/Bill Bowman (as Interns) defeating Bobby & Lee Fields (May 25, 1968); NWA Gulf Coast Tag Team titles w/Bill Bowman (as Interns) defeating Pepe & Ramon Perez (June 21, 1968); NWA Gulf Coast Tag Team titles w/Bill Bowman (as Interns) defeating Mario Galento & Lee Fields (August 14, 1968); NWA Gulf Coast Tag Team titles w/Bill Bowman (as Interns) defeating Bob Kelly & Bobby Fields (October 16, 1968); NWA (Mid America) Southern Tag Team titles (as Joe Sky) w/Bill Sky defeating Mighty Yankees (February 27, 1969); NWA (Mid America) Southern Tag Team titles w/Bill Sky defeating Johnny Long & Tojo Yamamoto (April 24, 1969); NWA (Gulf Coast) Alabama Heavyweight title defeating Ken Lucas (July 16, 1969); NWA Gulf Coast Tag Team titles w/Frank Dalton defeating Mac MacFarland & Ken Lucas (August 20, 1969); City of Mobile Heavyweight title defeating Rocket Monroe (December 9, 1970); NWA South East title defeating ?????????? (????, 1977);
Late 1965: The Black Hand (Joe Turner) made his debut in Florida in areas not controlled by Cowboy Luttrall.. Early 1966: The Black Hand defeated Man Mountain Mike for the Southern Heavyweight Title in Joyland, Florida.. June 6, 1969: The Black Hand defeated Ken Lucas to win the Alabama State Heavywieght Title in Mobile, Alabama July 16, 1969: The Black Hand defeated Ken Lucas to win the Gulf Coast Southeastern Heavyweight Title.. July 20, 1969: The Black Hands defeated Ken Lucas & Mac MacFarland to win the Gulf Coast Tag Team Titles.. September 1969: Rocket Monroe unmasked Black Hand #2 as Frank Dalton -- after that Black Hand #2 was played by Frank Martinez.. December 8, 1969: The Black Hands defeated Ken Lucas & Billy Boy Hines to win the Gulf Coast Tag Team titles.. April 24, 1976: The Black Hand & Mike Webster defeated Ted Oates & Jerry Oates to win the GCW Tag Team titles.. Late 1976: The Black Hand feuded with Lonnie Lee & Pegasus in a series of singles and tag team matches.. January 20, 1977: The Blackhand dropped the Southeast Heavyweight Championship belt to Lonnie Lee in Seminole, Florida. Early 1977: After Lee refused to defend the belt, The Black Hand was reinstated as the SouthEast Heavyweight Champion!