From: Tulsa, OK
Birthday: Dec 10
Feds worked for: NWA,
TSW
Signature Moves: Abdominal Stretch, Knee Lift
Career Highlights: -NWA (Los Angeles) World Champion
-NWA (Los Angeles) World Light Heavyweight Champion (3x)
-NWA (Midwest) World Champion
-NWA (Tennessee/Georgia) World Junior Heavyweight Champion
-National Wrestling Association World Junior Heavyweight Champion
-NWA World Light Heavyweight Champion (2x)
Other Facts: -Born in Garvin, OK
-Graduated from Central High School in Tulsa. He was captain of Central's 1st state championship team in 1928.
-Wrestled collegiately at
Oklahoma A&M (now known as Oklahoma State University). He won the National Intercollegiate Title in 1931 while he was there.
-Husband of pro wrestling co-promoter
Dorothy McGuirk
-Father of wrestling announcer
Mike McGuirk
-Grandfather of pro wrestler
Max McGuirk
-Promoter for the Tri-State and Mid-South territories from January 6, 1958 until 1982.
-Was a former Tulsa Police Officer
-Lost eyesight in one eye as a result of a swimming pool accident. Lost his eyesight in the other eye as a result of a car accident yet continued as play-by-play announcer. His driver,
Bob Clay, locked the car’s brakes in an attempt to avoid a collision, causing McGuirk’s head to hit the front windscreen. McGuirk’s glasses shattered into his eye, causing irreparable damage.
-Named Second Vice President of the NWA in September 1950 just six months after his career was cut short by a car accident in Muskogee.
-Named Lucha Libre Luchador Del Ano in 1935.
-Inducted into the Oklahoma Athletic Hall of Fame in 1977.
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Jim Ross mentions
Leroy McGuirk as one of his mentors
-Passed away on September 9, 1988 at the age of 78 at his home in Claremore. He had been suffering from Alzheimer's disease.
-Posthumously inducted into the International Wrestling Institute and Museum Hall of Fame in 2004
-Postuhmously inducted into the
MWA Hall of Honour on May 7, 2010
