Nickname(s): Outlaw, The Masked
Man
From: Buckeye, A
Z
Aliases: Mighty Yankee 1, Wrestling Pro 2
Feds worked for: TSW, Gulf Coast Wrestling (FL),
NWA, Superstar Championship Wrestling (WA)
Finisher: The Boston Crab
Signature Moves: Thumb to Throat, Stomping headlock, The Powerslam
Career Highlights: -NWA Alabama Champion
-NWA (Alabama/Tennessee) World Tag Team Champion (3x; all w/ The Mighty Yankee # 2)
-NWA (Florida) Southern Tag Team Champion (w/ Frank Morell)
-NWA Gulf Coast Champion (3x)
-NWA (Gulf Coast) United States Tag Team Champion (4x, w/
Rip Tyler)
-NWA International Tag Team Champion (w/ Don Lee)
-NWA Louisiana Champion
-NWA Mississippi Champion (3x)
-NWA Mississippi Tag Team Champion (w/ Rip Tyler)
-NWA Southern Tag Team Champion (6x; 5 w/ Mighty Yankee 3, 1 w/ Mighty Yankee 2)
-SCW Western States Tag Team Chamopion (2x, 1 each w/ Rip Tyler &
Luke Brown)
-TSW United States Tag Team Champion (w/ Rip Tyler)
-Tri-State (Alabama) Tag Team Champion(w/ Rip Tyler)
Affiliates: Rip Tyler, Don Lee, Mighty Yankee # 2, The Wrestling Pro
Notable Feuds: Cowboy Bob Kelly, Chuck Golden,
Bad Boy Hines,
Dick Murdoch, Billy Anderson, Rick Renaldo, The Mighty Yankee # 2, Armon Hussein, Tommy Rich, Steve Kyle,
Ken Lucas, Nano Ortega, Phil Melby, Tony Hernandez, Krusher Karlsson, Stardust, Argentina Apollo, Bob Beasley, Jimmy Gilles, Sweet Daddy Banks,
Dick Dunn, Jerry Eagles, Reggie Parks, The Lumberjacks, Don Vitelli, John Ringer,
Thunderbolt Patterson,
Ripper Collins, Chris Colt, Luke Graham, Tito Montez, The
Medics, Logger Larson,
El Diablos 1 & 2, Joe Como,
Gorgeous George Jr., Ronnie Roberts
Official Website: www.myspace.com/outlaweddie
Other Facts: -Real name was Ruben Huizar.
-Born in Phoenix, AZ. Sometimes billed from San Antonio, TX
-Trained by Princess Tona Toma. He's one of the very few male wrestlers to be trained by a female wrestler.
-For a time, he wore a mask, but wrestled under his name
Eddie Sullivan. There didn't seem to be any purpose for this mask.
-In 1967, Eddie Sullivan had a lengthy run on the undercard in the
Oklahoma area, facing Ronnie Etchison,
Tarzan Baxter,
Rocky Montero, Gorgeous George, Jr and
Jerry London, as well as a then new/obscure newcomer with an amateur background named Gerald (Jerry) Brisco
-Sullivan rose to stardom in Arizona thanks to a feuds with Cowboy Bob Ellis which filled the old Phoenix Madison Square Garden to standing room only for over a month straight. Sullivan did receoive various shots at the NWA World Title during his southern run, including a main event in Mobile, Alabama, versus
Terry Funk.
-Sullivan had an expressed/verified dislike for
Tojo Yamamoto and noted how this man would always tease the trained bear on Gulas' shows until one evening when he and Rip Tyler heard Tojo coming and unlocked the cage, letting the angry bear out and though usually tame, the bear chased his antagonist all the way out of the building.
-Sullivan & Rip Tyler played wrestlers in bit parts in a couple of Japanese movies when they were on tour in Japan..
-1997: Eddie Sullivan & Cowboy Bob Kelly & The Time Traveler appeared in a short half hour film called Gunfight in Tombstone. Sullivan was not a very convincing Doc Holiday, with his size, supposed to be portraying a gunfighting dentist dying from TB.
-Performed real life heroics in Florida when he rescued a little girl trapped in an overturned trailer when a tornado hit..
-Trained a number of indy wrestlers including Moses Morales, Baron Brubaker, Killer Jack Kressig, and more. He was also supposedly helpful in training a young Bob Holly, who wrestled in the
WWE as Hardcore Holly..
-Was instrumental in helping to organize the annual old-timer reunion in Phoenix, Arizona. He was a frequent attendee at the old-timer reunions in Mobile, Alabama and Seattle, Washington. In Mobile, he received the "Man of the Year" award a few years before his death..
-Passed away at the age of 59 on November 24, 2000. The cause was either a heart attack or a stroke. He was buried in Sioux Falls, SD.
