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Mayes McLain

Height: 6' 3"

Weight: 225 lbs.

From: Pryor, OK

Birthday: Apr 16th

Pro Debut: March 1933

Aliases: The Masked Manager, The Mask’s Manager

Feds Worked For: NWA, Al Haft Sports (IL/OH), All Star Wrestling (NE/SD), Atlantic Athletic Commission (MA), Central States Wrestling (IA/KS/MO), Daro, Inc. (CA), Eastern Sports Enterprises (NJ/NY), Georgia Championship Wrestling (GA), International Wrestling (Canada), Jack Curley Promotions (NY), Los Angeles Booking Office (CA), Manhattan Wrestling Enterprises (MD/NJ/NY/DC), Maple Leaf Wrestling (Canada), Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling (NC/SC), Minnesota Boxing & Wrestling Club (MN), Mississippi Valley Sports Club (MO), NWA Hollywood (CA), NWA Montreal (Canada), P. L. Pinkie George Promotions (IA), Ray Fabiani Sports, Inc. (PA), Rocky Mountain Sports Enterprises (CO/NM), San Francisco (CA), Terminal Athletic Club (OH), Upstate Athletic Club (NY), Western Athletic Club, Inc. (OR/WA), Wrestling Promotions, Inc. (AZ)

Affiliates: Lou Newman

Notable Feuds: Willie Davis, Billy Watson, Suni War Cloud

Other Facts: -Real name was Watt Mayes McLain
-Played in the National Football League, under the name Chief McLain, for the Portsmouth Spartans, Staten Island Stapletons, and St. Louis Gunners before becoming a wrestler
-Wore a mask as The Masked Manager until being unmasked by Billy Watson on February 22, 1951
-Also worked as a stunt man in the motion picture business. He appeared as a wrestler in the 1936 motion picture, "Magnificent Brute".
-Passed away on March 11, 1983
-Posthumously inducted into the American Indian Athletic Hall of Fame in Lawrence, KS in 1987