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Rock Montez

From: Atlanta, GA

Pro Debut: 1960

Aliases: Rocket Monroe

Feds Worked For: TSW, WCCW, Championship Wrestling From Florida (FL), Gulf Coast Wrestling (AL/FL/LA/MS), Tennessee

Career Highlights: -Alabama Champion (2x)
-City of Mobile Champion
-City of Pensacola Champion
-NWA Gulf Coast Champion
-NWA Gulf Coast Tag Team Champion (8x; 7 w/ Flash Monroe, 1 w/ Don Carson)
-NWA (Florida) Southern Tag Team Champion (w/ Sputnik Monroe)
-NWA (Florida) World Tag Team Champion (2x, w/ Sputnik Monroe)
-NWA (Gulf Coast) World Tag Team Champion (w/ Sputnik Monroe)
-NWA Macon Tag Team Champion (2x; 1 each w/ Flash Monroe & Skandar Akbar)
-NWA Mid-American Tag Team Champion (w/ Randy Tyler)
-NWA (Mid-America) United States Tag Team Champion (w/ Randy Tyler)
-NWA Mississippi Champion (5x)
-NWA Texas Tag Team Champion (w/ Sputnik Monroe)
-NWA (Gulf Coast) United States Tag Team Champion (4x; 2 w/ Flash Monroe, 1 each w/ Norvell Austin & Bob Kelly)
-TSW Arkansas Champion

Affiliates: Flash Monroe, Sputnik Monroe, Randy Tyler, Don Carson, Skandar Akbar, Norvell Austin, Bob Kelly

Other Facts: -Real name was Maury High. He was the 2nd wrestler to compete as Rocket Monroe. The 1st was named Bill Fletcher.
-Billed as the brother of pro wrestlers Sputnik Monroe & Flash Monroe
-Sometimes billed from Wichita, KS
-After retiring from wrestling, he worked as an assistant public works director in Riverdale, GA and a building inspector in Clayton County, GA
-Passed away June 8, 2010. He had been hospitalized for a blood infection two days prior, but had returned home and seemed to have fully recovered.