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LaMotta ranked # 2 in Indywarz Top 100 Texas Wrestlers

LaMotta ranked # 2 in Indywarz Top 100 Texas Wrestlers

Posted: Jun 17th 2008 By: mikeiles

Former IZW Cruiserweight Champion J. T. LaMotta was ranked # 2 in Indywarz.com Top 100 Wrestlers in Texas. The poll is conducted annually by the staff of Indywarz and the readers of the website and listeners of Indywarz Radio.

LaMotta has been a real workhorse as of late working throughout Texas as well as the recent ACW show in Colorado. He won the 2007 Lone Star Classic Tournament held by Anarchy Championship Wrestling. He was ranked # 11 in last year's Indywarz Top 100. LaMotta is one of 8 entrants in Texas Wrestling Entertainment's "Texas J-Cup" tournament to be held on July 5th.

Others ranked within the Indywarz Top 100 with Oklahoma experience include:

# 15 Larry Canyunga: The name may not be familiar, but he was the 1st ever SRPW Heavyweight Champion. Of course back then he wore a mask and was known as Rebel. The "International Love Machine" primarily works for the Denton based Xreme Championship Wrestling. He was ranked # 30 in 2007.

# 28 Seth Shai: The former IZW Tag Team Champion (w/ Mace) is another workhorse in this list working at several feds across the state of Texas. In last year's Indywarz poll he was ranked # 17. He was also ranked # 426 in the 2007 PWI 500.

# 30 Action Jackson: The Texas Legend continues to be one of the top wrestlers in Texas. He recently lost the Heavyweight Title for the Arlington based Professional Championship Wrestling and a few weeks later lost the American Made Wrestling Heavyweight Title as well. He continues to main event at several shows in Texas and has come a long way since being known as "Popular" Perry Jackson while working for the UWF and Bill Watts. In 2007, he was ranked # 15.

# 50 Dusty Wolfe: The 26 year veteran keeps plugging along. He still wrestles as himself or he dons the clown suit as Doink the Clown. Last year, he was ranked # 26.

# 51 Spoiler 2000: The masked man from Parts Unknown dropped 5 spots from # 46. He is a former NWA Universal Tag Team Champion and was the only NWA Universal Television Champion. He still teams with Bash as Mass Destruction and they are one of the top tag teams in the area.

# 57 Michael Faith: He has been wrestling more in Oklahoma as of late but still moved up from being ranked # 84 last year.

# 69 John Allen: He only wrestled 4 matches for IZW in November and December of last year. He wrestles in several different feds in Texas.

Ted DiBiase's son Mike, who is also NWA North American Heavyweight Champion came in ranked at # 24.

 

Tags: J. T. LaMotta, IZW, ACW, Larry Canyunga, SRPW, Seth Shai, Mace, Action Jackson, UWF, Bill Watts, Dusty Wolfe, Spoiler 2000, NWA-U, Bash, Mass Destruction, Michael Faith, John Allen, Ted DiBiase, NWA

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