Greg Valentine - What Superstar Billy Graham was Like Before WWF
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- Greg Valentine remembers Superstar Billy Graham when he was still wrestling as Wayne Coleman back in the early 1970s 📺 TitleMatchNetwo...
This is from our exclusive Title Match Network interview series with the legendary, Hall of Famer Greg "The Hammer" Valentine.
Produced live from Las Vegas on Aug 28, 2023.
Here we discuss the first meetings between Hammer and Superstar, dating back to 1973. Billy Graham was partners with Greg Valentine and Ripper Collins vs Giant Baba, Neff Miavia & Sam Steamboat in an epic showdown in Hawaii.
Later, Valentine and Graham would cross paths again through the Mid-Atlantic and later in the WWF. Greg famously attacked Billy Graham who was then managing Don Muraco on World Wrestling Federation TV.
The angle was scrapped however when Muraco was fired from the company after cursing out agent Nick Bockwinkle.
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Reaching far back to 1973, so great that Greg recollect it after a few seconds of thinking about it.
Greg is a wonderful chap and a great story teller. WRITE A BOOK GREG. PLEASE!!!!!!
I love Greg but calling him a great story teller is a bit of a stretch. He has definitely has been around a lot of great stories. But damn! Did he kick butt in the ring. Flair always laughs when he speaks of how stiff Greg worked and how tough he was.
Greg Valentine such a classy interview and good memory !!!
I remember the Superstar working in the AWA in Minneapolis for Verne Gagne from about 1972-1974. He was fantastic! Read his "poetry" on his interviews; was always hilarious and entertaining. He wrote in his book about how much he enjoyed playing off of announcer Marty O' Neill, who he described as a bespectacled sixtyish man with a fondness for plaid sport coats. He even had poems about Marty. He returned to Minneapolis briefly in the early 80s doing his tae kwon do bit.
I don't recall Greg being there, but Johnny Valentine had a run there in the late 60s: "from the docks of New York City".
Insignificant detail here but I will mention it anyways . I was in WalMart and saw a Superstar Billy Grahm Elite WWE figure and I bought both two they had ! I had to open one and pose him around with his boa and tye dyed shirt in his flex positions ! Laugh all you want ! The one in the package is still on my shelf . What a legend ! I also grabbed the Dusty Rhoades figure that day too! I had to . They had some great matches . Not necessarily in ring , but the legendary status and nostalgia factor sold me .
And then Billy went thru the Houston territory in '74. Where I met him...What a great guy!
Greg...I saw so many bloody matches with Johnny, in the Sam Houston Coliseum in Houston. I remember you there in the later 70's...working for Paul Boesch!
Greg I saw you once leaving Waffle House in Charlotte on South Blvd. I was 9 and man you were larger than life! You still are!
Also saw Superstar Billy G. eating at bojangle’s on Woodlawn. I was shocked to see how much bigger he was in person. Huge arms. That time was a great era to live in Charlotte NC.
*NOBODY has stories like professional wrestlers, not even the most legendary rock and metal stars!*
Before I dreamed of being a musician. a scientist, a pro ball player, *I dreamed about being a professional wrestler.*
It's no dream/ Professional wrestling is life and livin' it over the edge, with reckless abandon and fighting for liberty, truth, love and God's justice/ You master the art of breaking rules like professional wrestlers do and thriving amidst chaos/ I'm the freaky, crazy one rooting for the Hammer Greg Valentine when he's the heel versus Tito Santana at Maple Leaf Gardens in the fabulous '80s era like it's yesterday, and then I briefly meet him face to face at Pearson airport in Toronto in 2004/
The name Superstar Billy Graham is where the term "superstar" for WWF/E wrestlers comes from.
The Masked Superstar says what?
Superstar Bill Dundee says what?
The Hammer is a walking history book
I remember going to the matches as a kid to see IC Champion Hammer Valentine vs Tito Santana during their epic fued.
I would later understand the sheer brilliance of the psychology of those two men.
A great time to be a kid!
Greg has always done great work!
Great memory on him
I love your stories gregg
Cool guy,good interview.
Pray for his Conversion + Soul.
WATCHED YOU A LOT IN MID-ATLANTIC WRESTLING,,,HOUSE OF HUMPERDICK
I do recall seeibg Superstar wrestle on NWA for JCPromotions as well as Valentine
I wonder if Gregs dad Johnny was a nice of a guy as Greg is .
Greg
Love Greg & his family..I live in the NW where his family is from & my old baseball teammate Howard Hilde is his first cousin..I new of him before he was a Legend..His dad Johnny was my friends Uncle & Johnny Valentine was the MAN..Great family..HOF
Greg knew him Billy used his real name of Wayne Coleman. Well, did he use any of his gimmicks back then? Did he have that distinctive rap. Did he do the Superstar thing before the name change?
I wish Greg had gone into some detail about that.
Greg tells great stories Dons interviews are boring. He doesn’t remember anything.
This story is funny but the grahams in 70s , before cable tv,and internate (computer), were on top thru tv and magazines, ring leader legend dr jerry graham with eddie graham then superstar, luke, mike, etc,,one of the top wrestling families in modern history, greg tried another family member in the late 90s with I believe dale valentine in florida but it did not last long, mcmahon should have other family (kayafabe ) with greg but did not it would have worked, johnny was a great legend in the 60s,70s!
But Buffalo was the Mid-Atlantic NWA, not WWF.
How are you ilove you
Dont you love all his hair at 73 bc I do
No! I'm jealous.
The Hammer Valentine