Austin Idol

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Austin Idol
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Ring name(s) Mike McCord
Mr. Gulf Coast
Austin Idol
Billed height 6 ft. 2 in.
Billed weight 242 lb.
Born October 26, 1949 (1949-10-26) (age 58)
Tampa, Florida
Billed from Las Vegas, Nevada
Debut 1972
Retired 1995

Austin Idol (born Dennis McCord) was a professional wrestler. He was known as the "Universal Heartthrob".

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Austin Idol graduated from Robinson High School in Tampa, Florida.

He started wrestling in 1972 and wrestled in the southeast promotions holding many titles in the USWA, Georgia, Memphis, Birmingham & Mid Atlantic territories. He is best know for a long running feud with the popular Jerry Lawler.

McCord was the passenger on a small airplane, along with Gary Hart, and flown by Buddy Colt, which crashed in 1974 into Tampa Bay, Florida, killing fellow wrestler and good friend Bobby Shane. After a period of inactivity he emerged with bleach-blonde hair and the new moniker of "Austin Idol" in 1978. His flamboyant personality and muscular physique led him to a successful career in the era preceding the World Wrestling Federation's WWF emergence in the mid 1980s. Austin Idol challenged for the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) World Heavyweight Championship several times versus Harley Race (1980) and Ric Flair (1981-84).

One of his finishing moves was the figure-four leglock which he called the "Las Vegas Leglock."

He has a son, Josh McCord. He graduated from East Hill Christian school in 2000. Austin Idol now resides in Pensacola, FL with his wife and his son.

  • TAS Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
  • PWI ranked him # 193 of the 500 best singles wrestlers during the PWI Years in 2003.
  • Feud of the Year award in 1987 - with Tommy Rich vs. Jerry Lawler

Austin Aries took the name Austin to honor Idol, who was a favorite wrestler of Aries growing up.

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