Ray Stevens

Overview

"The Crippler" had quite a career as a wrestler. Tag-team champion, minor wrestling titles, and fruitful career as a headliner. Stevens was best known as a member of Bobby "The Brain" Heenan's "Family" (as they were known in the American Wrestling Association) and as tag-team partner to "Wicked" Nick Bockwinkle. A splendid singles wrestler (and well known 'heel') Stevens could never win a major solo title, but was a long-time tag-team champ with Bockwinkle and Pat Patterson. Stevens wrestled in the WWF in the 1980s before retiring. He died in his hometown of San Francisco, of a heart attack on May 5, 1996.
- IMDb mini biography by: Ken Severson

Bleached blonde hair. Signature wrestling move: Bombs Away, where he got on the top rope and jumped on his opponent.

Was four-time American Wrestling Association (AWA) World Tag-Team Champion, three times with "Wicked" Nick Bockwinkle in the 1970s and with Pat Patterson from Sept. 22, 1978 to June 6, 1979.
Two-time National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) World Tag-Team Champion with Jimmy Snuka (1980) and Ivan Koloff (1981)
Was involved in one of the earliest controversies in the World-Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF, now World Wrestling Entertainment, or WWE). Stevens wrestled WWWF World Champion Bruno Sammartino in a 1967 title match in California, which Stevens won by countout. There was some debate as to whether "the Crippler" should have won the title; the WWWF's rules stated a title could not change hands via countout, while West Coast-based promotions typically awarded a championship to wrestlers who won a title match by countout. Eventually, it was decided Sammartino could keep his title, and the WWWF title lost prestige on the West Coast as a result.
Won the Pro Wrestling Illustrated Tag Team of the Year Award, along with partner "Superfly" Jimmy Snuka
One of Stevens' matches with "Superfly" Jimmy Snuka was added as a bonus match on the recent WWE DVD "Best of Confidential: Volume 1".