Dennis Condrey

Real name: Dennis Condrey
Height: 6’0″
Weight: 260 lbs.
Date of birth: February 1, 1952
From: Florence, Alabama
Pro debut: 1973
Trained by: ???
Finishing move: Full nelson facebuster

Biography

– On October 31, 1975, Condrey, Phil Hickerson & Al Greene defeated Tojo Yamamoto, George Gulas & Tommy Rich to win the NWA Six-Man Tag Team Titles
– In June 1976, Condrey & Hickerson defeated Jackie Fargo & Jerry Jarrett to win the NWA Southern Tag Team Titles
– In July 1976, Condrey & Hickerson defeated Bill Dundee & Tommy Rich to regain the NWA Southern Tag Team Titles
– In November 1976, Condrey & Hickerson defeated Gorgeous George Jr & George Gulas to win the NWA Mid-America Tag Team Titles
– In March 1977, Condrey & Hickerson defeated The Gibsons (Ricky & Robert) to win the NWA Southern Tag Team Titles for a third time
– On November 28, 1977, Condrey & Hickerson defeated The Samoans (Afa & Sika) to win the NWA Southern Tag Team Titles
– On December 18, 1977, Condrey & Hickerson defeated Norvell Austin & Robert Green to retain the NWA Southern Tag Team Titles
– In February 1978, Condrey & Hickerson defeated Norvell Austin & Bill Dundee to win the NWA Southern Tag Team Titles for a fifth time
– In April 1978, Condrey & Hickerson defeated Ricky Gibson & Jimmy Golden to win the NWA Southeastern Tag Team Titles
– On August 11, 1978, Condrey & Hickerson defeated Jimmy Golden & Bob Roop to win the NWA Southeastern Tag Team Titles
– On November 3, 1978, Condrey & Hickerson defeated Jimmy Golden & Rip Smith to win the NWA Southeastern Tag Team Titles
– On December 18, 1978, Condrey & Hickerson defeated Jerry Lawler & Bill Dundee to win the AWA Southern Tag Team Titles
– On Christmas Day 1978, Condrey & Hickerson defeated Bill Dundee & Koko Ware to retain the AWA Southern Tag Team Titles
– In February 1979, Condrey & Don Carson defeated Robert Fuller & Toru Tanaka by forfeit to win the AWA Southern Tag Team Titles
– On April 17, 1979, Condrey, Tojo Yamamoto & Chris Colt defeated George Gulas, Bobby Eaton & The Mexican Angel to win the NWA Six-Man Tag Team Titles
– On June 2, 1979, Condrey defeated Ron Garfield to win the Mid-America Heavyweight Title
– On August 15, 1979, Condrey defeated Gypsy Joe to win the NWA Brass Knuckles Title
– In November 1979, Condrey & David Schultz defeated Dick Slater & Paul Orndorff to win the NWA Southeastern Tag Team Titles
– On January 20, 1980, Condrey & Schultz defeated Paul Orndorff & Tony Atlas to retain the NWA Southeastern Tag Team Titles
– On April 7, 1980, Condrey & Schultz defeated Ken Lucas & Billy Robinson to win the AWA Southern Tag Team Titles
– In September 1980, Condrey defeated Steve Keirn to win the NWA Georgia Title
– On October 11, 1980, Condrey & Dutch Mantel defeated Los Dinamicos (Carlos Colon & Jose Rivera) to win the NWA Puerto Rico Tag Team Titles
– In November 1980, Condrey & Randy Rose defeated Bob Armstrong & Jos LeDuc to win the NWA Southeastern Tag Team Titles
– In January 1981, Condrey & Rose defeated Bob & Brad Armstrong to win the NWA Southeastern Tag Team Titles
– On July 27, 1981, Condrey formed The Midnight Express alongside Norvell Austin & Randy Rose, shortly after defeating Austin & Brad Armstrong to win the NWA Southeastern Tag Team Titles
– In early 1982, The Midnight Express (records are unclear as to which two members) defeated Bill Dundee & Steve Keirn to win the AWA Southern Tag Team Titles
– In May 1982, The Midnight Express (records are unclear as to which two members) defeated Bill Dundee & Steve Keirn to regain the AWA Southern Tag Team Titles
– On September 27, 1982, The Midnight Express (records are unclear as to which two members) defeated Jimmy Golden & Robert Fuller to win the NWA Southeastern Tag Team Titles
– In April 1983, The Midnight Express (records are unclear as to which two members) defeated The Kiwi Sheepherders (Luke Williams & Butch Miller) and Robert Fuller & Jimmy Golden to win the vacant NWA Southeastern Tag Team Titles
– In July 1983, The Midnight Express (records are unclear as to which two members) traded the NWA Southeastern Tag Team Titles twice with Ken Lucas & Dizzy Ed Hogan
– In late 1983, The Midnight Express went their separate ways
– In early 1984, Condrey reformed The Midnight Express as a tag team with Bobby Eaton, managed by Jim Cornette
– On March 13, 1984, The Midnight Express (Condrey & Eaton) defeated Magnum TA & Mr Wrestling II to win the Mid-South Tag Team Titles
– On May 23, 1984, The Midnight Express defeated The Rock n Roll Express (Ricky Morton & Robert Gibson) to regain the Mid-South Tag Team Titles
– On June 16, 1984, The Midnight Express defeated The Rock n Roll Express in a Scaffold Match to retain the Mid-South Tag Team Titles
– On January 11, 1985, The Midnight Express defeated The Fantastics (Bobby Fulton & Tommy Rogers) to win the NWA American Tag Team Titles
– In late 1985, Condrey & Eaton joined Jim Crockett Promotions, the precursor to WCW
– On February 2, 1986, The Midnight Express defeated The Rock n Roll Express (Ricky Morton & Robert Gibson) to win the NWA Mid-Atlantic Tag Team Titles
– In February 1987, Condrey abruptly left JCP. From this point there would be two Midnight Express teams, Eaton & Stan Lane in JCP, Condrey & Randy Rose in the AWA
– On October 30, 1987, The Midnight Express (Condrey & Rose) defeated Jerry Lawler & Bill Dundee to win the AWA Tag Team Titles
– In 1988, Condrey & Rose joined WCW to feud with Eaton & Lane, but Condrey would again walk out on the promotion in early 1989
– On July 22, 1989, Condrey defeated Tom Prichard to win the CWF Heavyweight Title
– On December 30, 1989, The Lethal Weapons (Condrey & Doug Gilbert) defeated The Dynamic Duo (Phil Apollo & Vic Steamboat) to win the IWC Tag Team Titles
– In 1990, Condrey called time on his active wrestling career
– On December 11, 2004, Condrey & Eaton came out of retirement to defeat Southern Comfort (Chris Hamrick & Tracy Smothers) to win the IWC Tag Team Titles
– On April 29, 2004, The Midnight Express defeated Southern Comfort to retain the IWC Tag Team Titles
– In 2005, Condrey had a short singles run in NWA Wrestle Birmingham
– In 2006, Condrey & Eaton had a run in TNT Pro Wrestling
– On December 13, 2008, Condrey was awarded the NWA Alabama Heavyweight Title, the (incorrect) justification being that he had never lost it during his last reign nearly 30 years before
– On May 2, 2009, Condrey defeated Larry Zbyszko to retain the NWA Alabama Heavyweight Title. This would be Condrey’s one and only defense before giving up the title
– In March 2010, Condrey signed with WWE as a trainer. He was assigned to work with the developmental talents
– On October 15, 2011, Condrey wrestled his retirement match, defeating Bill Mulkey at an AWE Legends event