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	Greg Gagne (wrestler) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Greg Gagne (GON-ya) born July 27, 1948 in Robbinsdale, Minnesota) is a former professional wrestler and is the son of the legendary Verne Gagne.
		Gagne was a decent worker in the ring, but given his slight build (roughly 180 lbs.) wasn't considered believable or credible as a competitor especially in the 1980's where bigger was better.
		Gagne and Paul Diamond were facing the The Destruction Crew when Adnan and Kokina came to the ring and confronted Gagne.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Greg_Gagne_(wrestler) (1067 words)

	Obsessed With Wrestling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Greg Gagne was famous for his role in the AWA, a company run by his father, Verne Gagne..
		Greg's son, J.P. Gagne, was a very accomplished pitcher for Notre Dame who was recently drafted by the Colorado Rockies..
		June 2006: Greg Gagne replaced Paul Heyman as the official booker at WWE developmental Ohio Valley Wrestling..
	www.obsessedwithwrestling.com /profiles/g/greg-gagne.html (237 words)

	Would Greg Gagne have excelled outside of the AWA? - www.ezboard.com
		Change Greg Gagne to Greg Wilson and what you have is a guy who was an outstanding worker.....gave it all he had for the better part of 17 years......and was over with the fans.
		Greg Gagne could have contended for a light-heavyweight belt in any region, and could have been part of a lot of tag combos.
		Greg was a far better worker than many of the bigger guys who were getting pushes due to their size, look or gimmick.
	p208.ezboard.com /fkayfabememoriesfrm94.showMessage?topicID=275.topic (2715 words)

	Greg Gagne - www.ezboard.com
		Greg Gagne is one of the more greener wrestlers of the AWA, it's the same old cliche, the son's of the promoters get the pushes.
		Greg Gagne established his name and earned his titles in a time when titles didnt change weekly and when cartoons were less prevalent than wrestling.
		Greg Gagne is and always was a better WRESTLER than the Undertaker, and while I enjoy Calloway's work just as much as anyone, the fact remains, the comparison is flawed because they compete in two completely different areas.
	p208.ezboard.com /fkayfabememoriesfrm70.showMessage?topicID=265.topic (1202 words)

	It's Greg Gagne Week - And why not? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Gagne and his partner, Paul Diamond, were wrestling The Destruction Crew (Mike Enos and Wayne Bloom) in the finals of a tournament for the vacant AWA tag belts.
		Gagne, son of AWA legend and owner Verne Gagne, worked the mid-to-lower-card matches for years, pumping his fists, throwing dropkicks, and defeating big name stars like Rick Gough and Mike Donohue.
		Greg Gagne should have been part of the wrestling boom of the 1990s.
	webhome.idirect.com /~xds/gagne01.html (485 words)

	It's Greg Gagne Week - More than an event, it's an EVENT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Greg was 17 when he finally understood why his dad was constantly throwing salt in his eyes.
		Greg knew that he would need to be immune to the pain — because Verne's old enemy, The Dirty Jap, had trained so many foreign wrestlers to throw salt.
		Greg was trained in 1972-73 with a crop of other promising youngsters (though none was more promising than Greg).
	webhome.idirect.com /~xds/gagne03.html (426 words)

	Greg Gagne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Greg Gagne (wrestler) (born 1948; family name pronounced GONE-yuh)
		Greg Gagne (baseball player) (born 1961: family name pronounced GAG-nee)
		This human name article is a disambiguation page – a list of pages that might otherwise share the same title, which is a person's or persons' name.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Greg_Gagne (101 words)

	mr-perfect.com - Curt Hennig (1958-2003) News - Mr Perfect Found Dead
		Professional wrestler Curt Hennig, 44, of Champlin, who began his career in Verne Gagne's American Wrestling Association more than two decades ago, was found dead in his hotel room Monday in Brandon, Fla. Hennig, also known by his ring name of Mr.
		Gagne's son, Greg, also was a second-generation pro wrestler who wrestled with and against Hennig.
		Greg Gagne said that Hennig was married and had four children, two boys and two girls.
	www.mr-perfect.com /news/perfect_found_dead.html (535 words)

	American Wrestling Association
		Gagne had to rely on his experience and knowledge of ring psychology to beat his opponents.
		Gagne made a deal with longtime Memphis, Tennessee promoter Jerry Jarrett in which AWA wrestlers would appear on the Jarrett promoted cards in Memphis while Memphis stars like Jerry Lawler and Bill Dundee would wrestle on AWA shows.
		Greg was announced the AWA champion in the arena but the decision was later overturned and the AWA belt was returned to Curt Hennig.
	www.kayfabememories.com /Regions/awa/awa5-2.htm (1807 words)

	JournalStar.com :: Printable Version
		Verne Gagne won a number of world titles and other championships and was the founder of the American Wrestling Association.
		Greg Gagne, the son of Verne Gagne, was also a pro wrestler.
		Greg Gagne, the baseball player for the Twins, Dodgers and Royals, did not turn to pro wrestling.
	www.journalstar.com /articles/2005/06/05/sports/doc42a29035edc27001135779.prt (523 words)

	Jon in the News
		The AWA originated in Boston in 1939, but it was Gagne who trademarked the names and solidified the AWA in the early 60’s.
		The AWA closed in 1991 and was reopened in 1996 by nephew Dale Gagne.
		Gagne and Brunzell say several wrestlers on the current WWF tour might be presidential material, including "Stone Cold'' Steve Austin and The Rock (who has been positively Ventura-esque in his shrewd refusal to say which candidate he'll back in November).
	www.jonalanstewart.com /_wsn/page4.html (1648 words)

	Player Bio: Gail Gagne :: Women's Basketball
		Gail Gagne joins the Bears for her first season as an assistant coach after spending three years as a power forward for the Northern Colorado program.
		Gagne graduated in 2005 from UNC with a degree in journalism and mass communications and was a UNC Scholar Athlete.
		Gagne's coaching responsibilities include coordinating the team's film exchange program, assisting with team defense, assisting with post player development and assisting with recruiting.
	uncbears.cstv.com /sports/w-baskbl/mtt/gagne_gail00.html (609 words)

	American Wrestling Association
		Gagne viewed Hogan as a gate attraction but not as a world champion for his promotion.
		Greg Gagne and Jim Brunzell had beaten Jesse Ventura and Adrian Adonis in the summer of 1981 to win the AWA tag team titles for a second time.
		Greg and Jim were pushed to the hilt as nearly unbeatable superstars similar to Bockwinkel or Hulk Hogan.
	www.kayfabememories.com /Regions/awa/awa3-2.htm (912 words)

	Kayfabe Krackdown #2
		Gagne" stuttered Douglas, "I was just chanting '93,178', the official attendance of Wrestlemania III!" said Doggie, desperately wanting to blurt out what an over-inflated number it actually was.
		Gagne told Douglas that he had just finished reading the issue where Ric Flair proclaimed "El Gigante is for real" and had written a letter to the editor agreeing with the statement.
		Gagne that Greg belonged in the most hated rankings along with Erik Watts, but the little scamp held back through thoughts of throwing hot coffee on the Barbarian for phoning in his performance at the 1990 Survivor Series.
	www.gumgod.com /jaybower_kk_2.htm (1503 words)

	Verne Gagne recalls glory days
		Gagne spends his time doing fundraising for the U.S. Olympic wrestling team, and the team at the University of Minnesota.
		Gagne held the title 10 times over his 35-year career, his last reign starting in 1980, and ending in May 1981 when he retired (though a couple more matches did follow).
		I said to him, 'Greg, have you ever heard of a guy by the name Hulk Hogan?' And he said, 'Yeah, I saw him in New York one time.' I said, 'How was he?' He said, 'Ah, so-so.' He said, 'He's a big guy.' So I said 'Okay.' Then I'm back talking to Hogan.
	slam.canoe.ca /SlamWrestlingFeatures/gagne_2.html (1541 words)

	WWE: Superstars > Verne Gagne > Profile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		For more than four decades, Verne Gagne was a legendary wrestler and promoter in Minnesota, and was an instrumental figure in the expansion of sports-entertainment in the early 1980s.
		On April 1, Gagne will take his place among many of sports-entertainment’s other big names when he is inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame.
		Although he has been out of the business since then, Gagne’s contributions to sports-entertainment are unmistakable, and he is certainly worthy of the title bestowed on him the night before WrestleMania 22: Hall of Famer.
	www.wwe.com /superstars/vernegagne/vernegagne/profile (681 words)

	Baseball Leaves One Dome For Another :: Irish travel to Minneapolis Metrodome.
		Gagne is a native of Bloomington and a graduate of Cretin-Derham Hall High School...
		Gagne was an accomplished three-sport star as a prep, captaining the football, hockey and baseball teams...
		Gagne also was a three-year football letterwinner, as a quarterback and safety...
	und.cstv.com /sports/m-basebl/spec-rel/030200aaa.html (6354 words)

	Pro Wrestling Insider - XTRA Pro Wrestling News Inside & Out
		I didn't think much of him as a wrestler, but thought he had a good look and seemed to be in great shape.
		It was created in December of 1987, when Greg Gagne defeated Adrian Adonis in a tournament final on December 27th in Las Vegas to become the first champion.
		Gagne lost the belt to Ron Garvin on September 17, 1988 in Nashville, TN.
	www.pwinsiderxtra.com /ViewArticle.asp?id=2596&p=1 (563 words)

	IWIM - Verne Gagne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		At the University of Minnesota, he won four Big Ten Conference wrestling titles, was a two-time NCAA wrestling champion, was an alternate on 1948 Olympic team and was an all-star football player.
		Gagne spurned professional football to wrestle as a pro, and was an immediate star.
		Gagne founded AWA and became its greatest champion.
	www.wrestlingmuseum.org /people/gagne_verne.html (389 words)

	Animal Gets Animalistic, Haas Has Heat, Greg Gagne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Greg Gagne is officially the new booker for both Deep South Wrestling and Ohio Valley Wrestling.
		Gagne is coming to shows this week to familiarize himself with the wrestlers.
		If Gagne's tenure as booker doesn't work out, the heat will be on Johnny Ace for hiring him because he put someone who hasn't been following the business in several years in that important position.
	www.2xzone.com /messages/8449.shtml (227 words)

	Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Curt Hennig (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The son of wrestler Larry "The Axe" Hennig, Curt Hennig spent the greater part of the first decade of his career rising through the ranks of the promotion.
		Hennig's heel turn was furthered when he won the AWA World Heavyweight Title from Nick Bockwinkel on May 2, 1987, after using a roll of dimes given to him by Larry Zbyszko, and cemented by attacking tag team partner Greg Gagne during a match.
		Greg Gagne apparently won the title on several occasions, only to have the belt returned to Hennig on a technicality, a common booking practice of the AWA at the time.
	www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref/?title=Curt_Hennig (1782 words)

	Biography for Greg Gagne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Son of the legendary amateur and professional wrestler Verne Gagne, Greg Gagne had a fulfilling career himself as a professional wrestler.
		Although he never quite achieved the status of heavyweight champion like his father, Gagne was a two-time American Wrestling Association (AWA) tag-team champion with partner "Jumping" Jim Brunzell (later one-half of the WWF's "Killer Bees" combo in the 1980s).
		Gagne quit the sport in the early 90s shortly after the demise of the AWA.
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0300918/bio (223 words)

	Obsessed With Wrestling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		February 4, 1953: Verne Gagne was the headliner at a sellout New York’s Madison Square Garden event..
		The Gagne legend lived on in Verne's son Greg, who carried on the great Gagne tradition for many years.
		Verne Gagne is a stern supporter or nearly a dozen different charities accross the country..
	www.obsessedwithwrestling.com /profiles/v/verne-gagne.html (719 words)

	Greg Gagne Week 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Greg Gagne was robbed of superstardom by a fat guy.
		Greg Gagne was such a monumental talent that his arrival on Earth was foretold by some guy with a bigger following than Hulk Hogan.
		Greg went to the bush with four guys and became a man. Er...
	webhome.idirect.com /~xds/gagne_week.html (150 words)

	The Newz @ wrestlesite (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Greg Gagne has been handed some of the OVW duties.
		Some wrestlers in OVW noticed Heyman didn't have the passion he usually had when prepping OVW talent.
		One wrestler said to our sources, "he has what he wants (ECW's relaunch) so he doesn't 'need' OVW anymore." Danny Davis and Al Snow will continue to handle promoting and training duties for OVW and may be asked to pick up some of the slack that Gagne doesn't in the absence of Heyman.
	www.wrestlesite.com /newzline/headlines/151198470.shtml (243 words)

	Greatest Wrestler of All Time - Friday the 13th Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		So my question to you is, who do you think is the greatest wrestler in all of wrestling history.
		Rocky Johnson-The father of the Rock, he was one of the first fl wrestlers to drop the pickaninny act and put out an intelligent promo/gimmick.
		Greg Gagne-Another AWA mainstay, and another to carry the company through hard times.
	www.fridaythe13thforum.com /showthread.php?t=38496 (2103 words)

	Ric Flair
		Ric contacted his hero, Verne Gagne, and signed up for his training camp, which was run by Gagne and Billy Robinson.
		Gagne and Robinson immediately saw immense potential in him, but rode him very hard and Ric dropped out not once, but twice.
		In those early years, Flair frequently jobbed to the likes of Verne’s son Greg Gagne, as well as Reggie Parks and classmate Chris Taylor.
	www.kayfabememories.com /Wrestlers/WLflair.htm (917 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Wrestler: DVD: James A. Westman,Billy Robinson (II),Edward Asner,Elaine Giftos,Verne Gagne,Sarah ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In this made-for-TV movie, honest wrestling promoter Frank Bass (Ed Asner) must struggle to foil the efforts of some lowlife wrestlers who are attempting to profit from a fixed fight.
		The bulk of the cast is made up of wrestlers from the Minniapolis-based American Wrestling Association, which was owned by the film's producer,
		The list of wrestlers Frank gives who have died in the ring are all real, and they all did die either while wrestling or from injuries sustained in a match.
	www.amazon.ca /Wrestler-James-A-Westman/dp/B00005LDCS (428 words)

	WrestleMania 22
		She told me about visiting countless hospitals with wrestlers for the Make-a-Wish Foundation and how she recently came to tears when she saw a young female soldier, who had lost both her legs in battle, smile when she got to meet with some of her favorite WWE wrestlers.
		It was interesting to watch all of the wrestlers looking their best in dapper suits or lovely dresses, talking about the show tomorrow, and the regular gossip that goes on in the back.
		Many of the wrestlers stopped by the room, which also included food and a complimentary beer-and-wine cart, before and after their matches to sit and watch the show with friends and family.
	wwfuwrestling.tripod.com /id33.html (3518 words)

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