Jimmy Golden started wrestling in 1968 in his father (Billy Golden)'s territory inAlabama. He started teaming with his cousin Robert Fuller in the 1970s.[1][3] Golden also wrestled in the early 1970s inAustralia forJim Barnett.
Southeastern Championship Wrestling / Continental Championship Wrestling (1975–1987)
Jimmy Golden and Robert Fuller were members of theStud Stable, managed by Ron Fuller in Southeastern Championship Wrestling, later Continental Championship Wrestling, throughout the early 1980s.[3][4] He was heel most of the time, while his cousins occasionally were face.Pensacola, Florida andMobile, Alabama were his stomping grounds in the early 1980s.[3] The Stud Stable under Robert Fuller performed in the CWA in Memphis in 1988-1989. Among their feuds during this time wereThe Rock 'n' Roll Express,Steve Armstrong andTracy Smothers,Tommy andJohnny Rich andKerry andKevin Von Erich.[3] He also teamed with Dennis Hall as "The Avengers" in the early 1970s.
He joined the newly foundedSmoky Mountain Wrestling in 1991. He competed at the Volunteer Slam tournament on May 22, 1992 in Knoxville for the company's heavyweight championship, but was eliminated byRobert Gibson in the first round.[6] He went on to feud with Gibson, which turned into a tag team feud when Jimmy's partner Robert Fuller joined the promotion while Ricky Morton arrived to join Gibson. This rekindled the Stud Stable versus Rock 'n' Roll Express feud from the 1980s. Golden continued to wrestle for the promotion through 1993.
In 1994, Golden followed Fuller toWorld Championship Wrestling (WCW) where Fuller was the manager "Col. Rob Parker" and wrestled for him as Bunkhouse Buck. He feuded mainly withDustin Rhodes and then teamed withDick Slater to win the WCW World Tag Team Titles.[7] By 1997, he had left WCW for the independent circuit again.
Golden appeared on the July 16, 2010, episode ofWWE SmackDown, portraying the character ofJack Swagger's father, and Swagger abandoned him to be chokeslammed and tombstoned byKane.[1] He returned on the September 3, episode ofSmackDown, reprising his role as Jack Swagger's father, and was again left by Swagger to be attacked byMontel Vontavious Porter.[1]
On August 30, 2011 inNew Tazewell, Tennessee, Golden became the Tennessee Mountain Wrestling Heavyweight Champion.[1]
a While this promotion operates out of the same region and uses some of the same regional championships, it isn't the same promotion that was once owned and operated byJim Crockett, Jr. That Mid-Atlantic promotion was sold toTed Turner in November 1988 and went on to be renamed World Championship Wrestling.
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