| Porkchop Cash | |
|---|---|
 Porkchop Cash (right) in a match againstErnie Ladd in 1975 | |
| Birth name | Bobby Cash |
| Born | (1947-10-22)October 22, 1947 (age 77) Washington, D.C. |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Porkchop Cash |
| Billed height | 6 ft 0 in (183 cm) |
| Billed weight | 238 lb (108 kg) |
| Debut | 1967 |
| Retired | 2001 |
Bobby Cash (born October 22, 1947) better known by his ring namePorkChop Cash is an American retiredprofessional wrestler. He competed primarily inprofessional wrestling promotions aligned with theNational Wrestling Alliance (NWA), including theContinental Wrestling Association andGeorgia Championship Wrestling.
Cash made his wrestling debut in 1967, competing for theNational Wrestling Alliance affiliatedChampionship Wrestling from Florida. He wrestled both as a singles competitor and intag team matches with partner Frank Hester.[1] T
he following year, he began wrestling for aLos Angeles, California-based territory known as NWA Hollywood Wrestling. He soon won theNWA Americas Heavyweight Championship by defeatingJohn Tolos on March 22, 1974.[2] After holding the belt for over two months, hedropped it to Black Gordman.[2] In a rematch two weeks later, Cash regained the belt. Less than a month later,Ernie Ladd beat Cash to win the championship.[2]
After losing the title, Cash formed atag team with Manny Soto. Together, they defeated Black Gordman and Goliath to win theNWA Americas Tag Team Championship on July 24.[3] The following month, Cash and Soto dropped the belts to the team of Angel Blanco and Dr. Wagner.[3] Cash was involved in afeud with Butcher Brannigan,[4] and he teamed withVictor Rivera to regain the NWA Americas Tag Team Championship on September 14 by defeating Brannigan andMan Mountain Mike.[3] They held the belts until a loss to Otto Von Heller andKurt Von Hess October 12.[3] The following year, Cash teamed withS.D. Jones to win the belts for a third time. They won the belts from Jerry Brown andBuddy Roberts, collectively known as theHollywood Blonds, but dropped the belts back to the Blonds the following month.[3] Cash's final reign came in 1976, when he and Frank Monte defeated the team ofRoddy Piper and Crusher Verdu for the belts.[3] The reign was brief, however, as Cash and Monte soon dropped the belts to The Scorpions.[3]
In 1976, Cash left California to compete in theSoutheastern United States. Cash's first stop wasGeorgia, where he wrestled forGeorgia Championship Wrestling. While there, he won theNWA Georgia Tag Team Championship by teaming with Tom Jones to defeatJimmy andJohnny Valiant.[5] The following month, Cash and Jones lost the title toGene andOle Anderson.[5] Cash also wrestled forTennessee-based NWA Mid-America. He teamed with Gorgeous George, Jr. to win the Mid-America version of theNWA Southern Tag Team Championship in February 1977.[6]
InLouisiana, Cash became a two-time holder of the Tri-State version of theNWA United States Tag Team Championship. His first reign was with Mike George, as the team defeated The Medics (Billy Garrett and Jim Starr) on August 16, 1977.[7] They held the belts for only a week, however, as they lost them in a rematch.[7] Cash regained the belts in August 1977 from The Medics, this time withDr. X as his partner.[7] The team split up in September, however, and Cash and Dr. X faced each other for control of the title. Cash tookRay Candy as his partner, and Dr. X teamed withCiclón Negro. Negro and Dr. X won the match, bringing Cash's title reign to an end.[7]
Cash returned to Louisiana in 1981, although NWA Tri-State had been purchased by new owners. Cash regained the tag team title, which had since been renamed the NWA Tri-State Tag Team Championship, by teaming withDoug Somers to defeatEric Embry andChief Frank Hill.[8] Once again, Cash's title reign ended because of a split from his partner, as Cash and Somers went their separate ways later that year.[8]
The following year saw Cash joinJim Crockett, Jr.'sMid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling. Once again, he enjoyed success as a tag team competitor. Joining up withJay Youngblood, he won theNWA Mid-Atlantic Tag Team Championship in March 1982.[9] After dropping the belts toDon Kernodle andPvt. Jim Nelson, Cash formed a team withIceman King Parsons to regain the title.[9] In August, however, Cash once again lost the championship to Kernodle and Nelson.[9]
After leaving the Mid-Atlantic territory, Porkchop Cash then joinedJerry Jarrett'sContinental Wrestling Association based inMemphis, Tennessee. Cash soon formed a tag team withTroy Graham (who wrestled as "Dream Machine") known asThe Bruise Brothers. Wrestling asheels,[10] they held theAWA Southern Tag Team Championship twice. The Bruise Brothers were in the First Familystable ofJimmy Hart. Their main rivals wereThe Sheepherders, a tag team fromNew Zealand.[11] They beatDutch Mantel andKoko B. Ware for their first title on October 3, 1983.[6] They also had a series matches withThe Rock 'n' Roll Express, trading the AWA Southern Tag Team Championship with them. A notable moment in the feud came after their match on November 7, 1983. Cash and Graham lost the match and the belts and responded by attacking thereferee, Paul Morton (father ofRicky Morton of The Rock 'n' Roll Express).[12] The Bruise Brothers avenged their loss one week later by regaining the championship.[6] On November 29, 1983, The Bruise Brothers dropped the belts toThe Fabulous Ones.[6] Tension built within Hart's stable, and The Bruise Brothers faced stablemates The Grapplers (Len Denton andTony Anthony) in a "losers no longer managed by Jimmy Hart" match on December 26. The Grapplers won, leaving Cash and Graham without a manager.[13] Shortly thereafter, Cash replaced Graham with Maddog Boyd.[11] Cash and Boyd initiated a feud withEddie Gilbert by stealing a portrait of Gilbert that he had been showing off every week and offering to award to the winner of adraw.[14]
Cash next moved toRon Fuller'sSoutheastern Championship Wrestling, which operated throughoutAlabama and the eastern half ofTennessee. He won his first singles title since 1974 when he defeatedBoris Zhukov for theNWA Alabama Heavyweight Championship in September 1984.[15] He held the title for two months before dropping it toLord Humongous (portrayed byJeff Van Kamp).[15] He also won theNWA Southeastern Heavyweight Championship with a victory overJimmy Golden in January 1985.[16] Two months later, he lost the belt to Boomer Lynch.[16]
After leaving Fuller's territory, Cash appeared next inCentral States Wrestling in early 1987. He formed a team with Ken Timbs and challenged champions Rick McCord andBart Batten for theNWA Central States Tag Team Championship. Cash and Timbs appeared to win the title on April 3, 1987, but the title was declared vacant because Cash used aforeign object to get the victory.[17] In a rematch on April 10, Cash and Timbs defeated McCord and Batten again to win the championship officially.[17] Timbs eventually left the promotion, and the titles were vacated once again.[17]
Cash also briefly held theNWA Central States Heavyweight Championship after defeatingRufus R. Jones, but he lost the belt in a rematch one week later.[18] He then returned to tag team competition, joining up with Ric McCord to win the NWA Central States Tag Team Championship once again.[17] They defeatedThe Batten Twins (Brad and Bart) for the belts on November 9, 1987 but lost the title to the Montana Cowboys (Mike Stone and Rick Patterson) on November 26.[17] While working for NWA Central States, Cash also worked as amanager, calling himself "The Boss" Porkchop Cash while assisting wrestlers Russell Sapp and "Krusher" Karl Kovac.[19]
Cash worked as enhancement talent for WWF between July and October 1988.[20]
Not long after his stint in the Central States area, Cash remained close to the area working for Bert Prentice's Universal Championship Wrestling out of Wichita, KS. He would enter the territory to begin a feud with his former Central States tag-team partner Ric McCord over McCord's recently won North American Heavyweight title. Porkchop would also feud withRufus R. Jones and his nephew Boogaloo Jones, sometimes teaming up with fellow heel, and Dusty Rhodes lookalike Randy Rhodes. Porkchop would win the North American Championship from Ric McCord in November 1990, losing it back to McCord a few weeks later.
Several years later, Porkchop Cash came out of retirement to do a special three-way tag match with the Rock and Roll Express and the Midnight Express. His tag team partner was former rival Koko B. Ware, and the pair formed the PYT Express.
Porkchop Cash is now retired.
Floyd Womack of theNational Football League'sSeattle Seahawks received the nickname "Pork Chop Womack" from his mother because she thought that her son looked like Porkchop Cash.[21]
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