- 02/15/2008 (10:01:00 pm)
- Georgiann Makropoulos
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CHARLOTTE, NC - One of professional wrestling's all-time great "good guys," Johnny Weaver, passed away Friday at his home in Charlotte.
Weaver, born November 17, 1935, in East Saint Louis, Illinois, was a favorite of wrestling fans during the heyday of the National Wrestling Alliance. His wrestling career spanned more than four decades and included wrestling, matchmaking, broadcasting, and working in the front office.
After the local wrestling promoter, Jim Crockett Promotions, soldout to Ted Turner's WCW in November 1987, Mecklenburg County Sheriff C.W. Kidd gave Weaver a job with the Sheriff's Department, a position he held until his untimely death.
Affectionately known as "The Dean of Professional Wrestling," Weaver had recently accepted an invitation to be inducted into the NWA Wrestling Legends' "Hall of Heroes" this August in Charlotte. The dinner banquet and awards ceremony is part of the annual NWA Wrestling Legends Fanfest, and Weaver will indeed be honored and
inducted posthumously later this summer.
Weaver is survived by a daughter, Wendy, from Charlotte.
