User:Billy Blue River

Billy Blue River Professional wrestler and promoter, married to wrestler Beverly Shade.Trained by Johnny Sweed Carlin and Billy's father who wrestled in carnivals taking on all comers then turning pro. Billy was born Bill Wenhold in 1944. Billy started his pro wrestling career in 1964 working for Nick Gulas.After wrestling in Florida Billy started his own wrestling promotion All Star Wrestling. During the second year of his second year of his promotion he met Beverly Shade, one year later they were married and expanded their promotion to include seven cities in Florida and three in Georgia As Beverly and Bill became know in the wrestling world they would start working for other promotion, They both worked for Nwa, Bull and Fred Curry and many more. Beverly won the NWA tag team championship with her partner in Memphis TN. Beverly soon started working for promoters all over the world including the WWF with the fabulous Moolah. Billy soon found promoting and working a full time job was too time consuming without Beverly's full time assistance. Billy shut his promotion down then wrestling part time. As years passed Billy was offered several promotions by large corporations that manufactured cans for high profile beverage and beer corporations. Beverly and Billy moved to many states following Billy's career.During their promotion days Beverly and Billy had their promotion on independent and ABC television and Billy and Beverly extended their career in the container manufacturing business. Both are retired and living in Southaven, Mississippi.