He then moved on to Continental Championship Wrestling as "Detroit Demolition" and eventually retired. Randy Colley went on to form The Moondogs tag team (as Moondog Rex), which competed in the then-WWF and in the Memphis area, and he was also the original Demolition Smash in the WWF. Hamilton reopened Deep South Wrestling in 2005 to serve as a developmental territory for World Wrestling Entertainment, but WWE severed its developmental deal with DSW on April 18, 2007, and Hamilton has continued running the promotion on his own as an independent. He then opened up the Power Plant as a training facility for World Championship Wrestling and was last seen reprising his Assassin role as the manager of Pretty Wonderful ( Paul Orndorff and Paul Roma) in WCW in 1994. Jody Hamilton wound down his in-ring career in the Alabama territory competing under a different identity as The Flame before starting up his own promotion in Georgia, Deep South Wrestling, in 1986, which he ran for about two years. Guy Mitchell and Joe Tomasso won the World Wrestling Association (Indianapolis) tag team titles. This short lived version was led by Bobby Heenan. This version lasted for three months before Barry O (Assassin 3) quit the territory.Īssassin I (Hamilton) turned on Jones breaking his ties and feuding with his former manager, which climaxed with Hamilton teaming with Buzz Tyler to beat Jones' Zambuie Express ( Elijah Akeem and Kareem Muhammed) at Starrcade 1984 in Greensboro, North Carolina. hair match at a JCP/ Maple Leaf Wrestling show in Toronto, Ontario on April 15, 1984. This version of the team lasted until Hernandez was unmasked after losing to Valiant in a mask vs. Hercules Hernandez joined the team and feuded with Jimmy Valiant on the Boogie Jam Tour. They later retunited briefly in Deep South Wrestling where they became champions again by upending another masked tag team, The Nightmares. Colley eventually lost his mask at The Omni in Atlanta in 1980. They captured the Georgia tag team titles, twice. The third version of the team feuded with Dusty Rhodes, Mr. They moved on to Georgia Championship Wrestling but Roger Smith eventually passed the mask on to Randy Colley aka (Moondog Rex and Demolition Smash Version I). This version captured the Louisiana tag team title and the Mid-America version of the NWA World tag team title. The second version of the team wrestled for Nick Gulas in Nashville and Leroy McGuirk in the NWA Tri-State. This version of the team held 35+ championships including the Georgia tag team title 10 times and 8 versions of the world tag team title. They returned to Georgia in 1968 and competed in that state primarily until 1974 they spent most of their time competing in Georgia Championship Wrestling during that period, but they also went to work for an independent group called the All-South Wrestling Alliance, with Hamiilton going solo in the beginning while Renesto worked behind the scenes, then facing off in opposite corners from each other, then reuniting as babyfaces before All-South closed in late-1974. Hamilton and Renesto became a well-traveled heel tandem through the 1960s, competing in the Mid-Atlantic territory, Georgia, Florida, California, Arizona, the Pacific Northwest, Canada, Japan and Australia among other areas, and winning championship gold along the way. Shortly afterward, Tom Renesto arrived in the area and began teaming with Hamilton to form the original Assassins team. The team had its origins in 1961 in the Georgia territory, when Hamilton, a five-year veteran, first began competing in Atlanta, Georgia as the Assassin. 1.1 The Original Assassins: Hamilton and RenestoĬareer The Original Assassins: Hamilton and Renesto.
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