The wrestler served as the influence for the biggest stars in the business, including Hulk Hogan and Jesse Ventura.
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“[Former federation owner] Vince McMahon has said that Superstar Billy Graham was 20 years ahead of his time,” Paul Levesque, better known as wrestler Triple H, said at Mr. Coleman’s 2004 WWE Hall of Fame induction ceremony. “If you look at those who came after him, more people have patterned themselves after Superstar Billy Graham and become a success in this business than probably anybody.”Eldridge Wayne Coleman was born in Phoenix on June 7, 1943.
He also became a shot put and discus standout in high school but, inattentive in class, quit his studies in his junior year. He idolized muscleman “I didn’t know what charisma meant,” he told the New York Daily News. “People were attracted to me because of my sincerity. When a really strong Christian minister speaks, we say he’s anointed through God. The true minister has an exceptional connection to the worshipers.”But ministering did not pay well. Furthermore, Mr. Coleman said his growing vanity slowly pulled him away from religion, as he found himself bedding many among the female flock.
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