Ray Stevens(1935-1996)
- Actor
"The Crippler" had quite a career as a wrestler. Tag-team champion,
minor wrestling titles, and fruitful career as a headliner. Stevens was
best known as a member of Bobby "The Brain" Heenan's "Family" (as they
were known in the American Wrestling Association) and as tag-team
partner to "Wicked" Nick Bockwinkle. A splendid singles wrestler (and
well known 'heel') Stevens could never win a major solo title, but was
a long-time tag-team champ with Bockwinkle and Pat Patterson. Stevens
wrestled in the WWF in the 1980s before retiring. He died in his
hometown of San Francisco, of a heart attack on May 5, 1996.
