Ken Lusk,[5] better known by his ring name Ken Mantell, is an American retired professional wrestler, promoter and booker who competed throughout the National Wrestling Alliance in the 1970s and 80s. He is a former NWA World Junior Heavyweight Champion, having defeated Danny Hodge, and won the NWA World Tag Team Championship with Ron Bass in November 1975. He worked as the booker of World Class Championship Wrestling during its peak years and, as a promoter, formed the Wild West Wrestling promotion, which merged with World Class when he became part-owner in early 1988.
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Ken Lusk, better known by his ring name KenMantell, is an American retired professional wrestler, promoter and booker who competed throughout the National...
global exposure through their syndicated television program. Bookers KenMantell, David Von Erich, Gary Hart, Bruiser Brody and Kevin Von Erich provided...
Pro of the Gulf Coast Championship Wrestling (GCCW) promotion faced KenMantell for the championship. During the match, the referee was knocked out and...
WCCW (Episode #218), a press conference airs with WCWA representative KenMantell declaring Rude as WCWA World Champion and stating the title would change...
a time limit draw. He would win a second title in 1975 by defeating KenMantell, also later losing the belt to Hodge, whom he had a series of matches...
shared office space in the arena. Others like David Manning, Gary Hart, KenMantell, Percy Pringle, Skandor Akbar and Chris Adams would also occupy the front...
Championship Wrestling's history, he had famous feuds with the likes of KenMantell for the NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship and Jack Brisco for...
name Dutch Mantel (also spelled Dutch Mantell). Since May 2022, Mantell has co-hosted Story Time with Dutch Mantell, hosted by James Romero on the WSI Network...
defeated Kelly Kiniski. The young wrestler was quite active, wrestling KenMantell, Carl Fergie, Jake Roberts, and The Great Kabuki. On August 18, 1981...
title once again for two more years before being upset by KenMantell on December 19, 1973. Mantell eventually lost the title to Hiro Matsuda, Hodge's rival;...
Orndorff feuded with KenMantell over Mantell's propensity for cutting people's hair after a match. Orndorff got the better of Mantell and won the right...
(GCW) in the summer of 1976. On 16 July 1976, they defeated Dean Ho and KenMantell to win the NWA Georgia Tag Team Championship. On 10 September, they lost...
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Dirty White Boy). Together they defeated The Nightmares (Danny Davis and Ken Wayne) on February 23, 1987. They lost and regained the straps against Robert...
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Savannah Jack for many months, and his feud with Jack carried over to KenMantell's new Wild West Wrestling promotion. In late 1987, he joined Terry Gordy...
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