Barry Hardy Duane Gill Axl Rotten Rip Sawyer Dave Casanova
Debut
August 3, 1990
Retired
2000
William Perry Blake III, better known by the ring name "Hard Rock" Ricky Blues, is an American semi-retired professional wrestler and trainer who competed in the East Coast and Mid-Atlantic independent circuit during the 1990s and 2000s. He is regarded as a pioneering cruiserweight wrestler and dominated the Baltimore-area, especially in the Mid-Eastern Wrestling Federation and Maryland Championship Wrestling, in the early to mid-1990s.
He also wrestled for Atlantic States Wrestling Association, David Leehy's Virginia Wrestling Association, Dick Caricofe's National Wrestling League, Universal Independent Wrestling, the Wrestling Independent Network, NWA New Jersey, Atlantic Wrestling Federation in Pennsylvania, Larry Sharpe's World Wrestling Association, and for Doug Flex and Brick Bronsky in International Pro Wrestling.
He was the first MEWF Heavyweight and Light Heavyweight Champion. He defeated Rich Myers in 1992 in Parkville, Maryland to win the UIW Light Heavyweight championship, and at one time held three light heavyweight/cruiser championship's for three separate promotions simultaneously. In 1995 he defeated Mark Shrader for his second reign as the MEWF Light Heavyweight Champion. He was also a 3-time MEWF Tag Team Champion with Nick Tarentino, Flexx Wheeler (1997) and The New Patriot (1999). He and Nick Tarentino, as Sonic Express, were a successful tag team during his early career and together won both the MEWF and WWA Tag Team titles in 1993.
Blues influenced a number of future high-flying cruiserweights and, as an instructor at the Brainbusters Wrestling School, helped train future Ring of Honor star Ruckus. He was an instructor for the Baltimore Monster Factory, the MCW school Bone Breakers, and Gillberg's Academy of Pro Wrestling. In 2011, he was inducted into the Maryland Wrestling Hall of Fame.
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& Blue (Flexx Wheeler and RickyBlues), under the tutelage of manager Jim Cornette. They eventually lost the belts to Blues and The New Patriot on November...
John Ricky Riccitelli (/ˌriːtʃɪˈtɛli/ REE-chih-TEL-ee; born 3 February 1995) is a New Zealand professional rugby union footballer who plays as a hooker...
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after moving to Chicago to play the blues, Steve Miller and keyboardist Barry Goldberg founded the Goldberg-Miller Blues Band along with bassist Roy Ruby...
High School, where Ricky eventually attended and graduated from. As a teenager, he listened to British rock, Memphis soul, and Blues. He began playing...
in the Mid-Eastern Wrestling Federation. The title was created when RickyBlues defeated Adrian Hall at an event held in Pasadena, Maryland on October...
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accepted the Harlem Jazz & Music Festival 2006 Rhythm & Blues award on the group's behalf. Jimmy "Ricky" Ricks (James Thomas Ricks, August 6, 1924 – July 2...
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Federation, one of three in the promotion. The title was created when RickyBlues defeated Agent Orange at an event held in Odenton, Maryland on January...
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"Fergus Sings the Blues" is the third single from the album When the World Knows Your Name by the Scottish rock band Deacon Blue. Writer Ricky Ross has stated...
Little Fool" is a song written by Sharon Sheeley and first recorded by Ricky Nelson in 1958. Sheeley wrote the song when she was 15 years old. She had...
American tennis player Rick Brown (born 1945), also known as Ricky Fenson, British blues musician Richard Brown (disambiguation) This disambiguation page...
single, "Blues Stay Away from Me," was included on the 1989 compilation album New Tradition Sings the Old Tradition. Austin also co-wrote Ricky Skaggs'...
"Highway 40 Blues" is a song written by Larry Cordle, and recorded by American country music artist Ricky Skaggs. It was released in March 1983 as the...
Hilliard Nelson (May 8, 1940 – December 31, 1985), known professionally as Ricky Nelson until his 21st birthday when he officially dropped the "y" and simply...
Ricky Fataar (born 5 September 1952) is a South African musician of Malay descent who has performed as both a drummer and a guitarist. He gained fame...
The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings is an encyclopedia of blues music albums released on CD. The book was released on 31 October 2006 and was written...
their name from the 1977 Steely Dan song "Deacon Blues", Deacon Blue were formed in 1985 following Ricky Ross's move from Dundee to Glasgow. Along with...
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