(1946-09-20) 20 September 1946 (age 77) Auckland, New Zealand[1]
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)
Tony Garea[1]
Billed height
6 ft 1 in (185 cm)[2]
Billed weight
245 lb (111 kg)[2]
Billed from
Auckland, New Zealand
Trained by
Wild Don Scott[1]
Debut
1971[1]
Retired
1987[2]
Anthony Gareljich (born 20 September 1946) is a New Zealand retired professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Tony Garea. He is best known for his appearances in the United States with the World Wide Wrestling Federation/World Wrestling Federation in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Zealand retired professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, TonyGarea. He is best known for his appearances in the United States with the World...
Garea is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: John Garea (born 1949), New Zealand professional wrestler TonyGarea (born 1946), New Zealand...
Zealand Heavyweight Champion. Garea is the real life brother of four-time WWWF World Tag Team Champion and WWE Road Agent TonyGarea. Born in Auckland, New Zealand...
Wrestling Federation (WWF) in July 1980. That fall, he formed a tag team with TonyGarea. On November 8, they defeated The Wild Samoans to capture the WWF Tag...
wins over Barry O, Jim Powers, Mark Young, Frankie Lane, and an upset of TonyGarea. Despite a tick upwards in in-ring success, Lombardi began 1987 seemingly...
Pennsylvania, at a House show. They lost the belts to Haystacks Calhoun and TonyGarea on May 30, 1973, again at a Hamburg house show, but regained them on September...
Valiant over TonyGarea and Dean Ho on May 8, 1974; his second title run was with his second storyline brother Jerry Valiant over TonyGarea and Larry Zbyszko...
Samoans defeated TonyGarea and Rene Goulet in the tournament finals to win the title. Their reign lasted for one month, until they lost to Garea and his new...
Stasiak teamed with Larry Hennig to unsuccessfully challenge Dean Ho and TonyGarea for the WWWF Tag Team Championship. Stasiak continued regularly appearing...
they held the titles briefly. On November 21, they lost the titles to TonyGarea and Larry Zbyszko. Pierre would fight singles matches as an enhancement...
nation. Zbyszko returned to the WWWF in 1976 and formed a tag team with TonyGarea, with whom he won the WWWF World Tag Team Championships on November 21...
Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF). On May 30, 1973, Calhoun paired with TonyGarea to defeat the Japanese duo of Mr. Fuji and Prof. Toru Tanaka for the WWF...
soon after. Their biggest success as a tag team came when they defeated TonyGarea and Dean Ho to win the WWWF World Tag Team Championship on the 8 May 1974...
summer in competition against George Wells, Lanny Poffo, TonyGarea, Cousin Luke, and Tony Atlas. During a time when the WWF did not recognize the existence...
was managed by Captain Lou Albano. They began a feud with tag champions TonyGarea and Rick Martel, whom they defeated on edition of October 17, 1981, of...
1981, the Moondogs would lose the Tag Team Championship to Rick Martel & TonyGarea. On September 1, 1981, he mounted an unsuccessful challenge to WWF World...
quickly moved to a house show feud with former WWF Tag-Team Champion TonyGarea and dominated the series. On October 4, 1982, he challenged Pedro Morales...
Cerdan, he was a WWWF Tag Team Champion with fellow Italian-Canadian wrestler Tony Parisi. He trained another Italian-Canadian wrestler, Dino Bravo. Brito was...
Gomez (1), Peter Maivia (1), Moondog Mayne (1), Rocky Johnson (3), and TonyGarea (1) Cauliflower Alley Club Art Abrams Lifetime Achievement Award (2008)...
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