On the Octoepisode of WWF Championship Wrestling, McGraw was a guest on Roddy Piper's "Piper's Pit" segment and got on the host's case about always shooting his mouth off and not wrestling on television, prompting Piper to accept a challenge to wrestle him on the show the next week. Towards the end of his career, McGraw teamed up with André the Giant to form a lopsided tag team duo: McGraw was 5'7" with the Giant billed at 7'4". He was once managed by Arnold Skaaland and also had his neck "broken" by Killer Khan in a match. Quickdraw had notable matches with numerous top heels during his time in the WWF. Rick then re-entered Vince McMahon Sr.'s WWF as part of the tag team called The Carolina Connection with Steve Travis. He was one-half of The New York Dolls with The Dream Machine (managed by Jimmy Hart) in the World Wrestling Association, winning the WWA World Tag Team Championship in 1982. McGraw left the WWF and competed for various regional territories of the National Wrestling Alliance. He also competed on the Showdown at Shea show in August 1980, losing to Greg Gagne. McGraw defeated enhancement talent, but mostly put over heels that were ready to challenge WWF champion Bob Backlund. He competed in the Mid-Atlantic region a couple of years later before entering the World Wrestling Federation. He adopted the nickname "Quickdraw" in reference to the cartoon character Quick Draw McGraw. McGraw began his career in 1975 in the Florida area. Rick was a wrestler at Elon College 1973-74. Richard McGraw (Ma– November 1, 1985) was an American professional wrestler, best known for his appearances with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) under the ring name "Quickdraw" Rick McGraw from 1980 until his death in 1985. Fred Flintstone, The Hair Bear Bunch & Muttley.American professional wrestler Rick McGraw Working from 1996, the painting was complete in 1997 - the 40th anniversary year of Hanna-Barbera Productions.įeatured in this Expressionistic interpretation are classic characters spanning the years 1957 to 1971: From top left (Clockwise) Huckleberry Hound Ruff & Reddy Secret Squirrel Squidley Diddley Yogi Bear Quick Draw McGraw Centre: Top Cat & his gang Morocco Mole Scooby Doo and co. Stephen decided to pay tribute to the characters and the studio that created them creating this painting, inspired by drawings he made from photographs taken from the television - his aim to express, in his own distinctive interpretation, the styles and rythyms and vibrancy that the cartoons that had cheered his childhood, evoked for him ranging from the earliest characters to the later additions. The Hollywood studios of Hanna-Barbera have been swallowed up by Turner Entertainment and Warner Bros.- and sadly cartoons from the classic era of Hanna - Barbera (1960s-1970s) are rarely shown - at least in the UK - and children are now fed wilder ,colder computer-generated images.an innocence has been lost. Bilko while other cartoons - The Flintstones(1960-), The Jetsons (1963), Wait Til Your Father Gets Home (1971) - were inspired by the family sitcom. The lingo was slightly hipper than classic Disney - Top Cat (1961-) was for example loosely inspired by the series Sgt. They were fun, happy and interestingly appealing to adults and children alike. Sometimes described as the 'General Motors 'of animation, due to their economic use of animation and the sheer volume of productions that they churned out, Stephen was charmed by their vibrant and simple shapes, the parody of Americana embroidered within their tales and if the animation was at times inept somehow it appealed - in the same way B-movies appeal. Early on the beauty of classic Walt Disney overjoyed him but it was the television cartoons of the Hanna- Barbera Studios (1957-) that fascinated him most and a host of their characters played regularly on TV during the 1970s. During his childhood in the mid-1970s Stephen B Whatley was fixated with the idea of becoming a cartoon animator and would often create his own characters.
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