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Harley Race

1943 - 2019

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Harley Leland Race (April 11, 1943 – August 1, 2019) was an American professional wrestler, promoter, and trainer. Race wrestled in the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), the American Wrestling Association (AWA), the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE), and World Championship Wrestling (WCW). He was a nine-time world champion, having won the WWA World Heavyweight Championship once and the NWA World Heavyweight Championship eight times and was the first NWA United States Heavyweight Champion (now WWE United States Championship). Race is one of six men to have been inducted into each of the WWE Hall of Fame, the NWA Hall of Fame, the WCW Hall of Fame, the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame and the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Harley Race is the 161st most popular wrestler (down from 100th in 2019), the 7,200th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,734th in 2019) and the 66th most popular American Wrestler.

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Among WRESTLERS

Among wrestlers, Harley Race ranks 161 out of 1,027. Before him are Rusev, Matt Bloom, Bobby Roode, Shota Chochishvili, Big John Studd, and László Papp. After him are Owen Hart, Sgt. Slaughter, Erick Rowan, Stu Hart, István Kozma, and Edge.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Harley Race ranks 468. Before him are Borislav Paravac, Androulla Vassiliou, Peter Norton, Jacques-Pierre Amette, Bobby Keys, and Juan Masnik. After him are Joël Robert, Silvia Cartwright, Günther Beckstein, Yoram Globus, Margaret Beckett, and Stephen Greenblatt. Among people deceased in 2019, Harley Race ranks 334. Before him are Jaegwon Kim, Giovanni Bramucci, Billy McNeill, Therese Zenz, Abdallah Lamrani, and Med Hondo. After him are François Weyergans, Dinko Dermendzhiev, Mitsuhisa Taguchi, Yvette Williams, Ben Pon, and Kurt Armbruster.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Harley Race ranks 7,202 out of 20,380. Before him are Marc Okrand (1948), John Bray (1875), Bobby Keys (1943), Brendan Eich (1961), Keith Ferguson (1972), and Herschel Savage (1952). After him are Nolan Ryan (1947), Malcom McLean (1913), Miles Teller (1987), Melville Shavelson (1917), Charles Sibley (1917), and Ethelda Bleibtrey (1902).

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Among WRESTLERS In United States

Among wrestlers born in United States, Harley Race ranks 66. Before him are Bob Backlund (1949), Stan Hansen (1949), Kurt Angle (1968), Bobo Brazil (1924), Matt Bloom (1972), and Big John Studd (1948). After him are Sgt. Slaughter (1948), Erick Rowan (1981), Robert Curry (1882), Damian Priest (1982), Chris Jericho (1970), and Tazz (1967).

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