Sweet Daddy Siki

Infobox Wrestler
name=Reginald Siki


names=Mr. Irresistible
Sweet Daddy Siki
height= 5 ft 10 in
weight= 245 lb
birth_date =birth date and age|1940|6|19
birth_place = Montgomery, Texas
resides= Toronto, Ontario
billed=
trainer=Sandor Szabo
Ray Ortega [http://www.bodyslamming.com/other/sweetdaddy.html Other Superstars - Sweet Daddy Siki ] ]
debut=1955
finishing_move=airplane spin
retired=|

Reginald Siki = (born on June 19 1940), (5' 10", 245 pounds) was a professional wrestler and was born on June 16 in Montgomery, Texas.

Sweet Daddy Siki started wrestling in 1955 in Artisa, New Mexico. [http://slam.canoe.ca/SlamWrestling/siki.html SLAM! Wrestling Canadian Hall of Fame: Sweet Daddy Siki ] ] He also did some training in Los Angeles with Sandor Szabo and Ray Ortega. He says he was about 180 pounds when he started, but within three years weighed in at 230.

Career

He moved to Toronto in 1961 because it was a good central location to travel across North America. He still lives in Toronto today, and uses it as a base for his country & western band and his work as a DJ. Siki is well known throughout Canada. He was a top draw in the '60s and '70s. He fought in Stampede wrestling for years, traveled with Bearman McKigney's circuit and was a mainstay of the eastern scene. Siki is best known for his head-hammerin' "coco butt" and "neck breaker" holds. Siki still wonderful…just ask him, By Tom Godfrey, Toronto Sun, June 29, 1986 ]

At his peak, Siki was a main card attraction at Maple Leaf Gardens and drew fans by the busloads. He had made his Maple Leaf Gardens debut in 1962 and wrestled there until 1980. [http://www.garywill.com/wrestling/canada/siki.htm PAGE OF FAME: Sweet Daddy Siki ] ]

In his peak at Maple Leaf Gardens, he earned up to $3,000 a bout and got bundles of mail from fans around the world. In the 1970s, Siki wrestled two well-known radio & TV hosts in Toronto -- CHUM radio's Terry Steele and CITY-TV's Gene Taylor. He used an airplane spin as a finisher in both matches.

Championships

Along the way, he has accrued six major wrestling belts, including the Austra-Asian championship, thrice winning the North American championship, the Texas championship and the tag-team heavyweight crown.

Siki suffered many injuries throughout his career. He suffered from two broken ribs, had his hands broken twice, his ankle and leg broken and half his face paralyzed.

In the 1980s, he wrestled across the Maritimes and in small Northern Ontario towns. Siki actually wrote his own theme song entitled "I Am So Proud Of What I see".

During this time, he also started to teach the craft at Sully's Toronto Youth Athletic Club on Sundays. He continued to wrestle into the 1990s. He was also affiliated with a Toronto wrestling school through the 1980s and to the mid-1990s, initially in partnership with Johnny Powers.

Besides Canada, Siki wrestled right across the United States, in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Puerto Rico, Bahamas, Trinidad.

Championships and accomplishments

*Atlantic Grand Prix Wrestling:*AGPW North American Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Cuban Assassain

*Maple Leaf Wrestling:*NWA International Tag Team Championship "(Toronto version)" (1 time) - with Bulldog Brower

*NWA All Star Wrestling:*NWA Canadian Tag Team Championship "(Vancouver version)" (1 time) - with Kinji Shibuya

*Southwest Sports, Inc. :*NWA Texas Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

*Mid-Pacific Promotions:*NWA North American Heavyweight Championship "(Hawaii version)" (1 time):*NWA Hawaii Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Moondog Mayne

*Midwest Wrestling Association:*MWA Ohio Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Leon Graham

*NWA Ohio:*NWA Eastern States Heavyweight Championship (1 time)¹

*Stampede Wrestling:*NWA Canadian Heavyweight Championship "(Calgary version)" (1 time):*Stampede North American Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

*World Wrestling Council:*WWC North American Heavyweight Championship (2 times)

¹This title should not be confused with the NWA Eastern States Heavyweight Championship that was defended in Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling in the early to mid 1970s. This title would go on to be renamed the NWA Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Championship.Finishing Move: Airplane Spin

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