Paul Ellering

Infobox Wrestler
name=Paul Ellering


names="Precious" Paul Ellering,
Mr. Dot Com,
The Body Doc
birth_date = birth date and age|1953|8|22
death_date =
birth_place =Melrose, Minnesota
resides=Grey Eagle, Minnesota
trainer=Verne Gagne,
Eddie Sharkey
debut=1978
retired=|

"Precious" Paul Ellering (born August 22, 1953) is a retired professional wrestling manager.

Career

Before entering the wrestling business, Ellering was an accomplished weighlifter. His goal was to become a professional wrestler, but he sustained a knee injury before getting a chance to wrestle. Ole Anderson recognized his speaking ability, however, and gave him a job as a manager. [cite book |last=Meltzer|first=Dave|title=Tributes II: Remembering More of the World's Greatest Professional Wrestlers |pages=pp. 136|isbn = 1582618178]

Ellering is best known for managing the Legion of Doom when they were also known as The Road Warriors from 1983 until 1997 during their stints in the American Wrestling Association, the National Wrestling Alliance, New Japan Pro Wrestling, and the World Wrestling Federation in 1992. Throughout 1998 he managed the Disciples of Apocalypse, who were then feuding with the Legion of Doom; according to Ellering and Animal on the Road Warriors DVD, Ellering had a hard time working with another team against Hawk and Animal, and had difficulty ripping on his former team on the microphone.

Although primarily a manager, Ellering has stepped between the ropes as a competitor, notably at the 1987 NWA Great American Bash in which he joined the Road Warriors, Nikita Koloff, and Dusty Rhodes to face The Four Horsemen and their manager James J. Dillon in the first ever War Games. Ellering would also face Teddy Long in a 'Hair vs. Hair' match at the WCW Capitol Combat event in 1990.

After retiring from professional wrestling, he traveled to Alaska to become a sled dog racer, participating in the Iditarod many times. In one of his Iditarod runs, he fell asleep while mushing his dogs, and the subzero temperatures froze the glass of his goggles to one of his eyes, scratching the cornea. Not having very powerful eyesight to begin with, it was believed that Ellering would totally lose sight in that eye, but doctors were able to restore the eye to its former strength.

Ellering currently owns and operates [http://www.paulellering.com/rocktavern.htm The Historic Rock Tavern] in Grey Eagle, Minnesota on Big Birch Lake.

Personal life

Paul has three children, named Rebecca, Rachael and Saul. [citeweb|last=Olson|first=Roberta|title=Ellering to Run 2006 Iditarod|work=Melrose Beacon|url=http://www.albanyenterprise.com/articles/2006/01/27/melrose_beacon/news/news-iditarod.txt|accessdate=2007-10-14]

In wrestling

*Wrestlers managed
**Road Warrior Animal
**Road Warrior Hawk
**Jake Roberts
**Arn Anderson
**Matt Borne
**King Kong Bundy
**Jos LeDuc
**The Spoiler
**Iron Sheik
**Abdullah the Butcher
**Chainz
**Skull
**8-Ball
**Buzz Sawyer

Championships and accomplishments

*Continental Wrestling Association:*AWA Southern Heavyweight Championship (1 time):*AWA Southern Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Sheik Ali Hassan

*International Wrestling Alliance:*IWA Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Terry latham

*Pro Wrestling Illustrated:*PWI Manager of the Year award in 1984 [citeweb|title=Pro Wrestling Illustrated Award Winners : Manager of the Year|work=Wrestling Information Archive|url=http://www.100megsfree4.com/wiawrestling/pages/pwi/pwiman.htm|accessdate=2007-10-14]

*Wrestling Observer Newsletter awards
**Worst Feud of the Year (1997) - vs. Los Boricuas

References

ee also

*Legion of Doom

External links

* [http://paulellering.com/ Official site of Paul Ellering]
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0254053/bio/ Paul at Internet Movie Database]
* [http://www.cabelasiditarod.com/mushers/elleringp.html Paul at Cabela's Iditarod website]