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Paul Ellering
Paul Ellering
Ring name(s)	"Precious" Paul Ellering,; Mr. Dot Com,; The Body Doc
Born	August 22, 1953 (age 56); Melrose, Minnesota
Resides	Grey Eagle, Minnesota
Trained by	Verne Gagne,; Eddie Sharkey
Debut	1978
Retired	1982

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

[edit] Professional wrestling career

[edit] Early career

Before entering the wrestling business, Ellering was an accomplished weightlifter. Ellering was trained in Minneapolis, Minnesota at a camp run by American Wrestling Alliance (AWA) owner and promoter Verne Gagne and wrestler/trainer Eddie Sharkey in the mid 1970s. According to Ellering's RF Video shoot interview, of the thirty-plus trainees in the camp, only himself and later AWA mid-card wrestler Steve Olsenowsky (a.k.a. Steve O) made it through the camp. Ellering would later go on to wrestle in singles and tag teams for Gagne in the AWA, Bill Watts's Mid-South promotion, and for Jeff Jarrett's Memphis promotion, where he was paired with manager Jimmy Hart. His notable feuds were with Jesse Ventura as a face, and as a heel with Jerry Lawler and Jimmy Valiant, from whom he won the AWA Southern Heavyweight Championship. While wrestling for Georgia Championship Wrestling, Ellering severely injured his knee in a match with Robert Gibson, reinjuring it after returning to the ring, which ended his full-time wrestling career. Georgia booker Ole Anderson recognized his speaking ability, however, and gave him a job as a manager.^[1]

[edit] The Road Warriors

Ellering is best known for managing The Road Warriors, also known as the Legion of Doom 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. In the early 80s Ellering formed a wrestling stable in Georgia Championship Wrestling named after The Legion of Doom of the Saturday morning cartoon Super Friends.^{[citation needed]} Though the other wrestlers faded off as he focused his attentions exclusively on the dominating Warriors Ellering continued to refer to himself and his team by the Legion moniker, especially while in the WWE where "The Road Warriors" name was not recognized. 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.

[edit] Personal life

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.

He currently owns and operates The Historic Rock Tavern in Grey Eagle, Minnesota on Big Birch Lake.

Ellering has three children: Rebecca, Rachael and Saul.^[2]