“Superstar” Billy Graham, wrestling Hall of Famer, lifeless at 79, WWE says

Pro wrestling legend “Superstar” Billy Graham has died, World Wrestling Entertainment says.

He was simply in need of his eightieth birthday.

Graham, whose actual title was Eldridge Wayne Coleman, was born on June 7, 1943 in Phoenix.

Graham’s “flashy trend fashion, over-the-top interviews and bodybuilder physique created the archetype for a technology of Superstars that adopted in his footsteps,” WWE says.

He was, in accordance with WWE, “maybe the single-most influential performer in WWE historical past whose interviews, trend and physique impressed Hulk Hogan, Jesse ‘The Body’ Ventura and Scott Steiner.”

It notes that his “best WWE achievement” was taking the WWE championship from fellow wrestling legend Bruno Sammartino in April 1977. He held onto the title for nearly a yr.

Graham was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2004.

He retired in 1987, on the age of 44, and have become a supervisor after which a coloration commentator.

Graham’s spouse wrote early Monday on  his Facebook page that that he was on life help in a hospital and docs needed to take him off, however she refused.

“He’s a fighter and his will is robust even when his physique is not,” she wrote. “God is our hope.”

Graham suffered from medical points for months, in accordance with a GoFundMe web page. He’d misplaced 80 kilos as of April 26 and was enduring kidney, coronary heart and lung issues. 

The former wrestler has struggled together with his well being earlier than. In his autobiography, Graham wrote a couple of historical past of drug abuse, which led to a liver transplant in 2002.