(1 time) Western States Sports NWA Western States Heavyweight Championship (3 times) World Wide Wrestling Federation/World Wrestling Federation/WWE WWWF/WWF World Heavyweight Championship (2 times) WWF Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Pedro Morales Slammy Award (1 time) Most Eccentric (1994) WWE Hall of Fame (Class of 2013) Wrestling and Romance WAR World Six-Man Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Scott Putski and The Warlord Wrestling Observer Newsletter Best Technical Wrestler (1980) Match of the Year (1980) vs. Ken Patera in a Texas Death match on May 19 in New York City, New York Most Disgusting Promotional Tactic (1982) Being WWF Champion Most Overrated Wrestler (1983) Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame (Class of 2004) References External links 1949 births American catch wrestlers American male professional wrestlers American male sport wrestlers American people of Swedish descent Connecticut Republicans Living people North Dakota State Bison wrestlers People from Glastonbury, Connecticut People from Princeton, Minnesota Professional wrestlers from Minnesota Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum WWE Champions WWE Hall of Fame inductees 20th-century professional wrestlers 21st-century professional wrestlers Tenryu Project World 6-Man Tag Team Champions NWA Florida Tag Team Champions