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Sep 19, 2020 · Jim Cornette on Hercules Hernandez. From Episode 89 of Jim Cornette's Drive Thru Artwork by Travis Heckel! Send in your question for the Drive-Thru to: CornyDriveThru@gmail.com Follow...
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- Hercules Hernandez: from The Territories to Japan and Back Again
- A Successful Run in Mid-South Wrestling
- A Troubled Run in The WWF
- Hercules’s Heat Cools Off
- The Sid Justice and Hercules Hernandez No-Sell at Madison Square Garden
- A Lively New York Audience
- No-Selling The Finish
- Hands Behind The Head During The Powerbomb
- “Nobody’s Ever Beaten Hercules That Quick!”
- Business as Usual Later That Night
Raymond Constantine Fernandez began his professional wrestling career in 1981. The future Hercules Hernandez had already competed as a high school amateur wrestler and served in the United StatesAir Force for three years. By 1985, he had worked in the NWA, Jim Crockett Promotions, Mid-South Wrestling, and toured in Japan for All Japan Pro Wrestling...
Hercules initially performed wearing a mask under the persona of Mr. Wrestling III. On the Grilling JR YouTube channel, Ross described him as “agile for a guy so jacked up” and “kind of a quiet guy.” Likewise, Jim Cornette describedHernandez as having the “body of a god” on The Jim Cornette Experience Podcast. After shedding the Mr. Wrestling mask,...
What followed was an intense mix of career highs and lows. He gained significant exposure, and perhaps easily forgotten are the entertaining segments alongside manager Freddie Blassieduring the WWF Tuesday Night Titans chat show. Less than two years into his World Wrestling Federation stint, he also landed a WWE Heavyweight championship shot agains...
Despite proving his ability to hang alongside the best and most challenging in the business, his pushes would be cut short. After scoring a victory over Haku at WrestleMania V, he was squashed by Earthquake at WrestleMania VI. Despite lasting in the 1991 Royal Rumblefor an impressive 37 minutes, he was eliminated in the 1992 Rumble one year later a...
Sid was then amid a long-running feud with Hulk Hogan that would culminate in an April WrestleMania main event match. On February 23rd, 1992, at a Madison Square Gardenshow, Sid was given the role of indomitable heel. To achieve this effect, Sid needed to be fed a victim. Hercules Hernandez was booked for the job. It was an interesting choice as He...
Sid then offered a clearly unintimidated Hernandez a chance to walk out unharmed, which Hercules declined. After standing his ground, Hercules delivered three punches to Sid, resulting in a quick scuffle that took the two wrestlers outside the ringand back in again. There was a flurry of strikes and a knee from Sid, followed by an arm drag to bounc...
The running pattern for that particular era of Sid’s careeris that his opponents would be in no hurry to recover from his devastating finisher. One is encouraged to think about AEW and Wardlow’s powerbomb symphony in a modern context. However, in this match, the illusion was destroyed.
On the other hand, it may also be he was flaunting a state of relaxation during this finisher. When the ref hit the three-count after Sid’s maneuver, Hercules casually sat up and rose to his feet.
The commentators attempted to sell Sid’s squash to death, with Gorilla Monsoon and Bobby Heenanusing slogans such as “Holy Mackerel” and “Nobody’s ever beaten Hercules that quick!” But it was to no avail. Now outside the ring, Sid maintained the crowd’s energy by glaring into the camera and verbalizing his dominance. Yet there was the briefest cuta...
And when he appeared later on the show in a Battle Royal also featuring Sid, it was “business as usual.”
Later on, Fernandez unmasked and competed once again as "Hercules Hernandez", and feuded with "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan under the tutelage of Jim Cornette. Hercules soon joined Skandor Akbar 's stable , Devastation Inc., alongside future WWF co-worker Ted DiBiase .
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Jim Cornette hired Hercules Hernandez as his bodyguard. Jim wanted protection from Hacksaw Jim Duggan. In October of 1984 Hercules and Duggan faced off at the Superdome in New Orleans in a hair vs. hair match.
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Mar 17, 2021 · Mid-South Wrestling, Adam Nedeff. Adam Nedeff looks back at the August 4th, 1984 episode of Mid-South Wrestling featuring Hercules Hernandez and Jim Cornette, plus more.
