Jimmy Garvin

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Jimmy Garvin
Statistics
Ring name(s)	"Gorgeous" Jimmy Garvin Beau James Jimmy "Jam" Garvin
Billed height	5 ft 10 in (178 cm)
Billed weight	235 lb (107 kg)
Born	September 25, 1952 Tampa, Florida
Debut	1972
Retired	1994

Jimmy Garvin (born James Williams on September 25, 1952 in Tampa, Florida) is a former professional wrestler.

1 Career
- 1.1 Early career
- 1.2 NWA & WCW
2 Profile
3 In wrestling
4 Championships and accomplishments
5 Trivia
6 External links

[edit] Career

[edit] Early career

Jimmy Garvin began his wrestling career in 1972 as Beau James. He soon took the name "Gorgeous" Jimmy Garvin and was given two "brothers", Terry and Ron Garvin, whom he briefly managed.

He toured the Mid-Southern and Florida territories from 1978 until 1983, when he joined World Class Championship Wrestling. He brought along his cousin Sunshine, who became his valet. As a heel, he started a feud with beloved David Von Erich which he lost and ended up spending a day with Sunshine on David's ranch, doing ranch duties.

He next moved on to feud with Chris Adams and he replaced Sunshine with his wife Patti under the name of Precious. Precious and Sunshine feuded and Jimmy traded the American Title with Adams until 1984, when Garvin left World Class for the American Wrestling Association. Garvin and Adams would revive their feud ten years later in the Global Wrestling Federation, but the promotion went out of business before that angle got off the ground.

In the AWA, he formed a tag team with "Mr. Electricity" Steve Regal (not the British wrestler) and they won the World Tag Team Titles from the Road Warriors with the help of the Fabulous Freebirds.

[edit] NWA & WCW

After losing the titles to Scott Hall and Curt Hennig in 1986, he went to the NWA's Jim Crockett Promotions. He feuded with Brad Armstrong and was in the middle of a feud with Magnum T.A. when Magnum had the car wreck that would end his career.

In 1987, Jimmy's "brother" Ron (he is really Jimmy's stepfather), was in a feud with Jim Cornette and his stable. During a match with Cornette's Midnight Express, Cornette threw fire in Ron's face. Several faces came out to help and then Jimmy ran out and took him to the hospital.

Jimmy turned face and helped Ron feud with the Midnight Express. Later that year, he had a feud with Ric Flair, who was eyeing Precious. He sent her gifts and beat Garvin in a match to win a date with her. When the date came, Flair and James J. Dillon ended up being punched out by Ron Garvin, who was dressed in his "Miss Atlanta Lively" outfit.

In 1988, Garvin had a feud with Kevin Sullivan and his Varsity Club. This one was over Precious too but it was never made clear why Sullivan wanted her. Sullivan would stalk her and taunt her with papers in his robe, but they never revealed anything.

In September 1988, Garvin left to sell a broken leg that he had gotten from Sullivan and Mike Rotunda.

Garvin returned in June 1989 minus Precious and became the newest member of the Fabulous Freebirds by winning the World Tag Team Titles with Michael Hayes at Clash of Champions VII. They feuded with the Midnight Express (Bobby Eaton & Stan Lane) and Rick & Scott Steiner. Garvin had worked in the past with Hayes, Buddy Roberts and Terry Gordy during the height of the Freebird-Von Erichs feud in World Class, and was always considered "The fourth Freebird".

In 1991 under the new company name of WCW, the Freebirds added a masked Freebird, Badstreet, and they feuded with the "Southern Boys" (Steve Armstrong & Tracy Smothers). They also added two managers, Big Daddy Dink & Diamond Dallas Page. By 1992, Badstreet and their managers were gone and the Freebirds had no direction. They briefly added Precious as their manager but she only made one appearance.

They had some minor feuds and then Garvin left WCW in 1993 and went to the Global Wrestling Federation, where he reformed the Freebirds with Terry Gordy and Hayes. He won the Tag Team Titles with Gordy in 1994 and retired to become an airline pilot for U.S. Airways when the GWF folded that year. He worked for Net Jets Aviation.

He had a very short run as part of the creative team for WWE's Smackdown! brand in late 2006.