Reuben Kane
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| Reuben Kane | |
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| Statistics | |
| Ring name(s) | Robert Gibson Robert Fuller Jr. |
| Billed height | 5 ft 11 in (180 cm) |
| Billed weight | 225 lb (102 kg) |
| Born | July 19, 1958 Pensacola, Florida |
| Trained by | Rick Gibson |
| Debut | 1977 |
Reuben Kane (born July 19, 1958) is a professional wrestler best known by his ring name of Robert Gibson. He is famous as half of the Rock 'N Roll Express with Ricky Morton.
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[edit] Career
Reuben Kane started wrestling as Robert Gibson in 1977. He was trained by his brother Ricky Gibson and teamed with him in the southern independents when he started.
In 1983, he formed the Rock 'N Roll Express with Ricky Morton. They feuded with The Midnight Express, Bobby Eaton and Dennis Condrey in the Mid-South and the feud carried over into the NWA's Jim Crockett Promotions in 1985. They won the NWA Tag Titles four times while there and feuded with the Four Horsemen, Ivan and Nikita Koloff and the team of Rick Rude and Manny Fernandez. Even though he and Morton were of similar build and wrestled a similar style, Gibson was always booked as the stronger and more powerful of the two. He was most often the recipient of the hot tag as Morton rallied the crowd by taking punishment as the Face in Peril.
Gibson was injured in 1991 and when he returned to WCW, Morton turned on him to join the "York Foundation". They feuded and Gibson teamed with Tom Zenk, but had no success and soon left WCW.
He rejoined Morton in Smoky Mountain Wrestling and they feuded with the "Heavenly Bodies" led by Jim Cornette. Shortly before SMW's demise, Gibson turned heel and joined "Cornette's Army".
The team came back briefly to WCW in 1996.
In 1998, they were part of the "NWA" angle in the WWF for a brief period.
Their last run in a big federation was with TNA Wrestling when they were part of Vince Russo's Sports Entertainment Xtreme faction.
Gibson can now be found occasionally wrestling on the independents with Ricky as the Rock 'N Roll Express or on his own.
On September 15, 2006, his brother, Ricky Gibson, died.
He currently trains in Nettleton, Mississippi.
[edit] Wrestling Facts
[edit] Managers
[edit] Finishing and Signature Moves
[edit] Trivia
- He knows sign language and would often speak with his hands in the ring before his matches.
- His nephew, Jason Gibson, is a wrestler.
- He is part owner of Zeke's Deep Sea Fishing tours in Orange Beach, Alabama.
- Has a wandering eye. Wrestling manager Jim Cornette would often make fun of it in his interviews when the Rock 'N Roll Express feuded with The Midnight Express. It also led to the false belief among wrestling fans that the eye was artificial.
[edit] Championships and accomplishments
National Wrestling Alliance
- 8-Time NWA World Tag Team Champion (with Ricky Morton)
- 1-Time NWA-Wildside Tag Team Champion (with Ricky Morton)
- 1-Time NWA Southeast United States Junior Heavyweight Champion
- 1-Time NWA America's Tag Team Champion (with Ricky Gibson)
Smoky Mountain Wrestling
- 10-Time SMW Tag Team Champion (with Ricky Morton)
- 1-Time SMW Beat the Champ Television Champion
Tennessee Promotions
- 2-Time USWA Tag Team Champion (with Ricky Morton)
- 5-Time Mid-Southern Tag Team Champion (with Ricky Gibson 3 times, Ricky Morton once and Bill Dundee once)
- 1-Time Mid-American Tag Team Champion (with Don Fargo)
- 1-Time Mid-American Heavyweight Champion
- 1-Time CWA Tag Team Champion (with Ricky Morton)
Other Titles
- 2-Time Mid-South Tag Team Champion (with Ricky Morton)
- 1-Time PWX Tag Team Champion (with Vince Kaplack)
- 3-Time APCW Tag Team Champion (with Jason Gibson once and Mike Youngblood twice)
- 1-Time ASW Tag Team Champion (with Ricky Morton)
- 1-Time WOW Tag Team Champion (with Ricky Morton)
- 1-Time WWO Tag Team Champion (with Ricky Morton)
- 1-Time APW (West Virginia) Heavyweight Champion
- 1-Time APW (West Virginia) Tag Team Champion
- 1-Time NACW Tag Team Champion
- Pro Wrestling Illustrated (PWI) ranked him # 99 of the 500 best singles wrestlers during the "PWI Years" in 2003. PWI also ranked him # 4 of the best tag teams of the "PWI Years" with Ricky Morton.
- He won the PWI Tag Team of the Year Award in 1986 with Ricky Morton.
