Robert Gibson (wrestler)

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Robert Gibson
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 (1958-07-19) (age 49) Pensacola, Florida
Trained by	Rick Gibson
Debut	1977

Robert Gibson (born Ruben Cain, July 19, 1958) is a professional wrestler. He is famous as half of the tag team known as Rock 'N Roll Express, with Ricky Morton.

Contents 1 Career 2 In wrestling 3 Championships and accomplishments 4 Personal life 5 References

Career

Cain started wrestling as Robert Gibson in 1977. He was trained by his brother Ricky Gibson and teamed with Ricky 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^[clarify] as Morton rallied the crowd by taking punishment as the "face" in peril.

Gibson was injured in 1990 and when he returned to WCW in 1991, 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 Total Nonstop Action Wrestling when they were part of Vince Russo's Sports Entertainment Xtreme faction. Appeared at one Wrestle Birmingham show in 2002 as "Robert Fuller, Jr." pretending to be the son of veteran wrestler Robert Fuller, gimmick also used by other wrestlers.

In December 2006, Gibson became an assistant trainer for "Ohio Valley Wrestling", but was released from the WWE on October 13, 2007.

In wrestling

• Finishing and signature moves
  • Missile Dropkick
  • Gibson Leglock

• Managers
  • Jimmy King
  • Jim Cornette

Championships and accomplishments

• All-Pro Championship Wrestling

• APCW Tag Team Championship (3 times) - with Jason Gibson and Mike Youngblood (2)

• All-Pro Wrestling

• APW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
• APW Tag Team Championship (1 time)

• All-Star Wrestling

• ASW Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Ricky Morton

• Jim Crockett Promotions

• NWA World Tag Team Championship (Mid-Atlantic version) (4 times) - with Ricky Morton

• Korean Pro-Wrestling Association

• NWA World Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Ricky Morton

• Mid-South Wrestling Association

• Mid-South Tag Team Championship (3 times) - with Ricky Morton

• National Wrestling Alliance

• NWA World Tag Team Championship (2 times) - with Ricky Morton¹
• NWA Hall of Fame (Class of 2006)

• NWA Hollywood Wrestling

• NWA Americas Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Ricky Gibson

• NWA Mid-America | Continental Wrestling Association | Championship Wrestling Association

• AWA Southern Tag Team Championship (5 times) - with Ricky Gibson (3), Bill Dundee (1), and Ricky Morton (1)
• CWA Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Ricky Morton
• CWA World Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Ricky Morton
• NWA Mid-America Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
• NWA Mid-America Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Don Fargo

• NWA Southwest

• NWA World Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Ricky Morton

• NWA Wildside

• NWA Wildside Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Ricky Morton

• New Age Championship Wrestling

• NACW Tag Team Championship (1 time)

• Pro Wrestling Express

• PWX Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Vince Kaplack

• Smoky Mountain Wrestling

• SMW Beat the Champ Television Championship (1 time)
• SMW Tag Team Championship (10 times) - with Ricky Morton

• Southeastern Championship Wrestling

• NWA Southeastern Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Ricky Gibson
• NWA Southeast United States Junior Heavyweight Championship (2 times)

• United States Wrestling Association

• USWA World Tag Team Championship (2 times) - with Ricky Morton

• World Organization of Wrestling

• WOW Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Ricky Morton

¹One of their reigns began in Memphis, Tennessee, though the records are unclear as to which promotion they were wrestling for. Another reign began with them being awarded the titles, though it isn't revealed where they were awarded nor which promotion they were wrestling for at the time.

Personal life

On September 15, 2006, his brother, Ricky Gibson, died.

He knows sign language and often spoke with his hands in the ring before his matches.

His son, Jason Gibson, is also a wrestler.

He is part owner of Zeke's Deep Sea Fishing tours in Orange Beach, Alabama.

Gibson has a wandering eye. Wrestling manager Jim Cornette often made fun of it in his interviews when the Rock 'N Roll Express feuded with The Midnight Express.

References