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Danny McShain (October 30, 1912&ndash;July 14, 1992)<ref name=oww>{{cite web|title=Wrestler Profiles: Danny McShain|work=Online World of Wrestling|url=http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/profiles/d/danny-mcshain.html|accessdate=2009-01-12}}</ref><ref name=book62>{{cite book|title=The Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame: The Heels|page=62|first=Greg|last=Oliver|coauthors=Steven Johnson|publisher=ECW Press|date=2007|isbn=1550227599}}</ref> was an [[United States|American]] professional wrestler who competed in the Southern United States from the 1930s to the 1960s.
{{Infobox professional wrestler
| name = Danny McShain
| names = Danny McShain
| image = Danny McShain 1945.jpg
| image_size = 220px
| caption = McShain, circa 1945
| birth_name = Danny McShain
| height = 5 ft 11 in<ref name=oww/>
| weight = 205 lb<ref name=oww/>
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1912|10|30}}<ref name=oww/><ref name=NWA/>
| birth_place = [[Little Rock, Arkansas]], United States<ref name=NWA/>
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1992|7|14|1912|10|30}}<ref name=oww/><ref name=NWA/>
| death_place = [[Alvin, Texas]], United States
| family = [[Mark Lewin]] (brother-in-law)<ref name="JohnsonOliver2012"/><br/>[[Donn Lewin]] (brother-in-law)<ref name="JohnsonOliver2012">{{cite book|author=Johnson, Steven|title=The Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame: Heroes and Icons|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0wxLpfRhZqcC&pg=PT365|date=1 October 2012|publisher=ECW Press|isbn=978-1-77090-269-5|pages=365|display-authors=etal}}</ref>
| billed =
|spouse = Sallee Lewin
| trainer =
| debut = October 30, 1930
| retired = 1967
| website =
}}
'''Danny McShain''' (October 30, 1912 – July 14, 1992) was an American [[Professional wrestling|professional wrestler]]. He competed in the [[southern United States]] from the 1930s to the 1960s.<ref name="
Lentz2003">{{cite book|author=Harris M. Lentz III|title=Biographical Dictionary of Professional Wrestling, 2d ed.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QjGSCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA231|year=2003|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-1-4766-0505-0|pages=231}}</ref><ref name=oww>{{cite web|title=Wrestler Profiles: Danny McShain|work=Online World of Wrestling|url=http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/profiles/d/danny-mcshain.html|access-date=2009-01-12}}</ref>


==Early life==
==Early life==
McShain was born on October 30, 1912 near [[Parkdale, Arkansas]]. He made his professional wrestling debut in [[Little Rock, Arkansas]] on October 30, 1930. He later joined the [[United States Navy]], where he excelled as a boxer and won several championships.<ref name=cac/>
McShain was born on October 30, 1912, in [[Little Rock, Arkansas]].<ref name=NWA>{{cite book|title=National Wrestling Alliance: The Untold Story of the Monopoly That Strangled Pro Wrestling|url=https://archive.org/details/nationalwrestlin00horn|url-access=limited|last=Hornbaker|first=Tim|pages=[https://archive.org/details/nationalwrestlin00horn/page/n251 226]–228|publisher=[[ECW Press]]|year=2007|isbn=978-1-55022-741-3}}</ref> He made his professional wrestling debut in [[Little Rock, Arkansas]] on October 30, 1930. McShain later joined the [[United States Navy]], where he excelled as a [[boxing|boxer]] and won several championships.<ref name=cac/>


==Professional wrestling career==
==Career==
McShain's family moved to [[Glendale, California]], where he competed for the [[National Wrestling Alliance]] (NWA).<ref name=cac/> He won his first championship, the [[World Light Heavyweight Championship (National Wrestling Association)|NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship]], on October 11, 1937. Over the next ten years, he held the title another nine times.<ref name=lw>{{cite web|title=National Wrestling Association World Light Heavyweight Title|work=Wrestling Titles|accessdate=2009-01-12|url=http://www.wrestling-titles.com/nba/nba-lh.html}}</ref>
McShain's family moved to [[Glendale, California]], where he competed for the [[National Wrestling Alliance]] (NWA).<ref name=cac/> He won his first championship, the [[World Light Heavyweight Championship (National Wrestling Association)|NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship]], on October 11, 1937. Over the next ten years, he held the title another nine times.<ref name=lw>{{cite web|title=National Wrestling Association World Light Heavyweight Title|work=Wrestling Titles|access-date=2009-01-12|url=http://www.wrestling-titles.com/nba/nba-lh.html}}</ref>


He later moved to [[Alvin, Texas]], where he continued to compete for the NWA.<ref name=cac/> He won the [[NWA Texas Heavyweight Championship]] on ten occasions between in 1948 and 1960 by defeating such wrestlers as [[Antonino Rocca]] and [[Verne Gagne]].<ref name=tx>{{cite web|title=Texas Heavyweight Title|url=http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/tx/tx-h.html|accessdate=2009-01-12|work=Wrestling Titles}}</ref> On November 19, 1951, he also defeated Gagne to win the [[NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship]]. In 1954, McShain won the MWA American Tag Team Championship with partner Oyama Kato while competing for the Midwest Wrestling Association in Ohio.<ref name=oh>{{cite web|title=Ohio Tag Team Title|work=Wrestling Titles|url=http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/oh/mwa/oh-t.html|accessdate=2009-01-12}}</ref>
He later moved to [[Alvin, Texas]], where he continued to compete for the NWA.<ref name=cac/> He won the [[NWA Texas Heavyweight Championship]] on ten occasions between in 1948 and 1960 by defeating such wrestlers as [[Antonino Rocca]] and [[Verne Gagne]].<ref name=tx>{{cite web|title=Texas Heavyweight Title|url=http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/tx/tx-h.html|access-date=2009-01-12|work=Wrestling Titles}}</ref> On November 19, 1951, he also defeated Gagne to win the [[NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship]].<ref name=NWA/> In 1954, McShain won the [[NWA American Tag Team Championship]] with partner [[Oyama Kato]] while competing for the Midwest Wrestling Association in Ohio.<ref name=oh>{{cite web|title=Ohio Tag Team Title|work=Wrestling Titles|url=http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/oh/mwa/oh-t.html|access-date=2009-01-12}}</ref>


After his retirement, McShain worked as a [[Referee (professional wrestling)|referee]] in Texas.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.dory-funk.com/dory-valentine.htm|accessdate=2009-01-12|title=Dory Funk Jr. vs Johnny Valentine from the Sam Houston Coliseum in Houston, Texas|last=Funk|first=Dory, Jr.|work=Official Home Page of Dory Funk Jr.}}</ref>
After his retirement, McShain worked as a [[Referee (professional wrestling)|referee]] in Texas.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dory-funk.com/dory-valentine.htm|access-date=2009-01-12|title=Dory Funk Jr. vs Johnny Valentine from the Sam Houston Coliseum in Houston, Texas |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060822022136/http://www.dory-funk.com/dory-valentine.htm |archive-date=August 22, 2006 |url-status=dead |last=Funk|first=Dory Jr.|work=Official Home Page of Dory Funk Jr.}}</ref>


==Ring style==
==Ring style==
McShain wrestled as a "tough guy"; he proudly advertised his list of injuries to demonstrate the amount of punishment his body could take. He was also known for [[Blading (professional wrestling)|blading]], as he often cut his own forehead during matches to draw blood.<ref name=cac/> McShain was a [[List of professional wrestling terms#S|stiff]] worker, as he put legitimate force behind his punches and made contact with his opponents rather than pretending to hit them. He used a [[Piledriver (professional wrestling)|piledriver]] as one of his ring moves, in which he would hold his opponents upside-down and then drop them head-first to the ring floor. On two occasions, McShain's opponents were killed as a result of injuries from the move.<ref name=cac/>
McShain wrestled as a "tough guy", displaying a scientific yet dirty grappling style with stiff strikes; he proudly advertised his list of injuries to demonstrate the amount of punishment his body could take. He was also known for [[Blading (professional wrestling)|blading]], as he often cut his own forehead during matches to draw blood.<ref name=cac/> McShain was a [[Glossary of professional wrestling terms#Stiff|stiff]] worker, as he put legitimate force behind his punches and made contact with his opponents rather than pretending to hit them. He used a [[Piledriver (professional wrestling)|piledriver]] as one of his ring moves, in which he would hold his opponents upside-down and then drop them head-first to the ring floor. McShain attributed the piledriver to the deaths of two opponents.<ref name=cac/>


McShain used a cocky strut to anger opponents and spectators. His brother-in-law Donn Lewin stated that the strut was so arrogant that it "made you want to kill him" and that he walked the same way in real life.<ref name=cac/><ref name=book62/> McShain was arrested once after starting a riot by spitting tobacco juice from his trademark cigar on an opponent. His behavior was considered so inappropriate that he was summoned to appear in front of the Texas Gaming Commission.<ref name=cac/> He was also the subject of another inquiry, as he changed the pre-planned outcome of a bout mid-way through the match. Because there was a championship on the line and two promoters were arguing over the wrestling territory in which the match took place, the [[United States Department of Justice]] became involved. The match was the origin of the rule used in many promotions that prevents a title belt from changing hands when the match ends with a [[Professional wrestling#Disqualification|disqualification]].<ref name=cac/>
McShain used a cocky strut to anger opponents and spectators. His brother-in-law Donn Lewin stated that the strut was so arrogant that it "made you want to kill him" and that he walked the same way in real life.<ref name=cac/><ref name=Lentz2003/> McShain was arrested once after starting a riot by spitting tobacco juice from his trademark cigar on an opponent. His behavior was considered so inappropriate that he was summoned to appear in front of the Texas Gaming Commission.<ref name=cac/> He was also the subject of another inquiry, as he changed the pre-planned outcome of a bout midway through the match. Because there was a championship on the line and two promoters were arguing over the wrestling territory in which the match took place, the [[United States Department of Justice]] became involved. The match was the origin of the rule used in many promotions that prevents a title belt from changing hands when the match ends with a [[Professional wrestling#Disqualification|disqualification]].<ref name=cac/> Following his end to in ring action he worked as a referee in Houston.


==Personal life==
==Personal life==
In a match against Donn Lewin, McShain broke Lewin's nose. Shortly thereafter, Lewin's father invited McShain to dinner. McShain met Donn's sister Sallee, who he later married.<ref name=cac>{{cite web|title=The Forgotten Famous|work=Cauliflower Alley Club|accessdate=2009-01-12|first=Thomas|last=Kroepfl|url=http://www.caulifloweralleyclub.org/memory_lane/ForgottenFamous.htm}}</ref>
In a match against [[Donn Lewin]], McShain broke Lewin's nose. Shortly thereafter, Lewin's father invited McShain to dinner. McShain met Donn's sister Sallee, whom he later married.<ref name=cac>{{cite web|title=Arkansas Forgotten Famous – Danny McShain|work=Cauliflower Alley Club|access-date=2010-07-25|first=Thomas|last=Kroepfl|url=http://www.caulifloweralleyclub.org/memory-lane/arkansas-forgotten-famous-danny-mcshain/|archive-date=2010-09-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100915012001/http://www.caulifloweralleyclub.org/memory-lane/arkansas-forgotten-famous-danny-mcshain/|url-status=dead}}</ref>


McShain appeared in the 1949 movie [[The Inspector General (film)|The Inspector General]], as well as several other films.<ref name=cac/>
McShain appeared in the 1949 movie [[The Inspector General (1949 film)|The Inspector General]], as well as several other films.<ref name=cac/>


==Championships and accomplishments==
==Championships and accomplishments==
*'''Midwest Wrestling Association'''
*'''Midwest Wrestling Association'''
**MWA American Tag Team Championship (1 time)<ref name=oh/>
**MWA American Tag Team Championship (1 time)<ref name=oh/>
*'''[[National Wrestling Association]]'''

**[[World Light Heavyweight Championship (National Wrestling Association)|NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship]] ([[World Light Heavyweight Championship (National Wrestling Association)#Title history|10 times]])<ref name=lw/>
*'''[[National Wrestling Alliance]]'''
*'''[[Continental Wrestling Association|NWA Mid-America]]'''
**[[NWA Texas Heavyweight Championship]] ([[NWA Texas Heavyweight Championship|10 times)]]<ref name=tx/>
**[[NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship]] ([[NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship|1 time)]]
**[[NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship]] ([[NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship|1 time]])
*'''[[World Class Championship Wrestling|Southwest Sports, Inc.]]'''
**[[World Light Heavyweight Championship (National Wrestling Association)|NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship]] - ([[World Light Heavyweight Championship (National Wrestling Association)#Title history|10 times)]]<ref name=lw/>
**[[NWA Texas Heavyweight Championship]] ([[NWA Texas Heavyweight Championship|7 times]])<ref name=tx/><ref name=Jan13F4W>{{cite web | url=https://www.f4wonline.com/other-wrestling/daily-pro-wrestling-history-0113-tna-genesis-2013-301556 | title=Pro wrestling history (01/13): TNA Genesis 2013 | date=January 13, 2019 | access-date=January 18, 2019 | work=[[Wrestling Observer Newsletter|Wrestling Observer Figure Four Online]] | first=Brian | last=Hoops}}</ref><ref name=TexasBook>*{{cite book| last1=Will | first1=Gary | first2=Royal | last2= Duncan | title=Wrestling Title Histories: professional wrestling champions around the world from the 19th century to the present | publisher=Archeus Communications | year=2000 | location=Pennsylvania | chapter=Texas: NWA Texas Heavyweight Title [Von Erich] | isbn=0-9698161-5-4 | pages=268–269}}</ref><ref name=TexasWeb>{{cite web | url=http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/tx/tx-h.html | title= NWA Texas Heavyweight Title | access-date=March 30, 2017 | work=Wrestling-Titles}}</ref>
**[[NWA Texas Hardcore Championship|NWA Brass Knuckles Championship ''(Texas version)'']] ([[NWA Texas Hardcore Championship#title history|6 times]])<ref name=BrassBook>{{Cite book | author=Royal Duncan & Gary Will | title=Wrestling Title Histories |chapter= (Texas) Dallas: NWA Texas Brass Knuckles Title | page= 271 | publisher=Archeus Communications | year=2006|edition=4th | isbn=0-9698161-5-4}}</ref><ref name=BrassWeb>{{cite web | url=http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/tx/nwa/nwa-tx-bk.html | title=Texas Brass Knucks Title [East Texas] | access-date=December 22, 2019 | work=Wrestling-Titles}}</ref>
:*[[NWA World Tag Team Championship (Texas version)|NWA World Tag Team Championship]] ([[NWA Texas World Tag Team Championship#Title history|6 times]]) - with Joe Christie<ref name=NWATagTexas>{{cite book | first1=Royal | last1=Duncan | first2=Gary | last2=Will | title=Wrestling title histories: professional wrestling champions around the world from the 19th century to the present | location=Pennsylvania |year=2000 | publisher=Archeus Communications | isbn=0-9698161-5-4 | chapter=Texas: NWA World Tag Team Title [Siegel, Boesch and McLemore]}}</ref><ref name=NWATagTexasWeb>{{cite web | url=http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/tx/nwa-ss/tx-nwa-t.html | title=National Wrestling Alliance World Tag Team Title [E. Texas] | work=Wrestling-Titles | access-date=February 21, 2017}}</ref>
*'''[[Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum]]'''
**([[Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame#2010|Class of 2010]])
*'''''[[Wrestling Observer Newsletter awards|Wrestling Observer Newsletter]]'''''
:*[[Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame]] ([[Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame#Inductees|Class of 1996]])
<small><sup>1</sup>McShain won the title once just briefly before the formation of the [[National Wrestling Alliance]] when the title was simply referred to as the Texas Heavyweight Championship.</small>


==References==
==References==
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==External links==
[http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/profiles/d/danny-mcshain.html Profile at Online World of Wrestling]


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Latest revision as of 20:46, 7 June 2024

Danny McShain
McShain, circa 1945
Birth nameDanny McShain
Born(1912-10-30)October 30, 1912[1][2]
Little Rock, Arkansas, United States[2]
DiedJuly 14, 1992(1992-07-14) (aged 79)[1][2]
Alvin, Texas, United States
Spouse(s)Sallee Lewin
FamilyMark Lewin (brother-in-law)[3]
Donn Lewin (brother-in-law)[3]
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)Danny McShain
Billed height5 ft 11 in (180 cm)[1]
Billed weight205 lb (93 kg)[1]
DebutOctober 30, 1930
Retired1967

Danny McShain (October 30, 1912 – July 14, 1992) was an American professional wrestler. He competed in the southern United States from the 1930s to the 1960s.[4][1]

Early life[edit]

McShain was born on October 30, 1912, in Little Rock, Arkansas.[2] He made his professional wrestling debut in Little Rock, Arkansas on October 30, 1930. McShain later joined the United States Navy, where he excelled as a boxer and won several championships.[5]

Professional wrestling career[edit]

McShain's family moved to Glendale, California, where he competed for the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA).[5] He won his first championship, the NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship, on October 11, 1937. Over the next ten years, he held the title another nine times.[6]

He later moved to Alvin, Texas, where he continued to compete for the NWA.[5] He won the NWA Texas Heavyweight Championship on ten occasions between in 1948 and 1960 by defeating such wrestlers as Antonino Rocca and Verne Gagne.[7] On November 19, 1951, he also defeated Gagne to win the NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship.[2] In 1954, McShain won the NWA American Tag Team Championship with partner Oyama Kato while competing for the Midwest Wrestling Association in Ohio.[8]

After his retirement, McShain worked as a referee in Texas.[9]

Ring style[edit]

McShain wrestled as a "tough guy", displaying a scientific yet dirty grappling style with stiff strikes; he proudly advertised his list of injuries to demonstrate the amount of punishment his body could take. He was also known for blading, as he often cut his own forehead during matches to draw blood.[5] McShain was a stiff worker, as he put legitimate force behind his punches and made contact with his opponents rather than pretending to hit them. He used a piledriver as one of his ring moves, in which he would hold his opponents upside-down and then drop them head-first to the ring floor. McShain attributed the piledriver to the deaths of two opponents.[5]

McShain used a cocky strut to anger opponents and spectators. His brother-in-law Donn Lewin stated that the strut was so arrogant that it "made you want to kill him" and that he walked the same way in real life.[5][4] McShain was arrested once after starting a riot by spitting tobacco juice from his trademark cigar on an opponent. His behavior was considered so inappropriate that he was summoned to appear in front of the Texas Gaming Commission.[5] He was also the subject of another inquiry, as he changed the pre-planned outcome of a bout midway through the match. Because there was a championship on the line and two promoters were arguing over the wrestling territory in which the match took place, the United States Department of Justice became involved. The match was the origin of the rule used in many promotions that prevents a title belt from changing hands when the match ends with a disqualification.[5] Following his end to in ring action he worked as a referee in Houston.

Personal life[edit]

In a match against Donn Lewin, McShain broke Lewin's nose. Shortly thereafter, Lewin's father invited McShain to dinner. McShain met Donn's sister Sallee, whom he later married.[5]

McShain appeared in the 1949 movie The Inspector General, as well as several other films.[5]

Championships and accomplishments[edit]

1McShain won the title once just briefly before the formation of the National Wrestling Alliance when the title was simply referred to as the Texas Heavyweight Championship.

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e "Wrestler Profiles: Danny McShain". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2009-01-12.
  2. ^ a b c d e Hornbaker, Tim (2007). National Wrestling Alliance: The Untold Story of the Monopoly That Strangled Pro Wrestling. ECW Press. pp. 226–228. ISBN 978-1-55022-741-3.
  3. ^ a b Johnson, Steven; et al. (1 October 2012). The Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame: Heroes and Icons. ECW Press. p. 365. ISBN 978-1-77090-269-5.
  4. ^ a b Harris M. Lentz III (2003). Biographical Dictionary of Professional Wrestling, 2d ed. McFarland. p. 231. ISBN 978-1-4766-0505-0.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Kroepfl, Thomas. "Arkansas Forgotten Famous – Danny McShain". Cauliflower Alley Club. Archived from the original on 2010-09-15. Retrieved 2010-07-25.
  6. ^ a b "National Wrestling Association World Light Heavyweight Title". Wrestling Titles. Retrieved 2009-01-12.
  7. ^ a b "Texas Heavyweight Title". Wrestling Titles. Retrieved 2009-01-12.
  8. ^ a b "Ohio Tag Team Title". Wrestling Titles. Retrieved 2009-01-12.
  9. ^ Funk, Dory Jr. "Dory Funk Jr. vs Johnny Valentine from the Sam Houston Coliseum in Houston, Texas". Official Home Page of Dory Funk Jr. Archived from the original on August 22, 2006. Retrieved 2009-01-12.
  10. ^ Hoops, Brian (January 13, 2019). "Pro wrestling history (01/13): TNA Genesis 2013". Wrestling Observer Figure Four Online. Retrieved January 18, 2019.
  11. ^ *Will, Gary; Duncan, Royal (2000). "Texas: NWA Texas Heavyweight Title [Von Erich]". Wrestling Title Histories: professional wrestling champions around the world from the 19th century to the present. Pennsylvania: Archeus Communications. pp. 268–269. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.
  12. ^ "NWA Texas Heavyweight Title". Wrestling-Titles. Retrieved March 30, 2017.
  13. ^ Royal Duncan & Gary Will (2006). "(Texas) Dallas: NWA Texas Brass Knuckles Title". Wrestling Title Histories (4th ed.). Archeus Communications. p. 271. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.
  14. ^ "Texas Brass Knucks Title [East Texas]". Wrestling-Titles. Retrieved December 22, 2019.
  15. ^ Duncan, Royal; Will, Gary (2000). "Texas: NWA World Tag Team Title [Siegel, Boesch and McLemore]". Wrestling title histories: professional wrestling champions around the world from the 19th century to the present. Pennsylvania: Archeus Communications. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.
  16. ^ "National Wrestling Alliance World Tag Team Title [E. Texas]". Wrestling-Titles. Retrieved February 21, 2017.

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