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Michael Maurice Smith〔 (born October 11, 1963)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sam Houston )〕 is a retired second-generation professional wrestler, best known under the ring name Sam Houston in the 1980s. His father was wrestler Grizzly Smith, his half-brother is Jake Roberts, and his younger sister is former WWF Women's Champion Rockin' Robin. From 1987 to 1989, the three siblings were in the World Wrestling Federation together. ==Career== Smith started wrestling in 1983, initially competing in Championship Wrestling from Florida.〔 In 1985, he began working in the NWA's Jim Crockett Promotions. He was billed as a protégé of Dusty Rhodes and Magnum T.A., which made him a target for the Four Horsemen.〔 They finally got to him in the summer of 1985 when Tully Blanchard, Ole Anderson, and Arn Anderson (kayfabe) broke his arm during a six-man tag team match.〔 In late 1985, he feuded with Krusher Khruschev over the NWA Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Championship, which he won in January 1986.〔 He then feuded with Black Bart, who won the title from him a few months later.〔 Houston formed a cowboy themed team with Nelson Royal during the summer of 1986. He moved on to the Central States territory later that year, where he won the title while feuding with Bulldog Bob Brown and Bill Dundee.〔 His first few months of 1987 were spent in the Universal Wrestling Federation where he teamed up with Terry Taylor for a short period of time. Houston moved on to the WWF in the summer of 1987, feuding with Danny Davis, Barry Horowitz shortly after his arrival. Also had a lot of house matches against Outlaw Ron Bass well into 1988. After his dead-end feud with Davis ended, Houston was used primarily as enhancement talent, losing to the likes of the Honky Tonk Man in under a minute. During his time in WWF he teamed with fellow cowboy Scott Casey on a number of occasions and appeared in the first ever Royal Rumble event, a match that included his brother Jake Roberts (though the audience didn't know the relationship at the time), with Sam saving Jake from elimination on a number of occasions. Houston made his only Wrestlemania appearance at WrestleMania IV as part of the 20-man battle royal where he was the first wrestler eliminated less than a minute after the start (by Danny Davis). After continuing to flounder in the WWF's mid-card as a jobber to the stars, Houston left WWF in February 1991 and ended up in the United States Wrestling Association promotion, which had bought up the World Class Championship Wrestling promotion in Dallas where he feuded once again with Black Bart.〔 After leaving there he then wrestled on the independent wrestling scene before showing up in the Global Wrestling Federation in 1992 as The Midnight Rider.,〔 and enjoyed greater success. In 1993 he went to WCW for a brief run, mostly as enhancement talent. He returned to wrestling on the independent wrestling circuit for GWE, OWE, and others in 2007.〔http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/profiles/s/sam-houston.html〕 Wrestling against some top independent wrestling talent, such as Mike Dibiase. Won the Ark-La-Tex Heavy Weight title on November 7, 2015 in Longview, Texas. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sam Houston (wrestler)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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