The Executioners is the name of several tag teams and single masked wrestlers who wrestled in the BYWA, TWA, AWF and the World Wide Wrestling Federation.
The Executioners (1970s)
The first version of Executioners was founded by Executioner #1, who was a masked wrestler, wrestling for World Wide Wrestling Federation. In 1976 he trained Executioner #2, and the two became a tag team in WWWF.
Together, the Executioners captured the WWWF Tag Team Championship on May 11, 1976 by defeating Louis Cerdan and Tony Parisi. Later, they were joined by a third masked wrestler who called himself Executioner #3.
The Executioners were stripped of their titles on December 7 because Executioner #3 was used in a title defense against Chief Jay Strongbow and Billy White Wolf. A three-team tournament was announced after Executioner #3 was unmasked as Nikolai Volkoff.
Volkoff selected Tor Kamata as his partner and then The Executioners & Nikolai Volkoff and Tor Kamata were defeated by Chief Jay Strongbow and Billy White Wolf in the three-team tournament.
Championships and accomplishments
WWWF Tag Team Championship (1 time) - Executioner #1 & Executioner #2
List of wrestlers who wrestled as an Executioner
1976–1977
Killer Kowalski
Big John Studd
Nikolai Volkoff
1981-1984
Ron Shaw
Charley Rhoads
1985
Buddy Rose (at WrestleMania I) Charlie Fulton Danny Davis (later became Mr.X)
1986
Jerry Fazio
Terry Manton
1988
Van Van Horne (Memphis)
1988–1994
Duane Gill ("Pain") Barry Hardy ("Agony")