The Fantastics
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| The Fantastics | |
|---|---|
| Tag team | |
| Members | Bobby Fulton Tommy Rogers |
| Name(s) | The Fantastics The Fantastic Ones |
| Heights | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) – Bobby 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) – Tommy |
| Combined weight |
442 lb (200 kg) |
| Former member(s) |
Jackie Fulton |
| Debut | 1984 |
| Disbanded | 2007 |
| Promotions | Mid-South Wrestling UWF NWA WCCW SMW WWC AJPW WCW |
The Fantastics were a professional wrestling tag team composed of Bobby Fulton and Tommy Rogers that worked together extensively between 1984 and 2007. At times Bobby Fulton would team up with his brother Jackie Fulton under the same name.
Team history
While in the Mid-Southern area (Memphis), Terry Taylor was teamed with a budding young wrestler named Bobby Fulton, who at the time was a jobber on TV but showed promise. To capitalize further on the success of The Fabulous Ones, they were named "The Fantastic Ones" and teamed only for a brief time before splitting up.[1] In 1984, Bobby Fulton moved to the Mid-South area and teamed with Tommy Rogers shortening the name of the team to "The Fantastics". They began a feud with The Midnight Express that would extend into the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA).[2] In 1985 "The Fantastics" would continue the Midnight Express feud over the World Class Wrestling Association's WCWA Tag Team Championship.[3] In 1986, they had a feud with The Sheepherders in the Universal Wrestling Federation (UWF). In 1987, back in World Class Championship Wrestling, they feuded with Mike Davis and Tommy Lane, The Rock 'N Roll RPM's. They won the feud by winning a scaffold match at the Parade of Champions 4 on May 3, 1987.[4] In 1988, they went to the NWA's Jim Crockett Promotions to continue their feud with the Midnight Express, going on to win the NWA United States Tag Team Title on two separate occasions throughout the year.[5] In 1989, they left the NWA, due to problems with booker Kevin Sullivan.[2] Rogers wrestled in Japan while Fulton resurfaced in the American Wrestling Association (AWA) teaming with his brother, Jackie Fulton, as the Fantastics. They briefly feuded with AWA Tag Team Champions Mike Enos and Wayne Bloom. In 1990, the brother tandem also had a short run in the NWA and wrestled on the independent circuit. Rogers and Fulton would reunite a year or so later and both versions of the team (Rogers and Fulton/Fulton and Fulton) would team together throughout the country and in Japan. When Jim Cornette began his own promotion, Smokey Mountain Wrestling (SMW) Fulton and his brother wrestled as "The Fantastics" for Cornette's company[6] and occasionally as "The Fantastic Ones" in other promotions. In subsequent years the Fantastics occasionally worked as a team on the independent circuit, until 2007, when Rogers retired from the ring.[7] On June 1, 2015, Tommy Rogers died at the age of 54.
In their early years, they used the song "Sharp Dressed Man" as an entrance theme. One night they were approached and told that Dusty Hill was inviting them to meet him at a local bar in Texas, which Rogers and Fulton thought was a prank. When Hill actually showed up, they expected to be served with a cease and desist order for using the song. But, Hill was actually a huge fan of them, and loved that they used the song.[8]
In wrestling
- Double-team finishing moves
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- Fantastic Flip (Assisted somersault senton bomb)
- Rocket Launcher[9]
- Entrance themes
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- "Sharp Dressed Man" by ZZ Top
Championships and accomplishments
- Rogers and Fulton
- Continental Wrestling Association
- AWA Southern Tag Team Championship (1 Time)
- AWA Southern Tag Team Championship Tournament (1986) [11]
- Jim Crockett Promotions
- NWA United States Tag Team Championship (2 times)[5]
- NWA United States Tag Team Championship Tournament (1988) [11]
- National Wrestling League
- NWL Tag Team Championship (1 Time)
- Pro Wrestling America
- PWA Tag Team Championship (1 time)[12]
- Pro Wrestling Illustrated
- PWI ranked them # 63 of the 100 best tag teams during the "PWI Years" in 2003.
- Universal Wrestling Federation
- World Class Wrestling Association
- Wrestling Observer Newsletter awards
- 5 Star Match (1986) vs. The Sheepherders at the Crockett Cup Tournament on April 19
- Feud of the Year (1988) vs. the Midnight Express
- Continental Wrestling Association
- Bobby & Jackie Fulton
- Other titles
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- IWA Tag Team Championship (1 time)
- SCW Tag Team Champions (1 time)
References
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