Pedro Morales
![Morales as the [[WWE Championship|WWWF Heavyweight Champion]]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/Pedro_Morales_as_the_WWWF_%28WWE%29_Champion.jpg)
Debuting in 1959, Morales originally came to prominence with WWA in the 1960s, where he held the World Heavyweight Championship and World Tag Team Championship. In 1970, he joined the WWWF, winning its World Heavyweight Championship and United States Championship. In a second run with the by-then World Wrestling Federation (WWF) in the 1980s, he won the Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship and Tag Team Championship, establishing himself as the promotion's first Triple Crown Champion. He retired from professional wrestling in 1987.
A popular champion, Morales had particular appeal to his native Puerto Ricans and the wider Latino audience. The first Latino to hold a world heavyweight championship, his reign as WWWF Heavyweight Champion remains among the longest in history. He previously also held the record for most cumulative days as Intercontinental Champion at 619 days across two reigns, having been surpassed by Gunther in February 2024. He was inducted into the WWF Hall of Fame in 1995, the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum in 2015 and the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame in 2017. Provided by Wikipedia
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23by Marcela Varona, Gloria Suárez, Miguel Velásquez, Pedro Morales, Carmen SánchezGet full text
Published 1997-06-01
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27by Dalmiro J Cazorla Perfetti, Jesús E Loyo Sivira, Lusneida N Lugo Hernández, María E Acosta Quintero, Pedro Morales MorenoGet full text
Published 2012-07-01
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29by Víctor Adrián Pérez-Crespo, César A. Laurito, Joaquín Arroyo-Cabrales, Ana L. Valerio, Pedro Morales-Puente, Edith Cienfuegos-Alvarado, Francisco J. OteroGet full text
Published 2018-12-01
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30by Víctor Adrián Pérez-Crespo, Ximena Ulloa-Montemayor, Guillermo Acosta-Ochoa, Joaquín Arroyo-Cabrales, Luis M. Alva-Valdivia, Pedro Morales-Puente, Edith Cienfuegos-AlvaradoGet full text
Published 2012-06-01
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33by Veronica Cloud, Ada Thapa, Pedro Morales-Sosa, Tayla M Miller, Sara A Miller, Daniel Holsapple, Paige M Gerhart, Elaheh Momtahan, Jarrid L Jack, Edgardo Leiva, Sarah R Rapp, Lauren G Shelton, Richard A Pierce, Skylar Martin-Brown, Laurence Florens, Michael P Washburn, Ryan D MohanGet full text
Published 2019-07-01
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