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Jimmy Valiant
Acting
06 Aug 1942 (83 years)
Tullahoma, Tennessee, U.S.
Biography
James Harold Fanning is a former professional wrestler and author better known as "The Boogie Woogie Man" Jimmy Valiant. Fanning started wrestling in 1964 as "Big Jim Vallen". He went to the WWWF in the 1970s as "Handsome Jimmy Valiant" and formed a team with Johnny Valiant that would dominate the tag team scene for a while as WWWF Tag Team champions. In the later 1960s in the WWA, they were managed by Bobby Heenan. Valiant had entered the WWWF in 1971 as a babyface, originally known as "Gentlem...
Also Known As
Jimmy Valiant, Charlie Brown, James Harold Fanning, The Boogie Woogie Man, Handsome Jimmy























