HAPPY MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY WITH THE 1ST AFRICAN AMERICAN WRESTLING CHAMPION RON SIMMONS!!

WITH TODAY BEING MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY, I THOUGHT I WOULD BRING ATTENTION TO THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN HEAVYWEIGHT WRESTLING CHAMPION: RON SIMMONS!  RON WAS AN ACCOMPLISHED COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYER AT FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY!  RON FINISHED 9TH IN HEISMAN TROPHY RACE IN 1979.  HE WAS INDUCTED INTO THE COLLEGE FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME IN 2008!  SIMMONS WAS INDUCTED INTO THE WWE HALL OF FAME IN 2012!  IN 1992 RON SIMMONS DEFEATED BIG VAN VADER IN BALTIMORE, MD TO BECOME WCW HEAVY WEIGHT CHAMPION!  RON THEN WENT ONTO ECW AND THE WWE AND EARNED TITLE SHOTS WITH BOTH COMPANIES!

A PHOTO WITH WWE HOF'ER RON SIMMONS FROM LAST YEAR IN LANCASTER, PA!!

ABOVE IS AN AUTOGRAPH FIGURINE FROM RON SIMMONS!!