Long before winning the American Wrestling Association's World championship, Nick Bockwinkel held the Georgia Heavyweight title -- twice!
 
Bockwinkel, a native of Las Vegas still living in Sin City, returns to the south this August as part of the first-ever Georgia Wrestling Legends Fanfest Weekend at Atlanta's Airport Marriott Hotel.
 
He's the 15th featured legend thus far to commit to the August 4-7 reunion weekend, joining the previously-announced Ole Anderson, The Assassin, Mr. Wrestling II, former AWA Rookie of the Year and NWA National champion Steve O, Killer Karl Kox, "Million Dollar Man" Ted Dibiase, "Doctor D" David Schultz, "Mr. USA" Tony Atlas, Killer Tim Brooks, The Masked Superstar, Dory Funk Jr., Terry Funk, "Continental Lover" Eddie Mansfield, and "Wildfire" Tommy Rich. Each will be signing autographs and taking photos with fans over the course of the three-day, four night event.
 
 
Over the next several months, we will be announcing more guest confirmations as we receive them.
 
Each featured legend will be scheduled to take photos with fans at least once (sometimes more,) during the weekend. For a nominal fee, we'll take your photo, process it, and return to you a beautiful 8" x 10" photo of you and your favorite wrestling legends! There will be individual photo ops with each of the featured legends, as well as some rare, group photo ops available.
 
Each featured legend will also be scheduled to sign autographs for fans at least once during the weekend. Those with VIP "All Access" Passes are allowed to get two free autographs from each featured legend at our Autograph Stage.
 
 
For complete details on the Georgia Wrestling Legends Fanfest Weekend, please visit http://www.NWALegends.com

This is great, Bockwinkle is a true legend. I can't wait to meet him. Another great legend added to this awesome weekend.
 
thanks Greg.

Quote from DJ_Taylor on Jan 5^th, 2011, 2:55am:

 
 
You will not be disappointed,DJ....got to meet him on two different occasions and a classier guy you will not find! Plus I really marked out when I took a picture with Nick and I was holding the real AWA belt...very cool!