Throughout the 1960s, Sarpolis and Funk, Sr. had working agreements with Sam Muchnick, Verne Gagne, Bob Geigel and Jim Barnett.
:*NWA World Tag Team Championship (Minneapolis version) (3 times) - with Verne Gagne (2) and Butch Levy (1)
Jules Verne | Verne Gagne | Around the World in Eighty Days (Verne novel) | Verne Meisner | Verne | Nautilus (Verne) | Éric Gagné | Verne Lundquist | Verné Lesche | Michel Verne | Jules Verne Trophy | Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon |
Numerous wrestling matches were held at Metropolitan Stadium, including contests featuring Hard Boiled Haggerty, Bob Geigel, Wilbur Snyder, Kay Noble, Lord Littlebrook, Verne Gagne, Gene Kiniski, Rene Goulet, Larry Hennig, Hans Schmidt, Mad Dog Vachon and Dick the Bruiser.
Retiring during the late 1950s, he briefly came out of retirement to team with his son to face Verne Gagne and his son Greg in Montreal at a memorial show for promoter Johnny Rougeau in 1984; Bockwinkel, at age 72, is one of the oldest wrestlers to ever compete in a professional wrestling match.
Titled AWA Classic Wrestling, they featured compilations of old AWA footage, hosted by Greg Gagne and Todd Okerlund (son of Gene Okerlund), with occasional appearances by Verne Gagne.
12 October 1974 Robinson's image as a legitimate wrestler landed him a role in the film The Wrestler alongside Verne Gagne and Ed Asner.
He would go in the ring with a big name who really couldn't do much and make him look good, and he could get in there with a Danny Hodge or Verne Gagne and make them look even better than they were.