Bobo Brazil

Bobo Brazil was the ring name of Houston Harris, an American professional wrestler born in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1924 who died in 1998. He is credited with breaking down barriers of racial segregation in professional wrestling and is considered one of the first Black wrestlers to become a marquee name in North America. He played baseball in the Negro leagues for the House of David before being discovered at a steel mill, and was trained by Joe Savoldi, who first billed him as BuBu Brasil until a misprint in an advertisement turned the name into Bobo. His first recorded match was in Benton Harbor in 1948. Popular with Black and white fans alike, he drew crowds in Detroit, Toronto, Chicago and the WWWF, and his finishing maneuver was the Coco Butt.