Mark Rocco

Mark Rocco was the ring name of Mark Hussey, an English professional wrestler born on 11 May 1951 and died on 30 July 2020. A fourth-generation wrestler, he was the son of the British wrestler Jumping Jim Hussey and the father of the boxer Jono Rocco Hussey. He grew up in his father's gym in Manchester and wrestled professionally from about 1970 for Joint Promotions, All Star Wrestling and the second British Wrestling Federation as Mark Rollerball Rocco. He also worked in Japan as the original masked Black Tiger for New Japan Pro-Wrestling, where he feuded with Satoru Sayama as Tiger Mask, and in Britain he regularly appeared on ITV wrestling broadcasts against light heavyweights such as Marty Jones and the Dynamite Kid.