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Dick Murdoch ( August 16 , 1946 - June 15 , 1996 ) was a Professional Wrestler . CAREER Dick Murdoch started wrestling in 1965 as Ron Carson in a tag team with Don Carson. He soon started wrestling under his real name. In 1968 , he formed a tag team that would continue throughout the early 1970's with Dusty Rhodes called "The Texas Outlaws". After splitting with Rhodes, he wrestled for Florida Championship Wrestling , the National Wrestling Alliance and Mid-South Wrestling. In 1984 , he went to the World Wrestling Federation and formed a tag team with Adrian Adonis that captured the World Tag Team Titles. He left the WWF in 1985 and wrestled in Mid-South Wrestling briefly before turning up in the NWA's Jim Crockett Promotions in 1986. He feuded with Ric Flair and attempted to win Flair's NWA World Title. In early 1987, Murdoch joined Ivan Koloff and Vladimir Petrov in their attempt to get Nikita Koloff and Dusty Rhodes. Murdoch injured Nikita's neck after a brain-buster suplex on the floor that summer. Murdoch left the NWA and wrestled in the World Wrestling Council before appearing in World Championship Wrestling as one half of the "Hardliners" with Dick Slater in 1991. They feuded with Rick and Scott Steiner but could not win their titles. Murdoch was one of the entrants in the 1995 WWF Royal Rumble . Murdoch was wrestling in the independents when he died of a heart attack on June 15 , 1996. TRIVIA
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