Mike Gossett

Known for ActingBorn 1951-09-22Died 2012-10-19Tampa, Florida, USA

Michael Gossett, better known as Mike Graham, was an American professional wrestler. The son of wrestler and promoter Eddie Graham, Gossett was born in Tampa, Florida. Mike Graham was a Florida high school wrestling District champion his senior year in 1969 for Robinson High School (In Tampa, Florida). In the District finals, to qualify for state, he faced Richard Blood and beat him by one point. Blood, who was a sophomore at the time, would win the state title himself two years later. Blood went on to gain success and fame in professional wrestling as Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat. Michael Gossett started wrestling in 1972 in his father's Championship Wrestling from Florida, which was a National Wrestling Alliance territory. He was trained by his father, Boris Malenko and Hiro Matsuda. He teamed with his father upon his arrival but also formed a successful team with Kevin Sullivan. Sullivan eventually turned on him to form his "Satanic cult", The Army of Darkness. Graham then teamed with Steve Keirn and Barry Windham to feud with them and to capture several tag team titles over the years. In 1981, Graham wrestled in the American Wrestling Association and feuded with Buck Zumhofe over the AWA Light Heavyweight Championship over the next two years. Graham headed back to Florida in 1983 primarily as a singles wrestlers. He started teaming with Keirn again in the late 1980s and wrestled in the NWA's Jim Crockett Promotions with Keirn briefly around this time. He then went back to the AWA in 1988 where he won the Light Heavyweight Title again. In 1988, Mike Graham & Steve Keirn wrestled in Memphis as a tag team. In 1989, he went back to Florida to the newly renamed Florida Championship Wrestling and teamed briefly with Dustin Rhodes. By 1990, Graham was an infrequent in-ring competitor and he became a road agent for World Championship Wrestling. Along with Paul Orndorff, Pez Whatley and DeWayne Bruce, Graham worked as a trainer in WCW as part of the WCW Power Plant. At Slamboree 1993, Mike represented his father when he was inducted into the WCW Hall of Fame. In the early 2000s, Graham was a road agent for the short-lived Xcitement Wrestling Federation and for Turnbuckle Championship Wrestling. He made occasional appearances for the revived Florida Championship Wrestling. Mike Graham worked with World Wrestling Entertainment in early 2006 on a DVD about Dusty Rhodes, which was released on June 6, 2006. He has appeared on WWE 24/7's Legends of Wrestling series as part of a panel which discussed famous pro wrestlers of the 1980s. He hosted classic episodes of Championship Wrestling from Florida on WWE 24/7 Classics. In March 2012, Graham teamed with long-time friend and tag-team partner Brian Blair, Lanny Poffo and Carlós Colon to defeat the team of Ron Bass, Larry Zbyszko, The Masked Superstar, and Gary Royal in an eight-man tag team elimination match at a Pro Wrestling Superstars at an event which featured former Championship Wrestling from Florida talent. On October 19, 2012, Graham was found dead by his wife of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head at their residence in Daytona Beach, Florida. His father and son had committed suicide in similar manners on January 21, 1985, and December 14, 2010, respectively.Read more

Movies & web series

nWo Souled Out 1997

WCW Clash of The Champions XXXII

WCW Fall Brawl 1996

WCW Halloween Havoc 1996

WCW Starrcade 1995

WCW SuperBrawl VII

WCW Bash at the Beach 1996

WCW Uncensored 1996

WCW SuperBrawl VI

WCW Starrcade 1996

WCW SuperBrawl II

WCW Starrcade 1991

WCW Hog Wild 1996

WCW Halloween Havoc 1995

WCW Fall Brawl 1995

WCW Starrcade 1994

WCW Clash of The Champions XVI: Fall Brawl '91

WCW Clash of The Champions XIV: Dixie Dynamite

WCW Halloween Havoc 1991

NWA Starrcade 1984

WCW Uncensored 1997

WCW Bash at the Beach 1994

WCW World War 3 1996

WCW Clash of The Champions XXXI

WCW Bash at the Beach 1995

WCW Uncensored 1995

PWG: Kurt Russellreunion 2 - The Reunioning

Chris Benoit: The Aftermath

FIP Inaugural Show

FIP Return Of The Dream

WCW Clash of The Champions XXXIV

WCW Slamboree 1996

WCW The Great American Bash 1996

WCW Clash of The Champions XXXIII

WCW Clash of The Champions XXX

WCW Slamboree 1995

WCW The Great American Bash 1995

WCW World War 3 1995

WCW Clash of the Champions XXVIII

WCW Clash of The Champions XXVII

WCW Fall Brawl 1994

WCW Clash of The Champions XXIX

WCW Clash of The Champions XVII

PWF Homecoming

WWC Aniversario '88: A Hot Night in Bayamón

Clash of the Champions

The Second Annual NWA Jim Crockett Sr. Memorial Cup Tag Team Tournament

NWA Battle of The Belts II