Reuben Kane

Reuben Kane is a professional wrestler best known by his ring name of Robert Gibson. He was famous as half of the Rock 'N Roll Express with Ricky Morton.

Profile

• Height: 5'11"
• Weight: 224 lbs.
• Birthday: July 19, 1958
• Hometown: Pensacola, Florida
• Trainer: Ricky Gibson
• Managers: Jim Cornette, Scotty Ace
• Other Gimmicks: Robert Fuller Jr., Robert Gibson

Career

Reuben Kane started wrestling as Robert Gibson in 1977. He was trained by his brother Ricky Gibson and teamed with him in the southern independents when he started.

In 1983, he formed the Rock 'N Roll Express with Ricky Morton. They feuded with "The Midnight Express", Bobby Eaton and Dennis Condrey in the Mid-South and the feud carried over into the NWA's Jim Crockett Promotions in 1985. They won the NWA Tag Titles four times while there and feuded with the Four Horsemen, Ivan and Nikita Koloff and the team of Rick Rude and Manny Fernandez.

Gibson was injured in 1991 and when he returned to WCW, Morton turned on him to join the "York Foundation". They feuded and Gibson teamed with Tom Zenk, but had no success and soon left WCW.

He rejoined Morton in Smoky Mountain Wrestling and they feuded with the "Heavenly Bodies" led by Jim Cornette.

In 1998, they were part of the "NWA" angle in the WWF but did not stay there long.

They came back to WCW as jobbers and Gibson can now be found occasionally wreslting on the independents with Ricky as the Rock 'N Roll Express or on hiw own.

Trivia

• He knows sign language and would often speak with his hands in the ring before his matches.

• His nephew, Jason Gibson, is a wrestler.

Championships/Accomplishments

National Wrestling Alliance

• 6-Time NWA World Tag Team Champion (with Ricky Morton)
• 1-Time NWA-Wildside Tag Team Champion (with Ricky Morton)
• 1-Time NWA Southeast United States Junior Heavyweight Champion
• 1-Time NWA America's Tag Team Champion (with Ricky Gibson)

Smoky Mountain Wrestling

• 9-Time SMW Tag Team Champion (with Ricky Morton)
• 1-Time SMW Television Champion

Tennessee Promotions

• 2-Time USWA Tag Team Champion (with Ricky Morton)
• 5-Time Mid-Southern Tag Team Champion (with Ricky Gibson 3 times, Ricky Morton once and Bill Dundee once)
• 1-Time Mid-American Tag Team Champion (with Don Fargo)
• 1-Time Mid-American Heavyweight Champion
• 1-Time CWA Tag Team Champion (with Ricky Morton)

Other Titles

• 2-Time Mid-South Tag Team Champion (with Ricky Morton)
• 1-Time PWX Tag Team Champion (with Vince Kaplack)
• 3-Time APCW Tag Team Champion (with Jason Gibson once and Mike Youngblood twice)
• 1-Time ASW Tag Team Champion (with Ricky Morton)
• 1-Time WOW Tag Team Champion (with Ricky Morton)

• Pro Wrestling Illustrated (PWI) ranked him # 99 of the 500 best singles wrestlers during the "PWI Years" in 2003. PWI also ranked him # 4 of the best tag teams of the "PWI Years" with Ricky Morton.

• He won the PWI Tag Team of the Year Award in 1986 with Ricky Morton.