Mr. Wrestling II, age 83. His full name is John Francis Walker, although he is better known as Mr. Wrestling II. He made his professional wrestling debut in 1955, and some of his finest performances came in Florida and Georgia Championship Wrestling in the 1970s and 1980s. He also worked in Japan's New World Pro-Wrestling and Mexico's Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre. Walker has said that he chose "Mr. Wrestling" as a stage name because it was easy to remember and would make him stand out at concerts. He has also mentioned that he chose this career because he liked wrestling and thought it would be easy to make a living from it. Walker started his career at the young age of 22 after answering an ad in the paper looking for wrestlers to work for $15 per match. He had never done any form of martial arts before this point, but decided to give it a try out of curiosity. Within a few months, he was able to land a job with one of the local clubs performing under the moniker of "The Florida Panther". He soon after signed with a larger club named Miami Beach Hotel & Casino where he met his wife Peggy who was a dancer there. They were married for nearly 40 years until her death in 2003. They have two children together, a son named Matthew and a daughter named Megan.