Ron Fuller Ronald Welch is a retired professional wrestler and manager better known by his ring name s Ron Fuller and Tennessee Stud . He is the elder brother of Robert Fuller ( Col . Robert Parker ) . Ron and his brother co - owned Continental Championship Wrestling for a time . Career history . At 6 ' 9 " , Fuller was a basketball stand - out in high school and won a scholarship to the University of Miami . Upon graduation , he followed in his family ' s footsteps and became a professional wrestler . He started out with his grandfather and father ' s promotion in Tennessee and eventually bought it out . In the 1970s and early - 1980s , Fuller expanded his territory from Tennessee to the Florida panhandle , naming it Southeastern Championship Wrestling and making it a " hot spot " for Southern wrestling . In the early 1980s , Fuller wore a mask and called himself the " Tennessee Stud " . He teamed with his brother Robert and cousin Jimmy Golden several times , challenging for the NWA Southeast Tag Team Championship held by the heel team of Arn Anderson and Jerry Stubbs . The Fullers came up on the short end in their title chase , with the storyline being that Robert was injured by Anderson and Stubbs . Ron went through a variety of tag team partners , including André the Giant , to try and beat the Anderson / Stubbs tandem . Fuller finally found a partner in Bob Armstrong and seemed to beat Anderson and Stubbs , but the title was held up by NWA President Bob Geigel , who ordered a rematch . Fuller turned heel on Armstrong , allowing Stubbs and Anderson to keep the belts . As the territory ' s owner , he created a new singles belt called the NWA Southeast Continental Heavyweight Championship . In the storyline , he named Freebird Michael Hayes the champion . The following week , Hayes arrived in Dothan , AL , to defend the belt against Fuller . Fuller won and planned to leave the area to defend it . However , Fuller was " contractually obligated " to stay in the territory . Fuller tore up the contract , but TV announcer Charlie Platt revealed it was a photocopy . Bob Armstrong sneaked up behind Fuller , holding a piece of paper . When Fuller asked where the original copy was , Platt replied , " Right behind you . " When Fuller turned , Armstrong punched him and he fell over the announcers table . Armstrong then gained his revenge on Fuller by winning the Continental title . In 1985 , Fuller changed the name of the territory to Continental Championship Wrestling , to compete with Vince McMahon ' s World Wrestling Federation ( WWF ; Now known as World Wrestling Entertainment , WWE ) . At that time , he created the Stud Stable and renewed his feud with Armstrong . In a steel cage tag team match , Fuller teamed with cousin Jimmy Golden against Armstrong and Robert Fuller . Robert turned heel and all three beat up Armstrong . Armstrong ' s sons Brad , Steve , and Scott came to their father ' s rescue , but he was already injured . The next week , Fuller revealed a clause in the contract claiming , " Because Armstrong lost ( though a pin never occurred ) , he must leave the territory . " In the weeks that followed , The Stud Stable eliminated all of the Armstrongs except for Brad . Brad teamed with 7 ' 7 " wrestler Big John Harris . While Fuller fought Harris outside the ring , Golden and Robert were about to " squash " Brad . Suddenly , a masked man ran to the ring and saved him . The man put Robert in the figure - four leglock and Robert screamed in pain . The masked man spoke and said , " You can call me The Bullet ! " Hearing him sound like Bob Armstrong , Fuller cried out in anger . In the following weeks , Fuller talked with Bob Geigel , who declared on television , " If The Bullet is unmasked as Bob Armstrong , he is banned for life . " Over the next two years , Fuller and his stable tried unmasking Armstrong , but never succeeded . In a steel cage match , Armstrong locked Fuller in the figure - four and kept it clamped on . The storyline was that the move broke Fuller ' s leg , giving him a storyline to retired as a wrestler . Still working as a manager , he brought in different wrestlers to the Stud Stable . In 1987 , he hired Kevin Sullivan to unmask Armstrong , but Sullivan revealed he had used Fuller as a pawn to start his own faction . He brought in the New Guinea Headhunters , Sheik Abdul ( Saudi Arabia ) , and Kris Von Kolt ( Germany ) . Fuller and the Stud Stable turned face and put their differences with The Bullet aside . The Bullet , the Armstrongs and the Stud Stable then formed an alliance to battle Sullivan and his clique . Since Sullivan ' s faction were foreigners ( kayfabe ) who hated America , the alliance became American patriots . However , Sullivan brought up that Fuller could not wrestle , because he was medically forced to retire , so Fuller set out to fluster Sullivan by donning his Tennessee Stud mask once again . In a throwback to Bob Armstrong ' s Bullet storyline , The Tennessee Stud arrived to wrestle on behalf of Ron Fuller . After the feud ended , Golden and Robert turned heel again , but Ron " retired " as a face . He made on and off again appearances on TV and at arena shows . However , he really worked behind the scenes . In 1988 , he sold Continental Championship Wrestling ( which became the Continental Wrestling Federation ) and retired from the business . Throughout the 1990s , he helped bring World Championship Wrestling ( WCW ) shows to the old territory , but never worked full - time for the promotion . Following that he ran a series of shows in Knoxville at the Homer Hamilton Theater that ended up being a short lived developmental area for WWE . Since this Fuller has retired to Loudon , TN where he has washed his hands of the business .