Jimmy Garvin

James Williams (born September 25, 1952) is an American retired professional wrestler, better known by his ring names "Gorgeous Jimmy" Garvin and Jimmy "Jam" Garvin.

A member of The Fabulous Freebirds, Garvin is best known for his appearances with promotions including the American Wrestling Association, World Class Championship Wrestling, and World Championship Wrestling.

Williams grew up in Tampa, Florida, where he was an amateur wrestler.

Garvin began his wrestling career in November 1968 at the age of 16 as Beau James.

He soon took the name "Gorgeous Jimmy" Garvin and was given two kayfabe brothers, Terry and Ron Garvin, whom he briefly managed.

He toured the Mid-South and Florida territories from 1978 until 1983.

In 1982, Garvin (while holding the NWA Florida Global Tag Team Championship with Big John Studd) won the NWA Southern Heavyweight Championship from Sweet Brown Sugar.

As a reward, Garvin's manager, J. J. Dillon, presented him with a valet named Precious.

The original Precious was not the same woman as Garvin's wife, Patti Williams, who would later assume the name Sunshine II then "Precious".

During his title defenses, Garvin often became distracted by Precious and flaunted his good looks to impress her.

This would cause his opponents to recover and attack him.

Due to her quiet-but-distracting nature, Garvin quickly lost the NWA Southern Heavyweight Championship to Dusty Rhodes, while he and Studd lost the NWA Florida Global Tag Team Championship to Ron Bass and Barry Windham.

Garvin replaced Precious with his cousin, Sunshine, and joined World Class Championship Wrestling in 1983.

Garvin claimed in a shoot interview years later with Wrestling Perspective, that the onscreen relationship with Precious had been causing problems in his marriage.

Along with his valet Sunshine, Garvin competed in WCCW as a heel, refusing to wrestle on live TV before he started a feud with beloved David Von Erich, which he lost and ended up spending a day with Sunshine on David's ranch, doing ranch type duties such as washing the five dogs owned by David (as he relaxed and shot skeet right over Jimmy and Sunshine's heads) and relocating several bales of hay without the use of a truck.

However, towards the end of the day, Garvin drew the line at cleaning out the old horse barn and the two went at it.

He next moved on to feud with Chris Adams.

Around this time, he introduced his wife, Patti, as "Sunshine II", who was supposed to work as an assistant to the original Sunshine.

After the interference of Sunshine II cost Garvin to lose the WCCW Television Championship to Johnny Mantell in October 1983, Sunshine II blamed the original Sunshine for the botch.

Garvin then fired the original Sunshine and renamed Sunshine II as "Precious" (not to be confused with his original valet of the same name).

Precious and Sunshine (now aligned with Chris Adams) feuded while Garvin traded the NWA American Heavyweight Championship with Adams.

During this time, the couples competed in mixed tag-team matches.

Sunshine temporarily left WCCW in 1984 (with the storyline excuse that she had been injured by Garvin and Precious) and was replaced in the feud with her "truck driving aunt", Stella Mae French (Tanya West).

Adams and Stella Mae continued to compete in mixed tag team matches against Garvin and Precious until they defeated them in a "Loser Leaves Town" cage match in July 1984.

Garvin and Precious then left World Class for the American Wrestling Association.

Garvin and Adams would revive their feud ten years later in the Global Wrestling Federation, but the promotion went out of business before that angle got off the ground.

In the AWA, he formed a tag team with "Mr. Electricity" Steve Regal and they won the World Tag Team Titles from The Road Warriors with the help of the Fabulous Freebirds.

Their reign was short as they would lose them to the team of Curt Hennig and Scott Hall.

After losing the titles to Scott Hall and Curt Hennig in 1986 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, he went to the NWA's Jim Crockett Promotions.

He debuted as a heel often taunting Wahoo McDaniel, calling him "Yahoo."

Garvin and McDaniel would feud throughout the summer and fall of 1986 in a series of "Indian Strap" matches.

He also feuded with Brad Armstrong and was in the middle of a feud with Magnum T. A. when Magnum had the car wreck that would end his career.

In 1987, Jimmy's "brother" Ron (Jimmy's real-life stepfather), was in a feud with Jim Cornette and his stable.

During a match with Cornette's Midnight Express, Cornette threw fire in Ron's face.

Several faces came out to help and then Jimmy ran out and helped take him to the back.

Jimmy flew into a rage and stormed into the heel dressing room and brutally attacked Cornette and it took several wrestlers, heel and face, to pull him off of him.

Jimmy and Ron's friend and partner Barry Windham then took Ron to the hospital.

Jimmy (and, by association, Precious) turned face and helped Ron feud with the Midnight Express.

One of the bigger matches during that feud was when the two teams were matched against each other during the 1987 Jim Crockett Memorial Cup tag team tournament.

The Midnight Express won by countout to advance.