Cowboy Lang

{{short description|Canadian professional wrestler}} {{more citations needed|date=January 2012}} {{Infobox professional wrestler | name = Cowboy Lang | names = Cowboy Lang | image = Cowboy Lang.jpg | image_size = 200px | caption = | alt = | height = {{height|ft=4|in=0}}<ref name=Encyclopedia/> | weight = {{convert|109|lb|kg|abbr=on}}<ref name=Encyclopedia/> | real_height = | birth_name = Harry Lang | real_weight = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1950|8|28}} | birth_place = Saskatchewan, Canada<ref name=slam/> | death_date = {{Death date and age|2007|1|04|1950|8|28}}<ref name=slam/> | death_place = Portland, Oregon<ref name=slam/> | resides = | billed = Calgary, Alberta, Canada<ref name=Encyclopedia/> | trainer = | debut = 1967 | retired = 1999 | website = }} '''Harry Lang'''<ref name=slam/> (August 28, 1950<ref>{{Cite web |title=Cowboy Lang: Profile & Match Listing - Internet Wrestling Database (IWD) |url=http://www.profightdb.com/wrestlers/cowboy-lang-3943.html?prom_id=13&year=0& |access-date=2025-10-10 |website=www.profightdb.com}}</ref> – January 4, 2007<ref name=slam>{{cite web|url=http://slam.canoe.com/Slam/Wrestling/2007/01/08/3236476.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151223050217/http://slam.canoe.com/Slam/Wrestling/2007/01/08/3236476.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 23, 2015|title=Midget star Cowboy Lang dies|publisher=Canadian Online Explorer|last=Oliver|first=Greg|date=2007-01-09|access-date=2012-01-03}}</ref>) was a midget professional wrestler best known by his ring name '''Cowboy Lang'''.

== Professional wrestling career == Cowboy Lang was recognized for more than 30 years as one of the top midget wrestlers in the world.<ref name=Encyclopedia/> Lang made his professional wrestling debut in the mid-1960s when he was 16 years old.<ref name=Encyclopedia/> He would regularly rush to the ring wearing his trademark cowboy hat and boots.<ref name=Encyclopedia/> He was born in Saskatchewan but raised in Rimbey, Alberta.<ref>{{Cite web | title=Midget star Cowboy Lang dies |last=Oliver |first=Greg | publisher=SLAM! Wrestling | url=http://slam.canoe.com/Slam/Wrestling/2007/01/08/3236476.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151223050217/http://slam.canoe.com/Slam/Wrestling/2007/01/08/3236476.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=December 23, 2015 | accessdate=November 11, 2015}}</ref> During his career he worked for various National Wrestling Alliance's promotions such as Jim Crockett Promotions, Stampede Wrestling, AWA and WWWF. On the night of April 20, 1986, Lang teamed with Little Mr. T. to beat Little Tokyo and Lord Littlebrook at AWA WrestleRock. Throughout his career, Little Tokyo showed that he was one of Cowboy Lang's biggest rivals. In the early 1980s they fought for the NWA World Midget's Championship.<ref name=Encyclopedia>{{cite book|title=WWE Encyclopedia|last1=Shields|first1=Brian|last2=Sullivan|first2=Kevin|page=[https://archive.org/details/wweencyclopediad0000shie/page/68 68]|publisher=DK|year=2009|isbn=978-0-7566-4190-0|url=https://archive.org/details/wweencyclopediad0000shie/page/68}}</ref> He would retire in 1988. He would return to wrestling in 1995 working for All Pro Wrestling in California. His last match was in 1999. Lang died of heart disease at age 56 in a Portland, Oregon hospital.

== Championships and accomplishments == *'''National Wrestling Alliance''' **NWA World Midget's Championship (2 times)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wrestling-titles.com/nwa/world/nwa-mg.html|title=NWA World Midgets' Title|publisher=Wrestling-Titles|accessdate=2012-01-06}}</ref> * '''Professional wrestling''' **Midgets' World Championship (2 times)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.wrestling-titles.com/world/world-mg.html|title=World Midgets' Title}}</ref>

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== External links == *{{Professional wrestling profiles}} {{NWA World Midget's Championship}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Lang, Cowboy}} Category:1950 births Category:2007 deaths Category:Canadian male professional wrestlers Category:Midget professional wrestlers Category:Professional wrestlers from Saskatchewan Category:Professional wrestlers from Portland, Oregon Category:Stampede Wrestling alumni Category:20th-century male professional wrestlers Category:20th-century Canadian professional wrestlers Category:20th-century Canadian sportsmen Category:NWA World Midget's Champions