Robert William Howard is an American professional wrestler. He is best known for his 15-year stint with the World Wrestling Federation/World Wrestling Entertainment under the ring names Thurman Sparky Plugg, Bob Holly, Bombastic Bob and Hardcore Holly. After debuting in 1990, Holly worked for Smoky Mountain Wrestling and other independent promotions, before joining WWE full-time in 1994. Initially portraying the character of a NASCAR driver, Thurman Sparky Plugg, his name was soon changed to Bob Spark Plug Holly, before forming a team with Bodacious Bart, known as The New Midnight Express in 1998. After becoming known simply as Hardcore Holly in 1999, he was joined by on-screen cousins, Crash and Molly. In 2002, he suffered a broken neck, which sidelined him for over a year. Upon his return, he engaged in minor feuds with wrestlers such as Mr. Kennedy and Rob Van Dam, before forming a tag team with Cody Rhodes in 2007. Holly was released from WWE in 2009. During his career, Holly has held the WWF/E Hardcore Championship six times, the WWF/E Tag Team Championship three times (with 1–2–3 Kid, Crash Holly and Cody Rhodes), and the NWA World Tag Team Championship once with Bart Gunn. Howards autobiography, titled The Hardcore Truth The Bob Holly Story was released in the United States on April 1, 2013. Co-authored by former British wrestler Ross Owen Williams, an actor and writer[63] who wrestled Holly in June 2010, it was published by ECW Press.Reviews of the book were positive, with Nolan Howell of Canoe.com describing it as a straightforward look into the life of a man that has dedicated himself to the sport of professional wrestling and has an endearing, personal style that gives an apt representation of the author...For fans such as myself who appreciated the blunt style of the man known as Hardcore Holly, this ECW Press product will be an entertaining, worthwhile look into one of the unique personalities of professional wrestling. Joe Babinsack, writing for the Wrestling Observer, described the book as brutal, boisterous and definitely worth reading. Bruce Mitchell, writing for the Pro Wrestling Torch, described the book as hard-hitting, straightforward, and not very fancy, rating it one of the strongest professional wrestling books in a long while. Dave Meltzer, editor of the Wrestling Observer wrote, in a lot of books, you think youre reading what the person writing feels is the right thing to say for their career... With Holly, whether you agree or not (and I agreed with some of his stuff, not others), I had no doubt he was giving his true opinions on things. In that sense, it was a very honest look at a period of WWF history from a guy who had ups and downs... but survived a long time.

Film non disponibile da Robert Howard

Ring Roasts III: The Roast of Jim Cornette

Self

Film 2010

Hitman Hart: Wrestling With Shadows

Bob 'Spark Plugg' Holly (archive footage)

Film 1998

WWE WrestleFest '95

Bob Holly

Film 1995

WWE Survivor Series 2003

Hardcore Holly

Film 2003

WWE Royal Rumble 2005

Hardcore Holly

Film 2005

WWE Royal Rumble 2000

Hardcore Holly

Film 2000

Chris Benoit: The Aftermath

Himself

Film 2010

The Marine 2

Linwood's Left

Film 2009

WWE WrestleMania XV

Hardcore Holly

Film 1999

WWE Survivor Series 1999

Hardcore Holly

Film 1999

WWE Backlash 2000

Hardcore Holly

Film 2000

WWE SummerSlam 1995

Bob "Spark Plug" Holly

Film 1995

WWE Survivor Series 1995

Bob Holly

Film 1995

WWE King of the Ring 1995

Bob "Spark Plug" Holly

Film 1995

WWE Rock Bottom: In Your House

Bob Holly

Film 1998

WWE Over the Edge

Hardcore Holly

Film 1999

WWE St. Valentine's Day Massacre: In Your House

Hardcore Holly

Film 1999

WWE Backlash: In Your House

Hardcore Holly

Film 1999

WWE Rebellion 1999

Hardcore Holly

Film 1999

WWE No Mercy 1999

Hardcore Holly

Film 1999

WWE Armageddon 1999

Hardcore Holly

Film 1999

WWE No Way Out 2001

Hardcore Holly

Film 2001

WWE Unforgiven: In Your House

"Bombastic" Bob

Film 1998

WWE Survivor Series 2000

Hardcore Holly

Film 2000

WWE Armageddon 2000

Hardcore Holly

Film 2000

WWE Insurrextion 2001

Hardcore Holly

Film 2001

WWE Judgment Day 2005

Hardcore Holly

Film 2005

WWE Global Warning

Hardcore Holly

Film 2002

ECW December to Dismember

Hardcore Holly

Film 2006

WWE The Great American Bash 2004

Hardcore Holly

Film 2004

WWE Survivor Series 2007

Hardcore Holly

Film 2007

WWE Night of Champions 2008

Hardcore Holly

Film 2008

WWF: Hardcore

Hardcore Holly

Film 2001

WWE: Falls Count Anywhere: The Greatest Street Fights and Other Out of Control Matches

Film 2012

The History of The WWE Hardcore Championship

Film 2016

WWE Survivor Series 1996

Bob Holly (Free-for-All)

Film 1996

WWF Action!

Hardcore Holly

Film 2001

YouShoot: Bob Holly

Himself

Film 2010

WWE: The Best of SmackDown - 10th Anniversary, 1999-2009

Hardcore Holly (archive footage)

Film 2012

WWE WrestleMania 2000

Hardcore Holly

Film 2000

WWE: OMG! The Top 50 Incidents in WWE History

Himself

Film 2011

WWE WrestleMania 21

Hardcore Holly

Film 2005

WWE Wrestlemania X8

Hardcore Holly

Film 2002

TNA One Night Only: Hardcore Justice 2

Bob Holly

Film 2013

WWE WrestleMania XIV

"Bombastic" Bob Holly

Film 1998

WWF SummerSlam Spectacular 1994: Sunday Night Slam

Bob "Spark Plugg" Holly

Film 1994

Operation Sandman

Sturner

Film 2000

Serie televisive non disponibile da Robert Howard

WWE Raw

Thurman "Sparky " Plugg

Tv 1993

WWE Tough Enough

Hardcore Holly

Tv 2001

WWE Raw

Bob "Spark Plugg" Holly

Tv 1993

WWE SmackDown

Hardcore Holly

Tv 1999

WWF Wrestling Challenge

Bob Holly

Tv 1986

WWE ECW

Hardcore Holly

Tv 2006

WWE Velocity

Hardcore Holly

Tv 2002

WWE Raw

Hardcore Holly

Tv 1993

WWE Raw

Bob Holly

Tv 1993

WWE Raw

Bombastic Bob

Tv 1993

ECW on TNN

Hardcore Holly

Tv 1999

ECW Hardcore TV

Hardcore Holly

Tv 1993