As Dallas Morning News outlines, Kevin Von Erich the Golden Warrior retired from professional wrestling in 1993. He’d been a wrestler with World Class Championship Wrestling (WCCW) at a time when the World Wrestling Federation (now World Wrestling Entertainment — the WWE) was just coming into its own. Von Erich and other standout athletes helped change wrestling from “an old man sport” into what it is today, as Von Erich put it on San Antonio Express-News. As a standout wrestler amongst siblings with a signature barefoot style, he won a litany of championships with the WCCW, the New Wrestling Alliance, and more, per The Smackdown Hotel.
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Dallas Morning News says that Von Erich made appearances at shows from 1995 to 2017, although not to engage in official matches. Von Erich launched his career in Texas and grew up in Dallas, but moved to Hawaii in 2006 with his wife, Pamela Adkisson, to build a house on the North Shore of Kauai near Mt. Namahana. They not only raised their family there, but maintained an entire, seven-acre ranch complete with chickens, goats, ducks, and fruit like guavas, papaya, and coconuts. And yet, as Dallas Morning News reported, Von Erich recently moved to Boerne, Texas in 2023, a short drive northwest of San Antonio. He said of Hawaii, “It was great for me at my season — my season that I needed this ocean. But it’s not necessarily the right place for children.”
