Bob Della Serra
actor
Robert Dellaserra is a retired Canadian professional wrestler. He is best known by his ring name Bob Della Serra, Johnny Heffernan and The UFO who spent his career in Montreal, Calgary, Japan, Germany, Puerto Rico and Portland (Oregon).
Professional wrestling career
Della Serra, born in Montreal, made his wrestling debut in 1972 for Grand Prix in Montreal. In 1974, he worked for Eastern Sports Association in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
In 1976, he made his debut in Japan as the masked UFO for International Wrestling Enterprise. He worked there until 1979.
In 1981, he worked in Switzerland and in Germany for Catch Wrestling Association.
Then in 1982 he teamed up with Don Kent (wrestler) as the Fabulous Kangaroos, where Della Serra took changed his name to "Johnny Heffernan" (or "Bobby Heffernan" at times) - a storyline cousin of Roy Heffernan. The team ended Terry and Dory Funk Jr.'s year and a half run with the WWC World Tag Team championship on May 1, 1982. Kent and Heffernan held the gold for less than two months before losing the WWC World Tag Team titles to Invader I and Pierre Martel.
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