Whipper Billy Watson Whipper Billy Watson William John Potts, (June 25, 1915 – February 4, 1990) was a Canadian professional wrestler best known by his ring name "Whipper" Billy Watson, and was a two-time world heavyweight wrestling champion. Watson was born in 1915 in East York, Ontario (now part of Toronto) to an English born father, John Potts and a Canadian born mother, Alice Mary Wilken. Watson began wrestling in Toronto under his real name. He was a member of the Scarborough Athletic Club in the mid-1930s and was wrestling on what were billed as amateur wrestling shows in Toronto. For four years
James Lopez Watson death of cancer in Harlem. In 2003, the courthouse at 1 Federal Plaza in Manhattan was renamed the James L. Watson United States Court of International Trade Building in Watson's honor. James Lopez Watson James Lopez Watson (May 21, 1922 – September 1, 2001) was a Judge of the United States Court of International Trade. While serving as a judge around the country, Watson became the first African-American to head a federal court in the Deep South. Born on May 21, 1922, in Harlem, New York City, New York, the son of James S. Watson and his wife Violet, Watson