Editing Pedro Morales (section)

=== Early career (1959–1965) ===
When he was 17 years old, Morales trained under Barba Roja to become a wrestler and participated on a card held in [[New York City]] in 1959. He debuted by earning a victory over Howard LaVine, who performed under the pseudonym Buddy Gilbert, going on to participate in tag team matches and other stipulation matches throughout the tri-state area the following year.<ref name="page13"/> During the next two years, he wrestled in [[Virginia]] and [[North Carolina]], particularly in the towns of [[Petersburg, Virginia]] and [[Charlotte, North Carolina]]. Morales frequently wrestled fellow Puerto Rican [[Gypsy Joe]] on these cards. He also earned wins over Jimmy Quinn, Don Savage and [[Sonny Fargo]], while wrestling several local figures such as [[Swede Hanson (wrestler)|Swede Hanson]], Laverne Baxter and Tony Nero. The following year, Morales began visiting several more states, often teaming up with different Latin [[Lucha libre|luchadores]], such as Pepper Gonzales and [[Gory Guerrero]], while holding loose feuds with a wrestler simply known as “The Viking” and Mark Starr.<ref name="page13"/> As a traveling performer, he amassed mixed results, with most of his victories taking place in [[British Columbia]]. While there, Morales defeated Tarzan Potvin, Tony Nero, Bud Rattal, Tommy O'Toole and Johnny Demchuk in a two-month period, before losing three challenges to Oliver Winrush. After a similar result in a short program with [[Hard Boiled Haggerty]], he had two draws against Allan Garfield, before defeating him on July 16, 1962.<ref name="page13"/> Over the following months, Morales served as a mid-carder, losing to several of the high-card talents. However, he gained wins over [[Job (professional wrestling)|jobbers]] such as Poncho Pico, Sputnik Monroe and Gypsy Biviano, the latter of whom he won a three-fall match .<ref name="page13"/>

The following August, Morales traveled to Texas and was involved in a series of matches with Jack and Jim Dalton, facing them along multiple tag team partners. After emerging victorious in a feud over Nelson Royal, he relocated to [[Washington, D.C.]], and [[Bridgeport, Connecticut]], where he wrestled Miguel Torres, [[Angelo Savoldi]] and [[Lou Albano]], while entering into a rivalry with Tony Altomare.<ref name="page13"/> It was there where he first teamed up with [[Miguel Pérez (wrestler)|Miguel Pérez, Sr.]] and [[Argentina Apollo]], who were the first tag team champions recognized in the history of the World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF, now known as [[WWE]]). In 1963, Morales performed in several tag team matches against [[Johnny Barend]] and Magnificent Maurice, returning to New York and New Jersey in a program alongside Gordo Chihuahua, who worked as enhancement talent. Later in the year, he formed a recurrent tag team with Perez and feuded with Pedro Rodriguez. In June, Morales joined [[Bruno Sammartino]], [[Bobo Brazil]], Perez and Apollo to once again enter a storyline with Johnny Barend, who was now joined by Diamond Jack.<ref name="page14">{{cite book|title=Pedro Morales: 70 años del pionero Latinoamericano|author=Alexander Trujillo|publisher=El Diario Culebrense|language=es|chapter=Reportaje Especial|date=October 24, 2012|page=14}}</ref> After this, Vittorio Apollo became his mainstay tag team partner, with whom he challenged [[The Fabulous Kangaroos]], Johnny Barend and [[Buddy Rogers (wrestler)|Buddy Rogers]] on several occasions. Morales finished the year by teaming with Pérez, earning three victories over the Fabulous Kangaroos.<ref name="page14"/> The team opened 1964 by feuding with [[Chris Tolos|Chris]] and [[John Tolos]], losing the first two encounters but winning the three-fall rubber match. Individually, Morales defeated Chuck Martoni, Arnold Skaaland and Prince Nero several times.<ref name="page14"/>

The tag team next entered a feud with [[Dr. Jerry Graham|Jerry Graham]] and [[Luke Graham (wrestler)|Luke Graham]], losing multiple times before earning a win on September 19, 1964.<ref name="page14"/> The team also exchanged results against Hans & Max Mortier. During this time frame, Morales picked singles wins over Frank Hickey, Chuck Martoni, Bobby Davis, Arnold Skaaland, Humberto Mercado, Matt Gilmore, Boris Malenko, Klondike Bill, Jose Quinteras, Magnificent Maurice, Bull Johnson and Luke Graham, while losing in matches against Wild Red Berry and [[Freddie Blassie]]. Morales then entered a double feud against Pedro Rodriguez and Gene Kiniski, dominating Rodriguez but losing to Kiniski. Alongside Pérez, he restarted their feud with the Grahams, earning a second victory. In the final months of 1964, Morales also gained wins over Robert Duranton and Steve Stanlee.<ref name="page14" />