Steve Olsonoski is a retired American

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 professional wrestler  from Minnesota

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Steve Olsonoski, purportedly from Edina, Minnesota, began his wrestling career in the late 1970s in the American Wrestling Association. He won the AWA Rookie of the Year Award in his first year and was often described as an up-and-coming star. He briefly teamed with Evan Johnson in the AWA, but his career progressed substantially as a solo wrestler. He wrestled off and on for the AWA through the 1980s.

Olsonoski, also known as Steve O., also wrestled for the National Wrestling Alliance

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 in the early 1980s in the Georgia Championship Wrestling

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 territory. While in Georgia

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 he won the NWA Georgia Junior Heavyweight Championship

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, the NWA National Heavyweight Championship

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The original version NWA National Heavyweight Championship was the major singles title in the NWA-affiliated Georgia Championship Wrestling from 1980 until 1986...

, the NWA National Tag Team Championship

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 and twice won the NWA National Television Championship

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. He again worked for Verne Gagne

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 in the American Wrestling Association

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