[Deathwatch] Theodore Petty, professional wrestler, 49

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Theodore Petty 

JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — Theodore Petty, a professional wrestler known
as Flyboy Rocco Rock who was part of the tag-team duo known as Public
Enemy, died Saturday of a heart attack shortly after a match. He was
49. 

Petty wrestled solo in his final match. He and his opponent, known as
Crowbar, had struck each other over the head repeatedly with a garbage
can during their match, but witnesses said Petty appeared to be fine
when he left. 

Petty, who wrestled as the Cheetah Kid earlier in his career, won
several titles during his amateur career before graduating from Rutgers
in 1977. He later earned a masters degree in education and coached
wrestling at the College of New Jersey in Trenton.