Thunderbolt Patterson
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | Claude Patterson July 8, 1941 Waterloo, Iowa, U.S. |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Claude Peters K.O. Patterson Sweet Daddy Brown T-Bolt Thunderbolt Patterson Thunderbolt Peters |
| Billed height | 6 ft 0 in (183 cm) |
| Billed weight | 242 lb (110 kg) |
| Billed from | Atlanta, Georgia |
| Trained by | Pat O'Connor Steve Kovacs |
| Debut | 1964 |
| Retired | 1994 |
Claude Patterson (born July 8, 1941) is an American retired professional wrestler, known by his ring name Thunderbolt Patterson. He began his career in 1964 and wrestled primarily in Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas. During the early 1970s, he was blacklisted by the National Wrestling Alliance for repeated appearances with outlaw promotions, his complaints of institutional racism and attempts to form a wrestlers' labor union.