Abe
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Post by Abe on Sept 18, 2022 11:32:33 GMT
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Post by jasmine on Sept 18, 2022 22:02:35 GMT
Yes, so many wrestlers have died too young, for a wide variety of reasons. Most are drug-related, as they get addicted to painkillers or steroids.
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Post by jasmine on Sept 19, 2022 0:31:18 GMT
Saddest deaths before 50: Eddy Guerrero Terry Gordy Chris Benoit Gino Hernandez Kerry von Erich Owen Hart David von Erich Hana Kimura Curt Hennig |
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Post by Mercy for All on Sept 20, 2022 1:15:01 GMT
That's insane. I haven't heard of a lot of them, but there are a lot that are familiar to me. I heard heard of a few of these deaths, but I had no idea so many had died. Very sad. Messed up lifestyle. |
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Post by jasmine on Sept 20, 2022 1:41:47 GMT
That's insane. I haven't heard of a lot of them, but there are a lot that are familiar to me. I heard heard of a few of these deaths, but I had no idea so many had died. Very sad. Messed up lifestyle. So many different reasons for their deaths. Adrian Adonis and Junkyard Dog died in car crashes. Ashley, Hana Kimura and Daffney died by suicide. Dino Bravo was reportedly killed in a mafia-type execution. Andre died from his abnormal growth condition. Miss Elizabeth died of a drug overdose. Misawa died in the ring during a match. David Von Erich died in Japan after a ruptured stomach or something like that. Here’s a clip of Misawa’s death. It was heart-wrenching to hear all the fans chanting his name, hoping he’d be okay. Misawa was a legend in Japan, one of the all-time greats. |
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Post by Abe on Sept 20, 2022 10:13:53 GMT
I'm so old that Vince McMahon was an announcer when I started watching.
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Post by jasmine on Sept 20, 2022 23:49:37 GMT
I'm so old that Vince McMahon was an announcer when I started watching. I’m so glad he’s out of the picture now. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2022 9:02:22 GMT
How about the ones who dyed their hair?
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Post by RWB on Sept 22, 2022 17:49:26 GMT
I'm so old that Vince McMahon was an announcer when I started watching. And Jesse [ the Body ] Ventura was the color commentator |
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Post by Abe on Sept 22, 2022 18:48:45 GMT
Captain Lou Alban
Classy Freddie Blassie
The Grand Wizard
All were managers when I watched. Wrestlers were guys like Bruno Sammartino, Dominic DeNucci, Ivan Putski, Iron Sheik, Bob Backlund, George "the Animal" Steele, Chief Jay Strongbow, the Wild Samoans, Superstar Billy Graham were some of the wrestlers I recall as well.
Used to be televised every Saturday night at 11 PM on WOR Channel 9 in the NYC/NJ area.
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Post by Mercy for All on Sept 22, 2022 19:10:49 GMT
Captain Lou Alban Classy Freddie Blassie The Grand Wizard All were managers when I watched. Wrestlers were guys like Bruno Sammartino, Dominic DeNucci, Ivan Putski, Iron Sheik, Bob Backlund, George "the Animal" Steele, Chief Jay Strongbow, the Wild Samoans, Superstar Billy Graham were some of the wrestlers I recall as well. Used to be televised every Saturday night at 11 PM on WOR Channel 9 in the NYC/NJ area. You probably watched just a couple of years before me. I saw some of those guys and others were just out. |
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Post by Abe on Sept 22, 2022 19:21:10 GMT
Captain Lou Alban Classy Freddie Blassie The Grand Wizard All were managers when I watched. Wrestlers were guys like Bruno Sammartino, Dominic DeNucci, Ivan Putski, Iron Sheik, Bob Backlund, George "the Animal" Steele, Chief Jay Strongbow, the Wild Samoans, Superstar Billy Graham were some of the wrestlers I recall as well. Used to be televised every Saturday night at 11 PM on WOR Channel 9 in the NYC/NJ area. You probably watched just a couple of years before me. I saw some of those guys and others were just out. I stopped watching around the time Backlund became champ. |
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Post by Mercy for All on Sept 22, 2022 19:25:20 GMT
You probably watched just a couple of years before me. I saw some of those guys and others were just out. I stopped watching around the time Backlund became champ. I started watching after he was no longer champ. |
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Post by jasmine on Sept 22, 2022 22:09:21 GMT
I started watching when I was around 3 years old. My Dad would take us to rhe local wrestling shows, and guys like Rick Martel, Jesse Ventura, John Tolos and Chief Billy White Wolf were among the performers. My Dad took us to meet some of them, and Rick Martel carried me around and introduced me the other wrestlers. I don't remember any of that, of course.
We watched both the WWF and NWA a lot in the early 1980s. I enjoyed the NWA shows more, but the pre-Hogan WWWF was pretty fun too.
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Post by Mercy for All on Sept 22, 2022 23:35:57 GMT
I started watching when I was around 3 years old. My Dad would take us to rhe local wrestling shows, and guys like Rick Martel, Jesse Ventura, John Tolos and Chief Billy White Wolf were among the performers. My Dad took us to meet some of them, and Rick Martel carried me around and introduced me the other wrestlers. I don't remember any of that, of course. We watched both the WWF and NWA a lot in the early 1980s. I enjoyed the NWA shows more, but the pre-Hogan WWWF was pretty fun too. Wow! We started watching some Canadian brand of wrestling (I don't remember what it was called) that featured Rick Martel, the Rougeaus, and Dino Bravo as stars back in the day. |
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Post by jasmine on Sept 23, 2022 0:28:40 GMT
I started watching when I was around 3 years old. My Dad would take us to rhe local wrestling shows, and guys like Rick Martel, Jesse Ventura, John Tolos and Chief Billy White Wolf were among the performers. My Dad took us to meet some of them, and Rick Martel carried me around and introduced me the other wrestlers. I don't remember any of that, of course. We watched both the WWF and NWA a lot in the early 1980s. I enjoyed the NWA shows more, but the pre-Hogan WWWF was pretty fun too. Wow! We started watching some Canadian brand of wrestling (I don't remember what it was called) that featured Rick Martel, the Rougeaus, and Dino Bravo as stars back in the day. I wikipedia’d Rick Martel, and I think you might be referring to Stampede Wrestling, Stu Hart’s promotion. Stu is the father of Bret Hart. Rick is now 62 and happily enjoying retirement.  |
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Post by Mercy for All on Sept 23, 2022 0:57:50 GMT
Wow! We started watching some Canadian brand of wrestling (I don't remember what it was called) that featured Rick Martel, the Rougeaus, and Dino Bravo as stars back in the day. I wikipedia’d Rick Martel, and I think you might be referring to Stampede Wrestling, Stu Hart’s promotion. Stu is the father of Bret Hart. Rick is now 62 and happily enjoying retirement. Yeah, but there were no Harts wrestling in the stuff we were watching. We saw the ones I mentioned, Abdullah the Butcher, King Tonga, a couple of appearances by the Road Warriors...maybe the Vachons? It's weird, because a lot of them are listed on Wikipedia's page for Stampede Wrestling, but Ray Rougeau is not listed at all, and we were watching him tag team with his brother Jacques. And Jacques (according to Wikipedia) was in Stampede until 1978, and we were watching mid-80s, I think (must have been, because Jacques was signed to WWF in 1986). And there were a ton of names that I recognize from later (Jake Roberts, Tito Santana, Greg Valentine) that we were not seeing on the show I was watching. It was almost like we were watching some sub-branch of NWA or something. |
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