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I liked that Crow thing too, he needed that especially versus NWO.
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God, I can't believe that bit of bad news. Only 33, RIP. I think he was a a former bodyguard for Motley Crues as well if I'm not mistaken.
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Now that you mention it I thought I heard that too. If not the Crue it was some metal band.
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He debuted as Motley Crue's bodyguard during a live performance by the Crue on Raw in 1998. RIP Test.......
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The guy in the closeup at 1:22 is none other than Jimmy 'Mouth of the South' Hart
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Interesting to note that as a former songwriter and singer back in the 60s, Jimmy wrote many of the classic intro songs to some of the biggest stars of the day; the Million Dollar Man's intro, for instance, is one, as is I think Koko's.
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I remember watching that Gentry's youtube clip specifically for Jimmy Hart. I think Hulk Hogan played music and was in bands too. Chris Jericho's father was former NHLer Ted Irvine.
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Shawn Michael's theme music is one of my faves. It's cool that Hart wrote it......
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Speaking of the Hart's....who else besides me was watching live when Owen Hart died in 1999? Can you believe that was 10 years ago already? Unbelievable....what a sad story that was.
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I just read that former pro wrestler 'Playboy' Buddy Rose has died. He was a participant in the very first match at the very first Wrestemania where he lost to Tito Santana.
They said he was fighting many health issues including diabetes which is no surpise given his physique the last time I remembered seeing him.
They used to announce him at 271 lbs and then he'd grab the mic and say "I do not weigh 271 lbs, I weigh 217 lbs" when it was obvious that 271 lbs was closer to the truth. Eventually I'd say he was probably getting close to 371 lbs.
Never a main eventer but was a quality wrestler.
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I remember Rose and that whole 271 lbs. schtick. A shame about his passing. Who did he team up with as a tag team? Was iit Jessie Ventura? Couldn't remember. Was Scary Sherry his valet at one point?
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In the AWA "Playboy" Buddy Rose teamed with "Pretty Boy" Doug Sommers, with Sherri Martel as their manager, and they fueded with the Midnight Rockers(Shawn Michaels & Marty Jannetty). Jesse Ventura teamed with Adrian Adonis.
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I really miss NWO-era WCW. Current wrestling just doesn't have as much appeal to me as it did around the turn of the century.
Anyone read a Chris Benoit book by the name of Ring of Hell? Very hard hitting and sad that just about anyone associated with Stampede wrestling has had some tragedy befallen on them.
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Speaking of Sensational/Scary/Whatever S-adjective they could affix to her Sherri Martel (relation to Rick?), I guess everyone here knows she's now deceased as well as of last year. While she wasn't a personal favorite--she always came across as a trashier counterpart to the more attractive and virtuous Elizabeth (also deeply missed)--she always did well in whatever role they asked her to play; in a lot of ways, she made for just as good a sidekick to Ted DiBiase as Virgil did in a longer tenure in the role.
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Actually, I always found Sherri far more attractive than Elizabeth
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Of course, then, let's not forget the other attractive woman of the sport back in the day: Cheryl Roberts. Sure, Rick Rude was way out of line to go passing at her, but we can at least understand why, kayfabed or not. Perhaps several years later when Jake was gunning for Savage with his cobra, they could have solved that feud by putting her and Elizabeth in a steel cage and let them slug it out (guaranteed boost in the ratings in the coveted young male demographic as I see it).
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Picking this back up since it just popped into my head, did anyone watch Hulk's cartoon regularly back in the day (it was one of the few 80s cartoons I didn't actually see in original run, being phased out by the time I became a full-on Saturday morning nut, and besides ABC was my Saturday morning network of choice anyway)? Seeing them on YouTube, I can say that while no masterpiece, it is perversely entertaining. The only shame is that it couldn't have had its run a little later, when more all-timers could have been used (then again, who's to say they can't do a reboot that does? They could do it exclusively for their 24/7 on demand service, keeping the original lineups (although I'd switch the female roles to Elizabeth and Sherri for more recognition purposes) and adding in the later arrivals: say, Bret Hart, the Ultimate Warrior, the British Bulldog, Hacksaw, the Legion of Doom, and Brutus Beefcake for the good guys, and Flair, DiBiase, Jake the Snake (while he worked well both ways, there's general consensus he worked best as the sociopath during the early 90s when he had the cobra bite Savage's arm), the Undertaker (same; indeed, I'd say make he and Jake a de facto team since they worked well together during the previously mentioned period), Mr. Perfect, the Natural Disasters, and Yokozuna for the bad guys, with Slaughter, the Boss Man and Savage, who worked equally well both ways (although I personally liked the Boss Man much better as a good guy) as neutrals whose alliances would shift with each episode. Would this sound reasonable enough?
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I used to love watching the wrestling when i was a kid and got back into it at the end of the 90's with the Rock and Steve Austin.But after Chris Benoit and Eddie Guerro died i really cant watch it any more,and i think most of this comes down to the huge death rate within the business. Now i know the WWE has a drug testing program now but i wonder what they test for and how serious it is,as the business has a long history of pain killer and presription drug abuse. Also if it was a real sport and not sports entertainment as they like to call it there would of been some sort of investigation into why so many young men in their early to late 30's die of heart attacks.The figure must be miles ahead of any other sport or national statistic.
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Crazy that the wrestlers have to be on the road for just about 365 days a year, just the pounding the body takes, I have always loved wrestling but it's turned into a death industry and the bigwigs and shareholders are too busy laughing all the way to the bank.
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Needless to say, Umaga is a terrible thing. I can't believe that, I think if people died all the time in 1985-1986 when I started watching it, I would have been cautious about even joking about Wrestling.
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No! Not another one. By coincidence I was just thinking about him last week when I was watching some old wrestling matches. These guys need pensions, it's atrocious so many lives have been snuffed out. I'm pretty much done with current wrestling.
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