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Oh wow anybody here watch wrestling back in the 80's

HorkathaneHorkathane Member Posts: 380
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 Man almost all those old school guys are dead now. Check out this article and even some of them are ladies like that Queen Elizabeth, Sensational Sherri. Pretty sad, also it tells how they died and their ages. None of them made it past 50 except 1 that died of natural causes Captain Lou Albano.

 

www.foxnews.com/slideshow/entertainment/2009/11/23/pro-wrestlers-past-tragic-ends-benoit-albano

 whoops wrong form this should go into off-topic... :/

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  • caalemcaalem Member UncommonPosts: 312

    Most of them died from drug overdoses or heart failure(Likely from the massive amounts of steroids/drugs they took.)

    Heh.

  • ElsaboltsElsabolts Member RarePosts: 3,476

    Im form the 50's and 60's eara Dick the Bruiser, Cowboy Bob Ellis, Mexican bandito, ect. when wrestling was real lol.

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  • IlvaldyrIlvaldyr Member CommonPosts: 2,142

    Man, I remember a ton of those guys.

    Andre the Giant. Your awesomeness died too young. :(

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  • EuphorykEuphoryk Member Posts: 450

    Wow, I grew up watching most of these performers. I had no idea so many of them had passed away, especially of drug overdose related deaths.

    Sad :(

  • TweFojuTweFoju Member UncommonPosts: 1,236

    sadly, i wasnt born earlier enough to watch those legends, during my days, the legends were Sting and Hulk and of course Rock

    which they all still lived thankfully,

    So What Now?

  • RuynRuyn Member Posts: 1,052

    I used to work at the front desk of a hotel in the '90's.

    I had the pleasure of meeting The Bushwaakers, King Kong Bundy, Razor Ramone, Diesel, Owen Hart, JJ Jeff Jerrod, Luna Vashon...can't remember anyone else.

    Razor Ramone was really nice and stopped and signed every kids autograph.  Owen Hart was impatient telling him to hurry up and didn't give any autographs.  Later on Owen Hart was whining that some kids found out what room he was in and they were knocking on his door and running away.  Some kids slid a note (that he brought to the front desk the next day) saying that they didn't want his autograph anyways and that they thought he sucked.

    JJ came down to the front desk at 3 in the morning wrapped in only a towel.  He was looking for a condom machine in the bathroom.  I told him that is in the bar bathroom which was closed at the time so I got security to come and JJ gave him some money and the security guard came back with a couple handfuls of condoms.  He was earlier spotted with Luna Vashon...

    Good times...

    Edit:  I also remember that the Bushwaakers went to the bar that was full of hockey players because the hotel was full of players from a tournament.  They start doing their Bushwaaker crazy thing and called out all the hockey players saying they heard they were all a bunch of faggots.  No one took the bait.

  • Zorvan01Zorvan01 Member CommonPosts: 390

    Bam Bam Bigelow

    Scott Bigelow began his wrestling career in 1987 with the WWE. Bigelow's biggest match was taking on NFL Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor in Wrestlemania XI, a match he lost.

    In July 2000, Bigelow received second-degree burns on 40 percent of his body rescuing three children from a burning house.

    He was found dead on Jan. 19, 2007, inside his Florida home at the age of 45. Cocaine was found in his system at the time of his death.

     

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  • bigdaddysfebigdaddysfe Member Posts: 89

    Real men used to watch this every week:

     

    www.youtube.com/watch

     

     

  • MMO_DoubterMMO_Doubter Member Posts: 5,056

    Killer Karl Krupp FTW.

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  • MMO_DoubterMMO_Doubter Member Posts: 5,056
    Originally posted by Ilvaldyr


    Man, I remember a ton of those guys.
    Andre the Giant. Your awesomeness died too young. :(

     

    A good man and a great star.

    "" Voice acting isn't an RPG element....it's just a production value." - grumpymel2

  • DarkholmeDarkholme Member UncommonPosts: 1,212

    That's pretty interesting and sad actually. I recognize 90% of them too, since the WWF was at the peak of it's popularity during my teen years. It makes you wonder why anyone would want to be in that industry...

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  • MMO_DoubterMMO_Doubter Member Posts: 5,056
    Originally posted by Darkholme


    That's pretty interesting and sad actually. I recognize 90% of them too, since the WWF was at the peak of it's popularity during my teen years. It makes you wonder why anyone would want to be in that industry...

    Money and fame?

    I'd rather be a star for 10-15 years than live to 80 as a nobody.

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  • KhalathwyrKhalathwyr Member UncommonPosts: 3,133

    Yeah, I remember it seeming like all the Von Erichs were dying off left and right. Except for Fritz.

    I miss my Fabulous Freebirds!

    Or the Nature Boy (Woooo!!)

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  • GrandVizierGrandVizier Member UncommonPosts: 72
    Originally posted by Horkathane


    ... whoops wrong form this should go into off-topic... :/

     

    Moved to off-topic.  :-)

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  • jimsmith08jimsmith08 Member Posts: 1,039
    Originally posted by Khalathwyr


    Yeah, I remember it seeming like all the Von Erichs were dying off left and right. Except for Fritz.
    I miss my Fabulous Freebirds!

    Or the Nature Boy (Woooo!!)



     

    Fritz died back in the late 90s. Kevin von Erich is the only surviving family member. Kerry, Chris and Mike commited suicide, David died in 1984 and the unknown son Jack drowned when he was only young.

    Terry Gordy is dead too btw ^

  • Burngrass99Burngrass99 Member Posts: 45

    I so damn missed Razor Ramone and Jake the Snake Roberts!

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