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2 colorful wrestlers from the glory days have left us on consecutive days.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/geo...-79/vp-AAn43iJ
http://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/leg...cid=spartanntp
2 colorful wrestlers from the glory days have left us on consecutive days.
"Henry Cow always wanted to push itself, so sometimes we would write music that we couldn't actually play – I found that very encouraging." - Lindsay Cooper, 1998
"I have nothing to do with Endless River. Phew! This is not rocket science people, get a grip." - Roger Waters, 2014
"I'm a collector. And I've always just seemed to collect personalities." - David Bowie, 1973
He was also a local football coach. Nicest guy you could ever meet...except when he was chewing on turnbuckles.
"And your little sister's immaculate virginity wings away on the bony shoulders of a young horse named George who stole surreptitiously into her geography revision."
Occasional musical musings on https://darkelffile.blogspot.com/
Screw "professional" wrestling. IMHO.
"The White Zone is for loading and unloading only. If you got to load or unload go to the White Zone!"
I got to meet George The Animal once. We were tailgating at a Detroit Lions game in the old Pontiac Silverdome parking lot. We noticed a whole group of people kind of hanging around a few rows over from where we were parked. After a while we decided to walk over and see what the commotion was. Turns out it was George The Animal and a few of his buddies just tailgating with everyone else. Of course he was drawing a crowd around him, but he was just shooting the shit with anyone who walked up, signing autographs and taking pictures with people all while hanging out and drinking beers with his friends. When you saw him up close you could really tell how scarred up his forehead was, and his ears were all mangled and bent. He seemed very cool and friendly though.
Why bother posting in this thread, Jed? You look like a troll.
Some of us, like me, grew up enjoying pro wrestling. While I just missed Koloff's heyday, I did see The Animal many times during WWF cards at Madison Square Garden. I rooted for him whether he was a heel (bad guy) or a babyface (good guy).
RIP to two gentlemen who shaped childhoods just as much as TV characters, movie stars, and, yes, even prog musicians.
"It's such a fine line between stupid and... clever" -- David St. Hubbins & Derek Smalls, Spinal Tap
Pre wrestling is definitely an acquired taste, but there was a time back in the 80’s and 90’s that I was pretty into it. We would go to the matches, drink a bunch of beer, cheer for the good guys and boo for the bad guys. Just fun mindless entertainment for a cool night out.
I have known a few guys connected to the wrestling biz over the years and they are actually mostly very athletic people whose craft takes an enormous amount of practice and skill to pull off. In some ways it is like an athletic ballet. It is also a very rough life, even in the upper levels which is why you see so many of them dying young. The vast majority of “pro” wrestlers have amateur wrestling backgrounds in high school / college and actually can do it for real. Yes, it is scripted and “fake”, but it is also an art form.
I rembember guys named Ray Stevens and Bearcat Write.
Steele also played Tor Johnson in Tim Burton's "Ed Wood" and gave a funny performance.
"Arf." -- Frank Zappa, "Beauty Knows No Pain" (live version)
For some reason I thought George Steele died years ago. I must be thinking of another wrestler. RIP to two legends.
RIP.....
I've watched plenty of wrestling over the years. Watched Friday Night Wrestling growing up. I was disappointed when I found out it was fake. It's like when you find out Santa Clause and the Easter Bunny ain't real.........
You gotta have a sense of humor to watch wrestling.
I knew about George, but this is the first I've heard about Ivan Koloff. Both were two of my favorite wrestlers.
I remember years ago George would only wrestle in the summer and wondered why. Someone told me that he was a school teacher and coach and could only wrestle during summer vacation. Imagine having the Animal as your teacher.
Lou
Looking forward to my day in court.
Yeah,I had to come to grips with realizing wrestling was fake, but I still found it entertaining. I can't imagine anyone believing it to be real nowadays with the PG-rated stuff thats on now. I grew up near Memphis where wrasslin was king. My highschool hosted at least two events a year. When I was a kid, I had an autographed photo of Dwayne Johnson's (The Rock) dad, Rocky Johnson, as he was feuding with Jerry Lawler at the time they both appeared in town.
Didn't see George the Animal Steele until he was on TBS (Georgia Championship Wrestling) where he talked and didn't act as crazed as he did in the WWF. It was a great character though. Ivan Koloff was a mainstay on GCW as well and did appear in Memphis occasionally. RIP
Compact Disk brought high fidelity to the masses and audiophiles will never forgive it for that
There are some cool interviews with George on YT that are worth checking out.
Compact Disk brought high fidelity to the masses and audiophiles will never forgive it for that
I remember when the Animal fell in love with Miss Elizabeth. I think she's gone to isn't she?
The older I get, the better I was.
Sorry I broke the kayfabe! (I just learned that term.)
Yeah, if ever there was ever any doubt that wrestling was fake, that train left the station in the '80s officially with the WWF taking it to NBC. I was wise to it earlier than that, since I grew up in Tennessee but had family in Michigan. I'd see wrestlers pretending one thing in the Mid-south and doing some other bit up north. Memphis wrestling was always edgier, gimmickier, more prone to foreigner bating. Fun stuff.
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