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Post by cruefan68 on Aug 21, 2018 15:52:29 GMT -5
Volcano III passed away at 69 I think you meant Villano III. Sorry to hear that. His mask vs. mask match with Atlantis circa 2000 is one of the all-time great Lucha libre matches. RIP. |
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Post by jimsteel on Aug 21, 2018 18:16:06 GMT -5
 Steve Musilon(NWA)/TravisWWF) passed away at 67 He teamed with Rick McGraw as the Carolina Connection |
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Post by jimsteel on Aug 21, 2018 18:17:43 GMT -5
Volcano III passed away at 69 I think you meant Villano III. Sorry to hear that. His mask vs. mask match with Atlantis circa 2000 is one of the all-time great Lucha libre matches. RIP. Damn spell check |
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Post by TTX on Aug 21, 2018 19:03:00 GMT -5
Although Volcano III would be a cool name for a wrestler.
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Post by cruefan68 on Aug 21, 2018 21:20:30 GMT -5
I think you meant Villano III. Sorry to hear that. His mask vs. mask match with Atlantis circa 2000 is one of the all-time great Lucha libre matches. RIP. Damn spell check It happens to all of us. When I saw Volcano III I thought I hadn't heard of him before so I went to the Wrestling Observer site and saw Villano III. And I agree, damn spell check. That gets me all the time. |
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Post by Chad Olson on Aug 21, 2018 22:39:27 GMT -5
Volcano III passed away at 69 I think you meant Villano III. Sorry to hear that. His mask vs. mask match with Atlantis circa 2000 is one of the all-time great Lucha libre matches. RIP. I agree, that match is incredible! Here's a link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JSH0HrA6o0&t=5s |
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Post by Bazzy on Aug 22, 2018 10:32:57 GMT -5
Yeah saw Ian Doc Dean many times when I/we went to british wrestling . R.I.P  |
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Post by WTIC on Aug 22, 2018 19:32:59 GMT -5
 Both PW Insider and Wikipedia reporting that CHRIS CHAMPION has passed away. From PWInsider.com: FORMER NWA & WCW STAR CHRIS CHAMPION AKA YOSHI KWAN PASSES AWAY By Mike Johnson on 2018-08-22 14:29:00 Chris Champion, who wrestled for Jim Crockett Promotions as one half of the New Breed tag team and later re-created himself as Yoshi Kwan in World Championship Wrestling passed away today at the age of 57. His passing was initially announced by former WWF and Memphis star Warren "Wolfie D" Wolfe on his Facebook page. On Champion's passing, Wolfe wrote, "Another close brother has passed away. Chris Champion took me under his wing when I was about 16. I was a huge fan of his as the New Breed growing up. We both loved over the top wrestling gimmicks...we came up with all sorts of stuff from a crash test dummy idea to The Cyberpunks. He was also responsible for suggesting Jamie and I do a white rapper gimmick as a team, which ultimately took us as far as Wrestlemania. He handed us a hubcap at a show one night that he was booking and said, “Wear this around your neck and hit them with it for the finish.” I have a lot of gratitude for Chris and tons of memories. Thank you for everything my friend" Champion, real name Christopher Ashford-Smith, was trained by the Malenko family and began working in Florida during the tail end of the Florida territory's existence. The New Breed tag team with Sean Royal had a pretty unique back story, as they were billed as time travelers from the future who had come back to 1986 from 2002, where Dusty Rhodes was President of the United States. The team held the Florida Tag titles while Champion had a run with the Bahamas title. They moved to Jim Crockett Promotions, where they were an underneath team. They were to be programmed against the Rock N' Roll Express but Champion was injured in a car accident. When he returned to television wearing a cast, it was decorated with microchips and other computer paraphernalia. They went into a program with the Midnight Express, but that too was done before it had a chance to go anywhere as Sean Royal opted to retire to focus on his family. After that team ended, Champion teamed with his brother, who was billed as Mark Starr and also had a short run billed as "Karate Kid", playing off of the Ralph Macchio film of the same name. After leaving Crockett, Champion and Starr worked as a team in Continental and Champion worked under a mask as Cowabunga, playing off of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon characters. He worked for the USWA as one of the rotating heels who feuded with Jerry Lawler, before rebooting himself as Yoshi Kwan. The Yoshi Kan character, allegedly a mercenary from the Orient playing up all the caricature stereotypes one might image, was brought into WCW. Managed by Harley Race, he worked the mid-card of WCW, putting over babyfaces on their way to facing Big Van Vader and was a regular on WCW programming. His most notable storyline was against Mick Foley. Foley had been injured and taken out by Vader and when he was, Vader and Race had taken a pouch containing something important to Foley. In Foley's quest to get to Vader, he had to get past Kwan, defeating him at Fall Brawl '93, regaining the pouch in the process. After the WCW run ended, he continued working as Kwan on the independents in the Southern part of the United States. He suffered a massive stroke in 2002 and it took some time, but he eventually recovered and returned to the ring, where he worked as Sinn, wrestling on and even booking smaller promotions. There is no word yet on the cause of Champion's death. One story that has been passed around is that he suffered another stroke, but we have not 100% confirmed that to be correct. |
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Post by TTX on Aug 22, 2018 20:01:27 GMT -5
Rough year for wrestling deaths.
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Post by jimsteel on Aug 22, 2018 20:44:49 GMT -5
R.I.P.
Gim Reaper working Overtime this moth
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