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Post by TTX on Aug 23, 2020 6:07:48 GMT -5
RIP
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Post by jimsteel on Aug 24, 2020 18:20:26 GMT -5
Indie wrestler Butchie Davis passed away at 47
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Post by jimsteel on Aug 27, 2020 22:31:13 GMT -5
ANOTHER LEGEND IS GONE WWE Hall of Famer "Bullet" Bob Armstrong passes away AT 80
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Post by Vegas on Aug 27, 2020 22:32:53 GMT -5
RIP "Bullet" Bob Armstrong.
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Post by joebreakdown on Aug 28, 2020 1:08:56 GMT -5
Bullet Bob if one our favourites and has been a personal highlight of playing Legends. The self styled ‘Chest’ has been a force in Kat Rana ‘s FPW fed. I loved watching Armstrong over the years and I consider him not only one of the greatest baby faces of all time but one of the finest promo men too.
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Post by natureboi on Aug 28, 2020 2:01:57 GMT -5
He was bad to the bone! RIP Bullet Bob.
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Post by The Bill McNeal on Aug 28, 2020 6:22:23 GMT -5
That’s sad to hear about Bob Armstrong. I got to see him make an appearance at a WWE Live Event I attended in Pensacola and he got one of the biggest pops from the crowd that night, with the possible exception of Charles Robinson.
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Post by TTX on Aug 28, 2020 7:08:41 GMT -5
Bob was one you felt would last forever. He was still making occasional appearances to the end. RIP.
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Post by jimsteel on Aug 30, 2020 19:02:58 GMT -5
ANOTHER ONE Ric Drasin has passed away at the age of 76. Ric was a true Renaissance Man, a bodybuilder, personal trainer, actor, author, stuntman and of course professional wrestler. He wrestled for 36 years and wrestled as The Equalizer
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Post by jimsteel on Sept 2, 2020 17:41:19 GMT -5
And another one BIG TOM ANDREWS, BETTER KNOWN UNDER A MASK AS THE CLAW AND AN INTERN, DIES AT 83 He was involved in a few of professional wrestling’s most controversial angles, including the threatening of the Easter Bunny and death of Alberto Torres, but fans wouldn’t have known it, since he was masked. In those two cases, Tom Andersen — who wrestled as Tom Andrews — was masked as The Claw. But in a later run, as half of The Interns, under Dr. Ken Ramey, he was in equally hot water, especially when they knocked out African-American wrestler Bearcat Brown in Birmingham, Ala., and painted him white. Andersen, who died on September 1, 2020, was one of those solid hands that just knew how to perform. If someone who as ornery a person as Bruiser Bob Sweetan can lay down a compliment, as he did to this writer, that means something. Born Tom Andersen in Salt Lake City, Ut. in 1937, he joined the pro ranks after a stint in the Marine Corps, training under Guy Brunetti. He changed his name to Andrews to avoid confusion with another newcomer, Ox Anderson, and, beginning in 1963, forged a solid career in Calgary, Portland, Omaha, Japan, and Tennessee. But The Claw was Andersen’s first chance to work on or near the top of the cards, and it began in Omaha, Neb. Wearing a mask — later, it would have a claw depicted on it, but not initially — The Claw was both a wrestler, but then when he was hurt, a manager. “I had a broken leg in Omaha. I was managing Ox Baker. They wanted to keep the heat on me when I was The Claw, so they brought Ox in and let me manage him while I was healing with this broken leg,” recalled Andrews to this writer in 2006. “I was out at ringside like a manager and — I forget the name of the town we were in, somewhere in Nebraska — we really got the heat going. Ox jumped out of the ring and took off. I had these people swarming me, and of course, I’m on crutches. Kay Noble came out and saved me. I’m not kidding you. She came out. I did have a walker on my cast, and I could walk. Of course, I was swinging punches just like her. Boy, she led me back to the dressing room, just knocking guys on their butt.” While Lonnie Mayne was in Japan for three months, the Oregon territory borrowed Andrews as The Claw from Omaha, and let Beauregarde manage him. Andrews went in as a favor to Mayne, who he knew from Salt Lake City. “We were pretty close. We were like brothers. That’s no lie,” said Andrews. “Some of the things he and I did, oh my god, I’m afraid to tell them. But we were pretty close.”
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