Tragos/Thesz HOF (announcements and set 5 speculation)

[guiltyparty]

Very excited to have Albright in the game.

[TTX]

I have known about it since TNT last year but so glad to see his awesome artwork.

[tystates]

Awesome to be getting Gary Albright! I did a card of him a long time ago. Here's a dvd set I have of his career.

BEST OF GARY ALBRIGHT

Disc 1
Stampede Interview (4/29/88) Vokhan Singh vs. Steve Blackman (Stampede 6/10/88) Vokhan Singh vs. Gilles Des Fosses (Stampede 6/24/88) Vokhan Singh vs. Steve DiSalvo (Stampede 8/88) Vokhan Singh vs. Steve DiSalvo (Stampede 9/23/88) Vokhan Singh vs. Steve Blackman (Stampede 10/21/88) Vokhan Singh vs. Brad Anderson (Stampede 11/11/88) Vokhan Singh vs. Craig Jamieson (Stampede 11/25/88) Vokhan Singh vs. Don Muraco (Stampede 12/2/88) Vokhan Singh vs. Chris Benoit (Stampede 12/16/88) Interview w/ Karachi Vice (Stampede 12/23/88) Vokhan Singh & Makhan Singh vs. British Bulldogs (Stampede 2/10/89) Vokhan Singh vs. Ron Ritchie (Stampede 3/13/89) Vokhan Singh & Steve Blackman vs. Power Twins (Stampede 4/10/89) Vokhan Singh & Makhan Singh vs. Chris Benoit & Biff Wellington (Stampede 4/17/89)

Disc 2
Vokhan Singh & Makhan Singh vs. Chris Benoit & Biff Wellington (Stampede 4/24/89) Vokhan Singh & Makhan Singh vs. Cuban Commandoes (Stampede 5/1/89) Vokhan Singh & Makhan Singh vs. Cuban Commandoes (Stampede 5/8/89) Vokhan Singh & Makhan Singh vs. British Bulldogs (Stampede 8/7/89) Gary Albright, the Master of Pain, Black Bart & the Dirty White Boy vs. Danny McShane, Ken Raper, William Thompson & Chris Frazier (CWA 8/5/89) Gary Albright & Doug Gilbert vs. Dustin Rhodes & Flyboy Frazier (CWA 8/12/89) Gary Albright & Doug Gilbert vs. Texas Dirt & Rodney Napper (CWA 8/26/89) Gary Albright vs. Yuko Miyato (UWFI 9/26/91) Gary Albright vs. Tetsuo Nakano (UWFI 11/7/91) Gary Albright vs. Kiyoshi Tamura (UWFI 12/22/91) Gary Albright & Jim Boss vs. Kazuo Yamazaki & Yoji Anjoh (UWFI 1/9/92)

Disc 3
Gary Albright & Tom Burton vs. Nobuhiko Takada & Kazuo Yamazaki (UWFI 2/15/92) Gary Albright vs. Masahito Kakihara (UWFI 2/29/92) Gary Albright vs. Kazuo Yamazaki (UWFI 3/17/92) Gary Albright vs. Nobuhiko Takada (UWFI 5/8/92) Gary Albright vs. Tom Burton (UWFI 6/28/92) Gary Albright & Mark Silver vs. Kazuo Yamazaki & Kiyoshi Tamura (UWFI 7/12/92) Gary Albright vs. Bad News Allen (UWFI 8/14/92)

Disc 4
Gary Albright vs. Bad News Allen (UWFI 8/28/92) Gary Albright vs. Nobuhiko Takada (UWFI 9/21/92) Gary Albright & Mark Flemming vs. Nobuhiko Takada & Kazuo Yamazaki (UWFI 11/25/92) Gary Albright vs. Masahito Kakihara (UWFI 12/20/92) Gary Albright vs. Naoki Sano (UWFI 2/14/93) Gary Albright vs. Dennis Koslowski (UWFI 4/10/93)

Disc 5
Gary Albright vs. Dennis Koslowski (UWFI 5/6/93) Gary Albright vs. Mark Silver (UWFI 7/18/93) Gary Albright & Dan Severn vs. Nobuhiko Takada & Kiyoshi Tamura (UWFI 8/13/93) Gary Albright & Dan Severn vs. Salman Hashimikov & Vladimir Berkovich (UWFI 10/4/93) Gary Albright & Dan Severn vs. Salman Hashimikov & Vladimir Berkovich (UWFI 12/5/93) Gary Albright & Dan Severn vs. Nobuhiko Takada & Naoki Sano (UWFI 2/25/94)

Disc 6
Gary Albright vs. Billy Scott (UWFI 4/3/94) Gary Albright vs. Yoji Anjoh (UWFI 5/6/94) Gary Albright vs. Nobuhiko Takada (UWFI 6/10/94) Gary Albright vs. Kiyoshi Tamura (UWFI 8/18/94) Gary Albright & Kazuo Yamazaki vs. Vader & John Tenta (UWFI 10/8/94) Gary Albright & Kazuo Yamazaki vs. Vader & John Tenta (UWFI 10/14/94)

Disc 7
Gary Albright vs. Nobuhiko Takada (UWFI 11/30/94) Gary Albright vs. Vader (UWFI 1/16/95) Gary Albright, Kazuo Yamazaki & Gene Lydick vs. Nobuhiko Takada, Masahito Kakihara & Billy Scott (Weekly Pro - Tokyo Dome 4/2/95) Gary Albright vs. Billy Scott (UWFI 4/20/95) Gary Albright vs. Masahito Kakihara (UWFI 5/17/95) Gary Albright vs. Kiyoshi Tamura (UWFI 6/18/95) Gary Albright vs. Kiyoshi Tamura (UWFI 8/18/95)

Disc 8
Gary Albright vs. Toshiaki Kawada (All Japan 10/25/95) Gary Albright vs. Tamon Honda (All Japan 12/17/95) Gary Albright & Stan Hansen vs. Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue (All Japan 1/24/96) Gary Albright vs. Mitsuharu Misawa (All Japan 3/2/96) Gary Albright, Toshiaki Kawada & Johnny Ace vs. Mitsuharu Misawa, Kenta Kobashi & Jun Akiyama (All Japan 4/28/96)

Disc 9
Real World Tag League 1996 Highlights Gary Albright & Yoshihiro Takayama vs. Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue (All Japan 3/1/97) Gary Albright, Steve Williams & Lacrosse vs. Kenta Kobashi, Johnny Ace & the Patriot (All Japan 6/6/97) Gary Albright & Steve Williams vs. Kenta Kobashi & Johnny Ace (All Japan 7/25/97) Gary Albright & Steve Williams vs. Mitsuharu Misawa & Jun Akiyama (All Japan 8/26/97) Real World Tag League 1997 Highlights Gary Albright & Steve Williams vs. Toshiaki Kawada & Akira Taue (All Japan 2/28/98)

Disc 10
Gary Albright & Steve Williams vs. Yoshihiro Takayama & Masahito Kakihara (All Japan 5/1/98) Gary Albright & Yoshihiro Takayama vs. Akira Taue & Toshiaki Kawada (All Japan 7/15/98) Champion Carnival 99 Highlights Gary Albright, Takao Omori &Yoshihiro Takayama vs. Stan Hansen, Akira Taue & Steve Williams (All Japan 5/2/99) Gary Albright & Vader vs. Kenta Kobashi & Jun Akiyama (All Japan 7/23/99) Real World Tag League 1999 Highlights BONUS - Gary Albright vs. Yoji Anjoh (UWFI 8/24/91) BONUS - Gary Albright & Mark Flemming vs. Yuko Miyato & Masahito Kakihara (UWFI 10/23/92) BONUS - Gary Albright, Stan Hansen & Bobby Duncum Jr. vs. Mitsuharu Misawa & Kenta Kobashi & Jun Akiyama (All Japan 1/21/96)

[victoryroll84]

The card artwork looks great!

[pikemojo]

Awesome addition to the game!

[Kamala]

Nice to get Gary in game

[guiltyparty]

Having spent most of his career walking the King's Road, Albright doesn't have as many connections to other LOW roster members as some of his contemporaries, a fact that is no doubt also reflective of how tragically short his career was.
Starting in Stampede he shared the ring with the Cuban Assassin during a number of battle royals, feuded with the British Bulldogs (along side his partner Mike Shaw in the Karachi Vice tag team) and even had a television loss to Don Muraco.
A couple of months in Memphis saw him work with Doug Gilbert and Dirty White Boy.
A four day loop in WCW saw him on the losing end of matches with Mike Rotunda and the Rock and Roll Express. I'm not sure if this was a try out or just getting some work as an enhancement guy or what.
Finding his footing in Japan, Albright worked with: Abdullah the Butcher, Bad News Allen, Barry Windham, Big Van Vader, Dan Severn, Giant Baba, Quebeceer Pierre, RVD, and Sabu (with whom he partnered in the 1996 World Tag League; Albright always seemed to get partnered with a random American during the League, one year he was partnered with the Wish dot com Kamala that is Giant Kimala).) The three names from Legends that he logged the most ring time with are Stan Hansen, The Patriot, and Dr. Death Steve Williams with whom he won the AJPW tag titles as two thirds of the Triangle of Power stable.

[markyhitch]

May 5, 2024 14:45:05 GMT -5 throwingtoasters said:

First name - Gary Albright

Never heard of him. Looks like a cross between Tugboat and Dr. Death!

[CanadianPitbull]

Sweet! Great to hear Gary Albright is in!

[the_faction]

I know we just got Gary Albright announced which is awesome, but w/ the recent heating up of the Tongan dynasty within the Bloodline next week would be a great time to announce the true King of the Bloodline, King Haku of course.