Everyone's got an Ox Baker story
Video: Ox Baker starts riot in 1974
Video: Ox Baker on "The Price is Right" with Bob Barker (1981)
Posted on 10/20/2014 10:01:18 AM PDT by EveningStar
Wrestling legend Ox Baker has passed away due to complications stemming from a heart attack, according to multiple reports.
The 6-foot-5, 340-pounder was 80 years old...
Aside from the wrestling, Baker is remembered in the mainstream for his significant role in the cult classic Escape from New York, directed by John Carpenter and [starring] Kurt Russell, and he's in the documentary I Like To Hurt People...
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Everyone's got an Ox Baker story
Video: Ox Baker starts riot in 1974
Video: Ox Baker on "The Price is Right" with Bob Barker (1981)
I clicked to see how old he was. 80 is a really long life for a wrestler. RIP.
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The PIR video is a hoot. LOL
I just came across that riot footage this past year on YouTube. Ox knew how to bring the old school heat.
Gotta love the eyebrows.
Ironically, Ox Baker was known for doing the “heart punch”, a theatric move where you position the victim with his arm up, then deliver a punch to the ribcage. The victim would flop around the ring for awhile, simulating a “stopped heart”.
Sure had the right "look" for pro-wrassin'.
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Ox “the Heart Punch” Baker?
He lived in North Carolina and was reportedly known as an immense icehole. That’s good for a heel.
He inspired UFC ref Mike Beltran:
He sure made Kurt Russell look like a shrimp in that fight scene.
RIP.
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