Posted on 08/17/2004 3:51:30 PM PDT by CounterCounterCulture
After disclosing that he had cancer of the bladder in May, ending his in-ring career, Tenta endured chemotherapy for months. But Monday, he told his fans on the WrestleCrap.com newsboard that things had taken a turn for the worse...
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"Well 'Crappers i know you've been waiting for an update so here it is. The silence was due to the fact I was moving into our new residence a couple weeks ago. Well, I don't know how to say this other than I've NEVER been kicked in the balls as hard as I was last Wednesday. Thinking I was licking this thing I met with my chemo doctor ready to 'Quake the cancer. Well..... I now have a new tumor in my left lung, and two lymph nodes are enlarged in my heart. I go in for chemo tomorrow for a 4-day session.(The beginning of many) I've been given 13-18 months to live. I'm not giving up, and hope to of course live longer, but that is what I've been told, and that it is incurable. I don't really know what else to say, it really caught me off guard. I'll try keep you posted, but no guarantees folks.
Thank you for all your kind support, and may God bless you all.
'Quake
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I knew he was sick but I was hoping it hadn't spread.
Sad to hear. I remember some of his WWF matches from the late 80's - when he crushed Damien (Jake's snake), and his feud with Hogan before forming the Natural Disasters with Typhoon (formerly Tugboat).
Hopefully, his is that case. My grandmother is fighting lung cancer and wasn't supposed to see her 79th birthday. She turns 80 next month.
My prayers are with you, John.
Hart set up a Dino Bravo/Ultimate Warrior push-up contest and they picked the biggest guy out of the audience they could find to sit on their backs during the push ups...which was of course ended up picking John Tenta, posing as Joe Everyday Fan, but ended up being a plant of Jimmy Hart's and he squashed the Ultimate Warrior.
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Tenta never found his assigned characters beneath him, he ran with the ideas. "Earthquake" had a cool signature behavior where he'd jump up and down on the mat with seemingly great force while circling a downed opponent, "Boom Boom Boom", as if his ritual would summon a real earthquake. Not only did this get over huge with the crowd, it signaled the finishing maneuvers while giving his opponents the "breather" some required to accomplish them. When he did that John displayed his flair for theatrics, intelligent planning and concern for his opponents welfare all at once. Good luck, big guy.
It sounds to me as though Mr. Earthquake has the right attitude, and we can all pray for quality time to come.
Man, that is sad to hear.
I remember seeing him wrestle Hulk Hogan live in Baton Rouge many many years ago.
This is sad news.
Good news/Bad news. Good news is the tumor has shrunk at least half, bad news the lymph nodes are the same but only have to shrink 2mm to be normal size again. I go back in tomorrow for the third round of chemo.They are thinking of 4 more chemo treatments so that's three more months. Lots of time to try get my book written.
All the best.
'Quake
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