Posted on 12/24/2012 11:31:54 AM PST by EveningStar
During his thirty years as a pro wrestler, Rip Hawk piled up enough championship belts, main event appearances, and road stories to last a lifetime...
Hawk, who died December 22 at 82, after a series of heart-related ailments in recent years, was best known as the tag team partner of Swede Hanson in Jim Crockett Sr.'s Charlotte, N.C.-based promotion in the 1960s and 1970s...
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Pro Wrestler lived to 82? Must be some kind of record.
Road Warrior Hawk lived to 82.
(In dog years.)
He was around pre-steroid era and schedule wasnt as crazy as it is now where wrestlers were popping pain killers and doing cocaine and steroids
How does anyone watch or follow this stuff?
You take it for what it is and treat it as entertainment. Very few fans these days are marks.
He was around pre-steroid era and schedule wasnt as crazy as it is now where wrestlers were popping pain killers and doing cocaine and steroids
RIP.
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