Keyword: prowrestling
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Rolland "Red" Bastien, who died this afternoon, after a lengthy battle with Alzheimer's disease, was one of the best pure talents ever in professional wrestling, one of the best trainers ever -- and one of the most notorious merrymakers as well.
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Criticize U.S. Senate candidate Linda McMahon and you risk getting threatened with a libel lawsuit by the wrestling entertainment company she used to run, WWE Inc. of Stamford, now run by her husband -- threatened even when the criticism of McMahon doesn't mention WWE.
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You know you're a bad guy when a newspaper is running an editorial condemning your actions about a match on TV. Such was the case for Hans Schmidt, who died Saturday.
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Chief Jay Strongbow, the WWWF star who died today, was always a pretty matter of fact guy, someone who saw his role as a star wrestler as a job and never expressed a great love of the business.
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Killer Karl Kox, who died today, was a funny son-of-a-gun, but fans would never have known that given his wild, violent personality in the ring. When called upon his 80th birthday in May, he shrugged off the best wishes.
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When I heard that "Handsome" Johnny Barend had died yesterday, at the age of 82, my thoughts immediately went to his widow, Annie. Over the past few years, I had gotten to know both, and had breakfast with them both back in May.
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At the induction ceremony for the Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame in June 2010, Sir Oliver Humperdink was called upon to introduce Mark Lewin. Though he was talking about his time with Lewin, his line, "I've had a great string of luck, managing some great guys in this business," rings more true today with his passing overnight at age 62.
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Curtis Iaukea, a Hawaii sports legend as a high school athlete and later a pro wrestler, died yesterday after a long illness.
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The great, revolutionary Edouard Carpentier died Saturday night in a Montreal hospital. He was 84.
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Jorge Gonzalez, who was known as Giant Gonzalez and El Gigante as a pro wrestler and was a one-time draftee of the Atlanta Hawks, died this week at the age of 44, according to reports.
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Mike Shaw, who was known in the wrestling world under various names, including Makhan Singh, Norman the Lunatic and Bastion Booger, and Klondike Mike, died of a heart attack on Saturday. He was 53.
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"Tough" Tony Borne, who died this morning at his home at the age of 84, is a classic example of a small man in a big man's business, a 5-foot-9 yappy fireplug; he's also a perfect example of how, over time, even the meanest of the mean can become a local hero, in his case that was Oregon.
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Luna Vachon has died. She was 47. According to family, she was at her mother's house and was found dead this morning.
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Long-time wrestling manager Skandor Akbar (Jim Wehba) has reportedly died at age 75. The cause of death is unknown at this time.
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Grizzly Smith, the father of former WWE star Jake "the Snake" Roberts, reportedly died today at the age of 78. Smith died following complications from Alzheimer's Disease...
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...Ultimately “SmackDown” marks the devolving of the network for a sweet, sweet slice of that 18-to-34 male demographic that sponsors love so much. That means money... After all, the problem isn’t simply Syfy’s addition of wrestling to its lineup. The network inexplicably welcomed wrestling years ago with “Extreme Championship Wrestling” and more recently with “WWE NXT,” but bringing the bigger budget “Friday Night SmackDown” to the schedule marks a shift in priorities...
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Gene Kiniski was so media savvy that he instructed this writer on what to write when the inevitable came, as it did on Wednesday, when cancer claimed the former NWA and AWA World champion. "This is what you say," he proclaimed. "When you spent a buck to see Kiniski, you got a ten dollar value."
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(English-language translation) SAN JUAN - Puerto Rican wrestler José Laureano, known as "Chicky Starr", has made public his quest for a seat in the [Puerto Rico] House of Representatives. Although he has not yet decided under what political party he will run, Laureano is clear that he wants to become the first wrestler to win a position in Puerto Rican politics. The wrestler, who has a group of followers known as the "chickystarrian religion", recently launched his "political campaign" through the Facebook and Twitter social networks as well as several radio programs he participates in. For the time being, the...
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Chris Klucsaritis, who wrestled as Chris Kanyon, passed away last night from an overdose of pills at his apartment in the Sunnyside section of Queens, NY, last night. He was 40.
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Mike "Baron Mikel" Scicluna passed away yesterday from liver cancer. He was 80. He had been suffering from cancer for several months. He had a lengthy career in wrestling all over the world, and was a headliner during the 60s, with many title shots at Bruno Sammartino including in Madison Square Garden and Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto.
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