WWE Thread

[bueno bob]

Originally posted by Vinnie Velvet
On their website, they have a video segment called: Shawn Micheals - Friend or Foe? And it goes through the many times where Shawn has backstabbed his so-called friends by nailing them with Sweet Chin Music -- starting with the birth of the Heartbreak Kid when he sent Jannety into the glass during the Barber shop segment in 1992.

God, that was a nasty bit of business...I used to watch with my Mom back in the day, and she loved The Rockers - she saw that happen and I swear, she wanted to cry...lol...

Jennetty never fully recovered from that, did he?

[SA ME WHO]

Originally posted by bueno bob
God, that was a nasty bit of business...I used to watch with my Mom back in the day, and she loved The Rockers - she saw that happen and I swear, she wanted to cry...lol...

Jennetty never fully recovered from that, did he?

Yeah, he's had a bit of trouble since then.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marty_janetty

[SA ME WHO]

Originally posted by bueno bob
God, that was a nasty bit of business...I used to watch with my Mom back in the day, and she loved The Rockers - she saw that happen and I swear, she wanted to cry...lol...

Jennetty never fully recovered from that, did he?

Yeah, he's had a bit of trouble since then.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marty_janetty

[Vinnie Velvet]

Originally posted by bueno bob
God, that was a nasty bit of business...I used to watch with my Mom back in the day, and she loved The Rockers - she saw that happen and I swear, she wanted to cry...lol...

Jennetty never fully recovered from that, did he?

No, he hasn't.

And look what happened to Shawn in comparison.

I remember watching that one too, way back then. It was shocking. The Rockers were one of my fave tag teams, then of course HBK became my fave wrestler.

[Mr Badguy]

Wow, Nick Bockwinkle for the Hall of fame.

That`s a surprise choice.

I thought Bob Backlund, Randy Savage, Ted Dibiase or Jim Duggan would be in before him.

[Full Bug]

Bad News Allen dies suddenly


Former Olympic judo bronze medalist Allen Coage -- better known to wrestling fans as Bad News Allen and Bad News Brown -- has died suddenly. He was 63.

Coage died early Tuesday morning in Calgary at Foothills Hospital, having been rushed to the hospital, complaining of chest pains.

Three weeks ago, Coage underwent hip replacement surgery and had been making progress on his recovery. Monday night, he was home and complained of chest pains. He got to the hospital, where he died about 5:30 a.m. MT Tuesday morning.

The Brooklyn-born Coage represented the United States at the 1976 Montreal Olympics. He broke into professional wrestling through the New Japan Pro Wrestling organization, training in Japan and spending the first few years after there, where he wrestled as Buffalo Coage.

In the Calgary Stampede promotion, he was a star as Bad News Allen, having bloody feuds with the likes of The Dynamite Kid, Archie 'The Stomper' Gouldie, Bret Hart and others.



"Bad News Allen was one of those four or five wrestlers who I considered to be the hardest men in wrestling," Tom 'Dynamite Kid' Billington wrote in his autobiography. "He was definitely bad news. Don't get me wrong, he was a good friend, but once he got you in the ring, it was as if he didn't know you. I've had a lot of hard matches in my career, most of them in Japan, because that's how they like their wrestling, but the matches I had with Bad News were something else."

In the WWF of the late 1980s, he was known as Bad News Brown, and feuded with Bret Hart, Jake Roberts, Hulk Hogan and Roddy Piper.

Coage often complained about his WWF run, which followed the closure of Stu Hart's Stampede Wrestling promotion. "I made a lot of money up here with Stu. He enjoyed me because I put asses in the seats," Coage recalled in July 2006, leading into a typical straightforward explanation on his WWF days. "They handcuffed me. They pretty much didn't let me do what I should have done.

"They really held me down ... you've got your head guys, and Randy [Savage] called all the shots, so he was the one. I figured the object is to make money, and if this guy can make some money for you, you let him go, let him do his thing. I guess there was a lot of jealousy there, or whatever. I don't know his reason or whatever, but he was the one because he called all the shots."

Jake Roberts recalled Bad News. "He was good, very good," said The Snake. Was Coage hard to work with "No, he was fucking easy." Even the judo stuff? "I had no problem at all working with him. We had a great time."

With his mean-looking face and a constant scowl, Coage delivered many memorable interviews. He is best known for slagging all the "beer-bellied sharecroppers" that watched Stampede, and his verbal duels with announcer Ed Whalen.

When Stampede Wrestling re-started on TV in 1999, Coage was tapped to be a colour commentator, alongside Mauro Ranallo.

He had been working the last number of years as a security guard at a mall; "Teenagers are a pain in the ass. You always have to run them off," Coage said. Apparently they didn't know who they were messing with. "It don’t matter to them, they're tough."

Coage is survived by his wife Helen and their children.

[Matt White]

Tanx BUG.....

RIP Bad News.....

[Dan]

Quotes: "It's gonna be good news for me, and baaaad news for 19 other turkeys, cause I'm gonna prevail just like on the streets of Harlem."
"I don't need any friends, and I don't want any friends!"

He also referred to fans as "beer-bellied sharecroppers" and opponents as "spineless cockroaches".

RIP Bad News Brown.

[Roth & Roll]

I just heard the news myself...real bummer. A true legend of the squared circle - anyone who saw his work in Stampede Wrestling knows what I'm talking about. His feuds with Bret Hart and the Dynamite Kid in back in Stampede really helped put them both on the map.

"There is no good news....only BAD NEWS!"

R.I.P.

[bueno bob]

Damnit. He was always one of the best heels. Hell of a good mover too, considering his size. Definitely one of the greats.

[Full Bug]

Considering he didnt get along with Vince, I wonder if that means he will never get in the Hall Of Fame....

[Roth & Roll]

Originally posted by Full Bug
Considering he didnt get along with Vince, I wonder if that means he will never get in the Hall Of Fame....

The fact that Randy Savage isn't in pretty much answers your own question..

[Vinnie Velvet]

RIP Bad News.

[Full Bug]

Did you guys hear that former ECW champ Mike Awesome died a few weeks ago as well? He killed himself....

Mike Awesome found dead


Former ECW World Champion Mike Awesome (real name Michael Alfonso), was found dead in his home on Saturday evening. He was 42 years old.

According to Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer, Awesome was found hanging in his home, found by friends, and suicide is suspected.

Awesome has been out of the wrestling spotlight since the acquisition of WCW by the WWE (then WWF). He worked a short program after the merger, but never attained the heights he had as a headliner in ECW and in All Japan.

On a major scale, Awesome was last seen beating Masato Tanaka at ECW's One Night Stand in 2005. Awesome pinned Tanaka on the floor of the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City after an Awesome Bomb through a table. The match had the fans chanting "This match rules."

On his website, StormWrestling.com, Lance Storm said that Tanaka-Awesome "stole the show" at the initial One Night stand. "I talked to Mike a lot that night and was very happy for him. He seemed really happy and content with his life. He talked about how he enjoyed pushing his daughter on the swing in their back yard," wrote Storm. "He would combine doing that with doing Hindu squats by doing a squat between each push. I also remember discovering that he had been happily married longer than I had, which is a rarity in this business."


Best known to fans for his time in ECW, where he feuded in a wild series of matches with Masato Tanaka over the ECW World title as the company debuted on TNN, Awesome jumped ship to WCW while still champion in April 2000. ECW honcho Paul Heyman threatened legal action for the departure, and an agreement was made that Awesome would return to drop the title to a wrestler of ECW's choosing.

That turned out to be former champion, and WWE employee, Tazz.

"We made history that night," Tazz told SLAM! Wrestling's Bob Kapur in August 2001. "Here you have a WWF wrestler wrestling a signed WCW wrestler on an ECW event for the ECW title. That's history, and I'm a part of that. And I'm happy I did it."

Tazz insisted that there wasn't any bad blood between him and Awesome. "I have no problem with Mike Awesome. I had a problem with the way he did business. And Mike knew I felt that way, a lot of guys felt that way about Mike. I think if Mike had to do it all over again, he'd do it different. People make mistakes in life, make wrong moves, and it's fine. But I personally never had heat with Mike. If the fans want to think that, that's fine, that's good for business. But there was never heat."

Awesome grew up in Tampa Bay, and attended King High School, where he would meet his future wife, Delisa Bowers. They married in 1991, and have two children, Casey and Carissa. After high school, he worked as an iron worker on numerous downtown Tampa highrises.

After 3 years in college, he began training as a pro wrestler under Steve Keirn. The 6-foot-6, 292-pound Awesome debuted in 1989.

"I watched professional wrestling as a teenager," Awesome said in Thom Loverro's book, The Rise and Fall of ECW. "I was always interested in it. My Dad's sister married Hulk Hogan's brother, and they produced a son who was about a year younger than me, my cousin Horace Hogan, who also wrestled and whose real name is Michael Bollea. He and I grew up together. Because his uncle, Hulk Hogan, became a popular wrestler while we were in high school, my cousin got interested in it. We talked about it, and it got me interested in it."



Coldwell Banker real estate salesman Michael Alfonso
On the Coldwell Banker real estate site, where Awesome sold real estate under his real name, he addressed his wrestling career in his biography: "I wrestled the majority of my 17 years in Japan, as 'The Gladiator'. I became emerced in the Japanese culture and even speak some of the language. I also wrestled in China, South Korea, Guam, Australia, Germany, England, Bahamas, Puerto Rico, Canada and the United States. I feel blessed to have had such an exciting and successful career in wrestling. I did not employ the services of a business manager during my career. I handled and negotiated all contracts myself."

After years of establishing himself and developing a cult following in Japan's FMW promotion, Mike Awesome made a big impact on the American wrestling scene on September 19, 1999. Competing in the main event of ECW's Anarchy Rulz PPV from Chicago, Mike Awesome captured the ECW Heavyweight title, outlasting Taz and Masato Tanaka in a three way dance.

For Awesome, the victory was a vindication of sorts. He's long been ingnored by promoters in the U.S. In need of a new champion with credibility to replace the departing Taz, Heyman handpicked Awesome for the role of ECW World Champion.

Heyman, an astute follower of international wrestling, had been following Awesome's career in the Far East, first brought Awesome to ECW on February 5, 1994 when he wrestled J.T. Smith. Although Awesome had other matches with Sabu that year, the match with Smith will long be remembered for Awesome over the top rope dive onto Smith, nearly snapping his back into two over the guardrail. It was one of the most memorable high spots of the year.

Awesome competed primarily in Japan's FMW promotion under the name G The Gladiator. His longstanding feud with Masato Tanaka translated well for American audiences. The two had many bitter brawls, taking the level of Japanese garbage wrestling to new heights.

The ECW World title win was actually Awesome's second world title reign. On December 11, 1996, Awesome defeated Wing Kanemura for the FMW Indepependent World title, holding it nine months before dropping it to arch rival Masato Tanaka.

While ECW World champ, Awesome held the tag straps with Raven, from March 4, 2000 until March 12, 2000 at Living Dangerously. The tandem beat Tommy Dreamer and Tanaka and lost the belts to The Impact Players (Lance Storm and Justin Credible) in a three-way dance that also included Dreamer and Tanaka. Awesome retained the World title that night over Kid Kash.

Once he settled in with WCW for second stint (he was a masked jobber named The Pro and hailed from San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1989), he was part of The New Blood gang with Billy Kidman, Sean O'Haire, Chuck Palumbo and Shane Douglas. He also became "That '70s Guy" for a spell in a gimmick that included him driving an old-school bus and hosting a cheesy segment called "The Lavalamp Lounge." Other gimmicks in WCW had Awesome being billed as "The Career Killer" (after throwing Chris Kanyon off the top of a three-tiered cage) and "The Fat Chick Thriller" along with being part of the Team Canada contingent, even though he was from Florida.

On the final episode of Nitro in March 2001, WCW tag champs Palumbo and O'Haire topped Awesome and Storm.

In WWE (then still the WWF), Awesome won the Hardcore title in June 2001 from Rhyno after sneaking into the building and later was part of the WCW/ECW-WWF invasion storyline. At the Invasion pay-per-view, Edge and Christian beat Awesome and Storm.

In the spring of 2003, Awesome latched on with TNA and in his debut defeated Perry Saturn by disqualification when New Jack and The Sandman interfered. His stint in TNA, until One Night Stand, would be Awesome's swan song as he retired from professional wrestling, and took a year to earn his real estate license. He had been a sales associate for Coldwell Banker in the Tampa area.

[Vinnie Velvet]

Originally posted by Full Bug
Did you guys hear that former ECW champ Mike Awesome died a few weeks ago as well? He killed himself....

Mike Awesome found dead


Former ECW World Champion Mike Awesome (real name Michael Alfonso), was found dead in his home on Saturday evening. He was 42 years old.

According to Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer, Awesome was found hanging in his home, found by friends, and suicide is suspected.

Awesome has been out of the wrestling spotlight since the acquisition of WCW by the WWE (then WWF). He worked a short program after the merger, but never attained the heights he had as a headliner in ECW and in All Japan.

On a major scale, Awesome was last seen beating Masato Tanaka at ECW's One Night Stand in 2005. Awesome pinned Tanaka on the floor of the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City after an Awesome Bomb through a table. The match had the fans chanting "This match rules."

On his website, StormWrestling.com, Lance Storm said that Tanaka-Awesome "stole the show" at the initial One Night stand. "I talked to Mike a lot that night and was very happy for him. He seemed really happy and content with his life. He talked about how he enjoyed pushing his daughter on the swing in their back yard," wrote Storm. "He would combine doing that with doing Hindu squats by doing a squat between each push. I also remember discovering that he had been happily married longer than I had, which is a rarity in this business."


Best known to fans for his time in ECW, where he feuded in a wild series of matches with Masato Tanaka over the ECW World title as the company debuted on TNN, Awesome jumped ship to WCW while still champion in April 2000. ECW honcho Paul Heyman threatened legal action for the departure, and an agreement was made that Awesome would return to drop the title to a wrestler of ECW's choosing.

That turned out to be former champion, and WWE employee, Tazz.

"We made history that night," Tazz told SLAM! Wrestling's Bob Kapur in August 2001. "Here you have a WWF wrestler wrestling a signed WCW wrestler on an ECW event for the ECW title. That's history, and I'm a part of that. And I'm happy I did it."

Tazz insisted that there wasn't any bad blood between him and Awesome. "I have no problem with Mike Awesome. I had a problem with the way he did business. And Mike knew I felt that way, a lot of guys felt that way about Mike. I think if Mike had to do it all over again, he'd do it different. People make mistakes in life, make wrong moves, and it's fine. But I personally never had heat with Mike. If the fans want to think that, that's fine, that's good for business. But there was never heat."

Awesome grew up in Tampa Bay, and attended King High School, where he would meet his future wife, Delisa Bowers. They married in 1991, and have two children, Casey and Carissa. After high school, he worked as an iron worker on numerous downtown Tampa highrises.

After 3 years in college, he began training as a pro wrestler under Steve Keirn. The 6-foot-6, 292-pound Awesome debuted in 1989.

"I watched professional wrestling as a teenager," Awesome said in Thom Loverro's book, The Rise and Fall of ECW. "I was always interested in it. My Dad's sister married Hulk Hogan's brother, and they produced a son who was about a year younger than me, my cousin Horace Hogan, who also wrestled and whose real name is Michael Bollea. He and I grew up together. Because his uncle, Hulk Hogan, became a popular wrestler while we were in high school, my cousin got interested in it. We talked about it, and it got me interested in it."



Coldwell Banker real estate salesman Michael Alfonso
On the Coldwell Banker real estate site, where Awesome sold real estate under his real name, he addressed his wrestling career in his biography: "I wrestled the majority of my 17 years in Japan, as 'The Gladiator'. I became emerced in the Japanese culture and even speak some of the language. I also wrestled in China, South Korea, Guam, Australia, Germany, England, Bahamas, Puerto Rico, Canada and the United States. I feel blessed to have had such an exciting and successful career in wrestling. I did not employ the services of a business manager during my career. I handled and negotiated all contracts myself."

After years of establishing himself and developing a cult following in Japan's FMW promotion, Mike Awesome made a big impact on the American wrestling scene on September 19, 1999. Competing in the main event of ECW's Anarchy Rulz PPV from Chicago, Mike Awesome captured the ECW Heavyweight title, outlasting Taz and Masato Tanaka in a three way dance.

For Awesome, the victory was a vindication of sorts. He's long been ingnored by promoters in the U.S. In need of a new champion with credibility to replace the departing Taz, Heyman handpicked Awesome for the role of ECW World Champion.

Heyman, an astute follower of international wrestling, had been following Awesome's career in the Far East, first brought Awesome to ECW on February 5, 1994 when he wrestled J.T. Smith. Although Awesome had other matches with Sabu that year, the match with Smith will long be remembered for Awesome over the top rope dive onto Smith, nearly snapping his back into two over the guardrail. It was one of the most memorable high spots of the year.

Awesome competed primarily in Japan's FMW promotion under the name G The Gladiator. His longstanding feud with Masato Tanaka translated well for American audiences. The two had many bitter brawls, taking the level of Japanese garbage wrestling to new heights.

The ECW World title win was actually Awesome's second world title reign. On December 11, 1996, Awesome defeated Wing Kanemura for the FMW Indepependent World title, holding it nine months before dropping it to arch rival Masato Tanaka.

While ECW World champ, Awesome held the tag straps with Raven, from March 4, 2000 until March 12, 2000 at Living Dangerously. The tandem beat Tommy Dreamer and Tanaka and lost the belts to The Impact Players (Lance Storm and Justin Credible) in a three-way dance that also included Dreamer and Tanaka. Awesome retained the World title that night over Kid Kash.

Once he settled in with WCW for second stint (he was a masked jobber named The Pro and hailed from San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1989), he was part of The New Blood gang with Billy Kidman, Sean O'Haire, Chuck Palumbo and Shane Douglas. He also became "That '70s Guy" for a spell in a gimmick that included him driving an old-school bus and hosting a cheesy segment called "The Lavalamp Lounge." Other gimmicks in WCW had Awesome being billed as "The Career Killer" (after throwing Chris Kanyon off the top of a three-tiered cage) and "The Fat Chick Thriller" along with being part of the Team Canada contingent, even though he was from Florida.

On the final episode of Nitro in March 2001, WCW tag champs Palumbo and O'Haire topped Awesome and Storm.

In WWE (then still the WWF), Awesome won the Hardcore title in June 2001 from Rhyno after sneaking into the building and later was part of the WCW/ECW-WWF invasion storyline. At the Invasion pay-per-view, Edge and Christian beat Awesome and Storm.

In the spring of 2003, Awesome latched on with TNA and in his debut defeated Perry Saturn by disqualification when New Jack and The Sandman interfered. His stint in TNA, until One Night Stand, would be Awesome's swan song as he retired from professional wrestling, and took a year to earn his real estate license. He had been a sales associate for Coldwell Banker in the Tampa area.

Yeah.

Sad, very sad.

He must've been going through some serious shit -- no reason to end it all, but then we don't know why people commit suicide.