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| Favorite unknown wrestler.
Posted: 6/28/2006 12:17:45 AM | | There are tons of talented indy wrestlers....There needs to be some more flavour on t.v | |
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Janyce
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| Favorite unknown wrestler.
Posted: 6/28/2006 7:08:13 AM | | The Beast, Emile Dupree, Cubin Assassin, Bobby and Rudy Kay.... Been a wrestling fan all my life..as were my parents...my brother named his son after Owen Hart. | |
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| Favorite unknown wrestler.
Posted: 6/28/2006 12:12:12 PM | | Are yo utalking the Cuban Assassin from the old Stampede Wrastlin' days? What about "champagne" Jerry Morrow or Gama Singh. I used to love the Karachi Vice. | |
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Posted: 7/1/2006 7:10:16 PM | Among my favorites:
Colt Cabana
Claudio Castagnoli
"American Dragon" Bryan Danielson
Samoa Joe
Alex Shelley
Delirious
Roderick Strong
Jack Evans
Necro Butcher
CM Punk (though he's going to ECW soon)
Blue Panther
Love Machine Art Barr
Kenta Kobashi
Great Sasuke
Jushin Liger
Homicide
Among many others... | |
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Posted: 7/3/2006 7:00:49 PM | | I remember the Days of Atlantic Grand Pre Wrestling , when Leaping Lanny , Macho Man Randy Savage.Big Stepehn Pettipas, The super Destroyer. The Cuban assian and his twin brother but he died I believe. Sweet Daddy Seke , the great malumba , Killer Karl Krupp. There were so many, my dad used to party with them at Comoes . Didnt get to see very much Stampede but enjoyed when I did. | |
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| Favorite unknown wrestler.
Posted: 9/7/2006 11:47:36 PM | Though in WWE and WCW, I would say Paul Roma an unknown. Mr. X was a good one too.
Some guys that I find a lot of fun to watch are:
Dan Paysan
Frankie the Mobster
Ruckus
Sabian
M Dogg 20
Delirious
Extremo
Colby 4.5
Mike (Unreal) Elgin
Kobra Kai
Cody Steele
Otis Idol
Tiana Ringer
Vanessa Savage
And a ton of others that I'm probably forgetting | |
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Posted: 9/9/2006 8:43:32 AM | I remember Paul Roma teaming with Jim Powers. I think they were the Young Stallions. In answer to a previous question as to where is Hercules? I believe he died a few years ago.
As far as favorite unknowns, by far it would be Moon Dog Mayne. He hit it huge in NorCal, but when he would appear in SoCal he was there just to sell their local heroes. He was the funniest wrestler as far as interviews.
Other unknowns:
Martin Karadiagan
La Momia
Pepino
El Vikingo
Hippie Hair
Yolanka
Mercenario Joe
Back when local Spanish channels would show "Titanes En El Ring" from Argentina | |
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Posted: 9/9/2006 10:07:37 AM | | Paul Roma did Team with Jim Powers (Young Stallions,) Hercules (Power and Glory,) and Paul Orndorff (Pretty Wonderful.) | |
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| Favorite unknown wrestler.
Posted: 9/16/2006 10:13:58 PM | | at one time tito santana team up with rick martel they were known as "can-am" connection. | |
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Posted: 5/15/2007 6:42:18 PM | at one time tito santana team up with rick martel they were known as "can-am" connection.
Actually, they were Strike Force. Martel and Tom Zenk were the Can-Am connection. I just felt like being a total geek. :P
Time to add some more to my list:
Mike Quackenbush
Larry Sweeney
Chris Hero
Jigsaw
Shane Storm
Gran Akuma
Hallowicked
UltraMantis Black
Corporal Robinson
JC Bailey (before he got busted for possession)
Mad Man Pondo
Toby Klein
Jun Kasai
Chuck Taylor
Eddie Kingston
Los Ice Creams | |
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| Favorite unknown wrestler.
Posted: 5/16/2007 7:43:00 AM | Is Eddie Kingston also known as Kofi Kingston?
Just wondering because I've heard quite a bit about the latter. | |
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Posted: 5/16/2007 7:06:45 PM | Is Eddie Kingston also known as Kofi Kingston?
No, it's a different Kingston. | |
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Posted: 8/3/2007 6:57:11 PM | A few old timers might remember Danny Hodge.
A wrestler of awesome strength, Danny Hodge's physical prowess was so great that often - for his fans at least - it overshadowed his tremendous skills. His grip could shatter a pair of pliers, could crush an apple into applesauce. Had he not studied and carefully utilized proper wrestling techniques, he might well have maimed his opponents instead of dominating them.
In the collegiate style of wrestling, he had no peer, indeed no challenger. He won every one of his 46 bouts for the University of Oklahoma, 36 of them by fall, an astonishing 78 percent. During his junior and senior years, he pinned 22 consecutive opponents. And no collegiate foe ever took him to the mat from standing position.
Three times a National Collegiate champion at 177 pounds, he twice was voted the outstanding wrestler of the NCAA tournament.
In one 10-day span in 1956, his junior year, Hodge won the NCAA title and National AAU championships in both Greco-Roman and freestyle, winning every bout in those tournaments by fall.
Twice he was an Olympic wrestler, placing fifth in 1952 in Helsinki before his college career started, and winning the silver medal in the 1956 Games at Melbourne. There, in the championship bout, he led his Bulgarian opponent by a wide margin when a controversial rolling fall was called against him.
Over five years starting in 1952, his only three defeats in any style of wrestling were administered by three Olympic champions, a Russian, an American, and a Bulgarian.
After his collegiate wrestling career, Dan Hodge won national Golden Gloves and National AAU championships in boxing, becoming the first athlete in more than 50 years to win national titles in both sports.
For his legendary achievements as a wrestler, Dan Allen Hodge was honoured as a Distinguished Member of the US National Wrestling Hall of Fame. (by courtesy of USA Wrestling)
In Danny's own words...."They usually exchange one glove even, but I wanted both pair because this was to make me the first person in the history of the world to hold both the National Wrestling and the National Boxing Championships . . . never losing an amateur wrestling match in college or boxing match. I had nine months of professional boxing. I won eight out of ten boxing matches and was rated eleventh when I decided to quit boxing and return to my first love of wrestling. I entered the professional wrestling ranks in the fall of 1959. After two months I was hurt by Angelo Savoldi and was paralyzed about two and a half months. I started over again in five months. I defeated Angelo in the Stockyards Coliseum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, on July 22, 1960, to become the thirteenth wrestler to win the World's Junior Heavyweight Title. This was the goal I had for myself. This title I held for fifteen years. There was only one other wrestler to hold it for thirteen years. That was LeRoy McQuirk. LeRoy had had leukemia when he was five years old and had his right eye remove. Then he lost the other eye in a car wreck down by Little Rock, Arkansas, which left him blind. This ended his wrestling career as a wrestler, but not as a promoter. He became one of the largest wrestling promoters in the south central states. In my professional wrestling I won all of the southern, middle, and northern state titles. When I became the world champion I had to forget all of these. I have been hurt many, many times . . . cut, burned, broken hands, stomped so that I couldn't hit back at those that hit me, ribs broken, stomped in the stomach, and several car wrecks. But I never gave up. All the fans would say, "Just wait until Danny gets back, he will take care of you and shut your mouth and he will whip you with one hand tied behind him." You know, it was a pleasure to be World Champion, everyone looked up to you. It has been said by many people, "Danny, you are a wrestler's wrestler." I lost the title five times and regained it back six."
from Mid-South Wrestling news. | |
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| Favorite unknown wrestler.
Posted: 8/9/2007 6:30:28 PM | | How about Baron Miguel Scicluna. Ivan Putski, Playboy Buddy Rose, and Steve "Dr. Death" Williams | |
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| Favorite unknown wrestler.
Posted: 8/10/2007 11:33:54 AM | i cant believe "man mountain rock' isnt in here!!!
t.l. hopper
bastion booger
heidenrich
norman the lunatic
jean pierre lafitte
I MISS PAUL BIRCHILL, and the HURRICANE
remember johnnie polo (raven)
van hammer
i miss chris jericho too | |
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