[quote]CaptainLogic wrote:
Lmao, this took a turn for the retarded halfway through the second page. I don’t even think Zeb was that far off with his comment.
BTW, I liked ‘The Bushwackers’. Funniest walk EVER.[/quote]
I saw the Bushwackers wrestle in person once. My roommate touched them as they walked down the aisle on the way to the ring and his hand came back smelling like sardines. I swear they must have rolled in dead fish before they came out to wrestle.
George “The Animal” Steele was the best of all time.
Eating the turn-buckle was pure genious.
Anyone know what happened to him?
[quote]SWR-1222D wrote:
George “The Animal” Steele was the best of all time.
Eating the turn-buckle was pure genious.
Anyone know what happened to him? [/quote]
I heard he was a high school teacher or princpal. I wonder if there is any truth to that.
Most of George Steele’s career was done part- time. He also taught and coached Football and Wrestling at Madison High school in Madison Heights, Michigan, as Jim Myers. George The Animal Steele is now retired from wrestling although he still does a few autograph signings and will show up at many charity events.
From his website.
[quote]Zap Branigan wrote:
Most of George Steele’s career was done part- time. He also taught and coached Football and Wrestling at Madison High school in Madison Heights, Michigan, as Jim Myers. George The Animal Steele is now retired from wrestling although he still does a few autograph signings and will show up at many charity events.
From his website.[/quote]
Thanks, that just goes to show that I could have just done a google search on him and would have found a lot of info.
I even spelled his name wrong when searching and came up with a lot of sites.
I forgot how damn hairy he was.
What about Deep South Wrestling? The Rock and Roll Express or the Midnight Express.
[quote]Habitual wrote:
What about Deep South Wrestling? The Rock and Roll Express or the Midnight Express.[/quote]
They still do some shows at the smaller arenas and armory venues around here.
More impressive is that Jimmy “The Boogey-woogey Man” Valiant is still wrestling with Smokey Mtn Wrestling. (for those that don’t know- he was huge with NWA wrestling back when I was a little kid).
Back to the original topic. Eddie died of heart disease that was a result of his years of drug abuse. He had just celebrated 4 years of sobriety, but the damage was already done. Apparently, his heart was riddled with disease. Very sad.
The good takeaway from this is that my 9 year old (who is an avid wrestling fan) is watching this and learning a lesson about what drug abuse can do to you. Maybe this will deter a few more children when they become teens and consider recreational drugs.
I’m still waiting for the first jackass in D.C. to mention this death as something “steroid induced”, since there is no way possible for any athlete to die young except for steroids and supplements.
btw. Habitual- SWEET avatar.
[quote]SWR-1222D wrote:
George “The Animal” Steele was the best of all time.
Eating the turn-buckle was pure genious.
Anyone know what happened to him? [/quote]
He coaches High school football in a Michigan suburb.
From the WWE web site:
http://www.wwe.com/inside/news/causeofdeath
Vickie Guerrero speaks on Eddie’s autopsy report
Nov. 15, 2005
After the untimely passing of Eddie Guerrero, WWE and the entire sports-entertainment community is still reeling from the devastating loss of a champion. The initial autopsy reports on Guerrero have come in. WWE.com spoke with Eddie?s widow, Vickie Guerrero, earlier today.
?It was heart failure. It was from his past ? the drinking and the drug abuse. They found signs of heart disease. She (the examiner) said that the blood vessels were very worn and narrow, and that just showed all the abuse from the scheduling of work and his past. And Eddie just worked out like crazy all the time. It made his heart grow bigger and work harder and the vessels were getting smaller, and that?s what caused the heart failure. He went into a deep sleep.
As soon as they saw his heart, they saw the lining of his heart already had the heart disease. There was no trauma, and Eddie hadn?t hurt himself in any way. It answered a lot of questions. I knew Eddie wasn?t feeling very good for the last week. He was home and kept saying he wasn?t feeling good and we thought it was just ?road tired.? So we thought he just had to rest. It answered a lot of my questions, too, because he was just so exhausted. She said it was normal because the heart was working so hard.
When he didn?t call me last night and the night before I knew it was for real, because he would call me every night. I miss his phone calls. I cried through the whole thing (last night).
I loved his laugh. His laugh was the best.
We just celebrated his four-year sobriety last Thursday. We just thought we had life by the handful. We thought we had it all figured out. He worked so hard to make a better life for us.
I?m just overwhelmed by how people are coming out. It?s touched my heart a lot.
Everybody was just in awe last night in how beautifully everything was put together.
All my life was wrestling. All he did was take care of them and live for that. And I don?t know what to do now.?
[quote]HoosierFan wrote:
From the WWE web site:
http://www.wwe.com/inside/news/causeofdeath
Vickie Guerrero speaks on Eddie’s autopsy report
Nov. 15, 2005
After the untimely passing of Eddie Guerrero, WWE and the entire sports-entertainment community is still reeling from the devastating loss of a champion. The initial autopsy reports on Guerrero have come in. WWE.com spoke with Eddie?s widow, Vickie Guerrero, earlier today.
?It was heart failure. It was from his past ? the drinking and the drug abuse. They found signs of heart disease. She (the examiner) said that the blood vessels were very worn and narrow, and that just showed all the abuse from the scheduling of work and his past. And Eddie just worked out like crazy all the time. It made his heart grow bigger and work harder and the vessels were getting smaller, and that?s what caused the heart failure. He went into a deep sleep.
As soon as they saw his heart, they saw the lining of his heart already had the heart disease. There was no trauma, and Eddie hadn?t hurt himself in any way. It answered a lot of questions. I knew Eddie wasn?t feeling very good for the last week. He was home and kept saying he wasn?t feeling good and we thought it was just ?road tired.? So we thought he just had to rest. It answered a lot of my questions, too, because he was just so exhausted. She said it was normal because the heart was working so hard.
When he didn?t call me last night and the night before I knew it was for real, because he would call me every night. I miss his phone calls. I cried through the whole thing (last night).
I loved his laugh. His laugh was the best.
We just celebrated his four-year sobriety last Thursday. We just thought we had life by the handful. We thought we had it all figured out. He worked so hard to make a better life for us.
I?m just overwhelmed by how people are coming out. It?s touched my heart a lot.
Everybody was just in awe last night in how beautifully everything was put together.
All my life was wrestling. All he did was take care of them and live for that. And I don?t know what to do now.?[/quote]
At least it doesn’t look like he was in a lot of pain while he died.
It just sucks that this had to happen right when he seemed to turn things around in a possitive way, and is especially sad that he had to leave his kids at such a young age.
[quote]SWR-1222D wrote:
At least it doesn’t look like he was in a lot of pain while he died.
It just sucks that this had to happen right when he seemed to turn things around in a possitive way, and is especially sad that he had to leave his kids at such a young age.[/quote]
Thats just like a friend of mine. He was about to be on his 4th year of being free of drugs and alcohol and he was killed in a car crash because of some asshole 18 wheeler driver who was in the left lane (cant do that in CT) speeding through a 40mph construction zone while it was raining out.
The “road” takes a lot of people, far too young to die. It doesn’t discriminate between classes, or along any other divides.
Someone can even get sober, and then later pay the terrible price, like Eddie Guerrero, a terrifically talented athelete and entertainer.
I started watching wrestling in 1966, and the early interest I had led me to study and participate in combat sports and weight lifting. I’m somewhat ashamed to say I still watch it off and on, more as a study in sociology than anything else. Before it went national, wrestling in the territorial days was a fascinating study in regional culture. I grew up in a hotbed, Florida, and got to see almost all the greats in person. And I’m here to tell you . . . there were and are some great strength atheletes in wrestling, the whole drug question notwithstanding.
Some of the best I remember include Ivan Putski (he wrestled down here as “Hercules” Joe Bednardski), Mark Lewin, Billy Graham, and the Road Warriors, among many others. In spite of the ridiculous redneck passion play they were enacting, I always got inspired by the physiques and atheleticism many showed; still do! Look at Kurt Angle and imagine his neck @ 23 inches. A 23 inch neck on an Olympic Gold medalist in wrestling is NO JOKE. Two of the best atheletes I ever saw – in any sport – were Hiro Matsuda and Danny Hodge.
Oh, anyway, RIP Eddie Guerrero.
[quote]K O N G wrote:
SWR-1222D wrote:
George “The Animal” Steele was the best of all time.
Eating the turn-buckle was pure genious.
Anyone know what happened to him?
He coaches High school football in a Michigan suburb.[/quote]
Actually, I hear he used to coach. He retired and has beaten cancer to date.
[quote]alstan90 wrote:
I hate the way we adress these wrestlers as athletes. It’s not competition it’s performing, if anything we should be celebrating the life of a great actor.[/quote]
They compete with each other to give a great performance. What they do takes athleticism. They are as much athletes as football players, hockey players, race car drivers, or bowlers. I would even say that that they are more of an athlete than some of those.
Watched SMACKDOWN tonight. They were talking with Chavo, Eddies nephew. He wrestled JBL tonight, pulled a classic decoy with 2 chairs (1 for the ref, 1 to give to JBL to get caught holding) and ended the match with a frog splash. Didn’t hit it very strongly, but at least he tried.
[quote]Zap Branigan wrote:
SWR-1222D wrote:
George “The Animal” Steele was the best of all time.
Eating the turn-buckle was pure genious.
Anyone know what happened to him?
I heard he was a high school teacher or princpal. I wonder if there is any truth to that.[/quote]
he played football at michigan st. with my drivers ed teacher.
i did know his profession but can’t remember it.
gorgeous george was a psychiatrist(sp?).