• Old School ECW Veteran Would Have Celebrated His Birthday
Today would have been the birthday of ECW Veteran “The Hardcore Chair Swingin’ Freak” Balls Mahoney (Real name: Jonathan Rechner).
The first time we saw him on TV was when he did televised jobs for the World Wrestling Federation in 1992 and later joined Jim Cornette’s Smoky Mountain Wrestling in 1994.
Before Balls Mahoney made a name for himself in Paul Heyman’s Extreme Championship Wrestling, he portrayed The Million Dollar Man’s evil Santa Claus called “Xanta Klaus” on WWF TV for a short period of time.
In ECW he won 3 Tag Team Championships, 2 with Spike Dudley and 1 with Masato Tanaka.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY & R.I.P.!
April 11, 1972 – April 12, 2016
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• Old School WWF Legend Celebrates His Birthday
Old School WWF Veteran Goldust aka Dustin Rhodes (Real name: Dustin Runnels) celebrates his birthday today.
While he had his World Wrestling Federation debut as Dustin Rhodes in late 1990, his biggest claim to fame is without a doubt portraying the character of Goldust, which he debuted in 1995, but was still working the gimmick as a main roster WWE Superstar until he joined AEW in 2019.
In between his WWF/E stints, Dustin worked for Ted Turner’s World Championship Wrestling from 1991 until 1995 and from 1999 till the promotion was sold to Vince McMahon in 2001.
Him going into the WWE Hall of Fame one day after he’ll be retired, is only a question of “when”, not “if”.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY GOLDUST!
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• Old School Wrestling Legend Would Have Celebrated His Birthday
Today would have been the birthday of Old School NWA/WWF/WCW Legend ‘The King’ Harley Race.
Harley Race is a former 8 time (WWE only acknowledges 7) NWA World Heavyweight Champion, who later also wrestled for the World Wrestling Federation from 1986 till 1989.
In 1990 Race joined Ted Turner’s World Championship Wrestling, where he slowly moved from a Wrestler into the role of a Manager, managing the likes of Lex Luger, The Colossal Kongs, Yoshi Kwan & Big Van Vader.
Harley was inducted into the 2004 class of the WWE Hall of Fame by his old rival “The Nature Boy” Ric Flair.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY & REST IN PEACE!
April 11, 1943 – August 1, 2019
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