• On This Day In Pro Wrestling History (February 18, 2014) – Old School WWF Veteran Passed Away
On this day in 2014 we lost Old School WWF Veteran Mabel aka Viscera (Real name: Nelson Frazier Jr.) at the age of 43 due to a heart attack.
The 530 lbs Super-Heavyweight wrestled for the World Wrestling Federation from 1993 to 1996 and then again from 1999 to 2000, before his last run in the now renamed WWE that lasted from 2004 till 2008.
As ‘Men on a Mission’ member Mabel he managed to become the 1995 King of the Ring, and later joined The Undertaker’s Ministry of Darkness as Viscera.
REST IN PEACE MABEL!
February 14, 1971 – February 18, 2014
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• On This Day In Pro Wrestling History (February 18, 1993) – Old School WWF Legend Passed Away
On this day in 1993 we lost Old School WWF Legend ‘The Texas Tornado’ Kerry Von Erich (Real name: Kerry Adkisson) at the young age of 33 due to committing suicide with a single gunshot to the heart.
After a great career in his father’s promotion World Class Championship Wrestling, Kerry joined the World Wrestling Federation in 1990 as “The Texas Tornado” and became the Intercontinental Champion after only a few months with the company.
Prior to his WWF run (1990-1992), Kerry Von Erich’s by far biggest accomplishment was winning the NWA World Heavyweight Championship from “The Nature Boy” Ric Flair in front of over 45,000 fans at Texas Stadium in 1984.
In 2009 he, his father & his brothers were all inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame, but unfortunately his brother Kevin Von Erich was the last one of them, who was still alive and there to accept the award.
REST IN PEACE TEXAS TORNADO!
February 3, 1960 – February 18, 1993
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• Old School WWF Veteran Celebrates His Birthday
Old School WWF Veteran Raymond Rougeau celebrates his birthday today.
After wrestling in Canada during the 70s and early 80s, he and his brother Jacques Rougeau Jr. (who was later known as The Mountie) joined the World Wrestling Federation in 1986 as a babyface Tag Team called “The Fabulous Rougeaus”.
2 years later they turned heel and were joined by legendary manager “The Mouth of the South” Jimmy Hart, before Raymond eventually retired as an active professional wrestler after their loss to The Bushwhackers at the Royal Rumble 1990 PPV.
He became a WWF announcer in 1992, doing play-by-play commentary for all of the french syndicated WWF television shows in Canada, Europe & Africa, as well as being an interviewer and presenter on regular weekly TV shows in the United States, such as WWF Superstars of Wrestling & WWF Wrestling Challenge.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY RAY ROUGEAU!
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