• On This Day In Pro Wrestling History (January 9, 2017) – WWF Veteran Passes Away
On this day in 2017, we lost Old School WWF Tag Team Veteran Timothy Well (Real name: Timothy Alan Smith) at the age of 55 due to kidney failure .
Most Old School fans remember him from the WWF Tag Team ‘Well Dunn’, which was him and Steven Dunn. They wrestled on WWF TV from 1993 till 1995 and appeared in the 1995 Royal Rumble match.
In various other territories they were mostly known as ‘The Southern Rockers’ Rex King (Timothy Well) & Steve Doll (Steven Dunn).
R.I.P. TIMOTHY WELL
September 8, 1961 – January 9, 2017
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• Old School WWF Veteran Celebrates His Birthday
Old School WWF Veteran Sniper (Real name: Luc Poirier) celebrates his birthday today.
Most of us remember Poirier as Sniper, who was a member of the World Wrestling Federation faction ‘The Truth Commission’ in 1997 & 1998, but he was also a pretty big star in europe, where he was known as Rambo.
While he didn’t achieve much success, if any at all, during his WWF days, Rambo did become a 4 time CWA World Heavyweight Champion in AWA Legend Otto Wanz’s Catch Wrestling Association, which used to be Europe’s biggest promotion back in the day.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SNIPER!
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• Old School WCW Veteran Would Have Celebrated His Birthday
Today would have been the birthday of Old School Wrestling Veteran Silver King (Real name: César Cuauhtémoc González Barrón).
If you were watching Ted Turner’s WCW TV during the famous Monday Night Wars, you will most likely remember him as one of the luchadores that were part of the Cruiserweight Division.
Silver King lasted from 1997 till 2000, before he returned to his home country Mexico.
He died from a heart attack while working a match in the UK in 2019 and was later posthumously inducted into the AAA Hall of Fame.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY & REST IN PEACE!
January 9, 1968 – May 11, 2019
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• On This Day In Pro Wrestling History (January 9, 2020) – Old School NWA Veteran Passed Away
On this day in 2020 we lost Old School NWA Veteran Pampero Firpo (Real name: Juan Kachmanian) at the age of 89, 3 months before his 90th birthday.
Firpo wrestled for various territories from his debut in 1953 until he retired in 1981, such as the American Wrestling Association (AWA), Pacific Northwest Wrestling (Portland), Jim Crockett Promotions, NWA Big Time Wrestling, All Japan Pro Wrestling, World Wrestling Council, the World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF), … and many promotions.
Pampero Firpo was famous for ending his interviews and promos by saying
“It is I, it is me, Pampero Firpo, the Wild Bull of the Pampas … OOOOOOOH YEAHHHHHH!!!”
REST IN PEACE PAMPERO FIRPO!
April 6, 1930 – January 9, 2020
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