• Old School ECW Veteran Celebrates His Birthday
Old School ECW Veteran Ian Rotten (Real name: John Williams) celebrates his birthday today.
He made a name for himself, teaming with his kayfabe/storyline brother Axl Rotten as a Tag Team called “The Bad Breed”.
The first teamed up for the Dallas, Texas based “Global Wrestling Federation” promotion during the early 90s, before they moved on to Extreme Championship Wrestling, were they eventually broke up in 1995 and had quite a few memorable matches against each other.
In 1996 Ian Rotten founded his own Indy promotion “IWA Mid-South”, which is still around to this day and he’s still the promoter.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY IAN ROTTEN!
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• On This Day In Pro Wrestling History (June 1, 2015) – Old School Tag Team Veteran Passed Away
On this day in 2015 we lost Old School Tag Team Veteran Tommy Rogers (Real name: Thomas Couch) at the age of 54.
For most of Tommy Rogers’ professional Wrestling career, he teamed up with Bobby Fulton as “The Fantastics”.
They were a famous Tag Team during the 80s & 90s and wrestled for various territories such as World Class Championship Wrestling, Jim Crockett Promotions & Mid-South Wrestling (UWF) and many more.
Later on during the Monday Night Wars, Rogers also had a few stints as a singles wrestler in the WWF, WCW and ECW, but was mainly used as an enhancement talent.
REST IN PEACE TOMMY ROGERS!
May 14, 1961 – June 1, 2015
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• Old School WWF Veteran Would Have Celebrated His Birthday
Today would have been the birthday of Old School WWF Veteran Big Bully Busick (Real name: Nick Busick).
The former police officer and former professional powerlifter made a name for himself when he was working for the World Wrestling Federation for a few months in 1991.
Big Bully lived up to his character when he bullied the kids in the audience and also harassed female ring announcer Mike McGuirk.
Busick was originally booked to be in a classic Survivor Series team with Skinner, The Berzerker & Col. Mustafa, but left the WWF shortly before the pay-per-view and was eventually replaced with Hercules.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY & REST IN PEACE!
June 1, 1954 – May 8, 2018
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• On This Day In Pro Wrestling History (June 1, 1998) – Old School WWF Legend Passed Away
On this day in 1998, we lost Old School WWF Legend The Junkyard Dog (Real name: Sylvester Ritter) at the age of 45.
After becoming a huge Territory Star in Bill Watts’ Mid-South Wrestling, JYD joined the World Wrestling Federation in 1984 and jumped ship to WCW in December of 1988, just a few day after Ted Turner bought Jim Crockett Promotions and renamed it.
The Junkyard Dog’s last major Pro Wrestling appearance came 1 month before he passed away, when he was involved in an in-ring segment at ECW Wrestlepalooza 1998.
REST IN PEACE JYD!
December 13, 1952 – June 2, 1998
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