• Old School WWF Legend Celebrates His Birthday
Old School WWF Legend Mick Foley celebrates hisbirthday today.
After doing several jobs as “Jack Foley” on WWF TV in 1986 & 1987, he joined Ted Turner’s World Championship Wrestling in 1990 and from that point onwards made a name for himself as “Cactus Jack”.
After spending some time in ECW from 1994 till early 1996, he signed a WWF contract and became known as “Mankind”, a character that received a great push, including a clean win over The Undertaker at the King of the Ring 1996 PPV.
In 1997 Foley also brought 2 other characters to the World Wrestling Federation: his alter egos “Cactus Jack” and “Dude Love”, thus becoming the only man in history, who officially entered 3 times in a single 30-man Royal Rumble match.
Despite his official retirment in 2000, Foley wrestled for several more years, including a final TNA run from 2008 to 2011, before he retired for real.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MICK FOLEY!
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• On This Day In Pro Wrestling History (June 7, 2023) – WWF Legend Passed Away
On this day in 2023, we lost Old School WWF Legend The Iron Sheik (Real name: Khosrow Vaziri).
The Iron Sheik wrestled for the World Wrestling Federation from 1983 until 1987, then briefly in 1988 and again from 1991 till 1992.
In December 1983 Sheik defeated Bob Backlund for the WWF World Heavyweight Championship, a title he lost a month later to “The Incredible” Hulk Hogan. The rest is history.
His last major match happened in 2001, when he won the famous ‘Gimmick Battle Royal’ at WWF WrestleMania X-Seven.
He was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2005 by his old rival Sgt. Slaughter.
REST IN PEACE!
March 15, 1942 – June 7, 2023
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• On This Day In Pro Wrestling History (June 7, 2013) – Old School Wrestling Jobber Passed Away
On this day in 2013 we lost Old School WWF/WCW Jobber Mark Starr (Real name: Mark Ashford-Smith) at the age of 50 due to a heart attack.
Mark Starr did many televised jobs during the 90s for both, the World Wrestling Federation as well as Ted Turner’s World Championship Wrestling.
The highlights of his professional wrestling career were being an entrant in the 1995 and 1996 WCW World War III Battle Royals.
REST IN PEACE MARK STARR!
December 26, 1962 – June 7, 2013
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