• Old School Wrestling Legend Celebrates His Birthday
Old School Wrestling Legend ‘The Icon’ Sting (Real name: Steve Borden) celebrates his birthday today.
During his long illustrious career Sting wrestled for a lot of big wrestling promotions, such as Jim Crockett Promotions / World Championship Wrestling (1987-2001), UWF Mid-South Wrestling (1986-1987), Total Nonstop Action! (2003, 2006-2014) and World Wrestling Entertainment (2014-2015).
Sting is a former 2 time NWA World Heavyweight Champion (1 in WCW, 1 in TNA), a former 6 time WCW World Heavyweight Champion and a former 4 time TNA World Heavyweight Champion.
In 2016 he was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame by his old rival “The Nature Boy” Ric Flair.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY STING!
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• On This Day In Pro Wrestling History (March 20, 1995) – Old School WWF Legend Passed Away
On this day in 1995, we lost Old School WWF Legend Big John Studd at the age of 47 due to liver cancer and Hodgkin’s disease.
Big John Studd wrestled for the World Wrestling Federation from 1982 until 1986 and again from 1988 till 1989.
His biggest accomplishment was winning the second annual Royal Rumble match in 1989, which was not only the first ever 30-man Royal Rumble match, but also the first one that aired LIVE on pay-per-view.
He retired from the sport of professional wrestling later that year, in late 1989.
REST IN PEACE BIG JOHN STUDD
February 19, 1948 – March 20, 1995
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