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King kong bundy of wrestling fame has died

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His peak with the WWF (WWE) was definitely wrestling Hulk Hogan in a steel cage at the Los Angeles portion of WWE WrestleMania 2 in 1986. He also appeared in an episode of FOX's Married...With Children in 1988.

My brother attempted to interview him once for an independent show in New Britain, CT, back in the late 1990s. Funny stuff...IF I could find it! :rolleyes:
 
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It seems most of these wrestlers do not live to a ripe-old age. Sad.

The Bundy family on Married With Children was named after him.
The creators of the show were big fans. He appears in at least one episode.
 
FreddyE1977 said:
It seems most of these wrestlers do not live to a ripe-old age. Sad.
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Especially the ones who carried as much weight as Bundy did. All that travel -- and his career peak was during the WWF's most taxing period for travel -- and all that junk food had to take its toll.
 
TheBigA said:
Plus the various PEDs.
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I didn't mention them because Bundy didn't have the "ripped" look typical of "juicers." He was a fat man with decent strength who could perform in the role he was assigned. They didn't ask him to work fast-paced one-hour matches, take many body slams, do any aerial maneuvers. His matches were somewhere between Haystack Calhoun's and Gorilla Monsoon's, to use a comparison to wrestlers baby boomers might remember. I don't think either of those men took PEDs; they were naturally overweight. (Monsoon, actually, was a very good college wrestler. He had put on more than 150 pounds at the peak of his professional career -- and it wasn't all muscle!)
 
CTListener said:
Especially the ones who carried as much weight as Bundy did. All that travel -- and his career peak was during the WWF's most taxing period for travel -- and all that junk food had to take its toll.
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61 is actually not bad for a wrestler, considering how many have passed away in their 30s or 40s
 
ftballfan said:
61 is actually not bad for a wrestler, considering how many have passed away in their 30s or 40s
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Right! It's almost amazing when a wrestler at least 50 when they do pass.
 
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