Rest in Peace, Rest in Peace Man
Mar. 7th, 2013 07:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bedsitter23Sure, there was Hugo Chavez, but the big buzz was that the WWE's Paul Bearer died.
As the last bit of the cartoony WWF of the 1980s and wrestling to go before the 'realism of the "Attitude era', Bearer was the manager (and storyline father) of the Undertaker.
Most people will know him from that character- manager to one of the most popular and well-known pro wrestlers ever.
However, that character was not what I knew Paul Moody for.
I knew him as the loud, arrogant, and generally annoying Percival "Percy" Pringle III- manager of Rick Rude and others. it is fitting that I am doing a series on music that I grew up with. I should also mention a Saturday morning ritual growing up was World Class Championship Wrestling- "live' wrestling from Dallas, texas- with characters like the Von Erichs, the Fabulous Freebirds, the One Man Gang, Erik Embry, the Missing Link, Chris Adams & Gino Hernandez and others.
You know you should never believe a pro wrestler about anything (ask them, and they will tell you they invented everything first), but I do believe Michael Hayes when he says the WCCW was the first great modern wrestling tv show and the template that the WWF would end up using during their "Attitude" era. Hayes says the WCCW gave people great matches, great feuds, and great storylines, while the two biggest promotions of the day (NWA,WWF) would rarely show their top stars in action, and rarely gave a match that was anything but a star versus a jobber.
In any case, I grew up hating Pringle, which means that he was really good at what he did.
Pringle went on to bigger fame, and per his story was actually an undertaker in real life.
The quality isn't so good, but this is what I grew up with.
As the last bit of the cartoony WWF of the 1980s and wrestling to go before the 'realism of the "Attitude era', Bearer was the manager (and storyline father) of the Undertaker.
Most people will know him from that character- manager to one of the most popular and well-known pro wrestlers ever.
However, that character was not what I knew Paul Moody for.
I knew him as the loud, arrogant, and generally annoying Percival "Percy" Pringle III- manager of Rick Rude and others. it is fitting that I am doing a series on music that I grew up with. I should also mention a Saturday morning ritual growing up was World Class Championship Wrestling- "live' wrestling from Dallas, texas- with characters like the Von Erichs, the Fabulous Freebirds, the One Man Gang, Erik Embry, the Missing Link, Chris Adams & Gino Hernandez and others.
You know you should never believe a pro wrestler about anything (ask them, and they will tell you they invented everything first), but I do believe Michael Hayes when he says the WCCW was the first great modern wrestling tv show and the template that the WWF would end up using during their "Attitude" era. Hayes says the WCCW gave people great matches, great feuds, and great storylines, while the two biggest promotions of the day (NWA,WWF) would rarely show their top stars in action, and rarely gave a match that was anything but a star versus a jobber.
In any case, I grew up hating Pringle, which means that he was really good at what he did.
Pringle went on to bigger fame, and per his story was actually an undertaker in real life.
Moody, an Alabama native, told the pro wrestling website PWTorch. com last year that had a degree in mortuary science. He said he was a licensed funeral director and embalmer. He was called to WWE chairman Vince McMahon's office about taking the job as Undertaker's manager without the company knowing his true background.
"It was one those had-to-be-there moments when Vince realized I was the real thing, the real deal," Moody told the website. "I was the real Undertaker."
The quality isn't so good, but this is what I grew up with.
