Captain Lou Dies

[Enigma869]

I haven't watched wrestling in over 25 years but loved it when I was a kid. This guy was quite the character.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/10/1 ... index.html

[artist4perry]

I haven't watched wrestling in over 25 years but loved it when I was a kid. This guy was quite the character.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/10/1 ... index.html

Wasn't that the guy who played Cindy Lauper's dad in the video Girls just wanna have fun?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVwFeQpy_Us

[YoungJRNY]

Too young to remember him, but I miss the good 'ol wrestling days. (Of my time I suppose.) Nice switch up here. Sting is my all time favorite wrestler. He was/is the most flamboyant and owned one of the best persona's in pro wrestling. He is now in TNA wrestling and plans to wrestle his final match, which saddens me. As much as it pains me to say it, I hope Sting would jump to WWE just for a short stint so he could go out in grace and go out the way he's supposed to go out.

I miss the days of WCW Monday Nitro and WWF Monday Night Raw, head to head. The Monday Night Wars. I was big time pro WCW, hated WWE with a passion and still do to this day. Ever since Vince bought WCW wrestling has been shit since. The greatest angle of ALL time that made wrestling peak to its highest point was the NWO. Too bad the NWO was the rise and fall of WCW, to which was the fall of the Monday Night Wars. WWE in late '99 was getting rating of around 8.0's! Now, I checked in the other night, and they are getting a lousy 3.0 ratings. How far wrestling has dropped since.








Sting's by far one of the most entertaining wrestlers of his time!

[Enigma869]

Wasn't that the guy who played Cindy Lauper's dad in the video Girls just wanna have fun?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVwFeQpy_Us

Yep...that was the guy.

[Deb]

Too young to remember him, but I miss the good 'ol wrestling days. (Of my time I suppose.)

Wrestling used to be huge here with a good chunk of the wrestlers back then starting their careers here with Stampede Wrestling and the Harts. LOL, shows you how long ago I was into wrestling, some of my old faves.....

Brett Hart

British Bulldogs

And a bunch that are gone now...... Flyin Brian Pillman, Eddie Gueara, Owen Hart, and that other one that used to wear lots of colored ribbons, and mask, kind of an indian looking get up......shoot can't remember his name???

[Enigma869]

Too young to remember him, but I miss the good 'ol wrestling days. (Of my time I suppose.)

Wrestling used to be huge here with a good chunk of the wrestlers back then starting their careers here with Stampede Wrestling and the Harts. LOL, shows you how long ago I was into wrestling, some of my old faves.....

Brett Hart

British Bulldogs

And a bunch that are gone now...... Flyin Brian Pillman, Eddie Gueara, Owen Hart, and that other one that used to wear lots of colored ribbons, and mask, kind of an indian looking get up......shoot can't remember his name???

Sadly, I think almost every one of those guys you're mentioning are all dead and all died quite young!

[Ehwmatt]

Yeah, I was gonna post and say damn, 76 for a wrestler is like living to 200 in normal person years. The roids probably weren't as bad back then

[Deb]

[Sadly, I think almost every one of those guys you're mentioning are all dead and all died quite young!

Yep, all the ones I mentioned died young except for Brett and Dynamite Kid (who is confined to a wheelchair I think I remember reading in Brett's book). Oh and I remembered the other one I mentioned above with the colored ribbons, it was Ultimate Warrior, not sure if he is still alive or not.

And Matt, I think the 'roids were probably worse back then, before it really came into light like nowadays. Daveyboy, Chris Benoit, Jericho.......floored me how fast they bulked up back then. I remember Daveyboy was just a scrawny guy when he started out in Stampede Wrestling and seemed to bulk up in mere days. Same with Benoit.

[YoungJRNY]

Too young to remember him, but I miss the good 'ol wrestling days. (Of my time I suppose.)

Wrestling used to be huge here with a good chunk of the wrestlers back then starting their careers here with Stampede Wrestling and the Harts. LOL, shows you how long ago I was into wrestling, some of my old faves.....

Brett Hart

British Bulldogs

And a bunch that are gone now...... Flyin Brian Pillman, Eddie Gueara, Owen Hart, and that other one that used to wear lots of colored ribbons, and mask, kind of an indian looking get up......shoot can't remember his name???

I remember watching the PPV in which Owen Hart died. So sad and was pretty much a head turner and a jaw opener. You didn't know if it was apart of the skit, or real. Luckily for the WWF at the time, they were shooting a promo of the Blue Blazer (Harts 2nd personal) and showing clips of the feud he was involved in. If this weren't the case, then the camera's would of caught Owen harts death, falling from the ceiling on a cable, to which there is no footage of, thank Christ. I remember Jeff Jarret trying to do his interview in the back completely in tears throughout. It was really sad and I'll never forget that.

So many wrestlers are dying off. The most recent two were Eddie Guerrero and Chris Benoit, who murdered his family and then committed suicide. They said his brain was so demented of concussions, and more than likely drug use (let alone steroids) that he went whacko and took the life of his son, wife, and his own. Terrible, terrible story.

[Starrider]

I haven't watched wrestling in over 25 years but loved it when I was a kid. This guy was quite the character.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/10/1 ... index.html

My dad worked for years with Captain Lou's brother, Carl. Got me an autographed picture of the Captain when I was about 12. It might still be somewhere at my parents' house.

[Ehwmatt]

[Sadly, I think almost every one of those guys you're mentioning are all dead and all died quite young!

Yep, all the ones I mentioned died young except for Brett and Dynamite Kid (who is confined to a wheelchair I think I remember reading in Brett's book). Oh and I remembered the other one I mentioned above with the colored ribbons, it was Ultimate Warrior, not sure if he is still alive or not.

And Matt, I think the 'roids were probably worse back then, before it really came into light like nowadays. Daveyboy, Chris Benoit, Jericho.......floored me how fast they bulked up back then. I remember Daveyboy was just a scrawny guy when he started out in Stampede Wrestling and seemed to bulk up in mere days. Same with Benoit.

Yeah, I was talkin more about Captain Lou's generation. Those guys that were big in the 90s were undoubtedly roiding. I think it probably started getting really bad in the late 70s-80s with the coming of Hogan and what not, right? I'm not a wrestling historian, though I was a huge fan like everyone else was when I was a lot younger and wrestling was getting huge ratings back in the late 90s

[Triple S]

Too young to remember him, but I miss the good 'ol wrestling days. (Of my time I suppose.)

Wrestling used to be huge here with a good chunk of the wrestlers back then starting their careers here with Stampede Wrestling and the Harts. LOL, shows you how long ago I was into wrestling, some of my old faves.....

Brett Hart

British Bulldogs

And a bunch that are gone now...... Flyin Brian Pillman, Eddie Gueara, Owen Hart, and that other one that used to wear lots of colored ribbons, and mask, kind of an indian looking get up......shoot can't remember his name???

I remember watching the PPV in which Owen Hart died. So sad and was pretty much a head turner and a jaw opener. You didn't know if it was apart of the skit, or real. Luckily for the WWF at the time, they were shooting a promo of the Blue Blazer (Harts 2nd personal) and showing clips of the feud he was involved in. If this weren't the case, then the camera's would of caught Owen harts death, falling from the ceiling on a cable, to which there is no footage of, thank Christ. I remember Jeff Jarret trying to do his interview in the back completely in tears throughout. It was really sad and I'll never forget that.

So many wrestlers are dying off. The most recent two were Eddie Guerrero and Chris Benoit, who murdered his family and then committed suicide. They said his brain was so demented of concussions, and more than likely drug use (let alone steroids) that he went whacko and took the life of his son, wife, and his own. Terrible, terrible story.

I went to a few parties at the Hart house back in Calgary many many years ago, good times - they're a good family. Re: Owen's death - so sad. Deb - do you remember Tammy Christopher on CFCN trying to get through the story? She had just done a week-long segment on the Hart family, spent lots of time with them. It was heartbreaking - she couldn't get through the sportscast.