Lacelle Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 I will always remember the sleaziest looking guy in wrestling history, (No offence Randy Rose) great moonsault & even greater dance moves. RIP 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cool arrow Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 I'll never forget the awesome Heavenly Bodies-Rock n Roll Express match at Survivor Series that the crowd couldn't have cared less about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twiztor Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 RIP recently i watched his role as "Jimmy Graffiti" in '96-'97 WCW and it put a smile on my face. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jstout Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 Nooooo! He was the greatest, most awesome throwback sleazy dude in Smoky Mountain and was a perfect, perfect partner for Tom Pritchard in the Heavenly Bodies. Aw, man. If I recall, he wasn't the greatest interview ever, but Cornette and Pritchard could take care of that while he looked sleazy in the background. He was a part of probably my greatest live wrestling moment ever as "that asshole who cheered for the heels" in a territory where it was still very real to them, dammit. Godspeed, "Gigolo" Jimmy Del Ray. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greggulator Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 The Gigolo was one of the great sleazebag wrestlers. I'll truly miss him and his repulsive hip movements. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cool arrow Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 Meltz says he died in a car accident. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spritenaut 32 Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 3/12/94 Johnson City, TN Heavenly Bodies beat Rock & Roll Express marathon 60 minutes. 3/13/94 Knoxville, TN Heavenly Bodies beat Rock & Roll Express 60-minute Marathon match. 3/18/94 Barbourville, KY 625 Heavenly Bodies beat Robert Gibson & Tim Horner in a 60-minute Marathon match. 3/19/94 Harlan KY 450 Heavenly Bodies beat Robert Gibson & Tracy Smothers in a 60-minute Marathon match. One of my favorite house show loops. Bodies had the tag titles and were about to leave SMW for the WWF. Cornette had the Bodies and the RnR Express wrestle for the title almost every night during the three weeks prior to the Bodies' departure. Four ironman matches in eight days, and the two teams wrestled a regular one-fall match on every house show in between (the usual finish was the Bodies losing the match but retaining the tag titles by dq). RnR were wayyyyy past their primes by this point, but still could work a tag match and pop the crowd. Anyone remember why Morton was replaced on a few shows? Seems like I should remember, but I don't. Per the results, he was only off the road 3 or 4 days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 *Bad sentiment about heaven needing another body to fulfill the sleaze factor* I know very little of his work, but I know he was good, really shitty thing to happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
george young Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 Steiners vs the Heavenly Bodies was so good. Kinda lame the Bodies never really got to do anything in the WWE. Also, Jimmy Graffiti just knocking it out the park in WCW, with those 5 minute tv matches. Wish he would've stuck around longer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiji Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 Yeah, the Malenko match mentioned in the general discussion thread was on Nitro 58/October 21, 1996 (network link). Such a great match. Damn, 2 of the 3 guys in the ring are now dead. That sucks. Great theme song, better sleaze. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultimo Necro Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 Oh Jesus, this is not news I wanted to hear. Jimmy Del Ray was a charismatic, ass kicking son of a gun. He will be missed. RIP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Sorrow Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 I'll never forget the awesome Heavenly Bodies-Rock n Roll Express match at Survivor Series that the crowd couldn't have cared less about. Fuck those ungrateful bastards. That was a great match. HB's should've had a better run in the WWE. Jimmy's moonsault was fucking PREMIER~! RIP to the Gigolo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkiNd5NIMiY The Bodies got the New Foundation's old theme, but they made it work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spritenaut 32 Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 OT: Who's getting decapitated in George Young's sig? Sam Houston? He looks like he's going for the bulldog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mco543 Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 This is too bad. I felt he had one more run in him when they hired SDR, he could've been her embarrassing father 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
george young Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 This is too bad. I felt he had one more run in him when they hired SDR, he could've been her embarrassing father This sounds like the best idea ever. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PetrolCB Posted December 8, 2014 Share Posted December 8, 2014 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted December 8, 2014 Share Posted December 8, 2014 That has always been a favorite spot of mine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evil Otto Posted December 8, 2014 Share Posted December 8, 2014 There's so many pro wrestlers who try to look handsome or cool, but you can tell, underneath, that they are sleazy and creepy. It just doesn't really work. Then there's Jimmy Del Ray, who I'm assuming looked in the mirror one fateful day, started gyrating, and said, "Fuck it. I'm sleazy, and that's that." Add in the fact that he could hang with, or even outshine, the best workers in the business inside the ring, Jimmy Del Ray was, to me, one of the most entertaining wrestlers ever. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spritenaut 32 Posted December 8, 2014 Share Posted December 8, 2014 There's so many pro wrestlers who try to look handsome or cool, but you can tell, underneath, that they are sleazy and creepy. It just doesn't really work. Then there's Jimmy Del Ray, who I'm assuming looked in the mirror one fateful day, started gyrating, and said, "Fuck it. I'm sleazy, and that's that." I don't think Jimmy had access to a mirror in the womb. It's a little known fact that JDR was the only infant in the nursery with a patchy goatee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MGFanJay Posted December 8, 2014 Share Posted December 8, 2014 As a kid watching him on the WWF, I thought he was just so sleazy - but memorably so. Joey Ryan plays the king of sleaze for laughs, but Del Rey legit seemed like a guy who you'd see behind a 7-11 engaging in one or more kinds of illegal activity at 2 AM. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwoy2j Posted December 8, 2014 Share Posted December 8, 2014 As a kid watching him on the WWF, I thought he was just so sleazy - but memorably so. Joey Ryan plays the king of sleaze for laughs, but Del Rey legit seemed like a guy who you'd see behind a 7-11 engaging in one or more kinds of illegal activity at 10 AM. FIFY. He was the embodiment of this quote from My Name is Earl "You know that guy you see, when you stop off at the convenience store in that little town on the way to Grandma's house? Sort of shifty looking fella who buys a packet of smokes, a couple-a lotto tickets and a "Tall Boy" at 10 AM in the morning? The kind of guy you wait to come out before you and your family go in? Well... that's me. My name is Earl. And if you took the time to really get to know me, find out what kind of person I really am instead of just stereotyping me, because of the way I look... well, you'd be wasting your time. 'Cause I'm exactly who you think I am. Hell, I'll pretty much steal anything that's not nailed down." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spritenaut 32 Posted December 8, 2014 Share Posted December 8, 2014 As a kid watching him on the WWF, I thought he was just so sleazy - but memorably so. Joey Ryan plays the king of sleaze for laughs, but Del Rey legit seemed like a guy who you'd see behind a 7-11 engaging in one or more kinds of illegal activity at 10 AM. FIFY. He was the embodiment of this quote from My Name is Earl "You know that guy you see, when you stop off at the convenience store in that little town on the way to Grandma's house? Sort of shifty looking fella who buys a packet of smokes, a couple-a lotto tickets and a "Tall Boy" at 10 AM in the morning? The kind of guy you wait to come out before you and your family go in? Well... that's me. My name is Earl. And if you took the time to really get to know me, find out what kind of person I really am instead of just stereotyping me, because of the way I look... well, you'd be wasting your time. 'Cause I'm exactly who you think I am. Hell, I'll pretty much steal anything that's not nailed down." I think that quote describes most of the indy wrestlers I've met in person. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwoy2j Posted December 8, 2014 Share Posted December 8, 2014 As a kid watching him on the WWF, I thought he was just so sleazy - but memorably so. Joey Ryan plays the king of sleaze for laughs, but Del Rey legit seemed like a guy who you'd see behind a 7-11 engaging in one or more kinds of illegal activity at 10 AM. FIFY. He was the embodiment of this quote from My Name is Earl "You know that guy you see, when you stop off at the convenience store in that little town on the way to Grandma's house? Sort of shifty looking fella who buys a packet of smokes, a couple-a lotto tickets and a "Tall Boy" at 10 AM in the morning? The kind of guy you wait to come out before you and your family go in? Well... that's me. My name is Earl. And if you took the time to really get to know me, find out what kind of person I really am instead of just stereotyping me, because of the way I look... well, you'd be wasting your time. 'Cause I'm exactly who you think I am. Hell, I'll pretty much steal anything that's not nailed down." I think that quote describes most of the indy wrestlers I've met in person. From what I've read it could probably be used to describe most indy promoters. Hell, most promoters period. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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