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From the new WON

Jose Guadalupe Aguilar Herrera who was the original TNT (not to be confused with Savio Vega) passed away at the age of 84

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22 minutes ago, ohtani's jacket said:

Bert Royal passed away.

https://slamwrestling.net/index.php/2022/08/20/british-star-bert-royal-dies/

I know we may have lost out on a match or two by releasing the footage so publicly, but one thing that came of it was that Royal was not only able to see the Tony Oliver match but also the match with his dad (Vic Hessle) as Darren Ward had messaged Royal's son when we posted the Oliver match. He, in his 90s, was apparently very happy to see both.

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Former NWA president Howard Brody passed away on Wednesday due to an infection following quadruple bypass surgery.

The news was first reported by PWInsider who also noted last week that Brody was in rough shape following the surgery.

Brody was NWA president from 1996-2001, notably signing an agreement with the then-WWF to have Jeff Jarrett, Jim Cornette and the new Midnight Express as NWA talents on Monday Night Raw in a short-lived invasion-esque storyline.

Brody was a promoter both in the U.S. and overseas with the Ring Warriors promotion and TV show with the late Hiro Matsuda in an attempt to promote NJPW in the U.S. PWInsider noted that the show was among the first to be downloadable and streamable online.

Other accomplishments as noted by Mike Johnson and John Pollock:

  • Brody made international distribution deals for Jim Cornette's Smoky Mountain Wrestling that allowed Cornette to close as a profitable business.
  • Brody was the first promoter to bring wrestling (MACW) to China in 2003.
  • He was among the first to bring ECW to Florida when the company began to expand.
  • He was the point person for the sale of the Puerto Rico-based WWC library to WWE.
  • He was the author of 2009's "Swimming With Piranhas: Surviving The Politics of Professional Wrestling" and also co-authored Dusty Rhodes' autobiography.
  • He freelanced for both WWF Magazine and the Gold Belt Wrestling magazine.
  • He also helped promote the UWF and Wild Women of Wrestling.

 

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I haven't been able to find an English-language report but it looks like Goro Tsurumi has passed away at age 73.

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Goro Tsurumi (Takao Tanaka) passed away in Japan on Friday at the age of 73. He had a number of health issues and passed away from blood pressure issues and sepsis. He also had heart and diabetes related health issues. He wrestled for 43 years: IWE in Japan in the 70s, All Japan from 1982-90 where he was tag team partner with Rusher Kimura and Ashura Hara among others, and later SWS, IWA and tons of indie groups including DDT. He was also Ho Chi Lau, billed as Vietnamese, in Stampede Wrestling and managed by both JR Foley and KJ Wakamatsu. He wasn't a major star but he was a good solid hard working wrestler. He worked all over the world including Europe and Mexico. He was a star in Mexico in the early 70s.

 

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I wanted to note the passing of Hawaii historian George Beppu at the age of 79. He passed away in Brighton, CO, in October due to COVID, but the word just got out in wrestling circles through former Los Angeles photographer Dan Westbrook . He lived in California after wrestling and opened a Sambo's and a Sweet Caroline's shop. His photos were all over Ed Francis' book 50th State Big Time Wrestling. He was also heavily involved in this historical site. He was a photographer and magazine writer who covered the great unique shows that Ed Francis put on in the 60s and early 70s. At one time, he also did the programs for the Francis shows. He was a correspondent for my old California Wrestling Report newsletter and an early subscriber to the Observer. He had moved in with his daughter's family in recent years.

 

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Bob Steckle, one of the greatest Canadian wrestlers of all-time, passed away on 9/25 at the age of 92. I actually knew of him through a best friend who was close friends with his daughter. He was from Waterloo, Ontario, and was the Canadian flagbearer at the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne, where he placed fourth in Greco-Roman wrestling. He met his wife, who lived in Melbourne, at those Olympics. He also competed in freestyle in the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki and the 1960 Olympics in Rome, throughout his career always wrestled at 191 pounds. He took a silver medal at the Commonwealth games in 1954 in freestyle wrestling, bronze at the 1958 Commonwealth games and bronze at the 1963 Pan American games. He was Canadian freestyle champion in 1951, 1952, 1954, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1962 and 1963, and national Greco-Roman champion in 1952, 1956 and 1960. He’s in the Canadian Wrestling Hall of Fame and the University of Guelph Hall of Fame for both wrestling and football, and he was one of Canada’s best college football players in the early 50s. He actually didn’t start wrestling until college and within two years he was a national champion and within three years competed at the Olympics. He also came to the U.S. and won the AAU national championship in Greco-Roman in 1955 and 1957, which in those days was for the best Greco-Roman wrestlers in the U.S., Canada and Japan. As you can imagine, he was heavily recruited for pro wrestling but stayed competing as an amateur well into the 60s and did well financially in dairy and beef production, and would live in Canada in the summer and Puerto Vallarta in the winter.

 

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