zendragon Posted February 10, 2022 Share Posted February 10, 2022 Death Valley has a population of just over 600 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwoy2j Posted February 10, 2022 Share Posted February 10, 2022 (edited) 11 minutes ago, twiztor said: i still do. there's so many towns i associate with wrestlers (or sometimes wrestling events). to this day i can't hear Sarasota, Florida without immediately thinking of the Macho Man. I remember in one of her shoot interviews, Sunny said that she and Candido would quiz each other on old wrestler weights and hometowns while driving from town to town. He'd go, "288lbs from Waxahachi, TX" and she'd answer "Dick Murdoch". Kind of a sweet thing that they'd bond over but sad knowing how things turned out for both of them. Edited February 10, 2022 by cwoy2j 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nice Guy Eddie Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 (edited) 5 hours ago, paintedbynumbers said: wasn't Damian Demento from the outer reaches of your mind? Or something like that? Yes he was. I also liked Delirious being billed from the Edge of Sanity. Raven being billed from The Bowery is a good one as well. Edited February 11, 2022 by Nice Guy Eddie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zimbra Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 1 hour ago, twiztor said: i still do. there's so many towns i associate with wrestlers (or sometimes wrestling events). to this day i can't hear Sarasota, Florida without immediately thinking of the Macho Man. Same, but Vero Beach and Terry Taylor 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nice Guy Eddie Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 I noticed when Justin Roberts billed Jay Lethal from Elizabeth, NJ on last week's Rampage, he said Elizabeth in the Macho Man voice. Being a Jersey guy, I always had a soft spot for Bam Bam Bigelow and King Kong Bundy being from Asbury Park and Atlantic City. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwoy2j Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 Grenoble, in the French Alps is another one due to Andre the Giant. A buddy of mine actually lived in Grenoble for an engineering job from about 2013-2018. Said it was a nice town and he enjoyed the skiing there. He and his wife moved back to the States once his kid got big enough to start going to elementary school but he has fond memories of being there. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nice Guy Eddie Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 I always liked Akeem being billed from Deepest, Darkest Africa. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwoy2j Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 Funny little story about wrestler hometowns, in his book, JJ Dillon said that when he first broke in and started working as a wrestler (he had been a ref), he didn't really have a gimmick. He randomly chose to be Cowboy James Morrison and picked Provo, UT as his hometown because he had never heard of a wrestler being billed from there. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwoy2j Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 2 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said: I always liked Akeem being billed from Deepest, Darkest Africa. Speaking of Akeem, Gary Hart had a story about how he came up with billing One Man Gang from Halstead Street in Chicago. Apparently, he (Hart) created a backstory for OMG that they used to be running buddies in a street gang called The Halstead Street Warriors and when Hart needed back-up against the Von Erichs, he called up his old gang buddy. And OMG's nickname in the gang (well his other nickname) was "Moon" as a play off of "Bad Moon Risin'" by CCR (which he used as entrance music in WCCW) because whenever he showed up for a gang fight, it was bad news for the other guys. OMG was so committed to the backstory he even got "Moon" tattooed on the side of his head at one point. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxB Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 From Hell, Michigan: Chris Sabin. Is there any significance to Colt Cabana being billed as from Maxwell Street, Chicago? Remember how Johnny B Badd was billed as being from Macon, Georgia? The city was so proud that they decided to actually honour him. So he went there, for the first time in his life, and people kept asking him what neighborhood he was from and which high school he went to. 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zimbra Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 I assume it's because Maxwell St was the center of the Jewish community in Chicago in the 1900s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabremike Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 6 minutes ago, AxB said: From Hell, Michigan: Chris Sabin. Is there any significance to Colt Cabana being billed as from Maxwell Street, Chicago? Remember how Johnny B Badd was billed as being from Macon, Georgia? The city was so proud that they decided to actually honour him. So he went there, for the first time in his life, and people kept asking him what neighborhood he was from and which high school he went to. Remember the legendary Cactus anti ECW promo line: "You can be anything in the magical land of WCW... A tough Jewish kid from Brooklyn can become a black man from Macon, Georgia!" 2 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PetrolCB Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 1 hour ago, Zimbra said: Same, but Vero Beach and Terry Taylor As well as Cocoa Beach and The Model. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 Marcus Alexander Bagwell being from Sprayberry High School in Marietta, GA. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nice Guy Eddie Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 It almost slipped my mind, but how about Joel Gertner billing D-Von Dudley from South Central Dudleyville? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nice Guy Eddie Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 2 hours ago, Zimbra said: Same, but Vero Beach and Terry Taylor Jade Cargill is also billed from Vero Beach. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobbyWhioux Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 Just now, Nice Guy Eddie said: It almost slipped my mind, but how about Joel Gertner billing D-Von Dudley from South Central Dudleyville? well other parts of Joel Gertner's introductions tended to stand out more... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nice Guy Eddie Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 Just now, BobbyWhioux said: well other parts of Joel Gertner's introductions tended to stand out more... That's true Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ka-to Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 (edited) 2 hours ago, cwoy2j said: I remember in one of her shoot interviews, Sunny said that she and Candido would quiz each other on old wrestler weights and hometowns while driving from town to town. He'd go, "288lbs from Waxahachi, TX" and she'd answer "Dick Murdoch". Kind of a sweet thing that they'd bond over but sad knowing how things turned out for both of them. 2 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said: I noticed when Justin Roberts billed Jay Lethal from Elizabeth, NJ on last week's Rampage, he said Elizabeth in the Macho Man voice. Being a Jersey guy, I always had a soft spot for Bam Bam Bigelow and King Kong Bundy being from Asbury Park and Atlantic City. I'm a Jersey guy too. I can't remember where Candido was billed from, but I remember that his grandfather, Chuck Richards was from Carteret, NJ. I have an old program from a show in Elizabeth that was autographed by Chuck that Chris signed decades later. Edited February 11, 2022 by ka-to posted too soon 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Great ML Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 The Handsome Halfbreed from Highland Park (ritzy Dallas suburb), Gorgeous Gino Hernadez. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwoy2j Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 Just now, ka-to said: I'm a Jersey guy too. I can't remember where Candido was billed from, but I remember that his grandfather was from Carteret, NJ. Wiki says he was billed from Asbury Park and Spring Lake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nice Guy Eddie Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 1 minute ago, ka-to said: I'm a Jersey guy too. I can't remember where Candido was billed from, but I remember that his grandfather was from Carteret, NJ. Spring Lake Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PetrolCB Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 (edited) 1 minute ago, ka-to said: I'm a Jersey guy too. I can't remember where Candido was billed from, but I remember that his grandfather was from Carteret, NJ. I think it was Spring Lake. Another Jersey, Raven from Short Hills. Edited February 11, 2022 by PetrolCB 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwoy2j Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 I remember Flair was billed as being from Minneapolis, MN for a long time in JCP (and in the Apter mags) to play up his connection to The Andersons and then at some point they switched over to Charlotte, NC. I wanna say he was billed exclusively as being from Charlotte in 1993 during the build-up to the Vader match at Starrcade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwoy2j Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 (edited) 2 minutes ago, PetrolCB said: I think it was Spring Lake. Another Jersey, Raven from Short Hills. That's how I figured out Raven was Scotty the Body without ever have seeing a picture of Raven. PWI always billed STB as being 235lbs and from Short Hills, NJ and then I read a PWI and saw they had a guy named Raven who was the exact same weight and from Short Hills. Edited February 11, 2022 by cwoy2j Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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