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Topics => The Departed => Topic started by: ToddF on November 16, 2015, 05:52:50 PM

Title: Nick Bockwinkel
Post by: ToddF on November 16, 2015, 05:52:50 PM

Twin Cities great, Vern Gagne foil.

http://www.startribune.com/awa-wrestling-great-nick-bockwinkel-dies-at-80/350265471/ (http://www.startribune.com/awa-wrestling-great-nick-bockwinkel-dies-at-80/350265471/)

80 years is a decent run.

! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVxr9zAj-6w#)

One more from my childhood, gone.   :'(

Title: Re: Nick Bockwinkel
Post by: IronDioPriest on November 16, 2015, 06:39:58 PM

Enjoyed watching him as a kid. He outlived a lot of his contemporaries.

Title: Re: Nick Bockwinkel
Post by: ToddF on November 17, 2015, 05:40:42 AM

His contemporaries have done well.  It's their kids that are dying early.

Larry the Ax is alive.  His kid is not.  Macho Man, gone.  Piper gone.  But the Baron is alive and well.

Title: Re: Nick Bockwinkel
Post by: Libertas on November 17, 2015, 06:50:22 AM

Too late to trade Nick for Jim Janos?

Life isn't fair...proof right there.