Throwback To The Good Ole Days

[Poppy]

@johnjuanb1 has been posting some pro wrestlers lately. It started me thinking of my childhood and some of the local characters in the Detroit metro area when I was a kid.

Anyone care to hazard a guess?

Hints… tim the tool man taylor referenced the dark fella on his show a couple of times. The lighter fella was parodied in a morning radio talk show in the area.

 

[Poppy]

More clues

The dark guy is considered the jackie robinson of pro wrestling.

The light guy was a pro football player prior to wrestling.

 

[Jonny]

The black guy is Bobo Brazil?

 

[Poppy]

Boom! Nailed it!

He was 6’ 6”… a big fella.

 

[Jonny]

The white guy I’m not sure maybe THE ANIMAL

 

[Poppy]

Nope. He had the original gravely voice. They had a morning skit with him (a dude with the gravely voice) on the radio not too long ago. He’s been dead a while of course.

 

[Poppy]

Clue

“Blank” the “blank”er

 

[Poppy]

Hint. He was billed as the world’s most dangerous wrestler… beings he was originally from the Indianapolis area…David letterman named his house band after him the world’s most dangerous band.

 

[johnjuanb1]

Hacksaw Jim Duggan

 

[Poppy]

I’ve seen him up close in the 80’s…that was a big man… junkyard dog too. Big boys!

 

[Dirtnasty]

It’s the bruiser of dicks wait i May have mixed that up also i black and whit e photos maybe me
Think of Rick flair pre plane crash he was a thicc boi

 

[Poppy]

Ding ding ding WE HAVE A WINNER

DICK THE BRUISER.

A Detroit metro legend from way back!

 

[Rusty]

Never heard of him. Look scary sad EF to me.

 

[Poppy]

He wrestled in the Detroit area back in the day.

 

[Dirtnasty]

He looks like skipped leg day ahha