The fake Stan Lane story and others of that ilk

[Bix]

Decided to take advantage of the odd story from this past week to do the definitive guide to guys like Big Daddy Bruno Beefcake: http://www.cagesideseats.com/2011/3/17/205...ther-pretenders

[Death From Above]

That whole story... the truth really is way stranger than fiction.

[EricR]

I was so hoping you would include the Psycho Cybil story. Didn't she say she was about to main event MSG in '97 but walked out to care for her ailing husband?

[El-P]

Fascinating. Some people do live strange lives.

[Bix]

I was so hoping you would include the Psycho Cybil story. Didn't she say she was about to main event MSG in '97 but walked out to care for her ailing husband?

Yup.

 

For some reason I remembered the story being that her husband "Sailor Moses" was also a wrestler but that's not in the surviving version.

[Strummer]

Cybil story is the best

 

great job Bix

[Johnny Sorrow]

the idea of selling merchandise at a funeral would be the last thing on my mind if my somewhat famous spouse or sibling died.

 

"Howsabout sons?"

[Bix]

Memorial show != funeral.

[rovert]

Please bring this up on Slammin Stan

[Johnny Sorrow]

Memorial show != funeral.

I was willing to suspend that fact in favor of a Fritz joke.

[broke]

Would love to see a follow up - Smoeater555, Butch from WC, etc.

 

Reminds me, did anybody ever save the Smoeater reveal?

[Indikator]

What I found today

https://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Larry/Lanning

I wrestled professionally from 1975-2005 for NWA-AWA & WWF plus many more. I was the 1st Undertaker from 1988-91.....

It's a major pain in the ass to keep an eye on obituaries as at least 50% of the claims are either untraceable or pure crap. At one point I thought I had found the original heavyweight Little Beaver from the 1930s but then I did find an article which made him about 10 years older. At one point I made a textfile of all the WWE unknowns we have so that Wilbur Henderson from the FB Tribute Site would have it a bit easier to wade through all those phoney WWE wrestlers

[jdw]

Remember the Fake Buddy Rogers story that had people on Wrestling Classics (and possible elsewhere) buying it and waited with baited breath for the next installment of the con-job history? It was Hitler Diaries level of working people on wrestling history. I seem to recall that I threatened with the ban-hammer when early on calling it bullshit in a not very nice way.

 

I think the board where most of it happened is long since gone, and who knows how much of the side conversation on Classics is around. A hoot when it blew up.

[PeteF3]

That was who broke was talking about when he mentioned smoeater. I think most of the big reveals got deleted off KFM in short order, maybe even the entire thread, though the old KFM archives are still around.

 

The Classics post was still around as of a year or so ago.

[Jetlag]

I remember reading a story about Arandu (caveman luchador with awesome hair you may know from the 80s set) like this a while back. I can't remember the details, but apparently there was a 10 bell salute for Arandu at a lucha show in Monterrey or somewhere. I don't know if it was because of confusion over a fake or something, but the actual Arandu (who lives in Texas) was contacted, he then proceeded to call the promoter of the show for some beyond the grave shenanigans.

[pantherwagner]

I never heard the story but several different wrestlers have used the name Arandu. IIRC a northern/Monterrey guy and the one who wrestled in Tijuana were different people.

[SteveJRogers]

Geez, I can see getting away with that in the age before the internet and search engines (never mind Google/Wikipedia in the last 20 some years), but it does say a lot about either how easily people can be worked (it's pro wrestling, its all a work anyway I'm sure is the usual "defense").

 

I mean people are still falling for any kind of catfish scam when it comes to all walks of life (be it by a "known" person or not), I mean how many stories can be told of people pretending to be famous athletes or other entertainers (or just simple BSing like "yeah, I was on this pro team/hit TV program/etc") just to impress unknowing girls at bars and whatnot? Even to this day when a simple Google search will show you what Ben Roethlisberger looks like!

[broke]

i have bits and pieces of the original Buddy Rogers thread on kayfabe memories, but not the "fake Buddy Rogers" implication, the "look at the earlobes" post, or the "this whole thing was a work".

 

Jdw, zordani and a few others were quick to call bullshit on the whole thing. I figured the thing was a tuse when smoeater would switch personalities from post to post.

[PeteF3]

http://wrestlingclassics.com/.ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=9;t=024976

 

The Classics thread on Rogers. Hard to believe that was 11 and a half years ago.

 

Also, the reaction of some of the people there is absurdly over the top even for a hypothetical TRUE version of this story.

[Johnny Guitar]

Here's the beginning of the Buddy Rogers thread, it starts with Gone Fishing's post.

 

http://sportsandwrestling.mywowbb.com/forum1/1119-2.html

 

There was a link somewhere over there to the whole original threads as little as over a month ago. But they seemed to have vanished.

[broke]

theres a yuku version of the km buddy rogers threads.

 

http://web.archive.org/web/20030404223830/pub138.ezboard.com/fkayfabememoriesworldwidewrestlingfederation

 

Only caveat is that several pages were not archived, just click the next number if you hit a dead end. Theres also a yuku version of bob barnetts original pain in the ass forum out there as well.