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Bob did work as a security guard at a dog racing track in the early 2000s. I asked Harley about it at an Indy show in Seagrove, NC years ago and Harley told me "He needs that job like he needs a hole in the head!"
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Bad News Brown said in his RF shoot that he worked as a mall security guard. That made me sad. Thinking someone who won a Bronze in the Olympics (or maybe it was Pan Ams, but I think it was Olympics) and was such a great worker relegated to such an unskilled, low paying job...he deserved better.
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I envy those who lived in a territory. I grew up in Tucson, AZ. My "territory" was being a WWF "C" town.
I believe the business fell on its ass in the early 90's because WCW started to copy WWF when it really should have been the other way around.
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He won a Bronze medal in judo in the 1976 Olympics in Montreal. Did not start wrestling until 1977 when he was 34 years old. Great success in the 80s in Stampede and WWF.
He did work as a mall security guard in Alberta, Canada in late 90s.
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Bob Backlund delivered coal after he took a sabbatical after his first WWF title run.
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Is mall security "unskilled"? Seems to me quite a number of skills would be required for that.
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Quoted from: Sonnyr555, March 29th, 2024 22:11 GMTBob Backlund delivered coal after he took a sabbatical after his first WWF title run.
He also worked hanging drywall, according to the Hogan cover Sports Illustrated. This would have been a year or two after his title reign.
I work at a home depot and I don't even like to think of lifting drywall.
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This message was edited by missileDK on March 30th, 2024 05:11 GMT
Do you guys have a picture of Gary Lindgren in the drywall section of the store or a picture of Jim Duggan in the lumber department?
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Del Wilkes worked for car dealership too.
Didn't Shane Douglas work at Target?
George Steele as a teacher.
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Tito Santana was a middle school Spanish Teacher and just retired this past June. I wrote him some fanmail when he worked there.
Roma runs a wrestling school with jobber Mario Mancini in Connecticut.
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Backlund kept himself in extraordinary physical condition during his abscence from wrestling from mid August 1985 - early July 1992.
He had to get up early for his job for 7 years. It was a job that required incredible stamina, physical strength, mental tenacity, etc
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Good point, Bret. Lots of boys in the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s were raised in very low socio-economic households. They earned a lot of money over a short period of time and spent the money they earned in their 20s and 30s and realized that they had many years ahead of them but did not know what to do career wise.
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For retired wrestlers, there's more to it than just being spendthrift--there's no insurance or pensions in wrestling and medical bills for an ex-wrestler can pile up real fast.
Hard times can hit athletes even if they're not spending money on Ferraris and gold-plated faucets. "Helpers" and even family members can embezzle/lose their money for them (see the NHL's Jack Johnson whose own parents defrauded him of millions).
Danny White is about as whitebread as athletes get and he had financial problems in retirement.
As for Nikolai...how much of that 1994 WWF run was shoot vs. work? They sure spent a lot of time harping on how broke he was through bad investments, for no discernible purpose other than to basically embarrass him.
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