Welcome guest Login : Register : Latest posts : Help » Discussion Forums » Reading Topic » Midwest Territories » Central States » Shiek Abdullah's Army Only one page to show. guest: November 11th, 2000 04:02 GMT Post: #22159 PT: #1/12 Around 1984, a man named Shiek Abdullah the Great brought his army into the in the Central States area. His army contained The Super Destroyer, Captain Luke Graham and Lieutenant Gypsy Joe. He would accompany his wrestler's to ringside and occasionally steal the microphone from the ring announcer and constantly praise his wrestlers. After 1984 I don't recall ever seeing Shiek Abdullah appear in the Central States area again. Is anyone out there able to confirm or deny this statement ?   guest: November 13th, 2000 00:01 GMT Post: #22160 PT: #2/12 I remember watching All-Star Wrestling at 8:00 on Sunday mornings on Channel 41 in the early '80's from Kansas City, Sheik Abdullah the Great was the top heel manager in the area. I was in early grade school during this time, and I remember him for a couple of years I think. If my memory is correct, I remember Sheik Abdullah managing at different times the Super Destroyer, Mr. Pogo, Akio Sato, Tarzan Goto, Masa Chono, The Grappler, and I'm sure there were many others that I cannot remember. Edited by: Freightr ain at: 11/12/00 4:07:06 pm Mark from WA November 17th, 2000 06:44 GMT Topics: 53 Replies: 692 Member Post: #22161 PT: #3/12 Shiek Abdullah also wrestled quite a bit in Portland (PNW area)in '83, usually in main events or mid-card - he was great onthe stick ! OneFanGang November 18th, 2000 13:52 GMT Topics: 445 Replies: 3750 Member Post: #22162 PT: #4/12 wasn't Sheik Abdullah a guy named Jack Kruger who wound up doing some TV jobbing for the WWF?   If that's the case, I think he also did quite a bit of refereeing for them too, after a shave and a hjaircut to make him a little more authoritative.   He was a pretty good worker from memories I have, doing a nice WWF TV bout with Ricky Steamboat from Poughkeepsie in like 1985 or so. "History is important and should be accurately documented, and once it is committed to print that it belongs to everyone." -James C. Melby guest: November 24th, 2000 18:56 GMT Post: #22163 PT: #5/12 Mark, Thanks to the footage that you sent me, I now realize that Abdullah the Great & Ali Hassan (as he was known in Portland) are one and the same. Hassan was also known as the Iranian Assassin in Memphis during the Early 80's (before his stints in Portland & Central States).   Mark from WA November 25th, 2000 07:23 GMT Topics: 53 Replies: 692 Member Post: #22164 PT: #6/12 I have a real old Memphis tape ('78-'81) that has a match involving the Iranian Assassin. I'll have to check it out again - I haven't seen that match in awhile. It's a real fuzzy tape but still one of my favs...Tons of classic Memphis   guest: December 07th, 2000 06:09 GMT Post: #22165 PT: #7/12 I had heard that Abdullah the Great was in the Central States area, but thought it was the Abdullah the Great who had been tag team partners with Sheik Ali Hasan in the WWA in Indianapolis in the early 80's.  Jack Kruger was supposed to be a local guy from Danville IL, and had been police chief in a small town near there.  He went to Paul Christy's wrestling school in the Chicago area, and became Bounty Hunter Jack Cougar for awhile in the WWA.  Later he was the Cuban Assasin, and then became Sheik Ali Hasan.  I saw some magazine coverage for him later, and he was Sheik Abdullah Ali Hasan in the Pacific Northwest.  I last saw him wrestling as a jobber for WWF as Jack Kruger and later as a referee.  I saw his name on a list of deceased wrestlers.  I didn't think he was that old, would maybe be in middle 40's now. He had a nice article in the newspaper in Danville when I lived there as a local boy who had become a pro wrestler. He appeared on a wrestling card for WWA in Danville in about 1981 or 1982 and announcer Sam Menacher referred to him as the man of 1000 identities. Sort of a swerve on how they announced Wilbur Snyder then as the man of 1000 holds. When he was Sheik Ali Hasan in WWA his partner was Abdullah the Great a large black man, who was billed as being from Istanbul Turkey.   guest: April 12th, 2003 20:40 GMT Post: #22166 PT: #8/12 did shiek abdullah managed kamala in cs area ? if it did it would be very interesting seeing how kamala sent jack krueger out on a strecher  in the wwf. guest: April 13th, 2003 03:03 GMT Post: #22167 PT: #9/12 Yes, I think I have on tape where Abdullah manages Kamala against Jerry Blackwell. guest: April 14th, 2003 20:39 GMT Post: #22168 PT: #10/12 thanks for the info guest: September 18th, 2004 15:29 GMT Post: #216633 PT: #11/12 Kamala did squash Kruger on TV, prompting Kruger to don the ref's stripes.  Kruger actually was given an interview during another Kamala squash several weeks later, saying the top rope splash felt like "a semi running acroos your ribs".  Great stuff. I didn't realize he was Shiek Abdullah.  Kruger had to be in his forties during his WWF stint starting in 1986.  I would imagine he'd be in his 60's by now.  Don't know if he's deceased or not. roddie44 January 16th, 2014 01:55 GMT Topics: 0 Replies: 3 Member Post: #783730 PT: #12/12 I was a big Central States fan back in the mid 80's.  They came to my hometown right when the Bulldog Bob Brown-Marty Jannetty fued started.  I got Sheik Abdullah's autograph before the show.  He was chatting up some local chick in the corner.  I was just a little kid then, but if I remember correctly, that was the first autograph I ever asked for.  I was pretty scared of him because at that point I didn't know it was a work. Only one page to show. Posts in this thread ( 12 ) [ Subscriptions disabled ] [ Print Topic :: Print page] » Discussion Forums » Reading Topic © ICT - Infinite Core Technologies 2002-2006 All Rights Reserved Driven by ICT - Infinite Core Technologies