Bad News All Around

Ugh.... another week and another wrestler passes away. When will it end?

Bad News Brown/Allen had an unusual run in the WWF in the late-1980's, in that he was pushed as a top guy yet never main-evented any sort of PPV. Still, he had some very good brawls in the pre-hardcore era against Rowdy Roddy Piper, Hulk Hogan and even Jake Roberts, and I vividly remember some of his bouts with Bret Hart and Randy Savage (I think I have on tape a streetfight where he fought "Macho Man" from Hamilton's Copps Coliseum that was fantastic). Those are some pretty big names to work with.

I had just read last year's the excellent Stampede biography "Pain & Passion" which features a recent interview with Allen, and the author describes how intimidating he was, even at senior-citizen age.

This reminds me of 1993, where you had Andre The Giant, Kerry Von Erich, Dino Bravo and some others dying in the first few months of the year. So now we have Bad News, Bam Bam and Mike Awesome. Just sad....