It’s the First Day of #MickFoleyWeek, a celebration of all things Wanted: Dead and the fourth installment in our patent-pending Juice Make Sugar Wrestler of the Week series. Today, we start by making Mick A Wrestler You (Should) Probably Know Better.
Yet another underpaid and overworked independent wrestler got hurt recently, taking a bump he didn’t need to take for a group of fans who didn’t really care and definitely didn’t need to see it. And that makes Andy Angry.
Andre the Giant is a legend of the sport, but it’s revisionist history that he was a full-fledged main event star. Big bodied wrestlers could be spectacles, but they were never seen as top-dog standard bearers.
Leon “Big Van Vader” White changed that.