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RIP Paul Bearer (Wrestling), only 58 years old

wrestlingcardkingwrestlingcardking Posts: 4,555 ✭✭✭✭
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Wrestling loses another guy pretty young.
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  • calgarycollectorcalgarycollector Posts: 356
    I was waiting for this one. Read the news and have to say was a bit shocked when I read 58 and figured he was much older. If that voice was really his well then I wouldn't say the news isn't surprising.

    RIP to a man that created a childhood of memories for me. Thank you.

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  • ThoseBackPagesThoseBackPages Posts: 4,871 ✭✭
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  • al032184al032184 Posts: 1,146 ✭✭✭
    I was really shocked when I saw 58 too. I remember watching wrestling 20 years ago and thought he was around 50 then.
  • gregmo32gregmo32 Posts: 2,648 ✭✭✭
    For an entire month in the summer of 1992, I portrayed a recurring character called ”Otto The Eternal Olympic Flamebearer” as entertainment at a camp I was working at. It was essentially a direct ripoff of Paul Bearer, mixed with my own exaggerated social retardation. It was Oscar caliber, if I do say so my damn self.
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  • scashaggyscashaggy Posts: 1,107 ✭✭✭
    Sad news but I'm not shocked. As others, I am more surprised about how young he was.
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  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,406 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Hiya Rob

    That's sad but I'm not familiar.

    Have ya got a card of the wrestler?
    Mike
  • DboneesqDboneesq Posts: 18,219 ✭✭
    Here ya go Mike. WOW ... I too thought he was MUCH older than that. RIP.

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  • Dpeck100Dpeck100 Posts: 10,912 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Percy Pringle


    I have lived in Orlando my entire life. In 1985 this segment aired on the local wrestling and I got to watch it. We did not have cable so Championship Wrestling from Florida was a Sunday staple! We begged our parents to leave church as soon as the 11 o'clock sermon was over with the hopes of making it home by 12:15 to catch the last 45 minutes.

    Percy Pringle was one of the heal managers.

    RIP

  • markmacmarkmac Posts: 412 ✭✭✭
    I remember him more as Percy Pringle. Youtube him and you will find some entertaining interviews. He loved the business and seemed to be a good man. Apparently he was over 500 lbs at one time and had gastric bypass surgery and lost a lot of weight. Look for interviews of him and Jim Cornette talking about the business. Very entertaining. RIP Percy Pringle.
  • MapleleafMapleleaf Posts: 506 ✭
    He was one of my favourites. RIP
  • TNP777TNP777 Posts: 5,710 ✭✭✭
    ah, I remember the days when PB and the Undertaker were the greatest evil the WWF/E had ever known. Entertaining stuff, for sure.

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  • wrestlingcardkingwrestlingcardking Posts: 4,555 ✭✭✭✭
    i don't have his cards as I like more of the older guys just sad to see him gone......
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  • relaxedrelaxed Posts: 569 ✭
    Last time I saw Paul Bearer on TV he was with Kane they were involved with Edge before he retired. I enjoyed Paul Bearer especially when he was with the Undertaker.
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  • TonyCTonyC Posts: 1,399 ✭✭✭
    One of my customers was very excited, because he had a ticket to a luncheon with Paul Bearer in the Boston area this upcoming Saturday...
    Collecting Tony Conigliaro
  • spazzyspazzy Posts: 592 ✭✭
    I guess he really did work in a funeral home at one time.
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