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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Wrestling for Top Part 6 by Jack Stevens the Canada 150, Part 6: Rick Martel to Kyle O’Reilly Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Wrestling for Top Part 6 by Jack Stevens The Canada 150, Part 6: Rick Martel to Kyle O’Reilly. The sixth part in our 10-part series looking at 150 Canadian names in pro wrestling, in honour of Canada’s 150th birthday. Part 6 of the Canada 150, an alphabetical listing of Canadians’ impact on pro wrestling from the 1920’s to today. RICK MARTEL. Quebec City’s Rick Martel is best remembered as the flamboyant pretty boy with the spray perfume Arrogance , but that was the end of a storied career. He debuted in 1973, from a wrestling family in Quebec – his father Pierre trained him and was an early star in Quebec, and his brother was “Mad Dog” Michel Martel . He caught on quick and was soon a rising young star across Canada, with runs in Calgary’s Stampede Wrestling and Vancouver’s All Star Wrestling (ASW) , as well across the border in Portland with the NWA’s Pacific Northwest Wrestling territory. He jumped to the WWF in 1980 and found early success in the tag team division, winning the WWF World Tag Team titles with Tony Garea , off the Wild Samoans . He left them in 1982 and instead headed to Minnesota and worked with the AWA . Within two years, he was the AWA World Champion, taking the title off Japanese legend Jumbo Tsurata . He held the belt for almost 19 months, battling the likes of NWA World Champion Ric Flair and Nick Bockwinkel . During his AWA time, he bought Varroussac off Andre the Giant and formed Lutte International , the top promotion in Montreal. In 1986, he left the AWA for the WWF once again, selling off Lutte International to the WWF in the process. He brought his tag partner Tom Zenk to the WWF and he re-entered the tag division with him as The Can-Am Connection , his old team from Lutte. Zenk left for WCW and he was replaced by Tito Santana and the duo was renamed Strikeforce . “Girls in the Cars”, the Strikeforce theme, sung by Robbie Dupree , is one of the greatest theme songs of all time. A classic. In 1989, he entered the singles scene, and began a 6-year run as perennial Intercontinental contender “The Model”. In 1997 he attempted a comeback with WCW, winning the WCW Television title off Booker T , but a severe injury halted it early and he was forced to retire in 1998. One of Canada’s – and wrestling’s – most underrated performers. FRENCHY MARTIN. Quebec City’s Frenchy Martin started his career in his home province in 1973, plus runs in Stampede Wrestling. By the end of the 70’s, he was adding Puerto Rico’s WWC to his tours. He came to the WWF in 1986, originally as an enhancement wrestler, before being transitioned into a manager, the character he’s probably best remembered for by today’s fans. He was the manager for Dino Bravo and Jos LeDuc . He retired in 1990 and moved to Puerto Rico to work as a booker for IWA . Martin passed away last year. MARYSE. Born in Montreal but raised in New Brunswick, Maryse was a model who dreamed of being a professional wrestler. In 2006, she was selected for the Divas Search but failed to advance past the second round. WWE still signed her and sent her to developmental, spending a year with Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW) where she worked as both a singles wrestler and valet. She debuted in WWE on 2008 and went on to become one of the top heels of the Divas era, a 2x Divas Champion, and one of the first colour commentators on NXT , alongside Matt Striker . She left the WWE in 2012, but returned last year to valet her real life husband, The Miz . NICOLE MATTHEWS. Vancouver’s Nicole Matthews is one of the most popular wrestlers on the women’s circuit, with both fans and wrestlers alike. Starting off with hometown ECCW in 2006, before landing in SHIMMER in 2007, where she tagged with Portia Perez in Super NINJAS , as well as matches with SHINE , Smash , and AAW – she’s even worked enhancement in NXT. She’s currently back in ECCW with Cat Power , but it’s only a matter of time before she gets a big break with a bigger promotion. A testament to her ability, in 2014 she captured the SHIMMER Championship off Cheerleader Melissa and held it for 357 days, a remarkable feat in today’s North American indie scene. EARL McCREADY. Saskatchewan’s Earl McCready got into pro wrestling in 1930, but he’d been a standout amateur for years prior. He was a 3x NCCA wrestling champion at Oklahoma State from 1928-30 (he holds the record for fastest pin in a Collegiate Tournament at 19 seconds), competed for Canada at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, and won Gold at the 1930 Empire (pre-Commonwealth) Games. He was a fast learner to the pros and within two years was challenging the top guys, like Ed ‘Strangler’ Lewis and Dick Shikat . The Ring Magazine often ranked him #2 behind only Jim Tolos as the best technical wrestler. In 1933, he beat the 10-year reign of Canada’s founding father of professional wrestling, Jack Taylor , for the NWA’s British Empire Heavyweight Championship, a title he would hold 3 times in his career. As he passed 25 years in the industry, he headed home to Stampede Wrestling, where he was one of the promotion’s top stars of the 1950’s. He retired in 1958, after a near 30 year career. VELVET McINTYRE. Born in Ireland, Velvet McIntyre moved to Canada in 1980 when she was 18 to pursue professional wrestling, starting in Portland and Vancouver’s ASW. By 1982, she was working for the WWF, Stampede Wrestling, Mid South and other NWA territories. In 1983, WWF withdrew from the NWA for the second time, this time under Vince McMahon Jr. , and Velvet signed exclusive to the WWF. Her and her partner Princess Victoria had just won the NWA Women’s Tag Team titles and they both brought them over with them and were immediately recognized as the first WWF Women’s Tag Team titles. When she went singles, she immediately feuded with the Fabulous Moolah as the company’s top face, defeating Moolah for the WWF Women’s Championship in 1986. Moolah often remarked she was the “best female wrestler in Canada.” By 1990, the WWF’s Women’s Division was dissolved and she was released. She returned to the indies and even spent some time with ECCW in their early days, as an early ECCW Women’s Champion. She retired in 1998 and still resides in Vancouver. “THE WILDMAN” DAVE McKIGNEY. Every story has it’s tragic hero. And Canada’s wrestling history books shines it’s blue light on “The Canadian Wildman” Dave McKigney . The face may look familiar. The name may sound familiar. In 1950, a rough and tumble guy named McKigney debuted wrestling at carnivals wrestling a bear named Terrible Ted . That was it. That was his shtick. Granted he was a beast of a man and physically fought the bear every night (I’m sure it was a little work and a lot of shoot). He was unique in that he was a novelty in the US – a funny man wrestling a bear – but in Northern Ontario, the people who knew what a bear could do, he was considered the UFC Champion. The niche of his act, unfortunately, kept him as mostly a side show attraction and one that many of the major promotions were working to stay away from – it harkened to far back to wrestling’s “carny” days. By 1978, he was on his second bear, Smokey , when one night something went terribly wrong. Ted forgot to lock Smokey’s cage one night and he got out and mauled his girlfriend to death. McKigney turned more and more to promoting indie shows, but was growing more and more frustrated with the Tunney’s monopoly of Toronto’s venues with Maple Leaf Wrestling . He packed up shop in Ontario and moved to the Maritimes to tour. It was for one of these shows, that McKigney met his fate in a terrible folk tale of wrestling lore. McKigney was the driver who lost control of the car in Newfoundland that crashed and killed McKigney and two other wrestlers in the car with him, one of which was WWF Legend ‘Adorable’ Adrian Adonis , in 1988. His heart was too big for his dreams and it took the lives of many around him, including himself. ROSA MENDES. Most assume that Rosa Mendes is an American Latina, but she’s actually from Vancouver of Costa Rican and Czech heritage. She was a participant in the 2006 Divas Search and made the final 8, but was eliminated. She was signed anyway and sent to WWE’s developmental. She debuted in 2008 as a ” crazed fan” of Beth Phoenix , and she entered the storyline of Phoenix and Santino Marella . Although she would wrestle sporadically, she was mostly used as a manager, starting with Phoenix, but also including Carlito, Zack Ryder, Tamina and Alicia Fox . Her managerial success was most triumphant during a three year run as the manager for Epico & Primo , when they were WWE Tag Team Champions. Her last run was as the manager/dancing partner for Fandango , before she announced her pregnancy in 2016 and ultimate retirement this year. THE MISSING LINK. A protégé of Whipper Billy Watson and trained by Jack Wentworth , Hamilton’s Dewey Robertson is best remembered as the painted maniac, The Missing Link .
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