Big Daddy (Florida territory, not the UK wrestler)

[Joe Neglia]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU66QA9FvXk

Big Daddy is a bit of a "legend" so far as horrible wrestlers go. Real name Steve Blasio, this Big Daddy (no connection to the UK worker). Sadly, this clip is sans his yellow rubber duck, a prop he would carry with him to the ring. BD's time in the business was short - he started in April 1983 and his final match was in July of the following year.

Blasio is notorious for being an immensely horrible worker. His career ended when he shattered his ankle performing a routine move and that was it for him (sources and accounts differ, but it appears he did it while being tossed from the ring in a battle royale). He would go on to sue Dusty Rhodes, the promotion and several others over it, a lawsuit that would only end in 1989 when the courts found in Rhodes' favor.

[Toilet Paper Roll]

That match legitimately looks like they paid a guy at a truck stop fifty bucks to fake fight a guy.

[petef3]

He actually looks like he knows what he's doing on the mat, so I dunno if he was a legit superheavyweight amateur or what, or if Florida trained people that thoroughly. He looked bad but only marginally worse than the Mighty Wilbur...

Until he "ran" the ropes and did that splash. Holy Mary, mother of God, that guy was a menace to himself and others.

[jason1980s]

I clicked forward a few scenes in the match and he's always in the middle of a stalled moved. His slow motion moves remind me of watching one of the Tom Magee matches which probably shows how awful Tom was since his body shape was much better than this guy. I wonder if Dusty remembered this name and used it for "Big Daddy Dink" in 1991 WCW.