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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Aug 7, 2007 22:56:01 GMT -5
In the latest issue of Inside Wrestling, there's an interview with Magnum T.A. Terry Allen. The guy had all the tools to be a top face for a long time, and of course had a feud with no less a legend than Ric Flair; however a car wreck just six years into his career left him a quadraplegic, paralyzed from below the neck in 1986. However over the years he's made an astounding recovery and while he'll never be 100% is able to walk under his own power without needing so much as a cane. He's now married, has five children, owns a cellphone tower company and from his interview and all accounts, seems to be leading a pretty sweet life. So this lil thread is to celebrate a guy who had a memorable career that might have led to greatness in the ring cut short before he could acheive his full potential, but who despite his adversity from all accounts seems to be a guy to look up to and emulate as a person. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnum_T.A. |
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Post by "Playboy" Don Douglas on Aug 7, 2007 22:57:04 GMT -5
AMEN!
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Post by Beebs is the Final Girl on Aug 7, 2007 23:05:10 GMT -5
best thread ever! but i might be biased on a couple things
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Post by Timmy8271 on Aug 7, 2007 23:25:14 GMT -5
Hell yeah Magnum ruled. From the tapes i've seen of him, He was in the man in JCP. Damn shame what happened to him cause he could have been huge. I also liked him on Commentary in the NWA.
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Post by "Nature Boy" Ric Moranis on Aug 8, 2007 0:45:34 GMT -5
I grew up in North Carolina, and Magnum's accident was a huge deal...all over the papers, and led off on the 6:00 evening news. This happened a few months after I first got into wrestling as a kid, it was a huge bummer, since I had just seen him wrestle Nikita Koloff in person a few months earlier.
If he stayed healthy, he would've won the NWA World Title from Flair, probably around the time that they gave it to Ron Garvin for no reason. And eventually, he would've jumped to WWF between 1989-92 and became a wrestling guy from the phone company named "Terry Ringer" or something, and wrestle with a flannel shirt, hard hat, and cowboy boots.
He had a really unique, calm, collected asskicking charisma that you don't see that often anymore. Plus, he was super over, because on TV, he would do these Goldberg-esque 30 second jobber squashes, getting the belly-to-belly suplex super over.
And Andre The Giant gave him his ring name...
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Post by stevierichardsfan on Aug 8, 2007 12:10:56 GMT -5
magnum ruled
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OtisMaximus
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Post by OtisMaximus on Aug 8, 2007 22:19:07 GMT -5
One of my favorite NWA guys.
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Post by thesunbeast on Aug 8, 2007 22:40:50 GMT -5
AMEN to that!
I has no Idea about his accident, I'm glad he made a full recovery. He was at Vengeance and showed no signs of ever being a quadraplegic, and he looked cool no selling MVP's intimidation tactics.
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Post by Powder/The Professor on Aug 9, 2007 6:41:54 GMT -5
Amen!
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Post by "Playboy" Don Douglas on Aug 9, 2007 7:23:25 GMT -5
This thread has reminded me, I need to sit down and watch my Magnum comp tape again.
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Post by Hiroshi Hase on Aug 9, 2007 8:07:47 GMT -5
I grew up in North Carolina, and Magnum's accident was a huge deal...all over the papers, and led off on the 6:00 evening news. This happened a few months after I first got into wrestling as a kid, it was a huge bummer, since I had just seen him wrestle Nikita Koloff in person a few months earlier. If he stayed healthy, he would've won the NWA World Title from Flair, probably around the time that they gave it to Ron Garvin for no reason. And eventually, he would've jumped to WWF between 1989-92 and became a wrestling guy from the phone company named "Terry Ringer" or something, and wrestle with a flannel shirt, hard hat, and cowboy boots. He had a really unique, calm, collected asskicking charisma that you don't see that often anymore. Plus, he was super over, because on TV, he would do these Goldberg-esque 30 second jobber squashes, getting the belly-to-belly suplex super over. And Andre The Giant gave him his ring name... Never knew Andre gave him the Magnum moniker, interesting. I was just watching Magnum on WWE 24/7 on the NWA 11/16/85 show and one of the big matches they were hyping for Starrcade that year was the "I Quit" match with him and Tully. That was hardcore even for today's standards. |
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Post by "Nature Boy" Ric Moranis on Aug 9, 2007 8:22:47 GMT -5
This is the semi-infamous Magnum "I'm gonna come on you!" promo, but in its entire context (not the "edited for humor" clip) it's actually decent... www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXSUXQBVUqUThat segment was pretty cool since backstage attacks came off far more realistic in those days. Plus, bonus points for TBS producers slightly pulling the curtain back to show Magnum botching a promo in his first take, trying again...but it TOTALLY works, because he seemed so PO'd (kayfabe) at the guys he was talking to. Realism...so lost on the business. Everything backstage for the last 15 years has been a "skit". Magnum TA ruled. For the heck of it, here's the opening segment of a certain wrestling show re-debuting on Saturdays on The Superstation in 1985 (right after Vince gave the TV spot back) featuring Flair and Magnum... www.youtube.com/watch?v=--O2KZtjgSEMagnum was a Ted DiBiase-style babyface, and nobody promos like that anymore in the mainstream, except for maybe Cody Rhodes or Chris Harris. That style of babyface interview is a lost art since the Monday Night Wars, but it usually drew money and ratings...because it was actually sincere and not average/bad acting. |
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Post by "Nature Boy" Ric Moranis on Aug 9, 2007 8:31:28 GMT -5
Never knew Andre gave him the Magnum moniker, interesting. I was just watching Magnum on WWE 24/7 on the NWA 11/16/85 show and one of the big matches they were hyping for Starrcade that year was the "I Quit" match with him and Tully. That was hardcore even for today's standards. That I Quit match was awesome. One of the most amazing things about the "I Quit" match is that once Blanchard and Magnum broke that wooden chair, they had 17,000+ people (without the aid of a TitonTron video screen) screaming at the top of their lungs while watching two guys try to simply "disfigure" the other guy with a five-inch sliver of splintery wood. And Tully never said "I Quit", he just said "yesssss!!!!"...so they set-up a built-in angle that they never could follow through on once Magnum got paralyzed less than a year later. |
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Post by tommyvercetti on Aug 9, 2007 9:50:55 GMT -5
I remember sending him a Get Well card after the accident.
He and Dusty were my first favorite faces...
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