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Post by Woooooolhouse! on Aug 26, 2010 10:18:50 GMT -5
I've seen Larry "The Axe" Hennig at the local liquor store many, many times. Curt's nephew graduated the year after me. And I only live about 15 minutes away from Bob Backlund's hometown of Princeton, MN.
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Post by NOwave on Aug 26, 2010 10:26:40 GMT -5
whoever said he was from Memphis was being sarcastic, I hope. Memphis has many, many.
Jerry Lawler Wayne Ferris(Honky Tonk Man) Mo Koko B. Ware(Union City) Sid Vicious(West Memphis) Brian Christopher Jimmy Hart
any number of others-many weren't from there but spent many years and may as well have been native- Plowboy Frazier Jeff jarrett Bill Dundee Jery Jarrett and on and on
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Post by warrenpeace on Aug 26, 2010 10:27:11 GMT -5
My hometown of Athens,Tn I know Skinny Kenny Arden lives there and now that i live in Knoxville there are bound to be some guys in around the area......I know Jimmy Golden lives in Blount County which is the county over.When i talked to Tammy Sytch at a ROH show told her were i lived she said some Smokey Mtn guys lived in the complex.....
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Aug 26, 2010 11:44:15 GMT -5
My hometown is Hamtramck, MI. The only wrestler I know of from here is Truth Martini.
If you expand the question to include nearby, Detroit surrounds Hamtramck on 3 sides. Kevin Nash, Rhino, Alex Shelley, amongst others.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2010 11:47:49 GMT -5
The Rock, MVP and Pope
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2010 11:50:45 GMT -5
My hometown is equidistant to DC and Richmond, so I'm counting Batista, Mickie James, and Joey Mercury.
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Post by Malibu Albino on Aug 26, 2010 12:11:17 GMT -5
Pittsburgh has Kurt Angle and Bruno Sammartino. Probably a bunch of other people too.
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Post by Todd Pettengill on Aug 26, 2010 12:15:22 GMT -5
I'm from Albany, so I'm using the "Capital District" as standard for Hometown.
Hacksaw is from Glens Falls (30 mins away) a buddy of mine went to HS with him. Said he was a monster on the football field, and that he was a big partyer, super outgoing, and that even then, he would put everyone in headlocks in the hallway. Recently, they started a Capital District High School Football Hall of Fame, and the Hacksaw was among the inaugural inductions.
Spike Dudley went to Skidmore in Saratoga, and I've heard he was originally from Schenectady.
The PWHoF is in Amsterdam, NY.
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Post by flashnorton on Aug 26, 2010 12:34:02 GMT -5
Bobby Eaton is from Huntsville and he was school buddies with my dad. Also, Paul Bearer is from Mobile and he lived a few blocks from where my family stayed at the time.
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Post by D2: Sweet & Sour Edition on Aug 26, 2010 12:59:00 GMT -5
Kevin Thorn
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Post by Square on Aug 26, 2010 13:03:12 GMT -5
William Regal lived and is booked 10 minutes away from me in Blackpool
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Post by Numero Dos on Aug 26, 2010 13:04:37 GMT -5
The only wrestler from my local area that anyone would have really heard of I suppose would be PAC being that I live about 30 minutes from Newcastle
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Post by Dr. Mantis Toboggan on Aug 26, 2010 13:25:07 GMT -5
Nobody from Pawtucket, but Rhode Island is so small and everything's in a such a close proximity, I'll mention wrestlers from Rhode Island. Spike Dudley is from Lincoln, RI and his brother is teacher at Cumberland High School (2 of my cousins had him and he even mentioned being brother to Spike). Chuck Palumbo is originally from Warwick and his family still lives there. Former referee Tim White lives in Cumberland (also where the famed Friendly Tap bar is located, not Providence). My father's seen him just down the street coming out of a cell phone store a couple of times and apparently he's shopped at the Stop and Shop I work at, but I've yet to see him, unfortunately.
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Post by The Orangeman on Aug 26, 2010 14:02:42 GMT -5
The Hart Family is about 3 hours northwest away from me. I am counting it. Not to mention the number of famous wrestlers that trained in the household I know a few local boys that are stirring things up in the Western Canadian regions, but I won't count them as famous.
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Post by Son of a Pregnant Dog on Aug 26, 2010 17:15:52 GMT -5
Surprisingly, despite many wrestlers coming from other hard-knock parts of the Delaware Valley, and despite there always being a strong interest in wrestling here- as far as I know there's never been anyone big-time out of Trenton, New Jersey. James J. Dillon was born there, I believe. Cool. I've only vaguely heard of him because of the territories he worked in, never saw NWA as a kid.
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Post by derrtaysouth95 on Aug 26, 2010 17:23:03 GMT -5
Hulk Hogan was BORN in Augusta, GA.
James Brown is also from Augusta, GA (RIP). And for the record he counts...he showed up on WCW that one time courtesy of The Cat.
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Post by Apricots And A Pear Tree on Aug 26, 2010 17:51:50 GMT -5
Beulah McGillicutty.It was weird a month or so ago when Tommy was visiting relatives and tweeted that he went to Michigan's Adventure(a local theme park).If I would have known sooner I would have invited him out to my favorite buffet and we could close the place down.
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Post by bwo4life on Aug 26, 2010 18:03:41 GMT -5
While not being born there, Morgantown WV has always seemed like home (with college, spent most my life there).
MoTown gave us the lovely Necro Butcher.
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Post by Crappler El 0 M on Aug 26, 2010 18:11:42 GMT -5
I used to live generally near Ray Traylor and remember when he ran for office shortly before his death and had yard signs that said "Vote for the Big Boss Man."
Speaking of Bossman, his old partner Bull Buchanan used to live much closer to where I live and he has pretty regularly worked shows all around where I live.
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Post by "Playboy" Don Douglas on Aug 26, 2010 18:27:48 GMT -5
I've seen Larry "The Axe" Hennig at the local liquor store many, many times. Curt's nephew graduated the year after me. And I only live about 15 minutes away from Bob Backlund's hometown of Princeton, MN. "The Axe" seemed like a nice guy when I met him. Very polite. Of course, it was a convention, not sure if he's the same in a public place or not.
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