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Post by Crappler El 0 M on Feb 12, 2019 15:04:33 GMT -5
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Post by Spider2024 on Feb 12, 2019 15:08:37 GMT -5
R.I.P.
It's a shame he didn't accept an invite back to WWE for so many years before his death.
We've now lost the first 5 WWF Champions. And #6, Superstar Billy Graham, has had failing health recently.
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Post by Mozenrath on Feb 12, 2019 15:09:16 GMT -5
Pedro's been sick for a long time. It sucks, but I'm glad his suffering is over.
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Post by fw91 on Feb 12, 2019 15:10:43 GMT -5
Man we lost the early champions of wwe all pretty recently.
Shame he couldn’t be recognized more often in the modern era.
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Post by RedSmile on Feb 12, 2019 15:16:18 GMT -5
Yeah, saw this being floated around out there, but couldn't find a good official source.
Pedro is very underrated. Had a world title run that lasted three years and was the first triple crown champion.
The OG Latino Heat.
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Post by Milkman Norm on Feb 12, 2019 15:18:23 GMT -5
RIP.
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Post by thecrusherwi on Feb 12, 2019 15:25:32 GMT -5
RIP Pedro. It’s sad to see the golden age WWWF stars passing away recently but those days are becoming a long long time ago unfortunately. I’m happy that many of these men at least got to live long lives.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Feb 12, 2019 15:28:51 GMT -5
WWE has now tweeted about it, so it’s pretty much confirmed.
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Post by Hit Girl on Feb 12, 2019 15:34:42 GMT -5
RIP Pedro.
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Post by The 1Watcher Experience on Feb 12, 2019 15:36:37 GMT -5
I ran into him at a show once. I was way way too young to know who he was at the time. My father took me to a WWF show. This was actually my first live show ever. We’re walking along and this guy starts staring at me. I look back and he starts yelling at me. “No pictures! No pictures!” he said. I got nervous because I don’t think I’d ever had an adult, especially a total stranger react to me like that. Then I thought maybe there were wrestlers around or something so I started looking around for them. He was watching me do this and when I stopped he made eye contact again. He blurts out “I said no pictures!” I asked “Of who? You?” “No pictures!” he yelled out again as I walked away. I had no idea who it was. I didn’t even have a camera. It was so weird. I asked my father who that guy was. He said he thought it was Pedro Morales. I didn’t know the name but I remembered it because he freaked me out. I picked up a wrestling magazine at a bookstore in the mall about a year later. It had a big article on the history of the WWF world title complete with tons of pictures. I was a little kid. I didn’t have any money so I couldn’t buy it but I wanted to know who all the champions were so I started flipping through to learn who held the belt before I became a fan. There he was. Pedro Morales with the belt. I was shocked. The guy who freaked out on me was a former WWF world champion for a few years. Haha. Knowing what I know about wrestling now I suppose he was a road agent at the time. I know it’s a weird and kind of pointless story but that’s one of my earliest wrestling memories. I was so young that it always stayed with me. RIP Pedro Morales.
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Post by 2coldMack is even more baffled on Feb 12, 2019 15:37:38 GMT -5
That's a shame. By all accounts, he was a kind, humble, self-effacing gentleman. Shame he got so reclusive in his later years, but 76 years is practically a billion in wrestler years, so at least he lived a long, full, fascinating life. Rest in peace, sir.
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Post by Convoy on Feb 12, 2019 16:25:36 GMT -5
A Puerto Rican legend. RIP, Pedro.
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Post by Seth Drakin of Monster Crap on Feb 12, 2019 16:26:35 GMT -5
Cant say much because I really didn't watch a lot of his matches, but RIP regardless
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Post by nickcave on Feb 12, 2019 16:26:56 GMT -5
First and only Puerto Rican champion and the longest combined reigning Intercontinental champion. For some reason WWE never talks about him but I assumed it was because he and Vince had a falling out or something. RIP to a true legend.
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Post by claytanic on Feb 12, 2019 16:32:55 GMT -5
True legend, sad to hear. I always enjoyed his matches.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Feb 12, 2019 16:40:55 GMT -5
First and only Puerto Rican champion and the longest combined reigning Intercontinental champion. For some reason WWE never talks about him but I assumed it was because he and Vince had a falling out or something. RIP to a true legend. I don’t know that he and Vince had a falling out like Bruno had with Vince but I did read he just didn’t like the direction wrestling was going during the late 90s and onwards. Unlike Bruno, he didn’t put that blame solely on Vince’s shoulders. He was inducted into the WWF Hall of Fame in 95 but as he was employed by WCW at the time, he couldn’t attend (although I also read rumours that said he was there, he just wasn’t filmed or photographed).
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Post by darbus alan on Feb 12, 2019 16:46:51 GMT -5
The guy's accomplishments were incredible. First ever Latino world champion in WWE's history and held the then-WWWF Heavyweight Championship for over 1,000 days, first ever WWE Triple Crown champion after getting the World Tag Team Championships with Bob Backlund and then getting the IC Championship.
RIP to a true legend of wrestling.
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Post by RowdyRobbyPiper on Feb 12, 2019 17:08:53 GMT -5
A legend of the Northeast who had the unenviable task of following Bruno Sammartino, but who did it his own way. RIP, Pedro.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Feb 12, 2019 17:15:44 GMT -5
I have seen none of his work, knew nothing about him, actually already thought he was dead.
But I wouldn't be writing this reply right now without what he gave to this business. RIP Pedro.
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Post by government mule on Feb 12, 2019 17:31:56 GMT -5
By all accounts a true gentleman. Thank you Pedro. RIP
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