Farewell, Sir Oliver Humperdink

[filkertom]

Sadness for rasslin' fans. John Sutton, a legendary pro wrestling manager best known as Sir Oliver Humperdink, has passed away at the age of 64.

Comments

[pagawne.livejournal.com]

The one I will almost have a party for is the person the called the "Iron Claw".

[alverant.livejournal.com]

In Mel Brooks "History of the World" the King of France is blackmailing a woman to sleep with him by threatening to have her father executed. "It's either hump or death." "Humperdink?"

Was this the person Brooks made the joke about?

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Probably not. It could've been Engelbert Humperdinck, the composer, or Engelbert Humperdinck, the pop singer, or Prince Humperdinck from The Princess Bride, or....

[unclelumpy.livejournal.com]

Did they bury him in one of those ridiculous jackets?

[james-the-evil1.livejournal.com]

Sadness :-( He's one of the guys I actually saw when I was growing up as a kid at the Eddie Graham Sports Center as part of Florida Championship Wrestling.