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Post by HardcoreHeroes on Feb 19, 2006 20:16:33 GMT -5
Not sure when this is to be announced to the public, but I heard today that our friend Tony Atlas is among the legends to be inducted into this year's class of the WWE Hall of Fame.
Congratulations to Tony!
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Post by ssteward on Feb 19, 2006 20:29:44 GMT -5
good for him
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Post by bluedevil71 on Feb 19, 2006 20:34:57 GMT -5
Congrats to Tony. A truly nice guy. He is great to be around at the fanfests.
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Post by bobbyryates on Feb 19, 2006 20:35:08 GMT -5
wonder if they will recognize his atrocious time as 'saba simba'?
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Post by GarvinStomp on Feb 19, 2006 21:49:19 GMT -5
Tony Atlas certainly was a very nice guy at Fanfest and deserves to be in the WWE Hall of Fame. Bret Hart, Dusty Rhodes, Tony Atlas, with these guys all going into WWE HOF, pretty cool to think they all were at Fanfest back in August.
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Post by midnightrider on Feb 19, 2006 21:52:59 GMT -5
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Post by ssteward on Feb 19, 2006 22:03:14 GMT -5
WWE considers themselves to own the "sports entertainment" (yuck) business and it's history, so they are including guys who didn't have their biggest success in WWE. I think Dusty had bigger runs there than Atlas did.
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Post by bobbyryates on Feb 19, 2006 22:41:47 GMT -5
you think so? at least atlas held the tag titles. i don't recall dusty having that much time in the WWF.
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Post by Jack_InYourHead on Feb 19, 2006 22:58:19 GMT -5
Great news. Always a big Atlas fan, and not to throw out too many cheap plugs, but we have last year's interview with Tony Atlas archived on my website.
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Post by bluedevil71 on Feb 19, 2006 23:31:18 GMT -5
Not to hijack the thread, but I thought Dusty wasn't going in this year.
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Post by ssteward on Feb 19, 2006 23:49:29 GMT -5
you think so? at least atlas held the tag titles. i don't recall dusty having that much time in the WWF. He was a draw in the 70s from what I have heard in his WWWF appearances. Maybe someone more familiar with that timeframe can pipe in here and enlighten us. And he had a good run when he returned in 1989, despite the polka dots. |
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Post by frank on Feb 20, 2006 21:31:35 GMT -5
Did you hear this from Tony himself Greg?
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Post by HardcoreHeroes on Feb 21, 2006 11:59:50 GMT -5
This comes from Mike Aldren's Wrestling 365 newsletter:
"We've also heard from a reliable source that "Mr. USA" Tony Atlas is among
those to be inducted. Altas was a big-money player in virtually every major
promotion of his time, including Jim Crockett Promotions, World Class, and
the AWA. Vince McMahon called him "a promoter's dream" and pushed him to
near main event status during the early 80s until making an example out of
him by firing him for no-showing several dates. Atlas peaked when he and
Rocky Johnson, the father of The Rock, won the WWF tag titles in 1983 over
The Samoans."
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ezine in the world. It's enjoyed every day by industry
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Post by jester34 on Feb 24, 2006 14:52:07 GMT -5
I remember as a kid in the Lynchburg Armory. While getting an autograph from Tony Atlas before a match, my little brother says to Tony " Those muscles arent real" and my fat little brother probably weighed about 75lbs and Tony grabbed him by the belt at the front of his pants and picked him straight up into the air with one hand. Hey is truly a very nice guy I wish him well.
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Post by jester34 on Feb 24, 2006 14:52:42 GMT -5
I remember as a kid in the Lynchburg Armory. While getting an autograph from Tony Atlas before a match, my little brother says to Tony " Those muscles arent real" and my fat little brother probably weighed about 75lbs and Tony grabbed him by the belt at the front of his pants and picked him straight up into the air with one hand. Hey is truly a very nice guy I wish him well.
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