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Always cracked me up when the Iron Sheik would refer to him as "Gene Mean".
A couple of my friends were in the audience at the wrestling "Tonight Show" that was recorded at the Maryland Public TV studio in Owings Mills, and when coming back from a station break, Mean Gene pointed out one of them as being "a remarkable resemblance to Jim "The Anvil" Niedhart in our studio audience tonight."
I grew up watching Mean Gene interview wrestlers like Hulk Hogan, Jake the Snake and Macho Man among others. Gene had a great screen presence and is as well known as the aforementioned legends. He appeared on RAW last year in Jan and it was just as thrilling to see him again as it was all those years ago. RIP Gene, he will be missed greatly.
Oh yes part of my childhood and also my teen years . We lived in tampa florida for a while and we always saw them around town when there was an event in the city . Ft Homer Hester Armory is where most of the wrestling went on before they got the big arenas there and were allowed to use the stadium where the buccaneers played ball . My sister who was a few years older was a bar maid at one of the local bars and she would tell us who of wrestling came in that night . boy I m really aging myself here . Yes mean gene will be greatly missed . Let us not forget he was good pals with the Late Dusty Rhodes .
I always wondered how much of the Iron Sheik was an act.. Turns out, if you've watched the documentary on him.. Apparently not alot of it's an act. He amps it up a bit, but.. That's pretty much him.
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