As you know he was a regular guy like us. I was sitting on the bleachers before the taping began and he walks in with a bucket of KFC and says, “hey kid do you want some chicken?” We sat there eating KFC talking about the business. He was not the first person to use the phrase, often imitated, never duplicated, in wrestling, but in the Northeast, he will long be remembered for it.įormer wrestler Len Kruger wrote: I can remember in 1983 my second time in there doing WWF T.V’s in Allentown, PA. He and Roddy Piper were also the keys in the Wendi Richter/Cyndi Lauper/Fabulous Moolah angle in 1984 that garnered Later, he was often embarrassing playing the role of the crazy, stereotypical representative of wrestling in news piece on the sport. Albano was the key component in making Jimmy Snuka into the hottest wrestler in that part of the country when the two split up and Snuka went babyface. He was a major part of the wheel of success for Vince McMahon Sr., far more important than anyone who didn’t closely follow the promotion would be able to understand. He would dress like his proteges to a degree, and eventually became known for the rubber bands all over his face. Albano generally was put with the nutty types of contenders, and almost always with the tag team champions.
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