Former WWWF Tag Team Champion Dean Ho Has Passed Away );
Wrestler Dean Ho, whose 20-plus career included a run with the WWWF World Tag Team Championship, has passed away today at the age of 81. Referee Kevin Jefferies, a longtime friend of Ho’s, revealed on Facebook that Ho passed away on February 20th due to CTE related to his football days.
Dean Higuchi had a career that included stints in the National Wrestling Alliance and WWWF. Born in Honolulu, Ho began a career as a bodybuilder and finished sixth place in the 1956 Mr. America competition. He opened a gym in 1957 that was frequented by several pro wrestlers including Karl Gotch, Rene Goulet, and Don Muraco.
Rocky Johnson Matches Against Ric Flair, Roddy Piper Recreated During Latest Young Rock Episode
Young Rock kicks off with Dwayne Johnson recapping his father s career, saying that by the late 1980s he was out of the World Wrestling Federation and was working for smaller independent promotions. But the episode instead cuts to The Soulman s prime, wrestling The Nature Boy Ric Flair. The dateline for the match is April 16, 1982 in Eugene, Oregon, a match that did indeed happen for the Pacific Northwest Wrestling promotion as part of the National Wrestling Alliance. That bout saw Johnson come up short in challenging Flair for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship.
Dwayne Johnson calls ‘Young Rock’ a ‘love letter to professional wrestling’; ‘SNL’ vet Kenan Thompson on ‘Kenan’: Virtual TV press tour
Updated Jan 30, 2021;
Posted Jan 29, 2021
Dwayne Johnson plays himself in the NBC comedy, Young Rock. (Photo: Frank Masi/NBC)Frank Masi/NBC
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During the Television Critics Association 2020 winter press tour, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson appeared in a taped greeting to TV journalists to announce “Young Rock,” an upcoming NBC comedy inspired by Johnson’s own coming of age. Johnson promised the show would draw on his “unbelievable” youth, including early days in Hawaii, Nashville, “40 bucks-per match” wrestling, and playing football at the University of Miami.
Scream is one of the worst slasher movies ever made (No, not that one)
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Scream is quite possibly the most amateurish, bloodless, and downright tedious slasher ever to grace the big screen. Saying that about Wes Craven s mid- 90s game-changer would cast you as a horror pariah, but Craven’s
Scream wasn’t the first slasher to bear that name. There’s a much lesser-known movie that somehow found its way into cinemas during the genre s first golden age.
Yes, 15 years before Drew Barrymore was killed in the opening scene, another
Scream was attempting, and failing miserably, to terrify audiences with the actions of a mysterious killer. Unfortunately, their identity, methods, and motives remained just as much a mystery once the final credits had rolled.