Flashback Friday: Thunderbird

I think the last time I had a post on Thunderbird was back in 2013. Back then, the enigmatic masked wrestler from Australia was on the roster of Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) in Mexico.  I was told (or perhaps I read somewhere) that he was actually a wrestler named Mad Turk Hussein (aka Big Huss) and I used to label his posts under those names. Turns out I was wrong. An eagle-eyed reader pointed out that Thunderbird (also called Thunder) has a small mole on his right pec; Hussein has no such mole. I did some research and found out that Thunderbird's real name is Luke Fordward and he wrestled for CMLL between the years 2013-2015. Fordward had the distinction of being the first Australian to wrestle for CMLL. Sadly, he was diagnosed with stomach cancer in 2015 and died at the age of 35 in 2016.

Wrestling as a rudo (heel) against Mark Jindrak