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| With Billy Gunn, his "Smoking' Gunns" tag team partner |
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| With then manager Tammy Fitch |
Saturday, March 12, 2022
Old School Beefcake: Bart Gunn
Of all the cowboys who've stepped into the Squared Circle since the dawn of professional wrestling, my favorite has to be Bart Gunn. Gunn, real name Mike Polchlopek, also wrestled using the name Mike Barton in the early 2000s. Read more about Gunn here. Watch his 1996 match against The Bodydonna's Zip here.
One of the true travesties of life was that Bart never EVER wore trunks!!!!! :-(
ReplyDeleteAnd, yes, he did, at least outside WWE. Anon.:
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I was all excited until I saw that he was wearing shorts in this one ;-( SIGH
DeleteBut thanks!!!!
I've only ever seen him wearing trunks once. It was in the 2004 Korean wrestling period bio-pic "Rikidozan" where he portrayed 1950's wrestler Ben Sharpe in a tag team match scene (Jim Steele portrayed his brother Iron Mike Sharpe). I've got to try and make screenshots of that scene.
DeleteRemember WWE's foray into boxing, the "Brawl for All"? Bart Gunn made it to the finals where he was KO'd by Butterbean. Here he is with short hair and (boxing) trunks. He looks great. Anon.
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I never understood why Billy became the star of the two. Bart was much hotter, at least to my taste, and more personable. But then I stopped trying to figure out things in the McMahon empire a long, long time ago. (About the same time I lost interest in the McMahon products in general, apart from the brief hope afforded by NXT in its early days.)
ReplyDeleteAgree. And, yes, NXT seems to have gone the way of the others. WWE doesn't realize that it was NXT's very UN-WWE-ness was what made it good. Anon.
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