Black History Month Spotlight: Black Pro Wrestling Legends

[Rollie Forbes]

 

[The Amerikkkan Idol]

TSC told me AEW doesn't have no Black people

Too Cold Scorpio doesn't get enough credit. All them frail ass white boys doing all that flippy shyt need to give that man his flowers.

And is a real ass nikka to boot

 

[Rollie Forbes]

Frank Crozier, wrestling's first Black World Champion:

 

[Rollie Forbes]

Even today, this is a special moment for young Black wrestling fans!

 

[Rekkapryde]

I think the Big Cat was one of, if not the first Black bookers.

My aunts (big wrestling fans when I was a kid in the early 80s) used to call my homeboy's dad Big Cat Ernie Ladd.

 

[Rekkapryde]

Doom winning the tag team titles from the Steiners, in two parts:

Legendary Moment

 

[AStrangeName]

They had to update the poster because they forgot to add Scorpio

 

[Easy-E]

Farooq and my GOAT

 

[patscorpio]

man wcw tag team wrestling was so dope..truly took what i was watching as a kid for granted

 

[Rollie Forbes]

Thanks for pinning this thread, @3Rivers!

 

[Rollie Forbes]

man wcw tag team wrestling was so dope..truly took what i was watching as a kid for granted

I was a huge Doom fan when I was a kid, especially once they added Theodore R. Long as their manager.
The combination of Ron Simmons & Butch Reed serving up Foundational Black Ass whuppins & Teddy Long talking cash sh*t was perfection!

 

[Rollie Forbes]

I don't care how old I get, I will always remember this moment in Black wrestling history:
There were two Black men competing for the championship, and the crowd was red hot for them! When Big E won, the pop he received was insane! #BlackWrestlingDraws

 

[VegetasHairline]

 

[3Rivers]

Thanks for pinning this thread, @3Rivers!

 

[Ripp]

Had no idea MVP was ever in New Japan

Gonna have to find some clips

He was in a tag team with Shelton at one point over there.... THB origins