He was a confidant, a mentor, a collaborator, a comedian, a singer and most importantly I love you Pat I will miss him and his karaoke! RIP my friend," he tweeted. In his autobiography Accepted, Patterson wrote about how he was thrown out of his house in Montreal at the age of 17 after telling his parents he was in love with another man. He moved to the San Francisco Bay area, where he worked for nearly two decades. He then joined the WWE, and was said by the company to have made an "immediate impact", becoming the first Intercontinental Champion in September His most memorable rivalry - and a highlight of his wrestling career - was his ongoing battle with Sgt Slaughter, the WWE said.
Around the time he hung up his boots in , he began commentating for the industry and in he created the Royal Rumble Match, described by the WWE as "one of the ring's most ground-breaking ideas".
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A post shared by Devon Monroe Rahgeme thedevonmonroe. Monroe also branched out, appearing for deathmatch promotion No Peace Underground against Keita Murray and participating in racial equity protests in his native Minneapolis. Diamante made the most of her The duo defeated Allie and Brandi Rhodes to win the tournament. A post shared by Dillon McQueen thedillonmcqueen. Still in his rookie year, McQueen is making a name for himself throughout the southeast and Ohio Valley.
Summers is far more than just a primo Instagram follow. He, like many others, has made representation a goal. A spider no more, Miles dropped his comic book surname and came out as pansexual within a month of each other. And he lives up to his name, implementing a high-risk, high-flying style that wows audiences and inspires chants of cautious name.
Keep an eye on Paradigm Pro Wrestling and other Ohio Valley promotions for more from this rising star. A post shared by Eddy McQueen thefabulouslif3. In a year where so many got their flowers, McQueen was overdue. A post shared by EFFY effylives. He racked up championship defenses, including the 51st State, Fest Wrestling and Freelance Legacy titles, His Twitch channel blew up thanks to his weekly independent wrestling showcase Monday Not Raw.
Two and a half millennia after the Greeks first grappled with the curious homoerotic aura of wrestling, Billy and Chuck have spent the current WWE season overtly flirting with one another - delighting the audience and taunting their opponents with their blooming togetherness. Love fuels their powerful rampage. It's hard to know if the audience loves them back or cringes at the sight of them; perhaps both.
The Billy-Chuck story monkey wrenches much of what people presume to know about middle America, homophobia, showbiz and machismo.
In the end, they didn't go through with it. Billy and Chuck interrupted their own wedding to announce they weren't really gay after all, an act that incensed Scott Seomin of GLAAD, who had supported the promotion and helped promote the angle.
Things were a bit better behind the scenes but far from perfect. But acts like Billy and Chuck seemed to have a dampening effect on gay wrestlers like the late Chris Kanyon, who considered coming out of the closet and decided against it. Sure, the reasoning went, Patterson was protected.
After all, he was Vince's right-hand man. Others, those still active in the locker room and the ring, might not be so lucky. He kept his homosexuality secret, but it tore him up when other wrestlers would, in front of him, talk about how much they hated gays or made gay jokes.
Darren Young's casual admission of his own homosexuality to gossip site TMZ comes at a very different time in our cultural consciousness.
In the wake of Jason Collins's announcement earlier this year, and the outpouring of support he received in its aftermath, there is every reason to believe Young will find a supportive home of his own in the close-knit WWE locker room.
When asked a few months ago about whether a gay wrestler would be welcomed in the WWE, former announcer Jonathan Coachman was adamant the answer would be "absolutely:". There were several openly gay wrestlers and some of our old school guys as well. Never an issue and not only were we getting naked in front of each other, but we were wrestling each other in the ring and it wasn't an issue.
When I say that it was never brought up, it was never brought up. It was never an issue. And we were together five days a week, you know, on the road where when you're on the road you spend so much time together than if you're at home.
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