PWD PWD 1175: Hendry Concert Countdown

[Pittie Petey]

Vladimir Petrov(Real name : Al Blake) died over the weekend at the age of 66

He was trained in the same Minnesota/Eddie Sharkey/nightclub bouncer pipeline that produced The Road Warriors, Nikita Koloff and Rick Rude

Dusty brought him into JCP after Nikita turned babyface and Barry Darsow left to become Demolition Smash in the WWF
He was big and mean but he was green as hell and by that time the Russian gimmick was starting to run its course so he didnt last long, less than a year between '86 and '87

He teamed with Uncle Ivan Koloff and Dick Murdock in a midcard group, feuding with Nikita and getting some shots at the Rock N Roll Express

He ended up going to prison for a few years because he was an enforcer for a drug operation in Minnesota before he started rasslin and those old things from years earlier came back on him after he was in the business

He wrestled and won a couple dark matches for the WWF under his real name in '91 after he got out of prison and that was the end of his time in the rasslin business

He got out, changed his life, got married and raised a family

 

[Pittie Petey]

He was booked as a monster and they put him with some veterans that could hide his limitations but he didnt have what Nikita had and we had already seen Nikita, the second guy never gets over as good as the first

 

[Stargazer Rex]

He was booked as a monster and they put him with some veterans that could hide his limitations but he didnt have what Nikita had and we had already seen Nikita, the second guy never gets over as good as the first

In his autobiography, “Is That Wrestling Fake?” Ivan Koloff didn’t have a lot to say about Blake:

When Barry left, Al Blake filled the void as Vladimir Petrov. Nikita had turned babyface by that time, so we feuded with him and Dusty Rhodes, as well as the Rock ‘n’ Roll Express. After leaving to wrestle for Bill Watts‘ Universal Wrestling Federation, Al was busted for selling drugs. He retired from wrestling until 1991, when he worked for the WWF under his own name. One year later, he retired for good.

 

[Stargazer Rex]

@RollSonnenRoll I said forget about it, cuh

 

[The Clinch]

 

[Frank23]

 

[Based God]

This is pretty cool. CM Punk wrestling the Road Warriors in a WWE ring in 2003 when he was a jobber and the Road Warriors weren't even signed there.

 

[Boo-urns]

She should be on a nationally televised wrestling show every week

I want her to strangle me.