#Did the guy from the eyes of ara die professional#

“He was involved in a lot of street fights,” Ross said. If anyone had the gall to question Watts’ work in the ring, they quickly got a lesson in why the Cowboy was the best wrestler in the Mid-South region. It was that attitude that made Watts feared in both the squared circle and the barroom. “He had natural ability and confidence,” Jim Ross said of Watts. Standing 6-foot-3 and weighing close to 300 pounds, with a background in amateur wrestling and college football, Watts certainly knew he could take care of business in the ring.

#Did the guy from the eyes of ara die professional#

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That is unless you enjoy the feeling of your tendons snapping.įollow Jim Ross on Twitter | Follow Gerald Brisco on Twitter Using the valuable insight of those famed Okies and more than a little bit of wrestling lore, put together this rogues’ gallery of 20 dudes you would not want to cross. Luckily, we have the phone numbers of WWE Hall of Famers Gerald Brisco and Jim Ross - two experts on all things tough - who we called up to discuss the dangerous shooters and street fighters that have always inhabited locker rooms. The question of who would be left standing in a no holds barred brawl has always been bandied about by sports-entertainment fans, including us here at. But the appeal of getting paid to hurt people has always attracted a particularly sadistic bunch of individuals to the ring, whether they were champion amateur wrestlers, football stars with bad attitudes or roughneck barroom gladiators. Let’s get one thing straight - every man and woman who ever made a name for themselves in sports-entertainment has been tough.