{"id":540,"date":"2012-04-09T00:51:03","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T00:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2012\/04\/09\/r-i-p\/"},"modified":"2012-04-09T00:51:03","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T00:51:03","slug":"r-i-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2012\/04\/09\/r-i-p\/","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nR.I.P
\n\tJoe Scarpa, 83, a Philadelphia native who became one of the best-known professional wrestlers of the 1970s and ’80s after he took on the persona of Chief Jay Strongbow<\/span>, an American Indian whose war dance foretold the downfall of many opponents, died on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\tHe had reportedly suffered a fall at his home in Griffin, Ga., last year and never fully recovered.<\/p>\n

\tMr. Scarpa began his career in 1947 as Joltin’ Joe Scarpa. He put on his feathered headdress in 1970 and began performing as Chief Jay Strongbow, one of many wrestlers who fought as ethnic caricatures in the 1970s and ’80s; the Iron Sheik and Mr. Fuji were among the others.<\/p>\n

\tMr. Scarpa, an Italian American, bought into the role. In addition to his sleeper hold – a choke hold that appeared to render an opponent unconscious – he used signature moves such as the tomahawk chop and Indian death lock.<\/p>\n

\tMr. Scarpa won the world tag team championship four times. He was inducted into the World Wrestling Entertainment Hall of Fame in 1994.<\/p>\n

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Posted by:<\/strong> Jumbotron Ron on April 10, 2012, 1:07 am<\/p>\n

I met the Iron Shiek a few times as a kid. He asked me to get him a hot dog at Elizabeth High school so the crowd wouldn’t mob him.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Posted by:<\/strong> fscobe on April 18, 2012, 2:58 pm<\/p>\n

My favorite as a kid was Antonino Rocca. I used to go to the Garden (the old, old Garden) to watch wrestling and saw some great matches. It wasn’t until I got to go to the locker room that I saw the wrestlers discussing how the matches would go. I was young and kind of knew it was all choreographed but I was shook to see Dr. Jerry Graham going through the match with Bruno Sammartino.<\/p>\n

\tStill, I remained a wrestling fan. It was physical opera! I remember Jay Strongbow too. I actually enjoyed the "old style" wrestling and wrestlers to the new ones.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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