Post Mortem Tribute to Big John Studd
Young wrestling fans do not know about Big John Stud. Killer Kowalski trained Studd, a wrestler whose real name was John William Minton. The two worked well together and eventually won the WWWF Tag Titles. Both were then masked and members of a team called the Masked Executioners.
Big John Studd left the WWWF and eventually wrestled under different names like The Masked Superstar II, Captain USA and Chuck O'Connor. Wrestling fans will remember feuds against Dusty Rhodes, Barry Windham and Sweet Brown Sugar as time passed. Older fans of professional wrestling will always remember the heel gimmick that he had and the well hyped stretcher he came with in the ring. In 1982 Studd started a feud with NWA World Heavyweight Champion Ric Flair and would eventually turn towards the WWF. At that time we got involved in one feud against one of all time greats, the champ of the time, Hogan. This period was maybe the best for Big John Studd because he had the feud with Andre the Giant and was at the time managed by Bobby Heenan. There was a huge tag team match that showed Andre the Giant's hair being shaved after the match and the end of the feud was huge. Big John Studd offered $15,000 to anyone that could body slam him and this eventually led to a match between John Studd and Andre the Giant at the first ever Wrestlemania. The highlight was Andre body slamming Studd and claiming the money while also winning the match. The feud with Andre the Giant was probably the best feud that Big John Studd had in his wrestling career, at a time when the wrestler Sting was not even known to the public (so that you understand how long ago this was).
Big John Studd also participated in the well known Wrestlemania 2 Over the top Battle royal match. Studd set his focus on eliminating William Perry but eventually was eliminated by the professional football player, after the wrestler eliminated him. The winner of that Battle Royal was Andre the Giant. Next was a tag team run together with King Kong Bundy and eventually left the WWF for a period of 3 years. Big John returned to feud against members of the Heenan family and he eventually won the Royal Rumble of 1989. This was the biggest highlight that John ever had. Big John Studd needed to take time off and had to retire after the biggest highlight of the time for him was acting as an important special referee in the match between Jake Roberts and Andre the Giant. It was to be liver cancer combined with Hodgkin's disease that killed Studd in 1995. Please remember that if it wasn’t for wrestlers like Big John Studd, working hard, there will be no popular wrestlers of the day, like John Cena or Rey Mysterio or Dave Batista.
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