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Dudes....it's ALBANO, not Albino
Anyway, sad to hear this....just heard the other day he had hospice care.....
Captain Lou Albano was part of the triangle of terror when I was a kid, along with the Grand Wizard and "Classy" Freddie Blassie. You weren't a heel worth your salt if you weren't managed by one of these three gentlemen.
Blassie seemed to go for the monsters and the foreign wrestlers as his proteges....The Grand Wizard's men always made runs for the championship belts (World and Intercontinental) and many were great scientific stars gone bad....
And Capt. Lou's specialty, of course, was the tag-team. The list of his tag-teams is legendary:
Mr. Fuji & Mr. Saito
Wild Samoans (Afa & Sika)
The Executioners (Masked Executioner 1 & Masked Executioner 2)
The Mongols (Bepo & Geeto)
Yukon Lumberjacks (Yukon Eric & Yukon Pierre)
The British Bulldogs (Davey Boy Smith & The Dynamite Kid)
The Headshrinkers (Samu & Fatu)
The New Headshrinkers (Fatu & Sionne)
The Valiant Brothers (Jimmy Valiant, Johnny Valiant & Jerry Valiant)
The Machines (Super Machine, Big Machine & Giant Machine)
The Moondogs (Moondog King, Moondog Rex & Moondog Spot)
The U.S. Express (Mike Rotundo and Barry Windham)
The Blackjacks Blackjack Mulligan and Blackjack Lanza
In all, his tag-teams captured the WWF Tag Titles a record 15 times. As a kid, the first team I really remember were The Wild Samoans....when they left Albano quickly replaced them with The Moondogs. And then the legendary team of Mr. Fuji and Massa Saito. I still remember the controversy with Saito's sock supposedly being lined with a foreign object....when he went to adjust it, Albano was quick to comment that he was just "lining up his toe" for the impending super-kick.
It seemed that good guys like Tony Garea and Rick Martel and Chief Jay Strongbow and his "brother" Jules never came out on top for long against Albano and his men. When one team left the area, there was always another team ready to take their place....more vicious than the ones before it seemed.
RIP Captain Lou.....you always were "The Guiding Light" in my book.
Anyway, sad to hear this....just heard the other day he had hospice care.....
Captain Lou Albano was part of the triangle of terror when I was a kid, along with the Grand Wizard and "Classy" Freddie Blassie. You weren't a heel worth your salt if you weren't managed by one of these three gentlemen.
Blassie seemed to go for the monsters and the foreign wrestlers as his proteges....The Grand Wizard's men always made runs for the championship belts (World and Intercontinental) and many were great scientific stars gone bad....
And Capt. Lou's specialty, of course, was the tag-team. The list of his tag-teams is legendary:
Mr. Fuji & Mr. Saito
Wild Samoans (Afa & Sika)
The Executioners (Masked Executioner 1 & Masked Executioner 2)
The Mongols (Bepo & Geeto)
Yukon Lumberjacks (Yukon Eric & Yukon Pierre)
The British Bulldogs (Davey Boy Smith & The Dynamite Kid)
The Headshrinkers (Samu & Fatu)
The New Headshrinkers (Fatu & Sionne)
The Valiant Brothers (Jimmy Valiant, Johnny Valiant & Jerry Valiant)
The Machines (Super Machine, Big Machine & Giant Machine)
The Moondogs (Moondog King, Moondog Rex & Moondog Spot)
The U.S. Express (Mike Rotundo and Barry Windham)
The Blackjacks Blackjack Mulligan and Blackjack Lanza
In all, his tag-teams captured the WWF Tag Titles a record 15 times. As a kid, the first team I really remember were The Wild Samoans....when they left Albano quickly replaced them with The Moondogs. And then the legendary team of Mr. Fuji and Massa Saito. I still remember the controversy with Saito's sock supposedly being lined with a foreign object....when he went to adjust it, Albano was quick to comment that he was just "lining up his toe" for the impending super-kick.
It seemed that good guys like Tony Garea and Rick Martel and Chief Jay Strongbow and his "brother" Jules never came out on top for long against Albano and his men. When one team left the area, there was always another team ready to take their place....more vicious than the ones before it seemed.RIP Captain Lou.....you always were "The Guiding Light" in my book.
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