His mic skills were mostly grunts and made up words, and he wasn’t the most skilled wrestler you’ve ever seen. Steele didn’t look like Hulk Hogan, Paul Orndorff or Big John Studd, but he didn’t need to. Crowds would wait in anticipation for Steele to undo the turnbuckle and send the stuffing flying out everywhere as if he was actually eating it. ![]() And by the early-1980s, with Vince McMahon’s WWE (previously known as the WWF) redefining wrestling and calling it “sports entertainment,” characters like Steele, who were perfect for nationwide television audiences, were in demand. Bald, hunched slightly over and with that tongue sticking out (stained green thanks to a handful of breath mints), there was no wrestler in any of the territories that resembled him. ![]() Wrestling alongside strongmen with statuesque bodies and dandies with bleached hair, the hirsute Steele was hard to miss.
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