Velvet McIntyre

the flananator

I'm watching Wrestlemania II online now. In the women's title match, the challenger is a lady called Velvet McIntyre, and she is introduced as being from "Cork, Ireland". Surely this is bogus?

ShawnRaven

the flananator wrote: »

I'm watching Wrestlemania II online now. In the women's title match, the challenger is a lady called Velvet McIntyre, and she is introduced as being from "Cork, Ireland". Surely this is bogus?

She was also billed from Dublin, Ireland at several house shows in 1987 and just Ireland at the 1987 Survivor Series.

I'd say the only thing remotely Irish about her is that she actually looked like a bit of a pikey.

VR!

ShawnRaven

According to wikipedia she's Irish-Canadian.
VR!

the flananator

validreasoning! wrote: »

According to wikipedia she's Irish-Canadian.
VR!

Good to know, cheers.

RebelRockChick

OWW profile here

the flananator

On a completely unrelated note, the ring announcer for the Chicago portion of this is terrible and incredibly irritating; I think I know where the inspiration for Mr. Kennedy's gimmick comes from...

ShawnRaven

the flananator wrote: »

On a completely unrelated note, the ring announcer for the Chicago portion of this is terrible and incredibly irritating; I think I know where the inspiration for Mr. Kennedy's gimmick comes from...

It's how a lot of North American promotions were announced. WWWF and AWA and NWA did it that way as well, I noticed it when watching the first Clash Of The Champions last week. It's just the old school of announcing.

VR!

the flananator

I choose to believe the announcer in question is a mongo.

ShawnRaven

Nah, i think they repeated the surnames of each guy in case it was missed the first time.
VR!

SuperWoody101

They did the same with the first few UFC events.

Lita Forever

This is probably the last forum that I'd expect to see a thread about Velvet McIntyre. Lol.

slicus ricus

SuperWoody101 wrote: »

They did the same with the first few UFC events.

Funnily enough, i was just looking at some of the 1st few UFCs last week and noticed the exact same thing!

On another note, in UFC1 its hillarious when Royce Gracie fought that dude who had one boxing glove on. What could the guy have possibly been thinking?

rossie1977

the flananator wrote: »

On a completely unrelated note, the ring announcer for the Chicago portion of this is terrible and incredibly irritating; I think I know where the inspiration for Mr. Kennedy's gimmick comes from...

that be legendary sports broadcaster and emmy winner chet coppock

he has a few wrestling photos on his website http://www.chetcoppock.com/photo_gallery/wrestling.html

Fozzy

It's more than just wrestling announcers who repeated names, it was done in all sports years back

ShawnRaven

slicus ricus wrote: »

Funnily enough, i was just looking at some of the 1st few UFCs last week and noticed the exact same thing!

On another note, in UFC1 its hillarious when Royce Gracie fought that dude who had one boxing glove on. What could the guy have possibly been thinking?

Art Jimmerson did that for a reason. The glove was on his left hand, and he used that for blocking so that it wouldn't damage that hand deflecting the blow. His right hand had no glove on it, and it was used for striking. He was only trained in boxing if i recall correctly, although i haven't watched that event in about eight months.

VR!

RichardB2

Velvet McIntyre, real name Velvet Mykietowich,
was actually born in Dublin though spent most of her life in Vancouver.
She trained under Sandy Barr in Oregon
but became pregnant with twins in 1998 and is now retired from wrestling

Terry

Ahh yes. That traditional Irish name, Mykietowich.
Sure I know many of them.

rovert

Terry wrote: »

Ahh yes. That traditional Irish name, Mykietowich.
Sure I know many of them.

The Countess