RIP, George ‘The Animal’ Steele

[PunkKitty]

WWE Hall Of Famer George ‘The Animal’ Steele Has Passed Away At Age 79

 

[BlockInlay]

What? Wasn't he about 79 back when he was eating turnbuckles in the 80's?


RIP

 

[Devil is Dill]

I honestly thought he was already dead.

 

[sonik]

I honestly thought he was already dead.

This. I'm impressed the dude made it that long.

 

[LeftyTom]

Snap.

 

[Chad]

Bummer. He was one of my favorites.

 

[bsman]

He was great in "Ed Wood". I also recall seeing him during the mid-70s, when on Saturday mornings we used to watch wrestling in the lounge of my dorm floor in Sellery Hall at UW, and then a few years later watching with my young son.

 

[gtrjunior]

I didn't realize he was that old
Rip

 

[frunobulax]

I saw George wrestle a lot. Always one of my favorites.

RIP

 

[Grant Gross]

RIP to the guy with the hairiest back in wrestling.

 

[smorgdonkey]

He loved Miss Elizabeth.

 

[Lerxst]

Back in the 80s a friend's parents won a dinner in AC w/ him through a radio promo or something. They said he was super nice and actually a pretty smart fellow & had some great conversation over dinner.

 

[gtrjunior]

He loved Miss Elizabeth.

Who didn't? She was a complete fox.

 

[gtrjunior]

Back in the 80s a friend's parents won a dinner in AC w/ him through a radio promo or something. They said he was super nice and actually a pretty smart fellow & had some great conversation over dinner.

Wasn't he a school teacher?

 

[Wyatt]

He was once a high school teacher and had a Masters from Central Michigan.

Seems to have been a pretty impressive man behind the character.

 

[LeftyTom]

Reaper 2017 needs to take a hiatus.

 

[Chicken Man]

My Feb. Songwriting entry was planned to be a song I wrote in tribute to him for my band's upcoming Michigan-themed album (he lived and taught here). I'll try to get it up this weekend. He's always resonated with me as a fellow educator with a "secret life" in entertainment, though he clearly took it a lot farther than I have.

 

[Theodore]

Our cat when I was growing up was named after George TAS

 

[jp_nyc]

I assumed he had been eaten by his own back hair sometime in the 90s.

 

[DFB]

I worked with a who used to wrestle. He said George was a great guy. Said the same about the Iron Sheik.