A Wrestling RIP
On a whim I checked Wikipedia for Bob Armstrong and Brad Armstrong, I guess see if they had any current pictures. I was shocked to see a date of death for Brad. Just over three weeks ago, on November 1, 2012, Lori Spranz came home from taking her daughter Jillian to school and noticed that her husband Brad (Armstrong) James wasn't breathing. The paramedics could not revive him and a wrestling legend was dead at the age of 51. (Wiki says 50 but all the other online articles say 51. His birthday is listed on Wiki as June 15, 1962 which made him fifty this year. But Google says 1962, as do all the other sources. So I'll go with 51.) Brad (b. Robert Bradley James) is survided by Lori his wife of fourteen years, their eleven year old daughter, his father 'Bullet' Bob, and three brothers, Steve, Scott, and Brian, all wrestlers themselves.
Haven't watched wrestling in years but Brad hasn't never been forgotten. He is literally the first wrestler I ever saw on TV. I was flipping through station with my finger holding down the channel button on the remote when I caught the flash of the ropes of what I though to be a boxing ring. Curious to see who was fighting I doubled back and saw that it wasn't boxing that was on, but wrestling. And in the ring was a young, muscled, incredibly handsome young man with curly hair and a gorgeous ass. That was Brad Armstrong and I was in lust. When I saw him wrestling with his daddy, I was even more hooked. Older and more careworn, Bob was just as sexy as his son. I was to later get caught up in Texas wrestling, with the Von Erichs and the Simpson brothers, but the Armstrong father and son out of Georgia were my first wrestling loves. And Von Erich senior, though more famous had nothing on Robert James Senior, who, at 73, is still going strong.
Rest in peace, Brad Armstrong. You'll never be forgotten.
Haven't watched wrestling in years but Brad hasn't never been forgotten. He is literally the first wrestler I ever saw on TV. I was flipping through station with my finger holding down the channel button on the remote when I caught the flash of the ropes of what I though to be a boxing ring. Curious to see who was fighting I doubled back and saw that it wasn't boxing that was on, but wrestling. And in the ring was a young, muscled, incredibly handsome young man with curly hair and a gorgeous ass. That was Brad Armstrong and I was in lust. When I saw him wrestling with his daddy, I was even more hooked. Older and more careworn, Bob was just as sexy as his son. I was to later get caught up in Texas wrestling, with the Von Erichs and the Simpson brothers, but the Armstrong father and son out of Georgia were my first wrestling loves. And Von Erich senior, though more famous had nothing on Robert James Senior, who, at 73, is still going strong.
Rest in peace, Brad Armstrong. You'll never be forgotten.