Talk:Lou Albano

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Contents 1 Albano's Health Nixed Scheduled Appearance 2 turn from heel? 3 Albano Punches a youth in Framingham Loring Arena 4 Staged or real? 5 BAD LINK

[edit] Albano's Health Nixed Scheduled Appearance

--Bushido Hacks 15:45, 20 May 2005 (UTC) Captain Lou Albano, 71, suffered a recent heart attack on May 12, 2005, canceling a scheduled public appearance at a Valiant Brothers Reunion on May 14, 2005, in Carteret, New Jersey. Albano was listed in stable condition according to a press release.

• Source:Tampa Tribune posted May 19, 2005 by syndicated ringside columnist Ron Jordan. Forth story down.

[edit] turn from heel?

My recollection is that all-American Captain Lou was on the "faces" team on the Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n Wrestling Saturday morning cartoon, vs. predominantly "ethnic" heel wrestlers.

[edit] Albano Punches a youth in Framingham Loring Arena

Lou Albano was managing Tarzan Tyler the night Tyler was wrestling Pedro Morales for the Worlds Championship. Before the start of the match a young boy approximately 12 years old walked up to the ring side with camera in hand and asked Albano if he could take his picture. Albano jumped out of the ring and rushed the boy before anyone realized what was happening. Albano punched the boy in the face causing a huge gash in the boys chin. The boy was taken to the Leonard Morse Hospital in Natick and received 18 stiches to the chin. Albano skipped town as fast as possible. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 151.203.93.109 (talk) .

[edit] Staged or real?

Reading this article, I can't tell what which of Lou's actions were staged, and which were real. Did Lou really give the child stitches? Surely hitting his own Wild Samoan rather than Atlas with a chair was a planned part of the show, and not a blunder as the article states. Can someone clarify which is which? Baiter 18:26, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

needs to be reverted to previous state (vandalized). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 63.87.176.130

I'm also curious about the entire Cyndi Lauper incident. It smells of kayfabe to me, even though it caused an outrage at the time. Note that in the interview used as a source for this, Captain Lou puts it in light of his "straight" turn, and also points out how some of his statements were obviously sarcastic, such as when he said all the women just wanted him while sporting a quite heavy physique. It is also notable that Lauper and Albano remained good enough friends for her to appear as a guest star on the Super Mario Bros. Super Show.--QuasarTE 15:14, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] BAD LINK

In the managed teams section "The Machines" links to here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machines Which is a band with no relation to wrestling. Can someone fix this, I have no idea how.