RIP Captain Lou Albano

[Mass Haas]

With all sincerity to Mr. Palmisano, there was and will be only one "Captain Lou".

 

The greatest tag team champion manager of all time (16 champions, could someone list them all?).

 

Thanks for the memories, Lou, you were truly an American original.

 

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/10/14/obit.albano/index.html

[JimH5]

I get it that all those guys need their own unique gimmick to forge their identity. . .but even at the time, those rubberbands seemed cheesy.

 

Still, good for Lou that he made it to a normal end, while so many guys leave much younger.

 

He was front and center for the great wrestling boom of the 80s, and was probably the unlikeliest of stars.

[PeaveyFury]

To those of us a bit younger, he'll always be Mario!

 

Do the Mario!

 

[TracyThom]

The greatest tag team champion manager of all time (16 champions, could someone list them all?).

Off the top of my head, and I'm guessing at a lot of these:

 

Mr. Fuji and Mr. Saito

The Mongols

The Executioners (Killer Kowalski and John Studd)

The Wild Samoans (Afa and Sika)

The British Bulldogs (I think Lou was managing them when they beat Valentine and Beefcake)

The Headshrinkers (I think Lou and Afa were both managing them when they won.)

 

That's all I can come up with. I started watching the WWF around 1986, so most of Lou's managing run was before my time. For some reason, I remember Lou managing the team that beat Rick Martel and Tony Garea.

 

EDIT: I haven't found a complete list, but I didn't do too bad. The Mongols was incorrect. The team I was thinking of who beat Martel and Garea was The Moondogs.

[GAME05]

my avatar is sad.

[Invader3K]

By the time I got into wrestling in the late '80s, Captain Lou was pretty much gone from WWF, but I remembered seeing him in the "Rock & Wrestling" cartoon. I remember he came back in the mid-90's managing the Headshrinkers (Fatu and Samu) to the tag titles. Fun stuff. Oh, and of course I remember him as Mario. He lived longer than a lot of wrestling people do these days, so good for him. RIP.