Wednesdaymania 251: Wintermania Week 3

In Which We Cover Our Final Winter/Christmas Themed Wrestler of the Season...
And no, it's not Barry Horowitz.
Sorry.

What is the most easily recognizable symbol of the Christmas season? Is it silver bells? Well, there were the Ding-Dongs at one point... but no. What about Christmas Trees? We've already covered the Christmas Creature...

It's Santa, guys. It was always gonna be Santa!

Now, I can't cover every single wrestler who ever donned the red suit, but for me, there is one wrestler who will forever embody that jolly old elf, and that's Mick Foley.

Yes, the guy who played Mankind, Cactus Jack, and Dude Love.

Yes, the guy who Undertaker threw off the Cell.

He's also obsessed with Christmas and Santa Claus, and for me, he's always going to be Wrestling's Best Santa.

Look at this Merry Fellow!

The man has had so many concussions and body traumas that he forgets which house is his and he can't always remember the names of all his kids, but bless him, he's a fantastic Santa.

He even has a role in the 2014 documentary I Am Santa Claus!

So for me, that's who I picture when I think of Old Saint Nick, and that's where I'll leave you until Christmas has passed :)

Happy Christmas, everyone!

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Wednesdaymania 250: Wintermania week 2

In Which I Discuss Silly Winter Wrestling

Once upon a time, there was a gentleman by the name of Glenn Jacobs. Glenn wanted to be a professional wrestler, so he got trained and tried out and got hired. All normal stuff so far. He had it all - immense height, strong shoulders, and that All-American Meathead look, so the world should've been his oyster.

He struggled to find his gimmick, however. It's hard to stand out in a world of Macho Men and Hulks Hogan and the like. Eventually, he wrestled as a sadistic dentist, but early on, he went by the same name as one of my state's Senators, and then Christmas rolled around...

It was 1992. Glenn was working for the USWA at the time, and they had a Christmas show to run, but they needed a wrestler to wear a costume. Thus, Glenn Jacobs, sometimes called Unabomb (yikes) and sometimes known as Doomsday (much cooler), donned a colorful suit and became known, for a very short moment, as The Christmas Creature!

Yes. This is actually him.
Yes, this is actually what he wore.
Yes. He wrestled in this.

Now, if something about the name Glenn Jacobs has been bothering you this whole time, perhaps you know him as the mayor of Knox County, TN.

Or maybe you know him as his much more successful in-ring gimmick, which he wrestles in to this day...

You might just know him as...

KANE!

So there you are, kids - the story of how a man fought and scrabbled his way in to almost accidental fame despite horrible gimmicks to become a world famous pro-wrestler and a politician. Do I quite understand how one goes from a Unabomber gimmick to the beast which slew Superman to a Hobby Lobby Monster to a generic tough guy to a sadistic dentist before ending up as a literal Demon? Not in the least, but it's amazing.

Never give up kids.

You may be the Christmas Creature today, but tomorrow, you may be world famous.

Keep crackin!

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