RIP "Bad News" Allen Coage

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From Meltz's update today:

-- Badnews Allen passed away at 5:30 a.m. this morning in Calgary at the age of 63 from a heart attack. We have no further details. Allan Coage was an Olympic bronze medal winner in judo, started wrestling in Japan and was a legendary heel in Stampede Wrestling in the early 80s. He worked later in WWE as Badnews Brown. He was a tremendous promo and very outspoken about his career and was often voted among the best guests in the history of our radio show.

Another week, another legend lost. If you don't remember him, Bad News was pretty much Steve Austin a decade before "Stone Cold" meant anything. Pretty much the ultimate badass of the mid-80s WWF product. Who's going to give a Ghettoblaster to the sharecroppers now?

Not too much of him on the video sites, but I'll post what I can find...

Bad News Allen v. Yoshihiro Takayama (UWFi)

Bad News Allen v. Gary Albright (UWFi)

Bad News Allen v. Kazushi Sakuraba (UWFi)

Bad News Allen v. Bret Hart - Ladder Match (Stampede Wrestling - 1984?)

Bad News Allen v. Lex Lugar (Championship Wrestling from Florida)

Bad News Brown on the Arsenio Hall show

Bad News Allen video

Stampede Wrestling (1987?)

According to the post on DVDVR about this, there's a few Bad News interviews and a match versus Bill Jodion, among other stuff. Normally wouldn't jack a link from their board, but yeah...




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