Thread: VALE: MARIO MILANO

I remember him well. He wrestled for a long time.
I think he was known to be a very nice man.
R.I.P. Pickles.

Originally Posted by Pickles2

I remember him well. He wrestled for a long time.
I think he was known to be a very nice man.
R.I.P. Pickles.

I met him twice , he had a pizza place in Burnley street, Richmond Vic and also later in Clayton Road, Clayton. Vic.
I never spoke to him, but he was telling another customer that he used to travel the world a bit , with out actually mentioning who he was. I think he kept a quiet profie.
He was behind the counter making pizzas. then later he would be a guess appearance ( non participating Wrestling) at a wrestling show in Rowville, PCW, he might have had some interest in the venue, who knows with all the pomp that goes on with these shows.
All I can say, that the new wrestling events do come any where near how real it looked like in the golden days.
interesting he had to change his name to Milano.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Milano

I remember seeing him when I was a kid at I think the Horden Pavillion in Sydney ??? , I remember he was like the good guy in the show and wrestled the baddies. Well that's how it seemed to me as a young whipper snapper.


I was wondering when I seen the name on the post if it was the same person and certainly seems so.


RIP MR Malano


Cheers Ean

Yep he was one of the good guys on the World Championship Wrestling for many years, it was on channel 9 at noon Saturday and Sunday for what seems like my entire childhood. A friend who used to go to his pizza shop in Richmond reckoned that he would get quite upset if anyone suggested the wrestling was staged. There was a story that he had a permanently injured eye from the bad-guy manager's cigar poke.

Yep, remember him well along with other wrestlers of his era like "Gorgeous George" who use to throw flowers out to the audience and "Killer Kalowski".

RIP Mario.

Haystacks Carloon. Leroy the Heart Puncher ,allegedly had to move here from the US because he killed an opponent with his 'heart punch'. Unforgettable stuff.

I remember watching him on Saturday morning too ...him and "Brute Barnard"
Good old days..

Originally Posted by POD

Haystacks Carloon. Leroy the Heart Puncher ,allegedly had to move here from the US because he killed an opponent with his 'heart punch'. Unforgettable stuff.

Mario Milano was brilliant - WCW was a childhood tv staple for me. Used to watch it with my Dad. I thought Ox Baker was the heart puncher ?
David