![]() Monsoon says this match predates his alliance with Tony Altomare as Angelo whips Lou into the corner then nails him with a big knee. Albano blades (try getting away with that now) and eats a few forearms upon getting back in the ring. Albano walks up the steps onto the apron where Tony greets him by ramming his head into the buckle. Albano breaks free but Tony tosses him through the ropes and to the outside. Instead of kicking Albano in the gonads Goldust style, Angelo continues to kick Albano in the gut repeatedly. Lou on commentary says he was a bit heavier in those days than he was at the present time (1986). Angelo sets him up in the ropes for what we now know is Shattered Dreams but instead just punches him in the gut a bunch of times much to the crowd’s delight. Albano collapses in the corner and Angelo jumps up and down in celebration. Lou gets to his feet and the chubby Angelo attempts a dropkick that catches Albano in the gut. Here Tony nails Albano with a forearm and snaps him over by the hair. He managed The Monguls Geeto and Beppo (Beppo is more well known as Nikolai Volkoff) and was a manager for Ivan Koloff as well. Angelo is what King Kong Bundy would look like if he lost 200 pounds and he was known as a manager himself. This goes way back to the 1960’s when he was still a heel wrestler working for Vince Sr. We cut this to go to our REAL first matchĬommentators: Gorilla Monsoon and Lou Albano We then go to a sneak preview of a 6 man tag match we won’t see until later which pits Andre, Hillbilly Jim and Lou against Bobby Heenan, Big John Studd and King Kong Bundy. Monsoon also brought up his real life role as the chairman of the Multiple Sclerosis Foundation (which is mainly how he turned face). Monsoon says there’s personalities like Bruno and Hogan that are immortalized but Albano was champion wrestler (with his partner Tony Altomare as The Sicilians) and manager of 15 tag team champions (at the time) and the heavyweight champion (he managed Ivan Koloff the night Ivan defeated Bruno for the title). Gorilla says Albano was one of the most influential managers in history. Cue the Coliseum Video opening and Gorilla Monsoon is our host today. Come to think of it, he was the ONLY one to get his own tape as Bobby Heenan wouldn’t get his own profile for 25 years. Its interesting to note that THE AMAZING MANAGERS covered all the managers in the WWF going back to the Grand Wizard days but yet Albano was the first to get his own tape. ![]() This tape will be highlighting various parts of his WWF career from his heel manager days to his face turn during the MTV crossover. ![]() He was instrumental (no pun intended) in the Rock N Wrestling Connection forming with his ties to Cyndi Lauper and as a heel manager he was one of the greats, forming the unholy trio with Grand Wizard and Freddie Blassie. Lots can be said about Lou Albano both as a manager and as a cross-over entertainer but the bottom line is he’s been entertaining in every single thing he’s ever done. This tape was one of the first released in 1986. Directly after the marathon known as TAG TEAM CHAMPIONS comes this tribute to one of the most colorful managers in wrestling history.
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