RIP Chief Jay Strongbow

[St. Jimmy]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Sad to hear of the passing this morning of WWE HOF'er Chief Jay Strongbow, a beloved member of WWE family. RIP Chief.</p>&mdash; Jim Ross (@JRsBBQ) <a href="https://twitter.com/JRsBBQ/status/187264359532204034" data-datetime="2012-04-03T19:44:37+00:00">April 3, 2012</a></blockquote>
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RIP Chief.

[FourFifty]

Ohhhhh.... not cool...

Rest in peace.

[Cool King]

Damn, I was actually just reading his bio on WWE.com today, too. Weird.

RIP. :(

[Seth82]

It's being rumored Chief Jay Strongbow has passed

Jim Ross tweeted:

Sad to hear of the passing this morning of WWE HOF’er Chief Jay Strongbow, a beloved member of WWE family. RIP Chief.

He was originally known as the italian Joe Scarpa which is his real name but is perhaps best known as Chief Jay Strongbow

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[VSG]

This is sad news indeed, if true. RIP.

[Rammsteinmad]

Nobody on that Raw clip has any idea who he is. :lol:

I don't either, for that matter. But RIP anyway.

[Dark-Slicer Diago]

Damn, RIP

[DLVH84]

He was one of greatest wrestlers from the 1960s and 1970s. My father grew up watching him wrestle. At least he and Chief Wahoo McDaniel can pass the peace pipe in heaven.

[Seth82]

sadly it has been confirmed

Confirmed by Greg Oliver speaking to the family.

[Seth82]

these are courtesy of CWF Archives of him as Joltin Joe Scarpa from the late 60's

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Headlining the Gasparilla Spectacular in Tampa, February 13th, 1968...
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here he is with frequent tag partner Don Curtis who passed away a few yrs ago
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[itsmeJD]

I thought he had been dead....so this changes nothing about my day. Can't be super sad, fucker was 83. Hate to lose a legend though, so this Bud's for you Strongbow.

[Raven Reaper]

Tatanka's former manager!!!

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[KayfabeMan]

Yeah, sad to hear about that.

Another great one gone. :(

RIP.

[Juan]

RIP

[James Steele]

All you ever hear from guys like Flair, Dusty, etc is about how fucking great he was. RIP

[Autobahn]

Mentioned a lot in Brets book - he seemed like a genuinely good guy. Sad news, though he had a good innings.

[Innovator]

All I heard about from my dad was Chief Jay Strongbow. Dude did a lot behind the scenes. RIP.

[Cool King]

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[Seth82]

that was a nice touch of WWE

although I had wished they would've acknowledged his work as Joltin Joe Scarpa

they have the Florida library

[CSL]

come on Seth, you're doing this on purpose now

[itsmeJD]

LOL, you'd have thought Seth was son or best friend from high school between the pictures and the being pissed at not being acknowledged under every ring name he's ever used.

I mean WWE didn't even mention his WWWF feud with Spiros Arion in 1975....what the fucking fuck!

[My Final Heaven]

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Fun fact - Guy on the right is General Adnan. He had one of my favorite kayfabe reasons for retiring from inring competition - Ken Patera broke his fucking neck with a Full Nelson :eek:

R.I.P. Chief Jay, some of my earliest wrestling memories are of reading about you in the Apter mags :(

[crusnik]

He was one of the greats.R.I.P. Chief Jay Strongbow.

[DLVH84]

Fun fact - Guy on the right is General Adnan. He had one of my favorite kayfabe reasons for retiring from inring competition - Ken Patera broke his fucking neck with a Full Nelson :eek:

R.I.P. Chief Jay, some of my earliest wrestling memories are of reading about you in the Apter mags :(

That's right.

[Shisen Kopf]

That's right.

Did he rassle in Japan?

[DLVH84]

Did he rassle in Japan?

In 1978, he did wrestle a tour for NJPW.

[Gertner]

1978 was serious business in the sport of rasslin

[Shisen Kopf]

Every year is serious business in the world of professional rasslin.

[Gertner]

I don't know. I recall 1971 not being very serious business in the sport of professional rasslin

[Seth82]

come on Seth, you're doing this on purpose now

He spent alot of years in the business before becoming an Indian

why sweep 20 years under the rug when they have the Florida tape library

you'd think WWE would acknowledge that fact

[James Steele]

Because in a 2-minute vignette, it is easiest to acknowledge what he is best known for THROUGHOUT THE WORLD and not just in a single territory 50 years ago.

[Seth82]

Because in a 2-minute vignette, it is easiest to acknowledge what he is best known for THROUGHOUT THE WORLD and not just in a single territory 50 years ago.

actually several territories but I concede

[James Steele]

Point being, if Stone Cold died they would do it about "Stone Cold" and not "Stunning" Steve. Both were successful and high profile gimmicks in different companies, but one was clearly more successful and well-known around the wrestling world.

[Innovator]

Strongbow ripped into someone backstage for doing a convoluted move saying, "If it was a street fight you wouldn't do that."

Owen Hart was listening and said, "Yeah, if it was a street fight I'd hop around on one leg doing a war dance."

[James Steele]

lol