Thread: “The Genius” Lanny Poffo passes away
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Old 02-03-2023, 10:18 AM   #9
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I'm pretty sure he was the first wrestler in North America to do a Moonsault, and brought a lot of high-flying and acrobatic techniques to wrestling that nobody else was really doing in the territories that he worked.

It's equally impressive that he could recognize when that wasn't necessarily working for him, and pivot so successfully to character work and gimmicks. The Genius was a fantastic heel character that could have run for so much longer as a manager well into the modern era.
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