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Old 02-01-2010, 12:50 PM   #1
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Jack Brisco Passes
From PWInsider:

We are very sad to report the passing of former NWA World Heavyweight champion and WWE Hall of Famer Jack Brisco this morning at the age of 68.

While we are awaiting more details on Brisco's passing, he had quietly undergone a triple heart bypass several weeks ago and had been in a rehab center. He had been having health issues dating back to last year and had canceled several appearances due to them.

An extremely great in-ring worker. Brisco won the NWA World championship from Harley Race on 7/20/73, holding it through December 1974. At the time, holding that championship was a grueling job, traveling the world while visiting all the different NWA member territories.

Brisco's series against Dory Funk Jr. is considered the template for great in-ring wrestling rivalries. Brisco was originally scheduled to defeat Funk for the NWA championship but an accident forced Funk into the hospital and the match to be canceled. When Funk returned to the ring, he dropped the belt to Harley Race, who later lost it to Brisco.

Brisco always held a multitude of Tag Team championships with his brother Gerald.

Although he is most notably acknowledged as an NWA legend, Brisco is also one of the most important names when it comes to the early days of WWF history. Brisco and his brother Gerry (aka Gerald Brisco the Mr. McMahon stooge during the Attitude era) secretly sold their stock in Georgia Championship Wrestling to McMahon, allowing McMahon to fold the company and usurp it's TBS timeslot to create a monopoly on national television outlets. That sale set into motion the series of events that followed over the next several decades with McMahon falling out of favor with Ted Turner, Jim Crockett buying the timeslot from the WWF, the end of Crockett Promotions, Turner buying Crockett out and creating WCW, the Monday Night Wars, etc.

Brisco retired from the ring in the early 1980s, deciding he didn't want to keep up with the horrendous travel the WWF schedule required at the time. In his book, he noted he simply opted to go home to Florida, where he remained, opening the Brisco Brothers' Body Shop. Brisco released an autobiography in 2004 and made convention appearances from time to time as late as last year.

Brisco and his brother Gerry were inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in March 2008.

For more details on Brisco's incredible career, check out his biography at www.jackbrisco.com.

Our deepest condolences to Brisco's family, friends and fans.

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Old 02-01-2010, 01:00 PM   #2
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R.I.P. Jack Brisco
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Old 02-01-2010, 01:12 PM   #3
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Old 02-01-2010, 01:15 PM   #4
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I can count the number of Brisco matches I've seen on one hand, but I'm aware of and respect his contributions to the wrestling world. R.I.P.
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Wow, very shocking to hear this RIP Jack.
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Old 02-01-2010, 02:08 PM   #8
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Damn.

A true great in the business.

Had the pleasure of running into him at the NWA Fanfest in 2008. I remember watching him signing for everyone, and he had a flight to catch - so he actually got up from the table and walked down the line - signing the promised autographs for every single person in line. Respectable. A lot of other guys would have just left.

First Georgiann, and now this one. Bad week.

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R.I.P. Jack.....another great passes to the squared circle in the sky.
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Old 02-01-2010, 06:32 PM   #19
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Wow, Damn this sucks. Don't tell me this is gonna be the year where we start losing all the people who've been in or around or even just covering the wrestling industry. If this sort of pattern does develop, it will be a long year...

R.I.P. Jack. You will be missed.
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The industry lost a true hero, a good friend, and a hell of a champion.

Rest in peace, Jack.
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