Yesterday's Heroes: Barry Darsow PART DEUX
Editor's note: If you haven't read Part One of "Yesterday's Heroes: Barry Darsow", please do so here.
When we last left off, the year was 1991 and after achieving minimal success with his new partner in crime, Crush, the Smasher dissapeared from the WWF scene. We speculated about his whereabouts in part one, but no one truly knows for sure what happened to this brutal man.
What we do know is this: In early 1992, a new force in the World Wrestling Federation exploded onto the scene-and no one was prepared. Taking the wrestling word-nay, the entire world-by storm, the mysterious Repo Man began a r
eign of terror unmatched to this day.
Introduced to the world through a series of vignettes where he reposessed a bicycle from a small child or a car from a deadbeat late on his payments, Repo sported a trademark grey trenchcoat and a full-length grey spandex jumpsuit with a single, symbolic tire skid trailing down the front. He was a loner; a rebel with a cause. That cause: to destroy everything in his path.
After ending up on the losing end of a not-so-classic rivalry with the late British Bulldog, Reeps defined his legacy by engaging in a legendary battle with fellow Hero Virgil. Needless to say, both men were never the same. The bitter blood feud still simmers to this day.
Throughout his WWF tenure, one question remained unanswered: Where the Repo Man, Smash and Krusher Kruschev the same person? After all, they did have the same tattoos and were the same height and same weight. But, like Smash, Repo spoke without even a hint of Eastern European dialect. But the ruthless intensity that was a trademark of Smash ceased to exist in the Repo Man, who instead used his coy and conniving ways to secure victories. The mysteries remained unsolved.
Also during this time, the whereabouts of Minneapolis' Barry Darsow still remained unknown.
As 1992 turned to 1993 and '93 to '94, the Repo Man vanished. His reign of terror complete, it was believed that he retired from the sport to devote his full attention to reposessing.
Coincidentally enough around this time, a new face emerged on the scene in rival World Championship Wrestling. Calling himself the Blacktop Bully, this fearless brawler arrived straight from his eighteen wheeler and straight into our living room-and our hearts.
Blacktop dressed the part, complete with a shiny bald head (no face paint or mask) and a ripped sleeve-less tank top and jeans. The man could fight-but sadly, not very well. Unfortunately, the trademark toughness exhibited by Krusher and Smash and the wily ways of the Repo Man had dissapeared with the Bully. Shortly after his arrival, he was gone.
Perhaps back to his truck, or perhaps he had enough of this crazy world went to that big truck stop in the sky.
The questions intensified: Where these four men one in the same? It wasn't possible, many said. How could one man reinvent himself so many times. How could one man stand for so much so strongly. Unless Barry Darsow was more than a man.......
PART THREE: MRS. DARSOW'S BABY BOY COMES HOME.
When we last left off, the year was 1991 and after achieving minimal success with his new partner in crime, Crush, the Smasher dissapeared from the WWF scene. We speculated about his whereabouts in part one, but no one truly knows for sure what happened to this brutal man.
What we do know is this: In early 1992, a new force in the World Wrestling Federation exploded onto the scene-and no one was prepared. Taking the wrestling word-nay, the entire world-by storm, the mysterious Repo Man began a r
eign of terror unmatched to this day.Introduced to the world through a series of vignettes where he reposessed a bicycle from a small child or a car from a deadbeat late on his payments, Repo sported a trademark grey trenchcoat and a full-length grey spandex jumpsuit with a single, symbolic tire skid trailing down the front. He was a loner; a rebel with a cause. That cause: to destroy everything in his path.
After ending up on the losing end of a not-so-classic rivalry with the late British Bulldog, Reeps defined his legacy by engaging in a legendary battle with fellow Hero Virgil. Needless to say, both men were never the same. The bitter blood feud still simmers to this day.
Throughout his WWF tenure, one question remained unanswered: Where the Repo Man, Smash and Krusher Kruschev the same person? After all, they did have the same tattoos and were the same height and same weight. But, like Smash, Repo spoke without even a hint of Eastern European dialect. But the ruthless intensity that was a trademark of Smash ceased to exist in the Repo Man, who instead used his coy and conniving ways to secure victories. The mysteries remained unsolved.
Also during this time, the whereabouts of Minneapolis' Barry Darsow still remained unknown.
As 1992 turned to 1993 and '93 to '94, the Repo Man vanished. His reign of terror complete, it was believed that he retired from the sport to devote his full attention to reposessing.
Coincidentally enough around this time, a new face emerged on the scene in rival World Championship Wrestling. Calling himself the Blacktop Bully, this fearless brawler arrived straight from his eighteen wheeler and straight into our living room-and our hearts.
Blacktop dressed the part, complete with a shiny bald head (no face paint or mask) and a ripped sleeve-less tank top and jeans. The man could fight-but sadly, not very well. Unfortunately, the trademark toughness exhibited by Krusher and Smash and the wily ways of the Repo Man had dissapeared with the Bully. Shortly after his arrival, he was gone.
Perhaps back to his truck, or perhaps he had enough of this crazy world went to that big truck stop in the sky.
The questions intensified: Where these four men one in the same? It wasn't possible, many said. How could one man reinvent himself so many times. How could one man stand for so much so strongly. Unless Barry Darsow was more than a man.......
PART THREE: MRS. DARSOW'S BABY BOY COMES HOME.
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