This colorful, high-flying wrestler was a mainstay in the WWF from 1986 to 1993. He appeared at many of the WWF's major Pay-Per-View events during this time frame, such as Wrestlemania, Summerslam, Survivor Series, and Royal Rumble. He was mainly used as a jobber - a wrestler who rarely wins and is mainly used to help elevate other talent. Despite...
Ring entrance music: Morris Day and the Time's "The Bird"
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Accompanied to the ring by his pet parrot, Frankie
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Wrestling finishing move "The Ghostbuster"
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WWE Hall of Famer.
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Koko B.Ware is still wrestling in the revived AWA Superstars of Wrestling [January 2001]
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Fired from the WWF in 1989 after he was involved in a drunken brawl at a hotel in Grenoble, France, where he and other WWF wrestlers were staying while on a European tour.
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Although he claims to be the first recipient of Mark Calaway's (aka "The Undertaker") "Tombstone" piledriver finishing move at Survivor Series (1990), the first man to be tombstoned by The Undertaker was actually preliminary wrestler Mario Mancini at a WWF television taping held three days prior to the pay per view.
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Ware's pet parrot, Frankie, died in a fire in 2002.
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Sang the title track of the WWF's second studio album, "Piledriver," the video of which aired on MTV in 1987.
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Was the first wrestler eliminated from the 1990 Royal Rumble Match.
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Defeated Jim Harris (aka "Kamala the Ugandan Giant") to become USWA Champion. Eventually lost the title back to Kamala.
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