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Pro wrestling legend George "The Animal" Steele dies at 79

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http://www.freep.com/story/sports/2017/02/17/george-animal-steele-obituary/98065492/
Pro wrestling legend George (the Animal) Steele dies at 79.
Freep

http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2017/02/michigan_native_wwe_hall_of_fa.html
Michigan native, WWE Hall of Famer George 'The Animal' Steele dies.
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http://www.detroitnews.com/story/sp...-wrestler-george-animal-steele-dies/98044778/
Detroit native, wrestler George 'The Animal' Steele dies.
Detnews

http://www.espn.com/wwe/story/_/id/18705322/wwe-hall-famer-george-animal-steele-dies-79
George 'The Animal' Steele, WWE Hall of Famer, dies at 79.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24hsVUsdIvk&t=171s
George The Animal Steele eats turnbuckle.

One of my all-time favorite wrestlers along with Nikolai Volkoff and Walter Killer Kowalski.

How about this for a contrast? In 1995, Myers was presented by Doink the Clown for induction into the WWE Hall of Fame.
The next year, he was inducted into the Michigan High School Coaches Association Hall of Fame after a 28-year career coaching football, wrestling and track at Madison.

“I would say one is Jim Myers as a coach, a teacher, a father to his kids and a father figure to many others. Just tough, hold the line.
Made you accountable. What you think great coaches and teachers do, and fathers.”
 
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http://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/2017/02/18/george-animal-steele-lived-gimmick/98101468/
George ?The Animal? Steele ?lived for the gimmick?.
Detnews

Steele, born William James Myers in Detroit in 1937, died Thursday in Florida at the age of 79. He had been ill for some time, and in and out of hospice care for several weeks.
Steele attended Madison High School in Madison Heights and was a good football player, going on to Michigan State ? where his college career was cut short by a knee injury.

He stayed in school, earning a bachelor?s degree from Michigan State, and later a master?s from Central Michigan, before moving on to a 25-year teaching and coaching career.

That part of his resume would surprise wrestling fans who knew him as an uneducated oaf whose wrestling vernacular including few words, mostly, ?Mine!? while holding a stuffed animal.
Steele wrestled with a green tongue ? nobody?s really sure if he got it that way via Clorets or food coloring ?and was known to chew the turnbuckle to pieces during a wrestling career that spanned from the 1960s, in Detroit, to the 1980s, during WWF?s rise to mainstream.
 
http://detroitsportsnation.com/vide...al-steele-youre-watching-im-dead-video/91027/
Webvideo George ?The Animal? Steele: ?If you?re watching this, I?m dead?. 1 hour.
DSN

Last Friday, the sad news broke that Detroit native, George ?The Animal? Steele had passed away at the age of 79.

Now, a pre-recorded video has been released of the former professional wrestler and teacher sharing a video with those who loved him. In the video, which is nearly an hour long, Steele, whose real name was Jim Myers, talks about his life in detail. He tells us about his upbringing in Detroit, his days as a wrestler, and his time as a teacher and coach.

The video is titled, ?A Walk Through Life with Jim Myers ? AKA George ?The Animal? Steele.
 
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