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"Iron" Mike Sharpe: Embrace the Brace
Wrestling With Heels On is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear.
GET YOUR WRESTLING WITH HEELS ON MERCHANDISE AT SHOP SPORTS HISTORY.
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EPISODE SUMMARY
Wearing my wife’s black wrist brace made me feel as ballsy as a leather-clad heavy metal god with a 6 octave vocal range a la Rob Halford of Judas Priest and as strong as “Iron” Mike Sharpe, the Canadian pro-wrestling superstar who was a mainstay in the WWF from 1983 to 1995. Sharpe wore a black forearm brace supposedly meant to treat a real forearm injury he sustained early in his wrestling career that never quite healed. It’s kind of hard to heal a forearm injury when you use the forearm brace to knock out your opponents. The word was Sharpe’s brace was loaded with something heavy and hard, maybe even a piece of iron itself. Whatever was in it (sometimes it’s better not to know), the forearm brace was a great wrestling gimmick.
What was better than watching Sharpe forearm smash a charging opponent was watching him adjusting the forearm brace moments before he used the “Iron Hammer”—the name of his finishing move—to end the match.
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Hi EVERYONE. MY NAME IS ARIEL GONZALEZ, ORIGINALLY FROM BROOKLYN, NOW LIVING IN THE GARDEN STATE AND I HAVE A NEW PODCAST SHOW CALLED WRESTLING WITH HEELS ON. BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE SPORTS HISTORY NETWORK, OF COURSE.
ON THE PODCAST, I GET TO REMINISCENCE ABOUT MY FAVORITE WRESTLING BAD GUYS FROM YESTERYEAR. LIGHT ON STATS AND HEAVY ON NOSTALGIA, THIS LITTLE TRIP DOWN VILLAINY LANE GIVES ME A CHANCE TO VISIT THE DARK CORRIDORS OF MY WRESTLING SOUL. AND IT’S ALSO FUN TO HAVE A PODCAST.
SO JOIN ME AS I WAX NOSTALGIC ABOUT MY FAVORITE WRESTLING WEIRDOS AND NE’ER DO WELLS, THE NO-GOODNIKS OF A NO-LONGER TIME THAT STILL HAUNT ME TODAY. JUST KEEP IN MIND, LIKE SOME PEOPLE MY AGE, MY RECALL OF PEOPLE AND EVENTS CAN GET A LITTLE WOBBLY SOMETIMES. SO DON’T WORRY IF I GET IT WRONG. OH! WHAT DO YOU EXPECT?
I’M WRESTLING WITH HEELS ON.
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Wrestling With Heels On is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear.
GET YOUR WRESTLING WITH HEELS ON MERCHANDISE AT SHOP SPORTS HISTORY.
NETWORK SPONSORS
Row One - the vintage shop for sports history fans!
EPISODE SUMMARY
Wearing my wife’s black wrist brace made me feel as ballsy as a leather-clad heavy metal god with a 6 octave vocal range a la Rob Halford of Judas Priest and as strong as “Iron” Mike Sharpe, the Canadian pro-wrestling superstar who was a mainstay in the WWF from 1983 to 1995. Sharpe wore a black forearm brace supposedly meant to treat a real forearm injury he sustained early in his wrestling career that never quite healed. It’s kind of hard to heal a forearm injury when you use the forearm brace to knock out your opponents. The word was Sharpe’s brace was loaded with something heavy and hard, maybe even a piece of iron itself. Whatever was in it (sometimes it’s better not to know), the forearm brace was a great wrestling gimmick.
What was better than watching Sharpe forearm smash a charging opponent was watching him adjusting the forearm brace moments before he used the “Iron Hammer”—the name of his finishing move—to end the match.
ABOUT WRESTLING WITH HEELS ON
Wrestling With Heels On Web Page
Hi EVERYONE. MY NAME IS ARIEL GONZALEZ, ORIGINALLY FROM BROOKLYN, NOW LIVING IN THE GARDEN STATE AND I HAVE A NEW PODCAST SHOW CALLED WRESTLING WITH HEELS ON. BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE SPORTS HISTORY NETWORK, OF COURSE.
ON THE PODCAST, I GET TO REMINISCENCE ABOUT MY FAVORITE WRESTLING BAD GUYS FROM YESTERYEAR. LIGHT ON STATS AND HEAVY ON NOSTALGIA, THIS LITTLE TRIP DOWN VILLAINY LANE GIVES ME A CHANCE TO VISIT THE DARK CORRIDORS OF MY WRESTLING SOUL. AND IT’S ALSO FUN TO HAVE A PODCAST.
SO JOIN ME AS I WAX NOSTALGIC ABOUT MY FAVORITE WRESTLING WEIRDOS AND NE’ER DO WELLS, THE NO-GOODNIKS OF A NO-LONGER TIME THAT STILL HAUNT ME TODAY. JUST KEEP IN MIND, LIKE SOME PEOPLE MY AGE, MY RECALL OF PEOPLE AND EVENTS CAN GET A LITTLE WOBBLY SOMETIMES. SO DON’T WORRY IF I GET IT WRONG. OH! WHAT DO YOU EXPECT?
I’M WRESTLING WITH HEELS ON.