The Tragic Real-Life Story Of Junkyard Dog

As Pro Wrestling Stories tells us, Junkyard Dog was a very, very popular wrestler in his prime. In fact, he was so popular that it could be outright dangerous to everyone involved. During his days in the Mid-South, he was a hero who used Queen's "Another One Bites The Dust" as his entrance music and was loved by all — almost too much. One of his stranger feuds at the time was a storyline angle that saw his enemies, the Fabulous Freebirds, "blind" Junkyard Dog with hair cream. This coincided with the real-life birth of his daughter, and the prospect of the heroic wrestler not being able to see the baby got the crowds very, very mad. So much so, in fact, that the Freebirds soon needed police protection.

As Wrestling Observer notes, the story almost ended in a disaster when the "blind" Junkyard Dog took the ring to address his adoring audiences, some of whom were apparently convinced that he had actually lost his sight and had to leave the business for good. How convinced? Well, when the Freebirds inevitably entered the ring to gang up on the "helpless" Junkyard Dog, one fan actually entered the fray and pointed a gun at one of them, yelling, "Don't worry Dog, I'm covering you!" 

Fortunately, no one was shot that night. Unfortunately for the gun-toting fan, though, the security overpowered him and took him away — presumably, to receive the beating of a lifetime. 

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