Z-Man Forum

I found out yesterday that Tom Zenk passed away.  If you aren't a wrestling fan you probably don't know him, and even if you are you might have forgotten about him.  However I found something out very interesting from a tweet from the wrestler X-Pac (or Syxx, or Sean Waltman, or whatever other names he's used throughout his career).  According to him, and I found a website to back it up, he was the last remaining member of a group of wrestlers who all graduated from Robbinsdale, MN high school in 1976.  The other wrestlers from that class included Brady Boone, Rick Rude, and Mr. Perfect Curt Hennig.  It is really sad to see them all gone.

As for Robbinsdale, a whole slew of wrestlers graduated from there Verne Gagne of AWA fame went there and so did his son Greg (which is funny to me since the Minnesota Twins also had a guy by the name of Greg Gagne at around the same time the wrestler was famous up there).  In addition, John Nord graduated in 1977 (aka, The Barbarian and/or The Bezerker).  Scott Simpson also graduated in 1977 (he is best known as Nikita Koloff).  In 1978 Barry Darsow graduated from there, he was known as a few wrestlers, including Smash of Demolition, Krusher Kruschev (Russian gimmicks were popular in the 80's), Repo Man, and the Blacktop Bully (where he wrestled Dustin Rhodes on the back of a moving flatbed 18 wheeler, caged obviously but still).

A Z-Man card was one of the 100,000 scan uploads.  I don't know why I remember that.