Paul Bearer — the spooky WWE manager who helped introduce The Undertaker — died Tuesday evening at the age of 58 … this according to the WWE.
Bearer — real name “Bill” Moody — joined the WWE in 1990 … playing the role of a creepy funeral director who managed various wrestling stars … including Undertaker, Kane, Rick Rude, Vader and Mankind.
The details surrounding Bearer’s death are unclear — but he reportedly suffered from serious health problems over the past decade … including morbid obesity and gallbladder issues.
R.I.P.
The WWE released a statement saying … “WWE is saddened to learn of the passing of William Moody, aka Paul Bearer.”
“Moody made his WWE debut in 1991 as the manager of The Undertaker and went on to become a memorable part of WWE over the course of the next 20 years. Our deepest condolences go out to Moody’s family, friends and fans.”
Source – http://www.tmz.com/2013/03/05/paul-bearer-dead-wwe-legend-dies-bill-moody/#ixzz2MmgAiV00
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Sad news. This is worse than when Macho Man died because I remember watching Bearer in the 90s. I talked to a friend at work and he said Bearer was his favorite manager and I think he was my favorite manager too. I can’t think of a manager I liked more than Paul Bearer.
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He definitely played his gimmick to perfection. My facebook newsfeed has been flooded all day with Paul Bearer tributes. He really left a mark on the business. The most ironic part of his gimmick is that he was a mortician in real life.
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Yeah, that is odd.
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You have more wrestling friends than I do. None of my FB friends made any Bearer related statuses.
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RIP to Paul Bearer. I never got the pun until I got older. Anybody remember watching him do this gimmick…
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I didn’t know his real name was Bill Moody. I thought Percy Pringle was his real name.
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Nope, but it does crack me up that you, being younger, know of Percy Pringle. I don’t know why.
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I read a news story about him once and I think it called him “Percy Pringle aka Paul Bearer”. So I assumed Percy Pringle must have been his real name. I had never ever heard anyone call him “William Moody”.
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Kayfabe is alive!
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“RIP to Paul Bearer. I never got the pun until I got older.”
And I never got the pun until when you posted this message.
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LOL!!! I do what I can.
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It’s still real to me dammit!!!
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Good to see this getting attention outside of the wrestling world: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/the-turnstile/wwe-resident-mortician-paul-bearer-dead-58-011944534.html
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Yeah it’s great to see that!
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Made my paper as well.
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A true gent lost
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