Ken Timbs verstorben

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Eine weiterer grosser Wrestler und Legende verstarb heute Nacht."Gentleman" Ken Timbs verstarb in den fruehen morgenstunden heute im alter von 52 Jahren in seinem Haus in Atlanta,Georgia nach einer langen Krankheit an Herzversagen.Ken Timbs duerfte einigen noch aus seiner Zeit bei der NWA kennen wo er zwei der legendaersten 80er Jahre Tag Team`s mit Eric Embry, The Fabulous Blonds und mit Dusty Wolfe die (Original) Hollywood Blonds bildete.Doch die meisten duerften Ken Timbs als The Assasin aus der NWA kennen.Doch am beruehmtesten wurde Ken Timbs durch seine Persoenlichkeit und sein Witz.(lesst auf jedenfall weiter es kommen ein paar gute Geschichten).

Bevor Ken Timbs zum Pro Wrestling kam war er Police Officer in Georgia.Dort hatte er bei einer Wrestling Show in Georgia einen Einsatz und beschloss Pro Wrestler zuwerden. Trainiert wurde Ken Timbs von Arn und Ole Anderson,letztere war auch der erste Promoter von ihm.Sein Debut gab er dann 1978 bei Georgia Championship Wrestling.Kurz darauf 1979 wechselte er zu Florida Championship Wrestling und trat zum erstenmal als einer der Assasin`s auf.Ole Anderson nahm Ken Timbs dann mit zu Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling wo er seinen durchbruch schaffte und sich etablierte.Weitere Promoter um 1983 waren Dory Funk Jr,Jimmy Hart und Jerry Jarrett.Jener Jimmy Hart schickte ihn zu Southwest Championship Wrestling in San Antonio, TX wo er Eric Embry kennenlernte und die beiden ein Team bildeten,die Karriere ging fortan nach oben und beide wrestleten gegen bekannte Teams wie den Rock`N Roll Express oder die Moondogs.1984 teamte er dann zusammen mit Dusty Wolfe als The Hollywood Blonds und hatten bei Florida Championship Wrestling eine Fehde gegen die Guerreros.Ab 1985 trat "Gentleman" Ken Timbs vornehmlich als Single Wrestler auf.Ken Timbs wrestlete unter vielen der erfolgreichsten und bekanntesten Promotern in den 80er Jahre wie Jim Crockett Jr,Bob Geigel,Verne Gagne,Ole Anderson oder Dory Funk Jr.Ken Timbs trat in seiner Karriere ua bei Georgia Championship Wrestling,Southern Championship Wrestling,Florida Championship Wrestling Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling,der American Wrestling Association (AWA) sowie in Mexico in der EMLL an wo er seine groessten Erfolge feiern konnte.Ken Timbs wrestlete bis in die heutige Zeit und war damit ueber 26 Jahre aktiv im Professional Wrestling.

Folgende Title gewann Ken Timbs in seiner Karriere:
-NWA Central States Champion (1 mal)
-NWA Central States Tag-Team Champion (1 mal)
-EMLL Light Heavyweight Champion (3 mal)
-CCW Junior Heavyweight Champion (1 mal)
-Guatemala Champion (1 mal)

Auch wenn vielen der Name nichts sagt auf den ersten Blick so duerften viele schonmal ihn gesehen haben.Ken Timbs war einer der beliebtesten Wrestler ueberhaupt bei den Fans wie auch bei den Promotern und Wrestlern,weshalb er den Spitznamen Gentleman bekam den er spaeter mit in den Ring nahm.Timbs war vorallem beliebt durch seine Positve art und immer einem Scherz aufgelegt.Gerade seine Scherze mit Dusty Wolfe sind Legendaer.Beide sahen sich zu verwechseln aehnlich und oft hielt man beide fuer Zwillinge.Die beiden machten sich Backstage und on the road daraus oft einen Spass weshalb der ein oder andere Promoter heute ein paar Haare weniger haben duerfte.

Eine der legendaersten und witzigsten Geschichten im Professional Wrestling gab es in der tat zwischen einem sehr jungen Masahiro Chono und Ken Timbs und wie Timbs dem Japaner English beibrachte.Es war 1986 als Masa Chono zu Central States Championship Wrestling kam.Damals konnte er kein Wort English (und hatte somit ein Woerterbuch English-Japanese dabei) und Timbs hollte ihn vom Flughafen ab.Waehrend seinem ersten Match schaute sich Timbs das Woerterbuch an wo Chono sich wichtige Dinge notierte fuer denn Alltag.Und Timbs machte das was er immer machte einen Spass.Timbs veraenderte etwas die Uebersetzung,zum BSP aus "Hello, how are you? /I'm fine, thank you" machte Ken Timbs "Hello, how are you? / None of your fucking business" und weiter "It is a pleasure to meet you/ Fuck off and die" usw.Nun Chono studierte das neu gelernte "English",das dumme war nur es stand ein TV Taping an und Chono wollte sein verbessertes English den Fans zeigen.(ANM: Im Pro Wrestling gerade der 80er Jahre war es voraussetzung #1 die Fans nicht zu beleidigen oder Schimpfwoerter zu benutzen).Chono ging in den Ring und Bob Geigel einer der einflussreichsten Promoter der USA war Referee.Geigel ging zu Chono und fragte ihn im Ring "Hello Chono, how are you?" woraufhin Masahiro Chono mit einem freundlichen laecheln sagte "None of your fucking business!"Geigel wurde Rot und fragte Chono "What is the matter with you?", woraufhin Chono immernoch laechelnd meinte, "Go fuck yourself." Geigel platzte bald,doch es war im TV und er konnte nichts machen,und so startete er das Match.Nachdem Match gingen beide Backstage,Geigel hatte vor Chono zu feuern der immernoch laechelte und zufrieden war,nichtsahnend das er einer der einflussreichsten Maenner im Pro Wrestling beleidigte.Geigel fand dann heraus das Ken Timbs diesen Scherz eingefedelt hat und meinte nur zu ihm er solle aufhoeren Masahiro Chono Englishunterricht zugeben.Spaeter wurden Masahiro Chono und Ken Timbs freunde und Chono erzaehlt noch heute die Geschichte wie er English lernte von Ken Timbs

Wer Geschichten ueber Ken Timbs erzaehlen will oder der Familie von ihm sein Beileid austruecken will kann das auf dem Messageboard von http://oldschool-wrestling.com/ tun.Das Beileid des ganzen WWF4ever Teams geht an die Familie und die Hinterbliebenen von Ken Timbs.

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RIP Ken Timbs

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Und wieder geht ein ganz grosser.Auch wenn Ken Timbs als Wrestler nicht so bekannt war,seine Streiche und witze waren jedem bekannt und gefuerchtet.Als ich das erste mal die Geschichte von Ken Timbs und Masahiro Chono hoerte lag ich am Boden vor lachen und musste weinen.Der arme Chono muss man sich mal vorstellen ein junger 23 jaehriger Wrestler beleidigt so treist im Ring einen der einflussreichsten Promoter.Erst recht weil Chono sehr schuechtern privat ist und sehr zurueckhaltend und immer alles einem recht machen will.Das hat schon was und zaehlt sicherlich als ein Highlight was jemals ein Wrestler als streich abgezogen hat.

Timbs war wuerde ich sagen etwas wie Owen,bei seinem Tod war man traurig doch muss man die ganze zeit an die lustigen Geschichten denken und da gab es etliche.Und so hatte man einen weinendes und lachendes Auge,und man erwischt sich ploetzlich das man anfaengt zu lachen wenn man ueber die Scherze nachdenkt.Leider habe ich Ken Timbs nie getroffen aber man hoert von jedem der ihn kannte nur das beste.

RIP Ken Timbs

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Auf oldschoolwrestling.com habe ich folgenden Artikel gefunden.Ausserdem unter folgender URL koennt ihr den RIP Ken Timbs Thread auf dem Message Board von der Page anschauen mit vielen kleinen geschichten ueber Timbs auch von Wrestlern und Promotern
http://www.oldschool-wrestling.com/forum...topic=5508


Ken Timbs, former Central States superstar in the 80's, and 3-Time former EMLL World Light Heavyweight Champion, passed away on August 1st, 2004 at 5:10 after a lengthy battle with cardio myopathy and congestive heart failure. He was 53 years old.

His wrestling career began in 1978 in Georgia Championship Wrestling. He was trained by Ole Anderson, and began working as an enhancement talent at that time. When Ole took over Mid-Atlantic's booking, he took Ken and others with him. After training a bit more, it was onto Memphis for a brief stay, and then, Ken went to Southwest Championship Wrestling, where he and Eric Embry became The Fabulous Blondes.

After teaming there, and garnering fame in worldwide wrestling publications, Timbs moved onto to Memphis again, as Embry stayed in Texas. It was there, he and Dusty Wolfe became The Hollywood Blondes in 1986. The pair teamed all over the nation in Central States, Florida, and Memphis.

Timbs is a former Central States Champion.

In May of 1988, Timbs traveled to Mexico where he was billed as Fabulouso Blonde. On June 24, 1988, Timbs became EMLL's World Light Heavyweight Champion by defeating legendary lucha libre star Lizmark, a feat that had not been given to a foreigner in Mexico in 12 years.

Through much of the 90's, Ken stayed in Mexico and South America, becoming Guatemala's Heavyeweight Champion. Around midway through the decade, Timbs returned to the States, and stayed around his home base of Georgia.
Timbs is survived by his wife of 28 years, Juanita.
Together, they had 9 children, 8 sons, Joseph ,27, Thomas ,25, Kenneth ,23, Nickolai ,21, Bryan ,13, Wolfgang ,11, Roderick ,7, and Alejandro ,4.
Timbs is also survived by a daughter, Krissa, 18.

Memorial inquiries can be made at http://www.oldschool-wrestling.com. No arrangements have yet been made.

Should also be noted Timbs spent time in Continental also where he won the U.S. Junior title in in 1985 from Roy Lee Welch and lost it to Tim Horner. He also worked under a mask as Mr. Class in the area.- Karl

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Ich kannte ihn zwar nicht, aber der Scherz mit Chono ist wirklich klasse. :=:
RiP Ken.

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Les Thatcher hat nun in seiner woechentlichen Kolumne auf PWInsider.com an Ken Timbs gewidmet.Es ist wirklich gut zulesen.Unten mal der Teil wo es um Ken Timbs geht.

Link http://www.pwinsider.com/ViewArticle.asp?id=4238&p=1

WRESTLER’S EYE VIEW
By Les Thatcher

It is with sadness that I begin this column. The wrestling fraternity lost a great guy in The Fabulous Blonde, Ken Timbs this past weekend. Timbs was only 53 years old. I was out surfing the net several weeks back and went on the Baddass Wrestle Wear site, which was Ken’s company, and has been run by his family for years. I hadn’t talked with old Ken in a long time so I sent him e-mail while there and got a typical Timbs smart ass reply for my trouble. He was great with wise come- backs. A few days later my phone rang and Ken was on the line. We chatted about this and that, and caught up on old times. He mentioned he was sick, but hey, he said, nothing I can do about it. He asked that I write something for another site he and his son have up and I told him how backed up I was, but as quickly as I could I would put something together for him. I had no idea how sick he really was until days later when a mutual friend told me that Timbs had cardiomyopathy and it was a day-to-day thing.

Many of you young fans and wrestlers may not know the name. Timbs was one of those solid performers who busted his ass every night to give the paying public what they came to see. Ken spent a lot of his career in the Southeastern part of the country but also traveled outside the states to work quite a bit and had one hell of a run down in Mexico as a gringo heel a number of years back. He had devoted his life to our industry, and was never bitchy about the fact that just maybe it didn’t give back an equal amount. I sat here in the late evening when I read about it, and as I thought about the funny things we had talked about just a couple of weeks, tears filled my eyes. Ken Timbs was one of those people that may not be a household name, but he was one of those people who made the business fun at times when you needed a lift. That night we talked, had we not been comparing old guys injuries, he may have never even mentioned that he was sick. My heart goes out to his family for the void this will leave with them. I am sure his wife and son will carry on the business. If you haven’t been there already go to http://www.baddasswrestleware.com for a quality selection of wrestling gear, and a direct link to the finest wrestling boot maker out there. I‘m sure that Ken will still be watching over them. Elsewhere on this site Steve Rossi has a detailed account of Ken’s background and performance history in the business.

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Folgend noch ein Artikel ueber Ken Timbs



ATLANTA: Ken Timbs, 'ultimate bad guy' in pink tuxedo
By DERRICK HENRY


Ken Timbs was a wrestler fans loved to hate.

He chose the profession for practical reasons. The Atlanta native had been working as a police officer in Riverdale for five years when in 1978 he began moonlighting as a security guard at wrestling shows. He enjoyed the atmosphere and was intrigued by the wrestlers' pay.

"Ken saw an opportunity," said his wife, Juanita Timbs of Atlanta. "He was an all-around athlete who had played high school football and track and boxed Golden Gloves. As a police officer, he had been making $125 a week. They offered him a full-time position in Georgia Championship Wrestling where he could make $900 to $1,000 a week."

Mr. Timbs chose wrestling.

He resigned from the Police Department in 1979 and by 1983 had dyed his hair and partnered with Eric Embry to form the Fabulous Blondes tag team. A year later he teamed with Rusty Wolfe as the Hollywood Blondes.

"Ken was the tough guy and I was the crybaby," said Mr. Wolfe of San Antonio. "We had the blond hair, the walking sticks, the tuxedos and the bow ties and put on airs that we were better than everybody. Ken knew how to play to the crowd."

"He was the ultimate bad guy," his wife said. "You didn't cheer for a guy in a pink tuxedo. He made a smelly concoction from Old Spice, eucalyptus and all these perfumes and would spray the ring with it. In the old days, there was no choreography like there is now. No one told you what to say and do. You had to read your opponent so you didn't hurt each other."

Mr. Timbs got hurt plenty. He broke his ribs, his kneecap, his shoulders and fingers. "Once he started a riot in the arena in Mexico and had his ear kicked off his head," his wife said. "The plastic surgeon did a beautiful job of sewing it back on."

William Kenny Timbs, 53, died Sunday at his Atlanta residence of complications from cardiomyopathy, a disease of the heart muscle. The body will be donated to the University of Tennessee Forensic Anthropology Center. The memorial service is 11 a.m. today at Faith Baptist Church, College Park. Donald Trimble Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.

In a career that took him to the Southwest, Mexico and Central America, Mr. Timbs began piling up the trophies. He won the Southwest tag team championship several times, captured the Guatemala heavyweight title, and was a three-time light-heavyweight champion in the Mexican League.

"Becoming the light-heavyweight champion in Mexico on June 24, 1988, was the highlight of his career," his wife said. "He was the first foreigner in 12 years to be offered a chance to compete for that."

While many wrestlers caroused after matches, Mr. Timbs brought along his wife (who designed all his clothes) and children. "Ken didn't drink and he didn't smoke. Everything revolved around the kids," his wife said.

Inspired by their dad, several of his children have gone into amateur wrestling.

Survivors include a daughter, Krissa Timbs of Atlanta; eight sons, all of Atlanta: Joseph, Thomas, Kenneth "Buck," Nickolai, Bryan, Wolfgang, Roderick and Alejandro "A.J." Timbs; his mother, Betty Jo Timbs of Ellenwood; two brothers, Charles Edward Timbs Jr. of Ellenwood, Ga., and Jerry Ramon Timbs of Tyrone; and a sister, Cathy Seay of Henry County.



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I will always consider the March 1, 2004, RAW in Georgia to be one of the great moments of my career. The unveiling of The Rock as my special WrestleMania tag team partner felt like an incredible culmination to the journey I had traveled against Randy Orton and Evolution. So much so that the ‘Mania match itself, in retrospect, seemed almost anti-climactic to me.

Over the last few days, however, after hearing of the death of fellow wrestler Ken Timbs, I have come to think of that trip to Atlanta in a different light. Instead of the roar of the crowd, I will think of a small act of kindness, and instead of the reuniting of the “Rock ‘n’ Sock Connection,” I will think of my last visit with Ken Timbs, his wife Juanita, and their seemingly endless supply of children.

I used to be a frequent visitor back in my WCW and ECW days, when Juanita Timbs made several of my Cactus Jack tights, most notably the black and snakeskin pair that I wore in the “King of the Deathmatch” tournament. When I moved on to WWE, I lost track of the family for a little while, until the slow but steady urge of dreams left unrealized brought me back into their lives in the fall of 2002.

“Have you seen the Wizard of the Oz?” I asked Ken.

“Of course,” he said.

“You know that little guy in the Lollypop Guild, the guy with the red hair dressed in green?”

“I think so.”

“Well do you think you guys could make my one-and-a-half-year-old look like him?”

It was about 30 degrees that Halloween in New York, but that didn’t stop me from strolling Mick Jr. (who luckily was still too young to know how foolish he looked) from house to house and pressing “play” on the boom box, so that each befuddled neighbor got to look at an exact replica of the green “Lollypop Kid” (complete with oversized lollypop stuck in his tiny fist) as the strains of “We represent the Lollypop Guild” filled the brisk autumn air, and a large hairy man beamed a smile from ear to ear, his life’s dream finally fulfilled.

In my visit this past March, I had serious business on my mind. I though I might be having a singles match with Randy Orton at Backlash in April, and needed a new pair of “Cactus” tights for the occasion. More important than the particulars of my comeback match attire, however, was the picture I held in my hand. The serious business I just wrote of. It was a picture of Peter Pan.

I took little Mick to the circus last night.


He set some kind of new big top award for most bows taken, as he interprets every burst of audience applause as a sign of admiration for his circus skills, which consist mainly of climbing all over his dad’s shoulders. I thought it seemed appropriate that the little guy went dressed in the outfit the Timbs had made him. It also made me remember the surprise I felt when I opened up the box and saw the note that accompanied the costume. “No charge,” it read. Then again, maybe I shouldn’t have been surprised. In 1995, Ken and Juanita made my kids dreams come true with knock-out Batman and Batgirl costumes (I wrote of these in “Have a Nice Day”.) Eight years later, he made my own dreams come true with the arrival of our special munchkin outfit. This year they made a little boy very happy with their Peter Pan creation. And through it all, they never made me pay.

I used to hear stories about Ken Timbs as a wrestler. Apparently he and Eric Embry were quite a tag team at one time. As “El Fabuloso Blondie” in Mexico, he didn’t shy away from the legit heat that came with pro-American gimmick. I believe he was also the man who introduced many hardcore stipulation matches to Mexican audiences. But even though I wrestled him once on a small independent show in a town I’ve long forgotten, I can’t say I’m all that familiar with him as a wrestler.

Instead, I knew him as a father who personally delivered all nine of his children, I knew him as a friend, who always had a warm, open home for me to visit. And I knew him as a man who liked to make my children’s dreams come true, and who never charged me for that privilege.

Sincerely,

Mick Foley