Adrian Street
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Adrian Street is a professional wrestler from Wales. With wife Linda, he runs the "Skull Krushers Wrestling School" in Gulf Breeze, Florida, and sells pro wrestling gear and other sundries via his website [1]. With his flamboyant personality and flowing locks of hair, he became a legendary heel and traveled all over the world during his lengthy career.
Adrian contracted lung cancer, allegedly due to his proximity to large amounts of second hand smoke. He put his career on hold to receive chemotherapy treatment, which caused the loss of his legendary hair. Recently, he has resumed wrestling.
Adrian starred alongside Ron Perlman in the film "Quest for Fire." He was also in "Grunt: The Wrestling Movie."
Rico Constantino adopted Adrian's gimmick during his tenure in the WWE as "Rico." His valet, Miss Jackie, adopted the Miss Linda role. Rico received direct training from Adrian on how best to get the gimmick over with the audience. He created some of Rico and Miss Jackie's ring gear.
After working with Dusty Rhodes, Dusty's son Dustin began using a variation of Adrian's facepaint design for his Goldust character
He also created the ring gear worn by Mick Foley as Dude Love during his feud with Stone Cold Steve Austin. Foley attended Street's Skull Krushers school for a time to brush up on his skills.
Adrian has trained many wrestlers who have gone on to be big stars, and many who haven't, including Ashley Culverhouse, who went by the name "Alias Street". Alias died (or retired) in 2006, after a long 7 month career.
The Skull Krushers wrestling school was temporarily closed due to damages suffered to the ring and apartments by Hurricane Katrina.
[edit] Profile
- Height: 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
- Weight: 235 lb (107 kg)
- Birthday: December 5, 1940
- Hometown: Gulf Breeze, Florida
- Trained by: -
- Professional debut: 1964
- Previous identities: "Exotic" Adrian Street, Kid Tarzan Jonathan, Hell's Angel #1
- Finishing/signature move(s): Sleeper Hold, Splash
- Manager and Wife: Miss Linda
[edit] Championships and accomplishments
- 4-time NWA Southeast Heavyweight Champion
- 2-time NWA Americas Tag Team Champion (with Timothy Flowers)
- 1-time NWA Americas Heavyweight Champion
- 1-time NWA Florida Heavyweight Champion
- 2-time Europe World Middleweight Champion
- 1-time MSWA Television Champion
- 1-time Mid-South Television Champion
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