Word: bruisers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Back in the dressing room, wrestlers are having a smoke and taping their limbs in preparation for bouts to come. Some smear on baby oil to avoid abrasion from the ropes and canvas ring. "Bruiser" Frank Brody, mid-30s, preparing to wrestle, unclasps his black hair from a ponytail, douses it under a tap and lets it hang limp and long about his huge shoulders. "I might work ten or 15 days in a row," he says softly. "I try to save money, live quiet and plan for retirement," he adds. Well-known wrestlers like Brody earn anywhere from...
...taken a lot of punches," a subdued Ali said at a news conference. "So there is a great possibility something could be wrong." But the doctors denied that Ali was suffering from dementia pugilistica, a medical term for the often caricatured condition of the simple-minded bruiser who has taken one punch too many. "He is not punch-drunk," said Dr. Stanley Fahn, the neurologist in charge of his case. Nor, doctors insisted, is Ali suffering from Parkinson's disease, a disorder that occurs when the brain ceases to produce sufficient amounts of dopamine, a substance that helps...
Long before The A-Team became a hit television show, Sears had its own Mr. T. In a polite and personable way, Chairman Edward Riggs Telling, 65, who is 6 ft. 2 in. and 220 Ibs., can be as tough in his sphere as that big bruiser with the Mandinka haircut. A former colleague recalls that Telling once delivered a friendly but firm ultimatum to the man ager of a money-losing store. "You know your job is on the line," said Telling. "This is September, and I don't see any reason why you can't turn...
Dubbed "Melonhead" by his teammates because of one pre-game warmup that involved jumping up and down and hitting his head against the ceiling in the locker room, and, as Olson says, "because he's a little slow," Sheehy doesn't quite see himself as the squad's "big bruiser...