Killer Be Killed

Wrestling icon Walter (Killer) Kowalski has died of complications from a power suplex at the age of 81. In the simpler 1950s, grown men in tight shorts slapping each other made for nightly entertainment on the old Victrola, and the 6-foot-7, 275-pound Kowalski cut a commanding figure as one the most hated villains in the pseudosport. Unlike the modern iteration, things were a little more real back in the day when Kowalski earned his nickname by accidentally severing the ear of Yukon Eric, then cackling at his bandaged head in the hospital. Kowalski later opened a School of Professional Wrestling in Malden, Massachusetts, turning out Triple H and Chyna.