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Former arch-rival Sammartino came to his rescue the two then became friends, leading to Monsoon becoming a huge fan favorite, which he would remain for the rest of his career. In 1969, Gorilla Monsoon was mercilessly attacked on television by The Sheik, a wrestler even more vicious and hated than he.

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It went the full 90-minute time limit without a winner decided, and became just the first in a long series of battles between Monsoon and Sammartino over the gold. Later that same month, however, he stepped into the ring with then-WWE Champion Bruno Sammartino at the old Madison Square Garden in a match that both men would later cite as the toughest of their careers.

In November of that year, Monsoon teamed with fellow Hall of Famer Killer Kowalski to win the United States Tag Team Championship, a title he would hold once again a few years later with 'Cowboy' Bill Watts. When WWE broke away from the NWA in 1963, Monsoon became one of the cornerstones of the new promotion. He used his immense size to his advantage and looked the part of a savage, decimating his opponents with his Manchurian Splash and famed Airplane Spin. With manager 'Wild' Red Berry at his side to do all the talking, Monsoon was instantly one of the most hated Superstars in the country. McMahon and Joseph 'Toots' Mondt as Gorilla Monsoon, a 'former Asiatic Champion' billed as hailing from Manchuria. He continued on to Ithaca College, where he became one of the most accomplished wrestlers in the school's history so accomplished, in fact, that he was inducted into his alma mater's Athletic Hall of Fame in 1979.įollowing his college graduation in 1959, Marella began wrestling in New York as Gino Marella shortly after, however, he re-debuted for northeast promoters Vincent J. While the generation of WWE fans growing up in the 1980s and 1990s may only remember Monsoon as a broadcaster, an earlier generation remembers him as one of the most feared competitors in sports-entertainment.Īs a youth, Robert Marella was a standout athlete, lettering in three sports in high school. That's just one of the legendary catchphrases uttered by Gorilla Monsoon during his years as a WWE broadcaster. You can also include a portrait of yourself with your bike and your Instagram account! Please, shoot landscape-orientation photos, not portrait.'The irresistible force meets the immovable object…'

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Feel free to submit your bike, listing details, components, and other information. The response has been incredible and we have so many to share over the next few months. We’d like to thank all of you who have submitted Readers Rides builds to be shared over here. Rode for a while with Jones Loop bars as well… Shimano SLX 11 speed shifters and rear derailleur, Shimano Deore brakeset

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Onyx hubs laced with Sapim CX Ray spokes to carbon Light Bicycle Recon Pro rims Shimano Ultegra shifters an RX800 derailleur, SLX 11-42 cassetteĮaston carbon crankset (cracked so running Hope Cranks) Hope finishing kit, RX4 brake calipers and hubs laced to kinlin rims It didn’t take a long time to realise how capable and fun the bike is and (pushed also from the never-ending lockdown restrictions) I ended up to use it only for short journeys mainly on trails so I decided to go flat bars… and the cool thing is the possibility to easily swap between the two configurations since rear derailleur and brakes are connected to shifters on the drops and all the cables are external.įrom a simple frame swap I then started to test different configurations and lately I am running carbon hops on Onyx hubs… so smooth I love the silent costing in the woods!

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The initial idea was just to swap the parts from my Brothers Kepler with the aim to increase tyre clearance from 650 plus up to 2.4 and to do long weekend trips. Apparently it was the last green shaded frame size 52 available in UK, and the guys at SBC Cycles managed the get their hands on. I bought the All-City Gorilla Monsoon as a frame only during the first lockdown in UK. Marco chose the All-City Gorilla Monsoon as the chassis for his newest build project and over the past 18 months, he’s been perfecting the build. We’ve all been tinkering while staying at home during the pandemic.

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