1. Adrian Street was a Welsh professional wrestler and author nicknamed "Exotic" who came to prominence in the 1970s and 1980s.
17 Facts About Adrian Street
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Adrian Street was often accompanied to the ring by his long-time manager and wife Miss Linda, and the two worked primarily as heels.
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Adrian Street was born on 5 December 1940 in Brynmawr in South Wales.
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Adrian Street's family was in the coal mining business; his father was a miner for 51 years.
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Adrian Street was trained as a professional wrestler by Chic Osmond and Mike Demitre.
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Adrian Street has explained that this gimmick was born by accident as a result of him playing up to taunting from an audience one evening.
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Adrian Street's wrestling attire evolved to include pastel colours and glitter makeup, and he clipped his bleached hair into mini- hipigtails.
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Adrian Street sang several glam rock songs, such as "Sweet Transvestite with a Broken Nose" and "Imagine What I Could Do To You", the latter being his entrance music.
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Early on, Adrian Street worked as a heel against Austin Idol, Wendell Cooley, and Norvell Austin before turning face in 1986.
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Adrian Street was so convincing as a heel that fans stood in shock as Adrian Street saved Bob Armstrong, under a mask as the Bullet, from an attack by Robert Fuller, Jimmy Golden and Tom Prichard.
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Adrian Street had a long feud there with "The Hustler," Rip Rogers.
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Adrian Street returned to the area shortly before it closed in summer, 1989, teaming with Bill Dundee and Todd Morton against "RPM" Mike Davis and a young Masahiro Chono, as well as a feud against Terry Garvin and his partner, Marc Guleen, known as Beauty and the Beast.
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Adrian Street created the ring gear worn by Mick Foley as Dude Love during his feud with Stone Cold Steve Austin.
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Adrian Street estimated that he had wrestled between 12,000 and 15,000 matches during his career, which ended with a final match held in Birmingham, Alabama, in June 2014.
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In 2005, Adrian Street proposed to long-time manager Miss Linda at a reunion of the Cauliflower Alley Club.
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Adrian Street died at Grange University Hospital in Cwmbran, on 24 July 2023, at age 82.
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Adrian Street appeared in Grunt: The Wrestling Movie, as well as Pasolini's 1972 film The Canterbury Tales.