18 Facts About Art Barr

1.

Arthur Leon Barr was an American professional wrestler.

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Art Barr had three brothers: Jesse, who was a wrestler, JR, and Sean.

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Art Barr joined World Championship Wrestling in 1990 and was renamed "The Juicer" in order to avoid copyright conflicts, but he retained his character.

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Art Barr initially wrestled under a mask as "The American Love Machine", and was very successful.

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Art Barr confirmed this in a shoot interview with Los Angeles media following the PPV, and said that he looked forward to competing in ECW, "they're not the biggest promotion but they're the hottest and a very forward thinking promotion".

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Art Barr additionally was scheduled to compete at New Japan's annual Tokyo Dome show on January 4,1995, in a match with Jushin Thunder Liger however this never materialised.

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Art Barr is regarded as the most hated rudo the company has ever had along with his tag team partner Eddie Guerrero as Los Gringos Locos.

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Art Barr made his New Japan Pro-Wrestling debut as "American Machine" in Summer 1994, wrestling under an old American Love Machine mask.

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Art Barr made his debut by teaming with Black Cat and Black Tiger II in a winning effort against the team of Shinjiro Otani, El Samurai and Jushin Liger.

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On November 23,1994, Art Barr was found dead lying with his child at his home in Springfield, Oregon.

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Art Barr had a mixture of alcohol and drugs in his blood stream.

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Art Barr took a liking to the move, began using it regularly and adopted it as his finisher.

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Art Barr made me realize there's more to wrestling than just wrestling.

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Art Barr helped me change my personality in the ring.

15.

Konnan said that Art Barr was one of the greatest talents he'd ever stepped into the ring with.

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Art Barr continued to wrestle as Beetlejuice, despite the charges and the attention brought to him and PNW by the Portland Oregonian.

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Art Barr was fined $1,000, placed on two years probation, and sentenced to 180 hours of community service, but served no jail time.

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Art Barr always maintained that he would have beaten the case in court, but was advised to take the plea since it involved no jail time.