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Metal Maniac

Also known as Heavy Metal Maniac, Doink The Clown

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103.02.2024cioran4.0Middle of the road guy who could do everything fine and had a decent look when he was younger who if he got lucky probably could have had a decent to strong midcard run in ECW if he came in the biz 5 years later or a serviceable run in WCW or WWE at the bottom of the card or dark matches in major venues 5 or 10 years earlier. Not a fantastic talker, but certainly not a bad one and one of the better guys I've seen at getting heat in small venues and getting the crowd involved. Was pretty funny when he'd holler at Caruso mid-match or pretend to walk off. I mainly saw the guy wrestle Jimmy Snuka when I was a kid. He was in NY/NJ indie shows a lot. Maybe one or two other guys, but he was the guy Snuka would wrestle on the IWC. MM was fine. He didn't set the world on fire but he was by no means bad. His goal was to amp up Snuka or the other guy and holler at the crowd as a pretty generic old school heel. He did that fine. His gimmick was kind of like a half dozen other heel guy's gimmicks w/the facepaint (Demolition, LoD, Power of Pain, Mr. Pogo, Great Muta, Adrian Street, Kamala, The Great Kabuki, Ultimate Warrior, Sting) but it wasn't like that was hugely original even then, so it's not really like he "ripped off" the Ultimate Warrior. This fellow just had facepaint. So did Sting. It was a pretty popular thing esp. with tag teams but not a ton of solo guys did it. It was fine. It's memorable enough. IDK where this guy is getting 2's from. Yeah he's not Brett Hart. He was pretty good for an IWC guy and a fixture in the area. He's one of those guys that illustrates how wrestling as a product changed. Wrestling used to be about going to the show and having a fun time with your family and friends, now it's about tv and match quality and story matters more so it's less about the experience of being there. And that's not bad, just different.
206.01.2021DanTalksRasslin2.0With his wild hair and facepaint, Metal Maniac came off as a bit of an unfinished Ultimate Warrior clone - similar gimmick, similar rudimentary moveset, but without the flash or physique that made the Warrior, or even the Renegade, stand out (though he was at least better than One Warrior Nation). He often wrestled against one of his trainers, Jimmy Snuka, and to be fair Snuka was able to get a reasonably decent match out of him.
315.03.2020jajt19892.0 
409.07.2012blackjack2.0Cant believe I'm actually rating this guy. Terrible. Only gets 2 points instead of zero because I laugh every time I see him in the ring. Wrestles Superfly Snuka almost exclusively. They have that match down. Its not good, but its a match. If he is in the ring with anyone else, its terrible.