Steve McMichael
Steve " Mongo " McMichael ( born October 17, 1957 in Houston, Texas ) is a former professional American football player in the National Football League ( NFL) and former professional wrestler. He is the coach of the team Chicago Slaughter in the Continental Indoor Football League, a hall variant of American football.
- 2.1 American Football
- 2.2 Wrestling
Career
American Football
McMichael was selected in the 1980 NFL Draft by the New England Patriots in the third round as 73 players, but moved as early as next year as a free agent with the Chicago Bears, for whom he played twelve years. During this time, McMichael, which was used on the position of the defensive tackles won with his team the Super Bowl of the 1985 season (Super Bowl XX). In 1986 and 1987 he was elected to the Pro Bowl. From 1990 reduced the Chicago Bears, where McMichael had been 101 games in a row in the grid, his playing time. The 1994 season played McMichael still with the Green Bay Packers before he ended his career as a footballer.
Wrestling
1995 saw McMichael when a consignment of wrestling promotion World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWF) as a guest commentator and the pay -per-view Wrestlemania XI alongside other Foot Shooting as a " Lumberjack " in a Lumberjack Match between the wrestler Bam Bam Bigelow and former football player Lawrence Taylor. Self in the WWF not performed, instead appeared McMichael 1995 their competitors World Championship Wrestling ( WCW ) as a commentator who blasphemed with the strain commentator Bobby " The Brain" Heenan on the ring action. His performance as a commentator earned him the distinction of "Worst Television Announcers " in the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Wrestling magazine Dave Meltzer. In April 1996, was initiated McMichael's active career as a wrestler by Ric Flair began to flirt during a show with McMichael's wife Debra McMichael. As part of the storyline ( Wrestling ) called McMichael flair and his tag team partner Arn "The enforcer " Anderson, two members of the Stables Four Horsemen to a tag team match out, should be in the McMichael partner of Footballer Kevin Greene. The match, which took place at the Pay -Per -View " Great American Bash ", ended with McMichael as planned changed sides in the ring and " attacked " as a new member of the Horsemen Kevin Green. As a wrestler McMichael supported the other members of the Horsemen at their feud and had a feud with Jeff Jarrett single, which is moderately storyline came to its advances to Debra McMichael and the place of a fourth Horsemen. In two pay - per-views McMichael denied Wrestling matches against active Footballer, once against Reggie White and once against Kevin Greene.
The highlight of McMichael's wrestling career was winning the title of the WCW United States Heavyweight Champion, which he took over in August 1997 by Jeff Jarrett. Three weeks later he had the title as part of the storyline of the dissolution of the Four Horsemen to Curt Hennig to pass, who had " betrayed" in the storyline the Horsemen. McMichael denied after fighting against members of Stables, which was managed by his wife, Debra, the promotion, the real marital problems of the couple, was divorced in 1999 took up. McMichael looked even with on a new foundation of the Four Horsemen in 1999, before he, about the same time good-bye with her divorce from Debra McMichael, from the wrestling.
Achievements
American Football
- Winner of the Super Bowl XX with the Chicago Bears
- Two appeals in the Pro Bowl
Wrestling
- WCW United States Heavyweight Champion ( 1x)