Allen Coage

Allen James Coage ( born October 22, 1943 in New York City; † March 6, 2007 in Calgary ), also known as Bad News Brown and Bad News Allen, was an American professional wrestler and successful judoka in the heavyweight division. Allen Coage was married to Helen and had nine children. In addition to the Judo Coage had also a black belt in Aikido. On 6 March 2007, died Coage after he was previously admitted with chest pain to a hospital.

  • 2.1 Judo
  • 2.2 Wrestling

Career

Beginnings / Judo

Allen Coage grew up in very modest circumstances in New York's Harlem. In 1961 he finally began with the judo sport. Coage played from 1966 many judo tournaments, where he competed in the heavyweight division. He won several times, among others, the national championships of the Amateur Athletic Union, twice the gold medal at the Pan American Games and went on to four World Cups for the USA.

To earn money, he stayed with jobs as a bouncer over water. In 1976, his greatest success in Judo. Coage won the bronze medal in the heavyweight division at the Summer Olympic Games in Montreal in 1976. To date, he is the only American to win a medal in this weight class. After that he wanted to open his own judo school, but had to realize that that's not much money was. In 1978, he finally tried it with wrestling and was training in Japan by Antonio Inoki.

Wrestling

After a short time in New Japan Pro Wrestling and the Worldwide Wrestling Federation, Coage finally went in 1982 to Calgary at Stampede Wrestling. He moved here and completed his wrestling training in the infamous Dungeon, the training room of coaching legend Stu Hart. He remained until 1988 when Stampede Wrestling before he went as Bad News Brown to the World Wrestling Federation. The gimmick he got here was an absolute loner, who was neither on the side of the Faces, even the heels. At WrestleMania IV, he won a Battle Royal and denied in the following years, feuds with Randy Savage, Hulk Hogan, Jake Roberts and Roddy Piper.

After SummerSlam 1990 Coage eventually left the organization and joined again after that on an independent level. In 1998 he ended his active career because of knee problems. He began working as a security guard in a shopping mall in Airdrie, as well as in the wrestling continued as a commentator and coach.

Achievements

Judo

  • National Judo Championships 5x 1st place (1970 Grand Champion )
  • 2x 2nd place
  • 1x 3rd place
  • 2x Gold Medal

Wrestling

  • Stampede Wrestling 4x Stampede North American Heavyweight Champion
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