‘Future Of Honor’ S1 To Be Available For ROH ‘Honor Club’ Members
ROH made the following announcement on Twitter announcing to fans that Future Of Honor Season 1 will be dropping for Honor Club members. All eight episodes will be binge-watchable. Future Of Honor will feature wrestling talents working their up the Ring Of Honor Dojo.
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Late WCW Referee Would’ve Turned 57 Today
Brian Hildebrand, also known as referee Mark Curtis in WCW, would have celebrated his 57th birthday today. Hildebrand, a Pittsburgh native, passed away at the age of 37 after a battle with cancer. The following is by Thomas Leturgey and is a background on Hildebrand as well as the wrestling legacy he left behind:
Hildebrand really started to make a name for himself when he went to Jim Cornette’s “Smokey Mountain Wrestling in 1992.” Hildebrand idolized the firebrand that is Jim Cornette. “Brian moved to Memphis and never came back,” Michaels said. There Hildebrand he served as “Senior Referee” Mark Curtis. While the opinion of Smokey Mountain Wrestling remains extremely positive, it only lasted until 1995. In its finale, Smokey Mountain’s founder, Cornette, was attacked by the entire locker room and was pinned by…Mark Curtis. It was at this time Hildebrand met his wife, Pam, who was very supportive of his career, and assisted during the Smokey Mountain run.
After leaving Smokey Mountain, Mark Curtis once again became Brian Hildebrand in ECW. When he left ECW, Hildebrand once again became Curtis in WCW. On a September 8, 1997 television broadcast from Milwaukee, a fan slid under the bottom rope and into the ring. Curtis took the interloper down and slapped on a guillotine choke hold. Famed commentators Bobby “The Brain” Heenan and Tony Schiavone called Curtis “Shooter” for making the save until security arrived.
When Brian Hildebrand passed away on September 8, 1999 in Florida, he was surrounded by his wife Pam, Keenan, and fellow friend and referee Charles Robinson. Hildebrand was 37.
“[Brian] was a dear friend,” said professional wrestling journalist Bill Apter in a recent email. “His passion and dedication to the business of Professional Wrestling became his life’s work. Brian did everything one could do in our world of wrestling during the precious yet much too short time we had to enjoy with him.”
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