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Jeep Swenson |
| Published: August 12, 2007, 7:00 am |
| Tags: wreslters gone actors, deceased legends, wrestlers |
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Jeep Swenson Robert Alexander Swenson Jr., known to the world as “Jeep” Swenson. Swenson’s dad, a military man, was nicknamed “Tank”, hence his logic that every “tank” needed a “jeep”. According to Swenson, he had the largest biceps in the world at that time. Swenson started his wrestling in WCCW in the mid-80’s with the legendary manager Gary Hart. In 1989 he played Lugwrench Perkins in Hulk Hogans movie “No Holds Barred”. Swenson came back into prefessional wrestling at WCW in 1996 as a member of the Alliance To End Hulkamania. The Alliance was comprised of both the Dungeon of Doom and the Four Horsemen. Swenson, standing 6′4″ tall and weighing about 400 pounds, played the villainous character of Bane in the 1997 film Batman & Robin. Less than two months after the films debut August 18, 1997 Swenson died of heart failure at the UCLA Medical Center. Hulk Hogan and James Caan gave eulogies at [ Full article ] |
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