![]() The entire WWF event was entitled, ‘The Brawl to End it All,’ and featured match ups such as Tito Santana defending the Intercontinental title against ‘Cowboy’ Bob Orton, Adrian Adonis and Dick Murdoch defending the WWF tag team titles vs Terry Daniels and Sgt. Wendi Richter would challenge Fabulous Moolah for the WWF women’s championship, a title Moolah held for over 28 years. The match would take place on Jat New York City’s famed Madison Square Garden. ![]() Richyer was a young, 22 year old who had good looks and fit the profile of someone Lauper would manage. Since Cyndi wasn’t a trained professional and Albano was retired from active wrestling, a match was booked that featured Captain Lou managing the then WWF women’s champion Fabulous Moolah versus Cyndi Lauper’s charge named Wendi Richter. MTV wanted to get into the wrestling business and agreed to air a match that involved both Lauper and Albano. The Piper’s Pit segment got the attention of MTV, who were intrigued by the Lauper/Albano/WWF dynamic. After Lauper debunked what Albano claimed, Lou Albano called Cyndi a “broad” and a physical altercation broke out. A storyline developed where Lou Albano claimed to be the one that discovered Lauper and made her a star. The WWF and David Wolff agreed to have Cyndi Lauper do a promotional stop on ‘Rowdy’ Roddy Piper’s talk show ‘Piper’s Pit’ on WWF TV. That mention, helped created a bit of a buzz for the WWF and one Vince had to try and capitalize on. After some convincing and negotiations, Lauper agreed to mention the World Wrestling Federation when she appeared on ‘The Tonight Show’ with Johnny Carson. Vince McMahon saw that cameo as an opportunity too good to pass up and contacted David Wolff in hopes of Cyndi Lauper to return the favor. The conversation led to Captain Lou getting a cameo in Cyndi Lauper’s “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” music video. Wolff was the one who recognized Albano on the plane and introduced himself and Lauper to the WWF manager. It was a chance meeting that would soon launch the WWF’s “Rock N Wrestling Connection,” a brief snippet of a Women’s wrestling revolution, a venture into closed circuit television and ultimately a move to national expansion. While Lauper was not a pro wrestling fan, her manager David Wolff was a huge fan. He retired from the WWE in 1996.On a plane ride from Puerto Rico to New York City, an up and coming singer named Cyndi Lauper met WWF manager Captain Lou Albano. They were known for wearing fedoras and talking about the Mafia in interviews, according to the book “WWE Legends” by Brian Solomon.Īlbano also coached popular tag teams such as The Wild Samoans, The Executioners and The Moondogs. His career in the ring began in 1953 in Canada, and he went on to form the “The Sicilians” tag team with Tony Altimore. Super Show,” a live-action animated show, from 1989 to 1991. It was a time when wrestlers such as Albano, Hulk Hogan, “Rowdy” Roddy Piper and Andre the Giant were so popular that they could headline a television cartoon series and appear in movies.Īlbano later had a role in the music video for Lauper’s 1984 song “Time After Time,” and he appeared in episodes of the TV series “Miami Vice” and in the 1986 movie “Body Slam.” He played Mario in “The Super Mario Bros. “When that came out, let me tell you, it just rocketed.” “When the Captain hit the screen with the video, it gave us a whole new audience,” said “Irish” Davey O’Hannon, a professional wrestler who knew Albano since the 1970s. ![]() That helped bring it to a wider national audience in the mid-1980s, known as the “Rock n’ Wrestling” era. Partly because of the success of Albano’s partnership with Lauper, the entity then known as the World Wrestling Federation forged ties with the music industry. His fame skyrocketed when he appeared in Lauper’s landmark 1983 music video, playing a scruffy, overbearing father in a white tank top who gets shoved against a wall by the singer. With his trademark Hawaiian shirts, wiry goatee and rubber bands hung like piercings from his cheek, Albano was an outsize personality who, in a career spanning nearly five decades, was known as much for his showmanship as for his talent in the ring.
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