The film version of Spartacus has the same situation, between Kirk Douglas and actor Woody Strode. Morgan gets the upper hand in the fight, and then doesn't kill Machiste and instigates a gladiator rebellion.Īs I say, the early part is swiped from ben Hur and the second half from Spartacus. Faster than you can say "I am Spartacus!" Morgan and Machiste are picked to fight one another and Machiste tells him to kill him in the fight or he will surely kill Morgan. After a bit of Ben-Hur stuff, where they help fight off pirates, just as they were about to be hung for rebelling against the guards on the slave galley they sailed, they find themselves sold as gladiators, to fight in the arenas of Skataris. In issue 2, of the series (the third Warlord story, after the First Issue Special debut and Warlord #1), Travis Morgan, after some improbable circumstances, is shanghaied by slavers and is chained alongside a black man, named Machiste (after the Italian hero of legend and multiple sword & sandal films). You have a bit of a wrestling connection in Mike Grell's Warlord. There have been other lucha versions of comic book and comic strip characters, including The Phantom. He soon moved into films, both on his own and teamed with fellow luchadores Blue Demon and El Santo, plus the lucha supergroup Los Campeones JusticieroS (Champions of Justice). Aaron Rodriguez Arellano was tapped to portray the character in the ring. The publisher started a contest to create a new lucha hero and the name Mil Mascaras was chosen. The El Santo comic was one of the most popular ones, in Mexico, along with Kaliman and Fantomas. Lucha Libre legend Mil Mascaras debuted as both a wrestler and a comic. Michinoku Pro used an evil twin, Masked Tiger, and then Rocky Romero portrayed him in New Japan. New Japan introduced a version of Black Tiger, portrayed by British wrestler Marc "Rollerball" Rocco.Īll Japan did not use the gimmick but, New Japan introduced a new version, to battle against Jushin Liger and Wild Pegasus (Chris Benoit), portrayed by Eddie Guerrero. The Tiger Den sends assassins to force him to come back, including several other Tigers, including Big Tiger, Black Tiger and King Tiger. He turns babyface and breaks with the Tiger Den group and gives a large portion of his winnings to the orphanage. He goes back to visit the orphanage where he spent part of his childhood and finds out the boy is from there and it is now run by old friends. After a match in Japan, a young boy comes up to Tiger Mask and says he wants to be a villain, just like him. In the manga, Tiger Mask trained with the Tiger Den organization, which trained heel wrestlers and took a percentage of their winnings. Yoshihiro Yamazaki debuted as Tiger Mask IV, in 1995, in Michinoku Pro Wrestling, before joining New Japan Pro Wrestling, still using the gimmick. Kanemoto only portrayed the gimmick for 2 years, before being unmasked by Jushin Liger (whose gimmick was also based on a manga and anime, Beast God Liger) In 1992, it went back to New Japan and was portrayed by Koji Kanemoto. Then, in 1984, Mitsuharu Misawa, in All Japan Pro Wrestling. The first was Satoru Sayama, in New Japan Pro Wrestling, in 1981. In Japan, the manga character Tiger Mask has been licensed by several promotions for live wrestler. All are heavyweight unless otherwise noted.In 1966, wrestler Tony Marino started appearing in the ring as Battman. Short URL for this page: Copy text * Championships in parentheses ( ) are noted according to the approximate date of the information, usually three or four months prior to the publishing date, in order to give a better idea of why the wrestlers may be ranked.
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