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PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING LEGEND King Kong Bundy has died aged 61.
The wrestler, whose real name was Christopher Pallies, is well-known for his appearances in the World Wrestling Federation – now WWE – during the 1980s and 90s.
He is perhaps best known for wrestling in the main event of Wrestlemania 2, where he fought Hulk Hogan in a steel cage match.
Fans reacting to his death recalled Bundy as an “icon” and a “hero”.
In a tribute to Bundy on its website, WWE said he stood at an impressive 6’4″ and weighed 456 pounds.
“The sight of Bundy stepping between the ropes was intimidating enough, but his crushing offense proved that he was every bit as destructive as advertised,” it said.
WWE extends its condolences to Bundy’s family, friends and fans.
Other legends of the industry paid tribute to Bundy, with Hogan saying he was “overwhelmed” by his passing.
Wrestler and senior management figure at WWE Triple H said he was “saddened” to hear of Bundy’s death and called him a “fan favourite”, while Mick Foley said “he was so cool to me when I walked in that @WWE dressing room as an absolute nobody in 1986″.
Bundy had been part of a lawsuit against WWE initiated by a number of former wrestlers which alleged the company hadn’t taken adequate measures to protect them against brain injuries. This lawsuit was dismissed last year.
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First one in 70 years reads headline. Opener reads, last time was 1967… Counts fingers again..
Garb , it’s correct in accordance to astronomy Ireland . ..
It says ever seventy years on average. So there.
Big hands
It coincides with solstice for the first time since 1967 ..
Astronomy Ireland, it’s like asking halfords about the Tour de France.
You mean Astronomy Ireland Limited, bet you didn’t know that.
Just cacked myself. I was born in 67. Didn’t know whether to be annoyed at being 69 or happy to be retired.
Hayho off to work
I didn’t have to use my fingers. I was born in 67 :-)
No, it says at the start of the article, Keep an eye on the sky tonight for the first ‘ Strawberry Moon ‘ in 70 years.
Then a photo of one over Whitley Bay this year!!
A full moon in June is known as a ‘Strawberry Moon’ it occurs every year.
A solstice also occurs every year.
This year on the exact point of the solstice we also have a full moon. Not much to see here. Astronomy Ireland really like to over-egg the pudding.
It’s almost at the stage when you see a press story from Astronomy Ireland you have to personally ‘snopes’ it to find out what the real often non-story is.
My apologies to your obvious superior intellect.
Hello clouds my old friend. I’ve come to squint through you again.
Pretty sure 1967 was only 49 years ago?
I hope so liam or my days are more numbered than I hoped
Just seen it there over Blueberry Hill
Beautiful moon.when it comes out from behind clouds.
I can see it but it just looks like a normal moon there’s no red or strawberry tint to it,maybe a little bit brighter than usual I don’t know.im in the north east
@peter…there was a slight tint of redness to it earlier tonight…now its just gone behind dark cloud….I’m in the northeast also….co.Louth.
Hi Josephine I looked at it at around 23.40 and didn’t see it I’m in Co.louth as well,doubt I’ll be knocking round for the next one
Me either…
Journal.ie probably should of put something in so people could send in pictures of it
If you have photos you can send them to www astronomy.ie/astronomy Ireland…I took photos but didn’t come out great….camera not up to taking good photos at that distance…
Hi guys, the Strawberry moon happens every year just like the Harvest moon .
If a person walks around a central object with an outstretched arm pointing at the object this imitates why we see the same side of the moon at all times as it runs a circuit around the Earth. Foolish academics have convinced themselves that the moon rotates also as it orbit the Earth and that has to be the most stupid notion ever even though they are proud of it.
Gerald — what????
The moon does rotate as it orbits the earth. The reason we consistently see the same side is that it’s tidally locked. The moon would originally have been spinning faster than once every 28odd days, but the gravitational pull of the earth is tugging against that spin, just as the moon tugs against our surface (creating our tides). Eventually the moon slowed to the point that the turning force came into balance with the effects of the earth’s gravity.
In theory, the earth can become similarly tidally locked with the Sun, with one side always facing, but the sun will have gobbled us up long before then (billions of years)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_locking
As for your explanation, if I walk around in a circle, in my driveway, facing my car for a full rotation, I will have had the sun at my back, front, left and right sides, therefore I will have completed a 360 degree rotation. The fact that I will also have been displaced around a circle, relative to my car, means I won’t have spun on the spot, but I will certainly have rotated. If I wasn’t rotating, I would stay facing in one direction and instead have the car in front of me, then to my left, then behind me, then to my right.
Don’t be silly Ronan, when you walk/orbit you car/ moon while keeping an outstretched arm pointing at your car there is no separate rotation like most people of common sense would know. The idiot that was Sir Isaac Newton misread what Kepler wrote and became the first person in history to assert that the moon also rotates as it orbits the Earth. Kepler and any sensible person knows the moon doesn’t rotate -
“The Sun and the Earth rotate on their own axes…The purpose of this
motion is to confer motion on the planets located around them;on the
six primary planets in the case of the Sun,and on the moon in the case
of the Earth.On the other hand the moon does not rotate on the axis of
its own body,as its spots prove ” Kepler
If you see the moon rotating then good for you but it is the dumbest thing ever as it is the one observation we share with all astronomers since antiquity as the moon orbits the Earth. If you want to know what passage in Kepler that Newton misread then let me know but as far as I am concerned a rotating moon is worse than a flat Earth no matter how much voodoo and bluffing then surround it with.
I’ll wait for the blue one instead,thanks.
Will be lucky to see it if it wasn’t for these clouds covering our Dublin sky.
Can’t see anything through these clouds as usual.
Not to mention the accompanying photo that shows the “strawberry moon” rising near Whitely Bay earlier this month!
Theres a new only last appeared 50/70/100/1000 moon every two months at this stage. How many shades of red can our moon get to?
I am going to just stare at it for hours.
The TV lol.
Won’t happen again until 2062
Or 9.02pm as we call it around my way.
Il hang on til then
Newton said the end of the world will be 2060, a bit late lol.
Although he forgot the 1000 years extra in the Book of Revelation, the eejit…
Read the article.
Who else is still up?
Just you I`d say.
Hilarious Patrick
Just seeing it in ibiza was amazing
“It was 1967 since this last happened.” Whatever that’s supposed to mean …
It really doesn’t mean anything James.
Strawberry moon above an article about a bltch witch…… Burn her like the witch she is….
From my reading of this article, there is nothing particularly special about the full moon this month only that it falls on the date of the summer solstice, it’s not a different colour, it’s not larger etc.
The full moon happens ever 29 days, so in 29days you will see it again, cloud cover permitting.
I’m in Boston and the view of the moon is amazing, clear sky here, ……. I don’t want to come home….
‘The French call this moon “la lune rose”, which translates into English as “the rose moon”‘. No sh!t, Sherlock!
This is a really stupid article, in my opinion.
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I thought it was made out of Cheese lol.
My brain is moving the boat in the photo. Anyone else’s brain doing that?
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