The SGM Super 30 Black Professional Wrestler #5

Junkyard Dog

Only three people can bring chains to the ring and look the part of the badass doing it: Russians, Hercules Hernandez and Junkyard Dog. JYD was the first King Of The Ring, baby. He beat Randy Savage to do it, too [see “The Greatest Wrestling Stars Of The 80‘s,” available this month on DVD]. I didn’t really dig Junkyard Dog early in my love for the wrestling, for which I blame WWF. Even though they did put him in the weirdest tag team pairing this side of Kane and Van Dam: JYD and George “the Animal” Steele.

JYD also, in one of his last hurrahs, showed up at an ECW Legends gathering; this might have been on pay-per-view. Rumor also has it that he was punched in the face by New Jack over some money off a drug deal. Face it, daddy; JYD is for the children.