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Encyclopedia > The Desperados

The Desperados were an American professional wrestling team consisting of Dutch Mantell, Black Bart, and Deadeye Dick. They wrestled briefly in World Championship Wrestling in 1991. Professional wrestling is generally any form of performance art in which pro-wrestlers receive payment for participating. ... Wayne Cowan (born November 29, 1953) is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Dutch Mantell. ... Black Bart Rick Harris was a professional wrestler better known as Black Bart. ... Randy Collins was a professional wrestler better known as Moondog Rex. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


The Desperados were packaged with the gimmick of being three bumbling cowboys looking to meet up with Stan Hansen to go to WCW and become a team. Over the course of a few months, they were promoted through a series of vignettes by which they would be beaten up in saloons, searching ghost towns, and riding horses. Hansen reportedly wanted no part of the storyline and left for Japan, never to return to wrestle in North America. Without Hansen, the group were pushed into service as jobbers and were dissolved as a stable before the end of the year. Stan Hansen (born John Stanley Hansen) is a former professional wrestler famous for his cowboy hat and his tobacco chew that he spit on his opponents. ... A street corner in the ghost town of Bodie, California. ... In professional wrestling, an angle is a fictional storyline (the wrestler Kurt Angles name is a coincidence). ... As professional wrestling is staged, inevitably a wrestler will be required to lose to an opponent. ... In professional wrestling, a stable is a group of wrestlers within a promotion who have a common element -- friendships, either real or storyline, a manager who manages all of them, or a common storyline, which puts them together as a unit (recent examples include Evolution, La Résistance, The Cabinet...


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Desperado - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (153 words)
Desperado ('desperate' in Spanish — this an old usage of the word, today desesperado is far more common) means a violent and reckless person who performs some spectacular feats.
Desperado (album) is also the title of the second album by The Eagles.
Desperado (film) is a 1995 film that starred Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek and that was directed by Robert Rodriguez.
Desperado (1995): Reviews (893 words)
Instead, view Desperado as it's meant to be seen - a comedy - and you're in for an unalloyed treat; heck, you're in for one of the funniest flicks of the year.
Desperado is best when Rodriguez lets his playful side cut through the blare of a born filmmaker indulging his first chance at high-end Hollywood fireworks.
Desperado also has some entertaining twists, some sexy goings-on, but on the whole, watching the film is about as much fun as sitting on a cactus.
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