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| Gary Albright |
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| AKA: Vokhan Singh Real Name: Gary Albright Date of Birth: 05/18/63 Home Town: Billings, Montana, U.S.A. Height: 6'4" Weight: 343 Us Pounds Died : Friday the 7th January 2000 in the ring at a wrestling show in Hazelton, PA, USA Titles Belts: Stampede International Tag Team Title; Japan: All Japan World Tag Team Title-(2); Signature Moves: Belly to Belly Suplex, Gut Wrench Suplex, Double Arm Suplex, German Suplex, Dragon Suplex Brief Bio: Gary Albright began his career in pro wrestling in 1988 as Vokhan Singh in Bruce Hart's Calgary Stampede promotion. He teamed with Mukhan Singh (Mike Shaw, Norman the Lunatic) to defeat the British Bulldogs for the International tag titles. Albright was probably paired with Shaw because both of them weighed over 300 pounds, even though neither one looked like they were from Karachi, Pakistan. The Singhs held the tag titles for four months, losing them to Chris Benoit and Beef Wellington. He had several tours of South Africa and Carlos Colon's WWC in Puerto Rico, and he worked on WCW spot shows in Florida from 1989 - 1990. During his three years in UWFi, which began in August 1991. UWFi matches focused on striking, suplexes, and submissions Albright's massive size made his suplexes seem very impressive and he typically won by knocking out (ten count) his opponents with brutal german suplexes, typically in less than five minutes. Albright's first UWFi push culminated on 05/08/1992 when he knocked out Nobuhiko Takada, UWFi's biggest Japanese star, with a german suplex in front of an announced crowd of 14,000 at Yokohama Arena. Albright continued his winning ways in singles and tag matches until he lost a rematch with Takada on September 1992 when he submitted to Takada's cross arm breaker. Albright began to get pushed again in 1994 as part of UWFi's "Best of the World" tournament. Albright knocked out Billy Scott and Yoji Anjoh in the first two rounds to advance to a semifinal match with Nobuhiko Takada. On June 1994, in front of a sellout crowd at Budokan Hall, Albright lost by submission in 16'26 in what was probably his finest professional match. In Janaury 2000, Albright, was wrestling Bill 'Lucifer Grimm' Owens at the American Legion building for The World Xtreme Wrestling show, promoted by Albright's father-in-law Wild Samoan Afa Anoai. Where he was nailed with an Ace Crusher and immediately collapsed to the mat. Wrestlers and ring crew tried to resuscitate him with CPR before medical personnel took over the preceedings. Albright died shortly after being removed from the ring by hospital gurney. A Coroner stated, that Gary Albright died of cardiac arrest due to an artery disease. Links: http://www.garyalbright.com/ http://www.otherarena.com/htm/cgi-bin/biography.cgi?garyalbr http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Bench/5904/jp011000.htm |
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