Paul Bearer (April 10, 1954 – March 5, 2013)
Bill Moody, better known to most of you as Paul Bearer, the Undertaker’s unforgettably charismatic manager, sadly passed away on Tuesday at the age of 58. While the specifics of his death remain unclear, his impact on anyone who ever enjoyed professional wrestling remains quite apparent.
Depending on your age at the time of Bearer’s unsettling debut, we either found him scary, appalling, hilarious, creepily convincing, or a healthy sprinkle of each. Whatever it was, he was truly an impossible figure to shake from memory.
Bearer’s overwhelming presence, from his harrowing voice to his ghastly appearance, greatly assists in summarizing the WWE during the early 90s in that he was such a well-defined, human cartoon you almost forgot he wasn’t actually a guy named Paul Bearer who carried around a gold urn like a prized pet.
The magnetic mortician will be sorely missed, and most certainly never repeated.
RIP Bill Moody aka Paul Bearer.
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March 6th, 2013 at 10:08 PM
He was awesome.
March 6th, 2013 at 10:09 PM
Scary, scary dude when I was young.
March 6th, 2013 at 10:18 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a4n9XvDhQg
March 6th, 2013 at 10:19 PM
Is the emcee supposed to be orange?
March 6th, 2013 at 10:21 PM
That voice…
March 6th, 2013 at 10:22 PM
I’m guessing the devil?
March 6th, 2013 at 10:25 PM
Wow, Mantis. I linked that clip to the words of “creepily convincing”
March 6th, 2013 at 10:26 PM
Nobody reads the posts, Tim
March 6th, 2013 at 10:29 PM
Paul Bearer makes the gimp from Pulp Fiction look like Rick Moranis.
March 6th, 2013 at 10:30 PM
I can’t believe he was only 58. To date myself, we watched him as Percy Pringle in Fritz Von Erich’s old Texas promotion. This would have been mid 80′s. Hell, even then he looked like he was in his 40′s.
March 6th, 2013 at 10:37 PM
Brother Love, and yes. Yes he was supposed to look like that….
Paul Bearer was awesome. And along with Brother Love was creepy as fuck…
March 6th, 2013 at 10:53 PM
I can’t believe he was only 58. To date myself, we watched him as Percy Pringle in Fritz Von Erich’s old Texas promotion.
TNCOWYBOY – That’s how I knew him. Please join my AWA and NWA >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> WWF/WWE fan club.
Long live the Von Erichs.
/realizes almost all of them have been dead for quite some time.
March 6th, 2013 at 10:56 PM
He was good at what he did.
Maybe Duckworth’d, but he was an actual, licensed mortician, IIRC.
March 6th, 2013 at 10:58 PM
Yeah, I will for sure. Just post or send me the link. Love old school territory wrestling. Personally, I grew up on Mid-Atlantic and Georgia but saw the AWA and Texas stuff back when ESPN was good.
There is actually a good site called GloryDays.net as well as Kayfabe memories if you are bored.
Hated WWF once Vince cartooned it.
My son is nine and he just discovered and its all he talks about.
Watched Raw the last two weeks with a pistol to my head.
March 6th, 2013 at 11:01 PM
Tim Ryan was the one to inform Hulk Hogan of that in their interview on here.
March 6th, 2013 at 11:05 PM
thanks, Chief. My short-term memory ain’t what it used to be.
March 6th, 2013 at 11:20 PM
There is actually a good site called GloryDays.net as well as Kayfabe memories if you are bored.
Will check it out. My dad knew Terry Funk’s dad. I always thought that was cool. He saw Terry when I was watching NWA one Saturday morning.
“That is Dory’s boy.” I had no clue what he was talking about at the time. Terry was already long in the tooth. Texas guys.
March 6th, 2013 at 11:21 PM
Tremendous.
March 6th, 2013 at 11:35 PM
Tim – I never took to the WWF/E. Seemed too Hollywood or whatnot. Watched NWA on TBS on Saturday mornings shot in the studio and I think it was on during the week one night on TBS. The Midnight Express vs Rock n Roll Express feud is proof that, I don’t know. Time gone by. Loved me some Tully Blanchard and Arn Anderson. And Ole, even though he was way past his prime. Jimmy Garvin. Dusty Rhodes. Real Ric Flair. The Road Warriors. Barry Windham. Early Lex Lugar. Good times. I could list a bunch more. Chief Wahoo McDaniels.
March 6th, 2013 at 11:44 PM
Totally agree. The NWA stuff wasn’t shown nearly as regularly by me as the WWF was, but I always enjoyed it. They were so vastly different. Guys like Abdullah, Flair, and everyone you mentioned — all those feuds came off like they might actually be real, especially with the small venue feel. It was awesome.
March 6th, 2013 at 11:45 PM
Ronny “Hands of Stone” Garvin. Not Jimmy.
March 6th, 2013 at 11:45 PM
Ronny “Hands of Stone” Garvin. Not Jimmy.
March 6th, 2013 at 11:52 PM
I suppose I will me be mocked for this but every single name you guys are writing you can see gold on YouTube.
Let me suggest the next time you are loaded alone (which may only be me) very few things will make you happier than watching this stuff.
Abdullah the Butcher… …oh hell. Used to read about him in the Apter mags. One Saturday morning Wahoo is wrestling Jacques Goulet and having some trouble. The match was taking way too long. Suddenly, Roddy Piper comes out (who Wahoo had recently beat for the US Championship) screaming and distracting Wahoo. Wahoo goes over to the apron (with his back to the entrance) and hear comes this big maniac brandishing a weapon.
Its Abdullah! He Pearl Harbors McDaniel and precedes to stab him in the head and eyes for what felt like 20 minutes. There was more blood than I had ever seen in my life. I mean we thought Wahoo was DEAD!
Good times.
March 6th, 2013 at 11:56 PM
It was awesome.
It was. I sometimes fall into a youtube wormhole rewatching the old matches. Back before I got older and knew it was fake (although not all fake. Lots of hate.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starrcade
Starrcade. Back then, it was a high dollar PPV type event. I forgot Randy Savage got going in the NWA.
March 7th, 2013 at 12:20 AM
So Paul Bearer merits a post but not Stan Musial. Got it.
March 7th, 2013 at 12:25 AM
Important lesson here: Do not die during the NFL season.
March 7th, 2013 at 7:58 AM
here comes this big maniac brandishing a weapon.
probably a fork. That guy’s signature foreign object was a fork. And I saw him do the same thing to some nobody named Hangman Bobby Jaggers, who i was absolutely sure he was killing. That was in Mid South wrestling.
March 7th, 2013 at 9:32 AM
everyones ignoring the obvious question…who will be the pallbearers at his funural? obviously undertaker and kane. next would probably be mankind and vader. lastly, a bit of a curveball, i’m gonna throw out maybe satan and jim mcmahon?