I remember it like yesterday, I was at our aunt Kathy’s house and my mom said,”Jonny, cooks (chris) here to get you”. Johnny Candido said “ After the bodydonnas thing they wanted to put him on the back burner and repackage him, he didn’t want that so he left for ECW. When Chris lost the tittles and Sunny aligned herself with other teams WWE wanted to repackage him which made him decide to leave and go back to ECW which was now being called Extreme Championship Wrestling. A few months after winning the tittles they would rop it to the Godwinns, with that lose Sunny would leave the group and join forces with the Smoking Gunns, Godwinns and LOD. MaChris and Tom Pritchard would win the WWE Tag Team Championship from the Godwins in the finals of the Tag Team Tittle Tornament. Skip would do push ups in the ring to taunt the crowd and show he was a superior athlete, well while he was doing that in a match on WWE tv Horowitz rolled him up for a pin, to start the short fued. Chris’s biggest fued in the WWE was with a life long enhancement talent Barry Horowitz. The WWE put Tom Prichard (Zip) and Louie Spicolli (Rad Rafford) with Chris as tag team partners and of course chris out shined them both with his talent and christma. Chris and Tammy debuted as two arrigoant fitness nuts Skip and Sunny the Bodydonnas.
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Two days after he lost the NWA World Championship to Dan Severn Chris lost the Boo Bradley ( Balls Mahoney) in a Loser Leaves Town Dog Collar Match. SMW was the the launching point in Chris’s career winning SMW Heavyweight & Tag Champion and the NWA World Heavyweight Championship in a 10 man tournament. Few years after his wrestling debut Chris was signed by James E Cornette to Smokey Mountain Wrestling where he brought his High School sweetheart Tammy Sytch to Tennessee. During that time chris would train at the Monster Factory with Balls and debuting in 1986. They’d go down to the beach in their gear n get people to come watch n send around cans 4 donations. Shortly after his underground days Chris would his own shows with future Balls Mahoney and Bam Bam Biglelow at Marrucci Park.
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When they met up they would travel by bus to Brooklyn from New Jersey and wrestle in underground shows in bars where they would do hardcore matches before they were cool. When hes was a young teenager him and his friend Scott would tell each others parents that they were staying at each others homes for the night. He just wanted what was best for the sport.“ As he started going to shows with his grandfather he’d get to the buildings early and help set the ring up, hang posters for different companies. Growing up Johnny and Chris would go wrestle in the backyard as we have done as youngsters Chris would be Doug Somers or Ray Stevens and Johnny be Big John Studd, from an early age you could tell he wanted to be a great worker and as johnny told me “he wanted to be the guy that made other guys look good not nesesscarily the star. As fate always plays a hand into everything in daily life I was able to connect with Chris’s \brother johnny in my search to learn everything I could about him.I was told Chris got into into wrestling by their grandfather, “Popeye” Chuck Richards he would take Chris to MSG as a little kid, he said at 1st sight, seeing all these big dudes, he didn’t even know what they did he just knew he wanted to be part of it.
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The greatest and the funniest were two other words to describe Chris. A kind caring man are two things you never thought as a wrestling fan you would ever hear to describe the man that called himself “No Gimmicks Needed” Chris Candido.