Helen Coage, the widow of WWE Hall of Famer Bad News Brown, has shared on Facebook the speech she would have delivered at his Hall of Fame induction if the family had been given the opportunity.
Coage asked fans not to be bitter about the family being shut out of a speaking slot.
"I know many of you are unhappy about our family not being granted the opportunity to speak. But from past inductees we all knew that was not going to happen. Please don't be bitter, please just be happy that he was given this honor. I am happy."
She then shared the speech she would have delivered.
"To the fans — he loved you more than you may have realized. Now, he may have called you 'beer-bellied sharecroppers' and 'spineless cockroaches'... but that was the character. That was the show. Because outside that ring, he was the exact opposite — a devoted husband, a proud father, and a man with a big heart."
Coage credited her husband with one of the more underappreciated contributions to wrestling history...
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