Art Barr

[W-OLF]

Wrestler: Art Barr
Real Name: Arthur Leon Barr
Birthday: October 8, 1966 in Portland
Hometown: Portland, Oregon
Marital Status: Married
Height & Weight: 6'1 - 240lbs
Trained by: Sandy Barr
Roddy Piper
Debut: April 2, 1987
Previous Gimmicks: Art Barr
The Intruder (PNW)
The Beetlejuice (PNW/WCW)
The Juicer (WCW)
The American Love Machine (NJPW)
The Love Machine
The Witcher
Finishing Move: Frog Splash
The Tombstone
Favorite Moves: Belly-to-belly Suplex
Dropkick
Chokeslam
Notable Feuds: Blue Panther
El Hijo del Santo
Octagon

# PNW (Pacific Northwest Wrestling) Television title;
# NWA (Pacific Northwest Wrestling) Tag Team titles w/Big Juice as The Juicer Patrol;
# NWA (Pacific Northwest Wrestling) Tag Team titles w/Jesse Barr;
# NWA (Pacific Northwest Wrestling) Tag Team titles w/Konnan El Barbaro;
# AAA/IWC World Tag Team titles w/Eddie Guerrero;


In The Beginning
# Art Barr came from a family of wrestlers: Sandy "Ferrin" Barr (his father) and brothers Jesse Barr (Jimmy Jack Funk) and Shawn Barr.
# Art Barr was an amature wrestler at the Oregon State University before turning "pro"..
# ~~~Art Barr achieved great success as he was 4 time District champion and 2 time State champion in Portland..
# ~~~Art Barr had to quit the University when his first wife became pregnant..
# Art Barr (aged 12) met Roddy Piper (who at the time was wrestling in Oregon) who used to take him to the gym..
# Art Barr started to work in a steel mill during the day, while training to became a wrestler at night..

Getting into the Business
# Art Barr started to wrestle for his father’s promotion as "Arthur Barr" and also wrestled as "The Intruder"..
# ~~~During a Television Taping, Arthur was in the ring, Roddy Piper and 3 other wrestlers entered the ring..
# ~~~They covered him with a sheet, striped him naked throwing his clothes to the crowd and put him in a new outfit..
# ~~~Roddy Piper then said: "Now I have created The Beetlejuice, the meanest little son-of-a-gun that I have ever seen"..
# ~~~Roddy Piper took off the sheet and there was Art Barr, standing there with his new gimmick -- Beetlejuice!
# Art Barr formed a tag team with J.W. Storm (Jeff Warner) as the "Juice Patrol"..

World Championship Wrestling
# Art Barr signed with the WCW in the late 1990, and kept the Beetlejuice gimmick, but renamed to The Juicer for copyright reasons..
# After some problems with the law, Art Barr left World Championship Wrestling and headed to Mexico..

EMLL and the American Love Machine
# Early 1991: Art Barr popped up in the Mexican promotion EMLL (where Konnan worked)..
# For almost two years, he wrestled there as the American Love Machine, as an American masked tecnico wrestler..
# Art Barr had two try-outs with the WWF but they didn't sign him..

AAA
# Art Barr returned to Mexico's newly formed AAA promotion..
# Art Barr engaged in a war with a wrestler named "the Blue Panther"..
# Art Barr challenged Panther to a hair vs. mask match in Los Angeles, California, which he lost his mask..
# ~~~This match has been one of the most important matches in Barr’s career..
# ~~~After that match he turned rudo and became the hottest ticket on Mexican lucha libre..
# Late 1993: Art Barr joined forces with Eddie Guerrero and formed La Pareja del Terror..
# ~~~Konnan joined them and they formed the legendary stable called "Los Gringos Locos"..
# ~~~Other wrestlers joined them: Black Cat, Madonna’s Boyfriend (Louie Spicolli), Misterioso, Chicano Power and King Lion..
# Love Machine & Eddie Guerrero feuded with El Hijo del Santo and Octagon..
# ~~~The feud that was culminated in a hair vs. masks match in the first ever lucha libre only PPV..
# ~~~November 6 "When Worlds Collide": El Hijo del Santo and Octagon defeated La Pareja del Terror, who were shaven bald!
# ~~~With the PPV, Barr gained worldwide exposure, and he was destined to stardom..

Art Barr's Final Days
# ECW was very interested in Art Barr & Eddie Guerrero coming into the company to feud with their top tag team Public Enemy..
# Amazingly, at the same time, WWF, WCW and New Japan also showed interest in the tag team of Guerrero & Barr..
# November 23, 1994: Art Barr was found dead laying with his baby child at his home in Springfield, Oregon..
# Preliminary reports said that he died of a aneurysm, but later reports said that he died under unknown circumstances..
# Art did not have heart problems, no aneurysm or internal bleeding, no ring injuries and no illegal substance of his body..
# There are two theories of his death..
# 1) He had a missing vertebrae on his neck from birth that made two vertebrae press against each other, causing his lungs to stop..
# 2) There could have been some bad mixing of different substances..

R.I.P I did get to see him as beetlejuice I thought the gimmick was hilarious and it was just taking off .
Credit Obsessed With Wrestling.com

[the madscotsman]

Him and Eddie Guerrero where a great tag team it's a pity he died he would have been greatb in ECW. think about it Eddie and Art vs, the eliminators, the dudleys, the public enemy.

[W-OLF]

That would have been a great match an instant classic.

[Mr Mando]

He was that Damn Good....

[dannydans]

I never saw him anyone have any matches they could upload???

[Andy_p]

hi everyone

[clownboy]

what a loss, along with eddie