{"id":35664,"date":"2019-01-16T22:46:29","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T03:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=35664"},"modified":"2019-06-03T08:15:45","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T12:15:45","slug":"90s-wwf-superstar-mantaur-announced-for-joey-janelas-spring-break-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2019\/01\/16\/90s-wwf-superstar-mantaur-announced-for-joey-janelas-spring-break-3\/","title":{"rendered":"90s WWF Superstar Mantaur Announced for Joey Janela&#8217;s Spring Break 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2019\/01\/13\/yeti-sighting-wcw-cult-characters-making-shocking-return\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>McAloon Productions<\/strong> announced the return of one of WCW&#8217;s most horrible gimmicks (and cult classic faves) <strong>The Yeti<\/strong> to the ring<\/a> for the first time since 1995. But on Wednesday, <strong>Joey Janela<\/strong> did the proverbial &#8220;Hold my drink&#8221; when he dropped a huge bombshell about a competitor coming to <em><strong>Joey Janela&#8217;s Spring Break 3<\/strong><\/em>. Appearing on night two, at <em><strong>The Greatest Clusterf*ck<\/strong><\/em>, will be one of WWF&#8217;s most bizarre characters from the New Generation of the 1990s, <strong>Mantaur<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/JANELABABY\/status\/1085718362804637696<\/p>\n<p>He wasn&#8217;t always Mantaur. Hailing from Omaha, Nebraska and debuting in 1988, by the early 1990s, he was a top star in Austria&#8217;s legendary <strong>Catch Wrestling Association (CWA)<\/strong> where he competed as <strong>Bruiser Mastino<\/strong>. He signed with the WWF in 1994 and debuted as the Minotaur masked Mantaur, feuding with <strong>Duke &#8220;The Dumpster&#8221; Droese<\/strong> and <strong>Man Mountain Rock<\/strong>. By the summer of 1995, however, the novelty wore off and after a loss to <strong>Bam Bam Bigelow<\/strong> on <em><strong>WWF Superstars<\/strong><\/em>, he left the company.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mantaur debuts: Superstars, January 7, 1995\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SY8Bd9vNVbU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>He headed to <strong>ECW<\/strong>, returning to Bruiser Mastino, for a few events, before returning to CWA and Europe in 1996. In 1997, he briefly returned to the WWF in a new gimmick, as part of <strong>The Jackyl<\/strong> (Don Callis)&#8217;s faction, <strong>The Truth Commission<\/strong>. He was now called <strong>Tank<\/strong> and paired up with <strong>Recon<\/strong> (Bull Buchanan) and <strong>Interrogator<\/strong> (Kurrgan). But after two matches, he was replaced by Canadian indie wrestler <strong>Rambo<\/strong> (who was renamed Sniper) and once again left the company. He had a dark match tryout with WCW later that year, but he failed to catch on, returning to Europe and CWA once again. While he&#8217;s mostly retired from the sport now, he still pops up once and again &#8211; as both Mantaur and Bruiser &#8211; and on WrestleMania weekend, the legend of Mantaur will ride again!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bodyslam Contest: Rambo vs. Bruiser Mastino [1993-09-25]\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f935DOAXg_o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, McAloon Productions announced the return of one of WCW&#8217;s most horrible gimmicks (and cult classic faves) The Yeti to the ring for the first time since 1995. But on Wednesday, Joey Janela did the proverbial &#8220;Hold my drink&#8221; when he dropped a huge bombshell about a competitor coming to Joey Janela&#8217;s Spring Break [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":35668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5274,6],"tags":[3505,4248],"class_list":["post-35664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-gcw","category-north-america","tag-joey-janelas-spring-break-3","tag-mantaur"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}