Entering the profession late in life, Coage’s Olympic accomplishments were never mentioned because he frankly didn’t look like he ever competed there. Bad News looked like a street thug and could wrestle like one. Entering the WWF in at the age of 45 (discounting a brief run in 1978), Bad News Brown hit the top rung of Sports Entertainment and found himself in main events against Randy Savage and Hulk Hogan. According to Brown, he was promised a run with the belt as the federation’s first black champion, and though that didn’t happen, would he not have made a believable one? Had Allen Coage entered wrestling earlier in life (though his love of Judo prevented that from happening); the legitimately tough athlete could have very well been the business’s first African American World Champion.
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