Adrian Street was a Welsh professional wrestler and author nicknamed "Exotic" who came to prominence in the 1970s and 1980s. During his career, Street was best known for his androgynous and flamboyant
In professional wrestling, a heel is a wrestler who portrays a villain, "bad guy", "baddie", "evil-doer", or "rulebreaker", and acts as an antagonist to the faces, who are the heroic protagonist or "g
Adrian Street
…flamboyant wrestling persona. Street was often accompanied to the ring by his long-time manager and wife Miss Linda, and the two worked primarily as heels. Street was born on 5 December 1940 in Brynmawr in South Wales. He came from a coal-mining family; his father was a miner for 51 years. Street began…
Foreign heels The Iron Sheik and Nikolai Volkoff and manager Freddie Blassie taunt an American crowd at Madison Square Garden in the 1980s.
With his flamboyant gimmick, Gorgeous George became one of the most famous wrestlers of his era.