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Whatever happened to Reckless Youth and Mike Quackenbush?

 

I remember in the mid-90's how the Apter mags were all over these guys' nuts, saying they were the biggest indy stars and sure to eventually break through to the big feds.

 

I stopped reading Apter mags in 1998, but never heard anything about these guys elsewhere.

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Guest Salacious Crumb

Reckless Youth is semi-retired.

 

Quackenbush just wasn't that good.

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Guest ToddRoyal

Youth wrestles as Tom Carter now. He is semi-retired, but he has worked some Ring of Honor shows recently.

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Quack is still around, and trains wrestlers at the Chikara (sp?) Wrestling Factory, located in Pennsylvania. He also writes articles on his career for one of the Apter mags, I believe The Wrestler.

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Guest Doyo

Both are still very skilled wrestlers and they have each had pretty successful indy careers.

I guess they just don't have "the look" that Vince is after. If WCW was still around

maybe they would have got a shot there.

 

Reckless won the IPW Jeff Peterson Memorial Cup this year. Besides the US, Quackenbush has

wrestled in Mexico and Europe this year. His book "Headquarters", is one of the better books

by wrestlers.

 

I think they were both more hyped around 1997 because there wasn't as many cruiserweight

style wrestlers around then. Now it seems that 90% of guys on indy shows could pass as

cruiserweights.

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