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Monday, February 20, 2017WWE reports Friday morning, Feb. 17. Steele was a Detroit native and Madison Heights High School teacher who coached wrestling, football and track in Madison Heights and held a bachelor's degree from Michigan State University and a master's from Central Michigan University. "The Animal" was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 1995, and the Michigan High School Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 1996.He first appeared in Detroit-area wrestling promotions in the late 1960s while still teaching high school.Steele's first taste of the WWE -- then the WWWF -- came in 1967, when he locked up with then-champion Bruno Sammartino. While he never tasted the WWE's top championship, Steele had his fair share of memorable sports entertainment moments. As a villain, Steele came close to beating the likes of Sammartino, Pedro Morales and Bob Backland for the championship. While his in-ring accomplishments with the WWE are nothing to scoff at, Steele might be most remembered for his role in the WrestleMania III match between "Macho Man" Randy Savage and Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat in 1987 at the Pontiac Silverdome. Steele, at that point seen by fans as a hero rather than a villain, helped Steamboat win the WWE Intercontinental Championship by pushing Savage off the rope...
Monday, September 19, 2016Ever since he was a teenager, Allen Freeman Jr. has always considered his family’s residence at 140 Martins Lane in Madison Heights home.As caregiver and the only child of Norma Jean Freeman, his late mother, he said the two grew especially close after his father’s death in 1990. They rarely argued, he said, and as she struggled with health issues in her final years she was comforted by his presence in her room as she slept, a task he added: “I didn’t mind doing at all.”He recalls a routine of watching television as she drifted into peaceful slumber. Allen Freeman Jr., who survived a January 2015 home invasion that left him severely injured and his mother dead, said he still struggles with depression and post tramautic stress. (Photo by Lee Luther Jr.)“We had a really good relationship,” said Allen Freeman Jr., 64, during a recent interview in his living room. “She and I were a lot alike. I understood her very well.”On a winter night in early 2015, his sense of security in home was violated.After the routine of putting his mother to bed, the two were “brutally” attacked in the early morning of Jan.
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Monday, February 20, 2017WWE reports Friday morning, Feb. 17. Steele was a Detroit native and Madison Heights High School teacher who coached wrestling, football and track in Madison Heights and held a bachelor's degree from Michigan State University and a master's from Central Michigan University. "The Animal" was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 1995, and the Michigan High School Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 1996.He first appeared in Detroit-area wrestling promotions in the late 1960s while still teaching high school.Steele's first taste of the WWE -- then the WWWF -- came in 1967, when he locked up with then-champion Bruno Sammartino. While he never tasted the WWE's top championship, Steele had his fair share of memorable sports entertainment moments. As a villain, Steele came close to beating the likes of Sammartino, Pedro Morales and Bob Backland for the championship. While his in-ring accomplishments with the WWE are nothing to scoff at, Steele might be most remembered for his role in the WrestleMania III match between "Macho Man" Randy Savage and Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat in 1987 at the Pontiac Silverdome. Steele, at that point seen by fans as a hero rather than a villain, helped Steamboat win the WWE Intercontinental Championship by pushing Savage off the rope...
Monday, September 19, 2016Ever since he was a teenager, Allen Freeman Jr. has always considered his family’s residence at 140 Martins Lane in Madison Heights home.As caregiver and the only child of Norma Jean Freeman, his late mother, he said the two grew especially close after his father’s death in 1990. They rarely argued, he said, and as she struggled with health issues in her final years she was comforted by his presence in her room as she slept, a task he added: “I didn’t mind doing at all.”He recalls a routine of watching television as she drifted into peaceful slumber. Allen Freeman Jr., who survived a January 2015 home invasion that left him severely injured and his mother dead, said he still struggles with depression and post tramautic stress. (Photo by Lee Luther Jr.)“We had a really good relationship,” said Allen Freeman Jr., 64, during a recent interview in his living room. “She and I were a lot alike. I understood her very well.”On a winter night in early 2015, his sense of security in home was violated.After the routine of putting his mother to bed, the two were “brutally” attacked in the early morning of Jan.
