Steve McMichael
| Steve McMichael | |
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Position (s): Defensive tackle |
Jersey numbers: 66, 76, 90 |
| born October 17, 1957 in Houston , Texas | |
| Career information | |
| Active : 1980 - 1994 | |
| NFL Draft : 1980 / Round: 3 / Pick: 73 | |
| College : Texas | |
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as a player
as a trainer
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| Career statistics | |
| Tackles | 838 |
| Sacks | 95 |
| Interceptions | 2 |
| Stats at NFL.com | |
| Stats at pro-football-reference.com | |
| Career highlights and awards | |
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| College Football Hall of Fame | |
Steve "Mongo" McMichael (born October 17, 1957 in Houston , Texas ) is a former professional American football player in the National Football League (NFL) and former wrestler . He is the coach of the Chicago Slaughter team in the Continental Indoor Football League , an indoor version of American football .
Career
American football
McMichael was selected in the 1980 NFL Draft by the New England Patriots in the third round as the 73rd player, but moved as a free agent to the Chicago Bears the next year , for whom he played for twelve years. During this time McMichael, who was used in the position of defensive tackles , won the Super Bowl of the 1985 season ( Super Bowl XX ) with his team . In 1986 and 1987 he was elected to the Pro Bowl . From 1990, the Chicago Bears, in which McMichael had been 101 games in a row on the starting line-up, reduced his playing time. McMichael played for the Green Bay Packers in the 1994 season before retiring as a footballer.
Wrestling
| Steve McMichael | |
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 Steve McMichael (2008) |
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| Ring name |
Steve McMichael Steve "Mongo" McMichael |
| height | 188 cm |
| Fighting weight | 119 kg |
| birth |
October 17, 1957 Chicago , Illinois |
| debut | 1996 |
| retirement | 1999 |
In 1995 McMichael appeared on a broadcast of the wrestling promotion World Wrestling Entertainment (WWF) as a guest commentator and on pay-per-view Wrestlemania XI alongside other footballers as "Lumberjack" at a lumberjack match between wrestler Bam Bam Bigelow and former footballer Lawrence Taylor . Further appearances at the WWF did not take place, instead McMichael appeared in 1995 at their competitor World Championship Wrestling (WCW) as a commentator, who blasphemed with the regular commentator Bobby "The Brain" Heenan about the ring events. His performance as a commentator earned him a Worst Television Announcer in the wrestling magazine Wrestling Observer Newsletter Dave Meltzers . In April 1996, McMichael's active wrestling career was initiated when Ric Flair began flirting with McMichael's wife Debra McMichael during a show. In the course of this storyline McMichael challenged Flair and his tag team partner Arn Anderson , two members of the Stables Four Horsemen , to a tag team match, in which McMichael's partner should be footballer Kevin Greene . The match, which took place at the pay-per-view “Great American Bash”, ended with McMichael changing sides in the ring as planned and “attacking” Kevin Green as a new member of the Horsemen. As a wrestler, McMichael supported the other members of the Horsemen in their feud and had an individual feud with Jeff Jarrett , in which the storyline was about his advances to Debra McMichael and the place of fourth Horsemen. McMichael played wrestling matches against active footballers in two pay-per-views, one against Reggie White and one against Kevin Greene.
The high point of McMichael's wrestling career was winning the WCW United States Heavyweight Championship, which he took over from Jeff Jarrett in August 1997. Three weeks later, as part of the storyline of the dissolution of the Four Horsemen, he had to pass the title on to Curt Hennig , who "betrayed" the Horsemen in the storyline. McMichael then fought against members of a stable managed by his wife Debra, the promotion taking up the real marital problems of the couple, who divorced in 1999. McMichael was still involved in the founding of the Four Horsemen in 1999 before he left wrestling around the same time as Debra McMichael's divorce.
successes
American football
- Super Bowl XX winner with the Chicago Bears
- two appointments to the Pro Bowl
Wrestling
- WCW United States Heavyweight Champion (1 ×)
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | McMichael, Steve |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | McMichael, Mongo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American football player and wrestler |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th October 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Houston , Texas |