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Fred Alex Ottman born August 10, is an American retired professional wrestler. He worked for the World Wrestling Federation from to under the ring names Tugboat and Typhoon. As the former, he played a key babyface ally of Hulk Hogan. In , Ottman debuted as The Shockmaster in World Championship Wrestling and immediately fell over, losing his mask on live television while his teammates broke character and laughed. This botch hurt his career, and is now generally regarded as the worst debut in wrestling history, but he was able to capitalize on its notoriety after his in-ring retirement. There he was initially managed by Downtown Bruno.

Fred ottman

In , Ottman would join the WWE wrestling dark matches as Big Steel Men, but later on in the year would take on the persona of Tugboat originally Tugboat Tyler, then Tugboat Thomas before settling on the shorter namesake , a wrestling sailor who was trained by Hulk Hogan and was also friends with him. Perfect , of which he would end up on the losing side. In the summer of , Tugboat made a heel turn in a tag team match, turning on The Bushwhackers to aid Earthquake and The Nasty Boys in the win. He would team up with Earthquake and adopt the new pseudonym, Typhoon, as they formed the tag team, The Natural Disasters , managed by Jimmy Hart. The Natural Disasters would feud with Money Inc. In , after Earthquake took a leave of absence from the WWE, Typhoon went to singles competition, mostly serving as jobber to the stars before leaving later in the year. The same year Ottman joined WCW for perhaps his most well-known or more accurately, infamous gimmick: The Shockmaster. Sid and Harlem Heat showed up demanding to know who the faces' fourth man would be. Sting introduced him and out came the Shockmaster with Ottman in a glittery purple stormtrooper helmet, black vest and jeans. He tore through the wall, with full intention of intimidating the heels. He quickly put his helmet back on and tried to continue as nothing happened, even though everyone else was cracking up with Ole Anderson voicing him and issuing the heels a threat note Except Sid, who refused to break character and started yelling incomprehensible threats. After this fiasco, WCW tried to salvage him by revamping him to be a klutzy construction worker. After the War Games match of which Ottman would score the victory for his team , the character was abandoned and a few months later, Ottman returned as The Super Shockmaster, this time being a masked wrestler. In , Ottman returned to the WWE once again as Typhoon, only lasting a few months as jobber-to-the-stars yet again. Money, Inc.

Self-Deprecation : He's since embraced the silliness of the Shockmaster gimmick and its failure, to the point of doing comedy videos with it. Statistics and information about the matches fought by Fred Ottman in our events database, fred ottman.

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Fred Alex Ottman born August 10, is an American retired professional wrestler. He worked for the World Wrestling Federation from to under the ring names Tugboat and Typhoon. As the former, he played a key babyface ally of Hulk Hogan. In , Ottman debuted as The Shockmaster in World Championship Wrestling and immediately fell over, losing his mask on live television while his teammates broke character and laughed. This botch hurt his career, and is now generally regarded as the worst debut in wrestling history, but he was able to capitalize on its notoriety after his in-ring retirement. There he was initially managed by Downtown Bruno. He feuded with Dusty Rhodes , among others.

Fred ottman

Skip to main content. Watch every Premium Live Event and get unlimited access to WWE's premium content - available to you anywhere, anytime, on any device. Sign up for Peacock to watch. In , the sports-entertainment world was shocked to its very core. A pre-face paint Dustin Rhodes would complete the team of fan favorites. So, 21 years after the world was shocked, four of the players involved spoke with WWE. It was basically supposed to be like a superhero costume. Plug him in for a real quick fix — well, not a fix, but a character just to kind of even up the sides.

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After this fiasco, WCW tried to salvage him by revamping him to be a klutzy construction worker. WWF Superstars. Wikimedia Commons. Johnny B. Sheila Ottman. Triple H stopped and said the voice was coming from the a yellow wall set piece decorated exactly like the wall from "A Flair For The Gold". On a two-part episode of the TV series Mortal Kombat: Conquest , Ottman played Z'dak, in the second episode his name was featured solely in the credits though. While making his entrance, Ottman tripped over a piece of lumber that was framing the set, causing him to fall forward through the wall with his helmet falling off and sliding across the floor. He worked house shows against Terry Taylor in the spring. The Natural Disasters dumped Hart and turned into fan favorites in early - with Ottman's heel run having lasted less than seven months - feuding with Hart's new top team, Money Inc. The Disasters were absent from the Sega version. February 22, Upcoming 1. Dustin Rhodes Cody Rhodes. The Klutz : As The Shockmaster, though he wasn't originally intended to be one.

He debuted on television in January as a face under the ring name Tugboat Thomas later just Tugboat , his costume consisted of a red striped shirt, white pants, and a sailor's hat. Part of his gimmick included raising his fist into the air and then pulling it down similar to the way one would signal a trucker and make a "Toot-toot" noise, like a foghorn on a ship. This coincided with a substantial push that saw Tugboat emerging victorious on television against numerous opponents.

He tore through the wall, with full intention of intimidating the heels. Edit page. He also coaches the little league team of his two sons and daughter, Berkley, Beau, and Bailey. The Natural Disasters dumped Hart and turned into fan favorites in early - with Ottman's heel run having lasted less than seven months - feuding with Hart's new top team, Money Inc. Ottman retired from wrestling after WCW folded in Make your IMDb page stand out by adding a demo reel. WrestleMania X-Seven 9. WrestleMania X-Seven. Missing Event. Archived from the original on October 11, When Earthquake took a leave of absence from the WWF early in , Ottman wrestled in low-profile singles matches before leaving the company that spring. Tag Teams. Tugboat was eliminated when he and Earthquake fought to a double count-out, and Hogan went on to be the sole survivor. The Shockmaster!! Wrestling with Disaster as Himself.