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Billy Red Lyons, Dead at 77Published June 23, 2009 @ 14:21 in Celebrity Death Watch
I can't tell you how many times I heard him say "don’tcha dare miss it" during Maple Leaf Wrestling, a show I watched every Saturday afternoon as a kid. 9 Responses to "Billy Red Lyons, Dead at 77"Kirsten Wow. I just mentioned me as a 12 year old in a previous comment, and now here you are, showing me Billy Red (RIP), Ted DiBiase and Virgil, and Bobby Heenan and King Kong Bundy. Memories. How do you FIND this stuff? LOL Yet the Star doesn't seem to have this passing noted (Wed 3:30 p.m.). It's all Perez & McMahon in the news cycle. Toronto Mike Which is extra surprising b/c I learnt about it from @scroll's tweet linking to Chris Zelkovich's Toronto Star blog. shane alexander wwe hasn't posted anything, either. the only place that has some kind of substantial obit is slam sports. i remember listening to billy red's way of promoting the shows and caught me everytime...went to most of those maple leaf garden shows from '87 on.. I just want to share that Bill "Billy Red" was an amazing man right up until his last day. He had lunch with my husband almost every week for the last 5 years and even though there was a 45 year age difference, they became great friends. His loss is deeply felt and although he'd make some hilarious joke about his own death, he will be sorely missed. RIP Bill.
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Billy Red Lyons was 77. He was the Canadian wrestling personality who promoted WWF live events throughout Canada from the mid-1980s through early 1990s, with the phrase “don’tcha dare miss it” becoming a signature ending to his promos.
Down Goes Brown
June 23, 2009 / 16:52
He will be buried under the long, black ramp that leads to the ring at MLG.
RIP Billy Red.