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Professional wrestling career Early career By the end of his career, he was up around 350 pounds, although he had weighed as much as 440 pounds at points. Gorilla was 6'5' and weighed around 325 pounds when he first started wrestling professionally. Marella's size and athletic ability attracted the attention of New York promoter Pedro Martinez, and he went to wrestle for Martinez after graduating from Ithaca in 1959. He was inducted into the Section V Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2010 along with longtime childhood friend Frank Marotta who gave a speech on his behalf. One of the buildings he helped construct was the Rochester War Memorial Arena.

During the summers he was at Ithaca College, he was a construction worker in Rochester. He was inducted into the Ithaca College Athletic Hall of Fame in 1973. He also held several school athletic records, including an 18-second wrestling pin, and several track-and-field distinctions. He continued to wrestle, now weighing over 325 pounds, and took second in the 1959 NCAA Wrestling Championships. Marella was also a standout athlete after high school at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York. At the time, he weighed over 301 pounds (136.53 kg) and was affectionately called 'Tiny' by his teammates. Marella attended Jefferson High School in Rochester, New York, becoming a standout athlete in football, amateur wrestling, and track and field. Monsoon has received acclaim for his wrestling career, while his announcing has garnered both praise and derision. In professional wrestling, the staging area just behind the entrance curtain at an event, a position which Marella established and where he could often be found during WWF shows late in his career, is named the 'Gorilla Position' in his honor. He also portrayed the on-screen role of WWF President from 1995 to 1997. Monsoon is famous for his run as a villainous super-heavyweight main eventer, and later as the voice of the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), as commentator and backstage manager during the 1980s and 1990s. Robert James Marella (J– October 6, 1999), better known by his ring name of Gorilla Monsoon, was an American professional wrestler, play-by-play commentator, and booker. You can also include a portrait of yourself with your bike and your Instagram account! Please, shoot landscape-orientation photos, not portrait.4, including Joey Marella and Víctor Quiñones

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Rode for a while with Jones Loop bars as well… Shimano SLX 11 speed shifters and rear derailleur, Shimano Deore brakeset

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Onyx hubs laced with Sapim CX Ray spokes to carbon Light Bicycle Recon Pro rims Shimano Ultegra shifters an RX800 derailleur, SLX 11-42 cassetteĮaston carbon crankset (cracked so running Hope Cranks) Hope finishing kit, RX4 brake calipers and hubs laced to kinlin rims It didn’t take a long time to realise how capable and fun the bike is and (pushed also from the never-ending lockdown restrictions) I ended up to use it only for short journeys mainly on trails so I decided to go flat bars… and the cool thing is the possibility to easily swap between the two configurations since rear derailleur and brakes are connected to shifters on the drops and all the cables are external.įrom a simple frame swap I then started to test different configurations and lately I am running carbon hops on Onyx hubs… so smooth I love the silent costing in the woods!

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The initial idea was just to swap the parts from my Brothers Kepler with the aim to increase tyre clearance from 650 plus up to 2.4 and to do long weekend trips. Apparently it was the last green shaded frame size 52 available in UK, and the guys at SBC Cycles managed the get their hands on. I bought the All-City Gorilla Monsoon as a frame only during the first lockdown in UK. Marco chose the All-City Gorilla Monsoon as the chassis for his newest build project and over the past 18 months, he’s been perfecting the build. We’ve all been tinkering while staying at home during the pandemic.

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