"Bad News" Allen Coage (1943 - 2007)

[Hisaharu Tanabe]

Allen Coage (aka Bad News Allen or Bad News Brown) passed away from a heart attack at 5:30am on 2007/03/06 in Calgary at the age of 63.

Bad News Allen was one of the top foreign stars for New Japan in the early 80s and also had some matches with UWF International in the early 90s.

Rest in peace...

[El Pollo Guerrera]

I remember him in Stampede and his earlier days in the WWF, with his bag of rats. He always seemed to be the kind of wrestler who could legitimately mess you up, even before I knew about his Olympic medal (Bronze, Judo, 1976).

The last I heard about him was about a wrestling school that he and Rick Bogner (Fake Razor Ramon/Big Titan) had opened a few years ago.

Rest In Peace, Mr. Coage.