William Moody, the real-life administrator who became acclaimed by assuming Paul Bearer, a mortician who managed some of pro wrestling's better stars, died Tuesday at 58 in a Mobile, Ala., hospital.
The hospital did not absolution a could cause of death. TMZ.com appear that Moody told accompany in the canicule afore his afterlife he was adversity from a claret clot.
Moody hit the aiguille of his career if he abutting the WWE in 1991, took the name Paul Bearer and became The Undertaker's manager. Bearer's face was corrective a adhesive white and he would backpack an urn with him to ringside.
He was accepted for a aroused beam and the bolt phrase, "Oh, yes!" He hosted a appearance on WWE broadcasts accepted as "The Funeral Parlor."
Moody got into the angry business in the backward 1970s, aboriginal aggressive on abate shows about the country while confined in the Air Force.
His aboriginal above success, though, came if he was abutting Florida Championship Angry in 1984 beneath the name Percival "Percy" Pringle III. He had formed beneath the Pringle name for several years previously, but didn't get over as a brilliant until abutting FCW.
Moody's greatest ballyhoo came afterwards abutting the WWE. He told of a 1990 affair with WWE buyer Vince McMahon and admiral Pat Patterson and J.J. Dillon in which the Paul Bearer appearance was aboriginal conceived.
"Vince is bedlam like, 'Ho ho ho ho!' You know, that brand Vince McMahon laugh," Moody explained. "So that moment there if we all accomplished that they were searching for a administrator for Taker and that I was a absolute mortician. … It was a moment in time that I will never overlook and I will yield to my grave with me."
Moody's wife, Diana, predeceased him in 2009. He is survived by sons Michael and Daniel.
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