Always thought Orndorff was a way under-rated guy. Hope they caught the cancer early enough.......thoughts and prayers for him and his familly.
i have a really cool Orndorff story. When i was very young he and Snuka had just come to the Mid-Atlantic area as a tagteam. they eventually won the NWA tag titles, here, but this was before that. Both were on a card in my hometown, but wrestling singles. Both were faces. During Snuka's match i was sitting on the very end of some basketball bleachers. I looked over and Orndorff was standing beside me. He leaned up on the end of the bleachers and just started talking to me.....i was shaking i was so excited...haha. He was soooo nice and asked me if I liked Snuka and other things about the match. I was so stunned, who knows what I said, but he stayed there talking to me for the entire match. And then the next day at school I had some kids who saw me at the matches ask me if he was my father. A corny story, I know, but to a young fan it was just amazing and something i feel bad for youngs fans today as they will never get that type of experieince.