When Captain Lou Albano entered the ranks of professional wrestlers in 1953 their “sport” ranked somewhere above pornography and below football betting cards in cultural respectability. When he departed more than three decades later, professional wrestling was a global phenomenon attracting viewers on closed-circuit TV pay per views, MTV, and Saturday morning cartoons. Vince McMahon and Hulk Hogan had something to…

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Captain Lou Albano, RIP