Glacier in WCW – Eric Bischoff’s Frigid (and Costly) Failure

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Born in Brunswick, on Georgia’s southeastern coastline, Ray Lloyd has fond memories of watching both Georgia Championship Wrestling and Championship Wrestling from Florida.

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Getting his start under Fred Avery in early 1987 in a makeshift ring in his backyard, Ray Lloyd got hooked.

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Ray Lloyd met “Wildfire” Tommy Rich, who named him “Sugar” Ray Lloyd and got him booked to do jobs (lose matches) for WCW.

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Lloyd would work eight years for several independent promotions like Jerry Blackwell’s Southern Championship Wrestling and the Japanese shoot wrestling company UWFI, where he met mat legends Lou Thesz.

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Eric Bischoff may have had a particular vision for how he wanted the Glacier character to appear, but someone had to create the outfit and entrance to bring this vision to life.

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Eric Bischoff also wanted to call the character “Cryonic” but finally settled with “Glacier.” His finish would become the Cryonic Kick.

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With hundreds of thousands of dollars going into his debut, wrestler Ray Lloyd and WCW were doomed from the start.

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