Bastion Booger

**Mike Shaw** (May 9, 1957 - September 11, 2010) was an American professional wrestler who is best known for his stint in the World Wrestling Federation (now World Wrestling Entertainment) as **Bastion Booger**.

## Professional wrestling career

Under the tutelage of veteran Killer Kowalski, Michael Shaw started his professional wrestling career in 1981 in Vancouver's NWA All-Star Wrestling using the ring name **Klondike Mike**.

In 1982, Shaw went to wrestle for Stu Hart's Stampede Wrestling in Calgary, Alberta. He later changed his ring name to **Makhan Singh** and formed the heel stable known as "Karachi Vice" and feuded with Owen Hart, one of the faces of the company.

   From 1989 to 1990, he wrestled in World Championship Wrestling as **Norman the Lunatic**. He was managed by Theodore R. Long who led him around with a giant key.

Norman eventually turned face after leaving Long and feuded with Kevin Sullivan, and even received title shots at NWA World champion Ric Flair, but still proved to be a worthy competitor although he was unable to achieve the gold.

In 1991, Shaw retrieved his Makhan Singh gimmick again in the Global Wrestling Federation where he joined The Cartel with Cactus Jack (Mick Foley), Rip Rogers and Scott Anthony (aka ECW star Raven).

Shaw also found success when he wrestled in Mexico in the 1990s as Solomon Grundy where he was really over with the fans and even introduced his brother Aron (Aaron) Grundy. He feuded with Brazo de Plata (aka Super Porky) after shaving Brazo's brother's head in a hair vs hair match.

The feud ended with Shaw losing his hair at the hands of Brazo de Plata. He later feuded with his brother which led to a hair vs hair match that saw Aaron losing his hair.

In the mid-1990's, Mike Shaw wrestled for the World Wrestling Federation briefly as **Friar Ferguson**.

The character, a "mad monk" lasted for a short period of time because, the WWF had been getting negative feedback on the character from the Catholic Church and the media in the New York area. There were also many fans who didn't find the character appropriate at all, so Shaw later got perhaps his most popular gimmick.

Shaw then transformed into **Bastion Booger**, the name and gimmick he is best known under.

    Bastion Booger's basic gimmick was that he was completely disgusting. He wrestled in grey tights that were much too small and revealing for a man his size.

A 401 pound (180 kg) man with missing teeth, Bastion would come down to the ring eating anything from melting ice cream bars to roasted chicken caracasses (on occasions he would get the food from fans). He would burp and fart as the commentators talked about how disgusting he was.

At one point he feuded with Bam Bam Bigelow, when Bastion tried to put the moves on Bam Bam's then-valet Luna Vachon.

The Bastion Booger gimmick began to become popular with WWF's younger audience (at the time the company was mostly directed to the amusement of children), which spurred talks of turning the character face. However, the WWF decided to release Shaw in early 1994.

Shaw retired in 1998. After 1998 he went to Mexico to make a few appearances specifically for Christmas time when he usually would take the Santa Claus gimmick. He also ran a wrestling school in Ohio.

On December 10, 2007 during the WWE Raw 15th anniversary special, he returned as Bastion Booger in the opening segment, in which Triple H jokingly suggested that Big Dick Johnson (another character whose unsightly physical appearance had been used by WWE for comic effect) was Booger's son. Jakks Pacific added Booger to the Classic Superstars line, series 25 in 2009.

## Death

Michael "Mike" Shaw died of a heart attack on September 11, 2010, at the age of 53.