- Born
- Died
- Birth nameAllen James Coage
- Nicknames
- Bad News Brown
- Bad News Allen
- Height6′ 2″ (1.88 m)
- Allen J. Coage made history as the first African American to win a Judo Olympic Bronze medal at the 1976 Olympics and the second American to win a medal for the USA team. To date Allen Coage remains the only American heavyweight to win an Olympic medal in Judo. He also won a Gold medal for 1967 heavyweight Judo in 1967 at the Pan American Games and another Gold medal in the 1975 Pan American Games for Judo in the heavyweight division. Coage was also the first American to win a Gold medal in two consecutive Pan American Games.
- IMDb mini biography by: jaxal@home.com
- SpousesHelen(April 8, 1983 - March 6, 2007) (his death, 3 children)Katharine Mawhinney(1976 - ?) (divorced, 1 child)
- Finishing move: "The Ghettoblaster"
- Father of 6 children with 5 different women. Also had 4 step-children.
- Was the first person ever to refer to Hulk Hogan as Hollywood Hogan, a nickname for many years.
- He arrived in the World Wrestling Federation in 1988 as Bad News Brown, and it was during this time that he would achieve his greatest notoriety. While the roster was mostly filled with ultra-virtuous good guys and cowardly and monster heels, Bad News was something entirely different; a tough loner who stood on his own and fought to his last breath. While booked as a heel, Bad News Brown was more a good and bad guy, and his character would become the template for later characters such as Stone Cold Steve Austin. Some memorable moments from his WWF tenure included winning the battle royal at WrestleMania IV, and attacking Jack Tunney on The Brother Love Show. he eventually left the WWF in 1990 due to, as he claims, Vince McMahon's failure to live up to his promises.
- Bad News" Allen Coage and Rick Bogner now run a wrestling school out of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
- Won the 20 man Battle Royal at Wrestlemania IV.
- WrestleMania VI (1990) - $10,000
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