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The Machines | |
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Stable | |
Members | Super Machine Big Machine Giant Machine Hulk Machine Piper Machine Animal Machine Crusher Machine[1] |
Billed from | 'The Orient' |
Debut | 1986 |
Disbanded | 1987 |
Years active | 1986-1987 |
The Machines were a professional wrestlingstable that performed in the World Wrestling Federation in 1986 and 1987. The team consisted of well-known WWF wrestlers working under masks which strongly resembled that worn by Super Strong Machine (Japanese wrestler Junji Hirata) in New Japan Pro Wrestling at the time; leader André the Giant had faced Hirata and two other Strong Machines during tours of NJPW in 1984, getting the idea for the masks. The gimmick was very much tongue-in-cheek, as the identities of the masked men were obvious to the fans but frustrating to heels when they were unable to prove them. The Machines was the last tag teamCapt. Lou Albano managed in the WWF until he returned in 1994 to manage The Headshrinkers.
Story[edit]
After feuding intensely with André for more than a year, Bobby Heenan's Heenan Family challenged André and a partner of his choice to face King Kong Bundy and Big John Studd in a tag team match on April 26, 1986.[2] When André did not show and was replaced by Ted Arcidi,[3] Bobby Heenan launched a campaign to get him suspended from the WWF.[4] After deliberating on the matter, WWF President Jack Tunney was forced to suspend him for missing the tag team match and subsequent matches against the Heenan Family.[5] This was part of a wrestling storyline, to allow André time off for production of the film The Princess Bride which was being filmed in the UK and also to allow him to fulfill a contracted tour of Japan. He was also beginning to develop health problems from the gigantism that caused his size that led him to having major back surgery and limited his wrestling ability at that time.
Less than two months after the suspension was announced, vignettes appeared on WWF Television hailing the debut of a masked tag team from the Orient, known as 'The Machines': Giant Machine and Super Machine. The team announced that they were coming to America soon with their manager Lou Albano[6] and that their only mission was to prove that they were the number one tag team in the world.[5] Super Machine was portrayed by Bill Eadie. His ring name was a play on his previous gimmick 'Masked Superstar'. Though it was clear that Giant Machine was none other than André the Giant, commentators sold that Giant Machine might be Giant Baba, and not André, under the mask.[7] In televised interviews with Studd and Bundy, Studd would question the two smaller Machines being Japanese as one had a West Texas accent (Big Machine/Mulligan) and the other had a 'New York accent' (Super Machine/Eadie). On the WWF show Tuesday Night Titans, Heenan claimed he knew of no Japanese wrestler who was 7'4' tall, weighed over 500 lbs and spoke with a French accent.
In the following weeks, Bobby Heenan made repeated claims that Giant Machine was André the Giant attempting to circumvent his suspension. To illustrate the obviousness of the ruse, Heenan went so far as to introduce his 'new team from Korea' on an episode of Jesse Ventura’s 'Body Shop'. The team was merely King Kong Bundy and Big John Studd wearing paper bags over their heads.[8] Heenan's claims led to Jack Tunney decreeing that if the Giant Machine was revealed to be André, André's suspension would become permanent.[9]
On August 5 (shown August 23), The Machines made their WWF debut with Super Machine wrestling in a singles match while Albano and Giant Machine were at ringside.[10] Later that night, Bobby Heenan sneaked around at ringside taking pictures of the Giant Machine to try to prove his true identity.[11] One week later, Albano introduced a third Machine to the WWF: Big Machine, who was played by Blackjack Mulligan. André had been suffering from (legitimate) severe back injuries, and the introduction of the Big Machine character was meant to reduce André's wrestling role.[12] 'The Machines' angle was designed to put him in a lighter tag-team role. Due to the severity of the back injury, Mulligan was brought in to reduce André's wrestling role even further, thereby keeping the popular superstar on TV.[12]
Big Machine and Super Machine wrestled the majority of the matches against Bobby Heenan's cronies, occasionally with Lou Albano joining them to face Bundy, Studd and Heenan in six man tag-team action.[13] Soon, other masked wrestlers (whose identities were generally obvious) appeared and temporarily teamed with The Machines. On September 10, Big and Super Machine were joined by Animal Machine to defeat King Kong Bundy, Big John Studd and Bobby Heenan.[14] On September 16 the Machines were joined by Hulk Machine as the trio defeated the Heenan Family.[15] The Hulk Machine returned on September 22 and helped the Machines win in the main event at the Madison Square Garden.[16] A few weeks later the Machines received help from the kilt-wearing Piper Machine.[17] On a house show in St. Paul, Minnesota the Machines even got the help of Crusher Machine, pinning John Studd to gain the victory for his team.[18] On October 28, The Machines wrestled their last match under that gimmick, a loss to Bundy and Studd. This also marked the last appearance as a manager in the WWF for Lou Albano.[19]
After the Machines last match was shown on November 23, the angle was ended and André was announced as being reinstated on November 29.[20] In the following weeks the mystery of why André the Giant was reinstated built up until it was revealed that Bobby Heenan had arranged for the suspension to end so he could turn on Hulk Hogan in the buildup to WrestleMania III. After the angle ended Eadie (Super Machine) was repackaged as Ax, one half of Demolition while Big Machine worked for the WWF as Blackjack Mulligan (Windham's best-known wrestling identity) in late 1986 and the first half of 1987 before leaving the promotion.
References[edit]
- ^The Machines: Andre the Giant puts on a hood and becomes the Giant Machine, and no one can figure out who he is. And um...yeah.
- ^Graham Cawthon (March 31, 1986). 'WWF Show Results 1986'. Retrieved 2007-07-01.
(Shown: April 19, 1986) Big John Studd & King Kong Bundy as guests of the Piper's Pit in which they challenge André the Giant and a partner of his choice to face them the following week
- ^Graham Cawthon (March 31, 1986). 'WWF Show Results 1986'. Retrieved 2007-07-01.
(Shown: April 26, 1986) Hillbilly Jim & Ted Arcidi (sub. for André the Giant) defeated Big John Studd & King Kong Bundy via disqualification at 2:33 when Studd & Bundy illegally double teamed their opponents and attacked referee Gilberto Roman
- ^Graham Cawthon (April 21, 1986). 'WWF Show Results 1986'. Retrieved 2007-07-01.
(Shown: May 3) during the bout, Bobby Heenan did guest commentary and mentioned he was meeting with WWF President Jack Tunney in an attempt to have André the Giant suspended
- ^ abBrian Shields (2006). Main event – WWE in the raging 80s (4th ed.). Pocket Books. pp. 56–57. ISBN978-1-4165-3257-6.
- ^Graham Cawthon (June 24, 1986). 'WWF Show Results 1986'. Retrieved 2007-07-01.
(Shown: July 5) featured Vince McMahon interviewing Bobby Heenan in which he showed Heenan footage of Gene Okerlund finding the Machines in Japan, with the Machines saying they were coming to the WWF and would have Capt. Lou Albano as their manager
- ^Graham Cawthon (June 24, 1986). 'WWF Show Results 1986'. Retrieved 2007-07-01.
(Shown: July 5) Heenan was irate after seeing the footage and claimed that Giant Machine was André the Giant; during the closing moments of the show, McMahon & Bruno Sammartino speculated that Giant Machine was Giant Baba
- ^Graham Cawthon (July 7, 1986). 'WWF Show Results 1986'. Retrieved 2007-07-01.
(Shown: August 2) Heenan introduced two new wrestlers from Korea - King Kong Bundy & Big John Studd wearing paper bags over their heads; it was an attempt by Heenan to show how obvious it is that Giant Machine is really André the Giant.
- ^Graham Cawthon (July 15, 1986). 'WWF Show Results 1986'. Retrieved 2007-07-01.
(Shown: July 26) Bobby Heenan then came in and said that André was obviously one of the Machines, with Tunney responding that if André was proven to be one of the Machines he would be suspended for life
- ^Graham Cawthon (August 5, 1986). 'WWF Show Results 1986'. Retrieved 2007-07-01.
(Shown: August 23) Super Machine (w/ Capt. Lou Albano & Giant Machine) pinned Tiger Chung Lee at 2:30 with a swinging neckbreaker
- ^Graham Cawthon (August 5, 1986). 'WWF Show Results 1986'. Retrieved 2007-07-01.
Bobby Heenan was shown at ringside taking photographs of the Giant Machine, in hope of trying to prove that it was actually André the Giant
- ^ ab'André the Giant'. Biography. 1999-01-13. A&E Network.
- ^Graham Cawthon (August 28, 1986). 'WWF Show Results 1986'. Retrieved 2007-07-01.
(Shown: September 16) Big John Studd, King Kong Bundy, & Bobby Heenan defeated Big & Super Machine, & Capt. Lou Albano (w/ Giant Machine) via disqualification at 7:49 when Giant Machine interfered, as Studd was in the ring illegally, and single-handedly beat down and cleared the ring of the opposition
- ^Graham Cawthon (September 10, 1986). 'WWF Show Results 1986'. Retrieved 2007-07-01.
The Machines & George Steele (as the Animal Machine) (sub. for Capt. Lou Albano) defeated Big John Studd, King Kong Bundy, & Bobby Heenan
- ^Graham Cawthon (September 16, 1986). 'WWF Show Results 1986'. Retrieved 2007-07-01.
WWF World Champion Hulk Hogan (as Hulk Machine), Big & Super Machine defeated King Kong Bundy, Big John Studd, & Bobby Heenan
- ^Hulkamania 2 (VHS). Hartford, Connecticut: Coliseum Video. 1986. Retrieved 2007-07-01.
- ^Best of the WWF Vol. 12 (VHS). Hartford, Connecticut: Coliseum Video. 1987. Retrieved 2007-07-01.
- ^Graham Cawthon (October 5, 1986). 'WWF Show Results 1986'. Retrieved 2007-07-01.
Big, Super, & Crusher Machine defeated Big John Studd, King Kong Bundy, & Bobby Heenan when Crusher pinned Studd with a bolo punch
- ^Graham Cawthon (October 28, 1986). 'WWF Show Results 1986'. Retrieved 2007-07-01.
(shown November 23: King Kong Bundy & Big John Studd (w/Bobby Heenan) defeated Big & Super Machine (w/ Capt. Lou Albano) at 3:01 when Bundy scored the pin after Studd came off the top with a forearm blow (Albano's last match as a manager until returning in the early 1990s to manage the Head Shrinkers)
- ^Graham Cawthon (November 19, 1986). 'WWF Show Results 1986'. Retrieved 2007-07-01.
(shown November 29: included footage, via satellite from London, England of Gary Davie interviewing André the Giant, where it was announced that André had been reinstated
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It seems “energy saver” washing machines may not be killing all the potentially harmful pathogens on your clothing — as was reportedly the case at a hospital in Germany.
Researchers, in a study published last week in the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology, detailed a case of the superbug Klebsiella oxytoca in a German hospital's neonatal intensive care unit. Routine screenings “revealed the presence of the pathogens on infants in the ICU,” according to a press release outlining the findings.
Klebsiella oxytoca bacteria are naturally occurring in the mouth, nose and intestinal tract, and are considered “healthy gut bacteria.' But outside of the intestines, these pathogens can cause “serious infections,” per Healthline.
Researchers eventually traced the source of the bacteria to a washing machine in the hospital. They determined the washer transmitted the pathogens to the knitted caps and socks that were used to keep the babies warm. (Most were in the ICU because they were premature, or for an infection unrelated to the bacteria.)
Thankfully, none of the newborns were sickened, potentially because the pathogens “[had] not yet invaded tissues where they can cause disease, or because the immune system [was] effectively repelling them,” they wrote.
The transmission of the pathogens onto other surfaces, such as the knitwear, was 'stopped only when the washing machine was removed from the hospital,' they said.
Thankfully, none of the newborns were sickened by the pathogens. (iStock)
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“This is a highly unusual case for a hospital, in that it involved a household-type washing machine,' said first author Ricarda Schmithausen, a hygienist with the University of Bonn in Germany, in a statement. Most of the time, Schmithausen noted, hospitals use special washing machines that wash at high temperatures. Disinfectants are typically used as well. It's not clear why the hospital at the center of the case used a household washer, but Science Alert reports it was only used for mothers' clothing and the knitwear. It was also located outside the hospital's primary laundry room.
How exactly the pathogens got into the washing machine in the first place remains unknown. But the researchers hypothesized that the pathogens 'were disseminated to the clothing after the washing process, via residual water on the rubber mantle [of the washer] and/or via the final rinsing process, which ran unheated and detergent-free water through the detergent compartment.'
The research “has implications for household use of washers,” Schmithausen said, noting water temperatures in household washing machines typically reach a maximum of 140 degrees F or below for energy-saving purposes. The cooler temperatures do not kill potentially harmful pathogens as effectively as higher temperatures.
“Resistance genes, as well as different microorganisms, can persist in domestic washing machines at those reduced temperatures,” the researchers said, noting their findings imply that 'changes in washing machine design and processing are required to prevent the accumulation of residual water where microbial growth can occur and contaminate clothes.'
While lower-temperature washes are safe in most instances, the case serves as a reminder that high-temperatures may be safer for those with underdeveloped or compromised immune systems.
'If elderly people requiring nursing care with open wounds or bladder catheters, or younger people with suppurating injuries or infections live in the household, laundry should be washed at higher temperatures, or with efficient disinfectants, to avoid transmission of dangerous pathogens,' said Dr. Martin Exner, the director of the Institute for Hygiene and Public Health at the University of Bonn, in a statement.
'This is a growing challenge for hygienists, as the number of people receiving nursing care from family members is constantly increasing,' Exner added.