"Yes, a model." Rick Martel was the AWA World Heavyweight Champion and world-traveled performer. Most significantly, he was a WWF Tag-Team Champion with Tony Garea, and returning to the WWF in 1986, he teamed with Tom Zenk in the Can-Am Connection and with Tito Santana in Strike Force. However, it was while wearing a giant button (that stated that he was, in fact, a model) and carrying around an enormous atomizer filled with a cologne called "Arrogance," that he'd reach his most significant renown. For six years Rick Martel was "The Model," and played his role to the hilt. Though never a champion, Martel was always good to carry a feud in the more PG early 90s WWF that had a gimmick attached, be that blinding Jake Roberts, stealing Tatanka's feathers or not punching Shawn Michaels in the face. Though he had numerous achievements in his wrestling career, it's certainly notable that his official website is located at rickthemodelmartel.com.
Besides having been an independent professional wrestling manager for a decade, Marcus Dowling is a Washington, DC-based writer who has contributed to a plethora of online and print magazines and newspapers writing about music and popular culture over the past 15 years.
