Former Cambridge Teacher Bill Eadie Headed for the WWE Hall of Fame

• He was the ‘Ax’ half of wrestling tag team duo ‘Demolition’ 

  
  

By Jeff Harrison

  A former Cambridge teacher/coach is headed to the WWE Hall of Fame!

  In a recent announcement, World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) announced that the infamous tag team duo “Demolition” will be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame on April 17 at the Park MGM in Las Vegas as part of “Wrestlemania 42”.

 That duo – also known as “Ax and Smash” – includes none other than Bill Eadie, who spent five years as psychology teacher at Cambridge and assistant football coach during the 1968-72 seasons under head coaches Joe Paul and Joe Mowad. Eadie had been a teacher/ coach/athletic trainer for one year at East Liverpool before coming to Cambridge before leaving in pursuit of his wrestling career and fame.

  The now 78-year-old Eadie was born in Brownsville (Pa.) where he participated in football and track in high school and then attended West Virginia University where he competed in track.

 Early in his wrestling career which began as far back as 1972, he had numerous wrestling pseudonyms in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) including “Super Machine” when he teamed with legends Andre the Giant (Giant Machine) and Blackjack Mulligan (Big Machine). A 6-3, 290-pounder during his heyday, he also went by “Masked Superstar”, “Masked Destroyer”, “Bolo Mongol”, “Billy Crusher”, “Axis the Demolisher” among others.

  He teamed with Randy Colley in 1987 to form “Demolition”, with Colley replaced not long after by the other half of the soon-to-be Hall of Fame inductees Barry Darsow. That tandem captured the WWF Tag Team Championship in 1988, a title they held three separate times.

 Eadie also appeared in the 1989 movie “No Holds Barred” as ‘Jake Bullet” opposite legendary wrestler “Hulk Hogan”.

 Eadie didn’t completely retire from the wrestling scene until 2017.