{"id":2867,"date":"2020-04-16T13:52:45","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T17:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/wwe\/?p=2867"},"modified":"2021-04-04T11:27:29","modified_gmt":"2021-04-04T15:27:29","slug":"wwe-hall-of-famer-howard-finkel-passes-away-at-69","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/2020\/04\/16\/wwe-hall-of-famer-howard-finkel-passes-away-at-69\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE Hall of Famer Howard Finkel passes away at 69"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2869\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/wwe\/files\/2020\/04\/finkel-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/files\/2020\/04\/finkel-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/files\/2020\/04\/finkel-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/files\/2020\/04\/finkel-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/files\/2020\/04\/finkel-696x392.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/files\/2020\/04\/finkel-1068x601.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/files\/2020\/04\/finkel-747x420.jpg 747w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/files\/2020\/04\/finkel.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>WWE Hall of Famer, Howard Finkel has passed away at the age of 69.<\/p>\n<p>Finkel made his WWE debut in 1977 at Madison Square Garden and went on to have a long-running full-time gig as the WWWF transitioned to the WWE in 1980.<\/p>\n<p>Known as the first and later the longest serving WWE employee, Finkel was known for his call of &#8220;anbd the NNNEEWWW World Champion!&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">WWE is saddened to learn that WWE Hall of Famer Howard Finkel has passed away at age 69. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tqmD68ZsQp\">https:\/\/t.co\/tqmD68ZsQp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 WWE (@WWE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WWE\/status\/1250790077854334981?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 16, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Finkel was voted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WWE Hall of Famer, Howard Finkel has passed away at the age of 69. Finkel made his WWE debut in 1977 at Madison Square Garden and went on to have a long-running full-time gig as the WWWF transitioned to the WWE in 1980. Known as the first and later the longest serving WWE employee, Finkel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[24,58,25],"coauthors":[2],"class_list":["post-2867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-front","tag-howard-finkel","tag-wwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2867"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2871,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867\/revisions\/2871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2867"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/wrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}