Harold Houge Ice Train was active for many years with former WWE rival WCW and was also successful in Germany. Now he has passed away at an early age
Mourning for a former star of the American and German wrestling scene: Ice Train is dead.
Harold Fitzgerald Hogue, as the muscleman was known, passed away at the age of 56, as WWE Hall of Famer Diamond Dallas Page announced via Facebook. Page was a colleague of Hogue’s in former WWE rival WCW and was good friends with him.
A cause of death was not given
Known in WCW as Ice Train and MI Smooth
Hogue was active in WCW for several years in the nineties until the league’s demise in 2001. Among other things, he formed “Fire and Ice”, a powerhouse tag team with the legendary Scott Norton, especially in Japan. At times, Teddy Long, another WWE Hall of Famer, acted as manager of Ice Train.
In the final months of WCW, Hogue was given a new role as MI Smooth, chauffeur of the evil group New Blood.
In between his stints in WCW, Hogue was active in Germany for extended periods of time, playing a prominent role in the CWA (Catch Wrestling Association) once made great by Austrian icon Big Otto Wanz.
Hogue won the Catch Cup organized by the CWA in Bremen in 1995, defeating the later WWE champion “Texas” John Hawk alias John Bradshaw Layfield in the final.
Hogue maintained good relations with Germany until the end, celebrating a one-off comeback for the promotion EWP in 2019, when he faced England legend Dave Taylor, also known from WWE and WCW.