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Do you or have you ever watched pro wrestling? I watch wrestling and my 3 top favorites are Curt Hennig, Mick Foley and Jimmy Valiant.
25 March 2010, 04:15
MT GianniNatcho Libre
25 March 2010, 05:35
NortonBruno Sammartino.
25 March 2010, 06:42
TemboDick The Bruiser or Ox Baker. When I was young, my dad took me to the Chase Park Plaza in St. Louis to watch these guys.
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Age and Treachery Will Always Overcome Youth and Skill
28 March 2010, 23:39
ted thornMy Uncle was the late "Classy" Freddie Blassie so I have wrestled a pro.
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Maker of The Frankenstud Sling Keeper
Proudly made in the USA
Acepting all forms of payment
05 April 2010, 02:04
DIYASUBquote:
Originally posted by Norton:
Bruno Sammartino.
Can we mention Chief Jay Strongbow, Gorilla Monsoon, Baron Miguel Secluna, George Steel, Moola, and others of that generation? They were wrestlers. What we have now are gymnasts on steroids putting on a soap opera!
13 April 2010, 16:16
NortonYou forgot Haystacks Calhoun....
28 April 2010, 22:19
BriceI went to a match here in Seattle about 40 years ago. The greatest entertainment was the audience. There are folks who take it in hook, line and sinker. And yes, they can vote.
29 April 2010, 02:42
ShackThere used to be a rumor going around that it was fixed...
But anyway, from long, long ago and down South -
http://www.scottymoore.net/russwood56.htmlSkip on down thru the EP pics to the wrestlers and you'll see some famous names together in the ring. 20,000's not a bad crowd for wrestling. And it's not often the referee makes more than the wrestlers.
Here's more -
http://www.catch.20m.com/photo5.html. The bottom pic shows a local hero of most small boys growing up back then. Many really did dye their hair like his. We used to look forward to watching him on TV, Saturday mornings, then we'd act it out ourselves. I bet some of you did that stuff too..
29 April 2010, 08:40
mousegun1Go way back.. Gorgeous George- Farmer Jones- Duke Keyumuka-Fritz Von Eric- Andre The Giant??
Andre the Giant for sure. I was just talking with a local feller that was bulldozing a trail in my woods.
He went to Iowa to wrestle Andre one time. Andre was 7'4" and 500 lbs. Andre stomped on his head and broke his nose. The local feller got paid 25 dollars for the match and still has a crooked nose.
Anybody remember the great Rasputen and Pat O'Conner? Terry Funk and Harley Race?
ALLEN W. JOHNSON - DRSS
Into my heart on air that kills
From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered hills,
What spires, what farms are those?
That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again.
A. E. Housman
05 May 2010, 03:40
wistrapperHow 'bout Vern Gange or Crusher
**************************The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.
I like the stomach claw and Bolo punch by the Crusher.
He and Dick the Bruiser made a formidable tag team.
ALLEN W. JOHNSON - DRSS
Into my heart on air that kills
From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered hills,
What spires, what farms are those?
That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again.
A. E. Housman
07 May 2010, 18:22
Singleshot03We have an old fried now deceased who use to wrestle in Carnivals and county fairs in Kentucky before WWII. He said he made more money on the weekend then he did as a mechanic during the week. He wrestled so he had extra money to race his Indian motercycle. I forget what it was called but the bikes did not have breaks on them and they wore a lead boot on their left foot to slow down around curves.
They do not make any like him anymore. A great human being.
