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[Charles]

Originally Posted by finnbow

I still remember a few names: Bruno Sammartino, Argentina Apollo and Haystacks Calhoun.

Amazing how localized wrasslin was.

Handsome Harley won two or three World Championships and I don't think he ever left central Missouri.

He still runs a wrasslin skool down around the Lake of the Ozarks.

And people pay to go there!!!

It was in the paper.

Chas

[d-ray657]

Originally Posted by finnbow

I still remember a few names: Bruno Sammartino, Argentina Apollo and Haystacks Calhoun.

Cowboy Bill Watts

We had Pork Chop and Haystacks

Our Apollo just went with the one name, and did all sorts of jumps and acrobatics in the ring.

Gorgeous George Jr.

Andre the Giant

They had all of the masked guys as well. One was the Assasin

The brought in a guy with an Arab name in the early seventies, cause people were seeing them as villains at the time. His name will probably come to me at 2 tomorrow morning

A super-heavyweight from OU's wrestling team, an NCAA finalist, gave pro rasslin a try. He didn't last long. Knew too much real rasslin to fake it.

My wife and I carried one term from pro rasslin into our lexicon. When we were trying to coordinate rides to all of the school/sports events we always said we were tag-teaming.

Regards,

D-Ray

[piece-itpete]

Originally Posted by finnbow

Wrasslin' was show business, but wrestlers were ugly. And it has been famously said that politics is show business for ugly people.

Therefore, by the transitive property, wrasslin' = politics.

LOL!

The onliest name I recognize is Andre the Giant. Hulk Hogan was big when I was a kid. Macho Man Randy Savage was a bad guy, until he was rehabilitated

My dad says pro wrestling was fake even when he was a kid.

Pete

[merrylander]

Anyone remember Dan Dunphy of boxing announcing fame? TV killed pro boxing because Dunphy kept the speil he always used for radio "He throws a left, then a right, and another left" meanwhile you could see the two fighters in a close embrace in the middle of the ring.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by merrylander

Anyone remember Dan Dunphy of boxing announcing fame? TV killed pro boxing because Dunphy kept the speil he always used for radio "He throws a left, then a right, and another left" meanwhile you could see the two fighters in a close embrace in the middle of the ring.

He now develops "talking points" for the GOP.

[Charles]

Originally Posted by merrylander

Anyone remember Dan Dunphy of boxing announcing fame? TV killed pro boxing because Dunphy kept the speil he always used for radio "He throws a left, then a right, and another left" meanwhile you could see the two fighters in a close embrace in the middle of the ring.

Teevee killed a lot of things, starting with people's imagination.

Chas

[noonereal]

Originally Posted by Charles

Teevee killed a lot of things, starting with people's imagination.

Chas

not mine man, it fine "tuned" it.