Friday, April 06, 2007

Botched Wrestling Moves


I used to live for "All Star Wrestling". We had a different version in Springfield than we did in the Quad Cities. "Cowboy" Bob Watts was huge in the Ozarks but no one ever heard of him in the Quad Cities. The show was out of Minneapolis with mean Gene doing the interviews way back then. I remember when I was a young boy of 9 or 10 going to the Wharton Field House in Moline to see Mad Dog Vashon and the Crusher with his hundred megaton biceps. RIP "Crusher" (1926-2005) Used to scream at the top of my lungs..."Mad Dog Needs A Milkbone...Mad Dog Needs A Milkbone!" Ahem. Anyway, my favorite wrestler in the world at that time was George "Scrap Iron" Gadaski. He.never.won. Ever. Later, I learned that they were "Jobbers" and paid well to lose. Every night. By some calamity. What do you mean the refs never saw the foreign object in his trunks? Whoa. Put that away, big boy. On the farm, every Saturday night the routine was to watch "Star Trek" at 10:30, then All Star Wrestling at 11:30. It was magical to stay up that late when you were that young. After Danny Williams would say..."that's it from here, be good and watch out for flying chairs"...it would be time to hit the sack late and tired on Saturday night. Gotta love it! God bless Dusty Rhodes for all the fun. Uh..wrestling..oh yeah, here's 7 minutes of what happens when wrestlers fake moves cause a few real problems

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