Hey there everyone. This batch of the Art of Wrestling shows will continue next
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and present this brand new episode of Pro Wrestling Fringe in this timeline. If
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me and Colin Hunter of Kfavee News made a brand new episode. That's the
episode that you're gonna hear today. Remember, you can listen to all eighteen
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The show is about weird, un orthodox things and the world of professional wrestling.
Enjoy the show. See you next week for the remaining two Art of
wrestlings for this batch. Thanks, I'm professional wrestler Colt Cabana. This is
Pro Wrestling Fringe. Unique stories from a unique genre. For so long I
made a living on the outskirts of televised professional wrestling. I've wrestled on cruz
S dirt patches in India. I've wrestled for the Inuits in the northernmost part
of Canada. I've wrestled on the border towns of Mexico for the Yakuza in
Japan. From entertaining the hipsters mixing lucha libre, burlesque and cheap beer to
the ICP fans at the Gathering of the Juggalos, I have one of the
oddest and most diverse resumes in my profession. The Pro Wrestling Fringe podcast is
about sharing the bizarre stories, not that have happened to me, but that
have been told in locker rooms and spread from generation to generation. And that's
what they are. Stories, unique stories from a unique genre. On this
brand new episode, with the help of Colin Hunter, four kids live out
every wrestling fans fantasy. Afterwards, we'll talk to Colin Hunter about how he
was able to get so many wild details about this event, and then after
that I talked to Ross Hart, brother of Brett and Owen, a member
of the legendary Heart family who watched this whole thing go down firsthand. But
for now, let's learn a little bit about the Calgary kids. Professional wrestling
is meant to be just that professional job. You've learned a trade and you're
applying it. Amateur wrestling has been around for thousands of years. Some start
as young as two or three years old. In modern sports, you start
young, you go through the youth league's played throughout your teenage years, and
when you become an adult, you can become a professional. Wrestling has always
been on that fine line because to be a professional wrestler you must be a
peak athletic performer. But due to the scripting of the performance, there is
some leeway. Many luchadors will start young under a mass to hide their age.
On small, tiny shows in Mexico, maybe a wrestler's kid will be
put in a battle royal at a small show at a local VFW. I've
even seen quote unquote exhibition matches of two kids from the local wrestling club put
on at the local independent wrestling show. And I'm sure this happens in some
way, shape or form in basketball, football, or baseball in small towns
or the smaller leagues. But what about the NFL or the NHL or the
NBA. These leagues are the very highest achievement in their respective industry. And
these leagues, they're for adults. Kids just don't play professional sports. October
fifth, nineteen ninety six, the World Wrestling Federation was in Calgary, Alberta,
Canada for a show at the Saddledome. The big stars of the era,
of course, would be wrestling that night, but it's also not uncommon
for local talent to meander around looking for work, and there was plenty of
aspiring, local talented wrestlers around Calgary in nineteen ninety six. The city has
a rich history of wrestling, founded almost entirely around the legacy of the Heart
Family, which ran the local Stampede wrestling promotion. The Heart Family had turned
out many of wrestling's top stars, including Heart Brothers brettan Owen. If you
wanted to make it big as a wrestler in Calgary back then, being connected
to the Hearts was a huge asset. Landing even a small spot on a
WWE house show in Calgary would be an incredible opportunity for any local hopeful,
and this Autumn Saturday in nineteen ninety six, four local hopefuls got their shot.
The four of them sat shoulder to shoulder on a bench in the saddle
done locker room, trying not to show how nervous they felt. It wasn't
working. They felt so small compared to the WWF giants who wandered the locker
room at the time. There was Vader, all four hundred pounds of him,
the Undertaker at six foot ten and no less intimidating in person. Then
on TV, gold Dust was at the mirror applying his black and yellow makeup,
and the deranged Mankind was pulling a leather mask over his missing ear.
Of course, Stone called Steve Austin. He was headlining that night, riding
the biggest wave of mainstream popularity any wrestler had seen since Hulk Hogan a decade
earlier. Four rookies were intimidated, but excited it was happening. They were
actually booked in a match on a WWF show, a tag match, and
they'd be on first. Shure, it's a spot when most of the fans
are buying Austin three sixteen shirts, but a spot on the show is a
spot on the show. They sat there, shouldered a shoulder on that bench
about to have an opportunity. Most aspiring wrestlers dream up and without knowing what
to do next, they needed one thing, a grown up. You heard
me, They needed a grown up. One of the wrestlers, Harry Smith,
was eleven. He was eleven years of age, and the four of
them they had been dropped off at the arena by one of their dads.
They were children. Harry was eleven, but his father was the popular the
WWF wrestler, the British Bulldog. The oldest one of the crew was Teddy
Heart. His mother, Georgia, was one of the dozen Heart family children,
and his grandfather was Calgary's most famous wrestling promoter, Stuhart. The second
oldest of the four was t. J. Wilson, who had reluctantly become
friends with Teddy in high school over a shared interest in wrestling. And rounding
out the foursome was an athletic fifteen year old classmate named Andrew Picarnick. Andrew
never really meant to be the fourth and he knew it. The dream all
along was for brothers Teddy and Matthew Heart to perform as a tag team together,
but sadly that dream was cut short when Matthew unexpectedly died earlier that year
from a flesh eating disease, but as a supportive friend, Andrew filled in,
and there they were four skinny boys and the worst parts of puberty,
with one not even being close to hitting puberty, sitting in a WWF locker
room awaiting adult instruction, and they do eventually find it in LONGTIMEWF referee Earl
Hebner. Earl told the kids they have five minutes to perform their match,
and before Earl could get another word out, Teddy Hart's compromise was fifteen.
Teddy explained they would need fifteen minutes. They had practiced and rehearsed the match
for weeks in the ring on the Heart Family lawn. They had the match
down, move for a move, beat for beat. They were gonna need
fifteen minutes, and Hebner he listened patiently, and then he proceeded to tell
them you got five minutes. No going to the floor, which is wrestling
jargon for all the moves must be done inside the ring. Black Jack Lanza,
a retired wrestler, would pull on his necktie at ringside and that would
be the queue to start wrapping up the match. Those were the instructions,
and so it was settled. The fans took their seats, the houselights darkened,
the Canadian national anthem would play over the loudspeaker, and then it would
be time for the opening match. Their match, but there fifteen minute masterpiece.
How would they be able to trim it down? The no going to
the floor rule could help, maybe trim five minutes, but they were still
left with ten minutes worth of action. So the boys resolved to do what
they thought would be the absolute best thing to do. They decided to just
rustle faster. They'd do all the moves, but you know quicker. They'd
cram a fifteen minute match into a five minute match, not even considering whether
a tag team match between children moving at triple the speed might look a little
silly to the audience. This was their chance to shine in the WWF,
and they needed to get their moves in. The rookies were welcomed by a
mostly friendly crowd. Plenty of members of the extended Heart family were at ringside.
Among them was a young lady named Natty Nightheart, daughter of the WWF
wrestler Jim Navil Ninheart, whom TJ. In particular, was hoping to impress
Teddy and Harry had the honor of wearing ring gear loaned to them by Davy
boy Smith spandex that clung so tightly to the British bulldog's massive muscles sagged so
loosely over the skinny legs of the teenaged boys. The boys had performed the
tag team match pretty much exactly as they had practiced, minus some outside dives,
and sure they made mistakes, they were kids. Back to back supplexes
by Teddy to TJ turn into a disaster when they got their choreography backwards twice.
It actually looked so devastating that it was documented in the newspaper, with
TJ landing head first. I'm a mat nat didn't stop them though. Their
adrenaline was surging and they wanted to live in that moment forever, but they
couldn't. Why well, because Earl Hebner kindly told them that it was time
to go home. Nobody had seen black Jack lands upon his tie, but
then again, I'm not even sure if they even had the sense to note
to look for black Jack lands up pulling on his tie. But Earl Hebner
said they had to finish up, so the boys hurried up to set up
their spectacle finish. Teddy put TJ on the top rope and delivered the biggest
top rope superplex he could do, and then Harry, having climbed to the
opposite top turnbuckle, launched off with a flying headbut exactly as they had practiced.
Teddy Hard and Harry Smith, had a combined weight of one hundred and
fifty pounds and a combined age of twenty six years old, were the victors.
The crowd loved it. These hometown kids had just done something extraordinary and
the hometown crowd of Calgary, Alberta supported them as if they were their very
own kids. And in the back well, Barry Wyndham, then wrestling as
the Stalker and known for his finishing maneuver of a top rope soup lex,
seemed openly annoyed that one of the kids in the first match would do his
big move. But with congratulations of so many veterans and WWF wrestlers being given
to the kids, along with the presence of Davy Boy Smith fawning over his
family, Wyndham cracked a smile and left the boys alone. The TV guide
the Sunday papers. They'd all published pictures of their matches, and they were
the talk of the town and the talk of their school. And sure,
their WWF debut didn't result in the kind of overnight stardom they had dreamed of,
but it definitely was a foreshadow of things to come. All but Andrew
went on to become full time professional wrestlers. It wasn't Andrew's dream, though,
he was there to help his friends achieve theirs. Teddy, Harry,
and TJ all continued their training after that day, including private instructions in the
wrestling room inside of Bret Hart's home, and on October fifth, two thousand
and six, exactly ten years in the making, TJ. Wilson returned to
the WWF now WWE as Tyson Kid, and Tyson would soon pair up with
that one time eleven year old prodigy Harry Smith and TJ and Harry would form
a trio called the Heart Dynasty, along with Natalia Nidhart, the same young
lady who had been in the crowd that night at the Saddledome, the same
young lady he'd go on to marry in two thousand and thirteen. Although you
can still find Harry and Teddy wrestling around the world. TJ was forced to
retire from in ring action in two fifteen with a neck injury. He's now
a backstage agent very similar to the role of black Jack Lanza, except TJ
claims to have never seen anyone ever pull on a necktie to cue the ending
of a match. Twenty five years ago, four boys ages eleven to sixteen
wrestled on a WWF show in a WWF ring for a WWF crowd children.
Being a publicly traded company with such a liability, such a thing will more
than likely never happen again. As a teenager, I dreamed of playing in
the same game as Michael Jordan or running on the same field with Walter Payton.
But it was just a dream. It just wasn't realistic. But for
one night in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, under the big and bright lights,
in the giant WWF ring, with that huge arena feel, it was
very real. And that was the night at four super Fan Wrestling kids got
to live out all of our childhood dreams. Right after this break, Colin
Hunter and I talked about how one phone call to t J Wilson helped shape
this whole story Parrestling Fringe. We'll be right back. Hey, Colin.
First of all, thank you so much for doing the story with me.
Well, thank you for the invitation. I love this series and you and
I worked on one of these before and had so much fun. I was
delighted when you asked me to do it again. The last one we did
was tons of fun, and for this one, I said to myself,
I need a Canadian. Yeah. Well, I'm a Canadian boy, just
like the four stars of the story, and like them, I was a
huge wrestling fan growing up. I would go to these house shows, but
I was always always on the other side of the barrier, never had the
experience that these four had. I just dreamed of it. All right,
let's get into the story a little bit. I wanted to talk about the
overall story arc, which I, as the ultimate producer of the project,
did change a little bit from your perspective. But I think that's a great
part about the second half of these podcasts. We can acknowledge it and I
can also let you talk about it. The middle of the story was always
the same, but you really put an emphasis on this being a house show,
where I kind of wanted to downplay that because I didn't want it to
take away from the focal point that this is children wrestling. Yeah, I
think it's just because a house show back then, literally at that time,
at that place, may have been the only kind of situation where this could
ever have happened. If it was a TV show, They're not going to
put an eleven year old and some fifteen year olds on Monday Night Raw.
It's the kind of show where you know, the cameras aren't rolling, the
rules are a little bit more lax, So they were able to do something
like put four children in an opening match and let them go even the five
minutes that they were allowed, even though it wasn't the fifteen minutes that they
had planned. If it were in front of cameras, I don't think it
would have happened, first of all, And I'm kind of glad it's not
recorded, because we were able to create this sort of picture through storytelling,
through your telling of that strange day in nineteen ninety six. Well, I
guess that would lead to another one of my questions, which is footage of
this match. It's not on YouTube, it's not on any networks or DVD
specials. Can I assume it just doesn't exist. Yeah, as far as
I know, there is no footage of this match. That doesn't mean that
the footage doesn't exist, because even at house shows, you know, you
can find house shows that were supposedly not recorded and they're on YouTube. Now
this footage has never shown up, and I kind of hope it stays that
way. Yeah, it was a one time occasion, and it almost lives
more sort of beautifully in the storytelling, I think, than actual footage,
because let's be honest, it was probably a really clunky match. They were
kids. Yeah. Well, the last time I did a story about a
missing match with Bret Hart and Tom McGee, a couple of years later it
became the Holy Grail of lost matches and Mary Kate Anthony ended up finding it
in a closet. So here's to another wrestling fan checking their vhspins. I
hope so I discovered that match thanks to you. I had never heard of
the Tom McGee match, and I just watched it the other day, so
maybe it will see the light of day. The four children in Calgary.
When I asked writers to help me write these wrestling stories, most people head
to the internet and start researching articles and results or footage. But we were
really lucky enough to have my good friend t J. Wilson or Tyson Kidd
kind of be at our disposal. I imagine it made life much easier being
able to hear the actual story from someone who was actually in the actual match.
What was your approach to getting the notes that you needed in order to
put this together? When you first asked me to look into this, this
story the four kids wrestling in Calgary, you told me the basics, and
you gave me TJ. Wilson's phone number, and you know, we made
a connection. And typically when I write an article about anything, you know,
I was a real journalist in the past, and I've written real journalism
aside from KFEVE News, and in my journalism, I typically do a lot
of research. I'll go but I'll google somebody, read the Wikipedia, checkout
videos. And I decided to do none of that with TJ because, exactly
like you said, he was there and I wanted him to paint a picture
from the get go. I said to him, start from the very beginning
and walk me through this, and he, to his credit, he was
willing to do so. It was a long conversation, but I really wanted
to help your listeners understand what it felt like for these kids to be back
there, and just the fear of being totally out of your depth, something
we can all relate to. Everybody's been the youngest, least experienced person at
the room, in the room at one point or another, feeling completely outgunned.
I think this story has been told in bits and pieces here and there
and documentaries, but your podcast, this storytelling format, is it's perfect for
that. Maybe this story has been told in passing, but I don't think
TJ's really detailed this story this in depth. What were some of the bits
that kind of stood out for you? So the details like the fact that
his friends and family were in the crowd, including Nattie Neidhart, who would
go on to become his wife, Little details like how excited they were to
be in the newspaper because remember this was pre Internet or just sort of baby
internet, so having the newspaper come down and take their photos it was great.
There's actually a little story that didn't make it into the podcast itself about
Teddy Hart kind of conning one newspaper of playing them off each other. Two
newspapers were there, and he would tell each of the other papers like,
Oh, they're going to run it on the front page, so you better
run it on your front page. So here's this kid trying to get the
two media organizations to sort of play off one another. You know, those
kind of details sort of come out in the retelling as people start to relive
these things, these little side stories and little memories. You know, I
asked, well, who specifically did you see in the locker room? Okay,
Barry Wyndham was there, and you know what period of Barry Wyndham's career
was that. You know, after all this time, he was still sort
of remembering the sequence of moves. This is half a lifetime ago, but
you know he's remembering the suicide dives that had to get cut for time and
how the moves got botched. And I think it's only in this long form
storytelling that you can actually pull out those little details that stay hidden in your
memory for decades. So I love that about Teddy Hart, and I believe
it was there anything else that either you didn't put in the story or maybe
I edited out of your version that kind of deserves to be told. There
was a lot about this particular event, that it was more than just a
wrestling show. It was a charity event. Teddy Hart's brother Matthew who had
died tragically not long before a flesh eating disease, Andrew was his fill in
the fourth Boy. It was a fundraiser. The story goes that Shaun Michaels
donated his check. I think a number of charitable donations were made, and
I knew that they had connections to the Heart family, but I didn't know,
for example, that they were training every single day after school for hours
in the ring in the Heart family yard. They would go to school.
You know, Teddy and TJ. I think we're classmates, are around the
same age, and they would get on a bus and go up to the
hearthouse and train in the ring, doing their fifteen minute match over and over
and over again. And you know, sometimes Davey Boy Smith would wander by
and offer a pointer and Owen Hart would saw Buy or Brett the hitt Man
Heart says, you know what, that move would look a little better if
you did this, Like, can you imagine a better wrestling training than these
boys got? And I love the fact that was ten years to the day
to the day that TJ had his first WWE contracted match, after that day
that he wrestled with his friends as a teenager. I know you put a
lot of TJ specific information in the story, and I did take some of
it out because I didn't want it to be all TJ, and I wanted
it to focus on them as a group of four. So I felt a
little bad having to shave that out, but I knew this talk is where
you could give TJ all the credit that he deserves and any last thoughts that
you might have. TJ, I've heard on numerous occasions is one of the
nicest people in wrestling from numerous people. Clearly, you know this is a
case of someone who you know worked hard and had a dream and is still
sort of living it in his own way. And it's crazy when you look
at the picture. TJ text me a bunch of photos of the boys,
you know, before their match and after their match, posing, and they're
just these they're literally children, and they're scrawny, you know, scrawny little
children's arms and legs, but they're loose fitting clothing. But to see them
now, you know, Davy Boy Smith Junior is a is a giant,
and these trained in MMA and wrestling, and I think if that moment hadn't
happened for them, maybe the rest of their careers wouldn't have gotten the way
they did. It was probably a turning point for all three of them,
maybe more than they even realize. Colin Hunter, owner and proprietor of k
fame Knew, thank you so much for putting in the great work and helping
me tell this great story. Thank you so much. It's a lot of
fun. Colin Hunter is the creator and the writer of the amazing and hilarious
satirical website kfabe news dot com, which just celebrated its ten year anniversary.
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T shirt over at Pro wrestlingts dot com slash Kfabe News. I wanted to
hear from someone who was at the show, but not in the match itself,
so stick around till after the break, where Rosshart, member of the
wrestling famous Heart Family, explains his remembrance of just how everything went. Pro
Wrestling Fringe we'll be right back. Well. I'm Ross Hurt from the Hart
family. I had been involved with the Stampede wrestling on many different levels.
During debuts of three of my nephews, Teddy Hurt and Terry Smith, so
Davey Boys Smith the British Bulldog had a tag match against t J. Wilson,
the later became well known as the Tyson Kid. And Andrew mclarn Yeah,
I've never seen anything like that before, you know, I think this
is just a little different from backyard wrestling where kids are playing in a school
ground or even on some wrestling match. This was in the summer of nineteen
ninety six, the annual Rockey for the Rodeo show. They had a chance
to perform, but under the difficult circumstances. The original match was going to
feature Teddy and his younger brother Matt and Matthew Matt got injured, was hospitalized
and was diagnosed with flash eating disease and bravely fought it or was hospitalized for
over a month before he sadly passed away. The other three, Harry,
TJ and ted I really wanted to go through with the match. They thought
it would be a nice tribute if they could still have the match, but
they had only three of them. A high school friend of Ted and t
J, Andrew mccarnick, just live up the hill actually from the Hardy Homes
at his parents voice. You offered to take part in the match, they'd
have to give him a crash course and tram and prepare him and he actually
did quite well. But Ted now would be a partner with with Harry Smith
against t J, who was a captain of the other team, and Andrew
mccarnick. So they had about a week put together the match for the Rocky
for Rodeo showing. It was great. It was such a wonderful tribute that
they could pay the mat. And then I guess Davy and my brother on
approach at WW because they knew they had a show them a live show coming
up to the Sadom October. You know, I don't They arranged at at
least a month ahead of time, so they know they probably meb We even
approached you know, whoever would have been the booker at that time. I
don't know Vince's right hand man, I was around nineteen ninety six, you
know, it might have been Pat Patterson. It was kind of a unique
novelty match. But I think Dave and Owen really fulsome strongs there, and
they were on the show too. While on Davy were in a tag match
and they're defending the tag team titles, so they were going to be at
the show and they would make sure that everything went pretty well and that the
boys fallow orders and I went with Harry's mom, Diane, and choose my
younger sister and Georgia and other family members. Georgia and bj Ted and Matt's
parents were there as well, and many family members are there. I think
once kids went as well. But I sat and watched the match with Diana
and Georgia and a couple of my other nieces, and I was excited.
I had I hadn't really helped them choreograph the match, but I but I
had seen them outside a lot at the house. They had just practiced in
so many times that their execution was pretty damn good. He especially for kids
are age. So I was pretty pretty excited, though you know, I
didn't know how how well they had performed in front of a big crowd and
uh, in front of the hometown fans. Uh. I don't think the
the agents thought they should go more than five minutes. That they might all
ideas or they might just thought, you know, or that they just didn't
have enough of a repertoire to put together match. But you know, they
didn't realize. You know, these kids had followed wrestling all their lives and
had watched Endless Stampede Wrestling shows and w under their shows, and uh were
so inspired by their uncles, you know, Born and Rep and Davey through
their uncles Bruce and keyth. So there, I think some fans had some
expectations, you know, those two Hurts grandkids wrestling in the match. And
also these guys must be pretty good for their age, but a lot of
other fans for maybe a little more. I'm sure, what can these guys
do that suching young? The agents and these your kids. I think a
lot of fans were well just kind of curious. They hope that they would
have fun, I guess, and enjoy themselves, but I think they were
they were going away. Why the moves that they did. There was a
baby face match, you know, there was there was no heels or anything,
you know, no skull duggery or trickery or anchor like that. It
was just a baby face match, but definitely Harry and Ted were the favorites
because they had the direct lineage to the Hard family. They're you know,
direct grandsons and student. But I think they were happy for all four of
them, and it just went off so well without any injuries, without any
mistakes, and you know, I don't I don't think it hurt the show
at all, you know, with the very first match. And I think
I saw them after the show just told them how proud I was of them.
But they were pretty excited. You know. I think there's adrenaline rush
there for for all four of them. But they were really satisfied. They're
really happy, and they knew it was something that that Matt would be proud
of. And uh, I know Davey and Owen loved it, said,
you guys did great. You know, they got great feedback from all the
other wrestlers who saw it. I think all the wrestlers watched because they're curious,
let's see what Davy's kid and one's nephew and Ted could do in the
room. So so a lot of the wrestlers were watching you So I think
he took them out for dinner or something. After and you know, it
had been a pretty tough summer, you know, especially Jed losing his younger
brother. And Matt had probably the highest passionate beamcoming professional wrestling was when he
was in school. He talked Tob how much you wanted to be a wrestler,
and how proud you wanted Davy, especially to be of him, and
that he wanted to pattern his style after him, And so a tragedy that
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Cold Cabana. Thanks all right, Stampede Wrestling fans, here are the pavilion
and you at home A very special treat right now, as it's my distinct
pleasure to introduce to you one of the all time greats, not only here
in Stampede Wrestling, but the entire world of wrestling in the eighties, who
won every title there was to win here at stamped Wrestling. He went on
to worldwide fame in the World Wrestling Federation, which you please welcome the British
Bulldog, Davy Boy Smith and along with Davy Boy his son Harry Smith,
the future of the Smith wrestling family. Davy Boy unbelievable wrestling fans. For
those of you who have followed Davy Boy's career, recently, there was talk
that he would never wrestle again after suffering a serious back injury in wc W.
But Davy Boy, you have watch your way back. Your indomitable spirit
is coming to the forefront and you have once again made it to that mountain.
You've ascended to the top in professional wrestling. And I think I speak
for all the fans here when we say congratulations David Boy. Well, I
really appreciate that because this is my roots. This is where the British Bulldog
started right here, with the likes of Bret Hart, Bruce Art, the
Dynamite Kids, Chris Benoa. I know the British Bulldog. He's back in
the World Wrestling Federation. After that's right, Rookie just sucks. But anyway,
um, it's great to be back here in the pavilion. It's like
uh DejaVu. You know, he's like a walk in the dressing room.
Nothing changes here in Stampede Wrestling. And I've looked to see this uh arena
packed one night and one time the British Bulldog. He's gonna come back in
this ring, in this arena, I'm sure one day, Davy boy we
look forward to perhaps forming a team with your son here, Harry Smith.
I'm sure the fans would also like that. This is my son, my
little my little son. He's not that little, No, he's not that
little. Almost six to one hund than sixty pounds, and he's the next
World Wrestling Federation champion. But first he's gonna start here in Calgary Stampede Wrestling,
where the British Bulldog, studied ladies are gentleman. He is a letter
and here is the critical David Boyd's give it up for David Boyd and his
son, Harry. Congratulations and continued success in the w w UP. David Boye