WEBVTT 1 00:00:15.960 --> 00:00:19.879 It's a Lapsed Fan wrestling podcast special report. The Lapsed 2 00:00:19.879 --> 00:00:24.719 Fan presents the Complete hull Cogan, a real American story 3 00:00:25.280 --> 00:00:27.199 brought to you by Garage Beer you. 4 00:00:27.160 --> 00:00:29.679 Know around here Lately. Boss is part of the Complete 5 00:00:29.719 --> 00:00:31.920 Hulled Cogan. It's kind of felt like Sweet Home Alabama, 6 00:00:31.920 --> 00:00:32.359 hasn't it. 7 00:00:33.880 --> 00:00:33.920 That? 8 00:00:34.079 --> 00:00:36.039 It has starting to feel right at home in the 9 00:00:36.039 --> 00:00:39.960 Gulf Coast. And just as soon as we're getting comfortable, 10 00:00:40.039 --> 00:00:42.200 much like Terry Blaya did in nineteen seventy nine, it's 11 00:00:42.240 --> 00:00:46.000 time to move on. Yeah, I agree. I mean, listen, listen. 12 00:00:46.000 --> 00:00:48.079 We're not here to make people comfortable, all right, We're 13 00:00:48.079 --> 00:00:50.799 here to make people feel uncomfortable, And as soon as 14 00:00:50.799 --> 00:00:57.560 they feel a sense of normality, it's time to produce abnormality, 15 00:00:57.719 --> 00:00:59.840 for better or worse. Terry Boulaya always knew when he 16 00:00:59.880 --> 00:01:09.040 was overstaying his welcome, right, I'll be he was. He 17 00:01:09.079 --> 00:01:11.480 was pretty good at it, Like well, he wasn't as 18 00:01:11.519 --> 00:01:14.120 good as as Terry Funk, but he had his moments. 19 00:01:14.159 --> 00:01:16.879 That's right. That's a great point. Yeah, Well, perhaps if 20 00:01:16.959 --> 00:01:21.640 Terry struck gold in New York like Hogan did, he 21 00:01:21.680 --> 00:01:25.719 wouldn't have left either on such a rapid clip. But yes, 22 00:01:25.760 --> 00:01:29.439 you're right, that is an interesting contrast. But we have 23 00:01:29.560 --> 00:01:31.359 to we have to put a bow on this thing. 24 00:01:31.480 --> 00:01:34.159 Last time we were with you on the Complete Hulk Hogan. 25 00:01:34.480 --> 00:01:36.879 Hogan had just wrestled Harley Race at the Rip Hughes 26 00:01:37.000 --> 00:01:41.120 Football Stadium in Dothan, Alabama for the NWA World Heavyweight Title, 27 00:01:41.480 --> 00:01:43.439 a match that ended when Austin Idol got up on 28 00:01:43.439 --> 00:01:48.040 the apron snapped a flash photograph and Hogan's eyes blinded 29 00:01:48.120 --> 00:01:50.400 him and caused him to get rolled up one, two three. 30 00:01:50.400 --> 00:01:53.480 According to Ron Fuller, I mean, there's not enough for 31 00:01:53.640 --> 00:01:56.239 you in there, and what I just said at all 32 00:01:56.239 --> 00:01:58.079 the things it says, I don't know what to tell 33 00:01:58.079 --> 00:02:02.280 you at this point in the journey there. There's too 34 00:02:02.359 --> 00:02:05.040 much going on right there. And I would say definitely 35 00:02:05.120 --> 00:02:07.719 a lot of fear, a lot of fear, a lot 36 00:02:07.760 --> 00:02:17.000 of concern, you know, photographers to roll ups. It's getting real, 37 00:02:17.199 --> 00:02:19.479 it's getting real for hul Covid. Yeah. Yeah, he's already 38 00:02:19.479 --> 00:02:20.879 starting to learn to look out of the corner of 39 00:02:20.919 --> 00:02:24.479 his eye. And I think there's a lot to be said. 40 00:02:24.719 --> 00:02:28.159 I mean, the thesis basically is everything you think Hulkkein 41 00:02:28.199 --> 00:02:30.120 figured out as his career unfolded he did in the 42 00:02:30.120 --> 00:02:33.639 first six months in Alabama. Yeah, in one way or another, 43 00:02:33.960 --> 00:02:36.800 he downloaded all he needed to download about the characteristics, 44 00:02:36.840 --> 00:02:40.759 the Austin Idel stuff that he lifted. But there's a 45 00:02:40.759 --> 00:02:44.919 home stretch here for the Alabama run. Chronologically, it gets 46 00:02:44.919 --> 00:02:47.280 a little complicated because at the same time he's working 47 00:02:47.280 --> 00:02:50.560 in parallel in Memphis around this time, almost as frequently. 48 00:02:50.560 --> 00:02:52.280 But as we discussed last time, when he steps into 49 00:02:52.280 --> 00:02:55.719 the ring against Harley Race in July nineteen seventy nine 50 00:02:55.719 --> 00:02:58.680 in doth And, he'd already essentially communicated to booker Louis 51 00:02:58.680 --> 00:03:01.240 Tillette and owner Ron Fuller that he was moving on. 52 00:03:01.759 --> 00:03:03.520 Ron Fuller, of course, as we mentioned, is sort of 53 00:03:03.520 --> 00:03:05.360 put the blame on Toilette for not putting a strap 54 00:03:05.360 --> 00:03:07.879 on Hogan earlier and making him feel like he was 55 00:03:07.919 --> 00:03:10.919 going to be a centerpiece of the promotion and thus 56 00:03:11.400 --> 00:03:14.280 very susceptible to an offer from Jerry Jarrett and Company 57 00:03:14.319 --> 00:03:16.599 up in Memphis for a bit more money and perhaps 58 00:03:16.639 --> 00:03:19.240 a bit more spotlight. So Hogan has already made it 59 00:03:19.240 --> 00:03:21.199 clear before he steps into the ring with Harley Race, 60 00:03:21.240 --> 00:03:24.000 according to Ron Fuller, that he's not long for the world, 61 00:03:25.240 --> 00:03:27.439 And so we have to take a look at how 62 00:03:27.599 --> 00:03:30.280 Hogan played out the string because when you hear that, 63 00:03:30.360 --> 00:03:32.400 you might think it was sort of a hard stop. 64 00:03:32.439 --> 00:03:35.800 And after he fails to defeat Hardly for the championship, 65 00:03:35.800 --> 00:03:37.960 he hasn't really seen in the territory. Again, that is 66 00:03:38.000 --> 00:03:41.599 not the case. In addition to Memphis, he goes to 67 00:03:41.599 --> 00:03:44.280 work for Georgia, and these are two offices that didn't 68 00:03:44.319 --> 00:03:48.039 necessarily have adversarial relationships with Ron Fuller in Southeast. It's 69 00:03:48.039 --> 00:03:50.879 not like when he went to these two territories he 70 00:03:50.919 --> 00:03:53.879 would never be welcomed back again. In fact, he even 71 00:03:53.919 --> 00:03:58.240 goes to New York to the WWWF and comes back 72 00:03:58.280 --> 00:04:00.479 to work a couple of some shows. Now Alabama by 73 00:04:00.520 --> 00:04:04.599 the close of nineteen seventy nine. Yes, wow, Bob Armstrong, 74 00:04:04.639 --> 00:04:07.240 of course, a long time staple in the area, father 75 00:04:07.319 --> 00:04:10.439 of the road Dog for those among temporary fans. Yeah yeah, 76 00:04:10.879 --> 00:04:13.280 ends up back in sort of the power circle with 77 00:04:13.360 --> 00:04:16.360 Southeastern Championship Wrestling, and they work a bit of a 78 00:04:16.360 --> 00:04:19.439 program to close out nineteen seventy nine, and I think 79 00:04:19.480 --> 00:04:22.959 an extreme serendipity it all ends on what of all 80 00:04:23.079 --> 00:04:27.000 nights for Hogan and Alabama, but Christmas nineteen seventy nine. 81 00:04:27.040 --> 00:04:27.319 Wow. 82 00:04:28.439 --> 00:04:30.639 So we're going to take you through to that here 83 00:04:30.680 --> 00:04:34.639 on this week's episode. 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And when they leaned into TLF, 95 00:05:12.319 --> 00:05:14.120 all of a sudden the awards started pouring in on 96 00:05:14.160 --> 00:05:16.800 their side of the house. Think not, I think not. 97 00:05:17.639 --> 00:05:19.920 So it's been terrific to have their support as we 98 00:05:19.959 --> 00:05:23.199 do really what it takes and spend what it takes 99 00:05:23.519 --> 00:05:25.720 to really dig and on earth as much as can 100 00:05:25.759 --> 00:05:29.480 be said about as we've talked about Boss, a criminally 101 00:05:30.560 --> 00:05:35.000 underdocumented part of Hulkgan's life in times you know the 102 00:05:35.040 --> 00:05:37.160 more we the more we dig into it, the more 103 00:05:37.399 --> 00:05:40.560 it's It's really shocking that people have not really talked 104 00:05:40.560 --> 00:05:43.920 about it as much as as they should have. It's 105 00:05:43.920 --> 00:05:48.800 a real shame, Like what do you what are you doing? 106 00:05:49.920 --> 00:05:52.319 You're missing out? I mean, listen, I'm grateful, you know, 107 00:05:52.399 --> 00:05:55.839 if we're uncovering some stuff that maybe had been covered 108 00:05:55.839 --> 00:05:59.680 for quite a while. So I'll take that. But you 109 00:05:59.720 --> 00:06:03.079 know what, the fuck the fact that Hogan verse Harley 110 00:06:03.079 --> 00:06:05.439 in July of nineteen eighty and doth in nineteen eighty 111 00:06:05.480 --> 00:06:08.399 seventy nine in Dothan filled this football stadium the only time, 112 00:06:08.399 --> 00:06:10.759 according to Ron Fuller, that this territory had a stadium 113 00:06:10.759 --> 00:06:15.160 scale show, and not a single photograph exists of that show, 114 00:06:15.240 --> 00:06:18.560 let alone the match between Harley and Hogan. Yep, just 115 00:06:18.600 --> 00:06:22.639 sets my mind into a tizzy. I mean it's just, 116 00:06:22.879 --> 00:06:25.000 you know, I guess all we can count on are 117 00:06:25.000 --> 00:06:27.680 these snippets of fans who have posted things on Facebook 118 00:06:27.800 --> 00:06:30.680 or forums over the years that that bore witness, Right, 119 00:06:30.720 --> 00:06:33.079 I mean, that's the best we can hope for, right, boss, 120 00:06:34.360 --> 00:06:36.839 the best we can hope for. Well, we'll see about that. 121 00:06:36.920 --> 00:06:40.360 But the complete Hull Coogan continues two unfold and is 122 00:06:40.399 --> 00:06:45.240 mentioned he had just hustled with Harley Race. I did 123 00:06:45.439 --> 00:06:48.639 sort of parrot something that Ron Fuller said about the 124 00:06:48.680 --> 00:06:51.480 match that I'm going to reel in on this episode. 125 00:06:51.480 --> 00:06:53.360 And this is thanks to the homie Matt, who was 126 00:06:53.480 --> 00:06:59.560 quick to point out immediately that in fact, Hogan verse 127 00:06:59.560 --> 00:07:03.920 Harley seventy nine dothen yes, was not the only time 128 00:07:06.240 --> 00:07:09.839 that Hull Cogan challenged for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship. Fuck, 129 00:07:11.040 --> 00:07:12.920 turn your attention please, if you could, to your chat 130 00:07:13.000 --> 00:07:20.759 window and observe. Tell the folks what you see. Hold 131 00:07:20.800 --> 00:07:31.600 on here, what do you see? What? Describe? Describe? Well, 132 00:07:31.759 --> 00:07:34.720 the first thing, obviously, you know, your eye goes right 133 00:07:34.759 --> 00:07:37.839 to the fact that you got Hull Cogan wearing yellow 134 00:07:37.839 --> 00:07:40.439 and red. By the way, yes, yellow and red. That's key. 135 00:07:41.160 --> 00:07:46.759 He is giving a roundhouse right too, uh uh Harley Race, 136 00:07:47.519 --> 00:07:50.399 who's holding the the NWA title. It says right there 137 00:07:50.439 --> 00:07:52.759 up in the ever left corner, Harley Race versus Hull Cogan, 138 00:07:53.160 --> 00:07:55.519 but down on the lower left hand corner. This is 139 00:07:55.560 --> 00:07:59.800 what's kind of a little this is this is this 140 00:07:59.879 --> 00:08:05.680 is interesting. Is a lot of Japanese characters or some 141 00:08:05.800 --> 00:08:08.600 kind of Asian cash and say I mean, I'm assuming 142 00:08:08.639 --> 00:08:12.800 Japan because wrestling is in Japan. I don't know, but yeah, 143 00:08:12.879 --> 00:08:17.639 a lot of Japanese characters saying something. I don't know what, 144 00:08:17.920 --> 00:08:21.600 but it's saying something. So I imagine this happened in Japan. 145 00:08:22.560 --> 00:08:24.839 You know what. No, the photo ran in a Japanese 146 00:08:24.920 --> 00:08:27.399 magazine only, oh my god, I won't say only, but 147 00:08:27.439 --> 00:08:29.160 it ran. What we have here is a photo from 148 00:08:29.199 --> 00:08:33.919 a Japanese magazine. No, what you're looking at with Harley 149 00:08:34.000 --> 00:08:36.759 Race to your point holding the license plate NWA World 150 00:08:36.759 --> 00:08:40.519 Title belt, the one that we just can't allow our 151 00:08:40.600 --> 00:08:44.039 minds to put in the same space time continuum as 152 00:08:44.120 --> 00:08:47.919 Hull Camanium. Yes, what you were looking at is Hulk 153 00:08:47.960 --> 00:08:52.279 Hogan wearing the red and yellow Yes, going for the 154 00:08:52.399 --> 00:08:57.799 NWA World title in October nineteen eighty three in Saint Louis. 155 00:08:58.480 --> 00:09:10.720 What how yep? Take your time? I mean, okay, so 156 00:09:10.759 --> 00:09:14.360 I'm trying to think here eighty three. I mean, wouldn't 157 00:09:14.360 --> 00:09:18.919 have he wouldn't he been working for VERN sort of yes, 158 00:09:19.679 --> 00:09:21.879 but not exclusively. He's going to Japan all the time, 159 00:09:21.960 --> 00:09:26.960 and Saint Louis was a very close confident on office 160 00:09:26.960 --> 00:09:28.480 to Vern, just like it was to Fritz. You know, 161 00:09:28.840 --> 00:09:32.559 but I but I thought that, you know, why would 162 00:09:32.639 --> 00:09:33.960 I mean, I guess if you're not if he's not 163 00:09:34.000 --> 00:09:36.879 exclusive to Verne, then he's okay. But something Why would 164 00:09:36.960 --> 00:09:39.440 Verne let somebody go down to n WA territory when 165 00:09:39.440 --> 00:09:44.519 he was very anti NWA. I but what makes you 166 00:09:44.559 --> 00:09:47.120 say he's anti NWA. Well, he made his own fucking 167 00:09:47.159 --> 00:09:49.559 company because he didn't get the NWA championshop. You go 168 00:09:49.600 --> 00:09:51.840 back to the fifties, Yeah, I got you. Yeah, I 169 00:09:51.840 --> 00:09:54.080 think by now he's kind of over that for the 170 00:09:54.080 --> 00:09:55.840 most part. I mean, he has his own world champion. 171 00:09:56.240 --> 00:10:02.480 But guys like Bockwinkle and Toura many others were allowed 172 00:10:02.480 --> 00:10:04.360 to go to Keel auditorium shows and work for Sam 173 00:10:04.399 --> 00:10:09.279 much Nick and Larry Matti sick. Yeah, just like you know, well, 174 00:10:09.360 --> 00:10:11.559 I guess Fritz never really split off from the NWA 175 00:10:12.200 --> 00:10:15.600 in a clean breakaway until the late eighties. Yeah, but 176 00:10:15.720 --> 00:10:17.399 you know, when it was time to start pushing the boys, 177 00:10:17.440 --> 00:10:22.000 they went where to Saint Louis Television, particularly David von 178 00:10:22.080 --> 00:10:25.159 Erik to meet Harley in that handicapped matches we talked 179 00:10:25.200 --> 00:10:28.919 about in a lamentable tragedy. I just it's one thing 180 00:10:28.960 --> 00:10:30.919 to say that Hulk Hogan challenged Charlie Race for the 181 00:10:31.000 --> 00:10:34.200 NBA Championship the same year he came back to WWF 182 00:10:34.240 --> 00:10:37.440 to start the whole Camania run, but with that belt. 183 00:10:37.519 --> 00:10:39.399 But it's another thing to say he was wearing the 184 00:10:39.440 --> 00:10:43.960 red and yellow. I can't. I can't accept that Hogan 185 00:10:44.480 --> 00:10:48.320 wore red and yellow trunks before January nineteen eighty four. 186 00:10:49.399 --> 00:10:52.840 Well did he? Or I should say December eighty three didn't? 187 00:10:52.840 --> 00:10:56.440 He didn't. Didn't he wear red and yellow for that 188 00:10:56.440 --> 00:10:59.960 that Super Sunday match? Was it red? And Well? It was, 189 00:11:00.200 --> 00:11:03.600 but I think that the trunks were red if I'm 190 00:11:03.600 --> 00:11:06.399 not mistaken when I picture Hogan and Awa, and I'm 191 00:11:06.440 --> 00:11:09.679 sure you know it's very at everybody's fingertips to pull 192 00:11:09.759 --> 00:11:14.039 up counter examples, but I don't know. Man. When I 193 00:11:14.039 --> 00:11:16.200 heard about this match, before I saw the pick, I'm like, Okay, 194 00:11:16.279 --> 00:11:18.159 it's going to be him, and like, you know, light 195 00:11:18.240 --> 00:11:21.399 blue trunks wrestling Harley, Right, yeah, right, No, he's wearing 196 00:11:21.440 --> 00:11:23.399 red and yellow. He's wearing it's exactly like he did 197 00:11:23.440 --> 00:11:27.159 in WWA. That's that's nuts. There were two matches in 198 00:11:27.200 --> 00:11:31.120 October of nineteen eighty three, and it's really fascinating because 199 00:11:31.559 --> 00:11:35.480 where do they go right when he's well a whole 200 00:11:35.480 --> 00:11:36.960 on a second, Actually, no, that I'm thinking about it, 201 00:11:37.279 --> 00:11:41.519 he's not working for VERN. He is, Yeah, he is. 202 00:11:41.559 --> 00:11:44.519 He's working for Vern. Yeah, because the shows that he 203 00:11:44.639 --> 00:11:47.720 know shows after giving his notice were Christmas Time eighty 204 00:11:47.720 --> 00:11:51.120 three and that's when he shows up in Wow in 205 00:11:52.080 --> 00:11:54.320 New York. But well, where does he do it? Let's 206 00:11:54.320 --> 00:11:56.919 not forget where were the television tapings happening the very 207 00:11:56.919 --> 00:11:59.200 first time Hulk Hogan came back from the ABA Saint 208 00:11:59.279 --> 00:12:03.320 Louis Chase tell So that adds a whole new context 209 00:12:03.399 --> 00:12:06.559 of how the Saint Louis fans that saw Hulkogan make 210 00:12:06.600 --> 00:12:09.039 a surprise return with just a couple of days left 211 00:12:09.080 --> 00:12:11.600 in nineteen eighty three to the WWF, they would have 212 00:12:11.639 --> 00:12:14.279 seen him in that city at Keel going for the 213 00:12:14.279 --> 00:12:17.360 world title a few months before that against Harley Race. 214 00:12:18.039 --> 00:12:20.440 So keep that in mind when you take in that 215 00:12:20.480 --> 00:12:23.639 famous footage of him returning in December ety three, and 216 00:12:23.639 --> 00:12:25.399 in what the Saint Louis fans had thought about this guy. 217 00:12:25.399 --> 00:12:28.600 He wasn't this distant guy that they may have remembered 218 00:12:28.600 --> 00:12:33.519 when he wrestled in seventy nine and eighty for the 219 00:12:33.639 --> 00:12:36.559 WWWF that they would have just seen him under the 220 00:12:36.600 --> 00:12:40.080 auspices of Sam Muchnick and the NWA. So Jesus I 221 00:12:40.120 --> 00:12:45.840 thought it was highly appropriate to rein in that. Admittedly, 222 00:12:45.879 --> 00:12:48.200 the speculation from Ron Fuller that that may have been 223 00:12:48.240 --> 00:12:52.519 in seventy nine, Hogan's only NBA Championship shot just another 224 00:12:52.600 --> 00:12:55.639 example of how much there still is to learn as 225 00:12:55.679 --> 00:12:59.919 we go through this chronology about Hulk Cogan. It's absolutely oh, 226 00:13:00.519 --> 00:13:09.559 I'm I mean, it's just it's almost it's borderline unacceptable, right, Okay, 227 00:13:09.720 --> 00:13:12.720 the border line unacceptable because of the magnitude of his career. 228 00:13:12.759 --> 00:13:14.480 You think, if there's one wrestler that I have a 229 00:13:14.480 --> 00:13:16.840 handle on the biggest things he did, it's Hult COVID 230 00:13:17.240 --> 00:13:22.600 and you don't even have forty percent of it. Yeah, right, exactly, 231 00:13:22.840 --> 00:13:26.799 because he did he did so much more before he 232 00:13:26.879 --> 00:13:29.879 went full time for the McMahons that then we can 233 00:13:31.120 --> 00:13:33.360 handle handle. I mean, it's one thing to look through 234 00:13:33.399 --> 00:13:35.519 a chronological list of his matches, but when you see 235 00:13:35.519 --> 00:13:37.879 the pictures and you get the texture, and you hear 236 00:13:37.919 --> 00:13:41.039 the testimonials from people who were fortunate enough to lay 237 00:13:41.039 --> 00:13:43.080 eyes on the things that he was doing, that do 238 00:13:43.159 --> 00:13:46.360 not survive on videotape or even still photography. That's a 239 00:13:46.360 --> 00:13:49.559 whole different matter. And looking back on the match in 240 00:13:49.600 --> 00:13:52.600 Dothan against Harley, Ron said in his podcast that they 241 00:13:52.600 --> 00:13:54.320 were trying to figure out how to see all these 242 00:13:54.320 --> 00:13:57.120 people in this stadium. It was a football field, wasn't 243 00:13:57.120 --> 00:14:00.360 as secure as a typical wrestling arena was. And so 244 00:14:00.399 --> 00:14:01.639 what do you have to worry about? I mean, all 245 00:14:01.639 --> 00:14:03.399 of a sudden, you've got to worry about people finding 246 00:14:03.399 --> 00:14:05.039 ways to sneak in. I mean, think about a high 247 00:14:05.039 --> 00:14:07.639 school football stadium. There's a million ways in that motherfucker 248 00:14:08.000 --> 00:14:12.720 who's exactly no less than Terry the Hulk Boulder wanted 249 00:14:12.720 --> 00:14:17.039 a full security plan. Ah, but I mean I could 250 00:14:17.919 --> 00:14:21.440 there must have been hundreds of people that did not 251 00:14:21.519 --> 00:14:24.879 pay and found a way into that stadium for this match. Oh, 252 00:14:25.200 --> 00:14:29.039 I would imagine I'm listening it. I mean, I don't 253 00:14:29.080 --> 00:14:31.919 know high school football stadium. I figured that's pretty easy 254 00:14:31.919 --> 00:14:38.480 to fucking oh. And Ron Fuller said his podcast you 255 00:14:38.480 --> 00:14:41.879 remembers asking announcer slash businessman businessman, I should say a 256 00:14:41.919 --> 00:14:45.559 promoter Charlie Platt, who helped with a lot of his logistics. 257 00:14:45.600 --> 00:14:47.559 How many people do you think the Ripheus Stadium is 258 00:14:47.600 --> 00:14:50.200 going to hold? And he recalls plat say about eight thousand, 259 00:14:50.639 --> 00:14:52.840 and Fuller said, I trusted that was an accurate figure. 260 00:14:52.879 --> 00:14:56.240 And that night he's sitting at home. He just wrestled 261 00:14:56.279 --> 00:14:58.360 in Knoxville, where the war is in full tilt. So 262 00:14:58.480 --> 00:15:00.279 Ron Fuller is spending all of his time there, not 263 00:15:00.360 --> 00:15:03.240 down in Dothan. And he had his cousin Royley well 264 00:15:03.320 --> 00:15:05.480 chandled the box office down there, waiting for the call. 265 00:15:05.720 --> 00:15:07.679 Ron's waiting for the call from down there to see 266 00:15:07.720 --> 00:15:11.039 how many people they did. Comes in seventy eight hundred people, 267 00:15:11.480 --> 00:15:13.759 two thousand more fans that had ever attended an event 268 00:15:13.799 --> 00:15:16.679 in Dothan. Wow, he said, you get to keep this 269 00:15:16.720 --> 00:15:20.200 in mind. If basically eight thousand people were at the 270 00:15:20.240 --> 00:15:25.679 stadium and fifty thousand people lived in Dothan, think about 271 00:15:25.679 --> 00:15:28.639 what you're saying there. Yeah, I mean that's not to 272 00:15:28.639 --> 00:15:30.759 say everybody in that stadium is from Dothan. There are 273 00:15:30.799 --> 00:15:32.519 plenty of shots on the territory. There were a couple 274 00:15:32.559 --> 00:15:36.519 hour drive. But still, I mean, when you really it's 275 00:15:36.519 --> 00:15:38.919 one thing to say these territories, these old school territories 276 00:15:39.000 --> 00:15:41.679 used to put thousands in the building or every every week. 277 00:15:41.720 --> 00:15:43.879 It's another when you step back and say, well, the 278 00:15:43.919 --> 00:15:47.919 population wasn't that big. That's remarkable. That's like the only 279 00:15:47.960 --> 00:15:50.639 thing going on in town. No wonder, these territories, in 280 00:15:50.679 --> 00:15:54.080 these areas that didn't have professional sports teams thrive so much, 281 00:15:54.679 --> 00:15:57.840 right right, of course, of course, because you know they 282 00:15:57.919 --> 00:15:59.840 got nothing else to do. That's much easier to convince 283 00:15:59.840 --> 00:16:02.240 you in a city like that that wrestling is kind 284 00:16:02.240 --> 00:16:04.840 of like the prestige night out, you know, like the thing, 285 00:16:06.399 --> 00:16:08.639 the sporting event that has the most consequence. I think 286 00:16:08.679 --> 00:16:11.519 that's often overlooked when people talk about why, uh these 287 00:16:11.519 --> 00:16:14.399 people were, you know, chanting and reacting to these matches 288 00:16:14.440 --> 00:16:16.600 like they were real, These old ladies and these adults 289 00:16:16.600 --> 00:16:18.840 you see in the audience in the territorial days and 290 00:16:18.960 --> 00:16:21.600 equal in greater parts than you see children. That's what 291 00:16:21.639 --> 00:16:23.240 Hulk Hogan did at w w F, of course, is 292 00:16:23.320 --> 00:16:25.799 switch the demographics to primar ely kids. But before that 293 00:16:26.039 --> 00:16:28.960 it's adults. They were looking for blood, They're looking for 294 00:16:28.960 --> 00:16:30.879 pieces of ship to get their asses handed to them 295 00:16:30.879 --> 00:16:34.039 by good old boys, and that works, right. I mean, 296 00:16:34.600 --> 00:16:36.519 you know, end of the week, you know, it's a 297 00:16:36.559 --> 00:16:40.000 perfect time everyone's everyone just got through a hard week 298 00:16:40.039 --> 00:16:44.759 at work, and they they want to they wanna to release, 299 00:16:46.279 --> 00:16:50.759 to say the least. Yeah, And the thing is they 300 00:16:50.799 --> 00:16:53.080 have not. They have not they have nothing else going on. 301 00:16:53.480 --> 00:16:56.279 There's no other sport, so like, I don't know, man 302 00:16:56.440 --> 00:17:00.000 like if if there's not you know, three major professional 303 00:17:00.039 --> 00:17:03.399 sports teams in my city, or even a collegiate sport 304 00:17:03.480 --> 00:17:05.920 that's convenient to get to to speak of a lot 305 00:17:05.960 --> 00:17:08.160 easier to just say, you know what, even wrestling's phone. Yeah, 306 00:17:08.160 --> 00:17:09.759 I'm going to take it seriously because I don't really 307 00:17:09.759 --> 00:17:11.839 have a lot more on the way of sport entertainment 308 00:17:11.880 --> 00:17:14.319 options here. I don't know, I don't have a lot 309 00:17:14.359 --> 00:17:18.279 going on in my life, right, I mean just they're 310 00:17:18.279 --> 00:17:20.240 not going on around me, not my life, but just 311 00:17:20.599 --> 00:17:23.359 no in my life. I gotta treat something like it's real. 312 00:17:23.640 --> 00:17:28.079 Oh my god. But Ron Fuller starts getting calls from 313 00:17:28.160 --> 00:17:31.680 Louis Toillette and it's deep French accent. Louis sounds extremely upset. 314 00:17:31.920 --> 00:17:33.680 Ron said, I could hardly get him to calm down. 315 00:17:33.759 --> 00:17:38.400 He was ecstatic. The crowd was way over ten thousand. 316 00:17:38.480 --> 00:17:40.640 Actually he was as he estimated, Rather that the crowd 317 00:17:40.680 --> 00:17:45.119 was way over ten thousand, well, seventy eight hundred. There 318 00:17:45.119 --> 00:17:49.039 had been a fucking revolt backstage because the wrestlers were 319 00:17:49.079 --> 00:17:52.519 all pissed off with their pay and assume that someone 320 00:17:52.519 --> 00:17:56.279 had stolen thousands from them, and the wrestlers because when 321 00:17:56.279 --> 00:17:58.400 they assessed it an eyeballed it. They said, there's no way, 322 00:17:58.440 --> 00:18:05.039 there's only seventy eight hundred people. That's what you have 323 00:18:05.079 --> 00:18:07.799 to remember about, you know, the double edged sword of 324 00:18:07.839 --> 00:18:11.000 doing too well in this territory in this era. Yes, 325 00:18:11.240 --> 00:18:13.240 just like we talked about the idea that Ron Fuller 326 00:18:13.240 --> 00:18:16.039 didn't want the photographers from the national wrestling magazines covering 327 00:18:16.039 --> 00:18:18.000 this stuff while we have such a dearth of pictures 328 00:18:18.039 --> 00:18:20.359 of Terry doing his thing down there. It's because that 329 00:18:20.400 --> 00:18:22.880 would spread national awareness of how much money they were 330 00:18:22.880 --> 00:18:25.920 actually making and cause all kinds of fucking headaches when 331 00:18:25.920 --> 00:18:27.880 people start adding up how much they should be owed, 332 00:18:28.200 --> 00:18:30.799 or their promoters start salivating at the prospect of stealing 333 00:18:30.880 --> 00:18:33.960 these wrestlers who are filling buildings in this sort of 334 00:18:34.000 --> 00:18:36.880 low key territory. And this is part and parcel. I 335 00:18:36.880 --> 00:18:39.039 think of that same psychology of like, yeah, we want 336 00:18:39.039 --> 00:18:41.480 to go big, but I mean Ron Fuller refers to 337 00:18:41.559 --> 00:18:43.519 it its podcast. It's always been the kiss of death 338 00:18:43.559 --> 00:18:45.920 to have a huge crowd and a new location like that. 339 00:18:46.119 --> 00:18:49.440 Can you imagine doing a crowd like that and the 340 00:18:49.480 --> 00:18:51.559 first way you choose to describe it is the kiss 341 00:18:51.640 --> 00:18:55.440 of death. Yes, I wonder hull Kgan doesn't remem this fondly, 342 00:18:55.480 --> 00:18:57.880 you know, you know, no wonder people didn't talk about 343 00:18:57.880 --> 00:19:00.759 this for years and years and years because all this 344 00:19:01.000 --> 00:19:04.839 intrigue swirling around, these wrestlers breaking off and running opposition, 345 00:19:05.359 --> 00:19:08.759 everyone bitching and covetching about the size of the crowd 346 00:19:08.799 --> 00:19:10.839 and if they're getting screwed in the payoff, alleging people 347 00:19:10.920 --> 00:19:14.960 skimming money off the gate. It's all this negative shit, 348 00:19:15.119 --> 00:19:18.480 you know. It's like everyone's succeeding despite themselves. And the 349 00:19:18.480 --> 00:19:21.160 second you do something really big, my god, do you 350 00:19:21.160 --> 00:19:23.599 have a headache on your hands? Right? He said? The 351 00:19:23.599 --> 00:19:25.559 wrestler's eyes get big when they see crowd like that, 352 00:19:26.039 --> 00:19:27.920 And so Ron trying to put this fire out, gets 353 00:19:28.039 --> 00:19:30.319 Charlie Platt and the phone and they ask himate how 354 00:19:30.319 --> 00:19:31.599 many people are on the field. It's one thing to 355 00:19:31.599 --> 00:19:33.119 say how many people are in the seats and the bleachers, 356 00:19:33.119 --> 00:19:35.559 how many people on the field, but four hundred, and 357 00:19:35.599 --> 00:19:37.200 they said that stadium would have been full if they 358 00:19:37.200 --> 00:19:41.440 were sitting out there. Gordon Soley actually came to the show, 359 00:19:41.559 --> 00:19:44.200 if you can believe that. Wow. Gordon Soley had done 360 00:19:44.200 --> 00:19:47.000 about a year on television in the territory, working side 361 00:19:47.000 --> 00:19:49.599 by side with Charlie Platt, kind of in an interregnant 362 00:19:49.599 --> 00:19:52.920 period before he became again the voice of a WTBS 363 00:19:52.960 --> 00:19:56.200 superstation wrestling for Georgia Championship, and he had presented Charlie 364 00:19:56.240 --> 00:19:58.279 Platt during the show with an award from the National 365 00:19:58.319 --> 00:20:02.079 Wrestling Alliance as the best new television wrestling commentator in America. 366 00:20:02.559 --> 00:20:05.000 So that was certainly a proud moment for Charlie Platt 367 00:20:05.039 --> 00:20:07.880 and one for the Alabama wrestling fans to remember fondly. 368 00:20:07.920 --> 00:20:09.839 It doesn't get any more through and through Alabama than 369 00:20:09.920 --> 00:20:12.160 Charlie Platt. He spent his whole life in that state 370 00:20:12.200 --> 00:20:16.000 and working in television and radio. So he was one 371 00:20:16.039 --> 00:20:17.720 of those you know, sort of like Dave Brown and 372 00:20:17.799 --> 00:20:21.400 Lance Russell and Memphis so many other examples Bob Coddles 373 00:20:21.440 --> 00:20:23.640 we talked about. These are people who were part of 374 00:20:23.640 --> 00:20:26.119 the community above and beyond the fact that they were 375 00:20:26.119 --> 00:20:29.440 the wrestling announcer part of the local news station, for example, 376 00:20:29.519 --> 00:20:31.680 or the local news radio station above and beyond the 377 00:20:31.680 --> 00:20:35.039 fact that they were wrestling announcers. And Ron Fuller says 378 00:20:35.039 --> 00:20:38.160 in his podcast This Night, Hogan Harley should have catapulted 379 00:20:38.160 --> 00:20:40.000 the territory into one of the best in the country. 380 00:20:40.160 --> 00:20:43.359 Should have caught us on fire. But instead this controversy 381 00:20:43.400 --> 00:20:46.480 over the size of the crowd did just the opposite. Yep, 382 00:20:46.680 --> 00:20:49.920 did just the opposite. What lessons being learned here? Boss? 383 00:20:49.920 --> 00:20:58.200 Do you think for a young Terry bolea browler, I 384 00:20:58.240 --> 00:21:00.480 don't know who to trust me more? Dude, right? I 385 00:21:00.519 --> 00:21:04.559 mean I filled this house too definitely not fill the house, 386 00:21:04.880 --> 00:21:06.559 but that I'm told I didn't fill a house, brother, 387 00:21:06.960 --> 00:21:11.400 and I filled the house too much, dude, or a 388 00:21:11.440 --> 00:21:13.640 stand brother. You want me to sell out, Dude, I 389 00:21:13.680 --> 00:21:19.880 sold out. That's a lot too much. Kind of freaked 390 00:21:19.920 --> 00:21:24.359 me out. Freaking me out as and felt this betrayed 391 00:21:24.359 --> 00:21:27.319 since Eddie Graham told him it was fake and that 392 00:21:27.359 --> 00:21:29.440 Matt Tudor broke his leg for no reason. I don't 393 00:21:29.480 --> 00:21:32.960 say any or or when Mike Graham did anything. I 394 00:21:33.039 --> 00:21:36.119 know hadn't been this betrayed since Mike Graham didn't call 395 00:21:36.200 --> 00:21:40.440 him on his birthday every year since nineteen sixty five. 396 00:21:42.519 --> 00:21:45.359 So yeah, fuller'sa's. Call after call came in from wrestlers 397 00:21:45.359 --> 00:21:47.839 after the show, all with the same complaint, and finally 398 00:21:48.079 --> 00:21:50.240 Ron just had to stop taking their calls around midnight 399 00:21:50.599 --> 00:21:54.279 because it's just getting so ridiculous. And Ron said, you know, 400 00:21:54.480 --> 00:21:56.200 looking back, I shouldn't have worked a wrestling show in 401 00:21:56.240 --> 00:21:58.759 Knoxville that night. I should have taken myself off that card, 402 00:21:59.039 --> 00:22:01.039 put the war to the side for a minute, and 403 00:22:01.079 --> 00:22:03.000 I could have been down there in person and Dothan 404 00:22:03.000 --> 00:22:05.119 and straightened a lot of this out instead of you 405 00:22:05.160 --> 00:22:06.839 know the fact that his absence seemed to make things 406 00:22:06.839 --> 00:22:09.480 even worse because nobody feels like they're talking to the 407 00:22:09.480 --> 00:22:11.240 person that can make it right. You know, they're just 408 00:22:11.279 --> 00:22:16.519 dealing with middlemen like Louis Tillette. Looking back round, Fuller 409 00:22:16.519 --> 00:22:19.240 simply said the Knoxville War cost him everything and that 410 00:22:19.359 --> 00:22:23.079 this match was the high point of Gulf Coast Wrestling, 411 00:22:24.160 --> 00:22:28.039 the Knoxville War, the Knoxville Five. That's right, but's a go. 412 00:22:29.480 --> 00:22:31.680 As for Harley, he would go on, He would go 413 00:22:31.720 --> 00:22:34.920 on to continue raining, I think we know this. Harley's 414 00:22:34.920 --> 00:22:36.960 got a ways to go before starr K eighty three 415 00:22:37.000 --> 00:22:40.759 when he really passes the torch. Here's how he looked 416 00:22:40.759 --> 00:22:43.599 and sounded. This is Harley late August, Okay, just a 417 00:22:43.640 --> 00:22:48.559 month after doing this match with Terry Bulla and Dothan Alabama, 418 00:22:48.640 --> 00:22:52.039 back with the Strap making the towns, including this promo 419 00:22:52.119 --> 00:22:55.160 that survives from nineteen seventy nine down in Houston for 420 00:22:55.200 --> 00:22:57.680 Paul Bosh, I think. 421 00:22:57.559 --> 00:22:58.440 He told you off. 422 00:23:00.559 --> 00:23:04.319 Telling somebody off and doing something about It's two different things. 423 00:23:04.400 --> 00:23:08.160 I happen to be World's heavyweight champion. You don't win 424 00:23:08.319 --> 00:23:11.880 this by garbage. You don't win this by standing here, 425 00:23:12.279 --> 00:23:15.400 running your big mouth and proving to everyone that you 426 00:23:15.519 --> 00:23:19.319 can talk louder than they can. The talk ends and 427 00:23:19.440 --> 00:23:23.119 the action begins in that squared circle. Now you get 428 00:23:23.279 --> 00:23:27.720 your big overstuff carcass in there anytime you feel fit, Daddy, 429 00:23:28.160 --> 00:23:31.440 because this is on the line to any living human 430 00:23:31.559 --> 00:23:34.440 being and wrestling. And I think you know what I'm 431 00:23:34.480 --> 00:23:38.319 talking about, mister Bosh. I just proved it all over again. 432 00:23:39.160 --> 00:23:44.000 I am now three times World's heavyweight champion, and I 433 00:23:44.039 --> 00:23:46.839 can truthfully say I can beat any man in the world, 434 00:23:46.920 --> 00:23:51.319 and that includes that big over stuffed water buffalo. 435 00:23:52.480 --> 00:23:54.880 Well, the over stuff to wall of the Buffalo. Evidently 436 00:23:55.039 --> 00:23:59.720 such a point on World's champion Harley Race. But it 437 00:23:59.799 --> 00:24:03.000 is true that Bruce of Brody is better than he's 438 00:24:03.000 --> 00:24:07.519 ever been. But Harley Race looks like he is in 439 00:24:07.960 --> 00:24:09.200 top condition right now. 440 00:24:09.640 --> 00:24:12.240 And of course coming off an angle where Bruiser Brodie 441 00:24:12.240 --> 00:24:14.079 called him out and they were working a program. But 442 00:24:14.160 --> 00:24:16.079 that's what Harley sounded like in seventy nine. That's some 443 00:24:16.240 --> 00:24:20.240 swag right there. Oh yeah, he's singing. He's wrapping the 444 00:24:20.240 --> 00:24:22.440 whole thing about being the top guy and the top dog. 445 00:24:23.880 --> 00:24:28.240 Right after just thinking back, thinking back to yes, the 446 00:24:28.279 --> 00:24:31.960 people that Terry Boleya may have rubbed the wrong way 447 00:24:32.119 --> 00:24:36.000 inadvertently coming up in Florida. Guess who got his ass 448 00:24:36.119 --> 00:24:40.319 right in line to work Harley for the championship after 449 00:24:40.680 --> 00:24:42.880 Terry Bowlea did this kind of business with Harley and 450 00:24:42.920 --> 00:24:45.839 doth And guess who all of a sudden was right 451 00:24:46.119 --> 00:24:53.279 at the front. Mike Graham, Dusty Rhodes. That all come 452 00:24:53.319 --> 00:24:57.759 on within a month, within a month and a half, 453 00:24:57.799 --> 00:25:01.240 within a month and a half of Hogan selling the 454 00:25:01.279 --> 00:25:05.359 show out with Harley, Dusty Rhodes defeats Harley Race to 455 00:25:05.359 --> 00:25:10.160 become NWA World Heavyweight Champion August twenty first, nineteen seventy nine, 456 00:25:10.160 --> 00:25:13.480 in Tampa, Florida for the first time. Baby, I'm going 457 00:25:13.480 --> 00:25:15.720 through around waiting, Daddy. I gotta get my I think 458 00:25:15.759 --> 00:25:17.519 ione else was doing some business. Baby, I gotta take 459 00:25:17.519 --> 00:25:19.559 care of bet to my fail you say, oh, don't 460 00:25:19.559 --> 00:25:22.599 overextraplate that. That's ridiculous. It was just his time the rate. 461 00:25:22.720 --> 00:25:25.119 No yet he lost the belt five days later. Back 462 00:25:25.160 --> 00:25:32.200 to Harley's Oh, Dustin's I refuse to not connect those 463 00:25:32.240 --> 00:25:36.160 dots because Dusty sent You know, Dusty was pretty much 464 00:25:36.200 --> 00:25:38.440 running the territory with Mike Graham. I'm part of me, 465 00:25:38.519 --> 00:25:41.160 Eddie Graham. They sent Jack and Jerry Briscoe to that show. 466 00:25:41.640 --> 00:25:46.960 They worked underneath Hartley versus Rays, Hartley versus bolea Boulder. 467 00:25:48.160 --> 00:25:51.920 Can't claim they didn't know, can't claim Dusty didn't know 468 00:25:51.960 --> 00:25:54.200 that Terry was doing this kind of business. Here's maybe 469 00:25:54.200 --> 00:25:56.680 some reconnaissance. Maybe the brisk Goes engaged in some kind 470 00:25:56.720 --> 00:25:59.799 of reconnaissance, maybe engaged in some kind of you know, 471 00:26:00.400 --> 00:26:04.400 retroactive you know, damage control around letting this guy slip 472 00:26:04.400 --> 00:26:06.440 through their fingers in seventy seven. I don't know. I'm 473 00:26:06.480 --> 00:26:07.880 just thinking out loud here, boss. 474 00:26:09.000 --> 00:26:11.559 I mean, look that they knew what they had though, 475 00:26:11.799 --> 00:26:14.640 you know they knew what they had. What it is, yeah, 476 00:26:14.759 --> 00:26:18.920 you know, they just they you know, they're just just 477 00:26:18.960 --> 00:26:21.079 a coincidence, is what it is. It's not there's no 478 00:26:21.359 --> 00:26:22.960 all right, I'm glad you know what, Why are you 479 00:26:22.960 --> 00:26:23.960 putting conspiracy theory? 480 00:26:24.079 --> 00:26:26.160 It's not conspiracy theory. I'm just glad you reached the 481 00:26:26.200 --> 00:26:30.000 reasonable conclusion. It's just a it's just a happenstance. And 482 00:26:30.519 --> 00:26:33.160 you know, and and and you know, Dusty, it was 483 00:26:33.200 --> 00:26:36.880 it was just time, you know, for five for five days. 484 00:26:37.119 --> 00:26:38.880 Well you got to get that first time, and you 485 00:26:38.920 --> 00:26:42.480 know that's what matters. Just get that first time in 486 00:26:42.559 --> 00:26:45.759 the bag. Talk to me, Talk to me, daddy. How 487 00:26:45.799 --> 00:26:48.519 did they do down in and Well, I'll tell you, gosh, 488 00:26:48.559 --> 00:26:51.200 I really was. I couldn't believe it. I mean this 489 00:26:51.400 --> 00:26:57.279 Tury Bowley and we had come through this stadium like 490 00:26:57.359 --> 00:26:59.559 I hadn't seen. The people were up. They wanted to 491 00:26:59.599 --> 00:27:04.160 see a being Harley. I couldn't believe it, Dusty, I 492 00:27:04.240 --> 00:27:06.039 gotta tell you, wait, wait, what do you think the 493 00:27:06.640 --> 00:27:12.359 bull thought? I was saying, Daddy with his who he is? 494 00:27:12.519 --> 00:27:16.079 I mean you he didn't hesitate to make sure he 495 00:27:16.200 --> 00:27:20.319 never worked the Armory. There has truly Armory Wall. Then 496 00:27:20.440 --> 00:27:24.839 fucking Jimmy Stewing on the phone, Jimmy stew what are 497 00:27:24.839 --> 00:27:27.119 you doing on the phone, baby, I'll be talking about 498 00:27:27.119 --> 00:27:31.079 the Brith Goes. Daddy, I'm asking you to elevate your 499 00:27:31.160 --> 00:27:34.519 game and do a Dusty that's passive aggressive about Terry 500 00:27:34.559 --> 00:27:38.079 Boley doing this kind of business and making his way 501 00:27:38.240 --> 00:27:39.759 to negotiating a world title run. 502 00:27:40.160 --> 00:27:41.720 Well, I just got you know, if I'm the daddy, 503 00:27:41.759 --> 00:27:44.799 he's the thing, baby, but the Terry Bully if he 504 00:27:44.920 --> 00:27:46.720 hits the problem with Terry Boulet. You know what I'm saying, 505 00:27:47.119 --> 00:27:48.599 the thing if you see what he's trying to do, 506 00:27:48.759 --> 00:27:51.000 he's trying to take things to a different level. Baby, 507 00:27:51.000 --> 00:27:53.799 that we're not that that that that that's going outside 508 00:27:54.440 --> 00:27:54.920 n w A. 509 00:27:56.000 --> 00:27:59.759 You see what I'm saying. It's a it's a territor. 510 00:28:00.079 --> 00:28:00.359 It does. 511 00:28:01.279 --> 00:28:04.440 But what he did it he's taking under the own hands, Baby, 512 00:28:04.759 --> 00:28:07.240 that he wants to take that belt and take out NBA, 513 00:28:07.359 --> 00:28:11.279 make it own Terry Bowley promotion. Baby, trying to do Daddy, 514 00:28:12.319 --> 00:28:14.880 he's turned with the t B A all right, baby, 515 00:28:15.000 --> 00:28:22.960 Terry Bowl affociations. All right, So the baby, I gotta 516 00:28:23.079 --> 00:28:25.279 we gotta play it faith, Baby, we gotta play it faith. 517 00:28:25.319 --> 00:28:27.319 And I'm telling you right now, the best way we 518 00:28:27.440 --> 00:28:30.519 do things, okay, the best way we do things right now, 519 00:28:30.839 --> 00:28:33.079 we give people what they want, the American Bean broth 520 00:28:33.160 --> 00:28:36.519 the road, NWA World Heavyweight Champion. Your only thing at 521 00:28:36.519 --> 00:28:38.400 the time is now to call our favor in a 522 00:28:38.440 --> 00:28:42.119 barnette of all time. Now, I'm just saying, daddy, because 523 00:28:42.119 --> 00:28:44.640 you look, you look, baby, I'm concerned about the NBA. 524 00:28:45.680 --> 00:28:48.640 You consider out the NBA. We got Terry Bowley doing 525 00:28:48.759 --> 00:28:51.720 things that ain't never been done before because they shouldn't 526 00:28:51.759 --> 00:28:54.480 be done, right, Why why not? Why shouldn't they be done? 527 00:28:54.880 --> 00:29:00.680 Because Daddy, he's he's breaking traditional. Baby, Well about NBA, 528 00:29:00.920 --> 00:29:04.880 it's all about tradition, and that's not that we can Yes, 529 00:29:04.960 --> 00:29:07.960 we can evolve tradition, Baby, New traditions come and go 530 00:29:08.319 --> 00:29:11.119 every Christmas. There's a new tradition in the road. Half, Baby, 531 00:29:11.279 --> 00:29:15.079 that's what happened. But the thing is deaddy when don't 532 00:29:15.279 --> 00:29:17.359 break ranks like. 533 00:29:17.519 --> 00:29:24.960 Terry Boley, because pretty soon it's not gonna be the 534 00:29:25.119 --> 00:29:29.920 NWA Championship, It's gonna be the Terry Ballet Championship. 535 00:29:31.960 --> 00:29:35.000 The TBA Championship by t BD is more like it. 536 00:29:37.519 --> 00:29:40.400 I can't. I mean, the Dream immediately plugs himself in, 537 00:29:40.720 --> 00:29:44.759 immediately pulls rank Oh and gets the strap. I'm sorry, 538 00:29:44.960 --> 00:29:46.359 I just have to connect the dots. 539 00:29:46.400 --> 00:29:46.799 I have to. 540 00:29:47.279 --> 00:29:50.920 That's tremendous. I mean, that is absolutely I mean, listen, 541 00:29:51.680 --> 00:29:54.039 you think about you think about Dusty at that time, right, 542 00:29:54.759 --> 00:29:57.799 and that's what he was all about. He was all about, 543 00:29:58.599 --> 00:30:03.319 you know, taking advantage of that kind of stuff. He 544 00:30:03.519 --> 00:30:07.799 was he was all about getting ahead of somebody else 545 00:30:07.839 --> 00:30:10.640 that might become the top babyface. Yes, you know, and 546 00:30:10.759 --> 00:30:13.519 that's that's survival instinct and wrestling. But he was you know, 547 00:30:13.599 --> 00:30:16.880 especially you know Crocket Television. The country saw it in 548 00:30:17.000 --> 00:30:20.279 late eighties, mid to late eighties, particularly mid eighties when 549 00:30:20.519 --> 00:30:22.759 when Flair started to become more popular in those TBS 550 00:30:22.759 --> 00:30:25.119 studios than him, and he was a fucking basket case. 551 00:30:25.160 --> 00:30:28.960 He didn't know what to do when people we were 552 00:30:29.319 --> 00:30:33.720 cheering the flash right and the heeled mannerisms of Flair, 553 00:30:33.759 --> 00:30:37.119 and he starts, Dusty starts desperately wearing like fur coats 554 00:30:37.160 --> 00:30:40.839 on TBS, like mink fur coat to try to like 555 00:30:40.960 --> 00:30:43.559 out out glisten Ric Flair when he's supposed to be, 556 00:30:44.279 --> 00:30:48.599 you know, when the straight bunk house cowboy, you know, 557 00:30:48.759 --> 00:30:51.920 counter image to Ric Flair's playboy image, was supposed to 558 00:30:51.960 --> 00:30:53.279 be his whole bread and butter, and now here he 559 00:30:53.480 --> 00:30:57.119 is trying to wear like Louis Vuitton bags on TBS. 560 00:30:57.200 --> 00:31:01.440 It's too mud so so Dusty wasn't the only one 561 00:31:01.440 --> 00:31:03.200 that Terry Bullay is starting to leave in the dust. 562 00:31:03.279 --> 00:31:06.359 Back in Florida. We cannot forget that Bob Rup, who 563 00:31:06.400 --> 00:31:08.440 were on Fuller would say is the architect of this 564 00:31:08.480 --> 00:31:11.599 whole Knoxville exodus, even though you know, Ronnie Garvin was 565 00:31:11.720 --> 00:31:14.039 was double the star. Roup was in the area and 566 00:31:14.119 --> 00:31:17.400 in fact held Ron Fuller's belt. Ron Fuller later sued 567 00:31:17.480 --> 00:31:20.480 Ronnie Garvin to get back possession of the Southeastern Championship 568 00:31:20.480 --> 00:31:22.519 belt that he had. We'll have some fun with that 569 00:31:22.559 --> 00:31:26.599 a little later. But but Bob Roup too, and certainly 570 00:31:26.680 --> 00:31:28.960 it's going to be difficult for Hope to stick around. 571 00:31:29.119 --> 00:31:30.839 He you know, is he gonna go? Does he have 572 00:31:30.920 --> 00:31:36.119 any loyalty, any affinity for for Bob Rup, who was 573 00:31:36.200 --> 00:31:39.319 who was certainly around then a top guys in terms 574 00:31:39.319 --> 00:31:40.759 of a shooter and a trainer as well as a 575 00:31:40.799 --> 00:31:42.720 wrestler in Florida when he first started to break in. 576 00:31:42.839 --> 00:31:46.039 I don't know, I mean, fortunately for us, mister Rup 577 00:31:46.119 --> 00:31:49.240 not too long ago started podcast The Wrestling Stoop, and 578 00:31:50.200 --> 00:31:53.119 I would like to play now for you. Wrestling Stoop 579 00:31:53.240 --> 00:31:59.799 correct his recollection looking back on first encountering Terry bully 580 00:32:00.519 --> 00:32:03.279 Uh and how it all ended up as it regards 581 00:32:03.319 --> 00:32:07.240 their relationship and why let's say Knoxville was not was 582 00:32:07.319 --> 00:32:10.559 not going to be Terry Bullay's choice over Ron Fuller, 583 00:32:11.359 --> 00:32:14.440 and why pretty much skipping town uh seemed probably like 584 00:32:14.519 --> 00:32:17.279 the best decision for him during this promotional war. 585 00:32:17.920 --> 00:32:20.160 So one day I came out, I was getting ready 586 00:32:20.160 --> 00:32:23.359 to leave, and Uh, this guy, this big bond guy 587 00:32:23.519 --> 00:32:27.119 with long hair and wearing a tank top and beds, 588 00:32:27.279 --> 00:32:30.599 had a necklace of bees and bes do his wrists 589 00:32:30.640 --> 00:32:34.160 and came right up to my car and uh knocked 590 00:32:34.200 --> 00:32:36.079 on the window. I put my wonder down and says, 591 00:32:36.519 --> 00:32:39.119 hey man, he says, I'm going to be I'm going 592 00:32:39.200 --> 00:32:41.000 to be here Tuesday to work out with you. Yeah. 593 00:32:41.039 --> 00:32:43.880 I just talked to Eddie Graham. He's gonna he's gonna 594 00:32:43.880 --> 00:32:47.440 have me work out with you. And uh, uh I said, okay, 595 00:32:47.720 --> 00:32:51.720 uh yeah, I said, I have an idea that let me. 596 00:32:51.920 --> 00:32:53.680 Let me get back to you on that hang around 597 00:32:53.720 --> 00:32:56.880 here a minute. So I went back inside. I asked 598 00:32:57.000 --> 00:32:59.680 Eddie about it. I said, what's that about? And h 599 00:32:59.720 --> 00:33:03.000 He's said yeah, he said that guys are hippie. He said, uh, 600 00:33:04.039 --> 00:33:06.480 hair and everything. He said. I hate him. He said, h, 601 00:33:07.440 --> 00:33:08.880 you know, I want you to I want you to 602 00:33:08.960 --> 00:33:13.039 stress him. So uh, okay, I went back. 603 00:33:13.200 --> 00:33:13.759 I went back. 604 00:33:13.839 --> 00:33:16.759 I told Terry he had addition himself as Terry Boulet. 605 00:33:17.440 --> 00:33:19.519 I said, hey, uh, I just checked. 606 00:33:20.640 --> 00:33:20.799 Oh. 607 00:33:21.039 --> 00:33:24.160 He wants me to do is discourage you. He's not 608 00:33:24.279 --> 00:33:25.920 ready to give you a break of any kind. He 609 00:33:25.960 --> 00:33:27.599 wants me to stress the hell out of you. I said, 610 00:33:27.599 --> 00:33:29.720 I'm not going to be here, so if you come 611 00:33:29.839 --> 00:33:32.839 down here, I'm not going to be here. Well, he 612 00:33:32.920 --> 00:33:35.920 seemed to appreciate that he was working at Terry Dad. 613 00:33:35.960 --> 00:33:38.799 He was working in a band. He was a bass 614 00:33:38.880 --> 00:33:41.680 player in a band, and he was working there in 615 00:33:41.799 --> 00:33:46.119 Tampa at the time. And and over the next couple 616 00:33:46.160 --> 00:33:50.119 of weeks, I actually went h once. I went by myself. 617 00:33:50.200 --> 00:33:53.920 Another time I took my girlfriend and later became my wife, 618 00:33:53.960 --> 00:33:56.200 and we went out and listened to him play, and 619 00:33:56.480 --> 00:33:59.759 we danced a few times to his music. Another time 620 00:33:59.839 --> 00:34:03.119 he played in Sarasota, I went out there on a 621 00:34:03.319 --> 00:34:05.839 weekend night that we were we weren't wrestling. I went 622 00:34:05.880 --> 00:34:08.079 out and listened to him play. So, you know, I 623 00:34:08.679 --> 00:34:12.079 had some little association with him, and then I left. 624 00:34:12.559 --> 00:34:15.159 When I left Florida a few years later. A couple 625 00:34:15.280 --> 00:34:18.719 three years later, he had been broken into the business. Uh, 626 00:34:18.960 --> 00:34:22.920 and I was working. I was booking in Knoxville. I 627 00:34:23.039 --> 00:34:25.440 got a call from a guy named Terry Gibbs who 628 00:34:25.480 --> 00:34:26.159 had worked for me. 629 00:34:26.199 --> 00:34:28.000 And I used to talk to Terry a lot in 630 00:34:28.039 --> 00:34:29.840 the late nineties, right. 631 00:34:30.519 --> 00:34:34.320 And Terry called me and he says, hey, Bob, He said, uh, Terry, 632 00:34:34.800 --> 00:34:38.559 Terry Bully is looking for work. He said, he's been 633 00:34:38.599 --> 00:34:40.559 working out. He took a year off. He's been working 634 00:34:40.599 --> 00:34:43.719 out with the waist. He's enormous, you know, he's amongers. 635 00:34:43.719 --> 00:34:46.199 Said he look great. He said, can you book him? 636 00:34:46.840 --> 00:34:51.000 And I said no, I said, Terry, Uh, I said, Now, 637 00:34:51.119 --> 00:34:53.679 Terry was down in Tampa at the time. He took 638 00:34:53.679 --> 00:34:56.239 a week off. I said, Terry, do you want me 639 00:34:56.360 --> 00:34:58.239 to do you want me to give you your notice? 640 00:34:58.880 --> 00:35:02.880 He said, know, why would you do that. The only 641 00:35:02.960 --> 00:35:04.840 way I can hire somebody else is I have to 642 00:35:04.960 --> 00:35:07.800 get rid of somebody. I said, we don't have any 643 00:35:07.840 --> 00:35:10.840 wrestlers on it our programmed that don't work every night, 644 00:35:11.679 --> 00:35:15.440 so you know, if you want to, I don't have 645 00:35:15.599 --> 00:35:18.000 room for him, I says. What I'll try to do, though, 646 00:35:18.679 --> 00:35:23.280 Louis to Leette was booking pasta Cola, and so I said, 647 00:35:23.320 --> 00:35:26.800 what I'll do is I'll call Louis and see if 648 00:35:26.880 --> 00:35:29.199 Louis can get a man down there. And I did 649 00:35:29.280 --> 00:35:31.880 call Louis. I told him about him. Then apparently I'm 650 00:35:31.960 --> 00:35:34.639 not sure, but I think that he actually worked there 651 00:35:34.719 --> 00:35:35.199 for Louis. 652 00:35:36.079 --> 00:35:39.159 So Barbara doesn't even know while he's doing what he's 653 00:35:39.199 --> 00:35:43.079 doing in Knoxville that Terry Bulay, this guy he remembers, 654 00:35:43.440 --> 00:35:46.519 you know, showing mercy to when Eddie Graham wanted to 655 00:35:46.880 --> 00:35:49.440 stretch this hippie out of the business. Is not only 656 00:35:49.519 --> 00:35:51.199 working for Louis to Lett on the other side of 657 00:35:51.280 --> 00:35:55.199 Ron Fuller's territorial map, but he's also fucking wrestling Harley 658 00:35:55.280 --> 00:35:57.280 Race for the world title. And Barbrup has no idea. 659 00:36:00.119 --> 00:36:03.039 He didn't even know that Louis to Lay took him on. 660 00:36:03.239 --> 00:36:05.800 So that's even that's even more dramatic that people even 661 00:36:05.840 --> 00:36:09.320 within the business didn't know necessarily what Terry Bullay was doing. 662 00:36:09.920 --> 00:36:12.280 It's wild. So add that to the soup of the 663 00:36:12.320 --> 00:36:15.079 origin stories of how Terry ended up down there. You know, 664 00:36:15.960 --> 00:36:19.000 apparently Bob Rup was offered first DIBs with Terry Gibbs, 665 00:36:19.039 --> 00:36:22.639 of all people, being the intermediary that was, you know, 666 00:36:22.760 --> 00:36:25.000 testing the waters to see if Rupe might book this guy. 667 00:36:25.480 --> 00:36:28.679 And and no, he didn't really have a spot. And 668 00:36:28.800 --> 00:36:31.719 so he according to Bob Roup, I mean, he doesn't 669 00:36:31.760 --> 00:36:33.280 like pat himself on the back for this, So I 670 00:36:33.320 --> 00:36:35.239 feel like he kind of probably is telling the truth 671 00:36:35.239 --> 00:36:36.840 because I don't think he realized the significance of this. 672 00:36:37.079 --> 00:36:38.960 He doesn't know what Terry Blay did in the territory. 673 00:36:39.320 --> 00:36:44.000 He ends up referring Bolea instead to Louis Tillette, Hogan 674 00:36:44.079 --> 00:36:46.239 has mentioned. In prior episodes of The Khalet Hulk, Cogan 675 00:36:46.280 --> 00:36:49.159 and his book gives credit to superstar Billy Graham for 676 00:36:49.320 --> 00:36:52.360 the referral. Other times it seems to be Bob Orton 677 00:36:52.400 --> 00:36:53.960 that had something to do with it, or Bob Rup, 678 00:36:54.320 --> 00:36:57.159 I think, if I remember correctly from that episode, Ed 679 00:36:57.239 --> 00:36:59.760 Leslie in his book does give credit to to Bob 680 00:36:59.840 --> 00:37:02.480 Rupe in some way for making the connection, But I 681 00:37:02.559 --> 00:37:05.599 mean that's wrestling, man. Like you're just when someone becomes 682 00:37:05.599 --> 00:37:07.719 a big enough deal that everyone's going to ask you 683 00:37:08.000 --> 00:37:11.079 about them for years and years and years, you end 684 00:37:11.159 --> 00:37:14.039 up concocting a story that's probably sixty percent the truth, 685 00:37:14.119 --> 00:37:16.239 that you repeat so often that you forget where you 686 00:37:16.320 --> 00:37:18.800 took liberties with the truth. Just put yourself, you know, 687 00:37:18.920 --> 00:37:22.480 kind of in a position to not, like we talked 688 00:37:22.480 --> 00:37:24.800 about with Jerry Briscoe, to not be seen as someone 689 00:37:24.840 --> 00:37:29.760 who missed this, can't miss starr And so it's so crazy. Yeah, 690 00:37:30.760 --> 00:37:34.000 that's first frustrating. It's like it is you think Terry's 691 00:37:34.000 --> 00:37:37.360 the only one fabricating things. Fabricating is a strong word, 692 00:37:37.400 --> 00:37:39.360 but you know, just not caring enough to remember like 693 00:37:40.119 --> 00:37:42.719 who called who first? Because at the time he's a nobody, 694 00:37:42.880 --> 00:37:44.800 you know, why would you remember it. But now that 695 00:37:44.920 --> 00:37:48.320 he's so big, you're being asked about him so many times, 696 00:37:49.000 --> 00:37:51.519 and the truth is you weren't paying anywhere near enough 697 00:37:51.559 --> 00:37:54.159 attention to recall the precise details because he wasn't a 698 00:37:54.159 --> 00:37:57.039 big enough deal, right, So we're stuck with these stories 699 00:37:57.079 --> 00:37:59.400 that contradict each other about who called who first, but 700 00:38:00.119 --> 00:38:01.920 it's possible. It's no different than when you did under 701 00:38:01.920 --> 00:38:04.199 the cinemat for Rocky three, right, And it's like who 702 00:38:04.320 --> 00:38:07.880 actually gave Hogan the fucking phone call to come to be. 703 00:38:07.960 --> 00:38:09.840 On the movie exactly? And not only that, but everyone 704 00:38:09.840 --> 00:38:11.840 else said they were going to be in the movie first. Right, 705 00:38:12.559 --> 00:38:15.840 you know there's all that, Yeah, exactly. Everyone wants to 706 00:38:15.880 --> 00:38:17.760 take credit and everyone wants to have been there first. 707 00:38:18.320 --> 00:38:20.320 Well, since we're here, I mean, let's get Bob RUP's 708 00:38:20.360 --> 00:38:22.519 perspective on the whole hero matsuita thing. He was one 709 00:38:22.639 --> 00:38:26.000 voice that we didn't really include in what happened between 710 00:38:26.039 --> 00:38:28.639 Hogan and Metsuda, and Rupe has an interesting angle on 711 00:38:28.719 --> 00:38:30.599 it because he was somebody that did He gramm used 712 00:38:30.639 --> 00:38:33.360 in much the same way to try to discourage people 713 00:38:33.400 --> 00:38:35.199 they didn't think would have the heart to respect the 714 00:38:35.239 --> 00:38:38.239 business from coming back and trying more. And I think 715 00:38:38.280 --> 00:38:40.639 Bob Roop as a shooter, as a high level Olympic 716 00:38:40.719 --> 00:38:43.440 caliber wrestler in his own right, has a pretty interesting 717 00:38:43.519 --> 00:38:47.079 perspective on why you would do something like this to 718 00:38:47.239 --> 00:38:49.119 a young wrestler or a young hopeful. 719 00:38:49.840 --> 00:38:53.320 Right, Well, the one about Hu Boll Terry, whatever you 720 00:38:53.400 --> 00:38:55.119 want to call it. And he didn't come back right away. 721 00:38:55.239 --> 00:38:58.639 He stayed. He smartened up. He realized they weren't you know, 722 00:38:59.199 --> 00:39:02.840 he wasn't, so he came back later. But that ankle thing, 723 00:39:03.039 --> 00:39:06.280 that ankle thing that the Hero did with him, he 724 00:39:06.400 --> 00:39:08.880 did it with me too, the first thing, the first 725 00:39:08.920 --> 00:39:11.679 time we worked out. Uh, he did it with me 726 00:39:11.880 --> 00:39:15.480 and I where I'm down in the referee position, where 727 00:39:15.519 --> 00:39:17.840 I'm on my knees and my hands on the mat 728 00:39:18.039 --> 00:39:22.320 like it's an amateur U referee posis and it's called 729 00:39:22.360 --> 00:39:25.679 and Hero stood behind me. And then one when he 730 00:39:25.960 --> 00:39:27.760 to go, he dropped his knee on the back of 731 00:39:27.840 --> 00:39:31.000 my ankle, like on the Achilles tendon, which the bat 732 00:39:31.079 --> 00:39:34.239 in itself could have break the Killes tendon. Then what 733 00:39:34.400 --> 00:39:37.280 I turned sideways with it because in wrestling, one thing 734 00:39:37.360 --> 00:39:39.360 you learned to do is you go, you know, you 735 00:39:39.480 --> 00:39:41.360 go with the pressure. You don't go against it, you 736 00:39:41.480 --> 00:39:44.199 go with it. So I had I turned so they 737 00:39:44.280 --> 00:39:47.599 didn't hurt my ankle. He reached down, I grabbed my toe. Well, 738 00:39:47.639 --> 00:39:49.679 I had turned to facing by this time, I mean 739 00:39:49.800 --> 00:39:53.199 the face backwards. My body was between us. But he 740 00:39:53.320 --> 00:39:55.320 was close enough, I reached out and grabbed his hair. 741 00:39:55.960 --> 00:39:58.639 I struck my thumb on his eye and I didn't 742 00:39:58.679 --> 00:40:01.079 press hard, but I him know, if you fall up 743 00:40:01.119 --> 00:40:03.840 a mincle, you're going to have a different outlook, and 744 00:40:03.920 --> 00:40:05.360 at a very near future, if you're going to have 745 00:40:05.440 --> 00:40:08.800 a very different outlook on things. And he let go 746 00:40:08.920 --> 00:40:12.119 immediately and within five seconds he started teaching me how 747 00:40:12.159 --> 00:40:15.639 to hook. That was the last thing that he ever tried. 748 00:40:15.800 --> 00:40:19.000 That was that was like initiation, and that's what he 749 00:40:19.079 --> 00:40:21.599 did to hook and see if he could defend himself. Okay, 750 00:40:21.719 --> 00:40:24.840 and he couldn't. If you know how to defend yourself 751 00:40:24.880 --> 00:40:27.559 at all, you know how to avoid that when when 752 00:40:27.599 --> 00:40:29.639 they do that, you know what to do. If you 753 00:40:29.719 --> 00:40:32.559 don't know how to defend yourself, well then you get hurt. 754 00:40:33.119 --> 00:40:36.639 And so that's what the test was. Also there's another 755 00:40:36.760 --> 00:40:39.559 part to it. Terry had no value to them at 756 00:40:39.599 --> 00:40:42.679 the time. You know, they know they had a lot 757 00:40:42.719 --> 00:40:45.360 of big muscular guys that never did, you know, never 758 00:40:45.480 --> 00:40:48.880 did anything. But what is another test to see if 759 00:40:48.920 --> 00:40:52.159 he was hurt, will he come back? And so that 760 00:40:52.360 --> 00:40:55.199 was it was like a double test. Can you defend himself? 761 00:40:55.320 --> 00:40:57.559 And if he can't, if you want to come back 762 00:40:57.639 --> 00:40:59.079 and learn how to defend himself. 763 00:40:59.119 --> 00:41:01.199 And that's what was going That's what was going on. 764 00:41:01.960 --> 00:41:04.280 He's wrestling podcast. 765 00:41:28.000 --> 00:41:31.920 He's the Lapsed Fan Wrestling podcast with Jack and Carno, 766 00:41:32.519 --> 00:41:33.320 JP Soro. 767 00:41:33.880 --> 00:41:35.679 And as big as he was in seventy seven or 768 00:41:35.719 --> 00:41:37.679 seventy six, whatever we're talking about, he was nowhere near 769 00:41:37.760 --> 00:41:40.239 as big as he would be by the time. You know, 770 00:41:40.400 --> 00:41:42.599 Ron Fuller and Louis Tillette can't deny that this guy. 771 00:41:42.920 --> 00:41:44.280 You got to put this guy in front of people. 772 00:41:44.360 --> 00:41:48.239 Look at the size of this motherfucker. Yeah. Right, of course. 773 00:41:48.480 --> 00:41:52.000 It's about the Royds, brother, It's about the Royds, way 774 00:41:52.039 --> 00:41:55.039 before Vince McMahon Junior decided that this is what a 775 00:41:55.039 --> 00:41:59.039 wrestler looks like. A brother, I never did Royds, dude, 776 00:41:59.519 --> 00:42:03.719 I've never. I don't abuse steroids. I don't do steroids 777 00:42:04.039 --> 00:42:07.559 deal currently. I don't deal steroids. I certainly don't. I 778 00:42:07.639 --> 00:42:13.400 certainly don't inject steroids. You bock to seven a corner 779 00:42:13.440 --> 00:42:17.199 on that one, man, What I do? How do you 780 00:42:17.239 --> 00:42:20.119 take them? Then? If you don't inject them? What eat? 781 00:42:20.199 --> 00:42:25.000 I don't do them? So how could I What are 782 00:42:25.039 --> 00:42:27.760 you saying? Brother? Well, I'm saying Plan B. I'm saying 783 00:42:27.840 --> 00:42:30.320 since last time we were with you, when we talked 784 00:42:30.320 --> 00:42:32.519 about the Plan B tape, I hope that's still ringing 785 00:42:32.559 --> 00:42:34.920 in your head, as they call the business fraud, and 786 00:42:34.960 --> 00:42:39.119 it's been bringing my head every everything you fucking played it. 787 00:42:39.719 --> 00:42:41.480 She can't believe your ears when you when you hear it. 788 00:42:41.519 --> 00:42:43.920 It's like when they say when they say that, I like, 789 00:42:44.079 --> 00:42:48.320 I've never been in a in a legitimate match. Everything 790 00:42:48.360 --> 00:42:51.639 that I've done has been fraudulent. So good it's it's 791 00:42:51.800 --> 00:42:57.039 it's absolutely it's it's amazing. It's absolutely amazing. A little 792 00:42:57.079 --> 00:42:59.519 more color on that from Bob Roops podcast in terms 793 00:42:59.519 --> 00:43:02.480 of explaining why they did that, which I didn't really 794 00:43:02.480 --> 00:43:05.440 appreciate it first. So this isn't something that they're doing 795 00:43:05.519 --> 00:43:09.480 to counteract Ron Fuller stopping them from going independent like 796 00:43:09.519 --> 00:43:11.559 a sort of damicles. This was a little later. This 797 00:43:11.679 --> 00:43:14.880 is like nineteen eighty and they did this because the 798 00:43:15.039 --> 00:43:18.360 NWA had marshaled so many resources to crush them when 799 00:43:18.400 --> 00:43:21.039 they try to run their shows, you know, bringing in 800 00:43:21.480 --> 00:43:24.360 big time star power from around the country to do 801 00:43:24.519 --> 00:43:27.199 shows on the same night in the same city that 802 00:43:27.639 --> 00:43:30.719 Bob RUP's Upstart group was trying to run and just 803 00:43:30.960 --> 00:43:33.239 doing all kinds of things to fuck with them that 804 00:43:33.400 --> 00:43:35.719 they thought, according to Bob Rupe, that doing a tape 805 00:43:35.800 --> 00:43:38.039 like this was almost like a last ditch effort, like 806 00:43:38.119 --> 00:43:41.119 the last bit of leverage they possibly could have to 807 00:43:41.239 --> 00:43:44.400 stop the NWA power structure from fucking with them, you know, 808 00:43:44.559 --> 00:43:46.800 like maybe, if worse comes to worse, if we tell 809 00:43:46.840 --> 00:43:49.199 them there's a tape where we all say it's vague 810 00:43:49.199 --> 00:43:51.400 and when give it to the news, you'll back off 811 00:43:51.480 --> 00:43:54.280 and let us actually try to survive here running our 812 00:43:54.320 --> 00:43:58.000 own wrestling operation. It didn't happen, but was That was 813 00:43:58.079 --> 00:44:00.320 the mentality of the tape was they were all ready 814 00:44:00.920 --> 00:44:03.960 on an island. These guys had already failed in their 815 00:44:03.960 --> 00:44:07.199 attempt to break off and run opposition, so it doesn't 816 00:44:07.239 --> 00:44:10.079 mean the battle is over in the court room. However, 817 00:44:10.280 --> 00:44:14.920 of course, this goes well beyond Terry Bolea departing the 818 00:44:14.960 --> 00:44:19.360 Gulf Coast, but eventually, if you can believe it, Ron 819 00:44:19.440 --> 00:44:22.639 Fuller sues Ronnie Garvin over a lot of the fallout 820 00:44:22.679 --> 00:44:25.840 from this, including the fact that ron Garvin had taken 821 00:44:25.880 --> 00:44:28.280 that the Southeastern Belt is mentioned, and also the idea 822 00:44:29.239 --> 00:44:30.960 it's so convoluted and We don't need to get into 823 00:44:30.960 --> 00:44:32.679 all of it because it has nothing to do with bolea, 824 00:44:32.760 --> 00:44:36.559 but it's just too delicious that basically, like Ronnie Garvin 825 00:44:36.639 --> 00:44:40.639 wanted money to buy another boat, and so concocted a 826 00:44:40.719 --> 00:44:43.719 thing where they did like a the winner of a 827 00:44:43.800 --> 00:44:46.199 television tournament they used to call it the Bayliner Boat 828 00:44:46.280 --> 00:44:49.519 tournaments would win a boat, and he's booked to win it, 829 00:44:50.079 --> 00:44:53.559 and Fuller is in court having to testify about predetermining 830 00:44:53.599 --> 00:44:55.800 the matches. Ron Garvin used to like to tell a 831 00:44:55.880 --> 00:44:58.760 story that Fuller, you know, basically let him win the 832 00:44:58.880 --> 00:45:01.519 case and go home with the be yeah, because he 833 00:45:01.519 --> 00:45:04.199 didn't want to admit in court that wrestling was fake. Meanwhile, 834 00:45:05.760 --> 00:45:08.679 there's a great book out there called Professional Wrestling in 835 00:45:08.719 --> 00:45:10.639 the Law, Legal Battles from the ring to the courtroom 836 00:45:10.679 --> 00:45:13.320 where he pulled the filings, and Ron Fuller is totally 837 00:45:13.400 --> 00:45:15.960 in court saying that it was completely predetermined and that 838 00:45:16.400 --> 00:45:18.400 Ron Governor was booked to win the whole thing. But 839 00:45:20.199 --> 00:45:21.920 I just want to give you a little flavor because 840 00:45:21.960 --> 00:45:23.880 this is sort of like the fumes of all of 841 00:45:24.000 --> 00:45:26.440 this intrigue that's happening while Terry Bullay is in the 842 00:45:26.519 --> 00:45:30.320 territory up in Knoxville, and this is like, this is 843 00:45:30.360 --> 00:45:32.519 sort of like a whiff of the absurd end it 844 00:45:32.599 --> 00:45:34.480 all came to. This is from nineteen eighty at a 845 00:45:34.559 --> 00:45:37.519 Knoxville boss that sent you a clipping. I think you 846 00:45:37.599 --> 00:45:39.679 ought to just start reading that headline loud and proud. 847 00:45:40.400 --> 00:45:43.079 I think we know who is editing this paper. Oh brother, 848 00:45:45.000 --> 00:45:48.320 hold on, Oh should have forgot that picture. There, there 849 00:45:48.400 --> 00:46:00.719 we go, Judge pins fake wrestling scheme? Fake wrestling scheme? 850 00:46:02.360 --> 00:46:07.559 Is that redundant? Yes, it's not redundant if you have 851 00:46:07.800 --> 00:46:10.480 such a fucking disdain for wrestling that you have to 852 00:46:10.760 --> 00:46:15.000 let it drip through your headline. Read come on, put 853 00:46:15.039 --> 00:46:18.079 it in. Put it in right there. How about Judge 854 00:46:18.159 --> 00:46:22.760 Penn's wrestling scheme? Just no, no scheme gets across the 855 00:46:22.840 --> 00:46:25.599 idea that no, it does not, No, it does not. 856 00:46:25.960 --> 00:46:28.639 The word has to be in the headline, Boss, it's 857 00:46:28.719 --> 00:46:31.400 gotta be fake to be in the headline. It's gotta 858 00:46:31.440 --> 00:46:39.559 be fucking fake, your stupid fuck chancellor, Chancellor. Yeah, that's 859 00:46:39.599 --> 00:46:46.760 the Corederick Boss. Frederick D. McDonald today denounced from the 860 00:46:46.840 --> 00:46:51.119 bench what was described in his court as a fixed 861 00:46:51.880 --> 00:46:58.320 wrestling tournament with the winner of a luxury boat determined 862 00:46:58.760 --> 00:47:02.519 before the tournament. I forbid, I love this. 863 00:47:03.679 --> 00:47:07.880 His ruling came in a complaint brought by NWA Southeastern 864 00:47:07.920 --> 00:47:14.280 Wrestling Incorporated against wrestler Ronnie Garvin. Ronald Welch, who wrestles 865 00:47:14.320 --> 00:47:19.280 under the name ron Fuller, is a principal stockholder in Southeastern, 866 00:47:19.320 --> 00:47:21.000 which promotes wrestling here. 867 00:47:21.519 --> 00:47:23.639 Which, as we talked about, Ron Fuller absolutely did not 868 00:47:23.719 --> 00:47:25.840 want in the local press the disclosure that he was 869 00:47:25.880 --> 00:47:31.679 in fact the owner. The question is the question here 870 00:47:32.000 --> 00:47:35.239 is should the court to Tennessee be used to carry 871 00:47:35.320 --> 00:47:40.920 out contracts for fixed wrestling matches? Chancellor McDonald said, sounds 872 00:47:40.960 --> 00:47:43.119 good to be I'd love to spare witness to that. 873 00:47:44.079 --> 00:47:46.199 We don't think the court should be a part of 874 00:47:46.280 --> 00:47:49.920 such arrangements. The public will lose all confidence in us 875 00:47:53.360 --> 00:47:56.239 if we decide this case between two phony wrestlers. The 876 00:47:56.360 --> 00:48:00.960 public will assume we're a work, I'll say, and then 877 00:48:01.039 --> 00:48:05.400 the whole justice system in the whole world is gone fuck. 878 00:48:06.559 --> 00:48:09.000 The issue in the suit was twelve thousand dollars, which 879 00:48:09.039 --> 00:48:12.039 Welch said he gave to Garvin as a down payment 880 00:48:12.079 --> 00:48:15.239 on a twenty seven foot bay liner boat and trailer. 881 00:48:15.880 --> 00:48:19.639 Southeastern filed suit June sixth, nineteen seventy nine for recovery 882 00:48:19.960 --> 00:48:22.199 of the twelve thousand dollars from Garvin, and asked that 883 00:48:22.280 --> 00:48:25.519 the boat be seized for it by the court. The 884 00:48:25.679 --> 00:48:28.880 order was issued by the court. Evidence today showed that 885 00:48:29.000 --> 00:48:32.199 Southeastern entered in an agreement with Garvin in which there 886 00:48:32.199 --> 00:48:35.159 would be a wrestling tournament with the boat and trailer 887 00:48:35.519 --> 00:48:38.400 as a prize, yes and in which it was further 888 00:48:38.480 --> 00:48:40.840 agreed that Garvin would win the tournament and the boat. 889 00:48:41.639 --> 00:48:44.280 Testimonies showed that Garvin had agreed to repay the twelve 890 00:48:44.320 --> 00:48:48.320 thousand dollars when he had sold another boat but not 891 00:48:48.440 --> 00:48:52.920 sold the Headlock. Apparently, Southeastern contended when it got the 892 00:48:53.000 --> 00:48:55.639 court order to seize the boat, that Garvin was going 893 00:48:55.679 --> 00:48:59.920 to Tokyo to wrestle. Garvin's attorney argued, quote the doctrine 894 00:49:00.639 --> 00:49:05.440 the doctor in the Unclean hams Unclean Hands of Stone, 895 00:49:07.199 --> 00:49:10.519 saying Southeastern should not come to court with a complaint 896 00:49:10.559 --> 00:49:14.679 resulting from an illicit agreement. Chancellor McDonald said Garvin's agreement 897 00:49:14.800 --> 00:49:17.199 was to win the tournament and win the boat. He 898 00:49:17.280 --> 00:49:20.159 said the plaintiff argue that the tournament was Garvin's idea. 899 00:49:22.159 --> 00:49:25.800 We will leave the parties exactly where they were before 900 00:49:25.880 --> 00:49:30.079 the lawsuit. Chancellor McDonald said the doctrine of unclean hands 901 00:49:30.119 --> 00:49:34.039 applies to the plaintiff as well as the defendant. He 902 00:49:34.239 --> 00:49:41.719 ruled that Garvin would gain possession of the boat. I 903 00:49:41.800 --> 00:49:44.000 don't give a shit. Was this a w I mean, 904 00:49:44.000 --> 00:49:47.360 I gonna know probably what you all do is so 905 00:49:47.679 --> 00:49:51.239 so so what you all do is fake? All right, 906 00:49:51.400 --> 00:49:54.000 it doesn't exist. It's not a real thing. So I 907 00:49:54.079 --> 00:49:56.920 don't give a shit. Who gets what? Just fucking let 908 00:49:57.000 --> 00:50:00.039 this Garvin bastard take the damn boat. Judge Mischler, it 909 00:50:00.159 --> 00:50:03.360 was hardly the first, hardly the first. Judge Mitchler is 910 00:50:03.400 --> 00:50:06.119 an archetype. He's not an individual. Okay, I'm a I'm 911 00:50:06.199 --> 00:50:08.719 a Chancellor of this court. I do not need to 912 00:50:08.760 --> 00:50:15.440 be handled with fake, fake lawsuits. Okay, how do I know? 913 00:50:15.719 --> 00:50:17.159 I know y'all ain't gonna get together and have a 914 00:50:17.199 --> 00:50:18.960 big steak dinner and a big laugh about this when 915 00:50:19.000 --> 00:50:20.719 I'm a big done wasting the court time? 916 00:50:20.800 --> 00:50:23.800 How do I know you're not wasting my time? How 917 00:50:23.880 --> 00:50:25.920 do I know that this is all a real complaint? 918 00:50:26.719 --> 00:50:29.400 How do I know that I'm not being dragged into 919 00:50:29.440 --> 00:50:31.639 one of your bullshit wrestling starlines. 920 00:50:33.000 --> 00:50:36.559 You got cameras here? I don't know, but I'll tell 921 00:50:36.559 --> 00:50:46.679 you I will not be abused. I will not be abused. 922 00:50:47.000 --> 00:50:48.920 Who is that again? When they said that, oh yeah, 923 00:50:49.519 --> 00:50:52.559 it was the judge in the Ron Fuller Ron Garvin lawsuit? 924 00:50:53.320 --> 00:50:56.559 What episode the complete holl cokein episode three thousand or 925 00:50:56.559 --> 00:51:00.920 whatever it is? And now bailiff, excuse me? Who who 926 00:51:01.000 --> 00:51:03.360 do I see over there listening up against the courtroom door? 927 00:51:03.800 --> 00:51:04.760 Who's silhouette? Is that? 928 00:51:04.960 --> 00:51:05.079 Is that? 929 00:51:05.199 --> 00:51:10.880 Mister? Is that mister Bolea? Is that a Bowley over there? 930 00:51:11.639 --> 00:51:14.159 Is that that I heard about him? Bring him into 931 00:51:14.199 --> 00:51:16.880 this courtroom, sir, standing here? You can't be standing outside. 932 00:51:16.960 --> 00:51:19.480 He's dropping on proceedings. What business do you have before 933 00:51:19.519 --> 00:51:20.519 this court? And this issue? 934 00:51:21.960 --> 00:51:22.000 What? 935 00:51:23.119 --> 00:51:23.480 I said? 936 00:51:23.559 --> 00:51:23.599 What? 937 00:51:24.480 --> 00:51:27.920 Who are you? He says, He says what. Terry says 938 00:51:28.000 --> 00:51:29.440 what and the judge goes what. 939 00:51:33.159 --> 00:51:34.000 The judge. 940 00:51:37.280 --> 00:51:39.880 Answer the question, mister Bola, well. 941 00:51:41.599 --> 00:51:41.880 What do you? 942 00:51:41.960 --> 00:51:42.239 What do you? 943 00:51:42.320 --> 00:51:45.800 What are you asking me? I'm sorry, did you not 944 00:51:46.079 --> 00:51:46.440 hear me? 945 00:51:46.599 --> 00:51:46.960 I said? 946 00:51:47.000 --> 00:51:49.280 Who the fuck are you? He's already gone to New York, 947 00:51:49.679 --> 00:51:52.840 but he comes back for this trial because he's terrified 948 00:51:52.880 --> 00:51:55.840 of what might be said. Brother, I'm just I'm just 949 00:51:56.519 --> 00:51:59.000 I just happened to be walking through. Brother. You're walking 950 00:51:59.039 --> 00:52:04.559 through where the build the building to the territory, territory. 951 00:52:04.800 --> 00:52:06.880 I'm just on my way out, Brother, I'm on my 952 00:52:07.000 --> 00:52:09.239 way out. I'm going to New York. Dude, No way, 953 00:52:09.280 --> 00:52:11.639 you're going to New York right now. You are in contempt, sir, 954 00:52:12.119 --> 00:52:17.400 You are in contempt of this court room. I didn't brother, 955 00:52:17.440 --> 00:52:20.679 I just was walking through. Dude, I was walking through. Brother. 956 00:52:21.679 --> 00:52:23.400 You just think you could just roll up here and 957 00:52:23.599 --> 00:52:26.960 just you know, well, brother, what you say? Roll up? Dude? 958 00:52:27.639 --> 00:52:27.840 Yeah? 959 00:52:28.599 --> 00:52:31.239 Brother? Who you rolling up? Dude? No? I you rolled 960 00:52:31.320 --> 00:52:37.760 up your dumb bitch from the bench because of the 961 00:52:37.880 --> 00:52:42.280 dumb bitch tremendous. Ron Fuller's like laughing. Arrest that son 962 00:52:42.360 --> 00:52:45.079 of a bitch and you put him in handcuffs and 963 00:52:45.239 --> 00:52:47.480 you get him in jail now where he. 964 00:52:47.559 --> 00:52:48.800 Can be pinned down? 965 00:52:49.599 --> 00:52:54.400 What what you'll be pinned down? He doesn't get rock 966 00:52:54.400 --> 00:52:56.840 getting the rest, and he cares about taking a fall 967 00:52:56.880 --> 00:52:59.039 because he doesn't. He's he thinks this court could very 968 00:52:59.039 --> 00:53:01.440 well be another put on from Ron Fuller. You know 969 00:53:02.800 --> 00:53:05.400 you're gonna be you, sir, are gonna be pinned down 970 00:53:05.480 --> 00:53:11.840 by the law. Brother, Dude, I've never bro Dude, I 971 00:53:11.880 --> 00:53:15.760 don't understand clearly he's looking left to right. It's like 972 00:53:15.840 --> 00:53:18.360 these these these like court officers have their hands on 973 00:53:18.440 --> 00:53:23.239 their handcuffs, on their belt. I'm just walking through. Dude. Well, 974 00:53:23.280 --> 00:53:26.800 when to live on the beach again, I can and Boss, 975 00:53:26.840 --> 00:53:29.599 the brilliant thing of it is, he would only be 976 00:53:29.719 --> 00:53:31.639 the first Terry to put his ear up to a 977 00:53:31.679 --> 00:53:34.880 courtroom door. You damn fucking right. And it all came 978 00:53:34.920 --> 00:53:37.559 full circle, Boss for Bob Rup and Terry bolea some 979 00:53:37.679 --> 00:53:40.840 time later and here he uh some parting thoughts, I 980 00:53:40.880 --> 00:53:43.000 guess you could say on this little extra snippet of 981 00:53:43.079 --> 00:53:44.800 the Bob Roop Terry Bowleio dynamic. 982 00:53:45.079 --> 00:53:48.519 We were there. We went out clubbing. Uh maybe later 983 00:53:48.639 --> 00:53:50.239 that night, or maybe it was a night before. I 984 00:53:50.320 --> 00:53:52.639 went out to club to get a beer and I 985 00:53:52.760 --> 00:53:55.840 saw him and, uh, you know, you look great, humongous. 986 00:53:56.360 --> 00:53:58.760 I walked up to him, you know, and like I say, 987 00:53:58.840 --> 00:54:00.960 I known him. I for as far as I knew, 988 00:54:01.639 --> 00:54:04.480 everything I'd done for him had been positive. I walked 989 00:54:04.559 --> 00:54:06.480 up to him to like to say hi. He just 990 00:54:06.559 --> 00:54:08.920 stubbed me. He was talking to some girl. He just 991 00:54:09.000 --> 00:54:11.920 stubbed me like I was invisible, you know, So I 992 00:54:12.039 --> 00:54:14.719 just turned around walked away. And I've never had any 993 00:54:14.760 --> 00:54:18.559 use for him ever since. I mean, you know, that's fine. 994 00:54:19.679 --> 00:54:22.199 You know, when I think about it, I thought that 995 00:54:22.360 --> 00:54:27.800 perhaps he didn't want to be remembered before he'd become 996 00:54:28.079 --> 00:54:31.880 a star by this time. Sure, yeah, so he didn't 997 00:54:31.920 --> 00:54:34.239 want to be reminded of his days when he wasn't 998 00:54:34.280 --> 00:54:34.559 a star. 999 00:54:35.239 --> 00:54:38.800 I think that's a very very key insight from Bob Rup, right, 1000 00:54:39.960 --> 00:54:43.280 I think group, yes, it's only fair, right if you 1001 00:54:43.320 --> 00:54:46.360 don't see a star in Terry Boleo when he before 1002 00:54:46.400 --> 00:54:49.599 he became a star. He doesn't want to give you 1003 00:54:49.719 --> 00:54:54.559 the satisfaction of acting like you saw that. It's funny. 1004 00:54:54.880 --> 00:54:57.719 It's funny, like right, it's the exact opposite of those 1005 00:54:57.800 --> 00:55:00.800 who didn't see it, you know, it's like it's ugh, 1006 00:55:01.280 --> 00:55:05.480 it such a fucking yeah, they're also fucking phony. It's 1007 00:55:05.519 --> 00:55:09.039 so annoying, it is. It is really annoying. And I 1008 00:55:09.199 --> 00:55:11.400 just just delight in the fact that at some point, 1009 00:55:11.440 --> 00:55:14.159 after hitting a big hulk ran into Bob Roup after 1010 00:55:14.280 --> 00:55:16.559 you know, cow towing to him at the Imperial Room 1011 00:55:16.599 --> 00:55:18.480 when he was in the band trying to get into wrestling, 1012 00:55:18.800 --> 00:55:20.519 and now Hulk is in the position of acting like 1013 00:55:20.599 --> 00:55:23.719 Bob Roup doesn't exist. And exactly, I think he kept 1014 00:55:23.840 --> 00:55:27.679 a very strict and very carefully attended to tallly of 1015 00:55:27.800 --> 00:55:31.159 people who fit that category. Did our subject to joor 1016 00:55:31.280 --> 00:55:35.800 Terry Bulay, Absolutely he did. He is not he is 1017 00:55:36.159 --> 00:55:40.000 not letting anyone off the hook. It was well boss, 1018 00:55:40.159 --> 00:55:44.239 a hell of a way to make a living. As 1019 00:55:44.320 --> 00:55:50.360 the Pensacola Journal here so adequately and aptly chronicled, we 1020 00:55:50.480 --> 00:55:52.880 always like when we visit a new territory on the 1021 00:55:52.960 --> 00:55:55.320 lapsed fan and get a flavor of it to pull, 1022 00:55:55.400 --> 00:55:58.239 you know, the prototypical people come to the matches and 1023 00:55:58.360 --> 00:56:03.079 these parts, and yeah, here are three old ladies describing 1024 00:56:03.159 --> 00:56:05.800 why they come to this thing. And here's us asking 1025 00:56:05.880 --> 00:56:08.519 them if they know it's fake. And here's us asking 1026 00:56:08.559 --> 00:56:10.400 a wrestler if it's fake in the locker room and 1027 00:56:10.440 --> 00:56:12.679 taking a picture of someone lacing their boots. In this case, 1028 00:56:13.760 --> 00:56:15.840 Austin Idel Hogan's a foe at the time in the 1029 00:56:15.960 --> 00:56:20.320 territory gets the honors. But as we wrap up the 1030 00:56:20.400 --> 00:56:22.719 Alabama leg of our journey and the Alabama leg of 1031 00:56:22.800 --> 00:56:27.039 Terry Boley's journey. It's perhaps extremely appropriate that we bring 1032 00:56:27.159 --> 00:56:29.880 you this article from the Sports section of the Pensacola 1033 00:56:30.000 --> 00:56:33.639 Journal on June twenty eighth, nineteen seventy nine, just as 1034 00:56:34.400 --> 00:56:37.440 Terry Bolea was ramping up to challenge for the World Championship. 1035 00:56:39.360 --> 00:56:42.199 Hell of a Way to Make a Living by Jerry Shreiver. 1036 00:56:44.440 --> 00:56:47.239 I remember one time these two guys were wrestling in 1037 00:56:47.320 --> 00:56:51.280 a car about a car about the winner would receive 1038 00:56:51.320 --> 00:56:54.880 a new car. It was real physical, bloody match, and 1039 00:56:55.000 --> 00:56:57.599 the winner was really battered up. After the fight, he 1040 00:56:57.639 --> 00:56:59.559 threw himself on the hood of the car and was 1041 00:56:59.639 --> 00:57:02.920 laying they're bleeding. I saw people go up to the 1042 00:57:03.039 --> 00:57:05.320 car and run their fingers through the blood and lick 1043 00:57:05.400 --> 00:57:08.320 it and then say, Ha, that's not blood. He's faking it. 1044 00:57:08.760 --> 00:57:12.039 He's using a blood capsule or something. It really hurts 1045 00:57:12.119 --> 00:57:14.960 these guys when you when people yell fake. 1046 00:57:15.519 --> 00:57:17.880 Just months before, this person said the same thing in 1047 00:57:17.920 --> 00:57:23.079 the court of law. Mister Roy welchlch professional wrestler and consultant. 1048 00:57:23.360 --> 00:57:28.719 So Welch not run Oh sorry, Roy Welch. Sorry now Roy? 1049 00:57:29.480 --> 00:57:32.519 Is is he a professional wrestler and a professional consultant? 1050 00:57:32.639 --> 00:57:36.519 Or is he a professional wrestler consultant. I don't know. 1051 00:57:36.639 --> 00:57:39.280 That's a great that's a great question. Just a consultant 1052 00:57:39.440 --> 00:57:41.679 is like, does he consult outside of wrestling? 1053 00:57:41.920 --> 00:57:44.519 That's the question. Tells me, probably not, But we're about 1054 00:57:44.559 --> 00:57:47.760 to find out. Roy Welch is worried, and for good reason. 1055 00:57:48.239 --> 00:57:51.199 In just an hour until the main event on Tuesday's 1056 00:57:51.239 --> 00:57:55.400 professional wrestling card at the Municipal Auditorium, and Welch has 1057 00:57:55.519 --> 00:57:58.960 learned that The Hulk, a crowd favorite who was supposed 1058 00:57:58.960 --> 00:58:01.880 to challenge Beautiful Austin Idol for the Gulf Coast Championship, 1059 00:58:02.199 --> 00:58:06.280 has canceled out Brother leg Injury. Brother What due to 1060 00:58:06.360 --> 00:58:10.679 a leg injury sustained the night before. Nervously running his 1061 00:58:10.760 --> 00:58:14.079 fingers through his shiny black hair, the man in charge 1062 00:58:14.079 --> 00:58:17.480 of the night's festivities confronts this latest slipped gear in 1063 00:58:17.559 --> 00:58:20.960 the pro wrestling Merry Go Round. Well, these are things 1064 00:58:21.000 --> 00:58:24.840 that set your program back, but it can't be helped, 1065 00:58:25.280 --> 00:58:29.360 he says, disappointedly. Welch is one of the men committed 1066 00:58:29.440 --> 00:58:31.880 to the success of pro wrestling in Pensacola, and he 1067 00:58:31.960 --> 00:58:34.320 feels he is just on the brink of attaining it. 1068 00:58:35.880 --> 00:58:39.000 So he's on the brink of attaining success. Yes, apparently 1069 00:58:39.840 --> 00:58:44.360 it's been the opposite so far, I guess okay, But 1070 00:58:44.440 --> 00:58:51.400 there are always the setbacks, skepticism, skepticism, skepticism from sports purists, 1071 00:58:53.159 --> 00:58:59.079 rival outlaw promoters. Yeah, sure, injuries. The crowd tonight is respectable, 1072 00:58:59.119 --> 00:59:02.880 but many seats are given out as charity to the underprivileged, 1073 00:59:04.079 --> 00:59:08.039 and there is always the rent. I've got to go 1074 00:59:08.199 --> 00:59:11.320 see if I can round somebody up. I usually bring 1075 00:59:11.440 --> 00:59:13.400 my wrestling out there with me just in case, but 1076 00:59:13.519 --> 00:59:16.880 I didn't tonight. I might have to send somebody for it, 1077 00:59:17.000 --> 00:59:21.280 he says. The crowd takes the announcement of the cancelation well, 1078 00:59:21.760 --> 00:59:24.599 except for a persistent course of boo birds in the 1079 00:59:24.679 --> 00:59:30.280 back who chant give us her money back. Yes, this 1080 00:59:30.480 --> 00:59:33.920 veteran crowd knows that unexpected lineup changes are part of 1081 00:59:34.039 --> 00:59:37.480 the carnival like atmosphere of pro wrestling. They also know 1082 00:59:37.599 --> 00:59:41.239 that whoever is in charge of the entertainment tonight will 1083 00:59:41.280 --> 00:59:44.519 come up with some behemoth for the idol to bounce 1084 00:59:44.559 --> 00:59:48.119 off the ropes and slam onto the plywood with a 1085 00:59:48.199 --> 00:59:54.159 banchy cry. After all, that's what they came for. Professional wrestling. 1086 00:59:54.480 --> 01:00:03.440 It's rough and tumble, it's melodramatic, bordering on farcical. It's 1087 01:00:03.519 --> 01:00:05.760 more authentic than some people give it credit for. It 1088 01:00:05.960 --> 01:00:12.559 ordering on bordering on bordering on farcical. It's inconsistent. It's fun. 1089 01:00:13.039 --> 01:00:14.800 There is money to be made, and because of that, 1090 01:00:15.039 --> 01:00:18.239 it's a serious business and the hell of a way 1091 01:00:18.480 --> 01:00:21.679 to make a living. Take Charlie, not his real name, 1092 01:00:21.719 --> 01:00:24.039 but a feature on the Tuesday Night Card, a professional 1093 01:00:24.079 --> 01:00:27.320 wrestler for thirteen plus years who has been here and 1094 01:00:27.519 --> 01:00:30.360 back and looks it. The hairline is receding and the 1095 01:00:30.440 --> 01:00:34.519 middrift bulge is slowly advancing on his still powerful frame. 1096 01:00:36.159 --> 01:00:38.519 At thirty six, he's won his share of titles and 1097 01:00:38.639 --> 01:00:41.079 now he's hoping to squeeze maybe five or eight more 1098 01:00:41.159 --> 01:00:43.920 years out of his body. Then he wants to hang 1099 01:00:44.000 --> 01:00:48.239 it up and go back to being a chemical salesman. Oh, 1100 01:00:48.280 --> 01:00:50.719 this is definitely sales. This is definitely hell co good. 1101 01:00:54.079 --> 01:00:58.679 My name's Charlie. Dude, chemicals you're talking about? Dude, I 1102 01:00:58.760 --> 01:01:01.639 don't you know chemicals? So you know, well, it's a 1103 01:01:01.760 --> 01:01:07.639 it's a it's a Well then what I don't I 1104 01:01:07.679 --> 01:01:12.679 don't sail things. That's something I mean by sail is 1105 01:01:12.760 --> 01:01:14.679 the same kind of round up chemicals that said uh 1106 01:01:15.360 --> 01:01:16.480 got involved with after. 1107 01:01:18.320 --> 01:01:21.400 He's just starting on his second marriage, after his hectic 1108 01:01:21.480 --> 01:01:25.920 lifestyle finally caved in his first marriage, which lasted nineteen years. 1109 01:01:28.880 --> 01:01:30.639 I'm gonna go different page here to continue. 1110 01:01:31.400 --> 01:01:35.880 Yeah, next file. It does say the works in the 1111 01:01:35.960 --> 01:01:38.480 top left, which I think is just hilarious and it's 1112 01:01:38.639 --> 01:01:39.159 very funny. 1113 01:01:41.519 --> 01:01:44.400 Traveling around all the traveling around all the time, it 1114 01:01:44.480 --> 01:01:48.280 started to get a little aggravating, especially with this gas thing, 1115 01:01:48.519 --> 01:01:53.119 he said, as he held tightly against his stomach. It 1116 01:01:53.239 --> 01:01:56.840 puts a strain on a marriage trying to keep two households. 1117 01:01:58.760 --> 01:02:02.400 What well, that's another way of saying it puts a 1118 01:02:02.440 --> 01:02:04.559 strain on a marriage to have two wives. I guess. 1119 01:02:04.840 --> 01:02:05.280 I guess. 1120 01:02:06.679 --> 01:02:10.159 Surveying the crowd, which hasn't changed much over the years, 1121 01:02:10.280 --> 01:02:13.840 he observes ninety percent of people are blood Thursday. You know, 1122 01:02:14.000 --> 01:02:17.320 after thirteen years, you just sort of ignore them when 1123 01:02:17.400 --> 01:02:20.599 they scream at you and holler nasty things. I just 1124 01:02:20.679 --> 01:02:22.800 go out there to win matches and put money in 1125 01:02:22.880 --> 01:02:26.480 my pocket. My advice is something starting out good luck. 1126 01:02:27.599 --> 01:02:29.519 I wouldn't steer anyone away from it. 1127 01:02:29.599 --> 01:02:32.840 Though. It gets in your blood and the more you wrestle. 1128 01:02:32.920 --> 01:02:35.559 The more you want to wrestle, it's a hell of 1129 01:02:35.639 --> 01:02:39.679 a way to make a living. Now, then there's Austin Idel, 1130 01:02:39.719 --> 01:02:43.920 a sweetheart of a guy who is the top bill tonight. 1131 01:02:44.920 --> 01:02:48.000 He uses Las Vegas cool from every pore of his 1132 01:02:48.199 --> 01:02:53.239 granite superstructure, even though he's from Tampa and indeed that's 1133 01:02:53.280 --> 01:02:57.119 where he was born. All some folks. 1134 01:03:00.000 --> 01:03:02.760 A man who cultivates the image of a superstar, he 1135 01:03:02.920 --> 01:03:06.679 is not all that arrogant, simply secure in the knowledge 1136 01:03:06.719 --> 01:03:11.360 that he has made it as intelligent, physically, tough and 1137 01:03:11.440 --> 01:03:14.880 disciplined as most other pro athletes. He is living somewhere 1138 01:03:15.000 --> 01:03:18.639 in the one hundred fifty thousand dollars plus annual income bracket, 1139 01:03:19.079 --> 01:03:22.039 yet he has virtually unrecognized outside his profession. 1140 01:03:22.639 --> 01:03:26.760 No matter he quote worked my hide off to get 1141 01:03:26.800 --> 01:03:31.159 where he is, and now he reaps the rewards. Everybody 1142 01:03:31.280 --> 01:03:34.679 loves the idol. He stays flexed, actually really good twenty 1143 01:03:34.760 --> 01:03:38.440 one in biceps. It's a very glamorous life I lead, 1144 01:03:38.840 --> 01:03:42.159 but it's also tough metally and physically. I thrive on 1145 01:03:42.320 --> 01:03:45.440 glimmer and glamour. I'm single and I wouldn't have it 1146 01:03:45.519 --> 01:03:49.000 any other way. Man, I can just about pick what 1147 01:03:49.119 --> 01:03:51.639 I want. It's hard to let that kind of thing go. 1148 01:03:52.239 --> 01:03:54.840 And I go to Vegas about once a week, walk 1149 01:03:54.920 --> 01:03:57.960 down the strip, play with the girls, pull a few handles. 1150 01:03:58.039 --> 01:04:01.599 You know, there is no form, no theory to get 1151 01:04:01.639 --> 01:04:04.239 into the top. Either you have the ability to put 1152 01:04:04.320 --> 01:04:07.960 fannies in the seats or you don't. Everybody loves the idol, 1153 01:04:08.320 --> 01:04:12.159 his body, the glib tongue, whatever you know, Babe. Sometimes 1154 01:04:12.239 --> 01:04:15.119 I yearn for the media exposure that other pro athletes 1155 01:04:15.119 --> 01:04:18.320 are getting. If I could just get on the damn 1156 01:04:18.400 --> 01:04:21.599 Tonight Show, I know I could make it boom one 1157 01:04:21.679 --> 01:04:24.119 shot on Johnny Carson and everybody would know the idol 1158 01:04:25.800 --> 01:04:29.840 that maybe if Johnny quits, I can take his place. 1159 01:04:30.400 --> 01:04:32.480 N When I quit, I'm going back to Vegas and 1160 01:04:32.639 --> 01:04:36.559 follow and follow the sun. Finally, there is Rick Field, 1161 01:04:36.639 --> 01:04:38.960 still trying to get out Joe Rogan today to this day. 1162 01:04:39.000 --> 01:04:42.000 By the way, o Ustin, I will remember you saying, 1163 01:04:42.320 --> 01:04:44.320 why doesn't Joe invite the real deal on if Hogan's 1164 01:04:44.360 --> 01:04:46.000 going to a show and give me credit for all 1165 01:04:46.000 --> 01:04:46.480 the gimmicks. 1166 01:04:47.840 --> 01:04:50.400 Finally, there is Rick Fields down to the bottom of 1167 01:04:50.440 --> 01:04:53.320 the hill, a relative youngster on his way up waiting 1168 01:04:53.400 --> 01:04:57.320 and waiting for a shot at the top. I've been 1169 01:04:57.360 --> 01:05:00.559 in wrestling about five years professionally, but it's been in 1170 01:05:00.639 --> 01:05:01.679 the family for years. 1171 01:05:01.960 --> 01:05:04.440 I got my schooling from my father. I didn't go 1172 01:05:04.559 --> 01:05:07.239 to the AAU route like most of the guys, and 1173 01:05:07.360 --> 01:05:10.960 it hasn't been an overnight thing. I swept floors, put 1174 01:05:11.039 --> 01:05:13.760 up signs, took take its referee, you name it, I'd 1175 01:05:13.840 --> 01:05:14.119 done it. 1176 01:05:14.599 --> 01:05:17.400 I'm in this thing to win the world championship. That's 1177 01:05:17.519 --> 01:05:20.639 my goal. That's what everybody wants. You have to keep 1178 01:05:20.800 --> 01:05:25.519 building up wins. The main thing for me. You gotta 1179 01:05:25.559 --> 01:05:27.880 keep building up houses so people can say, oh, you 1180 01:05:27.920 --> 01:05:29.719 know this guy's a draw, then I'll give them the title. 1181 01:05:30.159 --> 01:05:32.239 The main thing for me is to keep my nose 1182 01:05:32.320 --> 01:05:38.000 clean and and keeping God in good condition. Watch and 1183 01:05:38.159 --> 01:05:41.079 learn and something will come my way. Is it worth it? 1184 01:05:41.800 --> 01:05:44.760 Nothing's worth it unless you love it. You gotta remember 1185 01:05:44.840 --> 01:05:49.719 we don't get unemployment or workmen's compensation, no retirement. We 1186 01:05:49.840 --> 01:05:53.159 have our health and our bodies. I wrestled with broken ribs, 1187 01:05:53.440 --> 01:05:56.119 pulled muscles. I remember one time I was working on 1188 01:05:56.239 --> 01:05:59.039 my car and the radiator blew up and scalded me. 1189 01:06:00.239 --> 01:06:03.000 I get some second and third degrees burns on my 1190 01:06:03.199 --> 01:06:06.360 ribs and chest. The next night I wrestled before thirty 1191 01:06:06.400 --> 01:06:09.719 seven thousand people in the New Orleans super Dome. It 1192 01:06:09.920 --> 01:06:10.360 was great. 1193 01:06:11.760 --> 01:06:14.320 Roy Welch's calmer. Now a replacement has been found for 1194 01:06:14.400 --> 01:06:16.880 the Hulk, and the show will go on as planned. 1195 01:06:17.239 --> 01:06:19.719 But people will get their kicks, the wrestlers will pocket 1196 01:06:19.840 --> 01:06:24.760 their earnings, and everyone will go home satisfied tonight, next 1197 01:06:24.800 --> 01:06:27.360 week and the next fifty weeks after that, the pro 1198 01:06:27.480 --> 01:06:29.719 wrestling Merry Go Round never stops. 1199 01:06:30.320 --> 01:06:33.440 Everyone will pocket their earnings. That's right. How wild is 1200 01:06:33.480 --> 01:06:35.119 that that this reporter shows up on a show that 1201 01:06:35.320 --> 01:06:38.400 Terry just not going to make that one brother and 1202 01:06:38.519 --> 01:06:42.760 Austin Idols left there with no opponent, yep, pretending to 1203 01:06:42.840 --> 01:06:45.559 be the A side when the first, the first sentence 1204 01:06:45.639 --> 01:06:47.239 of the whole article is about how the Hult couldn't 1205 01:06:47.239 --> 01:06:49.800 make it, and people are chanting refund in the back 1206 01:06:49.840 --> 01:06:53.320 of the building. I think I don't know, man, if 1207 01:06:53.360 --> 01:06:55.440 my math is right. As far as when this happened, 1208 01:06:55.840 --> 01:06:58.559 this would have been shortly after Terry Bullay made it 1209 01:06:58.679 --> 01:07:00.519 very clear to Louis Toilllett and run Fuller that he 1210 01:07:00.599 --> 01:07:02.920 was going to Memphis and he wasn't happy, and you 1211 01:07:03.000 --> 01:07:04.920 know he's going to do the Harley match, but it 1212 01:07:04.920 --> 01:07:07.079 would be after a bit of an extended absence, or 1213 01:07:07.079 --> 01:07:10.239 at least relative to how frequently he was working a 1214 01:07:10.280 --> 01:07:13.960 prolonged absence. So this is probably one of those leg 1215 01:07:14.039 --> 01:07:17.000 injuries of convenience boss, if nothing else, it's being captured 1216 01:07:17.000 --> 01:07:19.960 in this article. Yep, I imagine that. So we got 1217 01:07:20.000 --> 01:07:21.800 a flavor of the locker room and the talent and 1218 01:07:22.599 --> 01:07:27.039 the logistical rigamarole that went into making Gulf Coast Wrestling. 1219 01:07:27.559 --> 01:07:29.400 We also have a little sidebar here in the fans, 1220 01:07:29.440 --> 01:07:32.000 as promised. So let's get a little bit more acquainted 1221 01:07:32.079 --> 01:07:35.000 with the vox popular eye of Gulf Coast. Oh yes, indeed, 1222 01:07:35.840 --> 01:07:38.599 let me go back here. Got start from the beginning 1223 01:07:38.639 --> 01:07:41.519 here because that was the other one too, right, starts 1224 01:07:41.599 --> 01:07:46.599 the yeah for fan attics. It gets rid of their frustration. 1225 01:07:46.760 --> 01:07:48.639 They come to the matches because they want to blow 1226 01:07:48.679 --> 01:07:52.760 off some steam, that's right. The large woman in the 1227 01:07:52.840 --> 01:07:56.119 lavender tent dress was seated front row center in the 1228 01:07:57.719 --> 01:08:01.320 for the Tuesday Night wrestling card. She frequently was up 1229 01:08:01.360 --> 01:08:04.000 and out of her out of her chair during every match, 1230 01:08:04.360 --> 01:08:06.800 trying her darnedess to call the referees attention to the 1231 01:08:06.920 --> 01:08:10.519 dirty work going on behind his back. Oh damn bad 1232 01:08:10.599 --> 01:08:15.920 wrestlers them, those main ones, disdained. Barbara Williamson referred to 1233 01:08:16.000 --> 01:08:19.479 the mass Gladiator's tag team the obvious bad guys. 1234 01:08:19.840 --> 01:08:23.800 Wrestlings are sparked. They shouldn't hurt one another. Oh she's 1235 01:08:23.840 --> 01:08:25.640 my mom, This is my mom. 1236 01:08:27.159 --> 01:08:31.359 Every region has one. Yep, she exclaimed, still rot up 1237 01:08:31.520 --> 01:08:34.800 over the bloodshed of the previous match. Williamson of Pensacola 1238 01:08:34.960 --> 01:08:37.319 was just one enthusiast among the large crowd at the 1239 01:08:37.399 --> 01:08:41.600 Municipal Auditorium where professional wrestling packs the men every Tuesday night. 1240 01:08:42.239 --> 01:08:45.680 I do this every week. I got carried away during 1241 01:08:45.920 --> 01:08:48.880 Williamson said during one of her calmer moments between falls. 1242 01:08:49.439 --> 01:08:53.279 A mother of eight, she had three of her younger 1243 01:08:53.359 --> 01:08:57.560 children in tow I've been coming to the wrestling matches 1244 01:08:57.600 --> 01:08:59.880 off and on. Where did she have the rest of 1245 01:09:00.399 --> 01:09:09.319 the hospital. I hope ah. 1246 01:09:10.680 --> 01:09:15.600 I just pictured a fucking carving toad by yeah, and 1247 01:09:15.720 --> 01:09:19.199 I watched it on TV whenever it down. She said 1248 01:09:19.279 --> 01:09:23.239 her favorite wrestler is the Hulk and almost unanimous favorite 1249 01:09:23.279 --> 01:09:26.319 with the women in the audience. Listen to that, you've 1250 01:09:26.399 --> 01:09:28.880 never seen him, she asked. 1251 01:09:28.680 --> 01:09:32.880 In surprise. He's just big. He has got big shoulders, 1252 01:09:33.479 --> 01:09:36.800 she said, cupping her hands over above her own. And 1253 01:09:37.000 --> 01:09:41.800 he's good looking, and in plain English, he's a gentleman 1254 01:09:42.680 --> 01:09:46.680 a wrestling in plain English. I thought she was gonna 1255 01:09:46.680 --> 01:09:53.039 say he's hot, you know, I know, right, So hey, 1256 01:09:53.079 --> 01:09:55.479 there there goes my whole theory that no one ever 1257 01:09:55.600 --> 01:09:58.680 saw Terry Bulea as a sex symbol. Ever, Uh huh, 1258 01:09:59.359 --> 01:10:02.960 this woman did. And she's packing it in, Barbara Williamson, 1259 01:10:03.399 --> 01:10:05.600 She fucking she loves it. She needs it. Is that 1260 01:10:05.760 --> 01:10:07.600 her with the extra larch coke in her hand? I 1261 01:10:07.640 --> 01:10:10.079 think so, yes, it is? And is Barbara Williams look 1262 01:10:10.079 --> 01:10:13.319 at her, Oh my god, looks she looks on my 1263 01:10:13.359 --> 01:10:16.600 aunt Martha. She looks like she's in for a scump, 1264 01:10:16.720 --> 01:10:18.640 like a legit character. Yeah. 1265 01:10:18.680 --> 01:10:22.960 Absolutely, a wrestler who's a gentleman. The true terms seem 1266 01:10:23.039 --> 01:10:28.039 to conflict, so Williamson explained, he's so considering it. If 1267 01:10:28.079 --> 01:10:30.039 someone gets hurt in the ring, he'll come out and 1268 01:10:30.159 --> 01:10:32.920 help him. As the lights went down and the next 1269 01:10:33.000 --> 01:10:36.720 match was introduced, Williamson pointed to the Platinum Blonde entering 1270 01:10:36.760 --> 01:10:40.279 the ring, Austin idel watch this guy, she said. He 1271 01:10:40.399 --> 01:10:43.279 thinks he's great, but he's too conceited. He bleaches his hair. 1272 01:10:44.119 --> 01:10:46.760 I hate to break it to you. Yeah right, Barbara, 1273 01:10:46.920 --> 01:10:51.119 but uh so does the Hulk. My lady Idols seem 1274 01:10:51.159 --> 01:10:53.720 to be getting into early trouble with Ron Slinker, his 1275 01:10:53.880 --> 01:10:56.800 behemoth of an opponent. The flashy blonde was down on 1276 01:10:56.840 --> 01:10:59.199 his knees, begging Slinker for mercy. I am that. 1277 01:11:02.960 --> 01:11:07.520 I imagine some of this is fake, Williamson conceded her eyes. 1278 01:11:07.600 --> 01:11:10.680 All they do it just to get the fans going, 1279 01:11:10.760 --> 01:11:13.680 but I still enjoy it. The whole family enjoys that. 1280 01:11:13.760 --> 01:11:17.920 It gets rid of frustrations. All this hollering and carrying 1281 01:11:18.000 --> 01:11:21.319 on takes it all out of you. The weekly wrestling 1282 01:11:21.479 --> 01:11:24.119 is something she can get truly involved in, keeping up 1283 01:11:24.119 --> 01:11:27.199 with the flamboyant personalities, the grudge matches, the title contenders. 1284 01:11:27.720 --> 01:11:29.680 If you go to a movie, you go to it 1285 01:11:29.800 --> 01:11:32.760 and it's over with. But this is every week. Williamson said, 1286 01:11:32.840 --> 01:11:36.239 So it's like television then, right, Yeah, who's ever heard 1287 01:11:36.279 --> 01:11:36.880 of that format? 1288 01:11:37.039 --> 01:11:40.479 Yeah? Right. Surveying the crowd, the wrestling fans seem to 1289 01:11:40.560 --> 01:11:48.560 span the generation gap. Two slender girls from Mobile one 1290 01:11:48.760 --> 01:11:52.640 a frosted blonde. The other brunette positioned themselves early in 1291 01:11:52.800 --> 01:11:55.119 seats on the aisle right next to the wrestler's entrance. 1292 01:11:55.479 --> 01:11:58.439 They were dressed to kill, as a male observer put it, 1293 01:11:58.840 --> 01:12:00.840 decked out in tight blue jeans. 1294 01:12:00.479 --> 01:12:03.840 Sleeky bleff I think we know I they're there. Yeah, exactly, 1295 01:12:04.239 --> 01:12:07.239 and an over abundance of eye makeup. They would blend 1296 01:12:07.359 --> 01:12:09.000 right in and at a rock concert, but among the 1297 01:12:09.039 --> 01:12:12.279 Tuesday night wrestling crowd, they stood out. The girls sat 1298 01:12:12.760 --> 01:12:18.119 sipping cokes and snorting coke and throwing occasional anxious glances 1299 01:12:18.119 --> 01:12:21.119 over their shoulders to the dressing room entrance as they 1300 01:12:21.199 --> 01:12:22.159 answered questions. 1301 01:12:22.399 --> 01:12:24.159 Imagine slipping that in the article to see if the 1302 01:12:24.239 --> 01:12:28.640 editor noticed sipping and snorting coke? Yes, can I just 1303 01:12:28.680 --> 01:12:30.880 take a second? Two boss, if you don't mind. Yes, Yes, 1304 01:12:31.399 --> 01:12:34.760 we don't talk enough about this. This is a Tuesday night. Yes, 1305 01:12:35.199 --> 01:12:38.439 they went to work and they're going to work. Yes, 1306 01:12:38.600 --> 01:12:41.279 not always the weekend, like you said, it's right. Can 1307 01:12:41.319 --> 01:12:44.399 you imagine being in a routine in your life? Ever, 1308 01:12:44.920 --> 01:12:47.800 as long as we've been wrestling fans wherever, there's a 1309 01:12:47.960 --> 01:12:50.199 school night every week where you go to the matches. 1310 01:12:50.680 --> 01:12:52.359 I would I would, I would have lost my mind 1311 01:12:52.359 --> 01:12:56.000 as every week. I would have loved it. Such a 1312 01:12:56.279 --> 01:13:01.600 different experience of pro wrestling than we got to have. Yep, yep, Oh, 1313 01:13:01.800 --> 01:13:07.840 it'd be fucking amazing. I used to come all the time. Yeah, 1314 01:13:07.880 --> 01:13:12.840 I know, and then you had eight kids, said Robin Waltman, seventeen. 1315 01:13:13.159 --> 01:13:16.960 But I've just started to coming here again. She and 1316 01:13:17.039 --> 01:13:19.720 her friend have made the hours drive every week for 1317 01:13:19.800 --> 01:13:24.359 the past five weeks. We had to use my daddy's call, 1318 01:13:25.039 --> 01:13:27.119 she said, but he doesn't mind as long as we 1319 01:13:27.319 --> 01:13:30.960 feel it up. A referee for the night's program who 1320 01:13:31.079 --> 01:13:35.159 used to date Waltman's sister, introduce them to their family 1321 01:13:35.359 --> 01:13:40.680 their favorite wrestlers. He put in a good wood for me. Oh, 1322 01:13:40.800 --> 01:13:43.600 Waltman said, with a giggle. The girls were hoping for 1323 01:13:43.680 --> 01:13:46.000 a brief chat with one of them when the competitors 1324 01:13:46.039 --> 01:13:48.439 came to the dressing room door to watch the match 1325 01:13:48.800 --> 01:13:52.520 is preceding their own. It's more interesting when you know 1326 01:13:52.720 --> 01:13:56.640 the guys, said Waltman. You don't want to get you don't. 1327 01:13:56.720 --> 01:13:59.319 You don't want them to get hurt. Last week, a 1328 01:13:59.399 --> 01:14:03.600 blonde hair dude, one of her favorites, came out to 1329 01:14:03.680 --> 01:14:06.720 the ring came out of the Ring of Redhead all bloody. 1330 01:14:07.399 --> 01:14:10.800 I didn't want to watch, but she did along with 1331 01:14:10.880 --> 01:14:12.960 the rest of the crowd, because blood and guts time 1332 01:14:13.479 --> 01:14:16.239 is the most exciting time for the fans. Yes, I 1333 01:14:16.359 --> 01:14:19.479 get excited about this. Oh my god, it really makes 1334 01:14:19.520 --> 01:14:22.199 me mad when the bad guys beat up on the 1335 01:14:22.239 --> 01:14:25.119 good guys. I tell you what, you don't want to 1336 01:14:25.159 --> 01:14:29.239 be around when I get that excited. Oh my arms, 1337 01:14:29.479 --> 01:14:33.680 my arms, a swinging, a holler, and I slap whoever's 1338 01:14:33.800 --> 01:14:41.039 next to me. What we're slapping to fill her up? 1339 01:14:42.000 --> 01:14:43.279 What exactly? 1340 01:14:44.279 --> 01:14:48.159 Waltman's companion, eighteen year old Kathy Welch, nodded in agreement, 1341 01:14:48.439 --> 01:14:50.279 having been on the receiving end of her of her 1342 01:14:50.319 --> 01:14:56.039 friend's excitement more than once eighteen ye but she's been 1343 01:14:56.119 --> 01:14:58.720 lucky to get away with just a few bruises. One 1344 01:14:58.760 --> 01:15:02.159 wrestling fan was let fortunate. A few months ago. I 1345 01:15:02.319 --> 01:15:05.720 threw a coke on a guy and a mobile, Waltman said, 1346 01:15:05.760 --> 01:15:08.239 with a grin. I didn't mean to, but I get 1347 01:15:08.319 --> 01:15:11.520 too excited. I guess the cup just flew out of 1348 01:15:11.600 --> 01:15:16.479 my hand. I didn't soak him, but share got him wet. 1349 01:15:19.479 --> 01:15:23.319 They found a fucking gem in this crowd. Jesus Christ, 1350 01:15:23.600 --> 01:15:27.920 she's fucking money. Well, Jo seemed a bit more reserved, 1351 01:15:28.000 --> 01:15:30.159 but the whole thing acknowledged that some of the action 1352 01:15:30.319 --> 01:15:33.920 in the ring is fake. Again, go to the arena 1353 01:15:33.960 --> 01:15:35.640 and just ask these people if they know it's fake. 1354 01:15:35.760 --> 01:15:39.279 Please come back with quotes. Yeah, most of it is 1355 01:15:39.439 --> 01:15:42.279 sat up, but it's still a lot fun, she said. 1356 01:15:42.399 --> 01:15:45.479 I sit around and watch the people. It's really fun. 1357 01:15:45.640 --> 01:15:51.319 They go crazy. Among the more passive spectators was Eric Chaffin, 1358 01:15:51.880 --> 01:15:54.359 an eight year old clad in a Superman T shirt 1359 01:15:54.439 --> 01:15:59.239 clutching his autograph book Bigpen and thirty one Cents, was 1360 01:15:59.640 --> 01:16:02.479 at the wrestling matches for only the second time. He 1361 01:16:02.640 --> 01:16:04.439 paused in the midst of a dash to the dressing 1362 01:16:04.520 --> 01:16:09.359 room door to catch a retreating wrestler. I've only got 1363 01:16:09.439 --> 01:16:13.560 two autograss but I want them all, he said enthusiastically. 1364 01:16:14.239 --> 01:16:17.760 I tell you secret, I start backstage to get auto grasps. 1365 01:16:19.279 --> 01:16:21.600 As the crowd roared to the action in the ring, 1366 01:16:21.800 --> 01:16:24.039 Eric struck his fingers in his ears. But though it 1367 01:16:24.239 --> 01:16:29.279 hurts my ears, he explained, nevertheless, he enjoys watching the sport. 1368 01:16:29.720 --> 01:16:32.199 I like it when they have to double team matches 1369 01:16:32.479 --> 01:16:34.640 and I like it when the Hawk jumps in the ring. 1370 01:16:36.560 --> 01:16:39.039 I'm not I'm jumping. I'm not jumping, dude. I wonder 1371 01:16:39.079 --> 01:16:40.600 what he meant when the Hulk jumps in the ring. 1372 01:16:40.680 --> 01:16:44.479 He wants me to make a safe Yeah. Would he 1373 01:16:44.520 --> 01:16:45.960 want to join them when he gets bigger? 1374 01:16:46.239 --> 01:16:46.399 Nah? 1375 01:16:46.479 --> 01:16:47.840 Huh, he said with conviction. 1376 01:16:48.279 --> 01:16:48.880 I'm not going. 1377 01:16:49.119 --> 01:16:51.439 I'm not getting punch in the nose. But I might 1378 01:16:51.600 --> 01:16:54.119 join the fire department square and burn my ass off. 1379 01:16:54.239 --> 01:16:56.960 What the doesn't ask? No, no, it doesn't say that. 1380 01:16:58.439 --> 01:16:59.800 But I might join the fire. 1381 01:16:59.640 --> 01:17:05.439 Department and squad bloring boring, yep, Annie made Lucer of Pensacola, 1382 01:17:05.479 --> 01:17:07.399 who gave her age as seventy one. 1383 01:17:08.039 --> 01:17:11.319 I gave her age as you know, another way of 1384 01:17:11.359 --> 01:17:14.880 writing that is just seventy one. Yeah, right, exactly. But 1385 01:17:14.960 --> 01:17:17.920 apparently someone doesn't believe that she's save one, but he 1386 01:17:17.960 --> 01:17:19.199 believes that other girl's eighteen. 1387 01:17:19.319 --> 01:17:22.880 Interesting exactly was that with her personal lap and her 1388 01:17:22.960 --> 01:17:24.039 cane by her side. 1389 01:17:28.199 --> 01:17:30.880 You're not seventy one, you're seventy, Saven. 1390 01:17:31.199 --> 01:17:34.520 Interjected her companion, Katie Goldsby, also Pensacola. 1391 01:17:35.720 --> 01:17:37.159 A couple of tricks from the wrestlers. 1392 01:17:37.439 --> 01:17:40.319 Yeah right, we identified herself as being seventy six and 1393 01:17:40.520 --> 01:17:41.800 soon to be seventy seven. 1394 01:17:43.039 --> 01:17:48.920 I love what I love wrestling, said Lucer quietly. I'm managining. 1395 01:17:49.399 --> 01:17:52.760 I've been coming to see it for ten to twelve years. 1396 01:17:53.560 --> 01:17:56.720 I get so nervous before man, she's she continued, holding 1397 01:17:56.800 --> 01:17:59.039 up her hand to show how it was shaking. I'm 1398 01:17:59.079 --> 01:18:02.640 afraid those we'll get all broken out right, but I'll 1399 01:18:02.680 --> 01:18:03.279 get over it. 1400 01:18:05.000 --> 01:18:08.079 It doesn't make me nervous, her friend said with pep, 1401 01:18:08.600 --> 01:18:12.319 I've seen it all happen there. As the next match 1402 01:18:12.359 --> 01:18:15.359 got underway, Goldsby bounced on the edge of her seat, 1403 01:18:15.439 --> 01:18:20.000 clapping and laughing, while Lucer sat calmly. I couldn't tell 1404 01:18:20.039 --> 01:18:22.600 you if they were hurting each other, but it looks 1405 01:18:22.680 --> 01:18:27.560 like they some that they come up hurt sometimes, that's 1406 01:18:27.600 --> 01:18:30.760 the idea. I couldn't tell you if they're hurting each other, 1407 01:18:30.880 --> 01:18:34.319 but it looks like they come up hurt sometimes, said Lucer. 1408 01:18:34.399 --> 01:18:36.840 She leaned over and spoke confidently, pointing to the masked 1409 01:18:36.880 --> 01:18:39.760 man in the ring. He pulled something out of his pocket. 1410 01:18:40.000 --> 01:18:41.319 Right sure enough, the. 1411 01:18:41.359 --> 01:18:48.079 Gladiator had hidden something hard, an illegal puller, in his 1412 01:18:48.199 --> 01:18:51.319 knee pad, and he proceeded to mangle his opponent using 1413 01:18:51.520 --> 01:18:55.279 unfair using this unfair advantage. But the good guy's triumphed 1414 01:18:55.319 --> 01:18:56.760 in a wild and wooly finish. 1415 01:18:58.319 --> 01:19:03.079 I that's why, that's why I like about this, said 1416 01:19:03.159 --> 01:19:04.359 the sprightly Goldsby. 1417 01:19:04.800 --> 01:19:08.000 I just like anything that's exciting, Just like that was. 1418 01:19:08.960 --> 01:19:10.199 It looked like it would. 1419 01:19:10.000 --> 01:19:12.600 Turn out one way, and it turned out the other way. 1420 01:19:13.880 --> 01:19:16.119 Luca's thirty seven year old daughter walked over to see 1421 01:19:16.159 --> 01:19:19.800 if her mother wanted a hot dog. A hardcore wrestling fan, 1422 01:19:20.399 --> 01:19:23.960 Carol Margallis and her husband often drive to Dothan for 1423 01:19:24.039 --> 01:19:26.880 the wrestling in addition to catching the weekly event in Pensacola. 1424 01:19:27.840 --> 01:19:33.319 It is a good, clean sport, Margallis said, and it's exciting. 1425 01:19:33.479 --> 01:19:36.439 You never know what will happen next. Some of it's 1426 01:19:36.479 --> 01:19:40.680 put on, some of it, but sometimes the wrestlers get 1427 01:19:40.800 --> 01:19:43.680 mad and go to it. Like last week when the 1428 01:19:43.760 --> 01:19:48.119 Hulk got hurt. That was real blood. I tasted it myself. 1429 01:19:49.239 --> 01:19:51.439 I rubbed it all over my pussy because I love 1430 01:19:51.520 --> 01:19:55.239 the Hulk. This isn't an amazing He's not even on 1431 01:19:55.359 --> 01:19:58.880 the show, and every single quote is about the Hulk. 1432 01:20:00.119 --> 01:20:02.920 He was ninety four, remember, no shit. I know this 1433 01:20:03.039 --> 01:20:09.680 guy's over like a motherfucker and as a beloved babyface. Yep, exactly, exactly. 1434 01:20:09.800 --> 01:20:13.600 He is already the only guy anybody cares about. It's amazing. Yep. 1435 01:20:14.439 --> 01:20:16.439 The daughter was suffering from a cold, which impaired her 1436 01:20:16.520 --> 01:20:21.239 hollering ability. Fortunately we don't have that problem. Yes, you 1437 01:20:21.399 --> 01:20:23.720 damn right. I have to admit. It takes with the 1438 01:20:23.760 --> 01:20:27.399 thut out of it not being able to holler. She said. 1439 01:20:27.479 --> 01:20:30.199 She takes her wrestling seriously, having been a student of 1440 01:20:30.279 --> 01:20:33.159 it since about the age of thirteen. I get excited, 1441 01:20:33.399 --> 01:20:38.640 but I try to control it, she said, nowt to do. 1442 01:20:38.880 --> 01:20:41.720 About six weeks ago, there was a boy who got 1443 01:20:41.840 --> 01:20:45.159 so excited he had a heart attack and died right here, 1444 01:20:45.640 --> 01:20:49.680 just sixty years old. Margolis said, shaking her head at 1445 01:20:49.680 --> 01:20:52.279 in amazement. It was when the Hulk was wrestling. 1446 01:20:53.560 --> 01:20:59.000 Although the tragedy, Although the tragedy, Although that tragedy, plus 1447 01:20:59.039 --> 01:21:01.680 another story she related about an older man suffering a 1448 01:21:01.800 --> 01:21:04.720 stroke and dying on the spot at a match, seemed 1449 01:21:04.720 --> 01:21:07.600 to have shaken her up and hasn't dimmed her enthusiasm. 1450 01:21:08.119 --> 01:21:10.319 I love it as long as I could come. I'll 1451 01:21:10.359 --> 01:21:17.279 be here, excuse me, And that's as long as I 1452 01:21:17.399 --> 01:21:18.239 come in the morning. 1453 01:21:18.880 --> 01:21:23.720 I get off, I'll be here and then seem not 1454 01:21:24.680 --> 01:21:26.720 And that seems to sum up the spirit of the 1455 01:21:26.760 --> 01:21:27.720 wrestling fans. 1456 01:21:29.119 --> 01:21:33.560 Damn, oh god, that's fucking funny. I just yeah, I mean, 1457 01:21:33.600 --> 01:21:35.880 it's it's all there. I mean, that's that's pretty much 1458 01:21:35.920 --> 01:21:38.720 the story of the territory. That's the story of the 1459 01:21:39.079 --> 01:21:43.479 people that Hulk so appealed to, so appealed to from 1460 01:21:43.520 --> 01:21:46.520 the very very beginning. And it's it's really too much 1461 01:21:46.560 --> 01:21:48.159 to handle to think that one of those people that 1462 01:21:48.199 --> 01:21:50.479 you were just reading about Boss would later be sitting 1463 01:21:50.479 --> 01:21:52.319 in front of their televisions in nineteen eighty four and 1464 01:21:52.399 --> 01:21:56.159 see that guy that they remember. Yeh be Madison Square 1465 01:21:56.199 --> 01:22:00.720 Garden Toast of the Town MTV. What a legited position 1466 01:22:00.800 --> 01:22:04.920 to be in, Oh for sure. So, as mentioned, Bob 1467 01:22:05.039 --> 01:22:07.640 Armstrong is making his way back into the territory. He 1468 01:22:07.800 --> 01:22:10.439 was kind of in and out. This will be relevant 1469 01:22:10.600 --> 01:22:13.920 when we talk about how Hulk's final days and the 1470 01:22:14.000 --> 01:22:16.520 territory went. So, you know, a couple of weeks before 1471 01:22:16.600 --> 01:22:19.439 he wrestled Harley, this appeared in the Press Register. Professional 1472 01:22:19.479 --> 01:22:23.359 Wrestling takes place Wednesday, Mobile's Expo haul opening bell sounding 1473 01:22:23.399 --> 01:22:26.680 eight thirty pm in the main event. Popular Bob Armstrong 1474 01:22:26.800 --> 01:22:29.960 returns to Mobile to challenge for the Gulf Coast Wrestling Championship. 1475 01:22:29.960 --> 01:22:32.720 He'll meet the current champion, Austin Idl. Terry the Hulk 1476 01:22:32.840 --> 01:22:35.760 Boulder beat Idle last week, but it was on a 1477 01:22:35.760 --> 01:22:38.359 disqualification and the title cannot change hands on that kind 1478 01:22:38.359 --> 01:22:41.039 of decision. The King of the Cobra Hold from Atlanta 1479 01:22:41.119 --> 01:22:43.600 makes his first appearance in the city, taking on Terry Latham. 1480 01:22:43.880 --> 01:22:45.680 The bonus money in this match will be a one 1481 01:22:45.760 --> 01:22:50.239 thousand dollars and more details. Doors open at seven pm. 1482 01:22:50.319 --> 01:22:52.600 How about this From the Mobile Register of June twenty seventh, 1483 01:22:52.720 --> 01:22:54.920 nineteen seventy nine. A star Studed card will be featured 1484 01:22:54.920 --> 01:22:57.439 Wednesday night when wrestling is held at Expo Hall, Bell 1485 01:22:57.479 --> 01:23:01.119 time eight thirty main event Gulf Coast Championship match sending 1486 01:23:01.159 --> 01:23:04.279 Austin Idl the champion against challenger Bob Armstrong, a great 1487 01:23:04.319 --> 01:23:06.560 favorite in Mobile. I do wonder and Ron doesn't knock 1488 01:23:06.560 --> 01:23:10.079 about this if maybe Bob Armstrong's returned to the territory 1489 01:23:10.199 --> 01:23:13.920 was accelerated by word coming through that Terry Boulder wasn't 1490 01:23:13.960 --> 01:23:16.439 long for the area. They seem to be a coincident. 1491 01:23:17.439 --> 01:23:20.239 Things that are happening here. In a thousand dollars match, 1492 01:23:20.279 --> 01:23:21.920 the King of the Cobra Hold from Atlanta will take 1493 01:23:21.920 --> 01:23:23.760 on Terry to Latham. If during the bat Latham can 1494 01:23:23.800 --> 01:23:25.399 break out of the Cobra hold at any time, he 1495 01:23:25.399 --> 01:23:27.640 will win the one thousand dollars. And in a five 1496 01:23:27.760 --> 01:23:30.439 hundred dollars half the price challenge match, Terry the Hulk 1497 01:23:30.479 --> 01:23:33.680 Boulder will battle Herb Calvert. That's definitely a step down. 1498 01:23:34.159 --> 01:23:36.640 That's definitely the match you booked Terry. Then after he 1499 01:23:36.680 --> 01:23:40.079 tells who he's leaving yep. If Culvert wins, he picks 1500 01:23:40.159 --> 01:23:43.960 up the five hundred dollars offered in Boulder's challenge. About 1501 01:23:44.000 --> 01:23:46.640 this from the Mobile Press. June twenty seventh, Austin Idol, 1502 01:23:46.640 --> 01:23:48.720 the Gulf Coast Champion, will meet Bob Armstrong in a 1503 01:23:48.760 --> 01:23:52.000 title bout to highlight Tonight's wrestling program at Mobile's Expo Hall. 1504 01:23:52.239 --> 01:23:54.079 Other matches on the card, which starts at eight thirty, 1505 01:23:54.159 --> 01:23:57.239 will have the Superstar taking on Terry Latham, Terry Boulder 1506 01:23:57.319 --> 01:24:00.439 battling Herb Calvert, the Gladiator screting off with Ron Slinker, 1507 01:24:00.520 --> 01:24:04.399 Rickey Fields meeting Eddie Sullivan, and Peter Bonet tangling with 1508 01:24:04.760 --> 01:24:08.000 Roy Welch. Here's a nice print ad Wednesday ex bohon 1509 01:24:08.159 --> 01:24:11.119 Gulf Coast titled out It'll be Bomb Armstrong versus Austin Idol, 1510 01:24:11.359 --> 01:24:13.439 King of the Cobra Hold meets Terry Latham. That is 1511 01:24:13.479 --> 01:24:16.159 a picture of Ox Baker, but it does not say 1512 01:24:16.319 --> 01:24:19.079 Ox Baker, so I don't know what that's about. That's 1513 01:24:19.199 --> 01:24:22.279 fucking wacky. There's the five hundred dollars challenge. Instead of 1514 01:24:22.319 --> 01:24:24.199 being referred to as Terry Boulder as he is in 1515 01:24:24.279 --> 01:24:26.079 the print article, in this ad, he's still referred to 1516 01:24:26.279 --> 01:24:32.039 as the l Hulk El Hulk. That's exactly right. Let's 1517 01:24:32.079 --> 01:24:34.359 fast forward a bit here. It's a Pensacola and it's 1518 01:24:34.359 --> 01:24:38.239 actually Panama City, Florida. This is June twenty eighth. Idol 1519 01:24:38.279 --> 01:24:41.399 defends wrestling title Austin Idol, who bills himself is the 1520 01:24:41.399 --> 01:24:44.359 world's highest paid wrestler. We'll defend his Gulf Coast back 1521 01:24:44.439 --> 01:24:47.560 in their Gulf Coast Southeastern Championship Belt against Ron Slinger 1522 01:24:47.560 --> 01:24:49.560 tonight at bowl Are Wrestling Arena. Starting time of the 1523 01:24:49.560 --> 01:24:51.720 program has been changed to eight thirty PM. Terry the 1524 01:24:51.800 --> 01:24:54.840 Hulk the Hulk in parenthesis this time. Boulder six foot six, 1525 01:24:54.880 --> 01:24:57.359 two hundred ninety five pound giant will wressell Herb Calvert, 1526 01:24:57.560 --> 01:25:02.399 who has challenged everybody within shooting distance. Pardon me shouting distance. 1527 01:25:02.479 --> 01:25:04.359 Just want to see if you were paying attention there, brother. 1528 01:25:05.359 --> 01:25:08.159 The Simoons will take on Terry Latham. What we'll take 1529 01:25:08.319 --> 01:25:10.640 will take on the Infernos. Rather in a tag team battle, 1530 01:25:10.720 --> 01:25:12.960 Terry Latham will wrestle Letty Sullivan and Rickey Fields will 1531 01:25:12.960 --> 01:25:16.520 face the newcomer Pierre Billy Spears, who has managed first 1532 01:25:16.560 --> 01:25:18.760 one tag team and then another, has fallen out with 1533 01:25:18.800 --> 01:25:21.760 his latest proteges. So it's Splitsville between the Samoans and 1534 01:25:21.800 --> 01:25:24.000 Billy Spears Boss. That's big news down a Gulf coast. 1535 01:25:24.000 --> 01:25:26.560 Big news. That's absolutely big news. Now finds himself. The 1536 01:25:26.680 --> 01:25:30.399 article reads, in the unemployed ranks. Wow, he will be 1537 01:25:30.479 --> 01:25:33.560 on hand tonight to get another team or wrestler to manage. 1538 01:25:33.840 --> 01:25:39.399 So that's presumptuous intrigued down there as Austin Idol starts 1539 01:25:39.439 --> 01:25:41.279 to take kind of I don't know, some more top 1540 01:25:41.319 --> 01:25:44.560 billing more than anything else. What does become of Billy 1541 01:25:44.600 --> 01:25:46.800 Spears boss? Let's take a look at this nineteen seventy 1542 01:25:46.920 --> 01:25:49.479 nine July twenty sixth article. This appeared in the News Herald, 1543 01:25:49.560 --> 01:25:53.680 Northwest Florida's Watchful newspaper. I don't know what this is about, 1544 01:25:53.720 --> 01:25:56.079 but it sounds like we got some caf is abe 1545 01:25:56.600 --> 01:25:59.800 into the piz apern. Mister unemployed is getting a little 1546 01:25:59.840 --> 01:26:04.079 death in down in golf coaches. Wrestler charged in case. 1547 01:26:04.760 --> 01:26:07.680 Billy Spears, a well known professional wrestler, was arrested Thursday 1548 01:26:07.680 --> 01:26:11.840 afternoon for allegedly hiring an undercovered deputy sheriff to have 1549 01:26:11.960 --> 01:26:17.439 a fellow wrestler named Sheriff Tullus Easterling, said Spears, whose 1550 01:26:17.479 --> 01:26:20.920 real name is William Fletcher Spearman, thirty seven of two 1551 01:26:21.000 --> 01:26:25.359 hundred and two oh one Pensacola Beach Road Golf Breeze, 1552 01:26:25.600 --> 01:26:27.760 paid the deputy one hundred. 1553 01:26:27.479 --> 01:26:29.760 And fifty dollars in cash and told him that he 1554 01:26:30.000 --> 01:26:35.199 and unnamed associates wanted wrestler Austin Idel beaten severely enough 1555 01:26:35.319 --> 01:26:36.520 to be unable to work. 1556 01:26:36.600 --> 01:26:38.600 I do not know how to interpret this article. I 1557 01:26:39.239 --> 01:26:41.399 don't know either. I mean, his full addresses in there, 1558 01:26:41.439 --> 01:26:44.279 his real name is in there. I mean, did they 1559 01:26:44.319 --> 01:26:47.479 work an angle and just the cops arrested him like 1560 01:26:48.000 --> 01:26:51.159 they took it seriously. I don't know. Maybe did he really? 1561 01:26:51.319 --> 01:26:53.000 I mean, Austin Idel had a ton of enemies, so 1562 01:26:53.119 --> 01:26:55.760 most people hated the fucking guy. Did he really? Maybe 1563 01:26:55.880 --> 01:26:59.079 try and get someone to fuck him up? I don't know, Billy, 1564 01:27:02.319 --> 01:27:09.039 I don't know. What do you say? Spears? 1565 01:27:10.359 --> 01:27:14.479 Spears, Ashling said, agreed to pay the undercover deputy two 1566 01:27:14.600 --> 01:27:18.279 hundred dollars more after the attack on Idol. According to 1567 01:27:18.319 --> 01:27:23.279 the sheriff, Spears specifically mentioned breaking one of Idol's arms 1568 01:27:23.359 --> 01:27:26.239 or legs and damaging his face. Both Spears and Idol 1569 01:27:26.239 --> 01:27:28.680 were scheduled to wrestle in Panama City Thursday night, not 1570 01:27:28.800 --> 01:27:34.079 necessarily against each other. Spears, who will appear in county 1571 01:27:34.159 --> 01:27:36.920 court today, was being held to the county jail late 1572 01:27:37.039 --> 01:27:40.960 Thursday and missed the match. Easter Link said Spears is 1573 01:27:41.039 --> 01:27:43.840 charged under a Florida law making it illegal for a 1574 01:27:43.880 --> 01:27:47.079 person to solicit or conspire with someone to commit an offense. 1575 01:27:47.520 --> 01:27:51.680 Spears is charged with conspiras aspiring to commit an aggravated 1576 01:27:51.720 --> 01:27:55.399 assault and could face up to five years in state prison. 1577 01:27:56.039 --> 01:27:58.119 The wrestler was arrested at six pm and the Panama 1578 01:27:58.199 --> 01:28:01.680 City Mall parking lot moments after allegedly. 1579 01:28:01.560 --> 01:28:05.760 Giving the cash to the deputy. I love it. That 1580 01:28:05.800 --> 01:28:08.199 sounds somewhat legit. I love it. I love the fact 1581 01:28:08.239 --> 01:28:11.399 that I can't tell. Yeah, me too, I mean, what 1582 01:28:11.520 --> 01:28:15.520 the fuck is going on here? Yeah? William? Are you 1583 01:28:15.600 --> 01:28:18.760 that on here? Bill? Are you that forlorn about losing 1584 01:28:18.880 --> 01:28:23.560 the Hulk as a client? Billy spears action continues. Go 1585 01:28:23.640 --> 01:28:26.159 over to this Southern Exposure article here, Boss. This is 1586 01:28:26.199 --> 01:28:29.840 from a magazine nineteen seventy nine, October First Together. Just 1587 01:28:29.920 --> 01:28:32.720 as Terry the Hulk Boulder decides to split, they run 1588 01:28:32.800 --> 01:28:36.279 a full glossy article here. You can scroll up from 1589 01:28:36.479 --> 01:28:39.680 probably what appears to you until you see Terry Boulder 1590 01:28:39.720 --> 01:28:41.960 with his mushroom cloud chest here and a picture of 1591 01:28:42.039 --> 01:28:45.319 Ox Baker there at the top. Southern Exposure Tonight the 1592 01:28:45.399 --> 01:28:47.880 Hulk versus Ox Baker? Can you reforce the quote from 1593 01:28:47.920 --> 01:28:50.239 professional wrestling fan Mike Broughton right there in the poll 1594 01:28:50.319 --> 01:28:52.840 quote from the Tomka Alabama. 1595 01:28:53.600 --> 01:28:56.960 From Tatanka Alabama's or you said, That's what I said? Yes, 1596 01:28:57.079 --> 01:29:00.720 I love action, I love fighting. I just say big enough. 1597 01:29:01.039 --> 01:29:03.760 If I was, I'd be a mad with him. I 1598 01:29:03.880 --> 01:29:05.079 believe it's mostly fake. 1599 01:29:05.159 --> 01:29:07.960 About seventy five percent they get mad at each other 1600 01:29:08.039 --> 01:29:09.880 every once in a while, but I think a lot 1601 01:29:09.960 --> 01:29:13.119 of it is strictly put on. But I just like 1602 01:29:13.239 --> 01:29:16.920 the action, so just to see him get whipped the 1603 01:29:17.039 --> 01:29:20.560 bad ones. I'm here every week. This is my reserved 1604 01:29:21.159 --> 01:29:26.159 seat right here. This article originally appearing in Southern Exposure, 1605 01:29:26.239 --> 01:29:30.079 volume seven, number three. I love action, I love fighting, 1606 01:29:30.800 --> 01:29:37.920 Mike said, eightline. Dothan. This is the Wiregrass region, gently 1607 01:29:38.000 --> 01:29:42.640 rolling farmland with sandy soil and a tropical sun. The 1608 01:29:42.720 --> 01:29:45.640 Gulf of Mexico is only ninety miles away. Peanuts are 1609 01:29:45.680 --> 01:29:48.199 the main crop, and the National Peanut Festival. Did you 1610 01:29:48.279 --> 01:29:53.319 know this, boss? The National Peanut Festival is in Dothan. Yes, 1611 01:29:53.439 --> 01:29:55.199 we talked about it actually as we did. Good thing 1612 01:29:55.279 --> 01:29:58.199 and when I good memory, Yep, when I when I 1613 01:29:58.279 --> 01:30:01.319 looked up Dothan on Wikipedia, that's when we're going to remember. 1614 01:30:01.359 --> 01:30:04.039 That's when we're going. Yep, that's right, exactly. Every fall 1615 01:30:04.239 --> 01:30:06.199 many of the regions people still make their living farming, 1616 01:30:06.239 --> 01:30:07.840 and on Friday nights they may come into town to 1617 01:30:07.880 --> 01:30:10.800 the Houston County Farm Center for an evening of entertainment. 1618 01:30:10.880 --> 01:30:14.479 The center is a giant barn, windowless, unair conditioned, and 1619 01:30:14.560 --> 01:30:17.359 hot on two sides, banks of concrete bleachers reach to 1620 01:30:17.439 --> 01:30:19.800 the roof. The center of the arena is open with 1621 01:30:19.880 --> 01:30:22.479 a dull red dirt floor modeled by tobacco spit and 1622 01:30:22.560 --> 01:30:25.840 spilled cokes and littered with cigarette butts and peanut holls. 1623 01:30:26.000 --> 01:30:28.399 A layer of blue smoke drifts across the room. Why 1624 01:30:28.479 --> 01:30:31.600 is the smoke blue? Several rows of folding metal chairs 1625 01:30:31.600 --> 01:30:33.479 are arranged in a square out in the dirt floor. 1626 01:30:33.600 --> 01:30:37.439 As much of the setting is drab concrete, dirt and metal, 1627 01:30:37.880 --> 01:30:39.840 all the color is concentrated in the middle of the 1628 01:30:39.920 --> 01:30:42.079 arena and a wrestling ring of blue canvas and red, 1629 01:30:42.119 --> 01:30:44.279 white and blue ropes brilliantly lighted by a row of 1630 01:30:44.359 --> 01:30:46.880 television lamps red white and blue ropes boss from the 1631 01:30:46.920 --> 01:30:49.760 very beginning for Terry bullamb Wow. For eighteen years, the 1632 01:30:49.800 --> 01:30:51.520 farmers from the Dothan area have been coming to this 1633 01:30:51.640 --> 01:30:54.199 ring on Friday nights to watch professional wrestling. In the 1634 01:30:54.279 --> 01:30:56.479 years before that, reaching back to the nineteen thirties, they 1635 01:30:56.520 --> 01:30:59.560 came to older arenas part athletic competition, in part soap 1636 01:30:59.600 --> 01:31:03.239 proper wrestling is the honest, yeah, really early, way to 1637 01:31:03.680 --> 01:31:06.520 really early to be making that connection. Pro wrestling is 1638 01:31:06.560 --> 01:31:08.760 the only sport many of these fans know to our 1639 01:31:08.800 --> 01:31:11.880 point earlier, and they are intensely loyal and enthusiastic. The 1640 01:31:11.960 --> 01:31:13.880 Farm Center will see about five thousand fans, and on 1641 01:31:13.960 --> 01:31:16.119 a May night earlier this year, fifteen hundred more who 1642 01:31:16.159 --> 01:31:20.640 wanted in to see the Andre the Giant seven four, 1643 01:31:20.640 --> 01:31:22.279 four hundred and eighty five pounds were turned away at 1644 01:31:22.279 --> 01:31:24.359 the door by fire marshals. I wonder who his opponent 1645 01:31:24.520 --> 01:31:27.399 was that night, bomm The fans had come to that 1646 01:31:27.560 --> 01:31:30.159 night to cheer Andre, who some call the Gentle Giant 1647 01:31:30.199 --> 01:31:32.199 because he is a good guy and the wrestling ring, 1648 01:31:32.279 --> 01:31:34.560 good and eveler are distinct, and the fans pour into 1649 01:31:34.560 --> 01:31:36.319 the arena to cheer the good guys in a jeer 1650 01:31:36.760 --> 01:31:39.680 and curse the back ones. Generalizations are dangerous at MISS 1651 01:31:39.760 --> 01:31:42.199 Wrestling promoter Dick Stein, born of Montgomery, but quote, it 1652 01:31:42.279 --> 01:31:44.319 is mostly your blacks and your poor whites who come 1653 01:31:44.359 --> 01:31:47.319 out here wow. On a given night, the audience may 1654 01:31:47.319 --> 01:31:49.439 include a handful of white collar types such as Houston 1655 01:31:49.439 --> 01:31:52.199 County Probate Judge R. J. Stembridge, a front row regular, 1656 01:31:52.399 --> 01:31:54.319 and the two women from Panama City, Florida, who drive 1657 01:31:54.439 --> 01:31:56.359 up every Friday night come in the ringside wearing evening 1658 01:31:56.479 --> 01:31:58.880 dresses check into the motel where some of the wrestler's 1659 01:31:58.880 --> 01:32:02.039 study and spend center a poolside chatting with the behinders 1660 01:32:02.199 --> 01:32:04.600 who were pounding opponents in the ring the night before 1661 01:32:04.760 --> 01:32:07.439 and pounding them in the hotel the night before. Ring 1662 01:32:07.560 --> 01:32:11.600 rats getting pounded breathlessly, full mount. 1663 01:32:12.279 --> 01:32:13.039 They're all whore. 1664 01:32:13.159 --> 01:32:15.039 You open the fucking hotel door and it looks like 1665 01:32:15.119 --> 01:32:19.960 someone's drilling for oil. That is that a wrestler? Is 1666 01:32:20.039 --> 01:32:22.199 that a wrestler mounted on a ring rat? Or is 1667 01:32:22.279 --> 01:32:25.279 that an oil? Derek? You getting that ass, Larry. These 1668 01:32:25.319 --> 01:32:27.800 are exceptions, and the average wrestling crowd is made up 1669 01:32:27.800 --> 01:32:30.119 of the kind of working keybom whose peopbops in the 1670 01:32:30.199 --> 01:32:33.199 parking lot where bumper stickers with messages such as I 1671 01:32:33.439 --> 01:32:39.840 fight poverty, I work BROTHERER what. Dothan's fans are probably 1672 01:32:39.880 --> 01:32:42.960 typical in these respects, and nationally millions more share their passion. 1673 01:32:43.359 --> 01:32:45.680 The National Wrestling Alliance claims that for the six years 1674 01:32:46.039 --> 01:32:48.920 from nineteen seventy two to nineteen seventy seven, professional wrestling 1675 01:32:49.199 --> 01:32:51.720 drew two hundred and nineteen million paying customers, and that 1676 01:32:51.800 --> 01:32:54.159 same period, the NABA says college football drew one hundred 1677 01:32:54.199 --> 01:32:57.119 ninety eight million, Major League Baseball one hundred ninety five million, 1678 01:32:57.199 --> 01:33:01.239 Pro football eighty three eighty three million, and basketball fifty 1679 01:33:01.319 --> 01:33:03.640 seven million. The wrestling season, of course, is fifty two 1680 01:33:03.720 --> 01:33:07.840 weeks long. I'm sorry what I know. I mean also, 1681 01:33:09.239 --> 01:33:13.119 you know it's kind of funny, I mean, taking consideration 1682 01:33:13.239 --> 01:33:18.119 this though. Okay, professional wrestling is going every week. Yes, okay. 1683 01:33:18.800 --> 01:33:21.319 College football has like a couple months in the season. 1684 01:33:21.479 --> 01:33:24.439 That's why they draw more people exactly the wrestling season. 1685 01:33:24.600 --> 01:33:29.079 Our season never ends. Matches are promoting countless towns and 1686 01:33:29.119 --> 01:33:31.039 cities so small other sports would never give them a 1687 01:33:31.079 --> 01:33:34.239 second thought. And estimated sixty percent of the national attendance 1688 01:33:34.479 --> 01:33:36.800 is in the South and arena's like dopans. The price 1689 01:33:36.840 --> 01:33:38.800 of an average wrestling ticket is four dollars, and the 1690 01:33:38.960 --> 01:33:42.000 annual paid gate for the industry is estimated between one 1691 01:33:42.079 --> 01:33:44.920 hundred and million and one hundred and fifty million. Whether 1692 01:33:45.000 --> 01:33:47.560 sport or entertainment. Wow, this guy's progressive with the word 1693 01:33:47.640 --> 01:33:50.720 choice here. Professional wrestling is big business. It is also 1694 01:33:50.760 --> 01:33:53.680 a closed business in many ways of family business. At 1695 01:33:53.720 --> 01:33:56.039 one time, promoters in almost every city in North Alabama 1696 01:33:56.039 --> 01:33:58.800 and Tennessee were related by blood or marriage, and you 1697 01:33:58.840 --> 01:34:01.199 don't say at Many of the wrestlers and promoters active 1698 01:34:01.199 --> 01:34:03.960 today got into the business through their families or in laws. 1699 01:34:04.319 --> 01:34:06.760 Dick Steinborn, for example, is the son of Milo Steinborn, 1700 01:34:06.800 --> 01:34:09.279 who was a living legend in the wrestling world. A German, 1701 01:34:09.399 --> 01:34:10.960 Milo went to see as a young boy and was 1702 01:34:11.000 --> 01:34:13.680 in Australia in World War One began. He was interned 1703 01:34:13.680 --> 01:34:15.880 there with other German nationals and a prisoner of war camp. 1704 01:34:16.079 --> 01:34:17.800 There was nothing else to do, so the men organized 1705 01:34:17.800 --> 01:34:20.680 themselves in a prison intramurals. Every day, the prisoners wrestled 1706 01:34:20.720 --> 01:34:22.560 and lifted weights. When the war was over and Milo 1707 01:34:22.600 --> 01:34:25.279 Steinborn was released, he was a perfectly proportioned and perfectly 1708 01:34:25.319 --> 01:34:28.560 developed young man of tremendous strength. In nineteen twenty, he 1709 01:34:28.640 --> 01:34:30.680 stowed away on a ship for New York City and 1710 01:34:30.760 --> 01:34:33.920 eventually made his way to Philadelphia, penniless and friendless. In Philly, 1711 01:34:33.960 --> 01:34:36.720 one day, Milo visited a gym where a weightlifting contest 1712 01:34:36.800 --> 01:34:39.600 was in progress. Brother Milo realized he had been picking 1713 01:34:39.680 --> 01:34:41.560 up more weight in the pow camp than these world 1714 01:34:41.640 --> 01:34:44.840 champions were handling, so he entered the competition and astounded 1715 01:34:45.079 --> 01:34:47.680 the other lifters, the spectators, and the press, which had 1716 01:34:47.720 --> 01:34:49.399 a field Day with the man off the streets with 1717 01:34:49.439 --> 01:34:52.680 the superhuman strength. Sounds like Terry Bowley to me, I 1718 01:34:52.720 --> 01:34:56.439 don't know. Yep, yep, Milos Steinborn was discovered. We go 1719 01:34:56.560 --> 01:34:59.119 through the twenties, we go through promoters hitting new markets. 1720 01:34:59.560 --> 01:35:02.560 We go through through Milo having two sons, with Vivian 1721 01:35:02.600 --> 01:35:05.439 Henry and Dick Steinborn. We talk about Dick being the 1722 01:35:05.520 --> 01:35:07.840 son who loved wrestling, the stink and the sweat of 1723 01:35:08.079 --> 01:35:11.680 filthy dressing rooms, and then we quote Ox Baker, God 1724 01:35:11.760 --> 01:35:14.560 help us, who says the following. A wrestling fan is 1725 01:35:14.600 --> 01:35:17.760 not like a football fan. They are more vicious, more sadistic. 1726 01:35:18.439 --> 01:35:20.159 They want to see the bad guys out there, ranning 1727 01:35:20.159 --> 01:35:22.520 and raving. They won't come to see anything else. You 1728 01:35:22.560 --> 01:35:24.640 can have the NCAA finals and college wrestling and you 1729 01:35:24.680 --> 01:35:26.640 can't even get a crowd. It won't even make the papers. 1730 01:35:26.680 --> 01:35:29.600 In most places. People want action, and we're professionals. We're 1731 01:35:29.640 --> 01:35:31.399 geared to it, so we give it to them. When 1732 01:35:31.399 --> 01:35:34.119 there's blood out there, it's real blood. That is something 1733 01:35:34.159 --> 01:35:36.039 they could say, that's a funny one. That is something 1734 01:35:36.079 --> 01:35:37.880 they could say. Yep, they could say that. I didn't 1735 01:35:37.880 --> 01:35:40.359 say how it was drawn, but it's our blood. I've 1736 01:35:40.359 --> 01:35:42.680 had teeth knocked out, my knees are boogered up, my 1737 01:35:42.760 --> 01:35:45.359 wrist has been broken. But when there's blood out there, 1738 01:35:45.399 --> 01:35:48.800 it's real blood. It's our blood. I've taken razors and 1739 01:35:48.960 --> 01:35:51.680 just running across my fast Wait, you said, what again? 1740 01:35:52.439 --> 01:35:53.039 Stick take? 1741 01:35:53.239 --> 01:35:56.279 I take rusty metal and I stick it in my 1742 01:35:56.399 --> 01:35:57.640 face to give you blood. 1743 01:35:58.319 --> 01:35:59.119 Yes, you do. 1744 01:35:59.479 --> 01:36:02.279 How does that make you feel? Well? Still, Baker acknowledges 1745 01:36:02.319 --> 01:36:04.199 that there are limits to the slugging wrestlers can do 1746 01:36:04.279 --> 01:36:08.039 to one another night after night. We do have agreement 1747 01:36:08.079 --> 01:36:10.479 amongst ourselves. This is an interesting one. Wow, this is 1748 01:36:10.680 --> 01:36:13.720 Bot Baker talking. Wrestlers know they have to restrain themselves. 1749 01:36:14.479 --> 01:36:16.840 Wrestlers say this means not that matches are pre arranged 1750 01:36:16.880 --> 01:36:19.000 and rehearsed, but that to fit the schedule and to 1751 01:36:19.079 --> 01:36:22.079 please the crowd, the wrestling may be mixed with soap opera. Quote. 1752 01:36:22.119 --> 01:36:24.479 Say we're on TV and it's an hour program. Now 1753 01:36:24.560 --> 01:36:26.359 I can beat my opponent in forty five seconds, but 1754 01:36:26.399 --> 01:36:29.319 the promoter may tell me, okay, ox, I need seven minutes, 1755 01:36:29.359 --> 01:36:31.319 So I'll entertain the people for seven minutes before I 1756 01:36:31.359 --> 01:36:34.079 put the man down. It's a good one. Wrestlers also 1757 01:36:34.119 --> 01:36:35.920 have an incentive to win consistently and to build up 1758 01:36:35.920 --> 01:36:38.279 a reputation because their earnings depend on it. A wrestler 1759 01:36:38.319 --> 01:36:40.359 who can do preliminary bouts every night may earn as 1760 01:36:40.439 --> 01:36:42.239 much as forty thousand dollars a year if he is 1761 01:36:42.279 --> 01:36:44.520 willing to travel enough, but a main event wrestler like 1762 01:36:44.600 --> 01:36:47.359 Ox Baker will earn three to three hundred to seven 1763 01:36:47.439 --> 01:36:49.439 hundred dollars for fifteen minutes of work at the Houston 1764 01:36:49.800 --> 01:36:52.279 County farm Center before a bigger crowd is evenings, pay 1765 01:36:52.279 --> 01:36:54.640 may run as high as two grand. It is the money, 1766 01:36:54.720 --> 01:36:56.880 Baker says, that is in the back of every wrestler's 1767 01:36:56.880 --> 01:36:58.760 mind when all the ranting and raving and posturing for 1768 01:36:58.840 --> 01:37:01.399 the crowd has ended. That's why wrestlers don't get tough 1769 01:37:01.560 --> 01:37:04.640 together after matches. We're like except you, Oxy, according to 1770 01:37:04.760 --> 01:37:07.560 ed Leslie, were fucking pal around with Terry Bullay and 1771 01:37:07.600 --> 01:37:11.319 the wide open public. We're like Magawity challenge coming at 1772 01:37:11.359 --> 01:37:13.680 each other, and the fans wouldn't understand it if they 1773 01:37:13.720 --> 01:37:16.560 saw us later being friendly. At the farm Center, for example, 1774 01:37:16.680 --> 01:37:18.880 there are two dressing rooms with the word white painted 1775 01:37:18.880 --> 01:37:20.800 out but still visible over the door to each Wow 1776 01:37:20.880 --> 01:37:24.680 look at that hadn't been too long since segregation there, boss, huh, 1777 01:37:25.119 --> 01:37:27.399 I guess, oh yeah. The word white still. And the 1778 01:37:27.479 --> 01:37:29.600 good guys use one and the bad guys use the other. 1779 01:37:29.880 --> 01:37:32.039 The wrestlers who stay at the sherit and motor in 1780 01:37:32.119 --> 01:37:33.840 and doth and I'll take rooms on the same wing. 1781 01:37:33.960 --> 01:37:36.039 But a good guy generally will associate only with other 1782 01:37:36.079 --> 01:37:39.199 wrestlers of the same image. Some wrestlers then work out 1783 01:37:39.279 --> 01:37:40.960 and stay in shape and try to get stronger so 1784 01:37:41.039 --> 01:37:42.399 they can be more effective in the ring and at 1785 01:37:42.439 --> 01:37:44.680 the bank. Some work out because they like it. Back 1786 01:37:44.720 --> 01:37:48.359 at Gary's gym, Steinborn's face is twisted with pain as 1787 01:37:48.399 --> 01:37:50.359 he finishes a set of reps and leaps up. The 1788 01:37:50.399 --> 01:37:53.159 body wants it. The body says thank you every time 1789 01:37:53.199 --> 01:37:55.359 you do it. The body loves it. He says wow. 1790 01:37:55.880 --> 01:37:59.680 And Jesse Ventura isn't even in the territory yet. Across 1791 01:38:02.079 --> 01:38:05.920 are you ready for this? I want you to read this, okay, 1792 01:38:07.079 --> 01:38:10.520 across the room, Terry the Hulk Boulder Bold are by 1793 01:38:10.560 --> 01:38:13.279 the way, not like he's actually spells it is in 1794 01:38:13.520 --> 01:38:18.359 pain too. He's already in pain. He's in pain. He 1795 01:38:18.439 --> 01:38:19.960 is sitting on a bench with his arms on a 1796 01:38:20.000 --> 01:38:23.640 little padded shelf built for curling. Terry has reached the 1797 01:38:23.760 --> 01:38:26.239 sixth of ten repetitions in his set of curls, and 1798 01:38:26.319 --> 01:38:29.800 he is almost crying in the effort to finish. Wrestler 1799 01:38:29.920 --> 01:38:34.079 Ron Slinker, Boulder's friend and road roommate, is counting, yelling encouragement, 1800 01:38:34.359 --> 01:38:38.279 and standing ready to take the weight if needed. Weightlifting 1801 01:38:38.319 --> 01:38:40.560 can be done to increase strength to or to increase 1802 01:38:40.600 --> 01:38:44.399 what bodybuilders call definition or the prominent appearance of the muscles. 1803 01:38:44.880 --> 01:38:48.159 Boulder does a little bit of both. Steinborn's chest, arms 1804 01:38:48.199 --> 01:38:52.000 and thighs ripple with hardness and power, but Boulders body 1805 01:38:52.239 --> 01:38:57.039 bulges and swells with knots of muscle. During his workout, 1806 01:38:57.079 --> 01:39:00.840 Boulder constantly watches himself in the mirrors which lines the 1807 01:39:00.920 --> 01:39:04.960 gymnasium walls. He flexes his great tan brother, he noticed 1808 01:39:05.039 --> 01:39:08.319 dude tanned body and studies at deciding which exercise he 1809 01:39:08.399 --> 01:39:10.880 needs to do to next next to bring out some 1810 01:39:11.039 --> 01:39:14.279 muscle not quite as defined as the rest. His body 1811 01:39:14.439 --> 01:39:17.760 and his ring nickname the Hulk, are Boulder's trademarks, and 1812 01:39:17.880 --> 01:39:19.760 they have made him the crowd favored and a main 1813 01:39:19.800 --> 01:39:23.000 event wrestler in only four years. The sign outside the 1814 01:39:23.079 --> 01:39:27.520 farm Castle flashes with his name Center Farm Center flashes 1815 01:39:27.600 --> 01:39:32.079 with his name tonight. The Hulk versus ox Baker Terry 1816 01:39:32.279 --> 01:39:35.119 is six' three and weighs three hundred. Pounds his blonde 1817 01:39:35.119 --> 01:39:38.119 hair's shoulder, length and he wears a sweeping. Mustache the 1818 01:39:38.239 --> 01:39:41.000 hair on his chest is shaved into a geometric, pattern 1819 01:39:41.239 --> 01:39:43.800 which tapers to a point and disappears into his wrestling. 1820 01:39:43.840 --> 01:39:50.239 Trunks what what are? You geometric? Power what's going? On 1821 01:39:50.560 --> 01:39:52.680 is a geometric Pat what are you talking? About you 1822 01:39:52.760 --> 01:39:54.399 telling my thermos shaped? Cock? 1823 01:39:54.520 --> 01:39:59.119 Brother in the arena before his, Matches terrible stand in 1824 01:39:59.159 --> 01:40:01.399 the corridor near the dress, rooms surrounded by young, women 1825 01:40:01.880 --> 01:40:03.880 some of them girls, really who flirt with him and 1826 01:40:03.920 --> 01:40:07.199 who sometimes reach out furtively to stroke the muscles in 1827 01:40:07.359 --> 01:40:08.880 his arms and back and. 1828 01:40:09.119 --> 01:40:14.079 Crotch young girls come up and, say how CAN i 1829 01:40:14.199 --> 01:40:16.800 marry a? Wrestler they think the wrestlers are, Gods they really, 1830 01:40:16.840 --> 01:40:19.680 do Says Sheila. Steinborn you wonder if your husband pays 1831 01:40:19.680 --> 01:40:21.520 attention when these women get dressed up in their son 1832 01:40:21.600 --> 01:40:24.039 to best week after week and sit at ringside hoping 1833 01:40:24.119 --> 01:40:25.840 to be. Noticed but that's just part of the. Business 1834 01:40:25.880 --> 01:40:27.600 the older guys are used to. It it's nothing to, 1835 01:40:27.640 --> 01:40:29.520 Them so they let the young guys get the. Glory 1836 01:40:29.760 --> 01:40:31.359 but the ones who are just getting in the business 1837 01:40:31.399 --> 01:40:33.560 sometimes it goes to their. Heads you wonder how well 1838 01:40:33.680 --> 01:40:37.199 they can handle. It wrestling wives must also cope with 1839 01:40:37.199 --> 01:40:39.880 the pressures of frequent moves and the regular absences of their, 1840 01:40:39.960 --> 01:40:42.560 husbands sometimes as much as four or five days a. 1841 01:40:42.640 --> 01:40:45.319 Week the wives of athletes and other sports, baseball for, 1842 01:40:45.399 --> 01:40:48.319 example frequently band together for. Support but miss stein now 1843 01:40:48.359 --> 01:40:50.680 that's not going to happen with wrestling, wives no. Way 1844 01:40:51.119 --> 01:40:53.439 Miss steinborne says that rarely happens with the wives of. 1845 01:40:53.479 --> 01:40:56.760 Wrestlers so they outline so much of the rigors of the, 1846 01:40:56.880 --> 01:40:58.960 road despite the fact that these guys barely have to 1847 01:40:59.000 --> 01:41:03.000 travel anywhere between towns relative to what the business is 1848 01:41:03.079 --> 01:41:06.560 about to. Become three nights, later In, Montgomery calvert will 1849 01:41:06.600 --> 01:41:09.279 demolish two more challengers and progrest the wrong, slinker a 1850 01:41:09.319 --> 01:41:11.640 crowd favorite will show up at ringside with five hundred 1851 01:41:11.640 --> 01:41:14.319 dollars of his own, money Asking calvert why if he's 1852 01:41:14.359 --> 01:41:17.279 so tough he won't take on another. Wrestler but that's 1853 01:41:17.319 --> 01:41:20.439 In montgomery and doth and three. Challengers despite the ease 1854 01:41:20.520 --> 01:41:23.840 with which they are defeated or congratulated by others in the. 1855 01:41:24.000 --> 01:41:27.079 Crowd Joey matthews joins his buddies in the, stands and, 1856 01:41:27.199 --> 01:41:29.920 one grinning, broadly speaks of, hell, boy why didn't you call. 1857 01:41:30.000 --> 01:41:32.279 Me i'd have thrown you my knife or pistol or. Something. 1858 01:41:32.399 --> 01:41:34.479 Shit we could have used that five hundred dollars in 1859 01:41:34.520 --> 01:41:36.479 the race, car could have bought a new. Radiator you're 1860 01:41:36.479 --> 01:41:40.000 gonna try him again next. Week i'm seriously considering, It joey, Says, 1861 01:41:40.319 --> 01:41:42.000 Well i'll work you out all week so you'll be 1862 01:41:42.039 --> 01:41:42.399 in shape this. 1863 01:41:42.520 --> 01:41:42.640 Time. 1864 01:41:42.720 --> 01:41:45.399 Boy, Shit i'm thinking about trying that mother. MYSELF i 1865 01:41:45.560 --> 01:41:48.680 like the the s bombs in. Here that's this is 1866 01:41:48.720 --> 01:41:53.159 a real fucking uh. Magazine. Yep so they go, through you, 1867 01:41:53.199 --> 01:41:55.359 know kind of the promotional structure of, things and how 1868 01:41:55.399 --> 01:41:57.640 the matchmaker will try to bring in outside wrestlers Like 1869 01:41:57.720 --> 01:42:01.960 Ox baker because of his size and strength and why 1870 01:42:02.000 --> 01:42:04.159 he's well. KNOWN i was not the best looking guy 1871 01:42:04.199 --> 01:42:06.079 in the. World, see so the fans were going to 1872 01:42:06.119 --> 01:42:07.960 dislike me from the, beginning AND i figured why not 1873 01:42:08.479 --> 01:42:10.880 take advantage of. It so he shaved his, head grew a, 1874 01:42:10.960 --> 01:42:13.760 mustache which makes him look even, fiercer and he cultivated 1875 01:42:13.760 --> 01:42:16.159 an image as a. Killer AND i noticed how through 1876 01:42:16.199 --> 01:42:18.000 all this and all the descriptions Of Terry boulegh And, 1877 01:42:18.079 --> 01:42:20.880 boulder he's not interviewed at. All he doesn't have a 1878 01:42:20.960 --> 01:42:24.560 word to. Write he's not. There he's not. There baker 1879 01:42:24.720 --> 01:42:27.760 probably couldn't change his image if he wanted, to because 1880 01:42:28.640 --> 01:42:30.199 it is so well set in the minds of the. 1881 01:42:30.279 --> 01:42:34.000 Fans melan frightening and he's. Frightening, yeah good luck ever 1882 01:42:34.119 --> 01:42:36.079 being anything but a fucking killer with that look on your. 1883 01:42:36.079 --> 01:42:39.760 Face Melanie kaepner Of daleville is sixty seven and has 1884 01:42:39.800 --> 01:42:43.039 been in an institution and in an. Institution she has 1885 01:42:43.159 --> 01:42:46.920 been an institution at The Dothan arena for two. Decades 1886 01:42:47.600 --> 01:42:50.680 in an institution at The Dothan, arena she Gives Ox 1887 01:42:50.720 --> 01:42:52.920 backer howl from the minute he enters the. Arena she 1888 01:42:53.000 --> 01:42:55.199 gets up from a ringside, seat walks right next to the, 1889 01:42:55.319 --> 01:42:58.199 ropes Calling baker profane names names she would never order 1890 01:42:58.239 --> 01:43:01.199 outside this arena until he over the ropes and shakes 1891 01:43:01.239 --> 01:43:03.760 this giant fist at. Her the site is almost, comical 1892 01:43:03.880 --> 01:43:06.800 the huge man towering over the little white haired. Women, 1893 01:43:06.920 --> 01:43:09.319 Later Miss kaepner is telling some other people what she 1894 01:43:09.399 --> 01:43:13.239 thinks Of Oz. Baker you, know he's killed two. Men she, says, 1895 01:43:13.520 --> 01:43:18.000 Yes terry is about to kill his future In, alabama 1896 01:43:18.119 --> 01:43:21.760 but not before making these. Articles this is The News, 1897 01:43:21.800 --> 01:43:24.319 Herald Panama. City this is flash forwarding all the way 1898 01:43:24.359 --> 01:43:27.760 To october, now so there's basically like a period between 1899 01:43:27.960 --> 01:43:31.800 the race match and the fall Where boulder kind of 1900 01:43:31.840 --> 01:43:34.760 disappears and works primarily In, memphis which is the next 1901 01:43:34.880 --> 01:43:37.039 leg of our journey here on The Complete hulk. Cogin 1902 01:43:37.399 --> 01:43:39.920 but By october he's back around and articles like this are. 1903 01:43:40.000 --> 01:43:43.079 Running Wrestling Slate, HIT a ten round boxing bout Between 1904 01:43:43.119 --> 01:43:45.920 Eddie mansfield And Kevin sullivan will feature tonight's professional wrestling 1905 01:43:45.920 --> 01:43:48.199 card At Bowl Air Wrestling. Arena the two wrestlers have 1906 01:43:48.239 --> 01:43:50.159 a feud going and decided to settle it by donning. 1907 01:43:50.159 --> 01:43:52.239 Gloves each will have a second in his. Corner the 1908 01:43:52.319 --> 01:43:54.199 main event will Pitt Owk's baker against the HEF D 1909 01:43:54.359 --> 01:43:56.640 terry The Hulk, boulder who is six six and weighs 1910 01:43:56.680 --> 01:43:58.920 two Hundred now he's two hundred eighty five pounds? Boss 1911 01:43:59.520 --> 01:44:02.119 what was he? Last? Yet he's? ALL i, mean he's 1912 01:44:02.279 --> 01:44:04.039 he was three hundred. Pounds he was north of. Three, 1913 01:44:04.319 --> 01:44:06.680 Yeah baker has had things his own way here in 1914 01:44:06.720 --> 01:44:09.760 The hull copes to change that and a special tag team, 1915 01:44:09.800 --> 01:44:12.199 event The assassins will team up Against Roy welch And Jerry. 1916 01:44:12.199 --> 01:44:15.439 Stubbs the opening matches EIGHT pm pits The hunter against Newcomer. 1917 01:44:15.720 --> 01:44:17.520 Billiteo no idea who that? 1918 01:44:17.680 --> 01:44:17.720 Is? 1919 01:44:18.399 --> 01:44:20.600 So what is the? Name? Beltio B I L L 1920 01:44:20.680 --> 01:44:20.880 I T. 1921 01:44:21.039 --> 01:44:22.520 O i don't. 1922 01:44:22.520 --> 01:44:25.119 Know, Yeah i've never heard of that. One no. Clue There's. 1923 01:44:25.199 --> 01:44:28.840 Nolitio There's Terry bolidio right there with The now he's 1924 01:44:28.840 --> 01:44:30.399 got rid of the single at now look at. Him 1925 01:44:30.439 --> 01:44:32.279 he's got the chest here, going but he's got the straight. 1926 01:44:32.359 --> 01:44:37.039 Tights Sunday Night southeast title match The Hulk champ sixty, 1927 01:44:37.039 --> 01:44:39.479 seven three hundred. Pounds now he's three hundred pounds, First 1928 01:44:39.520 --> 01:44:44.000 Ox baker coming to The Municipal. Auditorium. Wow ten rounds 1929 01:44:44.039 --> 01:44:46.520 of boxing Between sullivan And mansfield on the car is. 1930 01:44:46.920 --> 01:44:49.600 Well now by this, point as you flash forward Here 1931 01:44:49.640 --> 01:44:52.359 boss To october thirty, first nineteen seventy, nine thing gets 1932 01:44:52.479 --> 01:44:54.960 things get very confusing because to Hear Ron fuller tell 1933 01:44:54.960 --> 01:44:56.720 at a big part of the Reason Terry bolea bolted 1934 01:44:56.760 --> 01:44:59.479 From memphis was because he wasn't belted in the territory 1935 01:44:59.520 --> 01:45:01.479 and he took that is something that was significant and 1936 01:45:01.560 --> 01:45:04.399 something that if this promotion had a future in mind for, 1937 01:45:04.479 --> 01:45:06.000 him they would have given a belt a long time. 1938 01:45:06.000 --> 01:45:09.600 Ago so we leaves, yeh according To Ron fuller's kind 1939 01:45:09.600 --> 01:45:12.239 of chronology of, things and admittedly he may talk more 1940 01:45:12.279 --> 01:45:13.760 about the fall as the year goes on in his. 1941 01:45:13.880 --> 01:45:16.720 Podcast but all of a, sudden not only Is Terry 1942 01:45:16.720 --> 01:45:20.119 boleya back In southeastern but he is The Golf Coast. 1943 01:45:20.199 --> 01:45:23.279 Champion let's read this article here From halloween of seventy 1944 01:45:23.399 --> 01:45:27.399 nine in The Press. Register hulk defends wrestling title Against 1945 01:45:27.439 --> 01:45:32.199 Professor Toro tanaka and, yes one Word saka is one 1946 01:45:32.239 --> 01:45:39.119 word Lowercase Tanaka. Tartonaka oh my. God Professor Torotonaka wrestling 1947 01:45:39.199 --> 01:45:42.359 returns To mobile for the first time Since Hurricane Frederick 1948 01:45:42.399 --> 01:45:45.239 wednesday night of The Expo Hall. Wow bell time is eight. 1949 01:45:45.359 --> 01:45:48.039 Pm maybe that's why they weren't. Shows Hurricane frederick wrecked 1950 01:45:48.039 --> 01:45:49.359 the whole fucking. Area there we. 1951 01:45:49.439 --> 01:45:53.359 Go THE Huk Golf Coast champion will Be Professor. Taratanaka 1952 01:45:54.000 --> 01:45:57.319 in the main, Event Taratanaka googles for the title against 1953 01:45:57.359 --> 01:46:02.039 the six seven three Pound hulk and a special six 1954 01:46:02.119 --> 01:46:04.880 man challenge about with a no disqualification rule of. Effect 1955 01:46:05.079 --> 01:46:09.199 The assassin And Tom shaft Meet Jerry, Stubbs Barb armstrong 1956 01:46:09.359 --> 01:46:13.520 And Robert fuller in a single. Feature Eddie, mansfield who 1957 01:46:13.560 --> 01:46:15.279 has come a long way and the wrestling, world will 1958 01:46:15.319 --> 01:46:19.319 Meet Kevin. Sullivan Jimmy, golden who hasn't been In mobile 1959 01:46:19.399 --> 01:46:22.560 for a, while will meet the Super, pro And Norville 1960 01:46:22.560 --> 01:46:27.800 austin Meets Bob. Owen's Roy welch Meets Troy graham in 1961 01:46:27.840 --> 01:46:31.600 a one fall. About Expo hall opens at six thirty. 1962 01:46:31.680 --> 01:46:36.520 Pm my, God So Toro tanaka is in the territory 1963 01:46:36.640 --> 01:46:39.359 with one, name never seen anything like, it and there 1964 01:46:39.359 --> 01:46:42.720 he is The Hulk Gulf Coast, champion smiling with the 1965 01:46:42.800 --> 01:46:45.239 with The Terry bulaya, hair with the chest hair going 1966 01:46:46.000 --> 01:46:49.600 the mushroom cloud look ye and, Yes Hurricane frederick was 1967 01:46:50.800 --> 01:46:53.800 vicious just looking it. Up now called one of the 1968 01:46:53.840 --> 01:46:56.520 most destructive storms ever Hit alabama on The Central Gulf, 1969 01:46:56.560 --> 01:47:01.960 coast made Landfill september of that. Year over ninety percent 1970 01:47:02.039 --> 01:47:06.239 Of mobile lost, power no shit some for. Weeks it's 1971 01:47:06.279 --> 01:47:08.760 sort of like a Before frederick and After frederick thing 1972 01:47:08.880 --> 01:47:12.199 for folks from that. Area twelve on the death toll 1973 01:47:12.760 --> 01:47:16.479 two point three billion dollars in nineteen seventy nineteen seventy 1974 01:47:16.560 --> 01:47:18.920 nine dollars in. Damage that's, catastrophic to say the very, 1975 01:47:19.039 --> 01:47:23.760 least and just just threw everything into a. Tizzy so 1976 01:47:23.800 --> 01:47:26.239 we'll see if The hulkster can get the area back 1977 01:47:26.279 --> 01:47:28.199 on its. Feet there it Is Gulf Coast Title, Match 1978 01:47:28.239 --> 01:47:31.119 Wrestling Expo, hall EIGHT, Pm Gulf Coast Title match The 1979 01:47:31.199 --> 01:47:33.960 Hulk champion Versus Professor Toro. Tanaka now again to my 1980 01:47:34.039 --> 01:47:36.479 point on an earlier, episode remember HOW i was saying 1981 01:47:36.520 --> 01:47:39.720 that Those bible like title match histories never Had hulk 1982 01:47:39.760 --> 01:47:42.079 winning this belt or anything like. That, YEAH i don't 1983 01:47:42.079 --> 01:47:43.279 know who he want it. From he must have want 1984 01:47:43.279 --> 01:47:45.960 it From Austin, idol because the last thing the newspaper 1985 01:47:46.000 --> 01:47:48.439 clippings told us Was hulk Beat Austin idol in a 1986 01:47:48.520 --> 01:47:51.760 non title, match and that was pissed him. Off, honestly 1987 01:47:51.840 --> 01:47:56.800 that must have. Been it's not Unlike awkwinkle in eighty. Three, yeah, 1988 01:47:57.039 --> 01:47:58.960 YEAH i. Know it's seriously the same type of thing 1989 01:48:00.119 --> 01:48:02.279 into a situation where his reign is supposed to begin 1990 01:48:02.319 --> 01:48:04.279 and they get cute with, it and pretty soon he 1991 01:48:04.319 --> 01:48:08.279 wants to fucking. LEAVE i, mean you, know can you blame? 1992 01:48:08.359 --> 01:48:09.520 Him you, know he wants he wants to win a 1993 01:48:09.560 --> 01:48:12.880 fucking world title and there and they're denying. Him there's 1994 01:48:12.880 --> 01:48:14.880 wrestling set tonight at Ex Bo. Hall wrestling comes back 1995 01:48:14.880 --> 01:48:17.720 To Mobile wednesday night At Expo, hall with the starting 1996 01:48:17.760 --> 01:48:20.239 time set for eight. Pm mobile promoters have strived to 1997 01:48:20.319 --> 01:48:23.119 Bring mobile fans a top notch card and. Wrestling due 1998 01:48:23.119 --> 01:48:26.000 To Hurricane frederick has been absent From mobile for over two, 1999 01:48:26.119 --> 01:48:29.079 months but it's set to. Return The Halt Gulf Coast 2000 01:48:29.079 --> 01:48:31.880 wrestling title holder puts up his belt against the challenge 2001 01:48:31.880 --> 01:48:37.399 Of professor all In caps all In Caps professor Towards 2002 01:48:37.479 --> 01:48:39.920 naka in a title, match with both men battling for 2003 01:48:40.600 --> 01:48:47.399 the coveted. Championship in a special challenge, match The assassins 2004 01:48:47.399 --> 01:48:49.840 And Tom shaft will face the popular favorites Mob Up 2005 01:48:49.840 --> 01:48:53.880 Bob Armstrong Robert. Fuller So robert's, back that's. Interesting the 2006 01:48:53.960 --> 01:48:56.720 brother Of Ron, Fuller Colonel Rob, parker is done Booking memphis, 2007 01:48:56.720 --> 01:48:59.720 apparently And Jerry, Stubbs Eddie mansfield Will, Mee Kevin salvan 2008 01:48:59.720 --> 01:49:02.000 and a few bout another, Matches Jimmy golden will meet 2009 01:49:02.039 --> 01:49:04.319 the Super pro in a single. Match NorVa austin Wrestled 2010 01:49:04.319 --> 01:49:06.439 Bob owens in a one fallbout And Roy welch Faces 2011 01:49:06.479 --> 01:49:12.000 Troy graham in a singles. Encounter and there was some 2012 01:49:12.119 --> 01:49:17.680 storm damage that hit the auditorium. Itself it wasn't just you, 2013 01:49:17.760 --> 01:49:20.600 know the city environs that took, damage in, fact the 2014 01:49:20.680 --> 01:49:23.560 building where the territory would have their matches and mobile. 2015 01:49:23.640 --> 01:49:26.359 Damage here's an Article boss from The Mobile Register november, 2016 01:49:26.439 --> 01:49:28.560 second nineteen seventy. Nine Go ahead. 2017 01:49:31.279 --> 01:49:36.920 Damaged storm damaged roofs on The Mobile Meansial auditorium complex 2018 01:49:37.000 --> 01:49:40.279 leaked badly during heavy Rains wednesday, night compounding problems for 2019 01:49:40.359 --> 01:49:46.479 the staff and probably causing more interior. Damage auditorium MANAGER. W. 2020 01:49:46.720 --> 01:49:48.680 C buddy cluis. 2021 01:49:50.680 --> 01:49:52.119 Just the guy you want in. Charge it sounds like 2022 01:49:52.199 --> 01:49:55.439 his name is clueless where you got him on the? 2023 01:49:55.479 --> 01:50:01.640 Horn guess is the combined impact Of Hurricane, frederick which 2024 01:50:01.720 --> 01:50:05.199 tore parts of roof off the main, arena the theater 2025 01:50:05.319 --> 01:50:07.479 And Expo hall and the rains will cost more than 2026 01:50:07.800 --> 01:50:10.760 one million dollars to. Repair on top of, that cluis 2027 01:50:11.079 --> 01:50:14.239 noted the entertainment complex will lose revenue by having to 2028 01:50:14.279 --> 01:50:17.800 cancel some events and turn down. Others severe roof damage 2029 01:50:17.840 --> 01:50:20.399 has forced the staff to Close Expo hall until repairs 2030 01:50:20.399 --> 01:50:21.439 can be. Completed he. 2031 01:50:21.600 --> 01:50:25.199 Said events and the other sections of the entertainment complex 2032 01:50:25.520 --> 01:50:30.199 will be held as scheduled unless inclement weather forces and impromptu, 2033 01:50:30.319 --> 01:50:35.119 cancelation he. Said hours after rains Ceased, thursday water continued 2034 01:50:35.119 --> 01:50:38.560 to drip from numerous points inside the. Buildings clewis appeared 2035 01:50:38.640 --> 01:50:43.119 most concerned about the central sound system ceiling title to ceiling, 2036 01:50:43.279 --> 01:50:48.119 TILES a number of seats and four four hundred thousand 2037 01:50:48.199 --> 01:50:52.000 dollars worth of. Drapes four hundred thousand dollars worth of 2038 01:50:52.159 --> 01:50:54.680 Drape that's a lot of, drapes, buddy that's a lot 2039 01:50:54.760 --> 01:50:58.199 of fucking drapes in the. Arena all the drapes were 2040 01:50:58.279 --> 01:51:00.640 soaked and may have to be, replaced he, specked and 2041 01:51:00.840 --> 01:51:04.520 water dripped from the sound system's, cage which is suspended 2042 01:51:04.600 --> 01:51:05.319 from the arena. 2043 01:51:05.399 --> 01:51:08.800 Ceiling get the, Point just read. That read the caption 2044 01:51:08.920 --> 01:51:14.479 here on the. Photo, okay oh, god it's a catch 2045 01:51:14.600 --> 01:51:17.840 can it's a Water it's a bucket catching water from 2046 01:51:17.840 --> 01:51:21.600 the leaky. Ceiling it's a can catching. Catches you got that, 2047 01:51:21.840 --> 01:51:25.079 Right but they push ahead In mobile Come. November professional 2048 01:51:25.119 --> 01:51:27.880 wrestling will Return wednesday night At Mobile's Expo Hall Bell 2049 01:51:27.960 --> 01:51:30.399 time eight. Pm program was scheduled for last week but 2050 01:51:30.600 --> 01:51:33.239 was washed out by a. Storm they had a lot 2051 01:51:33.359 --> 01:51:36.600 pressure Toward. Tonaka now it's two, words The Gulf Coast Wrestling. 2052 01:51:36.680 --> 01:51:41.479 Champion you reading What i'm reading? Here mm. Hmm Wasn't 2053 01:51:41.520 --> 01:51:44.920 hulk the? Champion? Yep apparently not. Anymore Did hulk lose 2054 01:51:45.640 --> 01:51:52.600 The Gulf Wow Coast championship again and he's Wrestling Tony 2055 01:51:52.600 --> 01:51:54.359 Atlas in the main event Is, tanaka, which of Course 2056 01:51:54.479 --> 01:51:56.359 Ron fuller said in his podcast is the guy they 2057 01:51:56.479 --> 01:51:59.279 rushed to bring in when the big muscle man The 2058 01:51:59.359 --> 01:52:02.720 hulk had given him. NOTICE a fifteen man Battle royal 2059 01:52:02.760 --> 01:52:04.319 is also on the. Program Last man in The ring 2060 01:52:04.319 --> 01:52:06.600 earns a twenty five hundred dollars bonus six man taged. 2061 01:52:06.680 --> 01:52:10.479 Him elimination bout sends The assassins And Tom shaft Against Robert, 2062 01:52:10.640 --> 01:52:13.760 Fuller Kevin sullivan And Jerry stubbs notice. Qualifications other. Bouts 2063 01:52:14.039 --> 01:52:16.880 Roy welch Meets Jimmy gold And Troy. Graham i'm gonna 2064 01:52:16.880 --> 01:52:18.720 try to do My Ron. Fuller here all bouts Of 2065 01:52:18.800 --> 01:52:23.039 Royal welch Meeting Jimmy, Golan Troy graham square and off 2066 01:52:23.119 --> 01:52:26.680 with a super pro And Bob owens facing The. Mongolian 2067 01:52:26.800 --> 01:52:29.159 the doors opened EX Ba hall six point thirty p. 2068 01:52:29.880 --> 01:52:34.840 M as noted, here last week's Canceled halloween daycard at 2069 01:52:34.880 --> 01:52:36.439 Ex Ball hall due to the storm had A hulk 2070 01:52:36.520 --> 01:52:42.239 as The Gulf Coast champion defending Against Toro. Chanaka why 2071 01:52:42.279 --> 01:52:46.800 Does tanaka now have the? Belt what? Happened that's the. 2072 01:52:46.880 --> 01:52:51.079 Question where are the? Answers? YEP i mean the fact 2073 01:52:51.079 --> 01:52:55.199 that title histories are incomplete For hulk Fucking hogan doesn't 2074 01:52:55.239 --> 01:52:57.760 say a lot for title. Histories according to not the 2075 01:52:57.840 --> 01:53:00.520 WAY i see, THINGS i don't know about, You, ALABAMA 2076 01:53:02.399 --> 01:53:07.600 Nwa Southeastern Championship Civic, coliseum here's a card for, you 2077 01:53:07.840 --> 01:53:10.079 taped fist. Match now we're starting to see this Is. 2078 01:53:10.159 --> 01:53:13.600 Knoxville this is this is not Only. Knoxville this appears 2079 01:53:13.640 --> 01:53:19.159 to be, yes this is their answer to the Outlaw knoxville. Group. 2080 01:53:19.399 --> 01:53:24.479 Hmm But Hulk hogan has already left and gone To, 2081 01:53:24.680 --> 01:53:28.119 georgia which of course will cover in focus on a 2082 01:53:28.159 --> 01:53:31.119 future leg of The Complete Hulk Cogan journey and gone 2083 01:53:31.159 --> 01:53:35.079 on A tbs working For Olie anderson And Jimmy barnett 2084 01:53:35.119 --> 01:53:37.800 and Renamed Sterling golden because look who appears right here 2085 01:53:38.359 --> 01:53:41.880 on This knoxville, card right Whe Ron fuller ran all 2086 01:53:41.880 --> 01:53:45.279 those months That Terry boulder was. There Special Attraction Sterling 2087 01:53:45.319 --> 01:53:51.920 golden The Wrestling hall Versus Pierre Lefevre Lefevre Lefevre la 2088 01:53:52.039 --> 01:53:56.319 Freev The Wrestling. HULK i see that as being quite. 2089 01:53:56.359 --> 01:53:59.720 SIGNIFICANT i think you stopped calling him The hulk and 2090 01:53:59.720 --> 01:54:03.000 start calling him the Wrestling hulk because a certain letter 2091 01:54:03.119 --> 01:54:07.560 On Marvel masthead arrives at the. Office, yes SO i 2092 01:54:07.640 --> 01:54:10.760 definitely whenever they say, that pay very close. Attention but 2093 01:54:10.880 --> 01:54:13.359 elsewhere it's a tape fist, match Brass knuckles, Rules Dick, 2094 01:54:13.399 --> 01:54:17.439 Slater Paul orndorf Versus Ox baker and The angel managed 2095 01:54:17.479 --> 01:54:19.960 By Gorgeous George, junior who is back in From memphis 2096 01:54:20.239 --> 01:54:22.319 about a thousand dollars. Challenge look who's back in the. 2097 01:54:22.399 --> 01:54:26.520 Area David schultz and the Future Midnight express Wrestler Dennis, 2098 01:54:26.560 --> 01:54:31.560 Condrey Robert, Ronfuller MISTER, Usa Tony, atlas And, yes special 2099 01:54:31.600 --> 01:54:37.159 attraction Startling golden right here In. Knoxville but boss. Come 2100 01:54:37.239 --> 01:54:40.520 On november, eleventh this article hits The Knoxville News. Standard 2101 01:54:40.800 --> 01:54:43.560 looks like we have a new owner in. Town In Southeast. 2102 01:54:43.600 --> 01:54:46.640 Wrestling this reminds me of that period on the lamentable 2103 01:54:46.680 --> 01:54:50.039 tragedy Of World Class Championship. Wrestling we're suddenly Like Bo 2104 01:54:50.319 --> 01:54:54.439 bright and these like Random dallas. People we're in the 2105 01:54:54.479 --> 01:54:57.319 paper buying interests From fritz Fim. Eric that tells you 2106 01:54:57.399 --> 01:54:59.800 there's not much time. Left that tells you a drain is. 2107 01:55:00.199 --> 01:55:04.079 Circle tell us About Bob. Polk, oh, yes he's the 2108 01:55:04.239 --> 01:55:05.439 Lap Fall wrestling. 2109 01:55:05.560 --> 01:55:33.000 Podcast he's The Lapsed Fan wrestling podcast With jack And 2110 01:55:33.159 --> 01:55:34.640 carno AND Jp. 2111 01:55:34.840 --> 01:55:37.680 SORO i THINK i read part of this article on 2112 01:55:37.800 --> 01:55:43.359 The Incredible hulk episode, actually But i'm glad to revisit. 2113 01:55:43.479 --> 01:55:47.840 Here Bob polk buys Se. 2114 01:55:48.119 --> 01:55:52.199 Wrestling Bob, polk who has a background in the sporting goods, business, 2115 01:55:52.279 --> 01:55:56.520 coaching and, insurance has accepted a new. Challenge the former 2116 01:55:56.720 --> 01:55:59.960 web schools standout in football and. Basketball together a group 2117 01:55:59.960 --> 01:56:04.119 of investors to Buy Southeast Wrestling incorporated From Ron welch 2118 01:56:04.439 --> 01:56:08.920 And Don, Curtis, Jacksonville, florida key investors Are Fred ward 2119 01:56:09.000 --> 01:56:09.760 And James. 2120 01:56:11.359 --> 01:56:14.159 Barnett you got, it so he sticked the front person 2121 01:56:14.239 --> 01:56:17.399 And Jimmy. Barnett Fred ward was the one of The 2122 01:56:17.439 --> 01:56:20.640 atlanta area. Promoters you mean Actor Fred ward From Tremor's 2123 01:56:21.960 --> 01:56:26.840 you got to redo that joke, too SUCCESSFUL tv wrestling 2124 01:56:26.880 --> 01:56:29.199 promoters In. Atlanta the new group will be known As 2125 01:56:29.600 --> 01:56:35.359 Southeastern Wrestling. Corporation so it went From Southeastern Wrestling incorporated 2126 01:56:35.399 --> 01:56:40.800 To Southeastern Wrestling. Corporation you, know to avoid, Confusion, yes you. 2127 01:56:40.880 --> 01:56:44.079 Know there are two THINGS i hope to accomplish in the, 2128 01:56:44.119 --> 01:56:50.920 broways Said polk thirty, three nineteen sixty EIGHT ut graduate 2129 01:56:51.000 --> 01:56:54.640 and history masters in nineteen seventy. One, first said we 2130 01:56:54.760 --> 01:56:58.760 should bring to the top wrestling town across the Country Tony, 2131 01:56:58.800 --> 01:57:04.920 Atlas Stirling, Glodin, sterling Gold, Stirring golden three twenty pounds 2132 01:57:04.920 --> 01:57:08.840 and known as The Wrestling hulk And Harley. Race, SECOND 2133 01:57:08.920 --> 01:57:11.239 i hope to return something to the community through civic 2134 01:57:11.359 --> 01:57:15.000 work myself and the. WRESTLERS a new wrestling group will 2135 01:57:15.000 --> 01:57:23.319 have an office On. MAGNOLIA i forgot's, sakes no hold, on, 2136 01:57:23.720 --> 01:57:26.399 SORRY i accidentally close. It we're seeing. Here if you're 2137 01:57:26.439 --> 01:57:31.199 not picking it up is the group That Ron fuller 2138 01:57:31.640 --> 01:57:35.600 Sells knoxville. Too he throws up his hands and says 2139 01:57:35.680 --> 01:57:38.399 fuck this and sells the you, know not Just. Knoxville 2140 01:57:38.439 --> 01:57:42.079 he sells his company To Jimmy, barnett, who of course 2141 01:57:42.239 --> 01:57:44.720 was the big power broker and as we've discussed on 2142 01:57:44.760 --> 01:57:49.159 The Black saturday, episodes a strong shareholder and kind of 2143 01:57:49.199 --> 01:57:51.960 a in some ways before he clashed With, oli sort 2144 01:57:51.960 --> 01:57:54.680 of like a controlling. Shareholder he was THE nba secretary 2145 01:57:54.920 --> 01:57:56.760 and he booked the. Champion you. Know he was the 2146 01:57:56.840 --> 01:57:58.800 one you called to get dates on the world. Champion 2147 01:57:58.920 --> 01:58:01.439 he was the one that elected the ten percent champions 2148 01:58:01.520 --> 01:58:05.960 fee and parceled it out. Respectively and now he And 2149 01:58:06.079 --> 01:58:09.279 Fred ward have Taken Ron fuller's. Territory they've bought it from, 2150 01:58:09.359 --> 01:58:11.880 him and so it starts to connect a little. Bit 2151 01:58:11.960 --> 01:58:14.640 while all of a sudden in The, Fall Terry boleya 2152 01:58:14.760 --> 01:58:17.640 is coming back around the. Area while this article hadn't 2153 01:58:17.680 --> 01:58:19.800 hit the press, yet and perhaps the sale hadn't been fully, 2154 01:58:19.840 --> 01:58:22.720 consummated wouldn't surprise me to know that it was pretty 2155 01:58:22.720 --> 01:58:24.479 well understood and in the air on the fall of 2156 01:58:24.560 --> 01:58:26.920 seventy nine That ron was looking to get out and 2157 01:58:27.039 --> 01:58:29.840 in fact sell to somebody That Sterling golden had gone 2158 01:58:29.880 --> 01:58:32.119 to work, for Or Terry boleya had gone to work 2159 01:58:32.159 --> 01:58:35.039 for and been renamed a re Christened Sterling. Golden and 2160 01:58:35.119 --> 01:58:36.560 now all of a sudden in this part of the, 2161 01:58:36.680 --> 01:58:39.920 territory the newspapers or chocol block with mentions Of Sterling golden. 2162 01:58:39.960 --> 01:58:43.119 Again so it comes back. Around that's kind of Why 2163 01:58:43.680 --> 01:58:46.159 boulder's first exit from the territory is a bit of 2164 01:58:46.199 --> 01:58:48.399 a head. Fake it's more like he Leaves Louis toillette 2165 01:58:48.520 --> 01:58:53.560 than he Leaves. SOUTHEASTERN i got. You let me see. 2166 01:58:53.560 --> 01:58:56.600 Here so the New Rusting group will have an office 2167 01:58:56.640 --> 01:59:03.439 On Magnolia avenue Near sh'll how Chill Howie. Park let's 2168 01:59:03.640 --> 01:59:07.199 Let's THATCHER Tv productions and Public, relations And Charlie bauer 2169 01:59:07.479 --> 01:59:12.359 promoter will continue with the organization. Quote he goes there 2170 01:59:12.439 --> 01:59:15.920 will be no change in admission prices or location of m. 2171 01:59:16.000 --> 01:59:18.479 Matches for a moment, THERE i thought he said there 2172 01:59:18.520 --> 01:59:20.880 will be no charge in admission. 2173 01:59:20.960 --> 01:59:23.720 Prices good thing that wasn't a. Typo. Man you imagine 2174 01:59:23.760 --> 01:59:25.920 the fucking confusion caused by that, one. 2175 01:59:26.239 --> 01:59:29.000 Said, polk former assistant coach and football and basketball at 2176 01:59:29.039 --> 01:59:31.199 BIT a lot other. Keep every time they Say, polk 2177 01:59:31.479 --> 01:59:34.439 they fucking list another like accomplishment that. 2178 01:59:34.600 --> 01:59:39.000 Another right you? Know and web school before establishing a 2179 01:59:39.079 --> 01:59:42.920 sporting good. Store, ah, YES i can do sports BECAUSE 2180 01:59:42.960 --> 01:59:45.680 i run a sporting good. Store Tara matsuda thought so. 2181 01:59:46.239 --> 01:59:49.199 Ye, polk who has worked part time in wrestling in 2182 01:59:49.199 --> 01:59:53.920 the past few, years was employed By Brotus Clay anderson And. 2183 01:59:54.439 --> 01:59:59.159 Associates Bortus clay Aren't anderson And associates before embarking on 2184 01:59:59.239 --> 01:59:59.760 his new. 2185 02:00:02.159 --> 02:00:04.720 Well how Fitting it's holidays and The Territory boss look at. This, 2186 02:00:04.840 --> 02:00:09.000 Thursday november twenty, Second Knoxville New, Sentinel Hartley race is 2187 02:00:09.079 --> 02:00:11.760 coming back to. Headline there will be no turkeys on 2188 02:00:11.840 --> 02:00:16.159 The Thanksgiving night wrestling card At Civic coliseum Because Harley 2189 02:00:16.279 --> 02:00:18.239 race will take On Dix slater in the main. Event 2190 02:00:18.520 --> 02:00:20.720 slater won a local elimination tournament for the right to Meet. 2191 02:00:20.800 --> 02:00:24.439 Race Ron fuller continue to Meet. RACE i don't, Know 2192 02:00:24.680 --> 02:00:26.880 Dick slater And race don't really tend to make it a. 2193 02:00:26.960 --> 02:00:30.800 Combination Ron fuller continues his feud With sterling The Wrestling, 2194 02:00:30.880 --> 02:00:36.119 Hulk Golden sterling The Wrestling hulk in Parenthesis golden and 2195 02:00:36.199 --> 02:00:39.000 another match In David Schultzen Dennis condrey take On Pierre 2196 02:00:39.079 --> 02:00:42.039 Lea feyere And Jerry roberts in the tag team. Highlight 2197 02:00:42.359 --> 02:00:44.920 the other two matches complete the eight thirty. Cards there 2198 02:00:44.960 --> 02:00:48.079 it is, tonight eight thirty, Pm Civic Coliseum Fan Appreciation, 2199 02:00:48.319 --> 02:00:51.920 night no increase in. Prices the posters, says, wow what 2200 02:00:52.039 --> 02:00:54.560 a special treat for. Us of course has mentioned race 2201 02:00:54.640 --> 02:00:57.039 For slater with special Ref Don curtis and in the 2202 02:00:57.079 --> 02:01:00.159 special grudge Match boss in my eyes deceiving. Me It's 2203 02:01:00.239 --> 02:01:13.119 Ron fuller versus who The Wrestling Hulk? Golden but another 2204 02:01:13.319 --> 02:01:23.279 fucking Type oh for the. Ages can you Pronounce stertlewig 2205 02:01:24.039 --> 02:01:29.359 s t e r L i W g ster slug 2206 02:01:29.560 --> 02:01:33.439 the Wrestling? Golden this is a combination Of Jim hellwig 2207 02:01:33.560 --> 02:01:37.800 And Sterling. GOLDEN i guess The Wrestling Hulk golden Versus 2208 02:01:37.840 --> 02:01:41.600 Ron Fuller southeastern tag, Titles david Schultzon Denz Condre champions 2209 02:01:41.640 --> 02:01:44.720 Versus Jerry roberts And Pierre la. FIV i can't say 2210 02:01:44.720 --> 02:01:47.439 the name And i'm just gonna deal with. It Sterling 2211 02:01:47.479 --> 02:01:50.439 golden still. HERE i wonder if there was like A 2212 02:01:51.359 --> 02:01:53.039 i wonder if they got a, refund if they misspelled 2213 02:01:53.079 --> 02:01:56.399 the wrestler's, name AND i wonder and, uh you, know 2214 02:01:56.640 --> 02:02:00.239 the promoter figured out like a kickback to the to 2215 02:02:00.319 --> 02:02:02.079 the person who wrote the ad so they would get 2216 02:02:02.119 --> 02:02:04.039 a piece of the refund so they could get a 2217 02:02:04.079 --> 02:02:06.439 discount on the. Ad because there's way too many spelling 2218 02:02:06.479 --> 02:02:10.039 area it's really, bad just about every time there's one of. 2219 02:02:10.079 --> 02:02:13.439 Them Knoxville News, Sentinel november twenty. Eighth All Star Championship 2220 02:02:13.439 --> 02:02:16.159 wrestling Now All, Star, yes was the name of the 2221 02:02:16.199 --> 02:02:19.199 group That Bob orton and The Knoxville five split off and. 2222 02:02:19.279 --> 02:02:22.960 Created and look who they're attracting to the. Territory makes 2223 02:02:23.039 --> 02:02:26.279 sense out of this for? ME i guess it's because 2224 02:02:26.920 --> 02:02:30.239 they're still running As All Star, wrestling even Though barnett 2225 02:02:30.359 --> 02:02:32.560 now is pretty much consolidated power and they're on their 2226 02:02:32.600 --> 02:02:34.880 absolute last. Legs but you don't hear a lot about. 2227 02:02:34.920 --> 02:02:37.680 This they're still going to market As All star at 2228 02:02:37.720 --> 02:02:41.560 the W Knox. Auditorium But Sterling golden's on the, card, 2229 02:02:42.000 --> 02:02:43.880 Yes and not only is he on the, card he's 2230 02:02:43.960 --> 02:02:49.000 Wrestling bob Rup that's, right in A hulk. Challenge, now 2231 02:02:49.039 --> 02:02:52.359 you tell me if there's A hulk challenge for five 2232 02:02:52.439 --> 02:02:54.960 Grand bob rup and The hulk Sterling. Golden how is 2233 02:02:55.039 --> 02:02:58.760 The southeastern title match list that above also? HAPPENING i don't. 2234 02:02:58.800 --> 02:03:02.840 KNOW i Guess bob is working double duty and who's 2235 02:03:02.840 --> 02:03:07.319 he wrestling besides The hull Working All star? Risks and like? 2236 02:03:07.439 --> 02:03:09.560 IT i like. IT i like it a. Lot he 2237 02:03:09.560 --> 02:03:12.840 don't do your right, Now Bob. Roop you're looking at one, 2238 02:03:12.920 --> 02:03:16.399 man one man coming in taking care of a, business 2239 02:03:16.960 --> 02:03:20.119 doing it the way THAT i, do because that is the. 2240 02:03:20.199 --> 02:03:24.159 Way uh. Huh The Macho, Man Windy savage likes. IT 2241 02:03:24.840 --> 02:03:27.319 i do like. That he started with you're looking at one. 2242 02:03:27.399 --> 02:03:31.840 Man he was always big on not stating the. Obvious 2243 02:03:31.960 --> 02:03:35.960 that's one thing we can say About Rainy. Savage BUT i, can't, 2244 02:03:36.000 --> 02:03:38.159 OKAY i, mean this has got to be. It this 2245 02:03:38.279 --> 02:03:40.359 has got to be the first, time maybe In, memphis 2246 02:03:40.439 --> 02:03:43.760 but That Hulk hogan And Macho Man Ready savage are 2247 02:03:43.800 --> 02:03:46.720 on the same. Card. Yeah Hers, Day november twenty, ninth 2248 02:03:46.840 --> 02:03:50.680 nineteen seventy. Nine knox that it's crazy because The outlaw 2249 02:03:50.720 --> 02:03:53.159 group is kind of fading away and kind of getting 2250 02:03:53.199 --> 02:03:56.640 subsumed By. Atlanta another thing that happens in nineteen seventy, 2251 02:03:56.720 --> 02:04:00.960 Nine absolutely, right but there's still secial traction still tells 2252 02:04:00.960 --> 02:04:03.239 you where they, stood as The NO Dq No Time 2253 02:04:03.279 --> 02:04:05.600 limit tag match puts the five hundred Pound Man Mountain 2254 02:04:05.640 --> 02:04:10.119 dean And Ronnie garvin Versus Bob Orton junior And Professor Boris. 2255 02:04:10.159 --> 02:04:12.199 Malenko we of course in The, Malanko orton And garvin 2256 02:04:12.279 --> 02:04:14.760 part of The Knoxville, five but the See Bob roup 2257 02:04:14.840 --> 02:04:18.199 Versus Sterling golden on the card is. Amazing Terry Terry, 2258 02:04:18.199 --> 02:04:21.119 gibbs that supposed intermediary getting a book down there Facing Barry, 2259 02:04:21.239 --> 02:04:27.399 Oh Barry. Orton. Wow no FROM Wwf STARS wwf shows to, 2260 02:04:27.520 --> 02:04:32.119 Come Southeastern Friday Night, coliseum The Don, show and the 2261 02:04:32.600 --> 02:04:36.680 absolutely The Donna Hue. Show most, specifically most Memorably november, 2262 02:04:36.720 --> 02:04:40.720 thirtieth seventy, Nine Friday, night eight Thirty, Coliseum Southeastern heavyweight 2263 02:04:40.760 --> 02:04:44.399 Titled Dix Slator champion Versus Ernie Ladd, Challenger Tony atlas 2264 02:04:44.600 --> 02:04:48.720 Versus Sterling Golden mass in nineteen and seventy nine and 2265 02:04:48.760 --> 02:04:52.159 the return match for The southeastern tag Titles David, Chelton 2266 02:04:52.199 --> 02:04:56.479 Dennis Condrey champions Versus lathiev And Jerry. Roberts take a 2267 02:04:56.479 --> 02:04:58.199 look at the next. Damage there's a big Old Dick 2268 02:04:58.239 --> 02:05:02.239 slater throwing a heavy elbow terry bowlet slash sterling. Golden 2269 02:05:02.479 --> 02:05:04.359 you know it's sterling golden for the most. Part if 2270 02:05:04.399 --> 02:05:06.640 he's now wearing long trunks but not a single et 2271 02:05:06.920 --> 02:05:10.239 right right chest hair is, shaved but it's skin tight, 2272 02:05:10.439 --> 02:05:14.920 pants not, trunks and no straps over the. Shoulder but 2273 02:05:14.960 --> 02:05:19.479 he's got the white wrist tape dialed. In yes he. 2274 02:05:19.560 --> 02:05:21.880 Does he's Working Dix slater and we're turning to seehim. 2275 02:05:21.880 --> 02:05:26.159 Melding and what's most amazing is that we haven't talked 2276 02:05:26.199 --> 02:05:29.800 about the Last Hulk hogan Versus, andre The giant match 2277 02:05:30.000 --> 02:05:34.560 In Gulf Coast. Southeastern take a look at. This here 2278 02:05:34.640 --> 02:05:38.239 we are by the end of nineteen seventy, Nine andrea 2279 02:05:38.279 --> 02:05:40.159 And hulk are mixing it up, again And hulk is 2280 02:05:40.880 --> 02:05:43.399 he's got a different coat of pain. On take a 2281 02:05:43.439 --> 02:05:45.439 look at The, hulk the state of The hulk here 2282 02:05:45.560 --> 02:05:48.039 it appears not that we can tell why he's got 2283 02:05:48.079 --> 02:05:52.439 the belt. Back, yeah he has the belt that's The 2284 02:05:52.479 --> 02:05:56.399 Southeastern championship with the, red white and blue color designed to. 2285 02:05:56.479 --> 02:05:59.640 It hulks in skin tight white long, pants red knee, 2286 02:05:59.680 --> 02:06:01.720 pads red boots And i'm not sure how to feel about. 2287 02:06:01.720 --> 02:06:05.520 THAT i, mean you, know it's definitely an uncomfortable. Feeling, yeah, 2288 02:06:05.600 --> 02:06:09.159 WHY i, mean he. SHOULDN'T i, mean actually it kind 2289 02:06:09.199 --> 02:06:12.520 of looks like two thousand and Two Hulk, hogan it, 2290 02:06:12.640 --> 02:06:15.319 does you, know he almost you, know it's too bad 2291 02:06:15.319 --> 02:06:18.399 that there's not the The Strawberry banana frapp going. 2292 02:06:18.479 --> 02:06:20.840 On so this is Not terry The Hulk. Boulder this 2293 02:06:20.920 --> 02:06:23.279 as The Knox One New sentinel tells Us december, eighth 2294 02:06:23.319 --> 02:06:27.119 nineteen seventy, Nine sterling The Hulk golden won by. Disqualification, 2295 02:06:27.560 --> 02:06:30.800 yes That's roondre The giant and the main event Of 2296 02:06:30.800 --> 02:06:32.880 Friday Night wrestling at The Civic. Coliseum so that's Why 2297 02:06:33.000 --> 02:06:35.119 Ron fuller talks about the two matches That hulk had 2298 02:06:35.560 --> 02:06:38.920 With andre in the spring of nineteen seventy, nine as 2299 02:06:38.960 --> 02:06:40.760 there were only two meetings in the territory because by 2300 02:06:40.760 --> 02:06:42.720 the time they hook it back up In, knoxville you, 2301 02:06:42.800 --> 02:06:45.640 Know fuller's out and so much has. Changed, yeah The 2302 02:06:45.720 --> 02:06:48.039 giant had dumped The. Hulk the article reads from the 2303 02:06:48.159 --> 02:06:50.399 ring When Dick, slater who was upset by The hulk last, 2304 02:06:50.439 --> 02:06:52.960 week charged from the dressing room and began to beat 2305 02:06:53.000 --> 02:06:56.079 The hulk with a, chair resulting in The giant's disqualification 2306 02:06:56.159 --> 02:06:59.680 due to outside interference and other. Matches Jerry roberts Beats Terry. 2307 02:06:59.720 --> 02:07:02.359 ORRANGE i don't think It's Terry. ORNDORF i could be. 2308 02:07:02.439 --> 02:07:06.920 Wrong that's WHAT i haven't heard. Before, yeah that was 2309 02:07:07.000 --> 02:07:12.520 him when he turned baby face After WrestleMania won nothing 2310 02:07:12.680 --> 02:07:15.159 DO i. THINK i just bear with, me. BROTHER i 2311 02:07:15.199 --> 02:07:17.199 think what you should, do, dude is instead of a 2312 02:07:17.840 --> 02:07:20.239 WHOLE maniai, brother not your baby. Face he shouldn't Be 2313 02:07:20.359 --> 02:07:22.439 paul Or. DWARF i think you should Be terry On. 2314 02:07:22.760 --> 02:07:25.039 ORNDWARF i am. DUDE i, mean come, on you, KNOW 2315 02:07:25.079 --> 02:07:27.119 i think it's a good way to, go. Brother it 2316 02:07:27.199 --> 02:07:29.199 does say later here in this. Article so later In 2317 02:07:29.279 --> 02:07:31.880 Paul oorendwarf Beat David, Scheldt Stennis condrey and the. Grappler. 2318 02:07:32.319 --> 02:07:34.840 Wow SO i don't. Know maybe there was A Terry 2319 02:07:34.920 --> 02:07:38.039 orndorff THAT i don't know. About could have been knocks 2320 02:07:38.039 --> 02:07:40.159 only a. Sentinel here's another article from the same programs 2321 02:07:40.199 --> 02:07:43.039 of the day Before Andrea Wrestling hulk meeting main. Event 2322 02:07:43.079 --> 02:07:45.920 the biggest man in wrestling seven foot, four four hundred 2323 02:07:45.920 --> 02:07:48.640 and eighty five Pound andre The giant And hulk. Begins 2324 02:07:48.760 --> 02:07:51.960 by the, Way boss undoubtedly reading these articles his LIFELONG 2325 02:07:52.520 --> 02:07:54.880 i don't want to say, phobia but his lifelong you, know, 2326 02:07:56.279 --> 02:08:00.760 obsessive compulsive thing about try to do everything he can 2327 02:08:00.880 --> 02:08:06.000 to overtake his rival's. Numbers Headlines Friday night of The Civic. 2328 02:08:06.079 --> 02:08:09.680 Colisseum his opponent is six foot, six three hundred ten 2329 02:08:09.760 --> 02:08:13.920 Pounds sterling the Wrestling Hulk golden AND i can't wait 2330 02:08:14.039 --> 02:08:16.199 to get more into this time period because After hulk 2331 02:08:16.279 --> 02:08:19.199 leaves and then kind of comes back, around they take 2332 02:08:19.279 --> 02:08:23.319 The Hulk Andre show on the road The Wow, yeah 2333 02:08:24.079 --> 02:08:27.039 Consider dothan AND i think it Was, montgomery the other 2334 02:08:27.119 --> 02:08:31.479 match The Maris, pensacola The Petri. Dish, okay they figured it. 2335 02:08:31.560 --> 02:08:34.560 Out this thing draws, well this thing draws, big And 2336 02:08:35.239 --> 02:08:37.199 Ron fuller was not the only promoter to notice this 2337 02:08:37.399 --> 02:08:42.439 be prepared for way Before WrestleMania three and before Even Shay, 2338 02:08:42.560 --> 02:08:47.479 stadium The hulk Versus andre to headline major cities all 2339 02:08:47.560 --> 02:08:51.840 Over North america and Eventually. JAPAN i can't handle that 2340 02:08:52.640 --> 02:08:54.920 ride and out of The. Coliseum battle of The giants 2341 02:08:55.520 --> 02:08:58.279 seven foot, four forty five pound under The, giant big 2342 02:08:58.319 --> 02:09:02.800 ass picture Of andre to his massive mit versus six foot, 2343 02:09:02.840 --> 02:09:05.279 six three hundred ten pounds sterling gold in the Wrestling. 2344 02:09:05.359 --> 02:09:07.960 HULK i mean you're looking at you're looking at the 2345 02:09:08.600 --> 02:09:13.000 raw material of The WrestleMania three promotional. Campaign it absolutely 2346 02:09:13.159 --> 02:09:17.039 is right. Here, seriously it's seventy nine they're already promoting 2347 02:09:17.079 --> 02:09:19.359 it is sort of a a special. Attraction it's not even, 2348 02:09:19.479 --> 02:09:21.880 like you, Know terry the Hult, boulder who's risen to 2349 02:09:21.920 --> 02:09:25.439 prominence here, locally is going to welcome the international superstar 2350 02:09:25.600 --> 02:09:27.600 under The giant and see if he can test his. 2351 02:09:27.720 --> 02:09:30.960 Will he's not the local, boy you. Know terry is 2352 02:09:31.039 --> 02:09:34.399 the other side of The this marquee sort of freak 2353 02:09:34.479 --> 02:09:37.039 show that when it comes to town is kind of 2354 02:09:37.079 --> 02:09:39.800 a special attraction match on the order of AN nba title. 2355 02:09:39.840 --> 02:09:43.960 Match so now he's kind of elevated a little bit 2356 02:09:44.079 --> 02:09:47.359 visa dere and that he's not the underdog hoping to 2357 02:09:47.960 --> 02:09:50.439 prove himself Against. Andre he's the guy that you want 2358 02:09:50.479 --> 02:09:52.800 to see Test andre in your. Town and, man are 2359 02:09:52.840 --> 02:09:56.199 they learning their lesson about this being the money? Match 2360 02:09:56.239 --> 02:09:59.159 And i'm Sure Vince junr wherever he's, sitting is paying 2361 02:09:59.279 --> 02:10:02.239 very close attention to this as. Well here's a card 2362 02:10:02.279 --> 02:10:04.840 that was dug out by The Homie matt From december, 2363 02:10:04.880 --> 02:10:10.600 thirteenth seventy. Nine Southeastern Championship wrestling In. Knoxville Southeastern Tag Team, 2364 02:10:10.680 --> 02:10:14.800 Title schultzen contry Versus Orn dwarf An Atlas Southeastern title, 2365 02:10:14.880 --> 02:10:17.720 Match Sterling golden Versus Dick. Slater some wow is The 2366 02:10:17.840 --> 02:10:21.039 southeastern title that he has there on his waist and 2367 02:10:21.079 --> 02:10:23.880 you see it off to the right as. Well Sterling 2368 02:10:23.920 --> 02:10:28.199 golden Versus Dick. Slater here's a post from The Wrestling 2369 02:10:28.239 --> 02:10:33.119 Classic sport mentioning how the title switched around around this 2370 02:10:33.159 --> 02:10:35.720 point in. Time this fan Remembers hogan Is Sterling golden 2371 02:10:36.039 --> 02:10:39.479 won The southeastern title From Dick slater On december, first 2372 02:10:39.560 --> 02:10:46.000 nineteen seventy, nine worked his FIRST wwwf matches a few weeks, 2373 02:10:46.079 --> 02:10:52.479 later and went back and dropped the title To Bob 2374 02:10:52.720 --> 02:10:58.000 armstrong On Christmas. Night so we're worthy about to see 2375 02:10:58.399 --> 02:11:02.359 to cap off The alabama leg of the Complete Hull Cogan, 2376 02:11:02.439 --> 02:11:07.319 journey Is hogan coming back to do The Christmas day 2377 02:11:07.359 --> 02:11:11.800 honors after he's already gone To New york and been 2378 02:11:11.880 --> 02:11:15.920 on their. Television that's, Insane really is. Wild you don't 2379 02:11:15.920 --> 02:11:20.119 really think of their being kind of a anything except 2380 02:11:20.279 --> 02:11:24.319 The awa In japan on the other side of Hul 2381 02:11:24.399 --> 02:11:27.520 cogan leaving For New. York but there is a lot 2382 02:11:27.600 --> 02:11:29.960 more to say than you might, think Because Southeastern Championship 2383 02:11:29.960 --> 02:11:33.720 wrestling presents a Card Christmas, day and how as we 2384 02:11:33.920 --> 02:11:35.920 ride up on Our christmas here in twenty twenty. Five, 2385 02:11:36.039 --> 02:11:38.800 Boss i'm sure they never could have guessed Back Christmas 2386 02:11:38.880 --> 02:11:42.640 night nineteen seventy nine to The Civic coliseum And knoxville 2387 02:11:42.720 --> 02:11:44.920 that we'd be doing something called a podcast about. 2388 02:11:44.960 --> 02:11:46.760 It i'm sure. 2389 02:11:46.880 --> 02:11:49.119 Not but what A christmas night that must have been 2390 02:11:49.159 --> 02:11:51.279 at THE. AH i can't. Imagine that must have been. 2391 02:11:52.159 --> 02:11:55.840 Crazy three thirty Pm bell. Time you like that On Christmas? 2392 02:11:55.920 --> 02:11:58.399 Day a three thirty? START i, do. WELL i don't. 2393 02:11:58.439 --> 02:12:01.439 Know now too early, early you gonna Have christmas dinner? 2394 02:12:01.479 --> 02:12:05.000 FIRST i see that's. True maybe be home For christmas? Dinner? Maybe, 2395 02:12:05.600 --> 02:12:07.399 yeah maybe that's that could. Be that could be. True 2396 02:12:08.199 --> 02:12:13.720 Southeastern Heavyweight title, Sterling Golden Wrestling hulk and Quotes Wrestling Hulk. 2397 02:12:13.880 --> 02:12:16.960 Champion they must be saying wrestling Because marvel got. Pissed 2398 02:12:17.000 --> 02:12:18.760 they have to be all of a, sudden they must 2399 02:12:19.239 --> 02:12:22.079 they have to. Be in, fact he's probably Called Sterling 2400 02:12:22.119 --> 02:12:25.279 golden because when he got To NATIONAL tbs they were, 2401 02:12:25.319 --> 02:12:27.479 like we, can't, no we can't call you The. Hulk that's. 2402 02:12:27.600 --> 02:12:33.720 Ridiculous it's so obviously Versus Bob, armstrong as well as 2403 02:12:33.720 --> 02:12:35.479 A Texas Death match falls count anywhere in the. Building 2404 02:12:35.520 --> 02:12:37.560 dick's later teams Of Paul arndoor Versus David schuls And 2405 02:12:37.600 --> 02:12:40.399 Dennis condrey a seven girl over The Tarboro Battle royal 2406 02:12:40.399 --> 02:12:42.800 fifteen hundred bucks to the, winter and in a special challenge, 2407 02:12:42.800 --> 02:12:45.880 match It's Buzz sawyer with one ze Versus Ox. Baker 2408 02:12:46.560 --> 02:12:49.960 snippet if like, task that's, right here's little sippet from 2409 02:12:49.960 --> 02:12:52.760 The Knoxville New, Sentinel december twenty, Fifth Christmas, day nineteen seventy. 2410 02:12:52.880 --> 02:12:55.439 Nine wake, up open the presence with the, kids have 2411 02:12:55.600 --> 02:12:59.199 your uh your a chicory coffee or, whatever and fried 2412 02:12:59.319 --> 02:13:05.119 squarel down, there whatever, else whatever. Else Truman capote used 2413 02:13:05.119 --> 02:13:07.880 to eat his a young boy when he woke up 2414 02:13:08.439 --> 02:13:11.479 And Bob, armstrong, GEEZ i can't BELIEVE i missed the 2415 02:13:11.560 --> 02:13:15.479 Whole christmas memory. Connection there's you, Know Truman Capote's Christmas 2416 02:13:15.520 --> 02:13:18.319 memory one of the Great christmas short. Stories ever written 2417 02:13:19.239 --> 02:13:22.920 all about A christmas that these wrestling fans attending the 2418 02:13:22.960 --> 02:13:24.680 arenas in nineteen seventy nine in this part of the 2419 02:13:24.720 --> 02:13:28.039 country would have would have remembered and identified earth the 2420 02:13:28.520 --> 02:13:32.359 smell of fruitcake wafting through the coming out of the 2421 02:13:32.439 --> 02:13:37.560 chimney amazing. Times Bob armstrong is back For christmas. Wrestling 2422 02:13:37.600 --> 02:13:41.439 the headline reads local Favorite Bob, armstrong or as it, 2423 02:13:41.560 --> 02:13:48.760 Reads Arman strong arm n another check cashed has returned 2424 02:13:48.800 --> 02:13:52.520 To knoxville to Challenge sterling the Wrestling hulk in Parenthesis 2425 02:13:52.960 --> 02:13:56.319 golden in a special wrestling Show christmas afternoon At Civic. 2426 02:13:56.359 --> 02:13:59.560 Coliseum Dix slater And Paul orndorf Meet David, Chulton Dennis, 2427 02:13:59.600 --> 02:14:01.560 contry and the main event Of Texas Tag Team deathmatch 2428 02:14:01.760 --> 02:14:04.159 seven lady Wrestlers lyne And over The Tarborough Battle, royal 2429 02:14:04.520 --> 02:14:06.600 with the loan survivor taking home the fifteen hundred dollars. 2430 02:14:06.640 --> 02:14:12.319 Prize In, Ox baker Faces Buzz all You I'S thna 2431 02:14:12.319 --> 02:14:17.439 call Him Buzz lawyer in a challenge. Match so here 2432 02:14:17.479 --> 02:14:22.000 it is fast forward one tick. Oh this is the 2433 02:14:22.119 --> 02:14:24.800 only other match that survivest the f out of. Here 2434 02:14:24.880 --> 02:14:27.520 they have this. Match they have this match we have 2435 02:14:27.680 --> 02:14:32.800 to bring to a conclusion The Gulf coast. Section so 2436 02:14:32.960 --> 02:14:35.760 much has, happened we're going to push back the timeline 2437 02:14:35.760 --> 02:14:38.279 a little. Bit BUT i figured With christmas right around 2438 02:14:38.319 --> 02:14:41.680 the corner and this match happening In, christmas this Is 2439 02:14:42.079 --> 02:14:45.560 Terry bulat saying goodbye to The rings Of alabama against 2440 02:14:45.600 --> 02:14:49.039 the stalwart of the area in none other Than Bob. 2441 02:14:49.159 --> 02:14:51.760 Armstrong my, friend are you? Ready i'm ready. NOW i 2442 02:14:51.880 --> 02:14:56.119 don't know how and why this one. Survived i'm pretty 2443 02:14:56.199 --> 02:15:00.960 sure we're hitting a time period where George Championship WRESTLING 2444 02:15:01.560 --> 02:15:08.279 tbs would air highlights from other affiliated. Territories knoxville having 2445 02:15:08.319 --> 02:15:10.880 been bought By Jim barnett And Fred ward would definitely 2446 02:15:10.920 --> 02:15:13.079 be one of. Them AND i think what we're seeing 2447 02:15:13.680 --> 02:15:16.159 is not some match, that like The Hogan andre arm wrestling, 2448 02:15:16.199 --> 02:15:18.399 match happened to survive in the personal collection of some. 2449 02:15:18.560 --> 02:15:21.880 Guy man if only some podcast out there one day 2450 02:15:21.920 --> 02:15:24.439 could get to the bottom of that, one, yeah, Seriously 2451 02:15:25.039 --> 02:15:27.680 but in, fact this was a match that happened to 2452 02:15:27.720 --> 02:15:30.199 be from the, area that aired on another television show 2453 02:15:30.239 --> 02:15:33.960 that while you, know Complete Georgia championship doesn't exist as. Either. 2454 02:15:34.960 --> 02:15:37.920 Before of, course the proliferation of. VCRs there is a 2455 02:15:38.000 --> 02:15:40.159 fair amount Of georgia from nineteen. Eighty we watched a 2456 02:15:40.199 --> 02:15:42.640 bit of it In getting The essence Of Austin idol 2457 02:15:42.720 --> 02:15:45.840 earlier on The Complete Hull. Cogan and now because of, 2458 02:15:45.880 --> 02:15:48.000 THAT i believe we are the. Beneficiaries we get to 2459 02:15:48.079 --> 02:15:50.800 See Terry boulder mix it up with the Old Man 2460 02:15:51.159 --> 02:15:54.399 Christmas night nineteen seventy. Nine what a year it's been 2461 02:15:54.520 --> 02:15:57.800 For Terry bolat and what a way it ends playing 2462 02:15:57.840 --> 02:15:59.000 in three two. 2463 02:15:59.520 --> 02:16:02.119 One and you, KNOW i think the key to this 2464 02:16:02.239 --> 02:16:04.640 film is We i've looked at this film a couple 2465 02:16:04.680 --> 02:16:05.479 of times and watched the. 2466 02:16:05.520 --> 02:16:07.840 Watch let's that're on the. Call look At, hogan look at, 2467 02:16:07.880 --> 02:16:11.880 him look at. Him he's on film clearly long yellow 2468 02:16:11.960 --> 02:16:16.439 trunks and pressed collar and, elbow AND i think slow 2469 02:16:16.680 --> 02:16:19.520 methodical working of the arm by the jew frowed bottomed Arm. 2470 02:16:19.600 --> 02:16:22.159 Sean he couldn't man handle Larm strong the way he. 2471 02:16:22.239 --> 02:16:24.640 Has other restaurers are in The southeastern area Farm. 2472 02:16:24.680 --> 02:16:28.640 Strong armstrong wearing a single major, yes is looking like 2473 02:16:28.680 --> 02:16:30.159 Fucking Richard. Simmons he really. 2474 02:16:30.199 --> 02:16:32.799 Does the bomb has that, speed that and he has 2475 02:16:32.879 --> 02:16:35.520 it the bird and when in that respect to the 2476 02:16:35.639 --> 02:16:36.760 extra eighty or. 2477 02:16:36.840 --> 02:16:37.840 Ninety he was. 2478 02:16:37.840 --> 02:16:41.239 Spotty The Big man was used against, him opposed to being. 2479 02:16:41.159 --> 02:16:44.079 His compress lock to the arm Wringer hogan digging knees 2480 02:16:44.120 --> 02:16:45.159 and elbows in the corner. 2481 02:16:46.360 --> 02:16:51.239 The whole by surprise on the whole boom Driving armstrong 2482 02:16:51.319 --> 02:16:52.680 into that fla in the corner of the. 2483 02:16:52.719 --> 02:16:53.840 Buckling and The. 2484 02:16:53.840 --> 02:16:57.639 Big man was, tough was very cautious Of armstrong. 2485 02:16:57.559 --> 02:17:01.719 Elbow brother here comes No brody drop and cover By 2486 02:17:01.760 --> 02:17:02.920 Sterling golden gets too a. 2487 02:17:02.959 --> 02:17:04.920 Way But bob is still in the ball. Game you, 2488 02:17:04.959 --> 02:17:07.280 know you can never Yet bob in the position for that. 2489 02:17:09.360 --> 02:17:12.479 Golden. Squeeze he's got red and. Yellow it's just not 2490 02:17:12.680 --> 02:17:16.159 where it has to. Be you, Ready, wow drops the. 2491 02:17:16.280 --> 02:17:17.920 LEGS i was able to stay away from. IT i 2492 02:17:17.959 --> 02:17:21.319 think the cover uh And Bob armstrong cans leg drop 2493 02:17:21.399 --> 02:17:23.719 in nineteen seventy. Nine you want to mention That bob 2494 02:17:23.840 --> 02:17:25.559 was unable To he hasn't perfected the. 2495 02:17:25.639 --> 02:17:28.319 Movie definitely back and back in a big way as 2496 02:17:28.360 --> 02:17:28.760 you're going to. 2497 02:17:28.760 --> 02:17:30.719 See on this, bill and landed more with the back 2498 02:17:30.760 --> 02:17:34.040 of his uh calf on the face than the Figh 2499 02:17:34.680 --> 02:17:36.840 and when he came and he had one thing In 2500 02:17:36.920 --> 02:17:40.520 Wow championship ducks the. Line bob throws a big, right 2501 02:17:40.600 --> 02:17:42.239 bringing the Sterling golden down all. 2502 02:17:42.239 --> 02:17:44.799 Fours top wrestling talent that we've seen in The southeastern 2503 02:17:44.840 --> 02:17:46.879 area over the. Years bob has been the champion in the. 2504 02:17:46.959 --> 02:17:49.319 Past golden is. Reeling look at himself in the. 2505 02:17:49.319 --> 02:17:52.559 Area and you can see one because mister perpetual, Motion 2506 02:17:52.760 --> 02:17:54.719 bob is always in gear and it's always high. 2507 02:17:54.799 --> 02:17:57.920 Gear oh grabs the Where? 2508 02:17:58.600 --> 02:18:00.479 Armstrong Because armstrong had been stuff in my. 2509 02:18:00.559 --> 02:18:03.200 Finger he had things his way olden. Thought he had 2510 02:18:03.239 --> 02:18:04.600 things his own. Way indeed less. 2511 02:18:04.959 --> 02:18:05.760 Across the back of the. 2512 02:18:05.840 --> 02:18:09.879 Neck there he can vantage throw his arms strung over 2513 02:18:09.879 --> 02:18:11.239 the top. Rope look how the lights come up? 2514 02:18:11.280 --> 02:18:14.000 There, no, YEAH i, agree was unable to save the whole. 2515 02:18:14.079 --> 02:18:23.879 Tide right, back O'Connor roll, up Fun strong rolls up 2516 02:18:24.479 --> 02:18:26.680 for the free body. 2517 02:18:26.719 --> 02:18:30.719 Press so we Have southeast. 2518 02:18:30.879 --> 02:18:34.120 Jauary how Happy bob is he as. 2519 02:18:33.799 --> 02:18:36.120 That belt high in the, air kisses his glades around 2520 02:18:36.159 --> 02:18:38.680 the coliseum with. It so we'll be Having bob on 2521 02:18:38.760 --> 02:18:40.520 the program next. Week you'll be you'll be seeing him 2522 02:18:40.520 --> 02:18:43.239 in a reaction for quite some time now because we've 2523 02:18:43.239 --> 02:18:45.319 got a new, champion a great one and he's back 2524 02:18:45.440 --> 02:18:46.079 and ready to. 2525 02:18:46.159 --> 02:18:46.920 Go i'm. 2526 02:18:46.920 --> 02:18:51.520 Sweet wow so Long Sterling golden just thoughts there overall 2527 02:18:51.600 --> 02:18:54.280 on seeing him mixing it Up Christmas night seventy, NINE 2528 02:18:54.520 --> 02:18:57.520 i mean it's it's it's. WILD i, mean there there 2529 02:18:57.760 --> 02:19:00.239 are he's still a little you, know he's not there, 2530 02:19:00.360 --> 02:19:03.399 yet but there's still a lot of elements of Of, 2531 02:19:03.840 --> 02:19:08.000 hogan you, know you besides the, leg besides, that you, 2532 02:19:08.079 --> 02:19:10.000 know even the way you know when he loses and, 2533 02:19:10.079 --> 02:19:13.040 stuff and it reminds me of how he would lose 2534 02:19:13.040 --> 02:19:15.280 as a, heel you. Know and he kind of liked 2535 02:19:15.319 --> 02:19:17.559 his oh, brother and he gets down on his knees 2536 02:19:17.600 --> 02:19:19.840 and he's like looking into the, crowd, like why, BROTHER 2537 02:19:20.000 --> 02:19:23.280 i didn't do? It. Dude, yeah he had reserves to 2538 02:19:23.319 --> 02:19:25.479 call on when he Was. Hollywood, yeah, yeah, yeah for. 2539 02:19:25.600 --> 02:19:30.360 Sure and the punches and stuff like there were just 2540 02:19:30.559 --> 02:19:31.840 there's a lot of. It there's a lot of it. 2541 02:19:31.959 --> 02:19:33.680 There he just there was like a little bit of 2542 02:19:33.760 --> 02:19:39.079 a lack of follow through that he would develop the 2543 02:19:39.479 --> 02:19:41.840 punches and. Stuff, WELL i think of the back elbows 2544 02:19:41.840 --> 02:19:44.239 and stuff that he did, There like there was it 2545 02:19:44.360 --> 02:19:47.239 just kind of was a little it didn't feel, Complete, 2546 02:19:48.200 --> 02:19:52.879 yes unlike a certain, JOURNEY i could, mention but if 2547 02:19:52.920 --> 02:19:56.680 you think we're, complete my, friend we've only just. Begun 2548 02:19:56.959 --> 02:20:00.040 look At Terry. Boulder it was nice knowing the THE 2549 02:20:00.079 --> 02:20:03.479 Nwa southeastern heavyweight. Champion it was nice knowing as chest. 2550 02:20:03.479 --> 02:20:06.559 Hair it was nice knowing. Him and look at look 2551 02:20:06.600 --> 02:20:10.840 at those yellow trunks on That southeastern. Belt too, little too, 2552 02:20:10.920 --> 02:20:16.920 late but we certainly Get Terry bully strapping himself up 2553 02:20:16.920 --> 02:20:18.639 a little. Bit we even get us and mentions in 2554 02:20:18.680 --> 02:20:21.959 the paper as somebody that's interacting with some of the local. 2555 02:20:23.000 --> 02:20:29.600 Athletes here from The News journal In, Pensacola gainesville Date. 2556 02:20:29.680 --> 02:20:33.840 Line Danny, fike sophomore Tackled university Of, florida spent last 2557 02:20:33.840 --> 02:20:37.959 summer lifting weights with a couple of theatrical athletes own 2558 02:20:38.000 --> 02:20:42.799 As Ron slinker And terry Foldat Jesus. Christ so he's 2559 02:20:42.879 --> 02:20:47.680 now officially a theatrical athlete in their prof As Danny 2560 02:20:47.719 --> 02:20:51.399 fike says from The university Of Florida. Tackle they're professional 2561 02:20:51.399 --> 02:20:55.079 WRESTLERS i worked out with at The Pensacola Health, club Said, 2562 02:20:55.120 --> 02:20:57.799 fike who played On Pine Forest High School state for 2563 02:20:57.959 --> 02:21:01.000 a runner up from seventy to seventy. EIGHT i know 2564 02:21:01.319 --> 02:21:03.040 they act kind of crazy in the, ring but they're 2565 02:21:03.040 --> 02:21:04.840 pretty down to earth guys out of the. Ring AND 2566 02:21:04.959 --> 02:21:07.440 i know one THING i wouldn't want to mess with 2567 02:21:07.520 --> 02:21:10.719 them in the. Ring slinker And boulder must be the 2568 02:21:10.920 --> 02:21:13.360 hiss and boo bad guys who'll do anything, mean dirty 2569 02:21:13.360 --> 02:21:16.040 and low down to gain an unfair. Advantage otherwise they 2570 02:21:16.040 --> 02:21:19.120 wouldn't want to mess With Danny. Fike this Columnist Billy mitchell, 2571 02:21:19.159 --> 02:21:25.200 writes so last vestiges perhaps of the Name Terry, boulder 2572 02:21:25.319 --> 02:21:29.239 and it's traveling in an area that he LEFT i 2573 02:21:29.319 --> 02:21:31.799 think way more of an imprint on than he had 2574 02:21:31.840 --> 02:21:35.559 any right to. Expect M Ron, fuller it's off to 2575 02:21:35.680 --> 02:21:37.319 court to try to get the belt back and the 2576 02:21:37.360 --> 02:21:40.680 boat if he's lucky From Ron. Garvin and it's really 2577 02:21:40.760 --> 02:21:42.159 never going to be the same in this part of 2578 02:21:42.200 --> 02:21:45.120 the countries it regards professional. Wrestling but for the last 2579 02:21:45.159 --> 02:21:47.639 few months that it was the same for the last 2580 02:21:47.719 --> 02:21:50.280 few months where you could go down there Typical. Hugan 2581 02:21:51.520 --> 02:21:54.559 he comes in and he gets built up to be 2582 02:21:55.280 --> 02:21:58.239 on this, megastar and then when he, leaves it's, like oh, 2583 02:21:58.319 --> 02:22:01.639 shit like the whole thing goes to. Shit lessons being, 2584 02:22:01.760 --> 02:22:07.120 Learned lessons being, learned For Terry boleya and all who 2585 02:22:07.319 --> 02:22:09.840 employ and book him going, forward and there will be 2586 02:22:10.040 --> 02:22:12.520 a litany of said. Folks but the raw material is. 2587 02:22:12.600 --> 02:22:16.120 Here we've done our level best to bring it to 2588 02:22:16.239 --> 02:22:19.360 life for you here in The Complete Hulkoke and never 2589 02:22:19.479 --> 02:22:23.719 let it be said That Terry Boleya's Gulf coast history 2590 02:22:24.120 --> 02:22:29.520 is under documented. Anymore it Was, andre it Was, harley 2591 02:22:30.000 --> 02:22:33.479 it Was Ox baker And Austin. Idol it was so 2592 02:22:33.799 --> 02:22:38.920 much of the. Signatures the first hint and whiff of 2593 02:22:39.040 --> 02:22:41.319 the signatures that would define his career was the beginning 2594 02:22:41.399 --> 02:22:45.280 of The andre. Feud it is the beginning of calling this, 2595 02:22:45.520 --> 02:22:49.239 man This Terry. Boleya from The Infinity's end band In, 2596 02:22:49.360 --> 02:22:54.879 tampa The, hulk As Lou forigno lights up television screens 2597 02:22:54.879 --> 02:22:58.600 across the country with his portrayal of The Incredible. HULK 2598 02:22:59.440 --> 02:23:03.600 i think things are. SET i Think Hulk Cogan boss 2599 02:23:04.360 --> 02:23:08.440 is prepared to be. Born let the new year bring 2600 02:23:08.559 --> 02:23:10.959 that to you and yours here on The Complete Hulk 2601 02:23:11.000 --> 02:23:14.000 hogan and The Lapsed. Fan we've got a couple of 2602 02:23:14.040 --> 02:23:17.159 more legs of the nineteen seventy nine journey to get acquainted. 2603 02:23:17.200 --> 02:23:20.280 With Because terry The Hulpe boulder made imprints In, memphis 2604 02:23:20.799 --> 02:23:24.200 he made imprints In, atlanta and yes he would soon 2605 02:23:24.319 --> 02:23:29.000 make imprints In New. York we leave you for, now 2606 02:23:29.639 --> 02:23:32.159 coming off The Christmas night victory Of Bob, armstrong and 2607 02:23:32.200 --> 02:23:36.600 wish you and yours a happy holiday two thousand and twenty. 2608 02:23:36.680 --> 02:23:40.159 Five And i'm left, Wishing boss that ALL i want 2609 02:23:40.200 --> 02:23:44.120 to get under the tree this year is someone that 2610 02:23:44.200 --> 02:23:49.120 can help me see what these fans In, dothan In 2611 02:23:49.239 --> 02:23:52.840 montgomery And mobile And, pensacola and in so many other 2612 02:23:52.879 --> 02:23:56.159 areas on The Gulf coast we're able to witness As 2613 02:23:56.600 --> 02:24:01.079 terry The Hulk boulder morphs Into Hulk. Cocain don't know 2614 02:24:01.120 --> 02:24:04.319 who that could, be but maybe they'll be under the 2615 02:24:04.440 --> 02:24:15.120 tree this, Year god willing you, Know Charlie, Platt, yes, 2616 02:24:15.200 --> 02:24:17.719 sir how are? You? Sir next time on The Complete 2617 02:24:17.760 --> 02:24:18.319 Old cogan