Dennis Coralluzo

Was just watching the late Dennis Coralluzo do an interview. What a unique individual. He was part carney, part gangster, part bullshitter and part loyal friend and heel ribber. Dennis fought many 'wars' against other indie promoters in the north east for years. He used his special brand of pulling pranks and harassment to play havok with opposing promoters shows and with wrestlers and 'smartmarks'. Dennis was the kind of guy that you either loved or you hated. But make no mistake he was somebody that you would have an opinion about one way or the other.




Dennis was a member of the National Wrestling Alliance during the end of its heyday and thru its downslide from national promotion to a collective or indie promoters running gym and bingo hall shows with a handful of has beens and never was beens. But of this group Dennis stood out. One reason was that he had good business sense and didn't over extend himself promising big money to veterans at the expense of the show making money like so many did. Dennis also knew the business and that not all veterans and big names meant drawing money in the north east.



This guy is hilarious to listen to with all his b.s., hot air and stories of the past. We lost Dennis way to soon and I think, though some may disagree, we lost a big asset to 'the business' and also the kind of guy that is needed in the future to
make wrestling what it was and what it should be.



R.I.P. Dennis Coralluzo

I haven't been watching any new wrestling and haven't for years. What they put out today sucks ass. WWE is the only big game in town and they do everything the WWE way and make assholes after of everybody. HHH along with his fat wife and Sean Michaels run the show. I turned it on for a few minutes the other day and Jack Swiger actually had a hold on somebody down on the mat and was working it. I almost pissed my pants.

TNA is the worst shit I have ever seen that had that much money behind it and that much TV exposure. What a bunch of shit. Old farts who can't do shit and young morons who don't have a clue. OH but they do have the wunderkind AJ Styles who I have heard for 10 years is the greatest talent ever to put on wrestling tights. The fucker can't talk, he looks like Bob Backlund if Backlund was a gymnast instead of a rassler. This douche can do amazing matrix shit but guess what that doesn't mean shit and not of his bullshit means shit cause he does it so much and it is so unblievable.

The Dudleys: I watched these guys the other day in a 6 man and it was pathetic. They are fat, old and they are so washed up it is unbelievable.

Perenial jerkoffs Scott Hall, Kevin Nash and Sean Waltman have brought their tired as cool kid act (what are they 55?) to this shit swamp. Hulk Hogan is there with hips of a 90 year old and a knee of a 91 year old. And last but not least they have Vince Russo who must give Jeff Jarrett and Bob Carter the best blowjobs in the history of man cause this fucker sure as hell is a total failure but they keep on squeeziing the puss, shit and garbage out of him.

Anyway, just so I really sound like an old timer "wrestling today SUCKS!"

I Hate HHH

I fucking hate HHH.

Jerry Lawlers Balls

Found myself recently in the possession of a DVD that documented the entire Jerry Lawler vs Austin Idol and Tommy Rich feud. This was a great DVD cause it not only showed the big matches in the feud but also the angles and interviews. So Zom will try to tell you about how Jerry 'The King' Lawler lost one of his balls in blog format. Seems Jerry, The King of Memphis and resident young girl molestor, was going to get a shot at The A.W.A World Heavyweight Champion Tricky Nicky Bockwinkel. Well about this time Tommy 'Wildfire' or in his words 'WILDFAR' Rich was returning to Memphis. Tommy the southern cornbread (again in his words) boy was told by Eddie Marlin that he would get the shot at the verbose Bockwinkel. Well, Tommy was a little irked (do country boys get irked? No? Well Tommy was pissed).



At the same time the handsome 'Universal Heart Throb' Austin Idol was in the territory and was a big babyface (good guy) too. Well he was kind of mad too cause 'The King' seemed to always get the title shots even though others held the regions titles. Well anyway, this angle built slowly with both 'WildFAR' and Idol cutting babyface interviews but throwing in that they were a little 'irked' about the title situation.



Now in todays WWE/TNA shitfest they would have done the angle on one show and blew it off on another. This went on for weeks with the slow burn. Then finally 'King' Jerry got his match. Tommy was at ringside and when Bock was trying some underhanded moves Tommy got on the apron to tell the ref "hey fucker 'Wildfar' saw Bockwinkel pullin' some sheeee-it'. At that time Nicky whipped Jerry into the ropes and The King and Tommy collided. Sure it was an accident... or was it! Later when 'Bannana Nose' Lance Russell and Dave Brown were commentating the clip they showed in slow mo that Tommy had raised his elbow and actually clunked The King about the noggin and Bockwinkel got the pin. Then... IT WAS ON. Jerry did the same thing to Rich and cost him a match next thing you knew the two were hated rivals.



Idol got thrown into the mix and the two dastardly blondes made it their personal mission to fuck with Lawler. The interviews were great with the classy muscleman Idol spouting his hatred for Lawler followed by the maniacal rants of redneck Rich ("did somebody say somethin' 'bout gettin' CRAZY?"). It all came to an end for Jerry 'The Kings' royal testicle when he was facing one of the dastardly duo and the two jumped on Jerry and then each grabbed a leg and pulled 'The King' junk first into the ringpost. Lawler was out for an undetermined time and his ball was out forever.



Many interviews were cut about 'The King' being "half a man". And when 'The King' returned he wanted vengeance... and balls! Rich's balls! Idols BALLS! And he wanted them balls pronto. So Jerry aquired the services of one Bam Bam Bigelow 'The Beast of the East'. The 400+ pound mad man with the flaming skull tattoo was a genuine monster. Finally he and Lawler got Idol and Rich in a tag No DQ match and what they did to Tommy Rich was just brutal. Rich's cock and balls took more blows than Rocco Siffredi, Peter North or Randy Spears (Ughhhhhhh!)together. And Rich ended up becoming 'Half a Man' too. There was much much more but Doctor Zom will have to save the rest for later cause this shit is giving me carpal tunnel!!! Zom OOT!

John Nord

One guy that wasn't my favorite or anybody that I really took that much notice of was the Bruiser Brody Light or wannabe clone John Nord. Now don't get me wrong when Nord was tagging with Jake 'The Snake' Roberts in Mid South I thought he was pretty cool.



I really didn't mind the WWF's version of Nord who was dubbed as 'The Bezerker'. I liked the Viking outfit and gimmick. I thought they could have done a lot more with him but they made the mistake of letting him do his own interviews and he just didn't have it on the mic. He could talk but he didn't come off as menacing.





Even when Nord was morphed into Yukon John Nord I thought he was pretty funny. But even then he was upstaged by the stupid gimmick given his partner by Verne Gagne 'Flapjack' Scott Norton the barrel chested lumberjack who could eat more pancakes than anybody.





But the one gimmick that Nord had where he was really successful was as Bruiser Brody's tag partner. Now Nord was good size, had curly hair and a beard and wore Brody like boots but he was not near the legend Brody was and the fact that he barked and basically did his own verion of Brody's gimmick turned me off. Still the two of them (Brody and Nord 'The Barbarian') had a good steel cage match in the A.W.A. with Jimmy 'Superfly' Snuka (one of Brody's tag partners from Japan) and the caucasian Gumby of pro wrestling Greg Gagne.





Nords last run was in W.C.W. where he was hired to work in Eric Jerkoff Land. Nord was still solid, still big and still just lacking something. But when I really started liking Nord is when I watched his shoot interview. The guy is funny as hell and it is probably that funniness or jovial kind of personality that just didn't make him a good badass when they made him talk and even when he worked and was making goofy faces in the ring. Still Nord outside the ring is a true character. Catch his shoot. He is very entertaining.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEeAlPDOH0Q&feature=related

Ken Patera 'The Worlds Strongest Wrestler'

One wrestler that I thought was world champion material in every way was 'The Worlds Strongest Wrestler' Ken Patera. Patera was legit. He was a real Olympian and the first man to ever clean and jerk 500 pounds over his head in competition.



Ken made a name for himself as the top heel in the country when he snapped indian Billy Whitewolf's chicken neck bone with THE SWINGING NECK BREAKER! Grrrrrrrrrr! Whitewolf was injured so badly that he turned into an Iraqi!



Patera could always get over on TV with his strongman gimmick. One of his big foes was Mr. U.S.A. Tony Atlas. Atlas was a great babyface with an outstanding build who could match Ken in strength but could never overcome Ken and his willingness to use foul tactics to win at all cost!





Patera started as a babyface and his genetic superiority made him great in everything he did. Heck his brother Jack was even a great athlete. He was the first middle linebacker in Dallas Cowboy history and he was also the first head football coach of the Seattle Seahawks. Ken also competed in The Worlds Strongest Man Competition when it first started.

Ken was a natural heel and it was against WWWF champion Bruno Sammartino and later Howdy Doody Bob Backlund that Ken showed that he had all it took to be THE MAN.



Heck Dirty Rhodes, that yellow stinkin' dirty dog, even stole Ken's white afro!



Ken was so strong, so powerful and so GREAT that he could even go toe to toe with that big dumb giant Andre the Dummy!



But when it came down to it the only person that could stop Ken Patera 'The Worlds Strongest Wrestler' was KEN PATERA 'The World's Strongest Wreslter'!

"On April 6, 1984, Patera and fellow AWA heel Masa Saito were denied service after hours at a McDonald's restaurant in Waukesha, Wisconsin, prompting an angry Patera to throw a rock through a window of the building (Patera claims that a former employee threw the rock but he received the blame). He and Saito assaulted the policemen sent to arrest them later at a hotel. Sixteen months later, at which point Patera was in the WWF, he was sentenced to two years in prison."

Pat Patterson

Pat Patterson was one heck of a performer in the world of pro rasslin'. I remember seeing pics of him in all the old rasslin magazines growing up. Sometimes he was a heel. Sometimes he was a babyface but all the time he was on top wherever he was wrestling.

Pat was huge in San Francisco:



One of his biggest opponents and feuds was with The Great Mephisto. The two wrestled in every kind of match and they had bloody brutal battles.



Pat was linked very closely to Ray Stevens for the better part of his career. Pat learned a lot from Ray and the two formed a very successful tag team. They even snagged the world tag team championships in the A.W.A. But Pat really hit the big time when he went up to the W.W.W.F. His matches with Bob Backlund were legendary as the veteran heel took on the young Howdy Doody champion.





But then Pat went babyface and had one of the greatest matches in W.W.W.F. history against his arch nemesis Sgt Slaughter.

Of course Youtube is afraid that somebody might actually post a link to this match so you have to click these links to see it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNJhTuYh-AI&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4Mp00X4DVw&feature=related

Why? Because they are total fuckwads. But I digress. Pat then started doing some commentary which he was ok at but since he had the French Canadian accent he wasn't the ideal commentator. This was pointed out to him by ex-partner Ivan Koloff.



Koloff obviously forgot that his old comrade was French Canadian and not American. But who cares about the details. Pat later was involved in some stuff outside the ring and was accused of some behavior that if true really made him look like an asshole. But Pat was a great talent and a great worker and I enjoyed watching him whip some ass. He had real fire in the ring.

Dick Slater

I remember when Dick Slater first started wrestling. He was just a young kid and was a great heel in Florida. He teamed with Dirty Rhodes and won the tag team belts and then later with Professor Toru Tanaka and Bob Orton Jr. Dick Slaters star was on the rise.

Next I caught up with Slater and he just kind of fell flat with me. He could work. He could talk fairly well but he just seemed just ok. I have recently been watching his run in Mid Atlantic wrestling from The Carolinas and I assume that he must have been the booker cause he had every belt and was all over the TV.



Slater wasn't bad but he just wasn't the mega star or mega heel that I would have hung the territory on. But Jim Crockett decided to. He had some big time matches with Roddy Piper in The Carolinas and it was kind of a carry over from their reverse feud in Georgia where Slater was the face and Piper was the heel.



This little feud in itself kind of said it all for me. Piper was the hottest heel in the country at the time. He was the heel color commentator on Georgia Championship Wrestling and he got a ton of exposure and heat. And Slater challenged him. I know they took this around the horn but I don't think it ever got over at least not as much as Pipers feud with Bob Armstrong, Tommy Rich or Buzz Sawyer.



To me Slater never was as good as he was early in his career in Florida for Eddie Graham or in Georgia. A lot of people say that he copied Terry Funks style move for move and if you watch him you will see it big time. He and Terry even teamed up in both Japan and in Puerto Rico. Slater could wrestle heel or face and some say he was actually thought of as one of the wrestlers to be NWA World Heavyweight Champion at one time. But Slater was involved in a bad car wreck and a lot of people said he just wasn't right after that.



Slater later turned up in Mid South/UWF and again I am pretty sure he was the booker cause suddenly he came in and was the top heel in the territory. He was again all over TV and was the main man. Seems like Slater liked to book himself on top. He did have a great feud with Jake Roberts in Mid South and he reunited with his buddy Buzz Sawyer.



Slater ran Greg Valentine out of Mid Atlantic (Valentine went to the WWF for a big time run). He ran Jake Roberts out of Mid South (Roberts went to WWF for a Hall of Fame run). And then Slater went to WWF and had a lame ass shitty nothing happening run as 'The Rebel'.



Dick Slater? Well, he was a good worker and he was REALLY good when he was the booker.

Stan Hansen

I grew up watching Stan Hansen and reading about him in the kayfabe magazines. He was 'The Guy That Broke Bruno's Neck!' Seems Stan had recently been in the business and got the call from Vince Sr. to come to the WWWF. Bruno Sammartino, the legendary champion needed big heels to eat up. So Stan went to the WWWF and was put in matches against Bruno. Stan was big and raw and he could really move around the ring. He and Bruno had some wars!



During the match Hansen accidentally slammed Bruno awkwardly and Bruno came down on his head and broke his neck. The mags said that Stan hit Bruno with his dreaded 'Lariat' (a closeline off the ropes) and they showed pics of Bruno in his white and blue checkered pajamas in a neck and back brace in the hospital. This accident really caterpulted Stans career. He faced opponent after opponent who were trying to get revenge for Bruno! Gorilla Monsoon defended the belt for him while he was gone and Stan took beatings from Ivan Putski, Monsoon and others. But he dished a lot of them out too. As a favor to Vince Sr. Bruno came back way to early and wrestled Stan in Shea Stadium because Vince was nervous that he was going to lose his ass on the Ali/Inoki boxer vs wrestler close circuit stinkfest. Bruno was limited but he came back and beat Hansen from pillar to post. Stan took off like a scalded dog to the dug out and the fans pelted him with everything that wasn't nailed down.

Stan wrestled a lot on Georgia Championship Wrestling when it first went national. He was a big heel when I first started watching it and was the Georgia State Heavyweight Champion. He wrestled Mr. Wrestling II, Tommy Rich, Tony Atlas and even some heels like Angelo 'King Kong' Mosca. Stan also wrestled as a face in Georgia and had a really successful team with Tommy 'Wildfire' Rich.



Stan always had time to run up to New York and kick the shit out of Howdy Doody Bob Backlund.



Stan really made a name for himself and launched himself to god like status in Japan. He beat the hell out of Inoki. He beat the hell out of Baba and Jumbo, and he and Bruiser Brody beat the hell out of everybody as one of the greatest tag teams of all time. Heck Stan even beat the hell out of Andre The Giant!



And Stan was so resiliant that he beat the hell out of the next generation of Japanese superstars. Misawa, Kawada, and Kenta Kobashi all felt 'The Lariat'!



Stan Hansen... a real legend in classic pro rasslin' DADDY!

Mad Dog Vachon

I first saw Maurice 'Mad Dog' Vachon when he was brought in as a partner for the fat egg suckin dog Dirty Rhodes in Georgia on WTBS' nation wide Georgia Championship Wrestling program. Dirty Rhodes was being picked on by the heel tag team that was running Georgia at the time Ole Anderson & Ivan Koloff. So the fat stupid son of a plumber Dirty Rhodes comes out talking out of the side of his mouth about having a partner to come in to help him. Well they showed a clip and I was blown away.



Now that wasn't the interview but it gives you some idea of what Mad Dog Vachon was all about. And if that didn't convince you then try this DADDY-O!:



That's right The Mad Dog is in the WWE Hall of Fame! He was an ass kicking French Candian who was a cross between The Tazmanian Devil and Satan himself! Mad Dog would often do inteviews with a chain link fence up in front of the camera. He would then smash tomatoes thru the cage to show how he was going to smash his opponents faces thru the cage. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Mad Dog was also a The World Heavyweight Champion of the American Wreslting Association. He had many great battles with long time champ and owner of the AWA Verne Gagne and also blood baths with 'Da Crusher' (Reggie Lisowski). Mad Dog also liked his BEER! GRRRRRRRRRR!



And when he didn't feel like bailing out the fat yellow egg sucking dog Dirty Rhodes and when he got tired of winning all the singles titles he teamed with his brother Butcher Vachon as one of the GREATEST tag teams of all time:



And if you thought Mad Dog Vachon was a phony pro rassler and that a guy named Maurice couldn't be tough or that he was just a little short guy... well you better keep those thoughts to yourself! Maurice was on the Canadian Olympic Wrestling Team, he was one of the toughest street fighters in the history of Montreal and he was known for plucking out the eyeballs of his antagonist and hitting them like lightening and kicking their teeth out once they were down.

You pencil necked geeks can have your John Cena's, your namby pampy sissy boy Shawn Michaels or Hulk Hogans. Gimme THE MAD DOG! (I want to go bite a cage and push somebodys face thru it!!!! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR)

Buck Robley

How full of shit is Buck Robley? Like most interviews I figure their is Robley's version, other peoples versions and some where in the middle is the truth. But seriously Robley has an almost megalomaniacal view of himself and of his friend/protege Bruiser Brody AKA Frank Goodish. I am not questioning Bucks abilities as a booker or his in ring ability or even that of Bruiser Brody but Buck just goes over the top with his bullshit. Everybody was scared of him. They were scared of his mind. They were scared of Brody. They were scared of him and Brody together. Nobody could beat up Brody and everybody was scared and would not challenge him in anyway.



He put the NWA World Heavyweight Belt on Brody and had him pin Ric Flair 1,2,3 in the middle of the ring and take the belt. He beat Danny Hodge for the NWA World Junior Heavyweight Title. He left territories even though they begged him to stay. Everybody screwed him over and over and over and over but they all needed him and brought him in. And as soon as he got a territory doing record business and completely turned it around they would screw him and he would quit.



Also Brody never hurt anybody... but then "he hit me with a chair so hard it almost drove me thru the mat". I mean seriously Robley would contradict himself over and over sometimes in the same sentence. And he would get caught in kayfabe several times. "I beat that Tommy Rich like a step child".



And lastly another contradiction and a huge one, he talks about how upset he was that his best friend Bruiser Brody was killed in Puerto Rico by Jose Gonzales and how he was going to go down there and get Gonzales. And then in the very next sentence he says Carlos Colon called him after Brody's murder and asks him to come down and book and Robley goes downa nd takes the job. He also says he was going to get Gonzales. Then he wanted to hear Gonzales version and if it wasn't right or if he didn't like it he was going to get him and then finally after not mentioning it he suddenly says that he did meet with Gonzales and heard his side and everything was OK.

I like Adrian Streets quote on Robley. When asked if he worked with Robley Street said that he did and that he told him right off the bat to his face that he didn't like him. "Why?" the interviewer asked, "let me just put it this way" Street said, "I don't like people who use drugs".

'The Big Cat' Ernie Ladd

'The Big Cat' Ernie Ladd had to be one of the funniest pro rasslers in the history of pro rasslin' daddy! First he tells it like it is about "that drunken indian" (Chief Jay Strongbow) .



Then he goes off about "the big dummy" (Andre The Giant):





Then Ernie tells it like it is about "them egg suckin' dogs" "talkin' out the side of their mouths". The Big Cat walked the way he wanted to walk and talked the way he wanted to talk.



Thunder Mouth (Thunderbolt Patterson) feels the sting of Ernies tongue "he comes out here a yink yink yink and a yonk yonk yonk! Talkin out the side of his mouth":





Ernie was the shit. R.I.P. Cat!

The Masked Uvalde Slim

I was just watching a clip on Youtube with the GREAT Terry Funk and Gordon Solie. Seems the yellow, fat, obnoxious egg sucking dog got run out of Georgia and decided to put on a stupid Mil Mascaras mask and come back as the masked Uvalde Slim. Well, no mask is going to cover up that rotund fat disgusting tub of goo and the big purple ring worm blotch on his gut. Everybody knew it was Dirty Rhodes. Funk knew it was Dirty Rhodes. Solie knew it was Dirty Rhodes and even all those people out there knew it was Dirty Rhodes the egg suckin dog. But they still carried on the charade. Goddamn that pisses me off. That fat goof got away with murder and real athletes like Terry Funk and Dory Funk Jr. had to put up with that big stupid gas bag talking out of the side of his mouth going "'a yuck yuck yuck" and "a yink yink yink". Well that fat sow took an ass beating, as usual and showed the whole world in that Omni that The Funk Family was superior, once again and that he was just a fat plumbers son.

Maniac Mark Lewin

If you know Doctor Zom then you know that he has a strong dislike for a yellow egg suckin dog known as The American Dream Dusty Rhodes. And I took great joy growing up in seeing anybody beat Dirty Rhodes to a bloody pulp. One of my favorite men for the job was Maniac Mark Lewin. Mark was managed by Playboy Gary Hart and had been a great hero of mine from his days fighting 'The Sheik' in Detroit on Big Time Wrestling but it seems that something happened to Mark and he kind of got a little... fucked up.

Some say that Mark was in an auto accident others say that he put himself in a hypnotic state before a match. But Mark had changed and all for the better in my opinion. I think that it is possible that he just got tired of seeing that fat bloated yellow dog from Austin Texas running his mouth and lisping out from under that white afro about how great he was. I bought an 8 X 10 photo of 'Maniac' Mark Lewin pulling that fat hogs head back and drawing back ready to deliver a thrust from the end of his fingers into Dirty Rhodes throat. This picture proudly hung on my bedroom wall (until my asshole psycho dad tore it down).

'Maniac' Mark Lewin, you were one of my favorites heel or babyfaces but when you kicked the shit out of that Dirty Rhodes it made my heart swell with pride!

ps FUCK DUSTY RHODES.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q7RQkZvoTg