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