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.