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.

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".