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Issue #39



Interviews with the Legends

Tinker Todd TINKER TODD
Serving in the C4 Highlanders
Wrestling amateur in London, England
Wrestling in Singapore
Wrestling as Mr. Question Mark
Boxing in the British Army
Gama vs Dara Singh
The Chinese bandit
A grenade thrown at ringside
Black marketeering in Singapore
Babe Sharkey and Jim Crockett
Training at Bothner's Gym in New York City
Harold Sakata, aka Tosh Togo
A mouth full of marbles
Sir Alan Garfield
Al Costello and the Fabulous Kangaroos
The origins of Tinker Todd
Favorite moves and holds
Happy Humphrey and the gorilla
George and Bobby Becker
Greg Valentine learns a lesson
Wrestling as Mr. X
Mil Mascaras gets a wrestling lesson
Blind in the ring
The Great Bolo
Black Jack Pye
Bill Lewis exposes the business
The Two Stooges
Toilet paper in Luke Brown's bugle
Frank Hickey
Breaking Ric Flair into the business

 

Nightmare Ted Allen "NIGHTMARE" TED ALLEN
Growing up watching wrestling
Smartened up by a fan
Buddy Atlas adjusts Ted's neck
Booked on TV in Tennessee
Gordon Solie and Harry Thornton
Wrestling with Danny Davis as the Nightmares
Ken Wayne takes Ted's place
George McCreary's finishing move
Calgary and the Hart family
Smoky Mountain Wrestling
The Power Ranger
Training Arn Anderson
Dick Slater and the Alpharetta Auction Barn
Dick Steinborn vs Ted Oates
Ronnie Gossett sells Nick Gulas' territory

 

Chuck Cell CHUCK CELL
Growing up as a wrestling fan
Chicago's International Amphitheatre
Road trip to Tampa, Florida
Backyard wrestling
The wrestling Beatle
Wrestling at the county fair
Fresh meat for Nick Bockwinkel
Who is Chuck Cell?
Weekend warrior for the AWA
Dusty Rhodes destroys Paul Perschmann
Mad Dog Vachon's wrestling boots
Wrestling's fake, right?
Fooling mother
The Masked Ratman
Living on peanut butter sandwiches
Bob Backlund blows a fuse
Cyberspace correspondence

 

Sal Dominguez SAL DOMINGUEZ
Wrestling amateur in San Francisco
Peanuts and ice cream
San Francisco Cow Palace
Sal and Oki Shikina, the Gladiators
Stan Neilson's trunks
The lost blade
Unintended high spot
Mutt and Jeff
Cisco Grimaldo and the sombrero
The midgets vs the giants
Drunk on soy sauce
Embarrassed in the ring

 

Karl von Hess KARL VON HESS
Wrestling in the carnival
Tarzan of the Missouri River
Boxing and wrestling
Wrestling Argentina Rocca

 



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Whatever Happened to ...? #39
 

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