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Issue #40



Interviews with the Legends

Benny McGuire
Billy McGuire
 
BENNY & BILLY MCGUIRE
Heaviest kids in school
Moving to Texas
Arrested and jailed
Riding minibikes
Taught by Gory Guerrero
Wrestling Frankenstein
Traveling the world
110 miles an hour with Sam Bass
Life on the road
Free meal from the Bearman ... for $10
Stabbed with a bayonet in Japan
Billy's tragic death
Life after wrestling
Spreading God's Word
Jumping sixteen school buses on a Honda 125
Guinness Book of World Records

 

Percival A. Friend PERCIVAL A. FRIEND
A fan in Detroit, Michigan
Breaking in as a referee
Memories of Bobo Brazil
The Green Hornet
Origin of the Percival A. Friend character
Managing Black Angus
The Hart dungeon
Stu Hart and Les Thornton get in a shoot
Riot in Des Moines, Iowa
Pat O'Connor's Cadillac
Ribs
Rufus R. Jones
Life in the outside world
Sputnik Monroe's bald spot

 

Bill Crouch/Butch Malone BILL CROUCH, aka BUTCH MALONE
Growing up in Omaha, Nebraska
Trained by an outlaw promoter
Sailor Art Thomas vs the fat kid
Wally Karbo blows off steam
Setting up the ring
Training at Verne Gagne's school
Bill Crouch becomes Butch Malone
Working with Jim Dalton
Police escort
Home O'Dell and the silver dollar
Working for the government
The cauliflower ear

 

Lou Thesz LOU THESZ
Eddie Quinn, Montreal promoter
Joe Louis
Strangler Lewis and Billy Sandow
Thoughts on Frank Gotch
John Pesek and Strangler Lewis brawl on a train
Lewis and Sandow split
Ad Santel
Eddie Quinn and Yvon Robert open Montreal
Paul Bowser gets shut out
Jack Pfefer exposes the business
Behind the doors of an NWA promoter's meeting
Thoughts on his match with Ed Carpentier
Negotiations for match with Bruno Sammartino
N.W.A. World Junior Heavyweight Title
Tom Packs, St. Louis promoter
Promoting St. Louis
Title unification match cancelled
Battle of the Bite: Lewis vs DeGlane
Bobby Bruns
Breaking kayfabe with George Zaharias
Jess McMahon, father of Vince McMahon
Karl Gotch
Carnival athletic shows
Leo Nomellini
Roy Shire starts promoting in San Francisco
Verne Gagne shoots with Dick the Bruiser
Wrestling in Atlanta in 1938
Ray Steele breaks an amateur wrestlers' ankle

 

John Bonica DR. JOHN BONICA
Learning to wrestle
George Bothner's gymnasium
Shooting with Pete Sturgis, while Sturgis warms up
Wrestling in New Yrok during the '30s
Wrestling challengers from the audience
Going to medical school
The Masked Marvel
Rikidozan murdered

 

Danny Roland DANNY ROLAND
Trained by Robert Gibson
The Black Sheep
"Mizark in the rizing"
Broken collarbone
Thoughts on steroids

 



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