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Issue #53



Interviews with the Legends

Tony Atlas TONY ATLAS
Growing up in Roanoke, Virginia
Stabbed with a pitchfork
Fighting on Scrappers' Corner
Learning a hard lesson about money and fame
Wrestling Harley Race in Houston
Learning the value of keeping his mouth shut
Off to correction school
Steak and lobster for breakfast in the ghetto
Pumping steel
Teenage Mr. Virginia
Shooting at the YMCA
Introduction in the Greensboro dressing room
$150 a week to train
Training with Gene Anderson, Ole Anderson, and Larry Sharpe
Shooting with the sleeper hold
Tony's second father
Hearing a pin drop in the dressing room
Ole Anderson challenges a black belt

 

B Brian Blair B BRIAN BLAIR
Childhood in Tampa, Florida
Wrestling in high school
Selling cokes at Tampa Stadium
Babysitting Buddy Colt's kids
Following Jack Brisco in Zayre's Department Store
Training with Hiro Matsuda
Shooting in the Sportatorium
Screwing up the finish as a referee
Getting juice for Eddie Graham and Dusty Rhodes
Mooning the customers at Stuckey's Restaurant
First paycheck - $750
Steve Keirn learns carny
How he got the B in B Brian Blair
Brian and Jesse Ventura learn a valuable lesson in Kansas City
Learning to do interviews
Helping Paul Orndorff get juice
Hotel parking lot brawl with Larry Latham
Fight in the bar with Matt Borne
Airborn foreign objects in Boston Garden
Wrestling with Jim Brunzell as the Killer Bees
Soured on the WWF
Steroid use
There is life after wrestling ...
Andre the Giant farts in a taxi
Running for political office

 

Joe Rossi"> JOE ROSSI
Growing up as a wrestler's brat
Amateur wrestling at Maplewood High School
Earning the name "Canvas Back"
Working out with the pros
First pro match at age 14
The birds and the bees for a wrestler's kid
Love-hate relationship with Nick Gulas
Bearcat Brown and the flat tire
The redneck, southern sheriff
Thoughts on promoters and wrestlers
Saul Weingeroff and ethnic jokes
Riot in South Africa
Tommy Heggie in Puerto Rico
Knocked cold during a "Lights Out" match
Charles Kirault and chicken blood
Comparing wrestling today with yesterdayQuitting the business
Diagnosed with cancer

 

Baron Gattoni BARON GATTONI
Interview with Rick Gattoni

Family roots in Argentina
Throwing Pedro Martinez off the ship
Life on the road as a "Road Man"
Gattone Bologna
Life in school as a wrestlers' kid
Memories of the Baron

 



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Whatever Happened to ...? #53
 

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