Subj : Pro Wrestling
To : CHARON
From : Dumas Walker
Date : Sat Jul 20 2024 12:53 pm
> Man, I used to be into wrestling from the late 70's to the late 80's. I grew
> up in the St. Louis area and always watched Wrestling at The Chase on Sunday
> mornings that was host at Chase Plaza. I went a few times with my family to
> the Kiel Auditorium and watched the greats, such as Rick Flair and Harley Race
> beat the hell out of each other. lol
I have not watched it in years but, when I was a kid, "Championship
Wrestling" came on for an hour, at Noon, just as cartoons were ending. I
didn't watch it until I met some other kids who did, c1982.
I don't remember the name of the "federation" that was represented, but I
think it was "Southeast" or something. Jimmy Hart, Jerry "the King"
Lawler, Dutch Mantell, the Fabulous Ones, Kenya Kondori, Bill Dundee, Sweet
Brown Sugar, Sabu, are some I remember. There was also a team of "Swamp"
guys, but I don't remember their nicknames, and a team from "down under" (that
didn't include Bill Dundee) that I think were supposedly from New Zealand.
One of them was bald and, IIRC, missing some teeth. The other one mostly
grunted and didn't talk (in complete sentences) much.
I watched that every Saturday I was home for a couple of years. One of the
girls I was in class with actually went to some of their events at the
Louisville Gardens. She was pretty cool. I look back and wish she'd lived
closer by.
* SLMR 2.1a * "And there she was, like disco superfly..."
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