I'll bet that it was a while before your "friends" stopped laughing and kidding you about it! But it wasn't the last of them. There was a trained black bear (muzzled and claws trimmed very short)Bck in the early '80s im Memphis who would "wrestle" anyone with a promise of a big payoff if you could just manage to not get pinned. I saw a couple of burly Marines last about 15 seconds each as the bear went low and swept their feet out from under than and down they would go.