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On my first anniversary with my first wife we celebrated at a wrestling match in Corpus Christi. It was at the "coliseum".

Kamala the giant was heading to the ring. I made some stupid comment and then looked around me. Everybody had vacated their seats and I was alone. I raised a peanut sized fist as this monster came down the aisle.

I call it an aisle, but his huge legs were knocking metal folding chairs everywhere. He looked down at me and gave me a big smile. I met him later and he was a really a good guy. He said that the look on my face was priceless!

I was SCARED!!!

I met Andre the Giant also. The size of that man cannot be described. His final match against Hulk Hogan, as sick as Andre was he could have smashed Hogan. Hogan has admitted as much.

Nick Kozak

Ivan Putski

The Tomahawk Chop.

Those were the days.

Great story about Kamala. He must have gotten a kick out of how scared you looked. I would have been scared too.

In the mid-1990's I met & had a nice conversation with then 'Lord Steven Regal' now 'William Regal' whose real name is Darren Matthews the II. He is a regular, nice bloke from Blackpool and massive in person. We spoke for about 15 minutes between matches.

On my first anniversary with my first wife we celebrated at a wrestling match in Corpus Christi. It was at the "coliseum". Kamala the giant was heading to the ring. I made some stupid comment and then looked around me. Everybody had vacated their seats and I was alone. I raised a peanut sized fist as this monster came down the aisle.

LOL! An anniversary made memorable with ruined shorts for a souvenir! You brought back some memories of Southwest Championship Wrestling during the mid 1980s when I was stationed at Ft. Hood, traveling wherever possible to see these weird guys whose posters my barracks buddy literally covered the walls with. We saw all the Von Erichs, the Sheepherders (pre-Bushwackers they were drunk, vicious and fined a lot for seriously injuring people), Exotic Adrian Street and his valet Ms. Linda, The Bull Manny Fernandez, the Missing Link, "Dr. Death" Steve Williams, the Fabulous Freebirds, "Mad Dog" Buzz Sawyer, Tommy Rich, the Minnesota Wrecking Crew, Mil Mascaras, Tully Blanchard before he teamed up with Arn Anderson, Cowboy Scott Casey (who got his leg broken in two places by the Sheepherders right in front of me - sick), Eric Embry, Terry Allen (who went on to become Magnum TA), Eddie Gilbert, your acquaintance Kamala and some upstart named Rick Rude.

In the last twenty years about 20 to 25% of those guys have passed away. It's a hard lifestyle.