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Haha, yea. I forgot about Black Gordman and Goliath and I couldn't for the life of me remember Dick Lane's name. What ab9ut Gorilla Monsoon and his color commentary.

The interviews were the best. No PC in those days.

One of my faves was the Golden Greek, John Tolos, talking about an upcoming match with Victor Rivera.. He's all like...

And I took a bite of a burrito...and I *PTOOEY*...SPIT IT OUT!!!

Kinji Shibuya and Massa Saito gave some funny ass interviews too. They didn't much like Metskins either. Massa Saito's sleeper hold, "Srreep, sreep".

And watch out for Ernie Ladd's big taped thumb.

Best semi-modern interviews were from Rowdy Roddy Piper.

Yeah, I do remember The Big Cat jamming that thumb in a fellows eyes - what a move . . . Shibuya and Saito were great personalities. I think one of them would throw poison in your eyes if you pissed him off. :). Bull Ramos was still wrestling high school gyms into his 70’s - what a life he had. They should make a movie about him.

in the early 80’s I moved up to Portland, OR. and Portland Wrestling from Don Owen was HUGE up there. All the big stars went through Portland. We would frequently go to the Portland Sports Arena and Flea Market on Saturday which attracted quite a class of people LOL. Roddy Piper started out in Portland. the Big East German, Karl Steiner grappled out of there and would actually fight people in the flea market parking lot after the shows once or twice. Ric Flair went up for a year or two and had some great matches with the locals like Billy Jack Haynes, Tim Flowers (who it was rumored was homosexual) the Mega Maharishi and the incomparable Playboy Buddy Rose.