Yes, we are getting old
Well, I guess I'm old, too, because I also remember all of those guys. I remember a card I went to at the old Philadelphia Arena in the early 1970s. They had a 20 man "Battle Royal", with ten "faces" and ten "heels." Before the start of the match, Ernie Ladd got all of the heels into a huddle to go over the strategy of who they would take out first, second, etc. When the bell rang, Ladd turned around to face the good guys in the other corner. As soon as he did, his fellow heels all grabbed him, and tossed him out of the ring first.
Well, I guess I'm old, too, because I also remember all of those guys. I remember a card I went to at the old Philadelphia Arena in the early 1970s. They had a 20 man "Battle Royal", with ten "faces" and ten "heels." Before the start of the match, Ernie Ladd got all of the heels into a huddle to go over the strategy of who they would take out first, second, etc. When the bell rang, Ladd turned around to face the good guys in the other corner. As soon as he did, his fellow heels all grabbed him, and tossed him out of the ring first.
plus Kamala and the Iron Sheik!
You want old? I used to watch wrestling with my great-grandfather, who was born in 1876. He was severely hard-of-hearing, so the only way he could enjoy TV was if it had some action, such as wrestling and the Three Stooges. Otherwise he spent his time smoking his pipe and reading the newspapers and the Bible. “Wrestling at the Chase” was on KPLR-TV every Saturday from the Khorassan Room at Chase Park-Plaza Hotel in St. Louis. Good memories.
By the way, I was reading up on von Raschke a while back (he’s still around) and found that he is a licensed biology teacher. He used to supplement his income working as a sub. Can you imagine coming to school and finding out that von Raschke is your sub?