We watched them Sunday mornings on Chicago tv, while my dad made waffles. Moose Cholak was the uncle of a friend that lived down the block. We didn’t live there long enough for me to meet him.
Wasn’t that uhf channel 26? I think my uncle knew Moose. Met him through a friend who was a part timer, the good guy who always got hit with a folding chair when he was kicking the bad guy’s ass. He was a cop in Batavia, IL. Don’t recall his name.
They had it on channel 8 out of the Quad Cities. Scrap Iron George Gadasky, Kenny Jay, Red Bastine, Hercules Cortez, The Great Kobiashi and yes, Haystack Calhoun along with Vern Gagne and the Crusher and the Bruiser and others. Can’t leave out Larry the Axe Henning and Bobby the Brain Heenan.
My cousin from Joliet pointed out that the channel 26 Chicago guys had different names when they were on channel 8 out of Moline. I guess the big timers must have been the guys who used the same name everywhere. Have a friend who figured out how to put the Figure Four leg lock on people. Hurt like hell! HR
Direct from the new online textbook “Foreign Policy: Simplified for Americans”.
That is perfect.
Priceless.
Indeed, world is a stage, all theater planned ahead. The timing after the C should have made this clear, but people still don’t get it.
I had a feeling we weren’t being told the truth.
I don’t care who you are, that there is FUNNY!!!
LOL. I needed that.
Thx.
Too Funny! I LOL’d. ’til i Cried. Never understood why i couldn’t bear to watch studio wrestling. The Labeling of the ‘actors’ helped immensely.
In the clip you provided, Everyone walked away ALIVE. The ‘Real World’? Not so much.
It’s the Same. Only Different.
Wag the Dog has gotten out of hand…
Far more accurate … far more accurate than CNN.
But, but…where is Andre the Giant, Pampero Firpo, The Shiek, Wild Bill Curry, Bobo Brazil, Dick the Bruiser, Tex MacKenzie, and Haystacks Calhoun?
Maybe those guys were a midwest group of professional wrestlers.
Maybe it was 1970.
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/51655/11-stars-big-time-wrestling-1970s
They were even pre-Hulk Hogan.
Maybe I’m pretty freakin’ old.
Maybe I oughtta find a different thread.
We watched them Sunday mornings on Chicago tv, while my dad made waffles. Moose Cholak was the uncle of a friend that lived down the block. We didn’t live there long enough for me to meet him.
Wasn’t that uhf channel 26? I think my uncle knew Moose. Met him through a friend who was a part timer, the good guy who always got hit with a folding chair when he was kicking the bad guy’s ass. He was a cop in Batavia, IL. Don’t recall his name.
They had it on channel 8 out of the Quad Cities. Scrap Iron George Gadasky, Kenny Jay, Red Bastine, Hercules Cortez, The Great Kobiashi and yes, Haystack Calhoun along with Vern Gagne and the Crusher and the Bruiser and others. Can’t leave out Larry the Axe Henning and Bobby the Brain Heenan.
My cousin from Joliet pointed out that the channel 26 Chicago guys had different names when they were on channel 8 out of Moline. I guess the big timers must have been the guys who used the same name everywhere. Have a friend who figured out how to put the Figure Four leg lock on people. Hurt like hell! HR
Dick the Bruiser. Haven’t heard that name in a long while. He lived not far from here.
Gene Kiniski
I’m laughing so hard it still hurts. Thanks, Francis. I needed that.
Sehr Gute!