AS YOU MAY KNOW, I AM A HUGE RASSLIN’ FAN. I’M NOT TALKING ABOUT THAT AMATEUR MESS WHERE THEY WEAR THEM FUNNY LITTLE TIGHT OUTFITS THAT ARE A STEP AWAY FROM THE GYMNASTICS BOYS AND THE BALLERINA TYPES.
I’M TALKING ABOUT THE REAL DEAL: PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING. HERE’S MY PROBLEM WITH RASSLIN: IT AIN’T AS REAL AS IT USED TO BE. HAVE YOU SEEN TODAY’S WRESTLING STARS? THEY’RE ALL MUSCLED UP AND FREAKY LOOKING.
I LIKED THE OLD SCHOOL GUYS BETTER. THEY LOOKED LIKE THE REAL, TOUGH GUYS YOU MIGHT MEet UP WITH ON FRIDAY NIGHT AT THE BAMBOO LOUNGE,
AT ESTER’S AT REBA’S DOGHOUSE LOUNGE, THE LIGHTHOUSE LOUNGE ON ST. SIMONS ISLAND, OR EVEN AT KATY’S IN SCUFFLETOWN…THE WRESTLERS BACK THEN DIDN’T SPEND A LOT OF TIME WORKING OUT IN THE GYM…NO SIR, THESE BOYS DID THEIR WORKING OUT AT HONKYTONKS DRINKING BEER, SMOKING CIGARETTES, AND FIGHTIN’…THE ONLY KINDA RHOIDS THESE GUY HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH WAS THE KIND ON YOUR BUTT…THEY PROBABLY THOUGHT A STEROID WAS LIKE A STEREO VERSION OF HEMORRHOIDS…PAIN ON BOTH SIDES!
THEY WEREN’T PRETTY, BUT THEY GOT THE JOB DONE…AND THE FANS EITHER REALLY HATED THEM OR REALLY LOVED THEM. I’M TALKING ABOUT GUYS LIKE
DUSTY RHODES, DICK MURDOCH, CHIEF WAHOO McDANIEL, ERNIE THE KAT LADD,
DICK THE BRUISER, JACK BRISCOE, DORY FUNK, JR., HARLEY RACE,
ABDULLAH THE BUTCHER, GEORGE THE ANIMAL STEELE, DON MOORE,
DICKIE SLATER, BUGSY McGRAW, JOSE LOTHARIO, MR. WRESTLING #2 AND
EDDIE GRAHAM. ONE OF EDDIE’S “BROTHER’S” , SUPERSTAR BILLY GRAHAM, WAS IN FACT ONE OF THE FIRST OF THE NEW BREED OF MUSCLED UP OUTRAGEOUS CHARACTERS. THE OLD SCHOOL GUYS COULD MAKE YOU BELIEVE THAT IT WAS A BATTLE OF GOOD VERSUS EVIL…THEY PUT IT ALL ON THE LINE EVERY NIGHT.
SAY WHAT YOU WANT, BUT TO ME RASSLIN’S JUST NOT AS REAL AS IT USED TO BE!
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