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[Rob]

The Greatest Wrestler Of All Time

There never was, and there never will be, another wrestler like the great Haystack Calhoun.

[IIC]

There never was, and there never will be, another wrestler like the great Haystack Calhoun.

Well Rob...I'll admit, Hay was very good...But the King was Classy Freddie Blassie. Freddie even won as a write-in candidate at my high school for Student Body President in 1970. But those Pencil-Neck Geek School Administrators disqualified him.

Freddie was the best IMO.

http://www.fredsociety.com/blassie.html

...Doug(IIC)

[billyjoe]

Rob,
I saw Haystack Calhoun matched with I think Flying Fred Curry in a tag team match against I think the Love Brothers in the 1960's. The Love Brothers dressed like hippies but were dirty rotten cheaters. Remember Haystack wore a horseshoe around his neck. The Love Brother was begging for mercy as Haystack began his roundhouse windup and knocked him out of the ring. Curry leveled the other brother with a flying mare. I almost got hit by a chair. It was great. The only disappointment was that the wrestling midgets and wrestling women never showed up. At that time they said Haystacks weighed 714 pounds.
---------billyjoe

[IIC]

I never did get to see a Pro match in person...But I did go to the roller derby...Doug(IIC)

[Rob]

Wrestling, Wrestlers

BillyJoe, sounds awesome. I never did see a live wrestling match, except for the ones they had at school. But I used to watch the wrestlers on TV in the 60s. I think it was called "National, All Star Wrestling," or something like that. Some of the more illustrious characters I remember, besides Haystack, were: Skull Murphy, The Spoiler, The Iron Claw, Kenji Shabuya (sp?), and there was the tag-team of Ray Stevens and Pat Patterson. When I got to be 6 or 7 years old and figured out it was all fake, I kind of started losing interest in it.

I had always heard that Haystack Calhoun was 6'-4" tall and weighed 600 lbs. But I guess it probably fluctuated up and down 100 lbs. or so from there. I also remember hearing he used to go into restaurants and order one of everything on the menu. You know how those stories are. Well when you're just a little kid, you tend to believe 'em.

Doug, I guess "Classy" Freddie Blassie would have been disqualified as a student body president in 1970 considering he'd have been 52 years old at the time. (???)

[IIC]

BillyJoe, sounds awesome. I never did see a live wrestling match, except for the ones they had at school. But I used to watch the wrestlers on TV in the 60s. I think it was called "National, All Star Wrestling," or something like that. Some of the more illustrious characters I remember, besides Haystack, were: Skull Murphy, The Spoiler, The Iron Claw, Kenji Shabuya (sp?), and there was the tag-team of Ray Stevens and Pat Patterson. When I got to be 6 or 7 years old and figured out it was all fake, I kind of started losing interest in it.

I had always heard that Haystack Calhoun was 6'-4" tall and weighed 600 lbs. But I guess it probably fluctuated up and down 100 lbs. or so from there. I also remember hearing he used to go into restaurants and order one of everything on the menu. You know how those stories are. Well when you're just a little kid, you tend to believe 'em.

Doug, I guess "Classy" Freddie Blassie would have been disqualified as a student body president in 1970 considering he'd have been 52 years old at the time. (???)

Don't forget BoBo Brazil...And my fave when I was real little was the Destroyer...He wore a full head mask...I remember when I was in 2nd grade and my sister was in Kindergarten...We used to watch wrestling on TV...We really liked the midgets...I used to tell her I was gonna be a wrestler when I grew up...Then she would cry...NO!!! NO!!! IIC...You'll get hurt!!!...Wait a minute!!!...I wasn't IIC until 1968...She called me Douggie back then...Douggie(IIC)

[Lyehopper]

Doug, I guess "Classy" Freddie Blassie would have been disqualified as a student body president in 1970 considering he'd have been 52 years old at the time. (???)

Yep that's why the "pencil-neck geeks" disqualified him.... Age discrimination!.... Doug should have have sued in his behalf.

[billyjoe]

Doug,
From the various posts I realized that most wrestlers were regional . For instance I never heard of Fred Blassie before he was mentioned in the song "Man on the Moon" by REM. Also never heard of Iron Claw , The Spoiler , Skull Murphy.
The big names around here that we could see on TV almost every week were Bobo Brazil , Fred Curry , Bull Curry , The Shiek , Haystack Calhoun, Gorilla Monsoon . Bobo Brazil was always on. I'm surprised he was big on the West coast. Who were some of the others ? How about East coast, Mr.Market ? What about the South ?
--------------billyjoe

[Websman]

Doug,
From the various posts I realized that most wrestlers were regional . For instance I never heard of Fred Blassie before he was mentioned in the song "Man on the Moon" by REM. Also never heard of Iron Claw , The Spoiler , Skull Murphy.
The big names around here that we could see on TV almost every week were Bobo Brazil , Fred Curry , Bull Curry , The Shiek , Haystack Calhoun, Gorilla Monsoon . Bobo Brazil was always on. I'm surprised he was big on the West coast. Who were some of the others ? How about East coast, Mr.Market ? What about the South ?
--------------billyjoe

The south had Bullet Bob Armstrong, Austin Idol, the New Zealand Sheep Herders, Mongolian Stomper, Joe Le'duc, the Anderson Brothers, Wildcat Wendall Cooley, and a bunch more that I can't remember.

[billyjoe]

Webs,
Never heard of any of them , but I'm sure they were awesome.
-------------billyjoe

[IIC]

Doug,
From the various posts I realized that most wrestlers were regional . For instance I never heard of Fred Blassie before he was mentioned in the song "Man on the Moon" by REM. Also never heard of Iron Claw , The Spoiler , Skull Murphy.
The big names around here that we could see on TV almost every week were Bobo Brazil , Fred Curry , Bull Curry , The Shiek , Haystack Calhoun, Gorilla Monsoon . Bobo Brazil was always on. I'm surprised he was big on the West coast. Who were some of the others ? How about East coast, Mr.Market ? What about the South ?
--------------billyjoe

Well...tough to remember...But I remember Haystack, Skull Murphy, The Destroyer, Gorilla Monsoon, Bobo.

Funny...I used to watch Roller Derby too...LA T-Birds...When they were on TV they were always at home...But when I went to college and ran track we obviously stayed at hotels all over...One time I flipped on the TV in Kansas City...The T-Birds were against the KC Bombers...Same people...But they were playing in KC.

There was a girl from Culver City, CA (Where I went to school K-12 except for 4th grade when I lived in Spring Branch(Houston, TX)...Her name was Darlene Langlois(You can google her)...Believe she was 3 years behind me...Her sister, Rayleen was in my class...Darlene played for the T-Birds...She was vicious....Hopefully she made some big bux and screwed the hedgies...But I doubt that I'll ever try to find out...Go T-Birds http://www.latbirds.com/

[IIC]

BTW....My Dad loved Gorgeous George and His Georgie Pins...Maybe because my Dad's name is George?

Here's a site...I recognize some of the names... But not most ...I remember Andre The Giant and Killer Kowalski...But where is Mr. Moto???

http://www.wrestlingmuseum.com/homeie.html

From this one...

http://www.pwhf.org/halloffamers/inductees.asp

I remember Johnny Valentine, Freddie Blassie, Ernie's Fave...Ric Flair, Dick Beyer(THE DESTROYER...My 1st FAVE when I was a kid)...Hulk Hogan of course....Just noticed a guy named Little Beaver...Probably none here have ever read "IIC...The Early Years"...But one of my nicknames when I was a Frosh in college was Little Beaver...Don't ask why Webs...IIC

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[casinoboy3]

What happened to your homepage?

[IIC]

What happened to your homepage?

Where you been Casino???

I got his page up but I had to click refresh 4 times before anything appeared.

Ernie...I recommend that you get a real host for your homepage...Oftentimes I have not been able to access your homepage either...A simple page is really cheap nowadays...Just a thought...Doug(IIC)