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Post by dannygoddard on Sept 22, 2010 11:06:36 GMT -5
I'm wondering what happened to all the folk who liked talking about Georgia Championship Wrestling back "in the day?" I check the site out 2-3 times a week but I know nothing about the business of today. But I love discussing Sputnik Monroe, Lenny Montana, Chief Little Eagle, Joe Scarpa, Dickie Steinborn, Ray Gunkel, Dick Dunn, Butcher Vachon, Greg Peterson, Sailor Moran, Ike Eakins, the Baby Blimp, the Infernos, the Torres Brothers, the Von Brauners, the Bavarian Boys, Dr. Jerry Graham, Don Fargo, Bobby Shane, Mario Galento, Dick the Bruiser, Freddy Blassie, Gorilla marconi, Wild Man Phillips, Ken K.O. Yates, and on and on. I recall the barbed wire matches, the lights out matches, the kid gloves matches, and the Texas death matches. I'll never forget managers like Gentleman Saul Weingeroff, J.C. Dykes, and Playboy Gary Hart. I remember whenever they brought Bobo Brazil in for a special card, they'd have to bring in Rocky Storm because you just didn't have a white man and a black man wrestling each other at the City Auditorium in Atlanta in the early '60s. I don't see much dialog anymore.  |
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Post by Bobby Simmons on Sept 23, 2010 8:04:31 GMT -5
Danny, you want to know something that scares me?
I was in the ring with most of the names you mentioned.
I even wrestled Dick Dunn in Dothan...
I don;t know if I am old or you are, but what great memories we share.....
Bobby
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Post by Larry Goodman on Sept 24, 2010 15:04:16 GMT -5
This forum could definitely use some livening up. In the meantime, check out the trip down memory lane that Bobby Simmons and Jerry Oates took on Peach State Pandemonium last night by clicking here. I found it highly educational. |
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Post by dannygoddard on Sept 25, 2010 21:35:00 GMT -5
Thanks, Larry. I did listen to that episode and enjoyed hearing about Roberto Soto and others. I had seen Col. DeBeers on a few AWA reruns just in the last year or so but I would have never guessed that was Ed Wiscowski! I lived in Columbus, NE 1980-85 but never went to a show. I did read an article in the local paper on Eric Pomeroy (Stan Vachon) who had retired and was working as the maintenance man at a nearby town's nursing home. Anyway, all of Jerry Oates' memories of the central states made me think of that.
Thought just hit me: Was it Bob Armstrong or Dickie Steinborn (or both) who used to take all he could, then pull the straps down on his top and clean house?
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Post by dannygoddard on Sept 26, 2010 6:57:52 GMT -5
On last week's Peach State Pandemonium, weddings in the ring were mentioned and no one could think of any other than Dick Steinborn's. If my memory serves me correctly, I do believe Bob Boyer was married in the ring in Dothan, AL at the Houston County Farm Center and I believe Paul "Butcher" Vachon was also married in the ring. Would that be a 3-ring marriage? The engagement ring, wedding ring, and wrestling ring.
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Post by Keith Steinborn on Sept 26, 2010 8:26:20 GMT -5
That was Dick Steinborn that pulls the straps down.
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