Road to Greensboro: Part 23 Destroying Pvt. Nelson

[buttercremehonda]

This was when Dory Funk Jr. was booking Mid-Atlantic. Snooze fest.

[slimmsayton]

Hey, where the hell was Rotundo when Nelson was getting his ass handed to him?

[chuckgan]

Didn't know Nelson became Boris Zhukov.

[VeRTiGo9191]

Me neither! Wow!

[mkl62]

There was another televised match where Nelson teamed up with Mike Davis against Slaughter and Kernodle. Steamboat, Youngblood and Rotundo got involved in it as well.

[rtenny7]

The funny thing about the Nelson to Zhukof transformation, I remember Nicolai Volkof attacked him in Mid-South after a match he lost, saying "you're not a Russian,you're an American." Then years later they became the Bolsheviks.

[slimmsayton]

@rtenny7 Funny thing about that is, when the Bolsheviks broke up, Zhukof accused Volkov of not being a real Russian. He claimed he was from Lithuania, one of the first break-away republics during the USSR's Velvet Revolution. The funny thing about that was, neither one of these guys is Russian. One's American and the other one's Croatian.

[kingdomoftheworm]

Go Boris Go!