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yes, it tends to stress me

Jim Garvin was the first wrestler I ever saw come out to music. It was about 1979 or 1980 at Robarts Arena in Sarasota, Fl. I think the song was Carouselambra from Led Zeppelin's "In Through the Out Door," which had just come out. He must have paid someone to play it. Garvin had switched from ma...

Behind the scenes in the planning session: "OK, so we're supposed to stand around, like we're stupefied, just kinda swain' around, then when you guys are done, we get to show off our dance moves. And you're sure the cardboard will be properly placed? Yeah, that's good."

This was a short feud in 1978. Both were babyface tag teams, both regularly winning the Fla Tag Team belts. The introduction of the US Tag belts spurred this on. It heated up over a few weeks, and the fans were into it, mainly favoring the Graham/Keirn team. But they allied against a common enemy...

Uh, Capt. Redneck, 'Mongoloid' is not the preferred nomenclature ...

Put Reggie Parks in that category as well. He used to wrestle new guys on tv and at house shows in Fla in the late 70s, early 80s. If you watched closely, you could tell he was in control and making sure neither he nor the other guy got hurt. He was also the guy they'd send out to get squashed on...

Would even a normally intelligent man wear an 8-inch clip-on tie?

They used to have 1-2 cameras in the studio for those matches. They'd spend time in each show, reviewing what went down at the big house show last week to keep the storyline going. In the arenas, there were 16 mm (I think) cameras set up at an angle a little higher than the ring to record the act...

Funks and Dusty on the same side of a fight. Green mist. Grainy tape from the Fort Homer Hesterly Armory. Terry coming out in red longjohns and cowboy boots. Gordon calling it .., A strange odyssey indeed...

When Taj came out, we were wondering if they'd play Statesboro, since they had the night before. What a cool version!

Love those kids in the ring after the match - they probably paid $3 for GA at the Armory on a Tuesday night...

This is '76. Dusty was a babyface until 75. Rock Hunter became the heel manager in Fla after Gary Hart went down in the Tampa Bay plane crash that killed Bobby Shane and injured Hart, Buddy Colt and Pak Song. This was the height of the Rhodes-Funk feud. By '77, Superstar Graham and Ox Baker repla...

This is great, but missing a very important one -- the Fireman's Carry. Very basic move, but Jack was sudden with it.

I like how Terry catches referee Sonny Myers in the face right after the count. You can see the three Funk fans but all the rest of the Miami audience looks shocked. Brisco was their boy.

An excellent wrestler, a good guy and a resourceful man - Congratulations, Ed!