Missouri Wrestling Revival presents Larry Matysik with the 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award.

When you say the name Larry Matysik to a wrestling fan in St Louis, you get the same warm feeling that St Louis Cardinal fans get when you mention former ST Louis Cardinal announcer Jack Buck. Admiration and great memories quickly come to mind.

Both men were the fans best friend when it came to providing them with the much desired information about what was transpiring in the sport that they were into.

Buck was the man to hear the play by play of Cardinal greats such as Bob Gibson, Lou Brock, Ozzie Smith, Willie McGee and Bruce Sutter. Fans watched as Matysik called play by play in matches that saw "King Kong" Brody, Dick "the Bruiser, Lou Thesz, Gene Kiniski, Pat O'Connor, Harley Race, Buddy Rogers and many more in action.

St Louis promoter Sam Muchnick was wise enough to know that for wrestling to succeed in St Louis, a sports town that he would have to bring the same respectability that the Cardinals brought to the city.


A main piece to the puzzle would be the Voice of Wrestling at the Chase. The television program which broadcast from 1959 to 1983 from the majestic Chase Hotel would be the face of wrestling in St Louis.

Matysik has been much more than a man calling the play by play of great matches in St Louis. At the young age of 16 in 1963, Muchnick hire Matysik and would be very supportive and helpful in the career that saw Matysik also man the publicist and office manager, as well as book the matches,

In 1984 he would begin working with Vince McMahon and then WWF (now WWE) till 1993.

Matysik has since gone on to write some of the must read books

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[nick11085]

Larry Matysik is great. He so deserved that award.

[McPBrain]

Actually , I asked Ted DiBiase about this very thing.... Why did they pronounce your name differently in St Louis? He informed me that the correct pronunciation is indeed Di-Bi-OSS. He said that in order for it to have the pronunciation you suggest, that it would be spelled DiBiasi. We also discussed Dick Murdoch at length, and Ted related a funny story about Dick persuading Ted to break several of Sam Muchnick's WATC  ground rules. This very story appears verbatim in Matysik's WATC book.

[MRobert21]

I have 6 discs of Saint Louis wrestling here I bought from High Spots cheap and I do not think Matysik was good on commentary. I know, now I am going to get flamed and hated, but it is my opinion. Matysik could not properly pronounce the last name DiBiase to save his life (not a matter of interpretation or accent as it should be easy to say Di - Bias - EEEEE). Matysik tries to call all the moves in a match, but he does not know the names of them. When in doubt, call a move a FLYING something

[eslubin]

that's nice