HOMER O'DELL IN TIGHTS

                                                                       July 11, 1964

LEXINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA

CHIEF BIG HEART

ALDO BOGNI and BRONCHO LUBICH

GEORGE BECKER

RONNY ETCHISON

NICK KOZAK

MIKE CLANCY

FRANK VALOIS

HOMER O'DELL

Professional wrestling returns to the LEXINGTON YMCA with a bang tonight following a week's layoff because of the Fourth of July holiday.

A six man tag team match, with grudge ingredients thrown in, features the program.

Heroes GEORGE BECKER, RONNIE ETCHISON and CHIEF BIG HEART will battle top bullies ALDO BOGNI, BRONCHO LUBICH along with their arrogant manager, 'COLONEL' HOMER O'DELL, in a best-of-three falls encounter. This time out, O'DELL will don wrestling attire instead of the usual tuxedo and will participate as a legal wrestler.

'IRISH' MIKE CLANCY returns after a long absence and will meet tough Canadian FRANK VALOIS in the semi-final match of the evening.

Newcomer NICK KOZAK battles TOMMY O'TOOLE, and in the 8:15 opener, BOB BOYER faces PANCHO GOMEZ.

PENNY BANNER

 

63 YEARS AGO IN LEXINGTON

                                                            Lexington, North Carolina

February 10, 1963

SIX MAN TAG TEAM action tops tonight's big wrestling card at the LEXINGTON YMCA.

The hero trio of GEORGE BECKER, JOHNNY 'RUBBERMAN' WALKER * and Indian great BILLY TWO RIVERS will clash with the rugged threesome of SWEDE HANSON, PANCHO VILLA and 'BIG' IKE EAKINS in the two-out-of-three fall main event.

GEORGE BECKER

BILLY TWO RIVERS

'BIG' IKE EAKINS

JOHNNY 'RUBBERMAN' WALKER

SWEDE HANSON


TONY 'CRUSHER' ANGELO, a big name in the wrestling profession and a big man at three hundred pounds, meets Frenchman FELIX LAMBAN in the night's semi-final attraction.

LOUIS BONE, a popular star, makes his debut when he meets Japan's YASHINO SATO ** in the 8:15 opening match.



* JOHNNY 'RUBBERMAN' WALKER later wrestled as MR. WRESTLING 2.

** YASHINO SATO later wrestled as THE GREAT KABUKI.

BLACKJACK MULLIGAN

 

RED HOT CROCKETT RINGS

 

One of THE MASKED MARVELS * takes down BOBBY KAY. 

'JUNGLE' JIM STARR (one of the un-MASKED MARVELS) gives DANNY MILLER a ride around the ring by dragging him by the hair.

PAUL JONES crushes the skull of THE MASKED SUPERSTAR (BILL EADIE) **

SONNY FARGO clamps his version of a headlock on PEDRO GODOY.

One chop to the noggin' of 'PLAYBOY' GARY HART, courtesy of 'Chief' WAHOO McDANIEL.

JOHNNY WEAVER 'crowns' OLE ANDERSON.

* THE MASKED MARVELS did a short stint with JIM CROCKETT PROMOTIONS in the early 1970s. The MARVELS were actually THE INTERNS, who came to the MID-ATLANTIC territory without their manager, DR. KEN RAMEY. RAMEY was not asked to join them due to the abundance of 'heel' managers already in the area.

** Note that PAUL JONES' hair is shorter than he normally wore it during this time. This was due to THE MASKED SUPERSTAR's taking the shears to PAUL's head in a previous match, to set up a long-term program. But, according to BILL EADIE, PAUL didn't want to go around with an ugly butchered-like haircut, so he went to a barber shop and had it all 'evened-up'. It killed the angle. BILL wasn't happy.

ERNIE LADD

 

BALD MEETS BIG

                                                                      December 5, 1964

LEXINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA

62 Years Ago

A SIX MAN TAG TEAM MATCH, growing out of a disputed finish of a tag battle last week, features tonight's wrestling card at the LEXINGTON YMCA, kicking off at 8:15.

GEORGE BECKER, who served as referee last week after the assigned official was injured and who was involved in the final fall, will join last week's winners THE KENTUCKIANS, TINY ANDERSON and BIG BOY BROWN, to form one team. The two angry losers of the same match, BRUTE BERNARD and SKULL MURPHY, will be joined by THE BRUTE to form what should be one of the roughest trios ever to enter the Lexington ring.

The battle will go for the best two-out-of-three falls with a one hour time limit.

Girl wrestlers PENNY BANNER and MARGIE RAMSEY will square off in a special attraction.

The opening match sends GEORGE "TWO TON" HARRIS against young DOUG GILBERT.

RONNIE GARVIN

 

SEE YOU AT THE MATCHES

               Let's go to the MID-ATLANTIC WRESTLING events coming up in your area...

GREENVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA - 1969

RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA - 1972 *

* DAVID FINLEY was the name DAVID CROCKETT used when he wrestled.

RICHMOND, VIRGINIA - 1969

ROANOKE, VIRGINIA - 1974

ROANOKE, VIRGINIA - 1969

ARN ANDERSON