Friday, March 29, 2024

ROYAL KANGAROOS - NORMAN FREDERICK CHARLES III & LORD JONATHAN BOYD


 

Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Tuesday, March 26, 2024

TEXAS ROYAL IN STATESVILLE TOWN

                                                                       May 20 1965

STATESVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA

59 Years Ago...

and I was there





Saturday, March 23, 2024

Thursday, March 21, 2024

Saturday, March 16, 2024

AROUND CROCKETTLAND

 

RONNIE GARVIN takes time out to sign an autograph for a fan.


THE ROYAL KANGAROOS (LORD JONATHAN BOYD and NORMAN FREDERICK CHARLES III) rarely came out on the short end of a battle. Exception: A 'brass knuckles' war with JOHNNY WEAVER and ART NELSON.


'OUTLAW' RON BASS and JIM (J.J.) DILLON prepare to do battle.


Where's the referee?
MATTI SUZUKI is trying to choke the life out of SANDY SCOTT.


RICKY STEAMBOAT and RIC FLAIR join forces as a tag team.
FLAIR seems to like the idea.


Then fan favorite SWEDE HANSON 'helps' his arch enemy THE SUPER DESTROYER (DON JARDINE) back into the ring.

Friday, March 15, 2024

Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Thursday, March 7, 2024

STATESVILLE, NC WRESTLING

 Statesville, North Carolina wrestling fans (and I was one) were treated to THREE nights of JIM CROCKETT PROMOTIONS wrestling shows during the summer of 1966.

A perfect location for wrestling during the summer months...the wooden grandstand ball park similar to that in the movie BULL DURHAM. Sponsored by the COMMUNITY BASEBALL CLUB, who also gave us DOUBLE A BASEBALL at the same site. The ring was set up at home plate, surrounded by metal ringside seat chairs all around. The grandstand served as the General Admission area. The wrestlers entered the ring from the two dugouts.

No rainouts during the summer of 1966. THREE shows in TWO months.

As a fifteen-year old 'rasslin' fan, I found myself at all three shows parked in my $2.00 ringside seat.

This was the first card of the 1966 summer...









The match results are shown above.

For whatever reasons (maybe analysis would reveal why), two memories come back to me about this night.

(1) My cousin, who attended with me, spilled a cup of Coca-Cola on himself during the matches.

(2) One of The Masked Red Demons (either Billy or Jimmy Hines) came out of the dugout for the main event smoking a cigarette (through the mask), discarding it as he approached the ring. I thought to myself - "Athletes aren't supposed to smoke." Give me a break, I was a naive fifteen year-old who was reading FAMOUS MONSTERS and wrestling magazines, instead of PLAYBOY, at the time. (Don't worry, the PLAYBOYs came later.)

Regardless of my mental stability, I remember the evening fondly.

Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Monday, March 4, 2024

Saturday, March 2, 2024