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Re: Pro Wrestling Thread
I started watching pro wrestling back in the 60's in SE Texas when my mother would drag me to the Friday night matches in Beaumont and then to the Channel 4 studio in Port Arthur for the live wrestling they used to televised. This was in the mid-60's and we would see some of the old stars like the Sheik and Sgt. Slaughter. I learned it was not real when we saw a chain match and one of the guys was beaten bloody with the chain and hauled out on a stretcher. He gave me his autograph after the matches were over when we left and he was standing outside smoking a cigar and drinking a beer.
On the other hand, there was one wrestler named Pepe Gomez who was extremely fast and agile - sort of like some of the wrestlers from Mexico who were big in the WCW. We were at the match where his opponent came off the top rope and landed on him wrong and ended his career. I don't remember if it crippled him our not, but I know it caused enough internal damage where he couldn't perform anymore.
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