re: How Many Of You Baws Grew Up Watching Mid South Wrestling

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Adding Kamala the Uganda Warrior

Side note, I met him one time when I used to sell phones. Super nice guy. Spoke English rather well.
I was amazed at how quickly he picked up the English language in such a short time after he retired from the squared ring

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Donovan was the passenger in the car when Terry Funk wrecked his blue ’65 Ford Mustang hatchback in Canyon, Texas. On his web site, Dory Funk Jr. explained the result of the crash that left both wrestlers okay physically. “Thirty seconds passed as Terry contemplated how close they had come to serious injury. His next thoughts concerned the wrestling business. Even though he wasn’t wrestling against Donovan that night, territory rules were that Jack Donovan and Terry were not supposed to be seen together. Terry said to Donovan, ‘Quick Jack, you have got to get out of here before someone sees us.

Jack get out of here. You have got to disappear.’ Now at least a minute had passed with Donovan showing no signs of injury. Terry said, ‘Go, Go, You are a heel in the territory. Get out of here before someone sees you.’ Jack Donovan looked at Terry then reached up, grabbed his shoulder and said, ‘Oh, I have injured my shoulder. Get me a doctor.’ Donovan wasn’t going anywhere but to the hospital in Canyon, and the whole town would know the two were riding together.” Terry called his mother-in-law and borrowed her car, leaving Donovan at the hospital so he could make the next town for his match.

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But the tale that comes up again and again is Donovan’s feud with the legendary Danny Hodge in Oklahoma. As a tag team with “Handsome” Ron Reed (later Buddy Colt), Dandy Jack had lost to Hodge in a singles bout. Reed, who had been handcuffed and chained to the ringpost, was released following the loss, and hit Hodge in the ring with the chain.

“Within ten seconds, there must have been a hundred people in the ring,” Colt recalled in the Cauliflower Alley Club newsletter in August 2004. “Somebody came into the ring swinging a knife. I had about a four-foot length of chain around my fist, so I was swinging it at the guy, trying to keep him away from me. Finally, all the cops and the other wrestlers came out and cleared the ring. But there was Danny Hodge and Jack lying in the ring. Both of them had their legs and their rear ends slashed wide open. The guy came in to save Danny, but got excited and cut both of them.”

In a Whatever Happened To … interview, Hodge said that he got 140 stitches in his leg. “They thought they were getting [Donovan] … all they saw was legs. They cut Jack down the leg and cut me across the leg. My muscles were all cut in two. His were cut down.”

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Adding Kamala the Uganda Warrior

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This has to be a troll. Dude was born in Mississippi

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2 points

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Hacksaw son!

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Was Mr wrestling II the one that loaded the boot?

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