re: Any former professional wrestlers on here?

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a local guy in the crowd, who was a bit off his rocker ?, wanted to fight BOTH of "The Samoans".

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my grandfather wasn't that crazy. He knew he could take Cornette though.

He also knew some guys who would drive to the hotels to slash the tires of the wrestlers cars. Since the wrestlers got smart to getting a cab or a ride to the building

My grandmother sold jewelry to The Junkyard Dog and Cocoa Sammon.

Saw Akem the African Dream at the Siegen Movie Theater.

Drove a few of them around for a fund raiser celebrity golf event in 2010.

Rey Mysterio, at your service.

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I live in Tampa and there are a lot of professional wrestlers that reside down here. Ive met 4 just by chance including Cena.

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When I was a little kid way back in 1967 through 1971 we lived in a cul de sac across the street from a pro wrestler. His neighbor directly across from us was a nurse (came in handy when I dropped one of those spike type sprinklers and split my foot open, they were made of iron back then). On the other side of him were the troublesome idiot teens that not only huffed gasoline, one drank some and nearly died.

He'd occasionally have one or two other wrestlers over practicing in the garage. Dad always called him Steamboat Sammy but he wrestled as Sammy Steamboat(wikipedia) I was only 3 to 6 years old so wasn't that into wrestling then.

It was. My dad ran into the million dollar man several times at Waffle House. I had some drinks with an old wrestler at superior grill about 7 years ago. Dude was famous af in his heyday but I can’t remember his name for the life of me. Ugly, long hair and talked about all the crazy matches his was in with real weapon type stuff.

We were going to Rupp Arena to watch a set of matches, I think back in the late 70's, forget the exact time frame. About 20 miles from Lexington, we saw a van parked on the side of the road and a bunch of men standing around. My brother was driving and pulled over.
Turned out to be a fan full of wrestlers on their way to Rupp. They had a flat, and had a spare, but no lug wrench, so my brother let them use the one he had.
They gave us VIP passes to sit ringside.
Randy Savage and Lanny Poffo were 2 of them. This was before Randy was a "star". I believe they were real life brothers.

Lots of old timers still live in Charlotte. Magnum TA lives probably a mile from me (with Tully Blanchard’s ex wife). Also know a pilot who works with Georgeous Jimmy Garvin.

Vince Here what do you need to know.

During one of the many rabbit holes I’ve gone down, in looking at Larry Sweeney’s Wikipedia, it says he killed himself by handing himself from a turnbuckle at a wrestling school in Lake Charles, LA. Didn’t know they had a school there.

I've been a ring and messed around bounced of the ropes and shite. My buddy's dad use to own Mid South Wrestling when it was long past its prime. He was the ring announcer and I was the time keeper and played music when the wrestlers came out.

Met Big Poppa Pump, Hacksaw Jim Duggan, Chris Adam's, Junk Yard Dog, Michael PS Hayes, Bad Company..... more that I'm forgetting.