Tag: Ian Rotten
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Dusty Rhodes Hits Me With The Bionic Elbow
Dusty Rhodes was one of the top wrestlers of the 1980s. He could be seen on the Superstation TBS all across the country at the outset of cable television. The son of a plumber. The American Dream. A guy that didn’t look like a great athlete. He wasn’t a bodybuilder. But he could connect with…
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Jimmy Jacobs & Barbed Wire Bat
Jimmy Jacobs and the barbed wire bat shot. That is what I got asked about more than anything else when it Jimmy himself came up with the diea thtat came to my 12 years in IWA Mid-South. Even though I feuded with Ian Rotten a lot longer, it is the feud with Jimmy Jacobs that…
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My Favorite Wrestlers To Manage
I taped a 2 hour long podcast with “Mean” Mitch Page and Nick Maniwa this week. The podcast was all about my 12 years in IWA Mid-South and some of Mitch’s and my favorite memories from our careers. The podcast got me to thinking about things and I felt like putting out a blog detailing…
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No Blood. No Guts. No Glory. 2005
July 2, 2005. It was supposed to be my last night as a manager in professional wrestling. I was ready to pull out all the stops. I was ready to fade quietly into the darkness. At the time, I had managed on and off for 7 years. I had worked with a ton of big…