User:The OldTimer

The OldTimer

 * I was born in the early 40's in the Bay State wrestling area, I first watched TV wrestling in the late 40's when the Dumont TV Network had TV wrestling live 3 nights a week. Gorgeous George, Lou Thez, Verne Gagne]] Ricki Starr are just a few I remember watching.
 * The early 60's saw the birth of the WWWF with Nature Boy Buddy Rodgers losing the WWWF title to Bruno Sammartino. My fathers youngest brother was a wrestling fanatic and beer drinker so I got to take the train with him to matches at Madison Square Garden, Boston Garden and other venue's. They were great trips with awesome matches, Sammartino ruled Northeast taking on all comers from all over the country.
 * The late 60's I moved Dallas-Ft Worth and traveled a lot to the San Antonio area so I got to taste Texas style wrestling with Fritz & Waldo Von Erik, Joe Blanchard, Johnny Walker, Dory Funk Sr, Mike Dibease]] and dozens of other legends.
 * The early 70's I moved to Columbus Ga and traveled all over the South to matches on a motorcycle, these were the golden days of wrestling to me. All the greats, near greats, has beens, journey men, were there to watch live and on tv.
 * The mid 80's I moved back to the Northeast and was there when Hulkamania was born. I travel the Northeast with my son going to Mass, Conn and New York to the matches. I was there at Boston Garden when WCW came to the Northeast with Ole Anderson against Arn Anderson and all those great matches, my son finally understood what I had tried to tell him all those years about how much more intense Southern style wrestling was.
 * In the early 2000 I moved to the Mid West and have lived here ever since, although I did watch AWA wrestling for years I only got to see their wrestlers when the travel to New England a few times in the late 80's.
 * I will flesh out this bio with more details about each area and the great matches I watched. I will also post bios on different wrestlers, especially the "Old Timers" as I have the time. My first bio is on Johnny Walker Mr. Wrestling ll, he is my favorite wrestler out of all I have seen over 50 years of watching live and televised wrestling.