Reading timelines as I do each day i note that one Herb Gerwig aka Killer Karl Kox has died. As a tribute to this fine wrestler who moved from the bad guys to the good guys as a promise to his dying mother that he would change his insidious ways I’ve found another fine example of the Killers craft.
Including the audience about half way through. Out of deference, or boredom!
Nah, mustn’t say such things about our great bard -whom I doth loveth with all my hearteth, as one does a long deadeth brother!
But, hang on, did the gravedigger die? Yorick did, I know that for sure.
My memories of wrestling are all from the UK: When I was a teenager I used to visit my Irish grandmother on Saturday afternoons to help her with her gardening. She was a great fan of the wrestling… I remember two of her favorites: Mick McManus, who was the original ‘nasty’ wrestler, and his oft-times opponent, Les Kellett, who was the original ‘good guy’, with some great moves…
Larry O’Dea – nice guy who never quite got there.
Mario Milano – Italian for “WTFs going on ?”
Mark Lewin – standard odourless, colourless American basically good guy of medium talent 🙂
What quality “wrestling” there Emm and fine example of the craft. Plenty of people used to watch this. Spiros Arion or Mario Milano would speak to their throngs of Greek or Italian supporters in the mother tongues and the crowd would go apoplectic.
The acting was how would you describe it “bad” that it was almost good. A mate of mine and I would regularly watch this on Sunday and spend the hour ROTFL.
Window Dresser's Arms, Pig & Whistle 
Reading timelines as I do each day i note that one Herb Gerwig aka Killer Karl Kox has died. As a tribute to this fine wrestler who moved from the bad guys to the good guys as a promise to his dying mother that he would change his insidious ways I’ve found another fine example of the Killers craft.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc1bIMT94mE
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Why does the bout posted by Emmjay remind me of the final scene to Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’?
😉
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Everyone dies ?
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Including the audience about half way through. Out of deference, or boredom!
Nah, mustn’t say such things about our great bard -whom I doth loveth with all my hearteth, as one does a long deadeth brother!
But, hang on, did the gravedigger die? Yorick did, I know that for sure.
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The only trouble with the Bard ato is thateth he couldneth speaketh englisheth
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My memories of wrestling are all from the UK: When I was a teenager I used to visit my Irish grandmother on Saturday afternoons to help her with her gardening. She was a great fan of the wrestling… I remember two of her favorites: Mick McManus, who was the original ‘nasty’ wrestler, and his oft-times opponent, Les Kellett, who was the original ‘good guy’, with some great moves…
🙂
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Loved them all and Killer Kowalski.
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Bulldog Brower
Mario Milano
King Kong
Alex Jacobides
What was that other, younger Greek’s name?
And there you have my formative years!
There and with “Epic Theatre” and shithead Bob Santamaria!
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God, I’m an idiot! Spiros Arion, of course! Far to early for me!
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“too” early!
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Skull Murphy remember him.
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Absolutely wootly!
The Skull! The Skull! The Skull is gonna get ya!
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Larry O’Dea – nice guy who never quite got there.
Mario Milano – Italian for “WTFs going on ?”
Mark Lewin – standard odourless, colourless American basically good guy of medium talent 🙂
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Hey it just occurred to Emmjay, they may have been acting
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Maybe Mario Milano got into selling furniture.
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What quality “wrestling” there Emm and fine example of the craft. Plenty of people used to watch this. Spiros Arion or Mario Milano would speak to their throngs of Greek or Italian supporters in the mother tongues and the crowd would go apoplectic.
The acting was how would you describe it “bad” that it was almost good. A mate of mine and I would regularly watch this on Sunday and spend the hour ROTFL.
Here’s another fine example
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mKHGzSrEJk&feature=related
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Don’t forget Tiger Singh and Larry O’Dea
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Or Killer Karl Kox or maybe Brute Bernard.
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