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over 125,000. Historically thought of as an 'alternative'
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'main stream.' For several months the editors and staff
encouraged APS President
Rock Riddle to write a wrestling column. In February, 2006, he agreed to do so
-- on a non-exclusive basis.
You will soon be able to read his column in many additional
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►Column #1◄
■ Introduction to Pro Wrestling at Age 14
■ Rip Hawk & Swede Hanson (Finally, Role Models) ■
■ A Fan Club for the Bad Guys
■ Doing Live Television at 14 ■ Causing a Riot at 14 ■
■ Over 500,000,000 People Watch Professional Wrestling Each Week ■ A
Brief & Fascinating History ■ |

►Column #2◄
■ The Decision to Become a Professional Wrestler
at Age 16 ■
■ Wrestling in High School in the 135-lb. Weight Class ■
■ Local Barber Shop Advice ■ Wrestling at 236 lbs. Five Years Later ■
Wrestling the Former World Champion ■
■ Defeating the Former World Champion ■ Another Near Riot ■ Barber Shop
"Revenge" ■ |
 
►Column #3◄
■ Liberation from High School at Age 17
■ Finding Opportunity in Florida ■ Solid
Weight Gain ■
■ College Graduate at Age of 20 ■ Meeting the Promoters in Tampa ■ Billy
Blue River ■
■ My First Professional Match at Age 20 ■ Main Event Winner ■ The Cash
"Payoff" ■
■ Major Superstars I Wrestled ■ |

►Column #4◄
■ Wrestling in Atlanta One Night, Chicago The Next ■ The Hotel Routine ■
The Wrestling Bags ■
■ My Introduction to the AWA - American Wrestling Association ■ Meeting
the Stars ■
■ Stan "The Big K" Kowalski Welcomes and Advises Me ■ The Iron Sheik ■
■ Rolling on the Floor With Laughter ■ Thought They'd Wheel Me Out on a
Stretcher ■ |
 
►Column #5◄
■ Hundreds of Professional Wrestling Stars Come Together in Las Vegas ■
■ Pat Patterson ■ The Cauliflower Alley Club ■
■ Amazing Compliments ■
■ The Undertaker's Manager ■ Paul Bearer ■ |

►Column #6◄
■ The World Famous Olympic Auditorium ■ Leo Garibaldi's Proposal ■ My
Rejection ■
■ My Solution ■ Approaching Rowdy Roddy Piper ■ Offering Him His Big
Break ■
■ Java Ruuk ■ Arab Oil Embargo ■ Messing With the Announcer ■
■ "No More Oil" Interview ■ Roddy Gets Stabbed ■ No Final "Thank You" ■ |
 
►Column #7◄
■ Working Out at Hollywood's Holiday Health Spa ■ Sylvester Stallone
Introduces Himself to Me ■
■ The Jokes ■ The Fun ■
■ The Proposal to Work in Sly's Wrestling Movie ■ The Big Role ■ The
Change ■ Gene LeBell ■
■ My Buddy Terry Funk ■ Sly is "Only" a Movie Star, Terry Funk is
Real ■ "Paradise Alley" Stars ■ |

►Column #8◄
■ Sylvester Stallone Story -- Part Two ■
■ Sly's Unscheduled Absence From the Gym ■ The Famous Elbow Drop ■
■ On the Set of the Stallone's Feature Film, "Paradise Alley" ■
The Pros Vs. the Actor ■
■ My Proposal to Sly ■ The Result ■ Drop Sly a Note ■ "The Rock Riddle"
Opening ■ |


►Column
#9◄
■
My Introduction to Kurt Angle in 2000 ■ Kurt Angle Wins
"Future Legend" Award ■ His Broken Neck ■
■ The Doctor's Warning ■ Kurt's Determination ■ Chris Benoit Breaks
His Neck Twice ■
■ Wrestling In Your Blood ■ More Addictive Than Heroin ■ If
You Must Die, Die in the Ring ■
■ Skull Murphy Could No Longer Wrestle, Killed Himself ■ |


►Column
#10◄
■
Roy Shire's San Francisco Territory ■ Matches in Las Vegas ■
■ Brutus, the 550-Pound Wrestling Bear ■ Why He Was Irritable ■
■ Why He Hurt the Wrestlers ■
■ "If You Forget, He'll Bite Off Your Finger" ■ If You're Not
Aggressive, He'll Get Bored ■
■ Brutus' Amazing Ability in the Ring ■ Mutual Respect & A Bear
Licking ■ |

►Column
#11◄
■
Nick Goulas, World's Worst Wrestling Promoter ■ Long Trips &
Lousy Money ■
■ The Sam Davis Hotel in Nashville ■ Sam Bass, One of
the Greatest Wrestling Managers ■
■ Jerry "The King" Lawler Attempts to Add Rock Riddle to His
List of "Extreme Water Bomb" Victims ■
■ Upcoming: Bound & Gagged Midget Wrestler Signals Cops at
Tollbooth ■ Much More ■ |


►Column
#12◄
■ Mongo from Blazing Saddles a Professional Wrestler? ■
■ CBS-TV Movie of the Week, "MAD BULL" ■ Roddy Piper in Drag ■
■ Feature Film Producer Comes Very Close to Losing Important Part of
His Anatomy ■
■ "No Rehearsals. We Do This In One Take" ■ Body-Slammed by a
Woman ■
■ Actors Portraying Wrestlers Get Wrestling Lesson ■ |


► Column
#13 ◄
■ Protecting the Business ■ When Wrestlers Discipline Fans ■
■ The Wrestling Promoter Told Me to Break His Arm ■
■ Riots ■ Taking Knives Away From Angry Fans ■
■ Rescuing Billy Spears From 14,000 Rioting Fans ■ Why I Fired My
Championship Tag Team ■
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►Column
#14◄
■ Living Directly on the Beach ■ The Wrestling Legends
Who Had Lunch There ■
■ The National Wrestling Alliance -- The Largest Governing
Body for Professional Wrestling in the World ■
■ TOP BILLING Over The Heavyweight Championship of the World ■
Valet Ms. Pamela ■
■ The Autographed Photo of Rock Riddle for the World Champion Jack
Brisco ■ Apache Gringo ■ |


►Column
#15◄
■ "Pay-Backs"■ "Receipts"■ Over 100 Degrees in the Arena
■
■ Ruptured Eardrum -- Pay-Back or Accident? ■
■ A Great Actor -- or Did He Black Out? ■
■ Rubbing Alcohol in Jay York's Inhaler ■ Shotgun Blast in the
Dressing Room ■ Wrestler's Creed ■ |


►Column
#16◄
■ Roy Shire's San Francisco Based "Territory" ■
Wrestlers All Over the World Wanted In
■
■ Hate Mail -- Hundreds of Letters
■ Reading Hate Mail as Love Letters on Live Television
■
■ The Old Guy in the Wheelchair With the Gun
■ Announcer Hank Renner
■
■ Some of the Greatest Wrestling Talent The World Has Ever
Seen
■ |


►Column
#17◄
■ Booking Myself in Lee Field's Mobile, Alabama NWA Teritory ■
■ Miss Pamela, My Wrestling Valet ■ Free Gas ■ Free Movie Admission
■ Free Food ■
■ Pied Piper ■ Publicity Preceded Me ■ Living on the Beach ■ Short
Trips ■
■ Defeating Ken Lucas to Win the Championship ■ Dumping the Trophy
in the Ocean ■ |

►Column
#18◄
■ Three Plus Days in Las Vegas ■ The 41st CAC Wrestling
Convention/Reunion ■
■ Rock Takes the Microphone -- Three Times on Three Different Days ■
■ The Living Legends of Professional Wrestling Coaching Newcomers ■
Memorabilia ■
■ Autographs ■ Quarks Restaurant & Bar ■ The Awards ■ Rock's
Upcoming Award ■ |


►Column
#19◄
■ Mil Mascaras : The Face Behind the Mask ■
■ Part II of the 2006 Wrestling Convention in Las Vegas ■
■ Red Bastein, Creative Editing, and the Re-Match ■ 120 MPH and
Airborne ■
■ Lead-In the The Awards Ceremony ■ My Friends Honored ■ My Good
Friend, Posthumously ■ |

►Column
#20◄
■ Part III of the 2006 Wrestling Convention in Las Vegas ■
■ The Main Event of the Evening ■ Bar Open at 6:00;
Dinner at 7:00 ■
■ The Dreaded "10 Count" ■ Saying Good-Bye to Our
Recently Departed Friends ■
■ Maria Bernardi ■ Eddie Guerrero ■ Crusher
Lisowski ■ Lord Alfred Hayes ■
■ The Tribute to My Good But Departed Friend, Bobby Shane ■
Good-Bye Vivian Vachon ■ |


►Column
#21◄
■ Part IV of the 2006 Wrestling Convention in Las Vegas ■
■ This Year's "Reel Member Inductee Award" Presented by
Rock "Mr. Wonderful" Riddle ■
■ Sylvester Stallone ■ Joe Don Baker ■ Guy Madison
■ John Phillip Law ■ Charles Bronson ■
■ James Cagney ■ David Carradine ■ Robert Conrad ■
Kirk Douglas ■ |


►Column
#22◄
■ Facing the Challenges ■ The Great Value of
Hardship and Obstacles ■
■ The Extraordinary Need to Excel ■ Overcoming
Small Town Thinking ■
■ Bucking the System ■ Being the Rebel ■ The Desire
to Become Infamous ■
■ Creating/Living the "Mr. Wonderful" Character ■
The Psychology of Pro Wrestling ■ "Arena Rats" ■ |


►Column
#23◄
■ Wrestling E-Mail Questions Welcome ■ The Most
Embarrassing Moments ■
■ Andre the Giant vs. Rock Riddle and Rowdy Roddy Piper ■
■ Andre Pulling Down the Tights ■ Jerry "The King"
Lawyer's "Ribs" ■
■ Miss Pamela Laughs at a Naked Wrestler -- The Story
That Will Not Die ■ |


►Column
#24◄
■ Unless You've Wrestled Professionally, You Don't Know
the Business! ■
■ "The Next Best Thing to Actually Stepping Into The Ring ■
■ Wrestling in the Carnivals ■ Taking on the
"Marks." ■ Tim Wood's Challenge ■
■ Yes, the Sleeper Hold Works!
■ Losing a Finger to a "Fan" ■ McMahan Changed
Wrestling Forever ■ |

Column
#25◄
■ Over 100 Wrestling-Related Injuries ■ Is a
5-Pound Canary Fat? ■
■ Stitches in the Head ■ Nose Broken Seven Times ■
Cracked Ribs ■
■ Over 100 Scars, Mostly on my Face ■ Pain Pills,
Muscle Relaxers and No Wrestling ■
■ Two Teeth Knocked Out With a Metal Chair ■ |


►Column
#26◄
■ My Friend Andre the Giant ■ Professional
Wrestling Was a World of Its Own ■
■ Acceptance and the Lack of Prejudice Among the
Wrestlers ■
■ Rip Hawk Was Probably the Most Influential Person in My
Life ■
■ My Biggest Regret in the Wrestling Business ■ |
6-Months of Weekly Columns Published! |


►Column
#27◄
■ "Why Would I Want to Lower Myself to 'Fit In?'" ■
Football Is for Morons ■
■ Basketball is for Mental Moron Freaks ■ Wrestling
- The Only True Sport! ■
■ Wrestling in Texas in the Early 1980s ■ The
Waitress ■
■ The Transition from Professional Wrestler to "Regular
Person" ■ |


►Column
#28◄
■ Fairly Smart Growing Up ■ Perfect Attendance In
School ■
■ Never Opened a Book Outside of Class -- Only Wrestling
Magazines ■
■ My First Live TV Interview ■ Pushing the
Announcer Aside ■
■ Building Heat ■ Insulting the Fans ■
Working Tennessee ■ |


►Column
#29◄
■ The Iron-Clad Contract With Myself at 16 Years of Age ■
■ Drive, Determination, and Passion ■ No Doubt! ■
■ Building a Home Gym at 16 ■ Martial Arts in
Greensboro ■
■ Creating/Living the Image ■ Under the "Hood" ■
Gene LeBell ■ |


►Column
#30◄
■ "I Want to be a Professional Wrestlers" ■ Odds
Against Your Success ■
■ What You Must Possess In Order to Succeed in Our
Business ■
■ Study the Business ■ Learn How to Wrestle! ■
Understand Psychology ■
■ Understand You Are a Product ■ How to Package
That Product ■ |


►Column
#31◄
■ Open Contracts ■ Weekly Booking Slips ■
Heel Vs. Heel ■
■ Dandy Jack Donovan ■ "Working" A Master Worker ■
■ Both Of Us Were "Bad Guys" and Lived for the "Boo's" ■
■ "You're Gonna Love the Payback" ■ RIP My Friend
Dandy Jack Donovan ■ |


►Column
#32◄
■ "What Do I Need To Become a Top Professional Wrestler?" ■
■ Learn to Talk on the Microphone ■ Become a Great
"Stick Man" ■
■ "After I've Taken All of Your Suggestions, How Do I Get
Hired?" ■
■ Marketing, Promotion, and Networking -- The Keys to
Success in Every Business ■ |


►Column
#33◄
■ 18-1/2 Inch Arms and Near 400-Pound Bench Press ■
■ 90+% Of The Wrestlers Were Bigger And Stronger Than I ■
■ Humiliating "Little" Ricky Fields ■ The Live TV
Interviews ■
■ Holding Up Pointed-End Scissors And Taunting the Crowd ■ |


►Column
#34◄
■ A Cocky, Arrogant, Egotistical Wrestler With An Extreme
Sense of Humor AND a Live TV Microphone ■
■ Utilizing Live TV Interviews to Build the Ricky
Fields/Rock Riddle Arena Matches ■
■ "Pan Down, Mr. Cameraman. You're Almost Down to
the Top of Little Ricky's Head ■
■ Rock's Flying Scissors Landed in a Fan's Nose ■
Time to Face the Music ■ |


►Column
#35◄
■ 7:00 AM Workouts With Rowdy Roddy Piper at World Gym ■
■ The Mutual Admiration Society -- Rock Riddle and Andy
Kaufman ■
■ The Comic Genius ■ Acceptance of an Outsider by
the Wrestlers ■
■ "Fernwood 2Night" TV Show ■ Kaufman's Humor is
Wrestler's Humor ■ |


►Column
#36◄
■ Friday the 13th at the Sportsmen's Lodge in Studio
City, California ■
■ An Informal Gathering of Wrestlers ■ 6'10" Scott
Schwartz ■ Ric Drasin ■ Jack Armstrong ■
■ Wrestling With My Son Evan in Ric Drasin's Ring ■
A 42-Minute "Beating" by an 8-Year-Old ■
■ Fooling Evan's Mom and Feeding the Camera ■ Video
Memories to Share With Friends ■ |


►Column
#37◄
■ All of the Dressing Rooms Began to Look Alike ■
The Bass Brothers ■
■ Ronnie, Donnie and "Ma" Bass ■ Working Every Day
for Over Six Months ■
■ 7 to 10 Matches Per Week ■ "Equalizers" in the
Car Trunks ■
■ Ma Bass Scolds Me for Taking a Weapon to the Ring ■
The Weapon She Didn't See ■ |
 ►Column
#38◄
■ One of the Highlights of My Wrestling Career ■
Master Announcer Gordon Solie ■
■ Meeting A Hero and Working With Him ■ Atlanta,
Georgia ■
■ Georgia Championship Wrestling ■ An Opportunity
to Audition for the Best in the Business ■
■ Football and Basketball Are For The Less Fortunate ■
A Tribute ■ |

►Column
#39◄
■ Driving 100,000 to 250,000 miles per year ■
Living on the Road ■
■ 5-digit Odometers ■ Buying New Luxury Cars Every
Year ■
■ Selling Last Year's Model ■ The Large "Secret"
Orange Suitcase ■
■ 36 mpg at 70+ mph ■ The Dishonest Motel Managers
■ Lost Memorabilia ■ |
9-Months of Weekly Columns Published! |


►Column
#40◄
■ San Francisco's Cow Palace Arena ■ 16,500 Fans ■
Elvis Presley, The Beatles and Professional Wrestling ■
$120,000.00 gates -- $1,200.00 Pay-Offs ■
■ Between $21.00 and $64.00 PER MINUTE ■ Not a Bad
Way to Make a Living ■
The AWA - American Wrestling Alliance ■ $120,000.00 Per Year
Minimum Yearly Wrestling Pay ■
■ $300.00 Tips for Waitresses ■ Beyond
Celebrity Status ■ |


►Column
#41◄
■ From Georgia to Chicago's International Amphitheater ■
Where's Miss Pamela? ■
■ Bobby "The Brain" Heenan Comments ■ Where's Miss Pamela? ■
■ Pizza and More Pizza ■ A Full House at the Amphitheater ■
■ Attempting to WOW the Promoter ■ The Compliment ■ |

►Column
#42◄
■ Chicago's 4:30 AM Wake-up Call ■ 16,500 Fans ■
Where Am I? ■
■ The 444-Mile Drive to Minneapolis ■ The Blizzard and 40 Below Zero
Temp ■
■ Snowed in in Minnesota ■ The 4-foor Snow Drifts ■
■ The Wonderful American Wrestling Alliance ■ Wally Karbo ■ Green
Bay Sellout! ■ |


►
Column
#43 ◄
■ "Dream-Stealers"
■ The Amazing Baron von Raschke ■ Dream Big & Live
Your Dreams ■
■ Beyond Friendship to a Close-Knit Family ■ Your
Greatest Matches Were With Me? ■
■ "Dat is all da People Need to Know" ■ "You get Gonged
on 'The Gong Show'" ■
■ A "Work" ■ What Ever Happened to Chuck Barris? ■
Traveling Together ■ |

►
Column
#44 ◄
■ The Amazing Baron von Raschke -- Part II ■ The
Baron's Most Recent Match ■
■ Will He Wrestle Again? ■ You Could Be WAY Past Your
Prime and Still Better Than Most ■
■ There's Always the "Claw" ■ "Mr. Redford, Roll the
Camera!" ■
■ Baron Warns, "I Am Not Ben Affleck, So Quit Asking for His
Autograph" ■ |


►
Column
#45 ◄
■ One of Only 12 Wrestlers to be Honored at the 2007 CAC Event ■
■ Who Should Present the Award to Rock "Mr. Wonderful" Riddle? ■
■ Rip Hawk ■ Roddy Piper ■ Boby "The Brain" Heenan ■
Bobby Shane ■ Prof. Toru Tanaka ■
■ Pat Patterson ■ Sly Stallone ■ The Extra Large Sombrero -
From Roddy Piper to Rock Riddle to the "Gong Show" ■ |
-- 45 Columns Published in 2006 -- |

►
Column
#46 ◄
■ "He's
Nothing! He Never Beat Anybody!" ■ The Entertainment
Value of "News" ■
■ The "Swerve" - The Manipulation ■ The Real World of
Professional Wrestling ■
■ The Not-To-Be-Trusted Outside World ■ The Wonderful
Wrestling Sense of Humor ■
■ Camaraderie? What Camaraderie? ■ A Cut-Throat Business
■ The Bobby Heenan Interview ■ |


►
Column
#47 ◄
■ Bobby
"The Brain" Heenan: Part II ■
■ "What camaraderie? It's a Cut-Throat Business" ■
■ Bobby Heenan's Advice to Those Who Want to Enter Pro
Wrestling ■
■ The 6'8" 390-Pound Attractive Woman ■ "May You
Live to Be 200 and ..." ■ |
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Column
#48 ◄
■ Running the Canadian
Rambler Into the Ground
■ Parts Falling Off of the Car ■
■ Ms. Pamela
■ Kevin Sullivan ■ Jim White ■
■ The Long Journey Home ■ "These Aren't
Cheeseburgers!" ■
■ Free
Food Again
■ 80 MPH Through MS Towns ■ Getting Stopped by the Cops
Again ■ |


►
Column
#49 ◄
■ Small Town Thinking
■ Driving to the "Big-City" Airport in Greensboro ■
■
"Why'ud anybody wanna leave? Ya got ever-thang ya could wont
rat-cheer" ■
■ I Knew There Was More To Live ■ Dreams Are More
Than "Wishful Thinking" ■
■
Flying Verne Gagne's Plane ■ Realizing Another Dream ■ |
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Column
#50 ◄
■ Some of the Greatest
Legends in Pro Wrestling Are Not Wrestlers ■
■ Dr. Ken Ramey and the Interns Reunite!
■ Ken Ramey Did It All ■
■ Paul DeMarco ■ Playboy Buddy Rose ■ Flash
& Rocket Monroe ■
■ Tom
Andrews & Jim Starr
■ An Amazing Ten-Year Run as Top Tag-Team ■ |

►
Column
#51 ◄
■ Hawk & Hanson
■ J.C. Dykes ■ Dr. Ken Ramey & the Masked Interns ■
■
We're Not Advertising Gymnastics; We're Advertising WRESTLING ■
■ Matches Would Go An Hour ■ An Hour's Worth of
Wrestling -- Holds!■
■ What's
Lacking Today
■ Pat Patterson ■ Lou Thesz & Other Great Wrestlers ■ |
 THE
ANNIVERSARY ISSUE:
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Column
#52 ◄
■ Rip Hawk Updated
■ Johnny Weaver ■ "Hit him, Rip!"
■ Taunting Johnny Weaver as a 14-Year-Old Fan ■
Weaver Hated Me ■
■
Learning to Appreciate the Police at the Wrestling Matches ■ |
One Year of Weekly Columns Published! |
Year Number Two Begins .
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Column
#53 ◄
■ Practicing Success
■ Taking Success in Stride ■
■ I Wasn't Impressed Then ■ I Certainly Am Now ■
■ Rock
Riddle to Receive "Reel Honoree" Award
■ The Details ■ |

►
Column
#54 ◄
■ More Words of Wisdom from Dr. Ken Ramey ■
■ The Biggest & Tallest TV Antenna in the County ■
■ Seven
Decades Working in the Ring?
■ Pat Patterson ■ |

►
Column #55
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■ People Under 30 Years of Age Don't
Know What Wrestling Was ■
■ Speaking Carnie ■ Unmasking the Famous Interns ■
■ Horribly Ugly or Amazingly Handsome? ■ |

►
Column
#56 ◄
■ The 2007 WWE Hall of Fame Honorees
Announced ■
■ Mr. Fuji ■ Curt Hennig ■ Nick Bockwinkle ■ Dusty Rhodes ■
■ Jerry Lawler ■ The Sheik ■ Conversation With a Living Legend Hall
of Famer ■ |
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Column
#57 ◄
■ The 50% Off Bodyslam ■
Protecting the Business ■
■ "Is Wrestling Fake?" ■ Making An Example of Challenging Fans ■
■ Wrestlers Sitting Around Telling Stories ■ Writing the Book
■ |


►
Column
#58 ◄
■ Tanaka Discussed at the "Accelerated
Success Seminar for Actors" ■
■ Tanaka Defeated Sammartino Several Times ■ "Who is
Tanaka?" ■
■ Tanaka's Call From Puerto Rico ■ Getting Into the Film
Business
■ |


►
Column
#59 ◄
■ "Can You Help Me Get Work In The Film
Business, Rock?"■
■ Tanaka Was A Friend, A Wrestling Family Member for Many
Years ■
■ Creating an "Acting" Resume for Tanaka ■ The
Acting Career Begins
■ |
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Column
#60 ◄
■ Protecting the Business ■ "Yes,
Mom, It's All Real" -- Death Bed Answer ■
■ How to Explain A Sport & A Way of Life That No Longer Exists
■
■ The Shortened Lifespans of Professional Wrestlers ■
The Passion, The Drive, The Life
■ |

►
Column
#61 ◄
■ 10th Degree
Martial Arts Grand Master Professor Toru Tanaka■
■ Tanaka's First Acting Audition at 20th Century Fox■
■ Two Living Legends in the Same Room ■ You'd Rather Have Andre the
Giant? ■ |
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Column
#62 ◄
■ Professor Toru
Tanaka's Film Career Beginnings -- Part 2 ■
■ An Eye For An Eye -- Starring Chuck Norris -- Co-Starring Toru
Tanaka ■
■ Heading to Location in San Francisco ■ Working With Frank Capra,
Jr. ■ |
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Column
#63 ◄
■ Time Is
Absolutely Precious ■ "I Don't Wait In Lines Well" ■
■ Arriving 45 Minutes Early For International Flights ■ Flying Left
Seat ■
■ No First Class, No Business Class -- This Airline Has No Class ■
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Column
#64 ◄
■ A Special Salute
to Canadian Wrestlers ■ Bret "Hitman" Hart Takes The Stage ■
■ This Amazing Man, Still In His Prime, Will Never Wrestle Again ■
The Best & The Worst ■
■ Rock's Talk & Standing Ovation ■ The 42nd Annual CAC Awards
Banquet Is About to Begin ■ |
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Column
#65 ◄
■ The 70-Minute
Rock Riddle Seminar Talk For Newer Wrestlers■
■ "How Many of You Can Do a Dropkick? -- In 10 Years, I Never Did
One" ■
■ Secrets of Success -- Marketing, Promotion, Networking ■ Why
Talent Is Not #1 ■ |


►
Column
#66 ◄
■ The 42nd Annual
CAC Professional Wrestlers Reunion & Awards Banquet ■
■ Eleven Honorees Announced ... Plus a Wonderful Surprise
Award for Owen Hart ■
■ Bret Hart Accepts & Shares Funny Stories of His Late Brother Owen
■ |
 ►
Column
#67 ◄
■ Pat
Patterson Sings "What a Wonderful World" as Louis Armstrong ■
■ The Rock Riddle/Cowboy Bob Kelly Feud and Why It Ended
20 Years Ago ■
■ "I Knew A Rib Was Coming -- But When -- And What Would It
Be?"
■ |

►
Column
#68 ◄
■ Pat
Patterson Warns, "Don't Be Mad at Me for What I Say Up There
Tonight." ■
■ The "Drinking, Partying and Orgy" in Rock Riddle's Suite at the
Riviera??? ■
■ Accepting My Award & My Initial Reluctance To Do So
■ |


►
Column
#69 ◄
■ Sylvester
Stallone, Kirk Douglas, Jimmy Cagney, David Carradine and now Rock
Riddle ■
■ "Do You Realize How Lucky We All Are To Have This?" ■
■ A Verbal "Wonderful!," a Hug And a Kiss On the Cheek - I'd Say He
Was Impressed
■ |


►
Column
#70 ◄
■ Another
Interview Request -- This Time From Dave Hillhouse of SLAM!
Wrestling ■
■ The View From My Hollywood Office -- From LAX to the
Ocean to the Home of the Academy Awards ■
■ My Hesitancy to Read the CAC Awards Banquet Story
■ The Story Itself ■ |


►
Column
#71 ◄
■ The
Conclusion of the Dave Hillhouse Story ■ History of the
Reel Honoree Award ■
■ The "Bad Guy" Personality -- Where It Came From, How
It Developed ■
■ Living the Image
■ My Biggest Regret ■ |


►
Column
#72 ◄
■ Most
Wrestling Journalists Have No Idea What They're Talking About ■
■ Unless You've Actually Competed In the Ring, You Don't
Know Wrestling ■
■ The Chris Benoit Tragedy
■ Steroids & Illegal Drugs Common? Not So! ■ |


►
Column
#73 ◄
■ I Did
Literally Hundreds of Televised Interviews ■
■ Now It Was My Turn to Interview Playboy Buddy Rose ■
■ The Northwest = Home Every Night
■ The Other Territories ■ |
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Column
#74 ◄
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#75 ◄
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#76 ◄
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#77 ◄
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