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Cool, I once ate at a restaurant co-owned by this guy:

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I had his Pro Wrestling Illustrated poster on my door when I was kid. This might be the coolest thing I've ever heard since my dad got drunk with Nick Bockwinkle.

Come back with anecdotes, you S.O.B.

I swear I had a wrestling mag where one of his testacles was hanging out on the cover.

How come all those old guys caught the Jesus later in life?

I think it is part of that 12 step program of getting off the roids, speed, etc.
Plus, Mad Dog Vachon was pretty much crippled by a Car accident, so if he found the Lord, I wouldn't blame him.

I'd rather catch the Jesus than end up like Lex Lugar, Jake Roberts, Chris Benoit, etc.

Why?

Where the hell else can you go after the life those guys live?

First question: "Ivan, can you even estimate how may lives you have ruined?"

"How the number of men and women you raped?"

If I were you, I would have a second, and have a safe signal all worked out.

I went to elementary school with Ivan Putski's kids.

whoa

Polish Power? Didn't one of his kids end up wrestling?

Oh, and BTW, I saw the Iron Shiek in the Atlanta airport about six months ago--he's in a wheelchair now but was rocking his Olympic medal.

You sure you aren't secretly one of his kids, although your wrestling papa would most likely be either:



or

He's usually pretty damn funny on Stern.

He was on O&A and killed. Highly entertaining.

There needs to be a huge book written about the exploits of these guys. I mean how many stories do these guys have?

He was telling some story about the Fabulous Moolah catching a ride with them and freaking out because they were smoking grass...Also, this:




But what really freaked me out was THIS:



That's fucking crazy because my buddy Eric used to actually hang out with that chick! (they lived nearby)

Don't know, they were only at the school for one or two years before moving out of town (maybe to Austin?). They wore "Polish Power" t-shirts to school EVERY DAY. Not kidding. One boy and one girl. Were either twins or one year apart. Don't remember, I was only like in 4th grade, I think. Probably around 1976-77 or somesuch.

This is the boy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Putski

Ivan Koloff is a top-notch dude. He and his wife were super nice and fun.

He was moving pretty slowly. He said he had injured two discs in his back. He originally tried to rehab with physical therapy and exercise, but it's gotten to the point where he figures surgery is in the near future.

Despite that, he wrestled the fucking Barbarian just a month ago. He actually refers to him as The Barbarian, too. I still can't imagine that, because he looked to be in a great deal of pain and discomfort. One of the groomsmen even said, "I think my pregnant wife could take him."

My favorite story he told me was from just a couple months ago. He had signed on for a show, but his back was in so much pain he just couldn't go. He was scheduled to do a chain match with some local guy who is also a Baptist preacher. So Koloff hobbled out to the ring to tell the crowd that he was very happy everyone showed up, but he was injured and couldn't go tonight.

The preacher (not his wrestling persona) came out, and cut a promo on Koloff right there in the ring, then attacked him and started the match. He would go to the corner, touch the turnbuckle, dragging Koloff behind him. As he told the story, he winked and said, "but he didn't see that I touched each one behind him."

When they got to the fourth corner, Koloff bumped into the referee, so he didn't see the final touch by the preacher, but, amazingly (!) the referee regained consciousness just in time for Ivan Koloff, The Russian Bear, to touch the last corner and win the match.

He was a big hit, and posed for every picture and whatever else anybody wanted. It was a lot of fun.

Here's another groomsman in a great shot.

Now that's a great story. Thanks Cory.

Jesus, I can't believe he's still wrestling. Amazing and yeah, great story Fu.