After a week of hard-core blogging, I’m going to step out from behind the curtain, break the fourth wall and speak directly to you, the reader . . .
The witching hour draws nigh, and the last cigarette has been smoked . . . and you are left with nothing but the deafening silence and the suffocating loneliness, another black night of the soul . . . and again you are compelled by necessity to rely on memories to somehow make it through until morning . . .
And due to the constant repetition of the process, the tapestry of the memories itself has become threadbare . . . Am I recalling these events correctly, or even more distressing, did these events ever happen at all, or is it all a trick of the mind? What of significance have I forgotten, and if we are all the sum of our life’s experiences through memory, what have I become?
That was all before I discovered a little something called "you tube". Man, I didn’t think this gem I’m going to link to was around anymore, so it was a real "Eureka!" moment when I found it.
The year was 1986. Jimmy Valiant had been a headliner ten years earlier in the WWWF, but now, as his sagging pecs and prominent midriff bore silent witness, he was most assuredly a second-tier performer.
Tully Blanchard, perhaps best remembered as a member of The Four Horsemen, was feuding with The American Dream, Dusty Rhodes, and the affections of one "Baby Doll" was a sore point between the two. Tully Blanchard Enterprises had been formed, and Mr. J.J. Dylan had been brought aboard.
In order to advance the storyline, Blanchard was going after all of The American Dream’s friends. Now, in reality, Rhodes, prior to this feud, had no association with Valiant, who in the twilight of his career, had adopted the absurd persona of "The Boogie Woogie Man". Valiant was no more friends with Rhodes than I am with the man on the moon. But the organization needed someone who would not be too great a loss in the event that he suffered an actual injury when having his head bounced off a cement floor. I’m sure that when the discussion as to the list of candidates for this role was broached, a quick consensus was reached that The Boogie Woogie Man was the perfect man for the job.
Interestingly, this story line soon after petered out and I don’t think it was ever required that another wrestler had to "wear the hat" in the manner that The Boogie Woogie Man did in the linked video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbOJ_NgRLME
1 comment:
I remember the incident well. Tully Blanchard was indeed one of the worlds greatest wrestlers of all time. My question during that period of time was always this: Which was more disgusting for Blancard to have to lay his hands on Baby Doll or Valiant? One more note about Tully, what the hell kind of name is Tully anyway?
That was a simplier time, when the men climbing in the squared circle were true athletes. Not circus clowns like todays impostures.
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