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A Personal Note
Posted Tuesday, April 1, 2008, at 5:01 AM<< Previous | Read comments | Respond | Email link | Next >>
I don't know if there is anybody out there who like professional wrestling or not, I must confess I do.
Not what it is now but what I grew up watching from the 70's to the 90's .
Ric Flair finally caled it quits after a thiry-six year career.[in wrestling you are never for sure]
I watched most of his career and to pay respect Whooo!!!
Before I get attacked ,yes I know it is fake and the outcome is always set. Those guys are still great atheletes and performers.
Thanks for the memories Nature Boy.
In sports lately with scandals of steroids and spygate and all whose to say that those outcomes aren't fixed either.
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Yeah, we're a wrestling family too. Did you see BigShow get taken out by Floyd Mayweather? Yeah, I know... the typical "David VS. Goliath" match. But, it was still cool.
We used to have a guy working on a framing crew for us named Gypsy Joe that used to wrestle with ToJo Yamimoto and Jackie Fargo. Anybody remember those guys. He was an interesting fellow and hard worker also. For his age he was an extremely hard worker.
I never liked watching wrestling but had an uncle who could hardly set in his chair while watching it on TV. He was more interesting to watch than the wrestling itself.
I remember Gypsy Joe!
BTW,Nick Goulas would be right at home on these blogs.
Years after his heyday,he still looked like something out of a "Sons of Hercules" movie with a white-gold pompadour hairdo and a mind that would put all the great Southron writers to shame.
He was self-taught and seemed to have unlimited knowledge of history,current affairs,philosophy and who-knows-what-all.
His poetry and essays were phenomenal.
Meeting him confirmed for me that you can't go by the world's stereotypes and you're more limited by the interest you have in a subject than anything else.
I never met Nick Goulas but I do remember him somewhat. I think these guys had vivid lives outside the ring also. I always enjoyed sitting on a pile of 2 x 4's at lunch and listening to Gypsy talk about life itself. Not necessarily about his but just life itself.
He had quite a story to tell about the ring of life.
Yes in the 70's and 80's I loved watching it. But then I did not like it any more.It changed so much. Does anyone remember Roller Derby ?? I loved that also.
If anyone in town has met Milly Player while the horse show is going on...she is his sister.
I grew up on Gypsy Joe and the Fargo's and Nick Gulas and all the rest to .
Every Satirday morning the whole family would sit around and watch the roller derby then the wrestling.
"If you don't know diamonds, know your jeweler, and if Harold says it's so, it's so"
Hmmm...you enjoy wrestling?? Not shocking since you seem to put alot of belief into unreal things.
Wrestling has gotten its reputation because the parody shows up more than the reality.
It's the same with martial arts,etc.
But just because people are more familiar with half-time shows with choreographed bands,baton-twirlers with sequined leotards and drum majors with mace in hand doesn't mean there aren't real warriors marching with real weapons and people who can do real damage with a quarterstaff.
We see the institutions that might have been reduced to their ceremonial aspects but there is a substance that gave birth to the style and that truth exists beyond the confines of the performance art.
We lose a lot if we think the glitzy,scripted parts of life are all there is.
You have to begin with the authentic before a myth can be created.
We can take the pared down,hyped up versions for their entertainment value but survival and victory demand that we be warriors who actually "know the drill",have weaponry that works and know how to obtain a victory that has a greater reward for its champions than a shiny belt.
If it's all pom-poms,cassocks,sound-bites and super-hero masks,then none of our institutions can preserve our welfare.
We have to have the careworn foundations to achieve anything more than a good time.
We have to respect the originals and return the support they give us.
These real things in life will seldom be pleasing or pretty but they will have what beauty we bring to them with our dedication.