Owen Hart Tribute Radio Show Recap Ft. Bill Alfonso, Koko B Ware, Clarence Mason, Val Venis, Bill Apter, Vito, Godfather, Smith Hart and others

Credit: Andrew Karluk
False Count Radio/Wrestling Soup
Owen Hart Tribute Show
Hosted by JT Evans & Anthony  Thomas
May 23, 2010

Hard to believe it’s been 11 years since we lost Owen Hart

The show opened with Smith Hart. Smith said that he feeled that Owen hadn’t reached his prime when he passed. He spoke about a rib that Owen did on Davey Boy Smith. Davey was taking an early flight back to Florida (where he lived at the time), and gloating about leaving early. Owen took it upon himelf to lock Davey Boy’s bag to a locker with a padlock while he was showering, causing him to miss his early flight. But that wasn’t it: Owen convinced the flight attendants that Davey Boy was a groupie, and had him escorted back to his seat.

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Funk’s Corner – “Karate” Kinji Shibuya
 
Kinji Shibuya dropped into a defensive football stance and stepped forward bringing his powerful arms up charging and lifting me at the same time.
 
Kinji said, “You have got to fire out of your stance make contact and lift your opponent at the same time, look for the ball and get rid of the blocker.
 
We were on the wrestling mat in the garage of Dory Funk Sr.’s home on the Flying Mare Ranch in Umbarger, Texas. Mom and Dad were friends of “Bob” Shibuya, professional wrestler and former football player and amateur wrestler from University of Hawaii.

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AS I SEE IT
Bob Magee
Pro Wrestling: Between the Sheets
PWBTS.com

In an era where racism has again reared its ugly head in the state of Arizona, as well as through the Tea-bag…er, party’s racist antics in recent months, professional wrestler Sputnik Monroe’s unique life is even more useful to remember.

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Funk’s Corner  (by Dory Funk Jr.)

Gene Kiniski, “Give Him Hell Kid”

Giant Gene Kiniski  caught me with a double leg pick-up and spun me around in a “Giant Swing” (Grabbed me by the ankles and spun me 360 degrees around and around). I could see the ring light at the Amarillo Sports Arena spinning overhead then I nearly passed out but came to as Gene slowed the Giant Swing and dropped me to the mat. Gene jumped on top of me with a rear chin lock and said, “Here comes your mother, kid. She is coming to help you. Dorothy is coming to ringside.”

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Wild Championship Wrestling Outlaws

Presents “A Tribute to Dick the Bruiser & the WWA”

CONTACT: Ron Owens, Owens Promotions, 317-308-6556

(Indianapolis, IN)  LIVE professional wrestling returns to downtown Indianapolis, Indiana at the Tyndall Armory, 711 N Pennsylvania Street on Saturday, April 24^th as Wild Championship Wrestling Outlaws presents “A Tribute to Dick the Bruiser & the WWA”. Doors open at 6pm with the festivities starting at 7pm.

The night will mark the 46^th anniversary of the first show that “The World’s Most Dangerous Wrestler” Dick the Bruiser put on at the armory.  The entire night will be dedicated to the memory of those WWA wrestlers no longer with us and will feature MANY of the stars of the WWA still living today.

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March 14, 2010
IWF Premier Pro Wresting
6th Annual Beetlejuice/Alan Carnill Memorial Show Results
Buffalo Rose Golden, COLORADO
Results by: Tamera Halbeisen

Detailed Results by: Dustin Nichols

*Before the show started, a video tribute to Alan “Beetlejuice” Carnill was played as the IWF locker room stood ringside and in the ring, followed by the traditional 10-bell salute.

*Before the show’s matches officially got underway, IWF Heavyweight Champion Hoodlum came to the ring with “The Unreal” Joshua Michael, and accused Bronx of being the masked man who attacked him last month. Bronx came out and said that it wasn’t him. Hoodlum then challenged him to a match for the IWF title, which was accepted. The Miracle That Is Tony then came to the ring and complained that he should be champion, since he technically pinned Hoodlum last month (the decision was later reversed). IWF co-commissioner Bigg Mike came into the ring and immediately made a match between Tony and Josh.

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Reported by Mike Aldren:

The Harris County (Texas) Medical Examiners office officially listed the death of Edward “Umaga” Fatu as accidental, caused from acute toxicity due to the combined effects of Hydrocodone, Carisoprodol and Diazepam.

Fatu, 36, suffered two heart attacks, the first on the evening of December 4 at his home in Spring, Texas, and the second in the hospital the next day while on life support. All three drugs under various brand names are reportedly drugs of choice for a number of pro wrestlers used to kill pain, ease anxiety, aid sleep, or when abused simply taken for recreation purposes. Fatu, who was under contract to WWE from 2002-2003 and 2005-2009, was released in June 2009 following a second Wellness Program violation and his subsequent refusal to attend a rehabilitation facility.

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Memories of The Great One, Jack Brisco
By Mike Lano

Just after losing wrestling’s greatest friend, Georgie Makropoulos, we’ve now lost it’s modern-day greatest athlete with those amazing amateur credentials of his that Kurt Angle told me in 2001, “blew me away.” This guy was and will always be an incredible talent.

I had the pleasure of knowing Jack Brisco, from his times coming into my home base territory (Los Angeles/Lebell) and kept in touch with him ever since. I worked as one of the ringside photogs for our program sold to the fans and Jack had perhaps the greatest ever 10 minute broadway in Feb 1973 against Terry Funk underneath Sheik and Victor Rivera. They were the opening match if you can believe it, for a No. 1 contender’s tournament for Rivera’s America’s Title, which Terry actually went on to win.

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Alex Marvez: Remembering Jack Brisco
By ALEX MARVEZ, Scripps Howard News Service

Few pro wrestlers were as successful as Jack Brisco.

Even fewer have announced their retirement and actually followed through with it.

Brisco — the industry’s top world champion of the 1970s — died Monday from complications following open-heart surgery. He was 68.

Although he left the business in 1984, Brisco remains such a revered figure that he was honored with a posthumous graphic by World Wrestling Entertainment on this week’s “Monday Night Raw” telecast. He grappled worldwide as the National Wrestling Alliance champion from July 1973 to December 1975. Brisco was known for long matches that incorporated elements of his acclaimed amateur-wrestling career.

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Jack Brisco - Photo by Dr. Mike Lano

The Phantom of the Ring

Phantom – Jack Brisco, R.I.P.

The sudden death of Jack Brisco on February 1 left the wrestling world saddened. For many, he was the first NWA champion they grew up watching, and he was one of the last “pedigreed” champions (those with solid collegiate wrestling backgrounds) to hold a world’s championship..

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