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.