The Wonderful Brandon Bull
By Dr. Mike Lano
[Wrestling/boxing/MMA photojournalism]
Who’ll ever forget where they were the first time Gordon Solie called Paul that during one of his great GCW squashes? The Brandon Bull. He was and remains that and one pretty tough hombre, cancer be damned.
I think many of us first came to appreciate what a tremendous athlete Paul was in Bill Watt’s talent-laden Mid South promotion that was the standard of excellence for U.S. wrestling in the late 70’s and early 80’s amidst a crowded field(many of the territories were still great up to and including late 1983). Others may have first marveled at his work for Ole Anderson in Georgia Championship(always talent-packed as well).
As with the faux Paul Ellering wrestling “brother,” I think Watts/Mid South also had a faux Orndorff brother tagging with him at the time by the name of “Terry”(similar to Watts’ former area boss, Leroy McGuirk who tried to capitalize on the earliest incarnation of Ivan Putsky with a faux brother called Igor Putski. Oddly, Ivan was originally a near-carbon-copy of Sheik’s Mighty Igor Vodik(Dick Garza) doing that particular non-speaking, allegedly dim-witted Polish man-child gimmick.