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Former wrestler Killer Kowalski dies at 81.

RedHeart54RedHeart54 Posts: 2,277 ✭✭✭
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  • alnavmanalnavman Posts: 4,129 ✭✭✭
    WOW, talk about a name from the past....didn't he wrestle with BoBo Brazil??? and Haystack Calhoun??
  • mommam17mommam17 Posts: 971 ✭✭✭
    I`m sure he wrestled Bobo and Haystack and had many championship matches with Bruno Sammartino. MANY years ago!
  • RipublicaninMassRipublicaninMass Posts: 10,051 ✭✭✭
    ...Chief Jay Strongbow
  • stevekstevek Posts: 29,033 ✭✭✭✭✭
    About the same age as Ric Flair.
  • edmundfitzgeraldedmundfitzgerald Posts: 4,306 ✭✭
    The Executioners

    Big John Studd

    Ken Patera (the swinging neck breaker)

    Tor Kamata

    Baron Von Raschke (the brain claw)

    Ivan Putski (the polish hammer)
  • purduepetepurduepete Posts: 791 ✭✭✭


    << <i>WOW, talk about a name from the past....didn't he wrestle with BoBo Brazil??? and Haystack Calhoun?? >>



    I was thinking more of guys like Verne Gagne, Dick the Bruiser, and The Crusher.

    I remember going over to my grandparent's house on Sundays in the early/mid '70s and my grandfather would have wrestling on the TV. He ate that stuff up!

    RIP Killer!
    Tom

    Collecting: Topps 1952-79, Bowman 1952-55, OPC 1965-71, and Pre-War White Sox cards
  • alnavmanalnavman Posts: 4,129 ✭✭✭
    What about Moose Cholock...I also remember those 70's wresting shows. They had one channel here in the Cleveland area that had the wrestling on every Saturday afternoon.....
  • WinPitcherWinPitcher Posts: 27,726 ✭✭✭
    Wrestling in the 60's and early 70's was awesome.

    Chief Jay Strongbow was among my favorites.


    Steve


    Good for you.
  • JerseyJersey Posts: 542
    Do you remember Kowalski's claw submission hold?
    Wise men learn more from fools than fools learn from the wise.

  • MeteoriteGuyMeteoriteGuy Posts: 7,140 ✭✭


    << <i>About the same age as Ric Flair. >>




    The all-time coolest wrestler. Woooh!!!!
    Collecting PSA graded Steve Young, Marcus Allen, Bret Saberhagen and 1980s Topps Cards.
    Raw: Tony Gonzalez (low #'d cards, and especially 1/1's) and Steve Young.
  • bdunndchibdunndchi Posts: 650
    RIP. Haven't heard that name in a while!
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  • baseballfanbaseballfan Posts: 5,456 ✭✭✭
    god speed killer
    Fred

    collecting RAW Topps baseball cards 1952 Highs to 1972. looking for collector grade (somewhere between psa 4-7 condition). let me know what you have, I'll take it, I want to finish sets, I must have something you can use for trade.

    looking for Topps 71-72 hi's-62-53-54-55-59, I have these sets started

  • gregmo32gregmo32 Posts: 2,648 ✭✭✭
    Rest in Peace, Killer!

    (Watch Richmond Lucha.)
    I am buying and trading for RC's of Wilt Chamberlain, George Mikan, Bill Russell, Oscar Robertson, Jerry West, and Bob Cousy!
    Don't waste your time and fees listing on ebay before getting in touch me by PM or at gregmo32@aol.com !
  • pandrewspandrews Posts: 7,598 ✭✭✭
    haystak calhoun FTW
    ·p_A·
  • MantleMarisFordBerraMantleMarisFordBerra Posts: 1,701 ✭✭✭
    Didn't Killer Kowalski lose an ear in a match?
  • gregmo32gregmo32 Posts: 2,648 ✭✭✭
    I think you're thinking of Evander Holyfield...
    I am buying and trading for RC's of Wilt Chamberlain, George Mikan, Bill Russell, Oscar Robertson, Jerry West, and Bob Cousy!
    Don't waste your time and fees listing on ebay before getting in touch me by PM or at gregmo32@aol.com !
  • purduepetepurduepete Posts: 791 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Didn't Killer Kowalski lose an ear in a match? >>



    From Wikipedia...

    Most famously, in a 1952 match in Montreal versus Yukon Eric, Kowalski ripped off a part of Yukon Eric's ear while performing a knee drop. In reality, Eric's ears were already badly cauliflowered due to years of abuse and the injury was an accident, but it fortified Kowalski as being a ruthless villain who ripped his opponent's ear off. Kowalski attempted to visit his opponent in the hospital and began laughing along with Eric at how silly the bandages looked, with Kowalski recalling years later, "I swear, the first thing I thought of was Humpty Dumpty on the wall. Yukon Eric looked at me, shook his head, and smiled. I started laughing and he laughed, too.". When the incident was reported in the paper the next day, it stated that Kowalski showed up at the hospital and laughed at his victim rather than with him, furthering Kowalski's image as a heel.
    Tom

    Collecting: Topps 1952-79, Bowman 1952-55, OPC 1965-71, and Pre-War White Sox cards
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