sadly a great legend has passed away

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I snapped this pic a few years ago of Mad Dog and a buddy of mine.
Midwestern babyboomers were entertained by these guys in our youth.

Broncosguy, see your pm’s. I was fixing a typo in the subject line of this post and clicked on the wrong button – deleting your post text. Sorry! Just click on edit and re-add the post. Sorry man!

-J.

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Broncosguy, see your pm’s. I was fixing a typo in the subject line of this post and clicked on the wrong button – deleting your post text. Sorry! Just click on edit and re-add the post. Sorry man!

-J.

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Need a special button to prevent mayhem…like you

uh oh

There were some real characters back in the day of wrestling!

Big Jim Gagnon still has the bar here in Fall Creek.

Did you know Mad Dog Vachone had a brother that was a goalie in the NHL for a while.
The Dog had diabetes for many years and live around Des Moine with his daughter.

Ah those were the days !~!!

The Crusher was the greatest. Sorry to hear about Mad Dog

Ivan Putski – the High Flyers (Jumpin Jim Brozell and Greg Gagne) – Doctor X, Bobby Heenan The Weasel. Many,many more

Church on Sundays, then watching All Star Wrestling with my brothers, then Lunch with the family featuring dad’s chicken soup, then a wrestling match in the rec-room playing out our favorite characters. Back when wrestling was real….

Jumpin Jim lives down the street from my brother in law. Always a little odd to see him doing yard work.

George “The Animal” Steele and Baron von Raschke were two of my favorite characters. Interestingly enough, in real life they were both teachers! I’ll bet their students were VERY well behaved!

RIP Mad dog…..you were one of best

Had to feel sorry for the perennial losers George “Scrap Iron” Kadowski and “Sodbuster” Kenny Jay. My favorite was the Nick Bockwinkle interviews with Marty O’neil.

Crusher and Mad Dog were always the best interviews. No one else got away harassing Jerry Fatwell and making the crowd at Civic Center chant “WoodTick”

Vern Gognya is or was in a nursing home with alshimers,body slammed his roommate and roommate died.Read it on wrestling news.

When I was a young kid I lived briefly in a new townhome 4plex in Eagan, it was during the heyday of the AWA. In the next townhome across the street, Nick Bockwinkel and his family lived there, so did Bobby Heenen, and Big John Stud and his family. I had always heard that Ray Stevens lived in the 4th one but never met him like I did all the other families that lived there.
It was a fun place for a kid to grow for a year or so, they were normal people but I always knew they were special.
Years later I worked with a man who was neighbors with the sodbuster Kenny Jay, spent several late nights in his garage drinking beers and playing foosball.
Suddenly I just realized I’m old……..

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Had to feel sorry for the perennial losers George “Scrap Iron” Kadowski and “Sodbuster” Kenny Jay. My favorite was the Nick Bockwinkle interviews with Marty O’neil.

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Don’t forget Jake “The Milkman” Milliman! lol….great memories.

RIP Maddog

My high school math teacher was perennial loser Dirty Dick Reynolds. Needless to say nobody screwed off in his class.

You could actually watch wrestling back then.

A little over 10 years ago, my wife worked with jumping jim brunzell. Any time she would sniffle, cough or talk about not feeling good, he would have different vitamins for her to take. I did get an autograph picture from him at that time, only downer is it is a picture of him and Greg Gagne. Never was a big fan of greg’s. Went to alot of matches in the late 70’s at the old Minneapolis auditorium, like someone mentioned, when wrestling was real.