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KingDaevid
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...two rather disconcerting situations here:
1) considering he was wrestling into the mid-'80s, can he be considered the longest-lasting Du Mont star ever?
2) geez, this guy was Johnny Carson's age!!!
The Crusher dead at 79
SLAM! Wrestling
http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/2005/10/23/1275272.html
Listen up, you turkeynecks. One of the most memorable characters ever
in wrestling has died. Or more correctly, gone to the big beer hall in
the sky to start raising hell again with Dick the Bruiser. All praise
The Crusher, dead Saturday at age 79.
The Crusher -- Reggie Lisowski to a few -- was a true American
original. Promoted as "The Wrestler Who Made Milwaukee Famous," he'd
brag about running along the Lake Michigan waterfront with a keg of
beer on each shoulder so he could get in shape to polka all night with
the town's many Polish barmaids.
In July 1999, The Crusher made an appearance at a racetrack in
Kenosha, WI. Some of his comments perfectly sum up who he was and what
he meant to wrestling.
"These turkeyneck bums they got wrestling, some of them couldn't shine
Crusher or Bruiser's shoes," the gravelly-voiced, cigar-chomping tough
guy said. "I come up the hard way. I had all these cage matches. I
wrestled in the cage more than any other rassler in the history of
rasslin.' I got all the scars to prove it. The time I wrestled Mad Dog
[Vachon] in the cage, I had to go to the hospital, and he had to go to
the veterinarian to get sown up.
"I had a lot of tough, rough matches through my life, but the only
thing that kept me going is the way I built my body up. Just like you
build a building brick by brick, I built this body up muscle by
muscle! I been knocked down, I been hit with bar stools, I've been hit
with chairs, I've been hit with bar maids, I've been hit with bar
rags, but nobody ever knocked The Crusher down [for good]."
Best known for his time in the American Wrestling Association out of
Minnesota, The Crusher was feted in a 1964 song by The Novas, from
Edina, MN, titled imaginatively The Crusher. Some of the lyrics:
Do the hammer lock! a-Do the hammer lock!
Raid! Do the hammer lock, you turkey necks!
Yeah, do the hammer lock! a-Do the hammer lock!
Everybody's doing it
Raid!
Do the eye gouge! Yeah, do the eye gouge!
Raid! Do the eye gouge, you turkey necks!
Yeah, do the eye gouge! a-Do the eye gouge!
Everybody's doing it
Raid!
<P ID="signature">______________
King Daevid MacKenzie
WLSU Wisconsin Public Radio, La Crosse
heard weekly on http://www.radio4all.net/
"Kill Ugly Radio." FRANK ZAPPA</P>
1) considering he was wrestling into the mid-'80s, can he be considered the longest-lasting Du Mont star ever?
2) geez, this guy was Johnny Carson's age!!!
The Crusher dead at 79
SLAM! Wrestling
http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/2005/10/23/1275272.html
Listen up, you turkeynecks. One of the most memorable characters ever
in wrestling has died. Or more correctly, gone to the big beer hall in
the sky to start raising hell again with Dick the Bruiser. All praise
The Crusher, dead Saturday at age 79.
The Crusher -- Reggie Lisowski to a few -- was a true American
original. Promoted as "The Wrestler Who Made Milwaukee Famous," he'd
brag about running along the Lake Michigan waterfront with a keg of
beer on each shoulder so he could get in shape to polka all night with
the town's many Polish barmaids.
In July 1999, The Crusher made an appearance at a racetrack in
Kenosha, WI. Some of his comments perfectly sum up who he was and what
he meant to wrestling.
"These turkeyneck bums they got wrestling, some of them couldn't shine
Crusher or Bruiser's shoes," the gravelly-voiced, cigar-chomping tough
guy said. "I come up the hard way. I had all these cage matches. I
wrestled in the cage more than any other rassler in the history of
rasslin.' I got all the scars to prove it. The time I wrestled Mad Dog
[Vachon] in the cage, I had to go to the hospital, and he had to go to
the veterinarian to get sown up.
"I had a lot of tough, rough matches through my life, but the only
thing that kept me going is the way I built my body up. Just like you
build a building brick by brick, I built this body up muscle by
muscle! I been knocked down, I been hit with bar stools, I've been hit
with chairs, I've been hit with bar maids, I've been hit with bar
rags, but nobody ever knocked The Crusher down [for good]."
Best known for his time in the American Wrestling Association out of
Minnesota, The Crusher was feted in a 1964 song by The Novas, from
Edina, MN, titled imaginatively The Crusher. Some of the lyrics:
Do the hammer lock! a-Do the hammer lock!
Raid! Do the hammer lock, you turkey necks!
Yeah, do the hammer lock! a-Do the hammer lock!
Everybody's doing it
Raid!
Do the eye gouge! Yeah, do the eye gouge!
Raid! Do the eye gouge, you turkey necks!
Yeah, do the eye gouge! a-Do the eye gouge!
Everybody's doing it
Raid!
<P ID="signature">______________
King Daevid MacKenzie
WLSU Wisconsin Public Radio, La Crosse
heard weekly on http://www.radio4all.net/
"Kill Ugly Radio." FRANK ZAPPA</P>