I got lucky..

and grew up with a local wrestling federation in my hometown, with matches every Thursday night and wrestling on TV every Friday night.. We had a LOT of future superstars cut their skills here in Wichita Falls.. As it stands, the WWE Hall of Fame is now located here in Wichita Falls, which I find to be sort of weird, but cool at the same time..

Huge fan growing up.. Dr X was my man.. He wore a black hood with an X on the forehead and wore an orthopedic bot on one foot.. Of course the ref checked both feet before every match, but his closing move was to stomp h s toe into the mat 3 times, then kick his opponent and, no matter where he kicked him, always knocked him out..

Oh the theories began rolling in.. most popular was that he had a lead weight in the heel of his orthopedic boot.. the lead weight would move to the front of his boot when he kicked the mat 3 times, causing his foot to be a human wrecking ball due to the lead weight.. Brilliant....

I loved the oriental guys, who always seemed to blow the caustic chemicals in their opponents eyes.. I also loved the guys who had a magicians spark/flame device and would ignite it in their opponent's faces..

We also had an Indian guy who had a blind cohort in the crowd for ever match.. The blind guy had an indian drum with him and whenever the indian wrestler got into trouble, the blind guy would start beating the drum and the indian went into a war dance and just obliterated his opponent..

Another was Silento Rodriguez.. totally deaf wrestler, who, in EVERY match had a villian sneak up on him from behind while the crowd is just going APE SH*T trying to yell at him to turn around.. he never did and got clocked a thousand times..

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