I discovered professional Wrestling at the age of 11yrs old. It was the summer of 75, and i turned to channel 9 (around 11pm ??) And what did I see ??? I.W.A. Wrestling ! And the journey was non stop for over 25 years, then i lost interest somewhat. But i eventually discovered RU-vid and renewed my interest wholeheartedly ! Ernie Ladd was a personal favorite (everyone said he looked like my dad) and i was definitely a Bulldog Brower fan. Memories, grateful for them. Be well friend...JB
Growing up here in Florida I was privileged enough to see both of these gentleman and Dusty Rhodes readily admitted that he took most of his gimmick from Thunder ⚡ and some of his biggest storyline was against Ernie Ladd, what a great way to spend my Thursday night"s as a child of the 70"s, than going to the Jacksonville coliseum to watch these matches.
what is not so nice is that after Dirty Roads stole Thunderbolt Patterson's act, they then buried the career of Thunderbolt so that people would not see where Dusty got his act from.
@@aeroacro90 yes... and this was a clear example of it. it's bad enough to borrow or be influenced by.. but then bad when outright stealing, and even worse when stealing and disposing of the person that it was stolen from.
People say that but listen to Bolt and listen to Dusty, that's not the same. It's far more Muhammad Ali and regulal slick talk you hear at a basketball game where the brothers are trash talking.
We ran across this wrestling show one Sat evening by accident after watching MID ATLANTIC wrestling on the same local chanel. Growing up in Sutherlin,Va all we had was 5 local chanels 2, 7,11, 12 and 13 and at night after 9.00 pm we might could get chanel 45 or 48 if it was a clear night, and we could get Black Belt theater if anyone remembers that LOLOL,
Dusty Rhodes stole most of character because cable wasnt big in the early 70s he could lift bits and pcs from around the country. He stole from billy graham, Sputnik Monroe,the more i find old clips he was notorious gimmick infringer and thief
Superstar Graham, Dusty, and Hogan of course were in Florida during the mid-70's. T-Bolt has an influence on all 3. I saw T-Bolt do the ear to the crowd long before Hogan did it. You can say because of that T-Bolt had a huge influence on Wrestling. Hogan lived in Florida and went to the matches long before they let him in.
They had a heated feud in the southern territories. I remember the arenas beating packed for their matches. I saw them in New Orleans and the heat was on Ladd big time.
Ain't nothing wrong with "Soul Patrol" brotha. We are soul brothers and sistas. We eat "soul food". Soul is a greath thing man. There nothing wrong with being a soul brother. Its a positive thing man.
@@jackstar6018 Soul is a wonderful thing. But it still seems uncreative to label a black tag team as such. It also seems to me that not much effort was put into how to market the team.
