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1966 Match History
The Assassin vs Luke Brown
1966 Omaha Rankings
March Boxing Illustrated/Wrestling News
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Place in History – Many of the great tag teams came together by happenstance when two individuals were paired up and all the pieces fell into alignment. Jake Smith and Luke Brown were two huge men trying to find their way in the pro-wrestling world. Smith is credited with fashioning their famous country boy personas, the Kentuckians, that got over and drew money across the United States. Rather than work as a typical babyface tag team, they were a pair of unskilled hillbillies wearing plaid shirts, blue jeans and moccasins to the ring and they even changed their in-ring work to look reflect this persona. Their soft-spoken, laid-back personalities and rural backgrounds allowed them to easily live the gimmick outside of the ring. As with any great heroes, they need
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Once we started shooting, our travel schedule loosely followed the same path as the Dog’s career. From the super heavyweight territory of Montreal, we’d stop in Trois-Rivières then move west to Calgary, followed by layovers in Vancouver and Langley, B.C. before heading south to Eugene, Oregon, to see promoter Don Owen, then 87 years of age. brev Don, we’d fly back to Minnesota with a final stop in New York. Incidentally, Mad Dog chose to pocket the value of his airline ticket and drive from Nebraska to Montreal for the gig. To quote The Destroyer, “You can take man out of wrestling, cut off his leg, but you can’t take the wrestler out of the man.”
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Mad Dog is the centre of attention at Église St-Charles.
The bulk of the Dog’s interviews were shot in the basement of Église St-Charles, a church in Point Saint Charles, which is a Montreal neighbourhood very close to Ville Emard where the Vachons had grown up. The condition was I’
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Earl Patrick Freeman
Canadian professional wrestler (1932 – 1989)
For the 19th century Irish-American boxer, see Paddy Ryan.
Earl Patrick Freeman (August 23, 1932 – December 28, 1989) was a Canadian professional wrestler, best known by his ring namePaddy Ryan, who competed in North American and international promotions during the 1950s and 60s.
While competing in western Canada and the Pacific Northwest, Freeman was involved in memorable feuds with Lumberjack Luke, Ripper Collins and "Crippler" Ray Stevens as a mainstay of NWA All-Star Wrestling, Pacific Northwest Wrestling and Stampede Wrestling during the late 1970s.
Career
[edit]Born in Hamilton, Ontario, Freeman began wrestling professionally during the 1950s finding success in Northland Wrestling Enterprise in North Bay, Ontario, Renfrew, Ontario and Western Quebec as Bud Freeman. Competing in European and Japanese promotions during the 1970s as both Bud Freeman and The Zebra Kid, Freeman returned to North Ameri