It was the
greatest sporting event of ALLLLL TIME.
It occurred on
August 20, 1963 at the Minneapolis Auditorium.
The Tag Team wraslin’
Championship of the World was to be decided.
It pitted the
champs of Ivan and Karol Kalmikof (Billed as the Kalmikoff Brothers) against
the challengers of “The Crusher” and his cousin “Dick The Bruiser.” These two were hardly a couple of “turkey
necks.”
Before the match
would end the scoring table and any ring side chairs would be violently
dismantled and their parts would be used as weapons in the ring.
Things got out of
hand when “The Bruiser” (or was it “The Crusher”??) pulled out a set of brass
knuckles he had smuggled into the ring within his wraslin’ trunks.
The referee would
be wounded and dazed on several occasions rendering him mentally incapacitated
to rule effectively. At times he could
also be seen laying unconscious outside the ring.
The bell at ring
side would be ripped from its casing and used to mercilessly beat the Kalmikoffs
in attempts to disfigure them. The mat
of the ring would become drenched from the inordinate blood loss experienced by
all four combatants. In the end the Kalmikoffs
would concede defeat and a pain ridden, delirious referee would end the
carnage.
It was not only a
fabulous night for ALL sports fans but more importantly a momentous night for
America. For “The Crusher” and “The Bruiser”,
amid their mauled bodies and blood-soaked faces, struck an extraordinary blow
for freedom heard round the world when they savagely thrashed those dirty,
rotten, bearded commies into submission.
The rumors that the outcome of this event led to the Kennedy assignation
were ignored by the Warren Commission and still remain uninvestigated to this day;
strongly suggesting the theory has strong credibility.
BTW – What
primarily made this the greatest event in sporting history is the fact that I
was there and witnessed every blood curdling moment of this historic event.
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