THUGLIT Issue Eighteen by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Thuglit Publishing
Published: 2015-06-30T04:00:00+00:00

Like I said earlier, that was in September 1973. In November, I got busted roughing a union worker up and got three years. But in those two months, I was in Barstow every week, sort of...rediscovering my love for wrestling. Uncle Tony stopping going after the second week and used me as his eyes and ears. I passed messages on to Harold, and he got them done. It was a fucking dream. I mean, it was lucky. We inherited this great promotion and a great right hand man. Shit rarely happens that easily.

Anyway, back to prison. I did my three years, didn't talk, didn't bother anyone, and got out a little early, in July instead of October. The first place I went was Uncle Tony's.

"I don't want you out there anymore," he said, hugging me. "I want you doing something else."

That "something else" wound up being the MWF full-time. He wanted me to be the jack-of-all-trades type—to head up security, book talent, come up with storyline angles. Whatever needed doing. I wouldn't be making big money, but I was okay with that. Uncle Tony bought me a car and got me an apartment in Barstow, and that was that. I was pretty much on my own.

For the first year or so, I stuck close to Harold, learning everything I could from the guy. How to do this, how to do that. We came up with a couple angles that went big, even got us in Pro Wrestling Illustrated, the biggest wrestling mag in the country. We did brisk business. Not too much more than when we started, yeah, but we were getting by fine.

Uncle Tony came by every once in a while to make sure things were going good, and they were. In June 1977, the NWA champ (who toured all the different promotions, giving the local heroes a shot at the gold) dropped the belt to our main guy ("Punishing" Paul Perry).Suddenly the wrestling community knew who we were—and people who didn't usually give a shit about it started coming by because, hey, they won the belt. We got a second TV timeslot in 1979. Friday Night Wrestling was carried all over the Mojave and into San Fran.

That summer, we toured a little. After getting permission from the NWA and the regional promoters, we did a show in L.A. in June, and another in Vegas in August. The first brought in 10,000 fans, the second 11,000. We were making more money than ever, and Uncle Tony started taking a more active interest. By the end of 1979, he was devoting more time to the MWF than the L.A. Family.

Then Vince McMahon took the WWF national.

Remember when I said earlier that wrestling worked on a territorial system? Well, there's a reason I said "back then." In 1980, Vince McMahon, a promoter in the Northeast, started buying out other promotions and their assets (including TV time). He envisioned a huge money-making corporation spanning the country. I can't say I blame the guy, it was ambitious, but that's not how wrestling worked.

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