02.04.2007, 08:37
Ich habe folgende grandiose Geschichte von Les Thatcher gefunden:
Zitat:One of the biggest houses that we drew there (Knoxville), which was the Summer of 69, outside at the Amphitheater in Chilhowee Park, and it was also a show that had John Cazana had his way, would have been cancelled, initially. John never used, although Ron Fuller (did), which I don?t know why John never did this, but the indoor building which we used in the Winter there, was a stone?s throw from the Amphitheater, and John never decided to go, you know, using the building as a backup---which when Southeastern was there from, what, ?74 through ?79, that was something we ALWAYS did, during the Summer---but anyway, it was raining. And John just came in the dressing room and, ?Wow, you know, we worked this big angle, and well, you know, looks like we might have to cancel it.?
And Whitey (Caldwell) was---the windows in the dressing room in the Amphitheater were very high, so people could not see in, and of course you couldn?t see out either---and Whitey had been up on a table looking out, he heard John, he said, ?John, maybe you want to get up here and take a look before you make that decision.? And of course none of us knew what he was talking about at the time, but if you got up on the table, there were three ticket booths for the outdoor Amphitheater, and the wild thing was when we all got up there and took a look outside, there was a line around, the boxing arena, the Golden Gloves Arena was right across from it, and there was three lines all the way around, stretched AROUND the Golden Gloves Arena, at each ticket window, IN the rain, waiting to get in the show.
So the show was NOT cancelled. But the thing of the whole thing is, that, you know, until the main event?s in the ring, if you have to stop the card before the main event, there IS a chance that you may have to refund money. So, they didn?t put us on FIRST, but I think---well, probably there were only four matches at the time, anyway, on the show, and so we went on in the middle of the card just to be sure it was on, but by that time it was raining a little bit harder, and the rain like was swingin? back and forth over our heads and you couldn?t look your opponent straight in the eye, I mean because of the way the rain was slashin? down at an angle, it would blind you, and you had to kinda drop your head and look outta the corner of your eye so you could actually see what was going on. And I for one, I don?t know if anybody else in the match did or not, but I experienced the outdoor thing with rain in the past myself, and the soles of my wrestling shoes would be like, well, the example would be like drag racing slicks, on wet pavement. There IS no traction. So I went there, I took my shoes off and went out there and worked barefoot for that.