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Rich Goodale

Killer Kowalski-RIP
« on: September 01, 2008, 05:06:56 AM »

ANTHONYPIOPPI

Re: Killer Kowalski-RIP
« Reply #1 on: September 01, 2008, 09:27:14 AM »
Richard

Thanks for posting this. Killer was a huge inspiration to me throughout the formative years of my life. Unfortunately, I never properly thanked him.

Anthony


Sean_A

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Re: Killer Kowalski-RIP
« Reply #2 on: September 01, 2008, 11:14:18 AM »
New plays planned for 2024: Nothing

Rick Shefchik

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Re: Killer Kowalski-RIP
« Reply #3 on: September 01, 2008, 03:23:21 PM »
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Kowalski married in 2006, his first marriage. In addition to his wife, of Malden, he was survived by a brother, Stanley Spulnik.

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Bill_McBride

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Re: Killer Kowalski-RIP
« Reply #4 on: September 01, 2008, 06:35:20 PM »
I was a huge fan of Haystack Calhoun.

Could I become a member of the Hillbilly Tour?

Mike Golden

Re: Killer Kowalski-RIP
« Reply #5 on: September 01, 2008, 07:45:32 PM »
I was a huge fan of Haystack Calhoun.

Could I become a member of the Hillbilly Tour?

Bill,

I was about 13 and at the Pittsburgh airport (I think we had visited relatives in Canton, OH) and saw Haystacks Calhoun in the coffee shop at the airport-he was sitting on 2 chairs eating was was most likely half the menu.  Many years later, while on a shuttle bus at Logan Airport, I saw Andre the Giant sitting on a bench waiting for another bus-he looked very wasted and tired.

Paul_Daley

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Re: Killer Kowalski-RIP
« Reply #6 on: September 01, 2008, 10:08:06 PM »
A sad day for us "rassling" nuts, where nostalgia runs rampant. Sure the the older we get, the better things used to be, but the era that Killer Kowalski performed in was the greatest: Mark Lewin; Tiger Singh; Killer Karl Cox; Skull Murphy; Brute Barnard; Big Tex McKenzie; a young Spiros Araon; Mario Milano; Dick "the Bulldog" Brower; Haystacks Calhoun, and others. Part of you knew it was acting, but in hindsight, they were far better actors than the current crop of pill-poppers.

Phil Benedict

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Re: Killer Kowalski-RIP
« Reply #7 on: September 02, 2008, 12:03:05 PM »
Don't forget Dick the Bruiser.

Walter Bart

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Re: Killer Kowalski-RIP
« Reply #8 on: September 02, 2008, 03:16:40 PM »
RIch

       Thanks for bringing back a piece of my childhood.  I remember my father taking me to see Killer against Yukon Eric.  It was either at the Boston Garden or the old Boston Arena, which  is now the MAtthews Arena at  Northeastern University, I think.

John Keenan

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Re: Killer Kowalski-RIP
« Reply #9 on: September 02, 2008, 03:26:11 PM »
Since we are remembering wrestlers from the Golden Age we need to note the famous Gorgeous George and his gold "bobby pins"

A true classic from a much simpler time. Far different than what we have today.

The things a man has heard and seen are threads of life, and if he pulls them carefully from the confused distaff of memory, any who will can weave them into whatever garments of belief please them best.

ANTHONYPIOPPI

Re: Killer Kowalski-RIP
« Reply #10 on: September 02, 2008, 05:12:06 PM »
Three words:


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Scott Whitley

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Re: Killer Kowalski-RIP
« Reply #11 on: September 02, 2008, 09:23:13 PM »
RIP Killer.  Here in Toronto and environs, our heroes were Whipper Billy Watson, Dick the Bulldog Brower (already mentioned) and "Lord" Athol Layton, and our greatest villain was undoubtedly The Sheik (*not* the Iron Sheik of later days).

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