PWD PWD 1141: You Serious, Clark?

[Pittie Petey]

Is that the infamous slop bucket?

 

[RollSonnenRoll]

Is that the infamous slop bucket?

It is indeed.

 

[Pittie Petey]

Not just the public facade but in being a man. I’m not from Texas or a wrestling family but here in Georgia you ain’t a real if you can’t handle your liquor or your drugs. Even if you are a teenager at the time.

I can see that part of it too, thinking its just boys being boys and not accepting how bad its becoming because we all had our fun when we were young

 

[Sara]

Jeezus Sara, it's a fucking movie.

I feel like they could have found a little guy.

 

[Stargazer Rex]

Like Pete stated above, they did actually save the foot and he was recovering. He rushed it though and was also fucked up and walked on it without crutches crushing it. It got infected and they had to amputate

Man! That sounds like what Ronnie Coleman did to his spine!

 

[Sara]

@Sara In case you were wondering, Kerry didnt get into a crash on the same night he won the NWA title either, it actually happened 2 years later
He crushed his foot, rushed his return to the ring because the family and the promotion needed him, and that reinjured his foot which then had to be partially amputated, only part of his foot though, not his whole calf

Humorous little side story, you wanna how the world found out Kerry was missing a foot?

He was fighting Col. DeBeers in the AWA in Las Vegas(I think) and DeBeers grabbed Kerrys leg and his boot slipped off and exposed Kerrys stump foot

Kerry scrambled to put his boot on as everyone stood there frozen in shock because up to that point everyone believed he had recovered and just walked with a slight limp

Even then, the story was only known about in lockerroom whispers and super smart fan inner circles

I know you told me.

 

[RollSonnenRoll]

"Notwithstanding numerous unprecedented predatory practices against the World Wrestling Federation." is the most Vince sentence I've ever read.

 

[Sara]

Like Pete stated above, they did actually save the foot and he was recovering. He rushed it though and was also fucked up and walked on it without crutches crushing it. It got infected and they had to amputate

Did fritz make him rush?

 

[Pittie Petey]

"Notwithstanding numerous unprecedented predatory practices against the World Wrestling Federation." is the most Vince sentence I've ever read.

Vince loves this business and we love him for it

 

[RollSonnenRoll]

I can see that part of it too, thinking its just boys being boys and not accepting how bad its becoming because we all had our fun when we were young

I do think that's part of it as well. He was probably thinking that all wrestlers take pills, do coke and drink all night. We hadn't seen the rash of early wrestler deaths from drug abuse at that time so I can imagine he was a little naive to either how bad they were or how harmful their addiction could be

 

[Stargazer Rex]

"Notwithstanding numerous unprecedented predatory practices against the World Wrestling Federation." is the most Vince sentence I've ever read.

"Which also caused me high blood pressure in that very ring that would end up causing me to have to be admitted to a local medical facility"

 

[Pittie Petey]

Did fritz make him rush?

Yes, the business was going down quickly from their peak a couple years earlier so he pressured Kerry to rub some dirt on it and get his lazy ass back in the ring for the sake of the family and the company

 

[Sara]

Yes, the business was going down quickly from their peak a couple years earlier so he pressured Kerry to rub some dirt on it and get his lazy ass back in the ring for the sake of the family and the company

Did he also say he paid the boys more and kept some of their pay?

 

[Batjester]

Did fritz make him rush?

Presurer him for sure, but Kerry felt pressure anyways because he knew the territory needed him.

 

[RollSonnenRoll]

Yes, the business was going down quickly from their peak a couple years earlier so he pressured Kerry to rub some dirt on it and get his lazy ass back in the ring for the sake of the family and the company

"and most importantly, for your daddy, son."

 

[Pittie Petey]

Did he also say he paid the boys more and kept some of their pay?

That I dont know but I wouldnt doubt it, it fits in line with everything else we know about him

 

[Frank23]

 

[Sara]

was there another brother too? According to wiki there was a Chris? He’s losing died?

 

[DW=HERO]

I can see that part of it too, thinking its just boys being boys and not accepting how bad its becoming because we all had our fun when we were young

I was a bit of a double kid. Hockey tonks on Friday and the country club on Saturday. A WHOLE lot got swept under the rug.

 

[RollSonnenRoll]

Did he also say he paid the boys more and kept some of their pay?

That I dont know but I wouldnt doubt it, it fits in line with everything else we know about him

That was one part of the story that I've never read or heard before. Fritz actually had several businesses and investments, he did really well for himself the entire time he ran World Class. They really had a big, beautiful Texas ranch like that. The boys rode in new trucks and Jeeps. I felt like that was tacked on as a little nail in the coffin to make the audience not like him.