That was Bruce Wey. I broke his arm in the Nationals in 1983. He came back from the hospital in time to see me win and have m sign his cast. He was known as a wild man. He usually ate lit cigars on stage while you gripped hands. His face was covered with hair. He once ate a live parakeet. He did drink oil once but ended up going to the hospital to gethis stomach pumped.
In the movie Alka Seltzer was a big sponsor. I think for $500,000 product placement. They were trying to figure out how to get a scene in the movie in order to have the product fit in. So they found Bruce. In the movie it was actually honey.
Just about every guy that eneded up in the final cut were pros or ex pros. Ric who ended up taking the art I had originally after Big John Studd quit I don't think ever won a major pro event. He had a great look about him.
Short story about me and Bruce and the film. They actually shot the final scene (competition) during the actual IAC World Championships. As the picture below shows. We me and Bruce had to go up againzt each other. So now all the cameras came over to our table to film us. As we lock up I feel someting on my shoulders and its Stallone hanging on my right shoulder lokking over to see our match. The cameras were on Bruce and my camera right. Well I got a little pissed and let go of the grip and turned around and looked at Sly and said excuse me. He said sorry and back away. We lock up again and they say go and about 2 seconds into the match I feel Sly touched my shoulder durng an actual match. I eneded up beating Bruce on about 20 second or so can't remember. But, I turned around and looked down at Sly and said f**k you and pushed him down. He fell on his ass and about 10 guys come running up on stage to pick him up. I leave the stage to sit with my friends and they all high fived me. Nothing happened and he left the stage.
The production made the competition last 19 hours. They wouldn't people leave the audience who worked as extras. They actually locked the doors. they fed everyone and most people got pics. I remember sitting with two girls and they were talking to me and taking pics and one of them asked me where Sly was. He came walking in with 10 or so bodyguards and I pointed at him and said there he is. They both look at him and at the same time said "Man is he skinny". He weighed about 175 for the movie. They put sandbags on the scale to increase his weight to 190 or so.
[1] Is Keith boasting about physically assaulting Sylvester Stallone there?
[2] The story about those girls is suspect to me. Would women really say that? I could picture them saying "[Sylvester Stallone] looks smaller than I expected him to be" [given that Sly was only around 5'7" in real life], but I just don't think they'd call him skinny in the fashion that Keith described.
[3] Did Keith [RIP] have the most serious case of Uncle Rico Syndrome of any human being in history, as the post above shows? Just recounting his glory days over and over again. One or the funniest threads I ever read on here was one that had the title "I just got bitten by a spider". I opened it knowing I was in for a laugh, and it read "Will I become a fat disgusting piece of shit", and had a photo of Keith/onlyme in it.
NOW HANG ON...I'm ordinarily not one to bash someone for their obesity, but I laughed because I knew the thread was going to be about Keith before I opened it.
RIP Keith Jones AKA onlyme.
