There is another good documentary on the Von Erichs I watched recently and it was great. What a tragic story.
I think I read this one will only be 15 or 20 minutes so I am kind of disappointed in that. doesn't really do the family justice.As the article said the family held the record for wrestling attendance before the Pontiac Silverdome Wrestlemania...that in itself speaks volumes of how big they really were at one time.
Twenty minutes doesn't do the story justice at all. Twenty minutes for something like forty years of history is ridiculous. By the way, I was at the Pontiac Silverdome for Wrestlemania III.
Yeah I think I remember you saying that before.Any memories from it? I always thought you were just a few years older than me(34) and if so you couldn't have been that old.
I was ten. I do remember a bit. We had cheap seats initially but by the time of the final match my brother and I crept down to the lower deck. Man, the Silverdome was a shitty stadium. There weren't really any good seats. I saw a lot of Pistons and Lions games before they relocated. You could buy a cheap ticket for five bucks. I actually lived pretty close to the stadium and walked to Wrestlemania III. I bought a George the animal steel shirt. I loved George the animal.
Could you even attempt to do that now in Detroit??
I'd be leery about doing that. Parking in downtown Detroit is tricky and something you will have to park a distance away from the stadium and walk. A lot of people don't want to park to close to Comerica park or Ford fields because it costs more and the traffic is a bitch after a game and it takes forever to get out of the city. When I go to games I will always pay the extra money to park closer because I know I won't be driving home because I've consumed copious amounts of alcohol. Pontiac is a shit hole as well(think mini-Detroit) but I was close enough to the Silverdome not to worry about anything.
I'll never forgive you bastards for beating the Cowboys 38 to 6 back in 1992
Has the von Erich story being posted on YouTube?Or is there a replay on Espn coming up?Missed it Just got back from vacation..
Kerry in his prime had an amazing build,,kevin was always athletic lean and ripped ,and didn't have the the frame/thickness Kerry attained through training/drugs,,,still great on the ropes...
Didn't Kerry also have a prosthetic foot?
Yeah they kept that a secret all the way until his death.The rest of the WWF roster thought it was strange that he would always shower with his boots on.
That's amazing that he wrestled with a prosthetic foot while in the WWF. You never would've thought that by looking at him or how he moved around the ring. He even got a chance to wear the IC belt despite the limitation.
His last match he had before he went on a downward spiral he was wearing a mask and during the match he lost his prosthetic foot in the ring.. he had to crawl under ring and put it Back on..the match I think is on youtube.com.. he came out with women ( benoit wife) as his valet...
I remember hearing about this. Can it be youtubed?