BR1986FB;475624 wrote:I know you were joking but a lot of these old timers didn't make a lot of money in the business. About 9-10 years ago I ran into Greg Valentine in the Tampa airport and was talking about the business with him. Asked him where he was going and he said "got an indy show up in South Carolina. Can use the $200." I'm thinking "a WWE Hall of Famer and you're working mom & pop shows for $200?" Makes me wonder what we were paying Abdullah the Butcher, Snuka, Tommy Rich, Tracey Smothers & guys like that when they worked for some of the shows I worked on.
On STO on Sunday nights, they run some little Ohio-based indie fed called Pro Wrestling Ohio. For their big yearly summer show, they get former big-time fed guys to sell tickets, I guess. Like this year, they had some toothpick bounce off Hacksaw Jim Duggan for 5-10 minutes before getting pinned. Last year, they had Valentine and Neidhart in a tag match (thinking it was originally supposed to be Beefcake and Valentine, but Beefcake got hurt, so the Anvil was a sub). To be honest, watching them was depressing. Two out-of-shape guys who could barely move trying to go through the motions of a wrestling match in front of a hundred or so people against an inexperienced no-name tag team in a minor-league promotion that's claim to fame is having its talent get used as "security" or random jobbers when the WWE comes to Cleveland.
