Ok, one of my most memorable matches. And it is not one that any of you ever saw. It had to do with a 45 year old man from my old gym. His name was Danny. He wrestled as The Punisher in Fort Valley, GA. A local wrestling program that is famous for sheltering has been stars like Jake the Snake, Koko B Ware, Big Bossman when they were in between federations or drying out, or washed up or whatever.
Anyway, the current darling of Fort Valley was the quarter back at the local community college. He was suppose to be the next Heismen Trophy Winner, (yet didn't come within sniffing distance), so....... anyway The Punisher (Danny) was in the ring one night, the kid was sitting in the first row (he wasn't a wrestler --- yet.) And Danny decided to have some fun. He kicked the kids popcorn bucket and shoved him. As with the nature of wrestling, that became an "incident" with the kid wanting to wrestle during his break from football season. Ok, so anyway, he gets a little training and the promoter thinks that if he lets the kid win Danny's belt, it will increase the ticket purchase each Friday night. Now keep in mind, that I have never been to a wrestling match before. Danny kept trying to give away tickets in the gym to his friends. So one night, we all decided to go. It was the night that the promoter told Danny that he was going to lose his belt to this kid. This was out of the blue, Danny didn't have a clue to what was going to happen. The kid only had one match previously. And it was against a nobody. Danny was MAD!! He was livid, the promoter then told Danny if he didn't do it, he would be fired. Since Danny made most of his money renting himself as a punching bag out to WWF or WCW when they came to nearby terrorities, he didn't want that to happen. WWF or WCW will not use you unless you are affiliated with some other company.
So...... 7 of us show up and Danny tells us what happens. Oh well we say and sit down. But Danny decides that if the kid wants the belt, he is going to put some lumps on him. The kid only had 8 weeks left before football practice started again.
So.... the matches start and the main event is Danny and this kid. Danny comes out as The Punisher - mask and all.....
(now let me tell you this was taking place in a VFW bingo hall and it was smokey, loud, rednecks around. I kid you not. Really trashy place.)
We are yelling "Go Danny, Go Danny, Go get him....." We are in third row (there were only about 5 rows on each side of the ring total) And these people ahead of us are turning around and saying... "his name is Punisher and he is going to lose. You need to shut the hell up." Me and two others stand up and go 'What did you say?" And the guys talking shit look at us and change his mind, saying " I said you all look like you need to be in there."
So Danny is just flat out whipping this boys ass. The promoter told him he had to lose, but he didn't say how. Danny is landing tight closed fists to this kids head - for real. The kid is yelping and trying to get out of the ring.... Danny follows him and knocks the hell out of him with a chair. Danny puts an utter hellacious beat down on this kid that has him looking like a car wreck. His chest is bleeding and the skin is peeling from Danny's chops. Anyway, comes time to lose, the kid can't support himself to stand up. So Danny picks the kid up like a bodyslam and starts twitching his leg like his knee is giving out. He falls and lets the kid land on top, The referee counts to three and the kid still doesn't move. Danny rolls him off himself and then launches a post match attack. After ward, the kid can not stand up or walk.
So for the next 4 weeks, the kid only did interviews. His next match was a tag team match and he never got in the ring. He was still black and blue from Danny's assaults. Now when he was doing interviews, although it was not called for, Danny would still bust out and attack him. This kid was totally horrified at Danny. His very last match before football season had him losing to Danny so Danny could get his belt back. The kid never showed up for his last match. Danny had completely brainwashed him with violence.
it was the most relentless beating I ever saw. If anyone ever did me that way, I would come back with a gun. And then beating him horribly that night was not enough, Danny had to continue his assualt each week as the kid was giving an interview. Man, it was funny as hell at times.