The Destroyer vs The Spirit - (AJPW 07/25/75)

Before this match between these two big masked men devolves into a street fight, it's really hot. The hammerlocks they trade early in the match are terrific!

I'm always pleased upon those rare occasions when I find wrestling in my reading. Lately I've found it in a couple of things I've read by Salman Rushdie. Wrestling, particularly the Indian wrestler Dara Singh, shows up in Midnight's Children, and in The Satanic Verses a wrestling match takes place between a man and an angel, similar to Jacob's wrestling the angel/God in Genesis 32. Of course, in neither of Rushdie's works is the wrestling described in the detailed way we wrestling fans would like (not a head scissors in any of the passages), but that's probably better for the flow of the fictions. We have our imaginations and, having them, should use them.

I imagine that Rushdie himself would be a good wrestler. He seems built for it. I bet he'd be fun to wrestle, and I bet he knows his head scissors from his headlocks.

Here's the second part of the match between Larry and Digger. Really fun to watch.

I myself haven't done any wrestling since meeting up with a good friend back in May, but I have a few things on the horizon. My friendly opponent from May and I talked about each posting our experience in that match, but then the busy summer and fall temporarily wiped that idea off the table. Maybe we should think about that again.

He also gave me a story of a match he had back in the spring, I believe, so I'll check with him to be sure I can post it.

This blog has been inactive for too long, and I hope to remedy that in 2015.

Here's a great video blast from the past. It's my good friend Larry up against Digger. Enjoy!

Larry and I have talked on the phone once or twice every year since we first met. But now we've discovered SKYPE (a bit behind the times, I know), and we're talking and seeing each other much more, which I think is just great.

More later, as I try to get warmed up to post more regularly here.