The Wrestling Journeyman: Life and Times of an Indy Wrestler: From History MAKER to History Teacher by Wolfe, Dusty

of Jimmy I ever heard. HTM said all the people calling Jimmy Hart a stooge were wrong. Jimmy was always too busy talking about any and everything to take the time to tell on any one person. Jimmy was Jimmy and Jimmy Hart would make you money. ADD thought – Why did Jerry Lawler punch Jimmy Hart when he didn’t like something Jimmy said, but refused to fight Rod Price? XI. Ken Timbs and I picked up and moved our families to Tampa and we started for Eddie Graham in Florida. And for the first time in my then short career, I walked into a dressing room not knowing a soul in the place. That night in Orlando was my first meeting with the one and only Black Bart. And I do mean one and only. There are a few men that truly fit the description of ‘broke the mold after making you.’ Sometimes I have wondered if they didn’t break the mold and then made Bart. We walked into the dressing room that night and I heard this Yosemite Sam voice yell “You don’t speak no more you blond haired goof?” I couldn’t add up the fact a team of blonds meant there were two blonds in the room and answered Bart having never met Bart. “Not yew. The big goof.” were the first words Bart ever spoke to me. Dory Funk Jr. was booking for Graham and pushing Billy Jack Haynes hard as the top baby face. Kevin Sullivan was in full devil worship mode and Mike Davis was doing his possessed Dusty Rhodes imitation. And sadly, both were dead in the water with Dusty Rhodes booking the Charlotte territory. Mike could have sold ti