Dick Slater

Uh, Chavo Guerrero, which we should also mention that, uh, Gory Guerrero had become the promoter in El Paso in 1970, and had started breaking his boys into the business, and they were now really important names in South Texas.

Chavo Guerrero, Mando Guerrero, Dick Slater, Bruiser Brody, Bob Sweetan, Adrian Adonis, Al Perez, Eric Embry, good old Kentucky boy, Bobby Jaggars, The Sheepherders, Manny Fernandez, Dusty Rhodes, Stan Hansen, and Dick Murdoch.

The San A-

What a group.

The numbers tell part of the story.

Houston continued drawing major crowds during the mid-1980s, including a reported 10,000 at Sam Houston Coliseum on December 27th, 1984, at a time when the WWF was already attempting to penetrate Texas.

The great Texas villains would include, in this 10-year period, uh, Michael Hayes, Terry Gordy, Buddy Roberts, Gino Hernandez, Gentleman Chris Adams, Bruiser Brody, Gary Hart, The Great Kabuki, Jimmy Garvin, Killer Tim Brooks, Bob Sweetan, Dick Slater, King Kong Bundy, Kamala, The Missing Link, and Killer Khan.

But if I had to identify the four most important villains of that 10-year period in Dallas, I'd probably say it was Michael Hayes, Gino Hernandez, Chris Adams, and Bruiser Brody.

lab in Pinellas Park, Florida, to go watch a shoot interview.

And I was watching, you know, Dick Slater talk about breaking in, or I'm talking about, you know, Tracy Smothers.

And then I'd go and I'd watch one of them.

anything RF video released and

Yeah.

Versus Bunkhouse Buck and Dick Slater.

That's unfortunate.

We've been robbed.

Uh, he arrived as well.

Uh, we still have Dick Slater, Billy Jack Haynes, uh, some other people.

So it's, it's an exciting time.

Uh, you know, w- a lot of, lot of established stars and newcomers coming in.

Uh, yeah, he'll be back soon, but right now my understanding is he's fired, and he's never coming back, and they just work things out, you know, as people tend to do.

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Uh, Dick Slater defeats Tiger Chung Lee.

And now for review purposes, let's go to the Snake Pit.

and he's like why didn't so we get back to the dressing room he said well why didn't you stay there i said you're six nine you can hit me on the top of the head without jumping on the rope yeah i said nobody's gonna believe it So, yeah, those are just some of the things that kind of come to mind.

But, you know, there was so many, you know, we did a three tag teams match with the Samoans, you know, Sika and Rodney and Shane and Shane Douglas and Sid and um you know we did i did i remember being in a match with dick slater and his finish was the most complicated thing i mean you needed to have a degree in geometry and i mean it was brilliant i mean you know and just, um, you know, the matches and the match in Montgomery where we, you know, where we tore the roof off the place.

Um, I remember working in a, um, not Meridian, Mississippi, but Columbus, Mississippi.

I remember working there with Frankie, the thumper Lancaster.

I could ever put a timestamp on that tournament is because Mean Mark's in it, and it's right before he goes to WCW in 1990, and then by November he's The Undertaker.

Yeah, Uncle Danny versus, uh, Dick Slater, like, in, in one of those rounds.

[laughs] I thought that-

Oh

got a barn doogle, man.

Then Buzz Sawyer and Dick Slater run out to chase him off, and then Flair's yelling into the microphone at the end of the promo.

Now you pay the price to end the segment.

I thought this was awesome.