John Nord

I liked, but she was a good guy and a hell of an athlete, tough son of a bitch.

I remember so vividly the fight he had with John Nord and, uh, where they fought in Oklahoma city and they had to finish the fight in Tulsa.

I love it.

Yeah.

You know, you're talking superstar Billy Graham territory.

You're talking John Nord territory back in the day.

So just, yeah.

shorter you are the easier it is to look like a brick house

Well, y- you know, first of all, I, I was a huge wrestling fan.

And growing up with, you know, Curt Hennig and, you know, Rick Rude and, you know, all, all these wrestlers, Brady Boone, John Nord.

You know, it just, I've had the greatest life of all time.

And finally, you know, working at Grandma B's, Eddie Sharkey took The Road Warriors, Rick Rude, and myself, and said, "Hey, I'm gonna make you guys professional wrestlers." And at first, we just thought that he was kinda ribbing with it.

Oh, absolutely.

And John Nord, man, I'll never forget.

I come up, this was like my third or fourth year.

Nord was there every year up to that point.

Didn't take them long to give up on Vladimir Petrov.

Don't know who the new guy is, but the initial suspicion is that it will be John Nord." Well, r- uh, Dave Meltzer has been trying to get John Nord as a Russian in Jim Crockett promotions forever.

He never does get there.

Uh, Vladimir Petrov was not, in fact, uh, John Nord.

Uh, nor will this guy be, uh, the, you know, the masked Russian.

Uh, you can read all about the, the, the trials, literally, and the, um, the tribulations of one Vladimir Petrov in the '86, '87 book.

He got in big trouble, uh, with drugs, ended up doing some prison time and such.

Um, he was never...

The scaffold match with the Road Warriors and Midnight Express, Nikita vs. Blanchard, Wyndham vs. Arne Anderson.

Brad Armstrong versus Jimmy Garvin in a death match, rock and roll express against Ivan Koloff and Vladimir Pietroff, who Dave identifies here is John Nord.

It was not John Nord.

Although John Nord, big John, the barbarian Nord was expected to come in.

He probably would have made a great Russian, but Vladimir Pietroff was not, uh, John Nord.

Um, Pretty soon, Crockett will be running shows in Florida using Lex Luger as well.

The folks in Florida, like Hiro Matsuda, are understandably fuming about this, claiming a gentleman's agreement that they had with Dusty that Dusty would never work against them.