#167 The Gathering 7 Recap Special

Uh, it seems like this is one of the questions that, um, you know, a lot of people do ask me, but uh, I grew up in a small town where, um, we only had like three stations, right? And, um, um, we didn't get a whole lot of- we didn't have cable, so we didn't get a whole lot of wrestling.

So the small town I was in was close to Augusta, Georgia.

So I grew up with, I don't know if you're familiar with Gordon Solie, Gordon Solie in Georgia Championship Wrestling.

Absolutely.

That was, that was where I started, and I was- grew up with people like, you know, Tommy Rich, Mr. Wrestling Number 2, Tony Atlas, and Mass Superstar, everybody who came through the Georgia area.

So that's who I grew up with, and that's who, that's where I started at.

So you were hooked from there.

You know, when it comes to Mount Rushmore, if you had to put a Mount Rushmore together of your top four, uh, wrestling superstars of all time, any era, any organization, who would that be?

Yeah.

Um, and this is a little tricky 'cause it's not like my Mount Rus- Mount Rushmore is more like my favorites.

And of course, Ric Flair's up there.

Dusty Rhodes is always up there.

And I'ma throw a wild card in there.

Barry Windham is on my Mount Rushmore 'cause everything he did in the Mid-Atlantic area and all the titles he'd had.

And again, because of where I grew up, Tommy "Wildfire" Rich at one time ruled professional wrestling on TBS at, [phone ringing] at age, um, 17, the youngest world champion, [phone ringing] or uh, excuse me, 21, the youngest world champion of all time.

So that's, that's my Mount Rushmore.

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That's awesome.

And y- you know they call you Mr. 605.

Why don't you tell us how you got that nickname?

Well, um, it was kinda, um... [laughs] I, I used to listen to this podcast called the 605 Super Podcast, right? And I started buying their merch, and I would walk around with 605 Super Podcast on my shirt at all conventions.

And uh, I don't know if you can see from the background, I'm a big belt collector.

I collect a lot of belts, right?

Yeah.

So in my belt groups, um, they start calling me Mr. 605 Reggie Harpe, and I was like, "Huh, I like the sound of that."