Agree! Solie was #No.1, & Jim Ross was an incredibly close 2nd spot.

Solie was boring. JR easily, long since surpassed him.

People talked about how cheap his masks looked but wish I had the money he made in those masks and as a side note they were made by his wife😢and lots of the nice robes a lot of the other wrestlers wore ,rest in peace wrestling 2

@@davidgraham8299not so my friend. Jim Ross gives it to Gordon Solie

❤CLASSIC❤

I LOVED GROWING UP IN THE SOUTH during the Great RASSLIN Days

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Him and masked superstar Bill Eadie, cut the best damn promos. Calm cool and collected

The ORIGINAL Cerebral Assassin . Triple H steals from some very good sources . The mutton chop mustache and high knee smash he got from Ole Anderson and The Mind games from Flair and The Assassin . I noticed a few other homages in Trips' style . One thing that stands out is that hia style in more Soythern than a guy who grew up watching Bob Backlund wrestle in the Garden seems likely to be .

Patrick...I would love to see The Assassins 1 & 2 wrestle The Grapplers w/Don Carson as The Grapplers original manager. NOW THAT WOULD MAKE ME BUY TICKETS AGAIN & SPIN MY MONEY!!! I'm not wasting my time or money anymore on WWE...AT ALL!!! Much love from Mobile Alabama.

Funny you should mention "hitman". Bob Roop was Eddie Graham's (Tampa FCW NWA) "hitman" until Dick Slater showed up for a tryout. Then he was Eddie's "hurtman". There was some real monsters in the NWA days that could hurt you just by farting in your direction. Many of them were "catch" wrestlers like the Shamrocks, Ruas, and Josh Barnett of MMA fame. The real fighters and stretchers like Danny Hodge, Stu Hart, Billy Robinson, et al were certified bone-breakers.

Abraham...you are absolutely right. Vince McMahon & the WWE only wish they could get fan pops & hysteria like this. This is an era of Wrestling I miss so much...the 70s & 80s territory days. This is an era of Wrestling when the wrestlers looked real...they looked like they just walked out of a bar & were ready to fight anyone!!! No lightshow, no silly gimmicks, no entrance music...no goofy costumes...JUST REAL WRESTLING!!! I'm so glad that NWA Power attempting to bring this "REAL RASSLIN" back today in this time, because God knows that I am, as well as a lot of other Wrestling fans, sick of the WWE. Much love from Mobile Alabama.

Did Assassin #2 ever talk? I know Hamilton had several different partners but seemed like he was always the spokesman

+Nell Bowie This Assassin 2 was Randy Colley, The Moondog.

His original partner was Tom Renesto. Later he also had Hercules Hernandez as his partner.

Originally though he was Assassin #1 Jody Hamilton allowed Tom Renesto to do all of the talking because he was the more experienced of the two . Its hard to believe that he was once known as Silent Joe Hamilton because he spoke so few words in interviews .

Roger Smith aka Dirty Rhodes was his other tag partner as well as The Missouri Mauler Larry Hamilton

Michael Seay I also remember this too. It was 1980 I think. This was REAL WRESTLING...NO RING ENTRANCE MUSIC, NO SILLY-ASS GIMMICKS, NO LIGHT SHOW. Just Real Wrestlers coming to the ring and Real Fans booing and cheering. I grew up in Dothan Alabama and Southeastern Championship Wrestling with Ron Fuller, Robert Fuller, Bob Armstrong, Austin Idol, Jimmy Golden, Arn Anderson & Jerry Stubbs. I could go on and on with the Real WRESTLERS that spent time in the area. I remember Hulk Hogan's 1ST match in Dothan Alabama...but then he was Terry "The Hulk" Bolder and his brother was Eddie Bolder a.k.a. Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake. Ox Baker, Ric Flair, Andre The Giant, Dusty Rhodes, Terry Funk were just a few big stars that spent time in Dothan Alabama. Dusty Rhodes, Ric Flair & Ox Baker were 3 of the nicest WRESTLERS I ever got to meet. They loved the fan and would talk to the fans after the matches...especially the older fans like my grandpa and small kids...THEY WERE ALL CLASS ACTS. THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER ERA OF WRESTLING LIKE THE 70s & 80s...NEVER

@@randymiller3949 Absolutely. I saw Ric Flair v Bob "Bullet" Armstrong @Pensacola Municipal Auditorium back then! Austin Idol placing Flair in Figure4 leg lock? Exceptional! Mr. Olympia!

@@clarencedavismba5042 I was at the Houston Co Farm Center on a Saturday night in 1978 when Hulk Hogan wrestled his 1st Wrestling match, but he was Terry "The Hulk" Bolder then. He wrestled the Wrestling Pro...I remember that like it was yesterday!!! Then around 1983/1984 when Ric Flair & Ron Fuller wrestled for the NWA belt & Bob Armstrong was the special referee. You should've heard the crowd when Bob Armstrong turned on Ron Fuller. I really believe that was the loudest I had ever heard the Houston Co Farm Center!!! Man...great memories. Much love from Mobile Alabama.

Haha. Love the stories from the old days. Hate to say it, but Jim Cornette has some great archival anecdotes about all the 70s and 80s "real" rasslin. Though i dont give one ggd for him personally. Nevertheless, a veritable Library of Congress when it comes to wrestling.

agreed

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Really nice man. Joe Hamilton was so was Tom Renesto The Original Assassins

I remember the Bell Auditorium in Augusta, GA back in the day!

Vincent of Dreamhouse lmao

not everyone knows how to tie a tie it's either that someone want a tie they can instantly remove and put on in short notice .

@@lesliemiros6743 My Dad used to wear a clip on. (He was a Preacher) I don't think he ever learnt how to tie a tie. I think he was also abit Paranoid of wearing a regular tie for some reason. I was a teenager before I learnt how to tie one. The Sunday school teacher I had then taught me how. He told me he was showing me the only way he knew. He said he learnt how in the Marines.

Lol, man in the 70s it was all about convenience. We didn't have time to tie a tie, and most places didn't have air conditioning, so short sleeves were accepted, so we're terrible polyester leisure suits, which were a creation straight from satan, along with polyester tires. Yep we made our clothes and tires out of the same polyester. It was a sad decade in so many ways, but fun nonetheless.

The Stuport that’s how they got famous. They didn’t have the looks to help carry them over so if they had any type of wrestling abilities with a cool mask they would get noticed

it's worked for Mil Mascaras , Mr. Olympia, The Grapplers , The Executioners , I was the original Mr Wrestling IV later V , Stagger Lee, and many luchadores that wore a mask .

Scott Actually it's Assassin 2, Jody Hamilton carried the #2 designation long after his original partner Tom Renesto retired.

Dusty didn’t even know who sung All Shook Up 😂

yeah, eddie graham told him to wear the mask.

+mel bias yep he looks the same now as he did back then lol

mel bias: I was hearing an Ole Anderson shoot interview saying that he originated Mr. Wrestling 2

BarranquitasBoy nah, when he wrestled for graham in florida as johnny walker that"s when graham told him he looked old and was better off wearing a mask, and when eddie gives you advice at that time you were wise to take it which he did, ole made money with him but it wasn"t ole who suggested it.

***** well, graham is the one that gets the credit, because mike graham is on tape saying his dad came up with the idea when walker wrestled in florida. and he did look old for his age at the time thats for sure. at the end of the day it was one great gimmick

Rob Ferguson Hercules Hernandez was Assassin #2 at one tine, but was not the original Assassin #2. Fun fact. Hercules Hernandez was also Mr. Wrestling 3.

It was Roger Smith who later wrestled in Memphis as Dirty Rhodes