Thanks to Cap'n Bob Napier for the link.
Ring Posts: Remembering Killer Kowalski - Ring Posts is a Baltimore Sun blog about wrestling - baltimoresun.com: "When I first started watching pro wrestling as a first-grader in the early 1970s, there were various types of bad guys (we didn’t call them heels back then). There were black-hat wearing cowboys, flamboyant pretty boys, post-World War II German and Japanese wrestlers and an assortment of rugged-looking guys with snarling faces.
But there was only one Killer Kowalski.
Walter Kowalski, who died yesterday at 81 from the effects of a massive heart attack, portrayed one of wrestling’s all-time great villains during a career that spanned 30 years."
2 comments:
Man, another icon of my youth is gone. The Killer was a scary dude to a kid, that's for sure.
Thanks for sharing this, Cap'n.
Jeff
You're welcome, Jeff and Bill. I watched 'rasslin' for a few years in the early sixties, when I lived in upstate New York. Killer was a regular, along with Sailor Bill Thomas, Argentina Apollo, The Bull of the Woods, Antonino Rocca, Haystacks Calhoun, Gorilla Monsoon, and many others. Announcer Ray Morgan's zealous calls made the whole thing a laugh riot.
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