| jsagccwmark - January 31st, 2009 21:15 GMT |
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Edited by jsagccwmark on January 31st, 2009 21:16 GMT
My Mom's family is from WV and, when I was in WV growing up, I looked for Three Rivers ads around Charleston and tried to find TV with no luck.
As a fantasy promoter on another board, now, I would be interested in a list of years active, faces and heels, character descriptions, towns and venues, TV info, and any websites that could help with Three Rivers.
I have read posts by SCW Count Grog and Ken Jugan on this board about Three Rivers and I would love to hear from them or anyone else.
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| SCW Count Grog - February 01st, 2009 15:03 GMT |
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Ken Jugan ran Three Rivers Wrestling from the late 1970's to mid 1980's he is the expert to pyull in. I can tell you some of the big stars, towns, feuds etc. but for the real deal its Jugan. I can say many of his guys worked the WWWF TV tapings in that time frame as enhancement talent.
Guys like
Jojo Andrews
BB Coleman
Cowboy Bob Brothers
Bill Berger
Bob Shaffer
Ken Jugan (as himself not Lord Zoltan or actually Zoltan the Great at this time period)
also a very young Bobby Fulton really came into his own here
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| Spider Bot - February 01st, 2009 16:48 GMT |
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Also, Chief Don Red Cloud, Beefy La Pork, Ric Jenson, Smilin'Jimmy Watson, Me, Joe Cagle, Igor Koloff, and MORE!!! The Chief had the ring that made us all itch.We later found he used fiberglass insulation to pad the ring. It didn't both him, he didn't take bumps. 
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| SCW Count Grog - February 01st, 2009 17:19 GMT |
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my all time favorite was Hungry Jack all 150 lbs of him
some other names
Mad Dog Micheals
Chief Bobby White Feathers
Wild Buck Slattery
Dov Abrams
Stan Nunas
Guy Flowers
Mr. Nold
Herr Otto Marx
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| SCW Count Grog - February 28th, 2009 16:26 GMT |
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I found these
Sept 30, 1977 Clarksburg, WV
Rustler Bob Russell beat Bill Berger
Chief Don Red Cloud beat Mad Dog Michaels
The Masked Menace beat The Executer # 1
Tibby Duko beat Gorgeous Greg Winston
October 1, 1977 Elkins, WV
Rustler Bob Russell beat Chief Don Red Cloud
Chief Don Red Cloud won 7 man Battle royal last eliminating Bill Berger
also in it were Rustler Bob Russell, Zoltan the Great, The Executer # 1, Peter Jarrell, Bull Barclay
April 14, 1979 Fairmont, WV
Monster Murdoch vs Smiling Jimmy Watson
Jerry Graham Jr vs The Crusader
Wild Buck Slattery vs Dov Abrams (Israeli Death Match)
Alice Cooper vs Rita Chaviz
Chief Don Red Cloud & Chief Bobby White Feathers vs Dizzy McShane & Crazy Bobby Fulton
June 16, 1979 Fairmont, WV
Chief Don Red Cloud & Chief Bobby White Feathers vs Dizzy McShane & Crazy Bobby Fulton
Flying Fred Curry vs Wild Buck Slattery
Jerry Graham Jr vs Chief Black Eagle
Fidol Castrol vs Hungry Jack
Nick Busick vs The Red Cannibal
Art Bedway vs The Incredible Bulk
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| TerryWWWF67 - March 01st, 2009 00:21 GMT |
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Was Red Cloud Dewayne Grace?
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| SCW Count Grog - March 01st, 2009 00:59 GMT |
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I don't recall his real name, perhaps Mike Dupree can answer that?
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| Spider Bot - March 01st, 2009 06:02 GMT |
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Ain't gotta clue. Bobby might know.
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| carlton st - March 01st, 2009 19:04 GMT |
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there are lots of Jugan's Three River reports in the TRJ pubs, interesting reads, when I read them at the time had no idea who most of the names were but cool to see many of them on here now
do see in Sept 79 it mentions that Three Rivers merged with All Star out of Knoxville, names liike Bob Roop, Orton Jr Garvin, Savage Malenko etc
one of the scheds listed as
Oct 14 Clarksburg, WV Nathan Goff Armory
Oct 21 Weston, WV Lewis County Armory
Oct 28 Fairmont, WV Marion County Armory
Nov 4 Grafton , WV St Augustine Social Center
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| BLONDE ADONIS - March 01st, 2009 23:12 GMT |
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BB Coleman.Did he job in Martinez' NWF?
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| SCW Count Grog - March 02nd, 2009 04:00 GMT |
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------ QUOTE from BLONDE ADONIS, March 01st, 2009 23:12 GMT ------
BB Coleman.Did he job in Martinez' NWF?
------ QUOTE END ------
yes also later in WWWF he jobbed on TV as well
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| Beyond Salem - March 10th, 2009 03:55 GMT |
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"Bad Bill" Coleman also wrestled in Buffalo/Cleveland in the early 70's and for the Willdman in Ontario in 1973 ( I saw him live tagged with the Bohemian Bull vs The McGuire Twins).
Around 1979 he was on George Cannon's Superstars of Wrestling.
Any thoughts on this guy? I thought he had a Terry Funk style. IIRC he ran a wrestling school with Johnny Powers.
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| dalord - August 15th, 2009 01:54 GMT |
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------ QUOTE from TerryWWWF67, March 01st, 2009 00:21 GMT ------
Was Red Cloud Dewayne Grace?
------ QUOTE END ------
Chief Don Red Cloud was Herman Watson from Barberton, Ohio.
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| dalord - August 15th, 2009 01:55 GMT |
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Bobby Fulton, real name James Hines, had his first match ever in Clarksburg, WV for 3 Rivers Wrestling against Mad Dog Michaels, managed by Zoltan the Great. Mad Dog was really Joe Shedlock, who published a wrestling results newsletter from Greensburg, PA. 
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| killabee - January 05th, 2012 10:07 GMT |
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Whoah! Always cool to discover old outlaw & indie promotions. Many of the wrestlers I've never heard of, but Zoltan The Great worked southern Ontario a lot in the 80s. Some pretty interesting names I've never heard before, does anybody want to elaborate on these characters:
Dov Abrams - worked an "israeli death match"
Beefy La Pork
Fidel Castrol - a typo or a brand of Cuban motor oil?
Hungry Jack
The Red Cannibal
The Incredible Bulk
Wild Buck Slattery
Dizzy McShane
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| SCW Count Grog - January 09th, 2012 20:18 GMT |
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------ QUOTE from killabee, January 05th, 2012 10:07 GMT ------
Whoah! Always cool to discover old outlaw & indie promotions. Many of the wrestlers I've never heard of, but Zoltan The Great worked southern Ontario a lot in the 80s. Some pretty interesting names I've never heard before, does anybody want to elaborate on these characters:
Dov Abrams - worked an "israeli death match"
Beefy La Pork
Fidel Castrol - a typo or a brand of Cuban motor oil?
Hungry Jack
The Red Cannibal
The Incredible Bulk
Wild Buck Slattery
Dizzy McShane
------ QUOTE END ------
Dov was a small guy but had a great build and look.
Beefy La Pork and the incredible Bulk were the same guy - I think his name was Jim Hamilton out of Akron (was from Akron for sure)
Dizzy mcShane worked in the Carolinas indies I think as Dick Flair or something close to that.
Wild Buck Slattery was a huge guy surprised he never made it anywhere based on size, don't remember him being that bad in the ring.
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| Russiancrusher - January 11th, 2012 13:46 GMT |
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Edited by Russiancrusher on January 11th, 2012 13:49 GMT
I also worked once for Three Rivers in Clarksburg and Elkins. Who could forget Boris Levinsky and his mgr. Count Ludwig Von Speicher?
( Just about everyone, LOL).
Wrestled bobby Fulton and another guy Tom ?
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| P. M. Driver - January 12th, 2012 02:49 GMT |
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Are all of the following pro wrestlers still with us? Thanks!
Jimmy Watson
B.B. Coleman
Igor Koloff
Greg Winston
Wild Buck Slattery
Don Red Cloud
Stan Nunas
Dov Abrams
Dizzy McShane
Rick Jensen
Boris Livinsky
Monster Murdoch
The Red Cannibal
The Incredible Bulk
I remember seeing their pictures in wrestling magazines a few decades ago.
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| Russiancrusher - January 13th, 2012 12:58 GMT |
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------ QUOTE from P. M. Driver, January 12th, 2012 02:49 GMT ------
Are all of the following pro wrestlers still with us? Thanks!
Jimmy Watson
B.B. Coleman
Igor Koloff
Greg Winston
Wild Buck Slattery
Don Red Cloud
Stan Nunas
Dov Abrams
Dizzy McShane
Rick Jensen
Boris Livinsky
Monster Murdoch
The Red Cannibal
The Incredible Bulk
I remember seeing their pictures in wrestling magazines a few decades ago.
------ QUOTE END ------
When I got up this morning, I was still breathing, so I must still be here.
Boris
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| P. M. Driver - January 13th, 2012 21:07 GMT |
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Boris, it's great to hear that you're still kickin', but what about the other 13 pro wrestlers?
Do you know anything about them?
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| P. M. Driver - January 15th, 2012 19:21 GMT |
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Oops..... senior moment!
I forgot that Wild Buck Slattery is deceased and has been for awhile.
My senior moments seem to be coming more often these days.
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| GJL - January 24th, 2012 15:49 GMT |
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Wild Buck Slattery seemed pretty decent to me. In the '80s, he appeared in Milwaukee for a while with Al "King Kong" Patterson's "Superstar of Wrestling." Patterson was an outlaw promoter here and used local guys (many of whom were AWA TV jobbers like Armando Rodrguez, Ben DeLeon, Cesar Pabon, Dick Reynolds, et al) along with names like Igor, Bulldog Brower, Randy Savage, Bob Orton, Art Thomas and a few others. He actually won a $100,000 judgement from the WWF over the use of the name "Superstars of Wrestling." But I remember seeing Slattery on the TV studio matches they taped and he was a big guy with experience.
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| P. M. Driver - January 25th, 2012 03:15 GMT |
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Wow..... More names from the past!
GJL, it was cool that you mentioned Patterson, Rodriguez, DeLeon, Pabon and Reynolds.
I seem to recall Jeff May also wrestling for Patterson's promotion.
Hopefully, these pro wrestlers are all still living and doing well.
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| SCW Count Grog - February 02nd, 2012 15:53 GMT |
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I think Chief Don Red Cloud passed away.
I know Slatteryhad a while ago
Boris was it Tom Rodgers who teame dwith Fulton? he was on alot of shows late 70's for them
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| Russiancrusher - February 02nd, 2012 22:41 GMT |
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That's the guy. Senior moment.
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| P. M. Driver - February 08th, 2012 07:12 GMT |
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Count Grog thinks that Don Red Cloud may have passed away, but does anyone know for sure?
I tried to find an obit, but could not.
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| P. M. Driver - May 05th, 2012 23:43 GMT |
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I can now answer my own question.
Don Red Cloud passed away on 4/27/12.
He was 85 years old.
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| WVRef - July 12th, 2012 18:36 GMT |
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Was there ever a "Golden Henry" that worked for Jugan in the late 70's early 80's. There is a guy still in the WV area working as "Just N' Kace" who proclaims to be the "Golden Henry", but I always figured it was some guy who happened to share the last name(Henry is his shoot surname). I've never asked Ken if this guy was all bull, but from the tall tells of working Santo in Mexico I only assume this man didn't exist.
BTW Grog love the WV results all of those town are in my backyard and getting info from Jugan isn't as easy as working the man lol. I am from Clarksburg and really wish there was more about this area "outlaw" history known. All I ever get is DeNucci & Jugan ran here, a smattering of towns and rarely any good info.
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| WrestlingCulture - November 16th, 2014 06:08 GMT |
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Edited by WrestlingCulture on November 16th, 2014 06:09 GMT
Okay, how about these workers from "North American Championship Wrestling" which ran shows in Fairmont, Kingwood, Clarksburg, WV & Woodsfield, Lancaster & Logan, OH, & likely other places in the region from 79ish to 86 [at least] following the apparent demise of Three Rivers Wrestling:
Carl Sugar
Bobby Gordon
Hoss Hogg
Mark Maddox
Boo Boo Henderson
the Funkadelics
Executioner & Superstar
D&D Wrecking Crew: Buddy Donovan & Conner Dunnegan
Jay Silvercloud
Red Cannibal
Mark McGee
Sonny Pride
Zar Zanio
Apache Lou
Rose Cassidy
Amy Monroe
Info from http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/wv/nacw/ (Wrestling Titles.com). The above only represents workers in the title picture, meaning there were probably dozens of other wrestlers in the region in this time period, perhaps obscure local workers.
I recently started http://www.infinitecore.ca/superstar/index.php?threadid=83839 (this thread on Old School Hodge Podge about a promotion out of Beckley, WV that ran & was on TV from 1954-1977. ) It appears that perhaps Three Rivers rose quite literally out of the ashes of American International Wrestling. In a documentary about the promotion, it says they only went out of business when part of the TV station burned down. I guess there was probably an opening for a promotion in the region following the demise of AIW.
Anyway, if anybody else can share more about any of these promotions or workers, please do! b
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| Flair - November 16th, 2014 19:50 GMT |
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Jerry Graham Jr vs Chief Black Eagle These where 2 WWA guys
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| cwpvintagewrestling - November 20th, 2014 03:41 GMT |
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I really wish there was footage of this promotion on youtube.
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| WrestlingCulture - November 22nd, 2014 22:35 GMT |
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West Virginia Wrestling out of Morgantown is listed in The Ring's Wrestling August 1983 issue, This may or may not be the same promotion as North American Championship Wrestling, it is in the same geographical area in the same time frame, but it still might be a different promotion.
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| WrestlingCulture - November 22nd, 2014 23:36 GMT |
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http://www.infinitecore.ca/superstar/index.php?a=mss&threadid=84098&page=0#post_813038 (Cross-reference linking this thread to thread on Old School Hodge Podge about small 80s indie promotions. )
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| wickedmountain - August 31st, 2015 05:53 GMT |
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Great stuff I like the rare federations myself 
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| plmathfoto - November 10th, 2015 06:37 GMT |
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Pretty sure I still have some of Ken's old bulletins, loved those, but that'll have info will look when I can
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| WrestlingCulture - November 10th, 2015 21:56 GMT |
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------ QUOTE from plmathfoto, November 10th, 2015 06:37 GMT ------
Pretty sure I still have some of Ken's old bulletins, loved those, but that'll have info will look when I can
------ QUOTE END ------
Scans of pages and/or transcripts of results would rock.
Anybody know how to contact Ken Jugan & ask him to participate in this thread? It would be great to get a fleshed out history of Three Rivers & other small promotions in the region.
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