Black History Month Spotlight: Black Pro Wrestling Legends
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Thunderbolt Patterson. Ahead of his time as a promo. He had that Baptist pastor cadence down
Dusty borrowed a bit from him.
Dusty borrowed a bit from him.
Big ups to Aja Kong. A badass Black & Japanese legend who has been beating up men and women for 30 years.
R.I.P. to "The Natural" Butch Reed
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I can see that. If a wrestling fan not familiar with Patterson heard this promo without watching the video they’d almost swear it was Dusty
Runnels family owes Thunderbolt royalties. All that weird, jerky movement Dusty did he stole from him as well.
Thunderbolt Patterson was really underrated.
His career got messed up for a while in the 1970s because he got blackballed for trying to form a wrestlers union.
A fun fact about Patterson: he was Ole Anderson's final tag partner (they were even NWA world tag champs) before Arn showed up and got Ole to turn on Patterson to form the Four Horsemen.
