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Man who trained WWE legend Ric Flair's son: Reid Fliehr showed no signs of trouble Newsday interviews George South about Reid Flair
Man who trained WWE legend Ric
Flair's son: Reid Fliehr showed no signs of trouble
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Wrestlers battle for cancer patient - Friday, Jun 1 2012 http://www.shelbystar.com/articles/cancer-64525-diagnosed-shirley.html
"A Charlotte-based publication several years ago dubbed South “The Last Rassler.” There could be no better description for a man described as “the most passionate wrestler who ever lived.” .... His latest written offering is yet one more valuable addition to the Mid-Atlantic treasure trove....
Thanks Emily Weaver! http://kmherald.net/mr-no-pens-momoir-p2372-90.htm
Wrasslin' at the LEC from the May 2012 edition of the Life Enrichment Center newsletter.
Reigning EWA Florida Champ Deon Johnson gets some press in the Union Daily Times (Union SC.)
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‘A
kid from Chambertown’ Union Daily Times by
Derik Vanderford Promotional Postcards for the K&S Wrestlefest featuring Ricky Steamboat and others, including Mr. No. 1 George South
Reid Flair Blog on his MySpace Page, December 120, 2010
Just checking in with everybody on here & wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas....I had to bring up a certain update.........AS OF 5 DAYS AGO ON DECEMBER 15, I AM OFFICIALLY A TALENT FOR TNA WRESTLING. This is a whole new playing field for me & its finally a chance for me to continue the Flair legacy. I've made so many changes & made so many good choices in the last 9 months to get to this. Since February my only focus has been training. I've been sober & clean since March 21st. I'm staying in Orlando right now training daily. Heading up to Charlotte Wednesday & going to train til Friday with George South & my dad. I'm entirely focused & motivated. My mind is clear & I'm ready to succeed and put everything into this. The future looks bright for me & I'm as happy as I've ever been. To wrap this up I want to thank my dad, David, Riki & Ashley, George South, Harley Race, the guys at NJPW, all the promoters I've worked for locally, Vader, Brittany, & all my supporters and critics for being there for me when I needed them & giving me advice and helping this become a reality. Most importantly God is the one to truly thank. They say that all who want to be saved & brought out from under their demons find the light & I found it. With his guidance it took me away from alcohol & drugs and without that this wouldn't have been able to happen & I'd still be lost going down the wrong path. To all my fans...I haven't had my 1st match with TNA yet but just wait & see what happens because FLAIR is taking over.....
http://www.myspace.com/flairwrestling/blog
Charlotte Magazine August 2010, pages 64-65 LINK
"Tackle. Two-count. Back to the lockup. Up and over." Squatting in the corner of a wrestling ring that's surrounded by blister-packed action figures of pro wrestlers stacked floor to ceiling, George South rattles off instructions with the focus of an NFL quarterback and the speed of an auctioneer. Two fledgling wrestlers in the center of the ring do what he says, booms and splats echoing off the walls. "Headlock. Takeover. Pick him up, please," he continues, always with a "please." "Remember, the higher the better. Cedric, butterfly suplex." Cedric Johnson, twenty, who's been training with South for six months, holds his opponent horizontally over his head, then drops him to the mat with a heavy whoomph. "Do it again. I want more up and down than straight out." "When I started there was nothing like this. It was so secretive," says South, forty-seven. South took wrestling seriously as a kid. "I'd go to the Park Center [now Grady Cole Center] and help the rasslers carry their bags in. I had it bad. I was about twelve years old and Ole Anderson won this belt and got on TV and said, ‘This belt don't mean nothin'. I'm going to throw it in a dumpster.' Well I got on my bicycle and rode around Charlotte for two weeks looking for that belt." When he was eighteen, South answered a newspaper ad that read "Be a 'Rassler." "I go to this old building. It looked like something out of a scary movie. The windows were broke out of it. I opened the door and it fell off the hinges. They had an old ring set up like a Rocky movie and there was a big Samoan, an old guy, and a midget," South recalls. "They beat the crap out of me, tore my clothes and left me over in the corner with my britches split. I was pulling myself up and I saw the midget coming ... he kicked me as hard as he could right in the stomach. For some stupid reason the next day I came back. A week later I had a match." South wrestled for NWA during the 1980s and counts a televised twenty-minute match against Ric Flair as his personal favorite. "People on the street remember that match. It wasn't just one-sided, and that's what made it interesting. The biggest compliment I get is when people say, ‘For a moment I thought you were going to win.' " South, a married father of five who lives in Concord, remains a fixture at matches through the region. He's spent the past five years training wannabe wrestlers, including second-generation talents Reid Flair (son of Ric) and Ricky Steamboat Jr., in the back room at the offices of HighSpots, an online store for all things pro wrestling. He and his students will set up the ring almost anywhere -- birthday parties, NASCAR races, church parking lots.
"I still love packing my bag to go on
the road," he says before firing off the last round of moves for the
night. "Tackle. Drop down. Hip toss." - Courtney Devores
Charlotte Magazine, August 2010, pages 64-65 Also featured: Tully Blanchard, Ivan and Nikita Koloff, Arn Anderson, Magnum TA, and Jimmy Garvin No love at all for Mr. Elite Jake Manning!
TNA Signs Reid Flair from Wrestling Revealed 5/29/10 (edited)
Thanks also to Henry Dean.
WWE toy box from the 1980s; that's George getting punched by the Ultimate Warrior!
Writer Matt Labash (senior writer for the Weekly Standard) wrote an article about George in 2000 for the Weekly Standard magazine. The magazine is one of the country's top conservative political magazines. In 2010, Matt published a collection of some of his best articles titled "Fly Fishing with Darth Vader And Other Adventures with Evangelical Wrestlers, Political Hitmen, and Jewish Cowboys". In it is the article he wrote about George back in 2000. George is even featured in the artwork on the back cover of the book! (Also featured on the front and back cover are Vice President Dick Cheney, the Rev. Al Sharpton, Kinky Friedman, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and others. The title of the chapter on George is "Hitting Heathens with Chairs: George South, Evangelical Wrestler."
Check out Matt's book on Amazon.com. Added March 2010 Banner for George's Appearance on In Your Head restling Radio Show 3/24/10
Inside Wrestling 1988
Wrestling Magazine 1994
George South to Appear on Main Event Thursday with Jimmy Valiant! Thursday from 5-6 p.m. EST at 101.7 F.M Or listen online at http://supersports1017.com/
This week’s special guest at 5 o'clock
Thursday August 20th is Angel's favorite wrestler of all time. I'm proud
to be able to announce on Main Event Thursday someone who wrestled in
the NWA, WCW, WWF, PWF, and is founder and president of his own
wrestling company, EWA. He is one-of-a-kind and my and Angel's great
friend. I'm talking about everyone's friend, #1 George South!
Click here to see the whole page and to read the article.
EWA Flashback: In the early 1990s, Stallion and I were one of the top ranked teams in the world! August 25, 2008 Wrestling Observer Newsletter mention of George South Training Camp Click here to read article . . .
MAY 13, 2006 Pageland, SC
Greensboro, Spring 1986
March 2007
January 2007
Click here to see the WBTV feature on George and his students at the Rings Training Center at Highspots in Charlotte! << Video removed from wbtv.com >>
SEPTEMBER 15, 2006 NEW! Statesville, NC
AUGUST 15, 2006 Pageland, SC
FEBRUARY 21, 2006 Pageland, SC FEBRUARY 15, 2006 Charlotte, NC DECEMBER 14, 2006 Greensboro, NC
JULY 28, 2005 Charlotte Observer - Cabarrus Neighbors Charlotte, NC DECEMBER 10, 1993 Charlotte, NC
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