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Original
Turnbuckle Covers
For the diehard fans, these were
actual turnbuckle covers from an old
Crockett ring they were doing away with.
When Ricky Steamboat’s brother started
wrestling and was being trained, Ricky had
Ben Alexander build a ring in his back yard.
Ben got a bunch of old pieces from this old
rusted, termite infested ring, and built a
ring to train Vic Steamboat in. And these
are the turnbuckle covers from that ring,
that came from an original Crockett ring.
They originally had Mid-Atlantic logo
patches on them, but somebody else tore
those off. There were others that had the
Wide World emblem on them, I actually saw
some of those at Wally Dusek’s house.
-George
South
The
above was transcribed from discussions Dick
Bourne and David Chappell had with George as
he took us on a tour around his wrestling
room at his home in Concord, NC., August 20,
2003. |
