two tag teams I never hear about

[spacemountain]

There are two tag teams from the late 60's that I thought were very, very good and I hear very little about. And that is the Missouri Mauler and Hiro Matsuda and Tex McKenzie and Nelson Royal.

Did either one of them hold a tag team title in the Mid-Atlantic area?

[cwh47]

Tex McKenzie and Nelson Royal had numerous shots
at the Southern Tag Team belts but never won them.

During 1964 through part of 1965 "Sir"Nelson Royal
wrestled with the Viking as his tag team partner.They
were a very good heel team.During tv interviews Johnny
Weaver,George Becker and Abe Jacobs would praise
the skills of Nelson Royal and encourage him to come
over to their side.

Tex McKenzie showed up in JCP in the second half of
1965 and was a big hit so when he and Nelson Royal
formed a team they went over big.They teamed in JCP
pretty much until the end of 1967.

A couple of weeks back Baltimore Jack introduced me to
Mrs. Nelson Royal who was very nice and gracious.I
really enjoyed the time we spent talking about Nelson.

On to Mauler and Matsuda.I liked Matsuda better as a
single.They did enjoy great success in six man matches
with their manager Homer O'Dell as their partner.

When Mauler took on a partner he was better suited
with Pampero Firpo and my favorite partner for him was
Brute Bernard.As I said Hiro Matsuda and one of the
Mauler's earlier partner's ,the Great Malenko were
much better in singles matches.Just my opinion.

[spacemountain]

cwh47,

Thanks for the insight!!

I would bet your conversations with Mrs. Nelson Royal would have made a good interview for this website!!

Thanks!
SpaceMountain