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Post by bobbyryates on Dec 14, 2006 21:45:21 GMT -5
while wahoo was a heel in '84, a guy i know ran his mouth to him. and wahoo slapped him down. it made the big news around here many times over the next year as wahoo had to appear in a local courtroom about this and the lawsuit.
i didn't see the incident, nor knew the guy at the time. i met him years later.
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Post by thegreatbolo on Dec 15, 2006 10:00:01 GMT -5
Something just jumps out in my memory that at the time of the title change, I read (somewhere) that JCP thought it best to get Wahoo out of the area for a while to let the legal issue calm down, so he went to Florida.
With the big push Magnum was getting, he was the obvious person to give the belt.
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Post by bluedevil71 on Dec 15, 2006 13:33:20 GMT -5
That's probably so. But I wonder how much longer it would've taken to put the title on Magnum. I mean, he was getting pushed toward it anyway, so timing-wise it seemed right. Especially when you consider that week when the TV, World tag-team and Mid-Atlantic titles also changed hands within eight days there.
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Post by bobbyryates on Dec 25, 2006 12:26:47 GMT -5
i just read the newspaper story. it was from 12/6/85 edition of the "courier tribune", the daily asheboro,nc newspaper.
it stated that wahoo was in the randolph county court the day before (12/5/85) about the 9/22/84 incident where his slap had "broken his (david parks') nose in two places and caused permanent scarring". the original complaint of the assault was filed on 5/17/85.
that said, given the date of the complaint, this incident likely had little or nothing to do with wahoo's departure to florida or losing the US title, i would think.
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