Ox Baker - Why Superstar Billy Graham was Never the Same

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  • Ox Baker discusses why Superstar Billy Graham was never the same after losing his WWWF Championship back to Bob Backlund.
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    RIP to the master of the Heart Punch, Ox Baker. Ox talks about his time working for Eddie Graham in Florida Championship Wrestling. Baker describes legendary matches against Dusty Rhodes and Superstar Billy Graham.
    This interview was originally conducted by RF Video Inc in 2009. Licensed for exclusive distribution by Title Match Network.
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Комментарии • 65

  • @TitleMatchWrestling
    @TitleMatchWrestling  Месяц назад +5

    RIP to the late-great Ox Baker🔥
    Stream the full shoot & 1000s more just like this
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  • @catyear75
    @catyear75 Месяц назад +20

    As a little kid - Ox Baker , Abdullah The Butcher, and The ( Original) Sheik - were Legit Scary to me ! To me they were Monsters to be Feared ! Great Times !

  • @BoRaiChoWins
    @BoRaiChoWins Месяц назад +22

    Ox’s eye brows are on a whole nother level.

    • @robnoxious8594
      @robnoxious8594 Месяц назад +2

      I always thought he just glued a couple of caterpillars to his forehead. 🤷🏼‍♂️

    • @dennisneo1608
      @dennisneo1608 Месяц назад +2

      There's no such word as nother.
      His eyebrows are on another level.

  • @bushman4949
    @bushman4949 Месяц назад +18

    Man do I remember Florida belongs to Ox Baker! Twelve year old me watching Ox on channel 44. A couple of times a year my father, grandfather, cousins and I would go to the armory in Tampa for the live matches. Thanks for the memory's . RIP Ox.

    • @robbubba8020
      @robbubba8020 Месяц назад +5

      Channel 44! I remember that channel and Gordon Solie!

    • @PassivePortfolios
      @PassivePortfolios Месяц назад +2

      We were in high school and used to go to the Sportatorium to watch the TV matches being taped by Ch. 44. Lisa Z was my friend's sister and director of the show. Solie (not his real name) would do the show, then go to Malio's for dinner and drinks. Mostly drinks. He was very popular with the single cougars who frequented Malio's.

    • @robbubba8020
      @robbubba8020 Месяц назад +1

      @PassivePortfolios I remember going to the Fort Hesterly Armory in Tampa to watch Championship Wrestling from Florida with Gordon Solie and Dusty and Flair and The Russians and all the good names that came through there it was a great time to be a kid

    • @patrickheath5011
      @patrickheath5011 Месяц назад +1

      Don't forget Dr. Paul Bearer on Channel 44.

    • @robbubba8020
      @robbubba8020 Месяц назад +2

      @patrickheath5011 never ever!! I'll be lurking for you!🤣

  • @CarlosSanchez-bg4wf
    @CarlosSanchez-bg4wf Месяц назад +12

    True Mr solie. The dean of wrestling. ..we love him😢😊

  • @milkmeat
    @milkmeat Месяц назад +12

    Kevin Sullivan even with his best marker could never imitate the glorious eyebrows of the OX

  • @johngamble1203
    @johngamble1203 Месяц назад +8

    I saw OX BAKER and a lot of wrestlers in Dothan Alabama. Most of them got their start there at the HOUSTON COUNTY FARM CENTER. Was great on a Friday nite then the matches were moved to Saturday nite.

  • @GlenSharp-g4x
    @GlenSharp-g4x Месяц назад +6

    What a great interview❤

  • @deniseriley8234
    @deniseriley8234 Месяц назад +3

    Ox was a great old school bad guy. Gravely voiced to the fans

  • @christopherbako
    @christopherbako Месяц назад +5

    I love his stories.

  • @davidworden4470
    @davidworden4470 Месяц назад +12

    The Superstar Billy Graham changed wrestling and entertainment forever

    • @jeffdeiderich2901
      @jeffdeiderich2901 Месяц назад +5

      He was awesome. He will always be the GOAT in my book.

  • @getoveritmedia3155
    @getoveritmedia3155 Месяц назад +4

    Great interview. Thank you for posting this. 🙏💯

  • @jamesdavis9658
    @jamesdavis9658 Месяц назад +7

    I grew up going to the Eddie Graham sports complex every Sunday Night. I loved Fla championship wrestling

    • @misterslats
      @misterslats Месяц назад

      Can you describe it for me? What was the building prior to it being used for wrestling? How many did it seat? Was it one tier of stands all the way around etc etc?

    • @jamesdavis9658
      @jamesdavis9658 Месяц назад +1

      Wooden benches that went all the way around
      Before Eddie Graham sports complex I don't know. Championship matches every Sunday. It was great

    • @BrianCenti-j4d
      @BrianCenti-j4d Месяц назад

      It was the very best, especially with the great Gordon Solie announcing 👏
      Been watching almost 50 years. Nothing will ever touch NWA from FL. In my eyes 😅

  • @BrianCenti-j4d
    @BrianCenti-j4d Месяц назад +1

    When i first started watching wrestling it was very early 1975, IWA and Ox Baker was one of the superstars on the show, he scared the sht out of me lolol
    Than later loved him in FL. Which to me, in the 70's was the very best wrestling you had
    😊 RIP Ox Baker and to one of my all time favorites, Superstar Billy Graham.

  • @pulsedemon1974
    @pulsedemon1974 Месяц назад +3

    What a fantastic interview. Love Ox.

  • @Brandon98rp
    @Brandon98rp Месяц назад +2

    Grew up going to the convention center in Indianapolis. Ox had some long runs there in Dick the Bruiser's WWA promotion. Bruiser vs Ox, Ox vs Cowboy Ellis, Ox vs Bobo Brazil...great times!

  • @gregorykrug8034
    @gregorykrug8034 Месяц назад +5

    Ox Baker looked like a heel's heel.

  • @jeffdeiderich2901
    @jeffdeiderich2901 Месяц назад +3

    He was awesome in Escape From New York.

  • @moonoggin
    @moonoggin Месяц назад +2

    I was Ox Bakers mat made in the early 70s❤

    • @moonoggin
      @moonoggin Месяц назад

      Ox was a great man and friend

  • @PontFlair
    @PontFlair Месяц назад +1

    Ox Baker definitely looked like a heel. I wish he was younger in the 80s.

  • @ronniecreason7870
    @ronniecreason7870 Месяц назад +3

    This guy looks like he should be in streetfighter video game

  • @MyNameIsSTILLUnavailable
    @MyNameIsSTILLUnavailable Месяц назад +3

    Anybody remember Ox when he was on The Price Is Right? (Douglas Baker)

    • @parkerbohnn
      @parkerbohnn Месяц назад +1

      I remember and was hoping he'd try to set a record for how many times the wheel would spin around but he spun it easy.

  • @David-yw2lv
    @David-yw2lv Месяц назад +2

    I remember several other pronounced suplex that way.Verne Gagne was one of them.

  • @Jim-Tuner
    @Jim-Tuner Месяц назад +10

    Graham's problems after the title run in New York were addiction, age and his body wearing out.

  • @GreatNewsVideo
    @GreatNewsVideo Месяц назад +3

    Ox Baker was legit scary.....

  • @mikekennedy5879
    @mikekennedy5879 Месяц назад +4

    Paint him green and you have Ming the Merciless!

  • @lawrencecrayton9844
    @lawrencecrayton9844 Месяц назад +2

    Didn't know ming from flash Gordon became a wrestler😊

  • @joeltowle2737
    @joeltowle2737 Месяц назад +3

    Gordon was the Greatest!

  • @shawngreene1225
    @shawngreene1225 Месяц назад +2

    He never changed his look lol

  • @PassivePortfolios
    @PassivePortfolios Месяц назад +3

    Graham, unfortunately for him, was one of the worst steroid abusers in wrestling history. He knew the risks and bad side effect but decided to take massive doses of steroids anyway for exented periods of time. Very sad, but not surprising.

    • @Matt-sh5bk
      @Matt-sh5bk 11 дней назад

      Well, he was almost 80 when he died

  • @OdaVenom
    @OdaVenom Месяц назад +10

    When people are talking about the lack of believability in modern wrestling, odd paring and big guys struggling to put down dwarfs, remind them that the lard ball Rhodes had a streak over someone who looked like Ox Baker.

    • @theCinemaHaus
      @theCinemaHaus Месяц назад

      I had a "lard ball" uncle who was a trucker. He could vand did beat the crap out of guys who looked like Ox at truck stops and roadsides honkey tonks from Indiana to New Orleans. Dusty being a tough guy was not a stretch of the imagination.

  • @johnliberty3647
    @johnliberty3647 Месяц назад +2

    Those eye brows have got to be annoying when they drop down and blur his vision. I have that problem if I forget to trim them.

  • @MikeJustice-en1nh
    @MikeJustice-en1nh Месяц назад +2

    Kevin Vaughn Eric stated. That ever wrestler in the locker room in world?Class championship could beat the hell out of Baker and a real fight.
    He said OX couldn't find his way out of a wet paper sack

    • @Jim-Tuner
      @Jim-Tuner Месяц назад +7

      When Kevin was in the World Class locker room with Ox Baker, Ox Baker was around 47 years old.

    • @testodude
      @testodude Месяц назад +19

      Ox knocked Kevin out in a WCCW match with one punch when Kevin accidentally low-blowed him, and then knocked out Kerry when he rushed the ring. That's why Fritz fired Ox that day. Kevin is full of crap.

    • @bigdaddydiesel5520
      @bigdaddydiesel5520 Месяц назад +9

      @@testodude Yeah that's just sour grapes from Kevin.

    • @HiramLoki
      @HiramLoki Месяц назад +1

      There is an edit button that allows you to fix all of the mistakes in this post.

    • @shaynewest8757
      @shaynewest8757 Месяц назад

      He could fight better than you can spell that's for sure. Von Erich numbnuts.